I've become obsessed with 18th Century Britain, particularly London and novels - but most things are fair game.
I go through different band and genre obsessions that turn on and off - last big one was atonal post punky stuff, before that girl groups and before that sea chanties and ballads.
Certain people, the Sammy's (Johnson and Pepys), Sterne, Fielding - John Gay.
Just got meself a boatswain's whistle I'm trying to learn.
Indeed - I have even more hobbyhorses now than before.
At the moment:
Space,
Nature,
Palaentology and pick N mix sweets mmm
Tom
I would list my enduring adult obsessions as comics, cider, comics, cider, my guitars, music, comics, cider, photography, body modification, tattoos and space invaders. My current up to the minute, right now obsession is making fruit flavoured vodkas...I have two containers in my cupboard in the kitchen maturing....mmmm blackberry and raspberry. ;D
Mainly getting my work published and my films made...
and finding a way to live until I am well over 100 at the very least! (or if possible eternally)
Oh and I eat far to many tomatoes and peanuts. Yeah I know I'm weird - but I never could resist either of them! :laugh:
So if you want to win my heart, or just have your evil way, ;) just buy me a pound of really good tomatoes and I'm all yours to do with as you will ;D
Trying to read every Jane Austen. I'm on my third one now - Persuasion. Already read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Got Emma and Mansfield Park to go after this. Anymore I'm leaving out?
Changes with the days.
These ones, I'm obsessed with wings (as in, the anatomy of a bird's wing and the structure of the feathers and so on).
I want to build full sized articulated wings to wear to a fetish event... or.. anywhere really!..
With a good 4 meter wingspan when fully stretched out!
I'm also having a minor Leather-Mask-Making obsession that may potentially expand into a major one.
Adding to and organising my DVD collection.
Everton FC.
Keeping track of Football and tennis results.
Russia and Eastern European countries.
Looking for new facial hair (this takes up at least half of my waking hours :P )
Eating houmous.
Eating grapefruit.
UNCHARTED 2!!!
I love that game to pieces (and havent been able to play since I got the dreaded yellow light :'( )
Mainly just playstation is my obsession. An obsession that shall never die (I sound like a nerd :p)
Right now it is becoming Kate.
Once that settles down - soon I hope - I will return to my others: motorcycling, traveling, weaving, and once again trying to learn something I don't already know how to do. (I have a lousy track record on the last. I usually find out the basics and then lose interest. I know how to do an awful lot of things poorly. :P)
- Kate
Pssh, I'm going "beside transition stuff"..
Obviously that takes up Most of my time.
I have lots of hobbies, but my true obsessions are all involved in making myself a better artist, writer, maybe even a better person in general.
...oh okay, and maybe those hunky Aussie men, too lol
Northanger Abbey (1817)
Published after her death, its a satire.
Quote from: tekla on April 04, 2010, 08:36:06 PM
Northanger Abbey (1817)
Published after her death, its a satire.
Oh, thanks. Which one did you like best?
I liked Pride and Prejudice the most, but the more I read the less I liked them, so since P&P came first for me - some HS lit class - I guess I'd pick that. S&S isn't bad, but its just more of the same. The most interesting thing to me is how well these books, written long before film, turned out to be such great material for screenplays. This stuff works better on film than on paper in some ways.
Obsessed with crossing off items on my bucket list which includes a lot of travel. Ohh and obsessed with killer heels at the moment...Jimmy Choo's, I am coming back for you!!
Quote from: tekla on April 04, 2010, 08:53:34 PM
I liked Pride and Prejudice the most, but the more I read the less I liked them, so since P&P came first for me - some HS lit class - I guess I'd pick that. S&S isn't bad, but its just more of the same. The most interesting thing to me is how well these books, written long before film, turned out to be such great material for screenplays. This stuff works better on film than on paper in some ways.
Yeah, the British TV ones (can't remember what that's called) were really good. How do they work on the stage?
I'd probably have to say my puppies, tarot, european history, my guitar and a book called Candy :)
I'm not sure I am obsesed with anything in particular at the moment.
Half my brain is always devoted to pen and paper roleplaying games, but that is more a vocation than an obsession.
