Piano Forum

Topic: do you have obsession?  (Read 2201 times)

Offline paris

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 545
do you have obsession?
on: September 09, 2004, 10:11:13 PM
hi people, i'm interested if you have any obsessions? (EXCEPT piano  ;D ;D ;D )

for example, crazy and unusual ones?


Critics! If one would be a critic, one should begin with self-criticism !
    -Franz Liszt

Offline Tash

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2248
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #1 on: September 10, 2004, 02:20:07 AM
stalking people mwahahaha

just kidding i really don't;D

drawing cartoon fairies. my english folder last year was full of them- had more fairies than writing!

oh and drawing ballerinas have many many paintings of them

basically drawing in general i love to draw!!
'J'aime presque autant les images que la musique' Debussy

Offline janice

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 917
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #2 on: September 10, 2004, 03:04:32 AM
I am obsessed with chatting!!!  hehe  can't you tell?!
Co-president of the Bernhard fan club!

Offline scarbo87

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 49
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #3 on: September 10, 2004, 05:01:49 AM
human nature
Von Herzen - Moge es wieder zu Herzen gehen!!!!

Offline cziffra777

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 105
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #4 on: September 10, 2004, 06:06:00 AM
Web design, classical guitar and juggling. I guess those aren't that unusual though.

Offline super_ardua

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 164
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #5 on: September 11, 2004, 05:46:34 PM
I must write down everything.

Socks.  I wear only one colour.

Insanely difficult sheetmusic.  I collect it (I can't play it, but it's pretty impressive to look at)

Looking at it,  I'm pretty screwed up upstairs.
We must do,  we shall do!!!

JK

  • Guest
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #6 on: September 11, 2004, 09:21:12 PM
Shirts, shirts, shirts!!!

And buying cds and music simply because "it looks interesting"....!

In fact spending money in general! :)

Offline liszmaninopin

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1101
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #7 on: September 12, 2004, 02:46:45 AM
Mountains!

Offline Tash

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2248
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #8 on: September 12, 2004, 03:58:06 AM
oh i remembered my weirder obsession, i refuse to sleep with a pillow under my head i just lie on the mattress!! it's SO comfy like i can't stand having my head elevated when i sleep you should all try it sometime!
'J'aime presque autant les images que la musique' Debussy

Offline paris

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 545
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #9 on: September 12, 2004, 06:33:14 PM
i'm obsessed with tigers! i would like to have one like a pet, but i live in apartmant  ;D
so beautiful animals...

my normal obsession is buying jeans. (and of course,concert shoes)
Critics! If one would be a critic, one should begin with self-criticism !
    -Franz Liszt

Offline super_ardua

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 164
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #10 on: September 12, 2004, 06:58:38 PM
Quote
oh i remembered my weirder obsession, i refuse to sleep with a pillow under my head i just lie on the mattress!! it's SO comfy like i can't stand having my head elevated when i sleep you should all try it sometime!


I've been doing it longer than you!!! :P
We must do,  we shall do!!!

Offline super_ardua

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 164
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #11 on: September 12, 2004, 06:59:49 PM
Quote
i'm obsessed with tigers! i would like to have one like a pet, but i live in apartmant  ;D
so beautiful animals...

my normal obsession is buying jeans. (and of course,concert shoes)


There was a program a long time ago about some kids having pet tiger cubs.  They grew quite big quite fast.
We must do,  we shall do!!!

Offline Tash

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2248
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #12 on: September 14, 2004, 01:29:43 AM
Quote


I've been doing it longer than you!!! :P


hey no fair if you're older than me! depends on when you started ;)so by the time i'm dead i may well have done it longer than you!
'J'aime presque autant les images que la musique' Debussy

Offline classicarts

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 363
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #13 on: October 21, 2005, 07:18:54 AM
Sleeping. :o

Offline gorbee natcase

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 736
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #14 on: October 21, 2005, 12:22:42 PM
this website
(\_/)
(O.o)
(> <)      What ever Bernhard said

Offline Jacey1973

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 598
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #15 on: October 21, 2005, 04:15:25 PM
I'm obsessed with routine and making lists!

I love planning in advance, if i have loads of things to do i tend to worry alot about them when i'm trying to sleep so i get out of bed and write a list then i can sleep much better knowing the next day is completely planned out for me.

