Media habits.
(I thought that I posted onto the blog earlier, but it looks like something happened. So this is a rewrite of the assignment. If for some reason it's just not appearing to me, I apologize for posting twice.)
I spend a lot of my free time consuming media. I'll admit it: I'm addicted to media. I major in media studies, which I think is really just a way for me to legitimize my consuming interest in film-dom. I've always been obsessed with movies, talking about movies, etc. since I was a little kid. I can't say that I spend quite as much time watching movies in my free time as I used to these days, as I have been quite busy lately, and video games have been consuming a lot of the time that I could be watching movies. I prefer going to the theater in general, but I do have a netflix account, that I use in an extremely speratic fashion (currently I have the same two movies at home that I've had since July, but there are times when I'll be going through several movies a week with it.) I generally prefer to watch foreign films, both as the "serious artistic" films that I like watching as well as just for general entertainment (anime, for instance.) Japanese media in general, be it film, television or video gaming is what I tend to prefer consuming as far as media goes. I tend to be skeptical of much of the deologies presented within American media (Japanese media as well, but I try to be a little more objective since it is a foreign culture) but I am still a willing consumer of American media. As far as going to movies, I almost always go to movies on my own. Unless its a comedy that I'm going to, I actually prefer being by myself while watching a movie in the theater. Media consumption in general is not a social activity for me very often, and so I have the tendency (esspecially lately) to be very anti-social. I take cinema very seriously, and it is something that I consider myself to be very passionate about, even though the further I get into the realm of media studies, the more skeptical I am of the cultural work and general passivity that the cinema is responsible for.