Here’s a thread to find folks on the board who join you in your most bizarre and obscure interests. List the things that you’re afraid you are alone in enjoying. You may find a kindred spirit, you may find that truly you ARE alone…and not only that…but a freak of human nature. If that’s the case, god save your mortal soul.
Of course, as your OP, I will start.
Am I the only one who…
Genuinely enjoys and avidly collects Archie comics from the forties to the present?
Finds Eric Bogosian not only to be a genius, but physically attractive?
Liked the movie Newsies
Thinks OJ’s oldest SON killed Nicole?
Has a bizarre, microbial take on Adam and Eve wherein they were actually the cells that everything evolved from, thus creating everything, thus being “in God’s image”?
I’ve been toying around with starting this very same thread for something like six weeks! I was going to make it a game, of sorts, though. I was going to list my ‘am I the only’ onesies and then if you, too, felt the same way, you had to add another onesie to you list and see who, if anyone, was just like you. The next poster would add another onesie and so on. Eventually someone who was with the OP until, say, the eighth person posted his/her onesie would come along and say, I was with everyone until so-and-so posted. S/He’s just weird.
No hits on the others, but I did seriously consider the possibility that OJ was protecting his son throughout. It fit those few actual facts that circulated, and he may have had means, motive and opportunity. I always wondered why the police didn’t look into that possibility more thoroughly.
Am I the only one who… makes mixed music CDs/tapes with extreme juxtapositions – Suicidal Tendencies followed by Johnny Mathis, Nirvana next to Johnny Pickard, Pink Floyd blending into Prokofiev, and so forth. No two consecutive musical selections in even remotely similar style.
Great idea! But should I only give one “am I the only one” or more? Eh, I’ll give more.
Am I the only one who:
Is such a movie soundtrack fan that I sometimes see movies just to experience the soundtrack (I blame Hans Zimmer for the fact I actually saw “Pearl Harbor”)?
Thinks socialism is a good idea and it’s too bad that the actual practice of it is a disaster?
Believes that the Bush administration allowed 9/11 to happen just to further their political agenda?
Wants to be rich and feels guilty about it?
Dabbles in genetics, neurology, physics, and geo-sciences as a hobby?
Love the band “Fleming and John.” I swear no one has heard of thse people!
Collect Max Racks Cards and Go Cards. You know, those postcard-sized ads you see in major cities, certainly around New York. I started collecting these about 4 or 5 years ago, I’ve got around 300. No one ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention them.
oh man. I’m guilty of this. I have a mix tape with The Theme From Survivor, Rammstein, Morrisey, Phantom of the Opera and Echo and the Bunnymen on it. Quite bizarre.
Am I the only one who can scarcely hear or read the statement of another without being reminded of a line from some movie and feel tempted to quote said line?
Am I the only one who had “Show Signatures” turned off and didn’t know they were adding theirs to every freakin’ post?
Am I the only one who:
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[li]Collects astoundingly flashy and ugly costume jewelry from the 50s forward?[/li][li]Is sexually attracted to men that many others would find “ugly”?[/li][li]Will labor for hours over the perfect pedicure but can’t be bothered to even put lotion on my hands?[/li][li]Loves Wheat Thins topped with Branston Pickle? Eats sauerkraut straight from the can?[/li][/ul]
That listens to an album repeatedly, and then upon hearing a song on the radio, immediately expects to hear the next song from the album?
Picks up the phone to dial someone and for some bizarre reason, dials a completely different number - only to realize it’s the phone number of some person I knew years ago?
That *enjoys * that ubersleepy feeling in the morning between presses of the snooze button?
Has a specific time and place assigned to nearly every song I’ve ever heard? Example: George Thorogood’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” is indelibly linked to the intersection at the end of the road I used to live on a few years ago. Now it was hardly the first time I’d ever heard that song, but one day I heard that song in that spot, and from now on, I think of that particular place whenever I hear it. And I do this with almost every song! I could give directions by songs! “Go down to One Bourbon, take a left at Jessica, keep straight past three lights until you come to Baby One More Time…” Hmmm… Something tells me I am the only one.
quite a few people think OJ’s son “did it”, I remember someone on TV saying that a fella [connected to the case IIRC] suggested people ask where the son was on the night in question
The other question, of course, is: am I the only one who’s even heard of Johnny Pickard?
And before I forget: regarding your signature, jarbabyj: I presume you know that before they were shilling for Quizno’s the Spongmonkeys had a lunar fixation.
None of the already-posted examples matches with any of my own.
However, I can certainly identify, because over the last year I’ve been formulating a somewhat elaborate sociological theory that looks at human society through the lens of the “social hive,” like ants and mole-rats and such, wherein the species, as a whole, naturally produces a range of personality types, a variety of people who fall in various places on the bell curves of intelligence, progressiveness/conservatism, aggressiveness, risk-taking, creativity, and so on, to maximize the chances of success for the social group as a whole.
On the one hand, it’s a fairly robust belief system, in that it explains and accounts for a whole lot of otherwise mystifying human behavior, and I’m rather proud of it as an intellectual creation; but on the other hand, it’s something I made up out of my own head, and I have no evidence for it beyond my own satisfaction in its apparent robustness: so for all I know it’s either Totally Obvious (like Cecil’s take on memes) or Crackpot Nonsense that’s profound only to me (like Time Cube).
I posted something about it once here before, in a fit of foolhardy bravery, but it was ignored by subsequent posters, so I haven’t mentioned it again. I’ve been considering writing it all up, fleshing it completely out and nailing everything down, and subjecting it to Great Debates, but I’m afraid I’d be laughed down, and I’d have to slink around for months with a big black mark on my record.
So yeah. On this subject, at least, I’m The Only One.
saramamalana my brother describes Fleming and John as “softer than Tool and harder than They Might Be Giants”
I subscribe to the OJ’s son killed Nicole (I thought that from the beginning) and I believe that Eric Bogosian is, yes, physically attractive.
My first college roommate collects those postcard ad signs saramamalana mentioned. She also collects the stickers from the cellophane wrappers around CDs (like "features the hit single ‘blah blah blah’).
Lessee…
Am I the only one who compulsively reads even if I’ve read it a hundred times before? (for example, in my parent’s guest bathroom there is a pack of Aveeno bath oats that I’ve read approximately 29038298789990 times. It’s there, so it must be read).
TellMeImNotCrazy, you’re not the only one. I pretty much said “yep, I do that” to every one of your list there. With the possible exception of rather than a street location, I associate very specific places and times in my life, like “Santa Cruz, August 1999” with Dave Matthew’s “Crash,” which is not remotely special at all, considering that I think it was the number one album at the time. But anyway…
Am I the only one who compares everything to Dune? I saw “Hidalgo” and I LOVED it because of the desert scenes, they reminded me of Dune…
I have a book of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons and Bloom County Cartoons in my bathroom and I read them EVERY SINGLE TIME I SIT DOWN ON THAT TOILET. They are memorized, but i read them anyway.
I know I’m not the only one or they’d never put them on dvd, but…
I like 1950’s-1960’s movies that claim to be about sex but are really about courtship. “That Touch of Mink” and “Pillow Talk” (both with Doris Day) are prime examples.
I collect 1960’s beach movies, specifically the American International ones featuring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. I have all of them on DVD and VHS except for “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini”. Once I get that one I’ll have to go DVD with the remaining tapes. (I even have two not-quite BP movies: “Ski Party” and “Pajama Party”.)
I like the cartoons made during WW II, especially the ones with specific war references (“Thumb’s up, Doc!”) I’ve heard there’s a Disney collection of wartime cartoons due out in the next month or so but I can’t seem to find out any specifics.
I think I may be the only person in America (or on the planet, for that matter) who collects “Andrew Hardy” movies. There were only a handful of these ever released on tape. They featured a teen-aged “Andrew Hardy” (Mickey Rooney) as the son of Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) in an idealized view of family life in small-town Carvel. I’m certain this series inspired almost every sit-com of the '50s and also provided the basic premise for “Archie Comics”.