The weird thing is, if i fail to do even just 2 things off the list that i aimed to do that day i feel a complete failure and then everything else goes crap because i lose my motivation. This often happens if i sleep in because my whole day is then an hour/2 hours delayed, if that makes sense, and so not all my tasks can be completed! I'm the same with piano practise, i have to do a minimum of 3 or 4 hours in the day otherwise i get in such a mood with myself for the rest of the day. I think i'm just a bit of a  perfectionist.
"Mozart makes you believe in God - it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and then passes after 36 yrs, leaving behind such an unbounded no. of unparalled masterpieces"

Offline thalbergmad

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 16741
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #16 on: October 21, 2005, 07:36:22 PM
I am obsessed with Jack the Ripper.

I think it is 26 books i have read about him. Still none the wiser who he was.
Curator/Director
Concerto Preservation Society

Offline tompilk

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1247
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #17 on: October 21, 2005, 08:39:14 PM
No  ;D
Working on: Schubert - Piano Sonata D.664, Ravel - Sonatine, Ginastera - Danzas Argentinas

Offline brahmsian

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 262
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #18 on: October 21, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
German Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger.



oh i remembered my weirder obsession, i refuse to sleep with a pillow under my head i just lie on the mattress!! it's SO comfy like i can't stand having my head elevated when i sleep you should all try it sometime!

I sleep on my stomach... I don't know whether that's weirder that sleeping without a pillow.
Chuck Norris didn't lose his virginity- he systematically tracked it down and destroyed it.

Offline lau

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1080
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #19 on: October 22, 2005, 04:29:07 AM
I ahve an obsession with breathing, I just can't stop
i'm not asian

Offline randmc

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 177
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #20 on: October 22, 2005, 08:06:12 PM
Lets see...obsessions? Ummmm....reading, listening and playing music, astrology, religous history, learning, and John Legends music.

Offline Etude

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 908
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #21 on: October 22, 2005, 10:02:58 PM
No I do not have an Opus Clavicemb .... obsession.   At all. 

Online perfect_pitch

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9206
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #22 on: October 22, 2005, 10:36:58 PM
I don't have any obsessions.

(Etude, you should have put a comma after the word No... bad grammar, commas are used to seperate the junctions in a sentence.)

None at all    ::)

Offline Etude

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 908
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #23 on: October 22, 2005, 10:40:45 PM
(Etude, you should have put a comma after the word No... bad grammar, commas are used to seperate the junctions in a sentence.)

True. 

Offline chozart

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 106
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #24 on: October 23, 2005, 05:10:02 AM
Hands..
When I meet people, I'm interested in the physical appearance and certain positioning (like double jointedness, how they hold a pencil, etc) of their hands.
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Offline tompilk

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1247
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #25 on: October 23, 2005, 06:25:52 PM
I have to make things so that they are even or symmetrical. If I scratch one side of my head, I have to scratch the other in exactly the same way with the other hand. Same with books on top of each other - I get really annoyed if they do not have their centre at the same point. Pencils have to be parallel on desks and I feel compelled to sit on chairs exactly on the centre. Edges of desks have to be parallel to chairs, sofas and other things (or at right angles) and I will adjust things if they are not. I'm quite paranoid about being 'even' if you know what I mean. If I tap a rhythm with one hand, I have to tap the same with my other. Does anyone else feel so strongly about this as me?
Also, I get annoyed when people pronounce things wrongly.
Those are my problems. I would be interested if anyone is the same...
Working on: Schubert - Piano Sonata D.664, Ravel - Sonatine, Ginastera - Danzas Argentinas

Offline mr. folsom

  • PS Silver Member
  • Newbie
  • ***
  • Posts: 19
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #26 on: October 23, 2005, 06:48:56 PM
i'm obsessed with tigers! i would like to have one like a pet, but i live in apartmant  ;D
so beautiful animals...
Tigers are suitable pets in any size of home. At least this man thought so.
I'm not a pianist, I just act like one online.

Offline steve jones

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1380
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #27 on: October 25, 2005, 12:32:56 AM

Im completely obsessive about music and sound design. For example, if I here an interesting sample or piece, I HAVE to know how the sounds were created. I cant tell you how many hours Iv spent trying to figure out my favorite tracks.

Very OCD, lol. I need help!

Offline abell88

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 623
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #28 on: October 25, 2005, 12:58:54 AM
Quote
I have to make things so that they are even or symmetrical.

When I was young I would always start to walk with my left foot, and had to end with my right. I like things lined up neatly, but it's not a big deal to me if they're not.

Offline rimv2

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 798
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #29 on: October 25, 2005, 01:06:12 AM
Were I to convey my obsessions, I would surely be banned.

