The key to keeping a New Year’s resolution, I’ve discovered, is careful wording. Last year, I vowed to "at least look to see" what’s on the Discovery Channel before I watched a movie on Lifetime, WE, Oxygen, or ABC Family. I did look. It’s not my fault that Discovery failed to program something as enticing as Lipstick Jungle‘s Robert Buckley playing a surfing instructor who seduces Heather Locklear in Hawaii.
This year, I vow to at least tape CMT’s Top 20 Countdown each week. It’s a good way for me to stay current living in a city, New York, that lacks a country radio station. And, should I choose to press play, I could be treated to moments like the Oscar-winning lead singer of Kevin Costner & Modern West telling host Lance Smith what sort of music videos he will, or rather won’t, be making.
What’s your New Year’s pop culture resolution? And if you posted yours last year, tell us if you kept it…
I was going to stop watching Smallville and that resolution went down in flames.
For 2009 I promised myself to read more (I read a lot of, well everything really – so this should be one resolution that I happily stick with)
My resolution will be similar to last years. I resolve to avoid most “reality” shows. The exceptions: I will give Idol one more chance but this year I ran out of patience with DWTS. I will watch SYTYCD if only to bash Mia. And I may peak at a show that has some of my all time Flavor of Love Ho’s (Buckwild, this means you). I will watch anything with Alec Baldwin!!!
I will not watch any reality show that does not require actual talent. The ones I will choose to watch are Top Chef and Project Runway. My only exception is True Life. It’s not a typical reality show, and I think it’s the only acceptable programming on MTV.
My resolution is to get CBS back. My Dishnetwork decided to pull it about a year and half ago and I’m done being without it. I will either have the luck of talking them into bringing it back finally or will switch. I miss my Amazing Race and NCIS and my guilty pleasure CSI: Miami!
I resolve to keep isulting ignorant posters but I haven’t seen any here yet. Add to the list of reality shows I will watch are Design Star and Top Design, but none with ho’s and talentless over the hill celebs.
I resolve to completely quite spoilers for The Office. I resolve to DVR Battlestar Galactica while also watching it live. I resolve not to get too into American Idol this coming season. I resolve to not read Twilight, despite what my book club chooses.
I resolve to watch all the classic and iconic films I never saw. Examples include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather, and North by Northwest. My Netflix account is going to get a lot of use in ’09.
I resolve to do everything Slezak tells me to.
I also resolve to not forget that The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother are way better shows than DWTS and I need to watch those as opposed to the crap I currently watch.
And this year, buy more music. Buy being the operative word…
Actually, I’m resolving to read more. I have a shelf full of books that I haven’t gotten to because I’m DVR-ing everything from new Offices to reruns of Frasier.
I’m also resolving to be spoiler-free from LOST. I did it last year, and it was more enjoyable. Hard to do, but more enjoyable.
Oh yeah, and the norms too: get healthy, make more money, world peace…
In 2009, I vow to watch every episode of How I Met Your Mother…LIVE!
I resolve to give more to charity. Did that this year too! Hmmmmm. O.K. I resolve to watch Alex Ovechkin as often as I can. Crosby is a whiny girly man.
I resolve to begin watching “Criminal Minds” on a regular basis. I always enjoy it on the rare occasions I catch it, but I forget about it for long stretches of time. I resolve to make it part of my regular viewing from here on out.
I resolve to limit my TV watching to one hour a night during the work week. However, if this means I spend all 48 hours of my weekend catching up, then so be it.
I resolve to keep up with my EW subscription! Gets kind of hard when everything else pop culturally gets in the way and I spend a lot of time on the website…
I resolve to completely stop reading spoilers for shows, especially for The Office and Lost Many times, reading spoilers for those two shows (especially from a certain former TV Guide writer turned EW writer) have really ruined those shows for me. Also, I resolve to not even look of said EW writer’s video interviews or headlines, since even they will ruin shows for me (“Momentous Jim and Pam Moment Happens in the Rain on “The Office”!!). Watching shows spoiler free is sooooo much better.