Obsessions
 

Had any? Have any?

I don't mean fads or enthusiastic interests; I mean genuine fixations. Compulsions. These things occupied your consciousness, obliterated all other considerations, mentally consumed you.

I personally have an obsessive personality by nature (I don't mean a psychosis; I just have a tendency to fixate, both physically and mentally). But on rare occasions, things got out of hand.

A few, off the top of my head:

- In junior high, the Beatles (I'm not sure why; I'm a fan, but far from worship them), more specifically John Lennon. I think it was mostly a shallow aesthetic thing. Odd melancholy post-mortem crush. A friend and I actually held seances to conjure up his spirit. A shameful blight on my past.

- Louis the vampire in "Interview With the Vampire." Not Brad Pitt, mind you, but his character. Strange erotic pity thing. I went through a period where I rode my bike up to the video store and rented it 12 times in a row, before it was available for purchase.

- John Malkovich. All things John Malkovich. Small remnant of this remains.

- Douglas Coupland, specifically Microserfs. Read it repeatedly for months.

- Doritos. Really. Comprised my entire food intake for weeks at a time. Ended up extremely ill.

Go on, indulge me.

Woody Allen - I own 27 of his films and anxiously await the release of his new films.
Sonic Youth - but aren't most of us on here?
Pooh - I was obsessed with the hundred acre woods when I was younger and it still lingers.

Sometimes I get obsessed with people. Just regular people. After a week or so it subsides but when I do it its all I can think about.

For a time in the late 80s and early 90s, my fandom activities surrounding the Legendary Pink Dots definitely qualified as obsessive.
Same with Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle and all things Genesis P-Orridge at that same time.

HP Lovecraft for sure.

JennTheBenn better make one specific contribution to this thread.

The Legendary Pink Dots obsession is justified in my opinion.

I suppose I am slightly obsessed with Stephen King.

And I can understand the Pooh obsession; I was fixated on The Neverending Story when I was younger, and used to literally cry in mourning that I could not have my own Falcor.

The LPD thing went way beyond healthy.
I used to entertain the notion that Edward Ka-Spel was possibly some kind of conduit for voices or entities from other dimensions, in addition to having a vivid imagination and an unnatural gift for words. I don't think that anymore, though I do still think he is one of the greatest lyricists the world has ever seen, and definitely a bona fide genius.

Obsessions of the past:
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana
Zoodles and cheese


Current Obsessions:
Roasted almonds
Flavored Water
Scott Sturgeon (Stza) from Leftover Crack (I dreamed about him last night haha), Leftover Crack, Choking Victim
Tea

wow, really?

i mean, i like to have a pretty obsession-free life. i wake up every morning
to the buzz of my snoopy alarm clock, throw off my snoopy blanket, take
a shower and put on some clothes, usually a snoopy shirt. then i check
out the comics page in the newspaper. then i go to work. the sheriff's
deputy who works the front door calls me "snoopy" for some reason.

i come home, i unwind by playing snoopy vs the red baron on ps2 and
putting in a peanuts dvd. i fire up the computer, with my snoopy desktop
pic...check snoopy out on ebay and amazon and flickr and youtube...then
if i feel like cracking open a book, i'll pick one of the complete peanuts
collections to chill out with. then when it's time to sleep i get into some
snoopy christmas pajamas and out like a light.

although i think i'm getting better. my current desktop pic is a live shot
of kim gordon onstage from last year. she's holding her ol' reliable bass.
you know...the one with the snoopy sticker on it.

i have sooo many shirts and figurines and books and stuffed snoopys it
borders on frightening. i have the peanuts and snoopy monopoly games.
posters. greetings cards. i have snoopy panties. snoopy handbags.
complete collection of the mcdonalds camp snoopy glasses from the 70s.
in fact i once spent over 200 dollars at the camp snoopy in pennsylvania.

okay, okay...i would also sell my own blood and hair to get THIS:

http://cgi.ebay.com/iPOD-NANO-2GB-SNOOPY-BOX-Japan-only-available-1000ltd_W0QQitemZ180083151469QQihZ008QQcategoryZ11 8265QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I used to be obsessed with snow skiing and surfing.

Now I think about my girlfriend ALL the time ! I really do, she's wonderful !

I used to be obsessed with all things Marijuana. Smoking it, growing it, smuggling it, photo'ing and writing about it. Now I just rest on my laurels.

I'm still incredibly obsessed with my music and obtaining selective bootlegs and legit releases. After slacking thru the nineties regarding SY, I bought 80% of their catalog last summer !! Their my absolute favorite contemporary band !

I gotta agree with Tim, I went through a period where I was obsessed with Woody Allen. I also had a huge obsession with Buckethead for a while, which lead into a huge obsession with all things Bill Laswell. Now almost all of it is boring to me. Not the Woody Allen mind you, you never go wrong with that.

I think ive shyed away from obsession. But i was mad on Radiohead when i was about 14. I even bought 2 cds with rare songs and acoustic performances on at £15 a pop. and this is in about 1999, our house had no computer.
I was big on SY for a while. And Ikara Colt. And Idlewild. And tottenham Hotspur FC. But i think my biggest obsessions have been things i myself have been doing, which is probably best.

Edit: Fucking hell. Im still well big on Tottenham! Even if we are playing like a bunch of Shoolkids at the minute

Thats a big Mark E Smith thing, or so ive read

Barney. Then it was Power Rangers. Then it was wrestling/pokemon. Now it's music/video games

I've got a few obessions.

This forum comes to mind...

Finding Nobody: I'm about to pop in your Mix Tape. You do know I got yours, correct?

Oh, excellent JLH song choice, by the way...

Shoes. I have at least 65 pairs. Mostly shoes I can only wear in warm weather. I live in Wisconsin. Its February.

-Cherry Coke
-Bill Murray
-Italy
-Guitars and everything about them
-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (since I was like 5, the first time I read it)
-Green chuck taylors
-Monty Python
-Speilberg WWII stuff. (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Band of Brothers)
-Bread, off all types
-Olive Oil
-Flags
-Pilot Precise V5 pens (the ONLY kind I use)

-Dr. Dre
-Sonic Youth
-Friends (I'm often overly emotional and caring about them)
-Web Scipting
-Shwarmas

Tonnes more that I'm interested in, just not obsessed.

I definately had forgotten about my Nirvana obsession from the time I was 10- 14ish. On the good side that's how I got into Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, and the Pixies.

toast & sandwiches.