i was just thinking about how everyone has a few tings that they've always loved and kinda obsess over. i don't mean to the detriment of their whole life or anything, just the areas in which you know nearly everything and are always interested when something new occurs.
i don't think we can count music in this one.
mine are:
trains
apple computer corp. / tech in general
the simpsons
music
(it's all i got) :(
(and I definitely don't know everything there is to know about it)
(I really wish I could delete posts)
there must be an area you excel in though?
my areas of musical expertise/obsessiveness:
old skool hip-hop (1984-89)
early british progressive rock (1968-73)
new bands
not really
virtually nothing before year 2000. There's too much.
animal collective
..
Cricket
that's cool
:)
Currently
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6.
YES i love it
joanie for the win.
peter engel shows
saved by the bell,california dreams,hang time etc.
i'm pretty much the coolest person i know.
drugs and drug policy (though i am very far from knowing everything)
utopia and dystopia
my dissertation is on utopia...
I guess...
horses
sundays
wallace and gromit
you could probably add
political philosophy, with an emphasis on things like nationalism, the right and latin america.
Oh gosh
um.
genetics&bioethics
monkey island (I, II and III)
calculus (that's rather vague, I know. I could spend HOURS differentiating&integrating stuff and not get bored though :( )
</rubbish>
..
Integration gets boring pretty quickly when you realise that you generally can't do it analytically.
Oooh...
Football (in particular non-league football)
Cycling (in particular professional road race cycling)
Family Guy
Civil Liberties/Liberalism (general interest in political philosophy)
Modern Chinese and Japanese history (from 1800 onwards - absolutely fascinating stuff)
myself
alcxxk
Girls
Girls and more and more girls.
And Football.
A cease to logging.
And Italian Food.
And sleep.
fuck you logging
well
etymology
Ireland
local history
jasmine's mum
Me
Politics
History (20th Century especially)
Music
...
new music
writing music
writing articles about new music
belgium chocolates
last.fm
IJUSTCAN'TGETENOUGH
my mac
IJUSTCAN'TGETENOUGH
madonna album s, at the minute.
serious
IJUSTCA'TGUTENOCH
popcorn chicken
don't ask why
i can't help it
it's a thing
SEX AND THE CITY
3 series in two weeks
it's my new flatmates' influence
Snooker
COME ON KEN
oh yeah
24!
24!
24!
How could I forget?
I just cat gut enoch?
Gosh, I mean his far-right views are despicable but can't we resolve this without resorting to violence?
^^^ POTD ^^^
my obsessions include:-
Cleaning my new £4K kitchen
Trimming my bonsais
My discus (fish)
Quoting The League of Gentlemen (3rd series)
Discovering new parts of the English countryside.
1. winding up craplin...
2. winding up pedants who correct "you're"
3. pimms
....
Guillemots! (the band, obviously)
Thats it really.
*your ...
i can honestly say you've never wound me up
i honestly can't be wound up by someone i consider to be a worthless organism.
if someone like bamos, brainers or y'know, THE CLASSICS were to try and wind me up, they'd succeed because i respect them.
you're like an unwitting clown whose dastardly schemes keep failing and you think no one notices.
pedants?
shut the fuck up
guitar pedals
They make sound and come in all colours of the rainbow!
Oh
I just realised the topic was "odd obsessions"
oops...
in that case disregard mine as there is nothing odd about them...
mine:
america's next top model
dh lawrence
sonic youth
Hey Crablin!
I have this in my back garden: www.narrow-gauge.co.uk/gallery/244
Obsessions:
Scotch
Having a little Polo player on all my clothes
Wittgenstein
Game theory
Sub-saharan politics
is that honestly in your
back garden?
I love trains.
Really.
I'm gonna get a huge tattoo of a stream train on my back. It's gonna be bursting through a collection of steam and fog. It's Ace.
</if only>
i'm currently toying with the idea of heading to clapham
and going trainspotting today. i've not done it in aaaages.
I've never been trainspotting.
Don't believe I ever will.
The only train in Stockton is battered old GNER.
Stockton is shit. Especially considering it's the site of THE FIRST RAILWAY.
You forgot about the Arriva trains
The GNER ones are actually quite new.
Fair enough.
They're still shit trains though
:p
You're a bit wrong there like
The Arriva trains look like they are going to fall off the track if they go too fast.
The GNER trains are quite nice actually.
I'm trumping you on this as I use them more than you :-p
Yeah but
you're a bender.
And you're a twat
but I wasn't going to bring that into this argument :-p
It's in one of them
It's really my step-dad's, who is the most transport obsessed person ever (chairman of chiltern rail&ATOC). Owns about 15 vintage cars + there's a 1920's buffet car I'm having my 18th in. Pretty much fucking ridiculous.
final fantasy games
i used to be into guitars and pedals in a big way, but then indie music persuaded me guitars were gay so i got a microkorg and called my self "electronic". Still appreciate a good telecaster sound though.
Also finding stickers and putting them on my guitar. I dunno why. I have one that says "nessie's the name, elusivness is the game" on it.
Also, im obsessed with being a hipocrite. I always seek out occasions to contradict myself.
You spoony bard!
Half-Life
Buffy
Carmageddon
Dinosaurs
nintendo
i always get the new nintendo console as soon as it comes out. i will get the wii hopefully on the day, pre-order has been done, just a case of game delivering it. i like nintendo.
...
- Ummm... The French in general (historically but also contemporary, ie music, fashion, food, people... Paris, Nice, Cannes)
- World War 2
- European history
- South East Asian history
- The films of David Lynch
- I've also seen every single episode of SATC and my favourite episode is when Carrie gets stoned and throws KFC off of a New Yawk apartment building in hysterics
- PARTIES
- I am not allowed to mention music, am I? Damn... well, purchasing vinyl is a bit of an obsession with me...
also:
John frusciante
and
im sorry i havnt a clue on radio 4
beer brewing
writing
Terry Pratchett Books
James Herbert Books
At the moment
- Reading up on Scientology and it's rather disturbing ways.
- Bus routes
- Japanese video games (although I've let this one slip recently).
I know I'm a geek, but Crablin said trains!
sixties modernist tower blocks
seventies racial violence in britain
marcel proust
I used to live in a bison (a 60s modernist tower block)
we used to affectionately call it 'the ghetto'..
thankfully i never did
i just live amongst many of them and have had friends and relatives in some horrible ones in southampton. i've always had a fear/fascination with them, and thus my Masters was on their represenation in british & euro literature/film/music
It was actually not too bad
I had doors held open for me n stuff... by the ghetto kids. It was a temporary living arrangement... my friend bought the place knowing it would be gutted and bulldozed and she would make market value out of it at the time so it was a very shrewd investment.
Very good party houses... we had lots of ghetto parties there with lots of very loud music.
They were the dayz.
Hmmm
Six feet under.. watched the first two series straight after each other
I like to leave my room get very untidy take a picture then clean it all really fast and take another one. I am not sure that is about.. also having a mouldy cup clean it really well then use it.
...
That's really weird.
yeah i know
but i couldn`t stop watching it, the end of each episode was always really good
drowned in sound
gmail
myspace
myself
actually i could add the above to my posts
yar.
i am one of your obsessions?
i knew it.
Er
Nazis
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Test Cricket
Neighbours
Neighbours?
(Shakes head. Sigh.)
Go on
ask me a question. I'm like a Neighbours historian. Why are you shaking your head? : (
I just find it amusing that you in a sense, hero worship their suburban ideals
(and also, you forget I am from Melbourne, so like, watching that programe makes me cringe a little... I have an overwhelming fear of suburbia which is why I ran away to London as soon as possible, although not all of Melbourne is like Neighbours - just the far outskirts - he he)...
What was the name of Paul Robinson's first and second wife?
*sarcasm is rife with me
of course you don't 'hero worship' surburban ideals!!
I need another coffee... :)
I certainly don't
I've been to Melbourne, man, I understand!
And Terry and Gail of course - that was a bit of an easy one
Hmm
- London Underground (particularly abandoned stations)
- Man-made subterranean things in general
- Coffee
- Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
- Cracking my knuckles, which I should stop doing
---
- Britain in the late 70s/early 80s
- The Cold War
Yeah
The Cold War
Martin Amis
New Zealand
Nothern Irish History
Chart Music
..
kinder chocolate (all types)
diet coke
thomas hardy
meerkats
the colour purple
.
Peep Show
Pitchforkmedia.com
Chip Butties
and
statistics
;
Radio panel games of the 1970s.
Comedy in general. Anything that makes me laugh.
Doctor Who (the old series)
G.K. Chesterton
Music
Railways/disused railway stations
language
Music isn't odd
So leftield music and folk music.
obsessions
etymology
finding out loads of trivia about more or less any cultural thing i'm exposed to
the guardian quick crossword
Scrubs
I just watched season 5 in a marathon day long sesh
i can't really think of anything
i'm "obsessed" with particularly. i just like things.
Scotch Eggs
Football
mclusky
The German language
Surely the most beautiful, poetic, complex language in history?
chickpeas and backgammon
fine choices
go on msn
we can play backgammon whilst i make dinner
CHICKPEA SURPRISE!
you can play backgammon
on msn? :O
i'm there.
Beetroots.
I really like pink foods.
um lots of tv shows
like Lost, 24, Scrubs, Veronica Mars.
uhm...heroin. DiS is a bit of an obsession i spose. Cubase also.
Maths
Condiments
Posh alcohol (pint of Kir Royale etc.)
getting 100th post on this thread
is my obsession! booooyaaaah.
well everyone knows me
for the cool words i employ and champion, 80's hardcore bands (LA esp) and my exceptionally poor handle on grammar and speeling. I would also admit to being fairly well schooled on UK financial markets/investments (FTSE small/mid caps), Persian cooking, reptiles, surfing, Luxury sports cars, watches and to a lesser extent football, tennis, golf.
...
Dressing in black (hopefully in a Johnny Cash way, NOT a Sisters of Mercy way)
Lebanese politics
Portable music players
Chocolate and its surprising variations
Steve Albini and his skronky guitar sounds
.
chilli / spicy food
new music (not necessarily contemporary new, but just new to me)
fried chicken
liquorice rollies
I'm actually this uninteresting....
Latin America
Pink things (lots and lots of pink things)
Next's winter catalogue
Ummmmm
Colored vinyl
Vivienne Westwood
Star-shaped things
My trainer collection
Friends (the series, not my friends!)
The Legend Of Zelda
food and its various health-giving powers
popular cultural history
Japanese kitsch
British wildlife
hmm, probably
politics
horror
sci-fi
weather
cartoons
and being angry at books
because there are too many i haven't read yet
umm...
victorian magicians
typography
17th century history
art materials
layered backing vocals
parapsychology
various sci-fi writers
many, many more...
Hmmm
Football (Especially Spanish and Italian as well as lower league stuff)
Formula One - although why I'm not sure half the time.
Fuck it, a lot of sport really.
Music from what is commonly called the Post Punk period from the UK and the USA.
Social Psychology
I'll think of more when I start obsessing over them.
train stations
buildings that are collapsing or on the verge of collapsing.
grimsby town.
canals. by which i really mean the towpaths and the routes and stuff, i don't particularly have an interest in boats.
i can't think of an obsession :(
it's like in sienfeld: "i want to be a civil war buff!" or something along those lines. right thats it, i'm going to obsess over seinfeld.
Music obviously
-specifically Xiu Xiu and Patrick Wolf...
-religion
-Not so much psychology, but just in general the way people's minds work.
-and Japan a lot, recently.
and mythology!
Greek especially.
hmm
cricket
correct spelling of itunes collection
records ordered CHRONOLOGICALLY.
i'll stop.
Erm...
Nickelodeon cartoons
Weather
Urban decay
Dairy products
Animal Collective
Dinosaurs, and the Jurassic Park films.
I just thought of another one....
All the records/cds I own have to be in mint condition. Especially the cardboard cases for vinyls. I hate it if theyre not and will probably buy another one with a case that is in mint condition.
Its just something I hate so much, even just a tiny crease or bend in the corner.
bamos
oh, wait. odd...
i have
an obsessive character
when im interested in something, im normally obsessed with it, until i get bored.
For me
it's
food
cheesy pop bands from the eighties
and erm... new bands
etc
etc
abc
um
the simpsons*
futurama
star wars
judge dredd
stargate sg-1 / atlantis
maps
transformers
neon genesis evangelion
*a few years ago, i worked out that i had spent something like eight months just watching The Simpsons. i have no idea what it would be now..
I'm an ex-tractor fan.
Arf.
hmm
1)those who disguise their gender
2)maps (like guntrip)
3)flowers
4)trees
GUNTRIP LOOKS LIKE A MAP?!
Oh, no, wait. You're right.
I love
Sub Pop records and everything they lay their Midas-like hands upon
British Wildlife, and in particular birds and birdwatching
Towns and cities of England and the geography of this fine nation
Pies fallen from grace?
I don't think liking pies
is that odd, really. I pity the fools who don't.
I see the error of my ways now.
WHAT WAS I THINKING.
The Elected?
There's no need for that
I love you but I don't pick up on your faults every day :(
so your a twitcher eh?
you should take guntrip with you, if he stays very still his hair might attract aspirant nest builders looking for materials
mine...
cheese
star wars
spaced
talking about religion
irish history
watching rugby
dancing
latin/roman history (inc the wars)
the irish language :)
can you speak garlic?
not many of those are odd obsessions though now are they?
if you mean, Gaelic, by which you mean
irish, yes, i can.
and well... cheese?
i don't really have any other odd ones... i think.
By the way
how can you just say cheese....you have to qualify it more
any type of cheese
in any form...
i love it.
LOVE IT.
hmm
to eat?
have you tried
mimolette?
no?
Hmm interesting perhaps your obsession with cheese is more
unusual, what do you do with it then?
Public transport.
.
photography
richard brautigan
biscuits, cake.
victorian london
criminals and their crimes and punishments
Washing up
I HAVE TO DO IT
Can I live with you?
I seem to change my profile picture alot
and then try to work the fact that I've changed my picture into random threads, look I've gone and done it again
so in answer to the original question
my slightly odd obsession is myself
...
2D fighting games
i think that's actually it, as everything else has been abandoned in favour of music, which i really quite like.
I'm better at them then you.
That is all.