Tattoos! ;D idk what it is about them, but I am basically addicted to getting them. I like piercings too, but I don't have as big of an obsession as I have with Tattoos. The L Word has also been another recent obsession of mine. That and for some reason I want facial hair. I constantly think about what it'd be like to have it. I can garruntee that I'll have a different look every week when I start T. ;D
-James
hmm, my obsessions:
Japanese
makeup
music
gothic fashion
normal fashion
all things linux
fitness
writing stories
making conlangs
coming here of course....
paintball
constructed languages
anime and manga
Keeps me busy, but really I need to spend more time working less time playing.
Besides gender?
Game design, been working on that for about two years now.
Getting into shape, massively overweight so I really need to fix that :embarrassed:
Not much else I guess, I don't tend to "obsess" on things :'(
Quote from: Miniar on April 04, 2010, 07:30:57 PMThese ones, I'm obsessed with wings (as in, the anatomy of a bird's wing and the structure of the feathers and so on).
I want to build full sized articulated wings to wear to a fetish event... or.. anywhere really!..
With a good 4 meter wingspan when fully stretched out!
Aha, so I am not the only one with an bit of an obsession with wings!
Anyway, I guess I can't really answer this since I'm not an adult :laugh:
MOst of my spare time lately has been taken up with set construction. Were now into show week, so I'm practically living in the theatre right now, making last minute changes and running through the show and set changes every day. Thats my obsession half the year.
And cycling. I recently bought a vintage racing bike, and I think I'm in love with it. It still has most of the origional parts from 1973 and runs perfectly. If I had time I would take my camera (my third major obsession) and ride around taking pictures every day. I end up taking lots of pictures of the bike.
Other things kind of come and go, like Final fantasy, painting, guitar, and tap dancing.
Figuring out a way to pay for my kids college.
After that, figuring out how to pay for retirement.
Everything else seems rather insignificant at the moment.
Live-action roleplaying (Vampire and mage - dress up and act petty) with the Camarilla
EVE Online
That pretty much sums it up - oh and helping Tonya with Everquest 2 :)
Quote from: Greg on April 04, 2010, 07:34:55 PM
Looking for new facial hair (this takes up at least half of my waking hours :P )
Yes, this!
And eating anything that doesn't run away fast enough! :laugh:
I tend to cycle through obsessions. Apart from getting my life in order (moving, preparing for new job, tiding up paperwork, etc), right now I'm back on a linux kick.
Though linux is my #1 mainstay, I also go through regular stages of being obsessed with -
- Psychology and social science
- Anything to do with other cultures, or other ways of thinking about and doing things
- Cars, engines and driving techniques, racing karts
- Typography and design
- Usability and product design (in particular interface design)
- Space
- Anything technology related
- Security (physical - sensors, locks, etc)
Looking at this list, I think I just might like "systems of interconnected components" in general :laugh:
I can't remain obsessed with one thing only, I'd get bored. There's just too many cool and interesting things in the world! And the longer I'm around, the more interesting stuff I find!
At the moment playing Bach's Cello Suite No.1 on bass guitar, Alternate History novels, putting my house on the market and working on voice and facial hair removal.
My obsession is keeping snakes. It's been like that forever.By the end of this year i will have the pleasure of caring for, the four largest species of snakes in the world. I currently have a 20 foot Burmese Python that's over 250 lbs.
Weeeeell...
Anime, Has been for many years and probably will be for manny to come (it's such a joy to see members here with anime avatars ^.^)
Music, ok so most people like music but I think I may be a little obsessed with bands such as the Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Coheed and Cambria and Wolves in the Throne room
Also right now im kinda obsessed with the Wheel of Time books, absolutely love them
Podcasts, I love podcasts cos they are so easy to listen to, you can take them anywhere and listen while doing almost anything, thousands of hours of free fun!
I don't really obsess too much now-a-days. I do have worries and stresses and things I'm interested in that keep coming back but I don't really obsess over them.
I enjoy taking pics of myself, kind of documenting changes and seeing more and more of myself in them than that chick who use to be there. I'd like to grow more fantastic facial hair. :P
Anything to do with art, painting, calligraphy, graphic arts, photography...
Anything to do with music, listening to it, playing it...
Trying to get a job is a big focus in my life right now.
Trying to keep motivated and not get weighed down too much with depression.
Dragons and Video Games.
Music, video games & science. Soon be studying science at University, can't wait.
Well, I'm 18, so this 'adult-ness' is borderline! ;D
My current obsessions are:
~Learning languages (or imagining I am)
~Foreign films
~Fishkeeping
~Doing voice impressions
~Retro games (Sega games, Pokemon etc.)
