That is…fascinating. Now you’ve got me wondering how the heck that would go.
There was a time when my girlfriends and I would hang around discussing the cast of “Young Guns” in depth (it’s lovely to see Kiefer on tv agian. Too bad about Lou Diamond Phillips.) Oh yeah, we were absolutely nuts for “Flashdance” too. I don’t think any of our sweatshirts survived the summer without getting cut, man, and we all wanted to live in a warehouse and bike to our welding jobs. The funny part of my"Flashdance" obsession is that the movie, when watched again, is pretty much garbage, but the soundtrack still kicks ass.
ETA: I too was crazy for Spock, and then later, Data. Also, Man From Atlantis, Patrick Duffy. Why exactly am I admitting these things? :eek:
Things mentioned in this thread that I don’t see anything shameful about at all:
(1) Encyclopedia Brown
(2) (oddly enough) Battlefield Earth. (The book.) It’s a perfectly fun shlocky sci fi adventure novel. The fact that its author later went on to perpetrate a crime against humanity, and the fact that a movie made of it WAS a crime against humanity, don’t stop the book from being a fun read.
The rest of you should be VERY ashamed of yourselves.
I should say, the Flashdance soundtrack kicks ass in a Top 40 pop way, not in a serious critically-acclaimed music way. Just thought I’d head that one off at the pass.
Wow, I need a translation for this entire post. Warhammer 40K? HQ choices? I think I know who My Chemical Romance is, but the rest of this is right over my head.
I too went through a Sailor Moon phase, E-Sabbath. My friends and I were in love with that show, to the point that we called each other by the character names (I was Sailor Mercury :rolleyes: ) and bought the action figures. We also had a slight Spice Girls obsession. Um, we were in high school. How dorky.
Can I admit that I’m still in a Sailor Moon phase? Not as bad as when I was in high school, but I’m currently working on getting all seasons of Sailor Moon (in Japanese and subtitled… I never did learn Japanese like some of my more obsessed friends).
Mostly I just want to see all the episodes and find out what happened, I never did see many of them.
I’m a huge Harry Potter nut, which isn’t at all embarrassing. I was reading Book 6 on the subway this morning.
But when I read the first 4 books, I spent a year or two (or maybe three ) reading online HP fanfic. I was a college student, and I followed online fanfic serials. Oh, the shame.
There were two big problems with Battlefield Earth:
There were too many words; the story just wouldn’t find an end point.
I later read analyses of why the movie sucked, and 99% of the plot holes were in the book. It’s just too much to describe. (Just for starters: Insta-teach a kid triginometry to drive a tractor? See the starving kid eat a raw rat, so assume that’s his preferred food??? It’s almost a prototype for the Scientology concept.)
I kissed my Shaun Cassidy poster at night before I went to bed. Later that poster was replaced by Sylvester Stallone, and again by David Bowie. Yep - kissed all of those posters.
Piers Anthony, especially the Incarnations of Immortality series. In about 8th grade my friends and I were all reading the series at the same time. We would compete to read them as fast as possible so that we could beat everyone else to getting the next one from the library. We each adopted one of the incarnations as ours and called each other by those names. I was Nature. I finally got rid of the last of my Piers Anthony collection a couple of years ago when I was weeding my library as part of moving.
You could not pull me away from the TV when… wait, let me rephrase that.
I caught a couple of episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 in its early years.
Repeatedly.
:o
However, my wife actually wrote a “scholarly dissertation” about Dana Sculley for some long-gone (I guess) X-Files “University” site back in 1998, 99. The thing was 10, 15 pages long with citations and references to the show and outside sources.
In her defense, that might have been the period where she couldn’t work 'cause of a leg problem and, in that time, “discovered” the internet. I told her how to login to AOL one morning, walked out the door and when I walked in 10-11 hours later, Laura was still in her bed-clothes, asking me what I was doing home so soon?
My brother and I were like, rabid Knight Rider fans. We tried to convince our parents using brute logic that it was the awesomest show ever. Somehow they were not convinced. (it is interesting to note that our TV hours were limited, but my parents didn’t censor content. Within our TV allowance we could watch whatever we liked. However, we didn’t get cable at the time).
Back to the rest of you losers, the actual hierarchy of uncoolness can be examined here
FYI, erotic furry fanfic where the writer is also a character is the the absolute lowest of the low.
Of my friends I was the least geeky, but I did get roped into writing fanfiction. Round-robin improvisational anime-based fanfiction, even.
What embarasses me about that is not my geekiness, but my absolute lack of any social graces during that time. In my eagerness to write and prove how CLEVER and CREATIVE I was, I stepped on a lot of toes and bossed people around and generally was something of a passive-agressive bitch. And my writing, honestly, wasn’t all that great. (I’m very, very tempted to pretend the entire period didn’t exist, but I figure if I don’t learn from my mistakes I’ll only repeat them, so I keep all those stories around and read them to keep me humble.)
Fortunately for me, I managed to learn how to write original fiction (through a combination of taking classes and the constant practice via trial and error on what not to do) and figured out how to talk to people without scaring them off too much.
Yeah, poor Danny. Even when I was a huge NKOTB fan, my friends and I referred to him as “Monkey Boy”.
Anaamika, the second time I saw them, I was in the eleventh row. That was like, omigod, almost close enough to like touch them or something. Ahem. Now that I’m done channelling my inner 12-year-old, I should go find something serious and scientific to read/post about, and absolutely not go looking for New Kids videos on Youtube.
The first time I saw them, I was in the fifth row (albeit, on the extreme left hand side of the stage where they hardly ever came over to sing). I was absolutely convinced that Donnie looked at me a couple of times.
Oh sweet lord, you had to remind me of that one didn’t you? I not only participated in that live-action nonsense, but in the Werewolf one as well (forgetting the name of it)! Fortunately all my friends at the time got suckered in along with me, and thus could not mock me.
the Apocalypse? I never liked V:tM. Okay, I did for about a month and a half but the fun of being in a make-believe world that’s almost exaclty like our world got old real fast.
Truthfully I wasn’t in either of them very long, either, and the only part I really enjoyed was dressing up. The whole group was way older than my friends and I (how sad is that - at least we had an excuse, we were in high school!), and kind of did their best to make us feel like outcasts. The funny thing was that in the vampire game, I somehow lucked out and rolled really, really high stats for my character, so the older folks would lead me around and just have me off people they didn’t like.
I read the book when I was about 16, and a couple years later the movies came out and because I loved the books, I loved the movies. So of course I had to buy all sorts of crap. I now have the history of middle earth which Ive never read, about 30 mini collectible figures, a variety of movie related books, a couple different maps of middle earth set, an encyclopedia, a talking Gollum doll, various posters & prints, oh and a genuine replica of the “fighting knives of legolas”.
I need to seriously get rid of that stuff… the knives are now used as jewellry holders!
) reading online HP fanfic. I was a college student, and I followed online fanfic serials. Oh, the shame.
