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Hmmm it often seems my brain shifts into hyperdrive and I become consumed with one hobby, activity or another. Oh it could be reading a book, watching a cult film, expanding my collection of professional wrestling. When it comes to certain things for some reason I just cannot seem to get enough...not of 1950s Sci-Fi, not of 1970s blaxploitation, not of Martial Arts films, not ever enough pro wrestling especially from the 1980s, not ever enough Universal Horror, and then I find myself fascinated by submarines in film and otherwise, history in general but especially the 20th Century, Humprey Bogart and film noir, Beach Party movies, Musicals, Murder mysteries, Sherlock Holmes, Godzilla, Books by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Stephen King. The trouble is I can never seem to stay focused on any one general area for long before my mind shifts gears and is captured in fascination by something else...serial killers, saturday morning cartoons....it's like I can never cram enough in my head and I might be doing one thing and be thinking about doing another thing at the same time...hmm that Western looks interesting, that war picture looks a doozy, that book seems fascinating....Anyone else experience feelings like this?

Need whole lotta of LEGOS, 1950's B-movies

I can identify, to some extent.  I have so many hobbies/interests that trying to keep up with everything can actually be stressful at times.  An example is sports: a very time-consuming hobby.  I used to follow a team in every league, but over the years I've had to cut back to where I only follow a single team with any real dedication.

My interests are so broad that it has kept me from becoming an expert in any one field (until I invented the extremely broad field of "weird movies").  I could never become a dedicated/obsessive fan of any particular series, author, director, genre, just because that would take too much time away from exploring something else that caught my attention.   

 

I go through phases where I become really interested in something, spend a lot of money on it in a short period of time, then move onto something else.  Here are some examples from the past several years:

* DVDs - Well, I never actually get tired of this obsession.  I just keeping buying them and buying them . . .

* BOARD GAMES - I've purchased more than 100 board games since about November 2008.  In fact, I ordered 3 more today . . .

* MAGIC TRICKS AND SUPPLIES - I've been buying this stuff for about 2 years.  My interest comes and goes, but I've spent a few thousand dollars on this stuff and performed at my company Christmas parties in 2008 and 2009.

* ART SUPPLIES - I'm into drawing with pencils (including colored pencils), but I haven't done anything in awhile.  I spent somewhere around $200 on a set of high-grade colored pencils about a year ago.

* BOOKS - I bought the entire collection of Doc Savage paperbacks, and the entire collection of The Avenger paperbacks one book at a time (mostly on the old Bibliofind website, and some on eBay).  I also signed up for the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written collection from the Easton Press.  They send me one book a month at a cost of about $45.  I'm currently reading THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.

* COMIC BOOKS - I had quite a collection including Spider-Man #1, Daredevil #1, Avengers #1, Tales of Suspense #39, and Iron Man #1.  Sold most of them on eBay and I'm in the process of selling the rest.

Yeh.  I've largely stopped collecting and sold a lot of vintage ephemera: American and Japan produced Halloween diecuts, golden era post cards, Candy containers, Christmas figures, TV network photos, monster magazines, 1960s and '70s monster toys, vintage press, art, movie photos... I still have the best of the best and still buy often, just less.  I have most of the first 50 issues of CREEPY and EERIE but barely started VAMPIRELLA before giving up (she's when it got expensive for me - 20 something years ago)
I'm hooked on Rock and Pop recordings that nobody listens to, or are overlooked, undersold, forgotten...
same with Made-for-TV movies...
I've amassed a lot of VHS and DVD of Italian Neo-Realist, French New Wave, European and Asian films... and so many books, and so little time for reading!! 
I'd like to garden and grow my own tomatoes, but with all the oak trees around, we don't get enough sun, but in the winter the sun can be glorious.

Sometimes I fear I'm a bit manic...just wanting to absorb every bit of knowledge I can only of course I inevitably get sidetracked and really very little ever seems to get done. When it comes to DVDs Burgomaster, I have I suspect around 2000. I wish I had more room to get even more as there's always so many movies out there (obscure stuff in cheap bins or used DVD bargain stores - sometimes it's great stuff like AMERICAN SPLENDOR, other times its some cheesy but highly entertaining Kung Fu like THE SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES or it could be something like MISSING or BROKEN FLOWERS, always looking or hidden treasures amongst all the junk so to speak).

Allhallows, you seem to have soooo much truly 8) Cool as Hell stuff...stuff I often wish I had or could even afford but then again I think about where would I put it...when there's already a whole bunch of books, comics, magazines, CDs, DVDs, VHS all waiting in the wings for me as it is. Sometime I hope to get to all of it...if I don't get sidetracked that is....usually I have to make myself make time and with some things I know I must (I had to watch all of "Thriller", "The Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone" for example...)

