All these sound like good passive entertainment.
In passive entertainment I like The Rose Tatto. A movie made in the 50's , by Tennesee Wiliams, starring Burt Lancaster, and Anna Magnani.
I also like anything by Mark Twain.
A 1937 movie, musical starring Nelson Eddie, and Jenette McDonald, "Naughty Mariettea".
Really, too many movies etc to mention, but in reality T.V. I do like Survivor, and the Amazing Race.
In the not so passive enterainment world, I grew up in a generationally musically gifted family. I was surrounded by, and participated in nightly, and daily, singlely, and together, the family activley entertaing themselves with singing, dancing, and writing their own songs (music, and lyrics) etc...When we were reading, we were reading out loud to each other.
We'd take turns being the reader, while the others went about doing dishes, or laundry, or gardening, or whatever, and the reader would follow the others around, and read the story, or the information outloud for the others to listen to, and occasionally we'd stop, and have discusion on the topic etc...
Generally, each reader took an hour turn.
We had fun playing with tape recorders all the while, and have hours of tapes of our reading, and discussions and filled with funny dialouge and laughter. It's so fun for the children to listen to it all years later. Hearing themselves singing in the background as all is on tape.
Also, in active entertainment, we, as a family cleared woody areas, built 3 houses from the ground up, dug and put in all the septic systems, built fences, and chicken houses, and sheds.
We hatched chicken, and turkey eggs with homemade incubators, and raised these to adulthood.
We raise goats, and bottle feed some.
My father taught us to make our own kites, and we flew them every year.
We went, and still go fishing on a regular basis.
We learned about, and practiced food canning, and made cumquat jelly, and made our own grapejuice from our grapevine we grew ourselves.
Oh my. We had, and still have such a wonderfully active entertainment life.
We were all so surprised to find, when we grew up, and met, and married into other families, just how passively these people lived their entire lives.
They go to work, they come home, they don't have to turn on the T.V., as it is never turned off. They barely talk about the day with each other except in the form of sharing complaints about work woes.
I am so happy to be me. Now, I have cd's of my own children singing the songs that they've written themselves. I'm so glad they choose to hangout with each other, and a few close friends that are like minded, and talented.
I am so blessed!  |