Members' Obsessions (by member name and by obsession)

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Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 19,801
Location: The Gem State

25 May 2010, 1:02 pm

Johnny Depp. While I've enjoyed almost everything he's starred in, I'm especially obsessed with my Top 5:
1. Alice in Wonderland (I'm obsessed with pretty much everyone and everything in this movie, not just the Mad Hatter)
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sweeney Todd
5. Pirates of the Caribbean

My non-Johnny Depp-related interests include:
- Victorian-era England
- Imaginary friends/worlds (my own as well as other peoples')
- Psychology
- Sexual fetishism/Paraphilias
- Hamtaro (has more to do with the cute art style than the actual show/characters)

mgran
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Joined: 22 May 2009
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,864

25 May 2010, 1:19 pm

Science fiction in general... particularly for television sci fi I go for British shows. Doctor Who, Blake Seven, Sapphire and Steel. American Sci Fi is original Trek (I can tolerate the spin offs... must be one of very few who really like Enterprise) and the remake of BattleStar Galactica, and what I've seen so far of Caprica. I like sci fi to make you think.

Music... quite an eclectic range, everything from the Kinks (yay Cockney Rebel!) Bob Dylan, Laughing Lenny (sorry, Leonard Cohen) Irish folk music, classical music... my favourites are Bach, Handel, Mozart... operas, my favourite is Verdi.

Instruments I play, classical guitar, piano, recorder, penny whistle, autoharp... a few other "folky" instruments. My favourite to play is classical guitar, flamenco and classical. I'm also mezzo soprano, and sing in a local choir.

Chess. I'm no good, but I obsess about it, and love reading past games.

Go. This I'm actually quite good at.

History... the period keeps shifting, but sometimes something will draw my attention to a period and place in history, and I have to find everything out about it.

Reading compulsively.

Writing compulsively.

Languages... I love to learn new languages, and this is probably my special talent, since I find it very easy to learn languages. I speak more than I'm comfortable to admit to a fair degree of fluency. When I tell people how many languages I speak they rarely believe me.

I used to be into running, but got very depressed, and haven't run since. I need to get back into it.

The Bible.

That's it.

ShenLong
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Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,277
Location: With Murphy Freestylin' and Ricky Easy

26 May 2010, 8:26 pm

ShenLong(Ian)

Obsessions:
Star Wars,
Costuming as Star Wars characters,
Lightsaber choreography,
Reading,
Writing,
The Age of Fire series
Metro 2033(book, not the video game).
Dungeons and Dragons,
Warhammer 40k,
Culture,
History,
Sci-fi,
Language,
Animals,
Marine Biology.

Swordfish210
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Joined: 31 May 2010
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Posts: 321
Location: UK

03 Jun 2010, 2:52 pm

Swordfish210

Currently:
- Star Trek
- History (mainly 19th Century)
(Just bought an original edition of the Baltimore Times edition 31st October 1941 = the day after the USS Reuben James was sunk )
- Russian (trying to learn it and getting excited about the Accusative Case )
- Fanfiction
- Reading
- Johnny Cash's Songs

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Electricbassguy
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Joined: 17 Oct 2009
Gender: Male
Posts: 131
Location: Mountain View

04 Jun 2010, 10:56 pm

Baseball (specific San Francisco Giants usually), the band Lifehouse (its history, and the music), bitchy women

SoSayWeAll
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Joined: 29 May 2010
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Posts: 623

05 Jun 2010, 1:26 am

Oh, this is awesome...this is how I think of people! Probably explains why I find myself hanging out with Aspies so much, because I like people who have STRONG interests, who really know what they're talking about, and it's not something banal like sports or fashion. If I know your interests and really mesh with them, then I feel like I KNOW a person in a way I don't connect with those of more...um...superficial interests.

Let's see...

My faith
Star Trek: DS9 and the Cardassian race in particular (I do Trek fanfic)
Writing
nuBsG (though Caprica I tuned out on)
Languages
Politics
Music
Drawing
Animals
Personality studies
Synesthesia (I have it and love hearing from others who do)

Helixstein
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Joined: 18 Apr 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,744
Location: New Zealand

05 Jun 2010, 4:33 am

Astronomy
Cosmology
Physics
Geography
Star Trek (TOS mainly)
SmallWorlds
HMS Titanic
Holocaust
Solar Flares in relation to Earth

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Joined: 1 Jun 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 104

14 Jun 2010, 8:16 pm

If I were to list them my notable obsessions would be;

Half Life series
Doctor Who, Star Trek
Astronomy, Cosmology, Black holes
Edgar Allan Poe
Conlanging/Worldbuilding
Victorian Era, WWI & II
Nordic & Celtic mythology
Psychology/Neurology
Philosophy

DevilKisses
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Joined: 3 Jul 2010
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,067
Location: Canada

04 Jul 2010, 11:13 pm

Music and Computers

GammaGeek
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Joined: 25 May 2010
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 532
Location: Mars

07 Jul 2010, 11:56 am

Final Fantasy, World of WarCraft, really rare (and nasty) diseases, comic books, Buddhism, internet cartoons, reading, the Simpsons, South Park, Greek letters, the Mafia (that one is weird I know), the city of Columbus Ohio (Go Bucks!), Jimmie Johnson, and fruit.

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