Man, have I ever been there! At least I don't feel like such an oddball now, having read this thread. I definitely have way too many obsessions, and a slightly schizophrenic mind that bounces around from one thing to another. Movies, music, comic books, literature, true crime, sideshow/carnival/circus history, porn, virology, cryptozoology, paint cel animation, etc., etc., etc. Sometimes I actually feel anxiety that I'll never be able to "finish" absorbing/experiencing all the obsession-related things I would like to before I croak. Other times, most times, the REAL anxiety just comes from how empty my bank account is, thanks to these obsessions. Oi vey.

I probably spend about £200 a month on CDs and DVDs, all 80s albums or movies. It's my quest to own everything ever released during that decade. I started doing this at age 12. I'm nearly 24, and looking round at all this crap I'd say I'm probably going to achieve it.

I have a load of stuff from the 80s too. But I'm also quite taken with certain things from the 50s and when it comes to movies I generally like movies made before 1990s much better than those made after.

For me, as a kid, my biggest obsession was the Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles franchises.  Power Rangers, though, were mostly limited to the first 5/6 seasons, when they actually had an overlapping storyline encompassing the universe in one collective story (by the 6th season, they went the Japanese way and changed cast/story every year.) 

Ninja Turtles, it was everthing: comics, toys, video games, etc.  But this past year, at the age of 25, I realized I had boxes and boxes of toys that I was A.) no longer playing with, and B.) no longer looking at.  Gave them to a couple of somewhat underprivileged kids who recently discovered the franchises and couldn't afford the new toys that came out.

I've collected a lot of Star Trek stuff (mostly action figures ), and I like to build models but can't seem to concentrate on one at a time.  I have a bunch of model kits I'll probably never build, so I'm thinking about selling some.

I also have big collection of Science Fiction and Science magazines.  I do reread them (mostly out of nostalgia). 

Model kits . . . ahhhhh . . . loved 'em when I was a kid.  I had the entire collection of Aurora "glow-in-the-dark" monster models, plus other stuff like a Klingon ship, a Dick Tracy model, a couple pirate models, and some miscellaneous tanks, airplanes and other stuff.  Those damned Aurora models are now selling on eBay and it would cost hundreds of dollars to buy the entire collection.  Maybe someday . . .  

I had all the Aurora models too. Plus Barnabus Collins,the infamous scenes of horror-(which included Vampirella,a torture chamber and  Frankenstein!),some random dinosuers,and some WWII airplanes-(a Messershmidt was my fav-plus a B52 Bomber) and a Invisable Man-which was clear plastic-but you could see his guts!. I just bought-after many moons-a model. I bought a Revall replica (NOT exact) of the Aurora Dracula. It's glued together-just gotta paint it!

Horror films (mostly old ones) will always will be an obession. Collecting old monster movie mags from the 60's and 70's-well over 200;antique furniture-all my furniture is no later than the early 60's; ufo related material; books! SO MANY BOOKS!;old monster comics and magazines;Sgt.Fury comic books;antiques in general;pop bottles,medicine bottles-dam-just old bottles; and,of course-movies! I prefer vhs tapes-as DVDS tend to take a dump after a few years. I have vhs tapes dating back to the start of the commercial sale of them! My oldest is a copy of The Human Monster (1940) from VCI Home Video. It has an introduction that says "welcome to the world of home video!Now you can own your own videos of your favorite movies starting as low as $49.00 !!!"  MAD mags and paperbacks....gee...too much junk....all sortsa Bela related stuff-like bubble gum cards,a Bela yard light,action figures (one of Bela is Bela from the WOLFMAN-thanks TrekGezzer!) books and paper Bela related,buttons,...gawd...way to much junk...Wow.

I remember when I got my first VCR (a heavy, clunky Beta format machine that my parents bought me for Christmas).  My parents said they would also buy me a movie for it as another Christmas present.  We went to (now long out of business) Lechmere in Danvers, MA.  They had all their video tapes (probably about 20 titles, which was a huge collection in those days) locked in a display cabinet.  I wanted to get A CLOCKWORK ORANGE but it was $79.95!

i can't afford too many hobbies. mostly I collect old movies, build plastic model cars, and read books. Doing these things keeps me sane, although some people would disagree. Keeping the old valiant running is becoming more of a chore than a hobby as the car gets older.

RC, unless you've gotten a defective DVD, it should last longer than that as long as you handle it carefully (get no scratches on it, hold it properly) and return it to its case and store in an upright position. That said, I like the cases on the old VHS covers more than most of today's photoshopped DVD covers.