Interests and hobbies

Alaronshannara

Enough nostalgia! For the smarties of society, we're not very forward-thinking. I'll plead guilty myself to looking back to the good 'ol times myself frequently, but I think a thread about something current would be nice for a change!

We have threads about the toys and TV shows we all used to love when we were kids, but what toys, shows, programs, sports, comics, books, collectable items or enemas are we interested in at the moment?

Myself:
Downhill Mt. Biking and cross country mountain hiking.
Paintball
Sci-fi and/or fantasy books movies etc.
Books or documentaries on science and technology
Gadgets (GO PALM OS!)
Comics (Marvel, or anything by Niel Gaiman, esp. Sandman)
Anything paranormal, books on psychic experimentation or development
Computers, especially Macs.
Gold-plated toilet seats
Futurama, Newer episodes of Simpsons, Family Guy (for Stuey!), Frasier, Stargate SG1
Gladiator, Dune (Newer miniseries version), Lord of the rings movies, Xmen movies, Matrix movies, anything else what is cool.

Now come an worship before my brilliant and thought-supressing thread! Tithe to me three of the fairest from each of your clans, and my hunger shall be sated. For a while. (They'd better be female or so help me god..)

Raphael

Hmmmmmmm.

Surfing and rugby
The Internet
Magic the gathering
Warhammer
LOTR and matrix movies
Shannara books
Baldurs Gate
Xbox
Weird Al Yankovich (my idol)
Stewie & Bender

sionnach

bizarrely my interests are the same as alaron, cept for the love of macs, marvel comics and downhill mountain biking, though i never gave that a try..... oh and ive never gone paintbalin b4, but my love for quasar leads me to assume id enjoy paintballin too. An interest i would add would b anime, esp. DB/Z/GT

Mystic Fibrosis

Anime.
Manga.
Anyone who says they are the same thing gets a flakin'.
Basically, anything asian. That includes the former, noodles, tofu( I have a pound of it in the fridge), asian cinema, the way the language is cool(I WILL learn it, I do have extended family there), and stuff. And wontons.

Comics. Oh god, the comics.
Computing.
Reading.
Music.
Playing of latter.
D&D.
Art.
Films.
Abusing my body.
Caffeine.
Scheming.
Philosophy.
And Cynicism.

Plasticman

Hmm... let's see...

Fantasy books is definately the top, some sci-fi as well.
Computers games, mainly RTS or RPG's, with a few first-person games thrown in for a healthy balance.
Movies, usually classics, like those by Kubrick. Also really dark, but light-hearted at the same time (I know it sounds contradictory but still) like Tim Burton's films (Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands). Anything funny is good too, and action films can be OK occasionally. Also films that make you think.... Basically, any film that isn't mind-numbingly stupid, boring or otherwise incapacitating.
Funny TV shows (not ones showing at the moment, cos there aren't many) such as Faulty Towers, Monty Python (Flying Circus), Brass Eye, and the League of Gentlemen.
Playing guitar and listening to music too. Mainly classic rock/classic punk, with some generic death metal and random other genres thrown in.
And general loitering.

That's my life in a brief summary.

...

Man I'm pathetic.

Chimaera

Reading - books, car magazines, technical books, anything which looks vageuly interesting

Music - listening and playing (play guitar and flute, though not as much lately as I'd like)

Mountain-biking - mainly cross-country, but also like street/trials, though I'm not very good

Motorsport - rallying mainly (being on Moll's Gap at 8:00am to hear a 600bhp Audi Quattro snarling up the gap is one of life's great experiences [as is driving through it later that day] ) - F1 is a little less boring than usual this year too though - have actually watched one or two races :eek:

Will watch pretty much any movie once (it'd had better be good for me to watch it again though) - favourites would be Gladiator, Shrek, Taxi, Ronin, a lot of Jackie Chan's stuff.

Don't watch too much TV these days - Scrap Heap Challenge is great fun when ever I get the chance to watch it though. I like Time Team too, and any documentary about cool stuff.

It's 02:30 now, and I think it's time to go to bed........

Havelock

Hum...this may paint a less than perfect image of me...but hey, anyone who finds out I'm not perfect will suffer a slow and painful death.

In order of prefrence and importance.

My Girlfriend, I spend most of my spare time with her, and a lot of time that isn't spare.

Photography.

As of yesterday, Perfect Dark on the N64.

My PC is down due to a virus, but it would be next.

Cooking.

Eating.

Sitting in Coffee Houses (Cafe Moka) with my friends

Reading

Doing my course.

WAR/Paintball/Soft Air Games

Magic the Gathering.

Good Movies.

Sleeping.

BFG/40k

Establishing my self as undesputed ruler of earth.

nosmo

Programming
Intarweb
Eating
Cooking
Sleeping
Films
Drawing
BDSM

mentalimplosion

film
music (listening, not making)
art (drawing, painting, sculpting, designing. it would explain why i did art in CTYI this year)
writing (including working on my *sigh* novel)
shopping!
fashion (NOT in a bimbo-ey way)
dance


actually, reading over this, i turn out to be NOT the person i'd like to be.

Mystic Fibrosis

Originally posted by mentalimplosion
fashion (NOT in a bimbo-ey way)

You have no idea how hard it is to suppress the urge to slag you right now......

Plasticman

THIS hard!
/me gives pretty fair indication how hard it is.

purplepolkadot

getting mah groove on (seriously, dancing like a nutter, brilliant)
socialising
laughing
writing letters
my hair, the doing of stuff to (anyone who's seen my hair will notice the seven or so different dyes)
my job. i like my job.
listening to music
singing along to what i'm listening to
hockey. ****in hell like. whoa.
lying beside my lake with a radio, doing nooooooothing.
eating.
baking things that taste good.
sleeping (oh the sweet pleasure)
reading
going for drives, not knowing where you're going like, just being driven to the back end of nowhere, y'know
being a culchie
chocolate, preferably dairy milk/bournville/galaxy/buttons. none of the ****e.

i quite like the sound of me

s0l

Alot like the ones gone before:
the internet.
my pc.
As many mp3's that i like that i can download as fast as possible.
watching crap tv.
movies, gotta love movies best method for lots of stuff.

Traits:
Tea and Biscuits.

Zukustious

Sleeping

Man, compared to the rest of you I seem lazy. Well, I guess if I probe myself(In my head) I can think of;

Late night T.V(Those really bad ads that are about half an hour long)
More Late Night T.V(Nightman, and other crap shows that are so funny becuase they're bad)
My P.C but not too much
Sitting around questioning the nature of things
Books on Science
Books on Science fiction
ZIM!!!!!
People
Giant Turtles that you ride around on instead of cars(From my head)

twirly sponge

listening to music
playing music (guitar, piano)
reading books, magazines
art
shopping
talking
my friends
drinking tea
eating cos I'm bored, not cos I'm hungry
sitting around doing nothing
writing letters/emails
toast. gotta love toast.
looking out my bedroom window (i have a fantabulous view)
chocolate
watching films
conspiring
wishing I lived nearer to Dublin
watching tv
sleeping (best thing ever)

Barry Aldwell

My interests etc are strangely similar, nay identical, to those of Macdara. This worries me.

ll=llannah

in no particular order...

books. (reading them, smelling them, sitting in a corner with them, bookshops, libraries. you name it.)
music ( listening to it and playing guitar, piano, anything i can get my hands on, really)
writing. obsessively. a lot. cause ...well, i just have to.
food. lots of it. preferably in a sugary or starchy form.
sleeping.
languages.
my laptop. and the internet. and communicating with people who are far away.
dancing.
trees. and climbing them, if they let me.
hot wax. . . because i say so.
cloud watching.
staring up at the stars.
writing long rambling letters/emails
monkeys.
post-its....cause they are post its.
sleeping.
saying i'm going to be quiet and then being quite the opposite.
painting.
to second richard- sitting around questioning things.
sitting in a car watching the world speed by.
and sitting on the subway and looking at people until they realize they're looking at you and then look away. god, that's brilliant.
oh, and the playground. and not caring that the little children are angry when i kick them off the swings.
the list goes on and on...i'm going to be quiet now.

oh- wait, one more thing- making lists.

Spenguin

Hmm, now let me see...

Watching cartoons.
Sleeping.
Eating.
Breathing.
Lying on a really comfortable rug beside a fire. I like fire.
Watching movies.
Posting on boards.
Finding wally and that wizened whitebeard fellow.

God, compared to the rest of you, I've wasted my life.

Liquorice

Ballet
Reading. Lots of reading.
Writing poetry
Playing violin, piano, guitar
Philosophy
Drawing
Fashion Design
Computer
Internet
Scheming, but not going ahead with many of my schemes
Bitching about my parents DAMN FASCISTS! HOW DARE YOU STOP ME FROM GOING TO THE ROCKY/GETTING MY NOSE PIERCED/STAYING OUT AFTER IT GETS DARK!
Listening to music
Analysis of the human race
Playing with fire
Going for walks on my grandfather's farm, and returning to his house suffering severely from hayfever
Burning incense
Playing with my cat
French kissing my friend's dog. No joke.
Making a complete fool of myself in certain circumstances

That's all I can think of for the moment, perhaps I'll add more some other time.

Zukustious

Originally posted by twix_girl
and sitting on the subway and looking at people until they realize they're looking at you and then look away. god, that's brilliant.

That reminds me... How did that black out thing go? It went on for over a day I hear.

malecO

well, lets see.

TV
Internet
Games
Music (listening, playing and writing)
People
Anything got to do with percussion
Sci-fi
Science
Drawing
My dog
My house
My bed

and some other stuff that I can't think of right now.