So ahll just leave these and you all figure out what they have in common





wooohooohooooo

teeheeheeee
(\_/)                     (\_/)      | |
(O.o)                   (o.O)   <(@)     
(>   )> Ironically[/url] <(   <)

Offline hodi

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 848
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #30 on: October 25, 2005, 01:18:26 AM
yes
i just LOVE russian girls
and there are many of them here in israel
they are so smart,beautiful and sexy

Offline steve jones

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1380
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #31 on: October 25, 2005, 03:35:54 AM
rimv2,

Yeah... and that!!!

Offline tompilk

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1247
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #32 on: October 25, 2005, 09:51:31 AM
When I was young I would always start to walk with my left foot, and had to end with my right. I like things lined up neatly, but it's not a big deal to me if they're not.
This is exactly the same with me - I forgot to mention that example. I'm obsessive about this. I'm glad to know other people are similar... and I'm not weird... am I?  :-[
Working on: Schubert - Piano Sonata D.664, Ravel - Sonatine, Ginastera - Danzas Argentinas

Online perfect_pitch

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9206
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #33 on: October 25, 2005, 11:09:20 AM
I'm a sane normal person, I have no obsessions... I'm fine...

LA LA LA LA LA... The world is great and we should all sing Kumbayah with each other and stop all the wars...

(Note to self: Don't sound arrogant, don't argue, mother said smile, be nice, don't be critical... (inaudible thoughts to self))....   :o

Offline zheer

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2794
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #34 on: October 25, 2005, 11:47:01 AM
Piano music i gess.
" Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends" - Tom Cruise -

Offline alessandro

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 293
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #35 on: October 25, 2005, 02:04:14 PM
I'm obsessed.  I'm a maniac, I'm depressed.  I'm obsessed with sex, particularly the lack of it. I wanna be adored.  I'm jealous, hypochondriac.  I can live with it.  I'm some kind of alcoholic.  Once I start drinking, I have to go on.

Alessandro

Offline zheer

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2794
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #36 on: October 25, 2005, 02:15:00 PM
I almost forgot, brushing my teeth is an obsession no thanks to my dentist.
" Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends" - Tom Cruise -

Offline sportsmonster

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 144
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #37 on: October 25, 2005, 06:09:49 PM
in north norway (where i live)....there is no thunderstorms and really bad weather like in usa. (and no hot rain here)

when i was in usa for vacation.....i ran outside every time it started raining and thundering and stayed out for hour screaming and beeing excited.

people thaught something had gone wrong in my head.

im obsessed with thunderstorms and hot rain.  but try to be obsessed with something that never happens where i live....bah!

right now im obsessed of the sun.......because there is no sun here now.....it gets 100% dark here in the winter.
"The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do."

Offline rc

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1935
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #38 on: October 27, 2005, 03:18:56 AM
oh i remembered my weirder obsession, i refuse to sleep with a pillow under my head i just lie on the mattress!! it's SO comfy like i can't stand having my head elevated when i sleep you should all try it sometime!

I do this too. Not all the time, but often enough. When I sleep on the floor I like to have a pillow. On the matress, my upper back feels better w/o a pillow. I figure having your head too elevated kinks your neck all night.

When I was young I would always start to walk with my left foot, and had to end with my right. I like things lined up neatly, but it's not a big deal to me if they're not.

If there's a pattern on the floor, like black tiles in a white tile floor, I tend to walk on the pattern. Stepping only on the black tiles, or avoiding them.

...Not really obsessions, though...

Offline rimv2

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 798
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #39 on: October 27, 2005, 05:30:14 AM
Ahze also obsessed with patterns. Ah would always take those stupid standardized test when ah was young, and change around some of the answers to make it so that the bubbles were in certain patterns. Come to think of it, this is probably the reason mah true intelligence was never discovered. In seventh grade mah teacher did catch me when ah did it with a practice test. When I took the real test ah actually got near a perfect score 8) 99.9%+ out of a couple hundred questions ;D
(\_/)                     (\_/)      | |
(O.o)                   (o.O)   <(@)     
(>   )> Ironically[/url] <(   <)

Offline 026497

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 73
Re: do you have obsession?
Reply #40 on: October 27, 2005, 03:27:55 PM
Bathing. I take a bath for more than one hour. reading, sleeping, watching movies, listening to music...   ;D
try, and relax..... ;)
For more information about this topic, click search below!
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert