I know its an Aspie forum and so it's to be expected but... 99% of special interests as described here are, so, well, intellectual... :grin:
im probably the 1% anomaly here.
So, yes, anyone has any entertainment-based special interests (excluding star trek, family guy & simpsons which have already been listed as aspie favourites)
*slinks away*
Does European royalty count as "entertainment"?
or the free market, grah hah hah
I am interested in Star Trek, but not much else.
Books books books books books. Games of the might and magic Series, and every once in a while, Quake I and II.
Webcomics. Up until recently, I was collecting webcomics, and I still read several, particularly those of DC Simpson (Ozy and Millie, and I Drew This) Tiffany Ross (Cyantian Chronicles and associated storylines, Sivine Blades, Alien Dice, and a few others I haven't bothered with), and Richard T. Matheson. I've also on-and-off been reading Too Much Coffee Man, by Shannon Wheeler, as well as Tales of the Questor, by RH Junior, Roomies (the one written by Flinthoof) and several others whose names are are currently irretrievable, but will occur to me at various random points...which is why I read them on-and-off.
I used to love to watch Comedy Central, but then I lost interest in TV altogether. There are also several shows my mom watches, and I'll come in and make fun of her for them, but end up getting sucked in any way. Strong the call of the darkside is.
I also enjoy animutation (My favorite is the Richard Kiel experience, on Disasterlabs.com: "Otto dokoi kako, otto mirai, edoloporis sua isuteri" don't understand it, but it makes me wanna dance :LOL
, as well as most of the things you find on Weebls-stuff.
Happy to see this thread! :grin: I have been feeling quite ignorant because of my lack of obsessive egghead interests. I know all kinds of pop culture trivia. I love TV though I watch it less now that I have my PC, and I know a lot of odd facts out of any sensible context! Two of my little favorite things are:
1.) Voice-overs...two I like are Liev Schrieber ("Secrets Of The Dead") and Stan Watt (of the History Channel's "Greatest Military Blunders"). I also like identifying celebrity voices on commercials & documentaries before anyone else guesses who they are. :razz:
2.) Names in general, just their sound sometimes, even if I don't know anything about the name's owner. I like actors' names like Angus Scrimm, Eric Christmas and Time Winters (what a great name!) Also: my parents suscribed to TIME in 1982-83, and I still remember the name of the artist who illustrated a 10th-anniversary-of-the-Equal-Rights-Amendment article: Dagmar Frinta. It may have stuck with me because of the contrast between the Scandinavian-sounding first name & Indian-sounding (I think) last name. (The illustrations were lovable stylized cartoon figures.) Also, for someone who owns very few CDs and sees very few movies, I remember a lot of names of actors & musicians in connection with their projects, partially from my scattered reading of pop-culture publications, partially from my thousands of hours spent listening to the radio (while rocking)! :grin: Friends at work shake their heads in amazement/alarm at my vast store of factoids!
No, it ain't quantum physics, but it's good for SOMETHING!
I'm sure I'll be back!
I also have movies that I will watch over & over & from which I can quote dialogue. I can recreate the whole conversation between Jack Nicholson & Shelley Duvall in THE SHINING, when she interrupts his writing. I love the ALIEN movies, esp. the first two, and can quote lines from them.
Comedy favorites include DEATH BECOMES HER and, from British TV, "Absolutely Fabulous." I LOVE quotable lines, the writers who write them, & the actors whose delivery immortalizes them!
"Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility"---Science officer Ash, from ALIEN, describing the creature...a great line that can be used to comic effect in real life! How can you NOT love that!
"I-I have a hole in my stomach
...I have a HOLE in my stomach :evil: !!!"---Goldie Hawn in DEATH BECOMES HER (again, the delivery makes it great!)
Two great Patsy Stone lines from AbFab, useful in everyday life:
"It's all fixable" and "Don't question me!"
This stuff makes me so happy. :grin:
Dungeons and Dragons.
Used to have that as a special interest. Good times.
I also have movies that I will watch over & over & from which I can quote dialogue.
Spaceballs the Movie anyone?
"GIVE me that, you petty excuse for an officer. Now hear this: Ludicrous speed--"
"Sir, hadn't you better buckle up?"
"Ah, buckle this. Ludicrous speed, GO!"
I love the image of Rick Moranis hanging onto the railing for dear life screaming "What have I done?!? My BRAINS are going into my FEET!"
It's almost 1 a.m. here & I have a pretty tune pleasantly stuck in my head---"Come Saturday Morning," by the Sandpipers. It was the theme song from "The Sterile Cuckoo," a movie starring Liza Minnelli & Wendell Burton. See, I remember stuff like that. It also makes me happy that the movie AND the band responsible for the song have bird names. Little facts like that make me happy. :smile:
"NEIGHBORS?! In twelve YEARS in Los Angeles, have you EVER SEEN a neighbor?!"---"Madeline Ashton" (Meryl Streep) in DEATH BECOMES HER
---Just the kind of line that would be fun to yell randomly, just to see if anyone else can place it! :razz:
Computer games and music can also be entertaining.
Yeah, books like to read a lot, also like to research random stuff, usually on the net.
Like to write and draw, not organized enough to do a webcomic though.
Make conlangs, or try to, been making conworlds since I was yea high to a locust.
Like webcomics too, and poli-sim
[edit](political simulation)
[/edit]games.
I'm rather a meglomaniac.
Spend unhealthy amounts of time with maps and atlases in front of me plotting how I ought to conquer the world.
Well unhealthy in that they're not really realistic
. . . considering that I'd need control of at
least a mid-sized fourth world country to start with.
Dungeons and Dragons.
Used to have that as a special interest. Good times.
I refuse to play a fantasy game in which I can play neither a dragon, a griffin (I've been reading my brother's books, and why, by the way, are the griffins stupid?), nor an evil overlord.
What's the point?
I have a eclectic range of tastes when it comes to music , I also like to play pc games now and than, or console when my mom is on pc
Spaceballs is one of my all-time favourite movies. :smile: