What's your current obsession?

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One thing I'd love to see is Çirkin Dünya, which is meant to be a sort of Turkish take of European 'terror' films like Late Night Trains or Terror Express. There has never been an uncut version available with English subtitles. There is a pirate copy lurking about under the made-up title "Last House in Istanbul" though.

Oh, and if you like prison films, I want to see Duvar. Apparently, it's like Midnight Express but actually made by a Turk, with plenty of depressing brutality. Oh, and this time the guards beat the crap out of children, not adults. They actually had to film it in France because the Turkish authorities wouldn't let 'em film in Turkey itself.

jazzy marches
new age music especially that produced with glass armonicas

Obsessed with watches and time since childhood, still obsessed with time. Found some watches from my teenage years and also got a new watch for Christmas.

A racquet ball that I carry with me everywhere and bounce when idle as a way to relax and to give me something to focus on.

As a professional musician there are things I do for work(sessions and gigs usually pertaining to the popular music world), but a friend recently sent me a jazz fusion track to work on for him and I've been thinking about it constantly. I added some polyrhythms to the polys already there and added a primitive country feel to the bridge of this latin toned song and the blend is quite fabulous.

Java Programming(My favorite language i also do C and some C++)
Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning(and to a point Black ops 2 but i am forcing myself to take a break from it!)
Linux
NFL
Photography

Craft projects. My brain is refusing to shut off at night trying to plan out all the new things I want to do.

I cannot get myself interested in anything right now. I envy you guys.

the musics of leonard nimoy, specifically the record album "the two sides of leonard nimoy" which is an underappreciated gem circa 1968.

i'm not officially diagnosed.

my recent obsessions are:
*aspergers (only a few months)
*ai weiwei (1,5 years)... i cant stop reading everything about him although i still don't think he is a good artist... lol. the worst was early 2012, when i also followed his twitter every day (~40 tweets a day is common, the guy is crazy) i'm glad i stopped that.
*corsetry (5 years) it started being fascinated by compression/ binding and is now highly focussed on corsetmaking and fashion history of corsets

i have had other obsessions but they faded after some while. i can only maintain a limited number at a time and intensity also flows, sometimes i spent 12h a day with my obsession sometimes only a few hours a week. the ones that always come back (based on stress- i go back to those when i feel i can't handle my life- and how much i am exposed to resources) since childhood are:

*death, death culture (started when i was a teen)
*comics- last year was pretty intense since i had a lot of stress and i compensate mostly by reading comics ALL DAY LONG, especially uncle $crooge by don rosa/ carl barks
*animals -behavior studies, medical and palaentology. (strong focus on felines/cats since i got mine, ~2 years)


btw it was very refreshing and interesing reading through all your obessions

gaussian constants.

My eReader.

I used to love reading and hadn't been able to settle down at home to read properly for years. I have a bad neck and back due to an accident I had. I also have an RSI so holding a book and keeping the pages open soon leads to pain so I bought an eReader. I can rest it on my desk or a pillow and only need to touch it to turn a page

my new and current obsessions :
- learn icelandic
- solve the Rubik's Cube and improve my solving time.

Well, pedal steel guitar usually has my attention. But right now I'm re-working some songs I co-wrote with some guys 20 years ago. The result will be a band called The Alien Masters of Doom. We played around Bloomington, Indiana in the early 1990's as Tod (you need a little line over the 'o'). It's German for Death. We were a joke, like Spinal Tap...super heavy and bad at the same time. We actually were written about in Spin magazine in the "This Band Sucks" contest. SO, I wanna do it again, but well enough to play biker parties and bars.

Also, I'm deep into writing a book about Jimi Hendrix as a religious figure. He really was intending to affect people in a religious way, for the evolution of human consciousness. I'm currently studying Jalal al Din Rumi, the 13th Century mystic and poet, to compare and contrast Jimi. It's my hope to place Jimi in the long line of mystics who transcend traditional religious boundaries.

Perfecting New York Style pizza...