I have always had an obsession with horror movies,comics, and books for as long as I was a little kid in the 60's. I bought comics,paperbacks,model kits, magazines (alot!), hardcover books, toys-bubblegum cards-everything.
And I still do-but not to the extent I did when I was between the ages of 8 and 16! :buggedout:
But I'm still pretty obsessive. :wink:
Howzabout you guys?
Oh hell yeah. Things that obsessed me as a child still get me now. Books, Star Wars, Judge Dredd... If I didn't have other responsilities to watch out for then I'd devote my life to collecting them even now.
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 27, 2018, 05:45:51 PM
I have always had an obsession with horror movies,comics, and books for as long as I was a little kid in the 60's. I bought comics,paperbacks,model kits, magazines (alot!), hardcover books, toys-bubblegum cards-everything.
And I still do-but not to the extent I did when I was between the ages of 8 and 16! :buggedout:
But I'm still pretty obsessive. :wink:
Howzabout you guys?
Basically, the same as you. I grew up reading comics and paperback books, building models (especially the Aurora monster models), watching movies (especially horror and sci-fi), and playing with lots of toys and games (I had some great toys in the 60s and 70s). My obsessions haven't changed much, except I don't build models anymore. I don't play with toys, but I'm still heavily into board games . . . the more complex the better.
When I was five years old, I was playing in a sandpile in the neighbor's yard and bulldozed up an arrowhead with one of my Tonka trucks.
That sparked a lifelong interest in history and archeology, plus an "arrowhead fever" that persists to this day - I've now personally found over 9000 complete artifacts and tens of thousands of broken ones.
I liked horror movies since I was a kid. That's the closest thing to a lifelong obsession.
Second is my interest in girls, which started around 11 or so, then really took off when I hit puberty.
My interest in bad movies (and weird movies) started when I was about 17.
My interest in drinking started when I was 18, but has definitely matured to the point where I like fine liquors, not getting s**t-faced.
Death
I don't know if its an obsession, but I've hated the song "you light up my life" for the greater portion of the time I've been alive. I was like 4 and hated it and still do
Quote from: ER on December 28, 2018, 04:24:06 PM
Death
Death itself is boring. You Die.
HOW people die- now that can be interesting! Hit by a truck? OD'ed on dope? Killed in Hiroshima or by John Wayne Gacy?
When murder and suicide happens in you own life, with your own family, it gets weird. :bluesad:
I usta read lotsa true crime books. I don't so much anymore.
Toasted cheese.
Bread.
I'm very picky with the bread I eat.
I eat the Hillbilly brand bread, and bagels, and English Muffins, and Mexican flat bread, and biscuits and cornbread once in a while. I Like rye- but it's gotta have the seeds!
But I really like bread. It's sometimes the center of my meal.
I really enjoy a crusty loaf.
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 29, 2018, 02:44:42 PM
Quote from: ER on December 28, 2018, 04:24:06 PM
Death
Death itself is boring. You Die.
HOW people die- now that can be interesting! Hit by a truck? OD'ed on dope? Killed in Hiroshima or by John Wayne Gacy?
When murder and suicide happens in you own life, with your own family, it gets weird. :bluesad:
I usta read lotsa true crime books. I don't so much anymore.
She might be referring to the DC character Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(DC_Comics) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(DC_Comics))
As for me it's always been cars.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 28, 2018, 02:46:49 PM
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My interest in drinking started when I was 18, but has definitely matured to the point where I like fine liquors, not getting s**t-faced.
My interest in drinking is piqued when I find cheap good red wine. :smile:
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 29, 2018, 03:06:09 PM
Bread. I'm very picky with the bread I eat.
I eat the Hillbilly brand bread, and bagels, and English Muffins, and Mexican flat bread, and biscuits and cornbread once in a while. I Like rye- but it's gotta have the seeds!
But I really like bread. It's sometimes the center of my meal.
I don't particularly care for caraway seed in my bread.
Quote from: ER on December 28, 2018, 04:24:06 PM
Death
Now that you've joined the Cool Kids in the wake of your birthday, this subject should diminish in importance. As you gain experience, time will go faster and acceptance easier. You will realize that your obsession is with Life.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on December 29, 2018, 06:46:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 28, 2018, 02:46:49 PM
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My interest in drinking started when I was 18, but has definitely matured to the point where I like fine liquors, not getting s**t-faced.
My interest in drinking is piqued when I find cheap good red wine. :smile:
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 29, 2018, 03:06:09 PM
Bread. I'm very picky with the bread I eat.
I eat the Hillbilly brand bread, and bagels, and English Muffins, and Mexican flat bread, and biscuits and cornbread once in a while. I Like rye- but it's gotta have the seeds!
But I really like bread. It's sometimes the center of my meal.
I don't particularly care for caraway seed in my bread.
Quote from: ER on December 28, 2018, 04:24:06 PM
Death
Now that you've joined the Cool Kids in the wake of your birthday, this subject should diminish in importance. As you gain experience, time will go faster and acceptance easier. You will realize that your obsession is with Life.
