Yo dawg, I heard you like special interests ...

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My special interests are fairly broad - dead things, hearts/love, and menstruation - occasionally more specific things come along, for example right now I'm pretty obsessed with geocaching which I guess is more specific.

My SI is vehicles in general, though specifically I am very interested in late 80's to early 90's Nissan cars. I love finding things like sales volume of a specific model, to things like compression ratio, gear ratios, materials used, really just about any specs I can find.

Having owned plenty of cars myself I can say that I care much more to learn and work on the cars than I care to drive them.

My main interest is something between music, literature and film. It's... art, I guess. To sum it up.

I mostly like how these things interact.

I guess my main interest would be music. It's been ever since it caught my interest twelve years go. I spent half of my life without music, but with books. Most people have liked music as kids. So did I, but I did not... go out and look for it. It's just been around. Just... music designed for kids.

I guess it's a shift of focus. Now I am mostly interested in music.

I wouldn't say it's too broad, it's mainly rock and pop. I don't do metal or R'n'B or hip hop.

Rock is a vague enough genre for me.

I am not interested in many things at a time, but I often change musical interests. Only few bands or artists stick with me for a long time.

My special interests tend to be rather specific/obscure but to have general properties or areas which link them together. I have had the same ones for a fairly long time now (ranging from 6-9 years; I'm in my mid-20's):

1) Early (pre-11th and especially pre-9th century) Germanic language and literature and the textuality of oral-formulaic narrative;
2) J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth (bet no one guessed that! ) particularly the use of language and the theme of decay and transition;
3) Early textile and clothing production methods, which I try to learn and emulate as much as I can.

These three threads are linked by a broader attraction to North and Northwest Europe in late antiquity/early middle ages and a lifelong adoration of the written and spoken word. I think of them as kind of like a three-strand braid... one surfaces for a while and becomes dominant and I am as eager for information about it as I would be for a new interest; then another one takes over; but all three are constantly present, intertwined and supporting each other. I do have other side-interests and hobbies and temporary curiosities, but I don't consider these true SI's because they do not match the intensity and endurance of my real passions.