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Food for Thought
Nov. 5th, 2006 01:12 amYesterday I had no desire to learn about shorelines in Geology (it was just depressing; made me want to go to coast), so I was scribbling on a piece of scratch paper, attempting to find the source of my sudden Superman fetish (guys, I bought a Lois and Clark poster, there has got to be a remedy to this illness). Anyway, my scribbling led to this:
Obsessions
1986-87: Robin Hood
late 1989: Little Mermaid
1994: Lion King
late 1996: Star Wars
2001: Harry Potter
2005-06: Superman
Each of the dates marks when I became obsessed with something. I still consider my true obsession Disney, which I think is clear by three distinct time periods when I was all about Disney...and that marks the first 11 or 12 years of my life. So then when they announced the Special Edition, I decided to expand beyond the Ewok movies and that monster was born. After Dad was forced to read HP for work purposes (librarian in case you were wondering), that one was almost instaneous. If I thought about it hard enough I could probably come up with a precise date. It was...I think 3 days before Goblet came out...and I had 1-3 read by two days after it came out.
But just looking at it...I needed a change. I drag through my LIMS contests, I don't care that I've got writer's block on my fan fics, I don't want to mess with Photoshop I want to edit videos, I'd rather watch one of the movies or Lois and Clark or even Smallville than RP (most of the time...not all the time). There are certain things I'm still attached to, but overall, the magic is wearing off. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm going through this anti-Harry phase. I'm sure you've all figured out by now that the old obsessions never die. I'm constantly ratting on Disney, forever making Star Wars cracks, still reading Star Wars books, still RPing, still iconing (just to a lesser degree)...but the rush is gone. Oh, I'm no less excited about the movies to come or Book 7, but my obsession period has moved on. I look at the three Harry posters currently up in my room and I'm not sure I want any of them up. I kinda wanna do a random old school look to my room...put one of my Star Wars posters back up, pull everything down except NYC, Back to the Future, and Lois and Clark.
It's just feels kinda weird. I haven't gone through one of these shifts in a long time, and they were usually so instaneous. Robin Hood I grew into as TV and watching movies started to compute in my brain. Little Mermaid was a BOOM! Saw it, fell in love. Lion King the same. Star Wars was a self-induced desire, and I'm fairly certain it was overnight. HP I remember the moment vividly...and Superman...was slow coming. Oh yeah, remembered when L&C went on the air and made fun of it even when I was 8, first watched the Chris Reeves flicks when I was a kid, fell in love with them (them meaning the first two) towards the beginning of the superhero boom about the time X-Men came out, became an on and off Smallville watcher, stopped making fun of L&C when I got it for my birthday and decided to give it a real try, got all into the hype of the new movie...it was slow to build. And I've always been afraid to admit that my favorite superhero was Superman because he was just so cliché, but Clark was always the easiest of the secret identities for me to relate to.
Anyway, that's how I explain my current fascination with Superman...I thought it was going to be a passing fad. That's what I thought last Christmas when I finished Season 1 of L&C...but then I bought Season 2 the day it came out, then obsessed over the movie, then bought Season 3 the day it came out so I could get 5 bucks off my ticket and go to the 10:00 preview of the movie...
...and here I sit, waiting for some capturing to finish saving so I can edit it into my current fanvid...counting down the days until November 14th...and November 28th. That means this has been going for almost a year now...I don't think it's just a fad. It's happened, I've joined the Lois & Clark Freaks, notoriously the most obsessive Superman geeks out there *cries*!
Oh yes, on a non-Superman note:
- I officially own a sweatshirt that is not blue nor gray. It is bright red, and Kendra is very proud of me.
- We won the game again! BYU-24 CSU-3. Let's go, Cougars, let's go!
- Saw Step Up today. Considering how many times that plot's been done and how predictable it was, it was worth my buck. *hearts on Dollar Movies*
- Kudos to ILM for their 3-D work (Nightmare was amazing!)
- I've decided Mom and Dad are officially trying to get me married off...is this was happens when you're 2 1/2 weeks from turning 21?
Obsessions
1986-87: Robin Hood
late 1989: Little Mermaid
1994: Lion King
late 1996: Star Wars
2001: Harry Potter
2005-06: Superman
Each of the dates marks when I became obsessed with something. I still consider my true obsession Disney, which I think is clear by three distinct time periods when I was all about Disney...and that marks the first 11 or 12 years of my life. So then when they announced the Special Edition, I decided to expand beyond the Ewok movies and that monster was born. After Dad was forced to read HP for work purposes (librarian in case you were wondering), that one was almost instaneous. If I thought about it hard enough I could probably come up with a precise date. It was...I think 3 days before Goblet came out...and I had 1-3 read by two days after it came out.
But just looking at it...I needed a change. I drag through my LIMS contests, I don't care that I've got writer's block on my fan fics, I don't want to mess with Photoshop I want to edit videos, I'd rather watch one of the movies or Lois and Clark or even Smallville than RP (most of the time...not all the time). There are certain things I'm still attached to, but overall, the magic is wearing off. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm going through this anti-Harry phase. I'm sure you've all figured out by now that the old obsessions never die. I'm constantly ratting on Disney, forever making Star Wars cracks, still reading Star Wars books, still RPing, still iconing (just to a lesser degree)...but the rush is gone. Oh, I'm no less excited about the movies to come or Book 7, but my obsession period has moved on. I look at the three Harry posters currently up in my room and I'm not sure I want any of them up. I kinda wanna do a random old school look to my room...put one of my Star Wars posters back up, pull everything down except NYC, Back to the Future, and Lois and Clark.
It's just feels kinda weird. I haven't gone through one of these shifts in a long time, and they were usually so instaneous. Robin Hood I grew into as TV and watching movies started to compute in my brain. Little Mermaid was a BOOM! Saw it, fell in love. Lion King the same. Star Wars was a self-induced desire, and I'm fairly certain it was overnight. HP I remember the moment vividly...and Superman...was slow coming. Oh yeah, remembered when L&C went on the air and made fun of it even when I was 8, first watched the Chris Reeves flicks when I was a kid, fell in love with them (them meaning the first two) towards the beginning of the superhero boom about the time X-Men came out, became an on and off Smallville watcher, stopped making fun of L&C when I got it for my birthday and decided to give it a real try, got all into the hype of the new movie...it was slow to build. And I've always been afraid to admit that my favorite superhero was Superman because he was just so cliché, but Clark was always the easiest of the secret identities for me to relate to.
Anyway, that's how I explain my current fascination with Superman...I thought it was going to be a passing fad. That's what I thought last Christmas when I finished Season 1 of L&C...but then I bought Season 2 the day it came out, then obsessed over the movie, then bought Season 3 the day it came out so I could get 5 bucks off my ticket and go to the 10:00 preview of the movie...
...and here I sit, waiting for some capturing to finish saving so I can edit it into my current fanvid...counting down the days until November 14th...and November 28th. That means this has been going for almost a year now...I don't think it's just a fad. It's happened, I've joined the Lois & Clark Freaks, notoriously the most obsessive Superman geeks out there *cries*!
Oh yes, on a non-Superman note:
- I officially own a sweatshirt that is not blue nor gray. It is bright red, and Kendra is very proud of me.
- We won the game again! BYU-24 CSU-3. Let's go, Cougars, let's go!
- Saw Step Up today. Considering how many times that plot's been done and how predictable it was, it was worth my buck. *hearts on Dollar Movies*
- Kudos to ILM for their 3-D work (Nightmare was amazing!)
- I've decided Mom and Dad are officially trying to get me married off...is this was happens when you're 2 1/2 weeks from turning 21?