Dang, I should've gone with Death of the Endless, El Misfit is wiser than me!
AHD, honey, you give me too much credit, I want to know what comes after our heart stops the way some people want to know if it will rain next Tuesday. (Yes, according to
The Old Farmer's Almanac.)
Since, as I oft say, half my DNA comes from an island where people still post death notices to mark the anniversaries of distant passings, I'm afraid it's buried at a cellular level. As far back as I can remember my young life was filled with stories of all these martrys and (obviously dead) saints whom I was told just LOVED hearing from me, so as a preschooler I used to keep up running one-sided conversations with them in my head. (The more ghastly the saint's death the better, with Saint Sebastian especially getting mental postcards from me, since anyone spending eternity filled with arrows probably needed a good distraction.) My maternal grandmother in Galway actually took as a sign of holiness so that it warmed the dream in her heart that I might one day have a vocation to holy orders. (Boy was she ever wrong, I didn't even make it out of tenth grade a virgin: ibid.)
As a child I used to read the obituary pages because they were so darned interesting and clipped out good ones to keep in a shoebox, which actually weirded out my Irish mom more than my US dad, go figger. Since Dad's acceptance encouraged me, I used to spread the coolest clipped-out obits on the living room floor in front of me and read them to him.
"Wonder what Mrs. Martin is doing now?" I once asked him, my thoughts focused on a deceased old lady the paper said used to fly airplanes for the post office during World War Two.
"Lying around," Dad replied.
In time I graduated to Emily Dickinson and Edward Gorey and Edna St. Vincent Millay....and of course Death of the Endless, and to my humiliation found
The Gashlycrumb Tinies utterly hilarious. Eventually this led to The Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead (the first fascinating but useless except for the parts about evading crocodiles, the second upliftingly positive and life-affirming) and finally to
Courage the Cowardly Dog, but that was a little intense even for my tastes.
Last year I wrote/channeled a hundred-and whatever-page imagining of a dead person recounting his life and detailing what the place he is in happens to be like. (His mother still wants to beat me up for it.) When in 1999 I read
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, I wrote her about a line in there concerning why she believed the ancient Greeks feared death so much as a culture, while other people, like the Egyptians, embraced it. She wrote back that the Greeks saw life as precious and death as horrific, and I thought if someone could be liberated from thinking about death that person would be better off. So I actually decided to try and did live life la-dee-da for about a year, until the worst thing that ever happened to me happened to....well, okay, someone else, but it bullseyed me too, knocking me emotionally, spiritually, mentally flat like nothing ever had before or has since.
"Tried to forget me, didja, Evelyn?" said Death with a coy chuckle. "Remember, dear, my business card is very, very cold."
So when I eventually picked myself back up I figured death was just too big a part of life and history to not give its proper due in the form of considering what it is, exactly, a medical situation or a spiritual one? And that's where I've stayed stuck in the mud for eighteen years now, no longer either innocently fascinated like I was a child or shunning it like I tried to do for a while in college.
Maybe that's why I go to cemeteries like some people go to parks. (Yet I cannot look at a dead person, even in photographs, and almost never visit the graves of those I've loved. Some of them never.)
Deep down I somehow suspect death chose me.
Be patient. You'll find out eventually.
Romance about death is bulls**t. dead is dead. Nothing romantic about it. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out-in and out of your mouth.
f**k all that.
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 30, 2018, 05:50:05 AM
Romance about death is bulls**t. dead is dead. Nothing romantic about it. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out-in and out of your mouth.
f**k all that.
Anyone who doesn't love life enough to be horrified by death probably isn't fully appreciating the miracle that life is, but anyone so smitten with life he or she never thinks past life's ending is also likely not worth knowing.
Quote from: ER on December 30, 2018, 10:37:48 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 30, 2018, 05:50:05 AM
Romance about death is bulls**t. dead is dead. Nothing romantic about it. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out-in and out of your mouth.
f**k all that.
Anyone who doesn't love life enough to be horrified by death probably isn't fully appreciating the miracle that life is, but anyone so smitten with life he or she never thinks past life's ending is also likely not worth knowing.
Those are two very broad statements (no pun intended) and dubious. Death is only horrifying when a person is snatched away unexpectedly, such as in an accident, or death comes to the young. Subjectively, death may be horrifying, but objectively you must accept it.
I still listen to all the obnoxious hard rock/metal/punk music that I fell in love with as a pre-teen in the early '80s.
Punk Rock
Comic Books
Comedy (I was introduced early on, as a kid, to Three Stooges, MAD Magazine, Weird Al, Bugs Bunny, Abbot and Costello, and various stand-ups.)
Monster movies (as a child, I loved the classic Universal films, as well as Godzilla, etc. 90s I fell in love with slasher films.)
Pro Wrestling
The beach.
I should add in cross dressing and rock genre.
Quote from: El Misfit on January 02, 2019, 12:31:25 PM
I should add in cross dressing and rock genre.
Just don't walk on a lawn in high heels, and you'll be fine.
