What's your obsession?

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Theology, Philosophy, and Political Science. I pursued academia as a means of justifying my narrow scope of interests, but within a few years, I realized that academics and I had very little in common.

Music and Art have provided me a mouthpiece to the "normal". Notes are my favorite of god's creations, with colors coming in a close second. I see them as living organisms.

As for televison and movies- I dig on star wars and avatar (the last airbender).

My new obsessions are Vieras and Red Mages.

There are plenty but I guess that might just be classified more towards interests... however I would say there are 2 pretty unusual obsessions of mine...

#1 - up till the age of 18 I was totally obessessed with music charts... I would listen to the radio and list down what the top 40 songs are for the week... week after week

#2 - flight schedules... I would trawl through the internet to find out all abt flight schedules for the world's airlines

"Mister Blue Sky" is beautiful/funny ! !! They were unique ! ! I love Eldorado, what a concept album ! !!

I am obsessed with a few things.. Namely:

Hockey
Cars (I am a definite gearhead - working on a '69 VW as a hobby and dreaming of cruising the Autobahn, listening to Kraftwerk's Autobahn..)
Anything relating to psychology (currently building a nice library with psych books!)
And.. Apple Computer.

Red Hot Chili Peppers (up to californication at least)
Pink Floyd, whoever said that has good taste
FUNK
Cats
Film (I live and breathe the stuff)
Girls
Volleyball
Lists
Dreams (anyone ever lucid dream? Man thats a trip!!)
Salvador Dali
Photography
Paintings (looking at them, not making them hehe)

and I can't forget Neil Gaiman..oh yeah

Last edited by remescen on 21 Jan 2007, 3:32 am, edited 1 time in total.

Really interesting reading all your obsessions! I am obsessed with:

damon albarn
any group damon is associated with (Gorillaz, the Good, the Bad and the Queen)
Akshay Kumar (the Bollywood actor)
Emily Strange stickers
Hello Kitty
Smiley
Tea drinking
Honda Civic
Mac
Toastmasters
the United Kingdom

Amphibians. I've always wanted to have pet poison dart frogs. I had other pet frogs (Whites tree frogs, green tree frogs, african clawed frogs) but one winter I lost all my frogs in a power outage...I had no heat, the tree-frogs heat lamps went out...and it got too cold for them. Some of the African Clawed Frogs survived, but got sick soon after. The rapid changing temps aren't good for them. I was really sad when I lost my frogs

I'm in Heaven!! ! I thought I was weird with my tv viewing habits!! ! I love shows that make my mind go completely blank where I don't have any mental images,feelings, or thoughts.Shows like Flavor of Love,Meercats,The Girls next Door,Discovery and History channel,anything about sharks.And..I studied Beethoven compositions every chance I got at my piano for three years.I would be his love slave if he were alive today.

Remescen,

I see you like cats too. What are your favorite types of cat and how many do you have? I like Siamese and tabbies.

The Third Reich
Football Strategy
Animals
Why I am the way I am(though I think I figured that out)
Conduit(Electrical Pipe)Bending

Classic game shows? No way..... I love classic game shows and Match Game is the total and absolute meaning to my life. I also love 70s music, anything to do with the 70s in general, especially 1975 - hence the song which is my username.

I don't really have any other really specific "obsessions." But I hate using the word "obsession." I find it so deregatory and it doesn't actually express what I really feel. I can control my interests and I don't have to be totally consumed by them, so that's why I don't think I should even call them my "obsessions."

Great work on the languages! So far I have formally studied Italian, Indonesian (useful when my family went to Malaysia as the languages are quite close) Classical Greek, koine or New Testament Greek, and one semester of Biblical Hebrew (with another yet to come). Informally I have gathered a little (Mediaeval and modern) Welsh, Latin, Finnish (completely different to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, which are derived from Norse, though not as close to it as Icelandic, and therefore belong to part of the Teutonic/Germanic branch of the Indo-European family, while Finnish is Finno-Ugric and one of the few European languages that are not Indo-European at all) and some modern Greek, Russian, Swedish (I'm being rather overly generous to myself as I know next to nothing of some of these, though I would like to learn more) Icelandic, Sanskrit, and Arabic (very little of any of these). Recently I have gathered a smattering of Vietnamese and even less Khmer.

I also have a recurring fascination with alphabets, whether runes, Cyrillic, the Greek alphabet, Hebrew quadratic script, Arabic, the script used for Sanskrit, Hindi and I think Nepalese, and possibly influencing Tibetan; that used for Khmer, Thai, and possibly Laotian, etc. Also Chinese (alright not strictly an alphabet as it uses ideograms rather than phonographic symbols, and I cannot read the meaning let alone the sound of many of the symbols - and yes I know there are different sounds in Mandarin and Cantonese). This interest has at times indeed been obsessive, with me feverish writing down different scripts.

Other than that my interest in history might appear an obsession to some, I have an obsession with Tolkien and at times with Doctor Who and Stargate, and if I am scrupulously honest must admit that my attitude to some women in the past has been obsessive, though I have mercifully never acted upon this as it would have destroyed some beautiful friendships.

As far as music goes I can only sing and play piano.

I hope that this is not too much information!

Some wonderful interests here! I share some but did not include them in my previous post, which was getting a bit long due to a section on languages. Mythology (including that of the cultures you mention) and much of what I have seen of pre-Raphaelite art and of that of Botticelli, wildlife, Victorian literature are common interests of ours to name a few.

I can certainly relate to this. I was quite offended by the text book's talk of "NARROW obsessive interests."

thats one of my obbsession too my favorite season are time force and wild force
my favorite super sentai season are megaranger jakQ and timeranger

cant wait for operation overdrive