...That last one's still fairly childish though. :D
I haven't managed to obsess over anything since pokemon came out, around 12 years ago.
Closest I get these days is a mild jewellery obsession, but the expense counters the cravings.
Ductigami.
So far, I've made 6 duct tape wallets of 3 different designs. Being somewhat unsatisfied with various "messenger" bags I've seen, I'm thinking of making 1 of duct tape.
I really like men's clutch bags, but they can be expensive. So, I DL'd some pics of 1 off the 'net and I'm working on making something similar with duct tape.
And, I don't use just duct tape. I've used heavy clear "book" tape for ID pockets in 1 of the wallets. And, I used that clear tape as a calendar folder for a small calendar I printed up using half-sized letter paper. The clear tape allows for the current year to be seen through the front cover, last year in the front inner flap, and next year in the back inner flap. A rubber band hold the sheets in place.
Tape is fun.
xD Grey, I was trying to type up my own post but had to stop for a bit since I had to laugh about yours. ;D
Anywho, obsessions come and go but usually float around this field:
- Alternate Reality Games
- Games (PC/PS3)
- Music (I listen to music most of the day - yer I wear headphones at work)
- Communication
- Fitness
Tape is fun.
They are still keeping you away from sharp objects I see.
Quote from: tekla on April 08, 2010, 12:03:34 PM
Tape is fun.
They are still keeping you away from sharp objects I see.
Only when they aren't looking. I use scissors and a box cutter when making these things!
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Quote from: no_id on April 08, 2010, 11:56:43 AM
- Music (I listen to music most of the day - yer I wear headphones at work)
Me, too. I have my phone's headset in 1 ear and an earbud in the other.
and a box cutter
You mean a terrorist hijacking device?
Quote from: tekla on April 08, 2010, 01:07:54 PM
and a box cutter
You mean a terrorist hijacking device?
The same.
Why not a duct-tape bike? A duct-tape car? Me, I'd love me some duct-tape live size anatomically correct dolls, just to 'collect' you know.
Quote from: tekla on April 08, 2010, 01:10:49 PM
Me, I'd love me some duct-tape live size anatomically correct dolls, just to 'collect' you know.
Uh, I've found images of said creations on the 'net.
Order me two, then they could bread, then I'd get free duct-tape forever.
Quote from: tekla on April 08, 2010, 01:45:02 PM
Order me two, then they could bread, then I'd get free duct-tape forever.
But Kat if they "bread," your duct tape will have yeast infections.
gaffa-gami, well now I've heard everything.
Here are a few of my more significant obsessions at present:
-Art (I do a lot of cartooning)
-Researching LGBTQ issues in K-12 education (I have an ongoing project, which is more my own than for school, though it finds its way into my homework often)
-Young adult literature (I can justify it--I want to be an English teacher... okay, so maybe it's a guilty pleasure)
-Historical fiction novels
-Birds (especially corvids-- crows and m->-bleeped-<-ies and suchlike)
-Studying, celebrating, drawing and writing about, being a part of, living, eating, and breathing human diversity!
...those are the ones that stand out in my mind, currently. Though there are more that fluctuate in and out.
Currently, I'm kind of in school-mode, so I have extraordinarily geeky obsessions at the moment. I mean... I'm always extraordinarily geeky. But I'm even more so than usual right now? (As soon as college slows down a little, which it's already starting to now, I'll probably lapse into Pokemon-obsession-mode, which I've been holding off for the sake of completing my homework. Which I guess is... also geeky, but a different kind of geeky? x3)
Nueroscience
Linguistics (don't mention NLP or I will scream!)
A Multitude of Aphasias
Consciousness
Epistemology
Structures of Communication
Edit: And for fun I am doing a side by side comparative reading of Robert Bly's "Iron John" and "Women Who Run With The Wolves". It's just basically analyzing their messages with an eye toward breaking down any concrete proof of gender they claim to impart. The cool thing is that more or less they give the same message. Estes is a bit more whimsical in her writing than Bly which is odd given that she's the academic and he's the poet but when you consider their intended audiences and the communication patterns oft preferred (or culturally inculcated) it makes a bit more sense.
Apart from the obvious one mine are
Photography
reading every muscle mag i can get my hands on
my car
and scarily enough this year i'm obsessed with getting the repairs my house needs done