Quote from: ER on December 30, 2018, 10:37:48 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 30, 2018, 05:50:05 AM
Romance about death is bulls**t. dead is dead. Nothing romantic about it. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out-in and out of your mouth.
f**k all that.
Anyone who doesn't love life enough to be horrified by death probably isn't fully appreciating the miracle that life is, but anyone so smitten with life he or she never thinks past life's ending is also likely not worth knowing.
My dear, I don't find death romantic.
I didn't say anything about life. I like life!
I said there was nothing romantic about death. WTF?
Oh yeah-!
And that's one of the most convoluted, dog chasing it's tail things I ever heard in my whole life.
Nothing at all to do with real life.
Flowery words, though! :drink:
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 02, 2019, 01:18:36 PM
Quote from: ER on December 30, 2018, 10:37:48 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 30, 2018, 05:50:05 AM
Romance about death is bulls**t. dead is dead. Nothing romantic about it. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out-in and out of your mouth.
f**k all that.
Anyone who doesn't love life enough to be horrified by death probably isn't fully appreciating the miracle that life is, but anyone so smitten with life he or she never thinks past life's ending is also likely not worth knowing.
My dear, I don't find death romantic.
I didn't say anything about life. I like life!
I said there was nothing romantic about death. WTF?
Oh yeah-!
And that's one of the most convoluted, dog chasing it's tail things I ever heard in my whole life.
Nothing at all to do with real life.
Flowery words, though! :drink:
Haven't read much Buddhism, have you, man? lol
I'm not a Buddhist.
What's you living in your own idealized fantasy world have to do with corpses?
Since 2008, my wife, my mother, my brother, my father, and the only Aunt and Uncle I knew ,died.
I don't find it romantic.
They're dead. That's it.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 02, 2019, 05:38:01 PM
I'm not a Buddhist.
What's you living in your own idealized fantasy world have to do with corpses?
Why do you, who spend your welfare money on drugs and brag about it, despite presumably having signed a paper legally promising not to spend the welfare money on drugs, feel yourself in a position to criticise me, Ron?
And frankly, what about my original one-word answer upset you so much anyway?
Maybe if you you celebrated with an occasional day of sobriety more things would make sense to you.
Quote from: ER on January 02, 2019, 06:18:25 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 02, 2019, 05:38:01 PM
I'm not a Buddhist.
What's you living in your own idealized fantasy world have to do with corpses?
Why do you, who spend your welfare money on drugs and brag about it, despite presumably having signed a paper legally promising not to spend the welfare money on drugs, feel yourself in a position to criticise me, Ron?
And frankly, what about my original one-word answer upset you so much anyway?
Your really grabbing straws, arn't you?
I never signed a paper about Welfare Money. Or about drugs!
Do you just make this s**t up as you go along?
WTF are you talking about? :question:
I collect SSI- something I been paying into since 1979. I don't get welfare. Before you were born. I get money I worked
for 40 years.
And I'm b***hing at you because your an idiot.
A well read idiot, but an idiot, nonetheless.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 02, 2019, 06:28:37 PM
Quote from: ER on January 02, 2019, 06:18:25 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 02, 2019, 05:38:01 PM
I'm not a Buddhist.
What's you living in your own idealized fantasy world have to do with corpses?
Why do you, who spend your welfare money on drugs and brag about it, despite presumably having signed a paper legally promising not to spend the welfare money on drugs, feel yourself in a position to criticise me, Ron?
And frankly, what about my original one-word answer upset you so much anyway?
Your really grabbing straws, arn't you?
I never signed a paper about Welfare Money. Or about drugs!
WTF are you talking about? :question:
I collect SSI- something I been paying into since 1979. I don't get welfare. Before you were born. I get money I worked
for 40 years
And I'm b***hing at you because your an idiot.
A well read idiot, but an idiot, nonetheless.
Then as one idiot to another, how about we take a breath and stop here?
And you're right, I don't know anything about welfare. I apologize.
I can do that.
Peace, man.
Peace. :cheers:
Horror/sci-fi films
Dinosaurs
The supernatural
Doctor Who
Comic books
Movies since I was seven: my hobby has become my job. :smile:
From my dad exposing me to the following things when I was really young and me becoming mesmerized by them: professional wrestling, movies and the NFL.
I've been slightly obsessed with '80s pop hottie Samantha Fox since I was in high school. Can't stand her music, though. :D
Antiques.
All my antiques are worthless junk...but it's old worthless junk. :lookingup:
Dragons. I refuse to worship any god who did not see fit to include dragons. Also evolution sucks for not having them.
Quote from: Dark Alex on January 08, 2019, 03:41:19 PM
Dragons. I refuse to worship any god who did not see fit to include dragons. Also evolution sucks for not having them.
The KJV includes as least twenty-three references to dragons, so you should convert. We have cannibalism every Sunday, plus you'll get to learn the secret knock!
Heavy music. Punk, metal, hard rock-don't matter!
http://youtu.be/t5FEu-1hb8c (http://youtu.be/t5FEu-1hb8c)