What is your obsession?

oh my, are you a scouser?

I've got you beat: I saw them in concert.

hands-free orgasm

The Rolling Stones 1972 North American Tour. Commercial aviation. I grew up South of final approach to JFK 1962 - 1972.

Silent Films (and celebrities).

I am planning a trip to Los Angeles to visit the graves of Buster Keaton and Stan Laurel and see the homes of Theda Bara and Mabel Normand.

R5 = Jacqueline Stewart

R2 But did you hear them?

Locks, keys, safes and vaults. Weird, I know...probably should have been a locksmith...ha.

Men’s feet, taints, assholes, cocks, jizz, piss

OP, do you have Beatles buttons from the 1960s? A relative gave me some of her Beatles collection, the huge buttons, "I Love Paul" etc, those flickering Vari-Vue buttons and a few small metal Beatle buttons from gumball machines. Want to buy my collection?

[quote] Locks, keys, safes and vaults. Weird, I know...probably should have been a locksmith...ha.

R8 = Louis XVI

Calm down, Macca/OP.

R10

I don't......I kind of drew the line at toys , lunchboxes...focused on recordings.......but for the sake of conversation...how much?

R12

LOL

1930s homes in Beverly Hills. The architecture, their history, the inhabitants over the years.

I've been building a man...with blond hair and a tan..

R6

I have never even heard of Jacqueline Stewart. Had to look her up.

Oh, dear! I can see why I stopped watching TCM

Sex.

I'm the Jessica Lange loon.

Not really, but I think she's a wonderful actress and a very interesting human being.

I'm kinda obsessed with vintage nude male photography and Vivien Leigh movies. I used to be obsessed with Morrissey until he revealed his true self.

Traffic cone sized dildos

R20 = Steve Grand

Ellipses.

Bell ornaments. My Christmas tree is covered in them. I've been collecting since I was a kid.

Eclipses.

Eephus.

Josephus.

we just had a lovely joycean/free association moment there

[quote]I've been building a man...with blond hair and a tan. —Frank N Furter

I see you shiver with antici-

-pation.

OP - are you in the air force?

Calvin Klein Obsession for men. If sucking cock is a crime, let me be guilty.

Charlie Hunnam. I’m hiding in his shrubs right now.

Tab Hunter

The Beatles are stupid

thanks for sharing R34

Last few years it's been oases in the Sahara.

[quote] Last few years it's been oases in the Sahara.

My obsession is the waters in Casablanca.

the beatles are overrated

R37 you were misinformed!

vastly overrated

Otters and wolves .. they's my favorites.

[quote] Otters and wolves .. they's my favorites.

Mines too!

what' the difference between otters and wolves ?

The Oxford comma and Jason Bateman

[quote] The Oxford comma, Jason Bateman, and

I worked at Gap from 1992 through 2006 and collected the paper playlists that came with each month's CD/tape. Unfortunately, while making a move in 2006, I lost the box containing my copies of the playlists. Since 2017, I have been slowly regaining dozens of the playlists, but I still need many more to replenish and complete my collection.

I'm looking for any Gap, GapBody, GapKids and babyGap In-Store Playlists from the years 1992 through 2006. If you worked at Gap and saved any playlists, would you please share them with me? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

hey R46 GapPlaylitsGuy, it's me "oxford circus"...good to see you hon

The Oxford comma, Jason Bateman, and Art Deco.

Thanks, r45

Anything Wallace Beery.

Aging. It's surreal, mundane, tragic and heroic. It just confounds me.

R33 I thought you were obsessed with Dan Levy? I must have you confused with a different DLer...

Dan Levy is yuk

UFOs

Buying guitars........always tempted by vintage U.S made guitars that come up for sale like on Reverb.com or ebay...my favorites are Martin, Fender, Gibson, Epiphone, or a Rickenbacker

Hairy actors

It's been a few years since I started my Hot Topic In-Store Cleaning Supplies blog on 12/31/2015, and the DL has been very instrumental in helping me achieve my goals of recreating all of the wonderful cleaning supplies of this beloved, unique and fantastic shopping emporium.

I've recovered dozens bottles, boxes and packages of cleaning liquids and powders thanks to former Hot Topic employees who also stole and saved the original products, like I did, and most of them found out about my quest because of the DL. Every whiff brings back treasured memories. And they are cutting edge products, very effective to this day. Timeless cleaning supplies, indeed.

If you worked at Hot Topic from 1992 to 2006 and saved the cleaning products, would you please share them with me? Contact me at the email address in my blog.

I'm not a huge Beatles fan, but I can certainly appreciate their talent and how they were extremely important to pop culture. My parents had all their records, then again, my parents had amazing taste in music. There were pop, rock, jazz and classical music always playing in my household.

The Beatles sure helped change the world of pop and rock music. They also exposed clueless white people to Black American rock music, the Beatles were huge Little Richard and Chuck Berry fans..

The Beatles technically started as a 1960s version of a boy band, they were super talented, excellent songwriters and with the help of the amazing producer George Martin, who was technically the fifth Beatle, they musically progressed over their short time in the music biz. All of their albums are different.

Unlike today's boy bands, which lose their audience, over the years, The Beatles actually gathered a bigger audience and were respected by musicians from many other genres of music, musicians who then recorded their versions of Beatle songs.

The people in this thread saying The Beatles are overrated are completely clueless and it's quite obvious don't know much about any kind of music, let alone pop and rock. The irony, its usually is the people putting down The Beatles, and other bands from that era, who are likely currently listening to bands who copy older rock and pop musicians.

The Beatles opened the floodgates for many other British musicians to get world wide attention. The Beatles also put England on the map as a cool hip place, which it was never considered. Their popularity also helped make British pop culture important. Jimi Hendrix actually went to England to get famous.

Again, typical DL cluelessness. Not surprising at all.

I'm so typical, I am a major Judy Garland freak.

I can more or less tell you what she did in her life on a month to month basis. I never tire of listening to her sing, even when the voice was gone, I don't care.

I’m between obsessions. They burn out.

Music. I listen to music every day. Have loved music since I was a little kid. I play guitar, piano & sing. I collect records and have spent hours in used record stores, garage sales, estates, flea markets, browsing records. I love concerts large & small. Love random factoids and stories about music, especially about songwriting, recording, the creative process. Recent obsessions: the Tina Turner doc on HBO Max and "Summer of Soul" on Hulu & in theaters.

Men with big forearms. I pretend they’re up my asshole.

R61 = Steve Grand

R62 you wouldn’t stick your nose up my ass, would you?

Middle Eastern cats.

Headphones and coffee.

Feet

2005 Toyota Camry

Why would a 2005 Camry be an obsession? I have a 2007 which has served me well and I like it very much but I can't imagine being obsessed with it. It's a reliable mid size sedan without anything exciting about it.

Marry me, r5!

Datalounge, trying to understand my psychotic family, cooking, smoking weed, drawing, playing piano.

Trying to figure out if Jacqueline Kennedys hair was chestnut brown or not.

Chestnut brown hair is my favorite color of hair.

R71, would you like assistance with that question?

OP,... it... looks... like... your... true... obsession... is... really... the... ellipsis...

The golden age of Hollywood, society ladies, Capotes Swans, Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, socialites from the 20th century, Turner Classic Movies, Whoopi Goldberg, Movie Star Traditional Homes, The View, The White House, American first ladies, Billionaires, why Trump is so hateful, and America in general.

R72 Why not?

Crossword puzzles and supermodels

dicks

Picking my ass while cooking for family and friends.

OP is a fucking moron:

Pat Robertson is a charlatan………anyone who kisses his ring is disillusioned. ……And last of all , You Light Up My Life is just elevator music ……..I don’t care who’s covered it…..it’s just background noise.

People who cheat …..and have absolutely no conscience of wrong doing.

once gay….always gay…he can say whatever he wants……he will be back ..or on the low down…Gay isn’t something you can just walk away from ….and we all know it

Bigots and racists………the evil of this present darkness we are now living through

Sounds like you’ve got an axe to grind…..

Kimberly Guilfoyle……that speech she gave at the 2020 Republican National Convention ……the mouth that ate Texas Wasn’t exactly an awards show in the technical sense of the word….but it was something….yikes

A boyfriend I was dating asked me to absorb ALL of his credit card debt and put it on my credit card………..i thought he was kidding …until I realized he wasn’t…..

When I was in Deutschland those public restrooms were a trip…….. Germans love to show off their equipment….Of course it didn’t bother me ..it was an eye opening experience…..I guess that’s why it’s known as the Fatherland

I played with Barbie………and then I found Ken…..…..but when G.I Joe entered the picture…….I knew I found the one for me.

I had a similar experience when I was probably ten….I put on one of my sisters dresses…..really went all in………my Dad was not amused in the slightest…….never did it again…..ever.

I cruised the men’s underwear section in the Sears catalog….although I’m a boxer guy……the briefs section showed more ‘impressions’ of cock…I perused them often looking to see who had the largest ‘impressions’ to feed my homo-erotic fantasies ……..at like……eleven years old.

Baroque decorative arts in colonial South America. Circus carnies and small traveling tent circuses. Everything about souks.

[quote] Baroque decorative arts in colonial South America.

I don't know much about it, but from what I've read and seen it's a fascinating topic.

The history of midtown Manhattan until the 70s. Certainly not the present which is about as appealing and interesting as the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

Thrifting . I wish I could go to a Goodwill or any thrift shop every day for like at least a half an hour. I only buy stuff I really need or can gift or sell on EBay. I have not been able to go as much as I like because of time and other considerations since the pandemic started and it depresses me. I wouldn’t always buy sometime I just liked to look around. I also had a really nice little group of people who were regulars like and also the workers and I miss that so much.I’m not a hoarder type so my house doesn’t look tacky.

Who has the largest penis out of Biden Trump Obama Bush and Clinton.

And if they shave down there.

R84, wondering about Carter is less disgusting than wondering about Trump.

You are an obsession. You’re my obsession.

My obsession is houseplants. Hoyas, streptocarpus, begonias. Just flowering tropicals in general. Not that anybody fucking cares.

Oscar de la, R87?

Vintage snowglobes

R89 = Tommy Westphall

I collect hair.

Playing Tummy Sticks in my parents' guest room with whatever man my slut sister brings home for the weekend

What are / is Tummy Sticks?

The Beatles = THE most overrated band of all time. White suburban dreck. And the followers that are still alive just cling to it.

[R94]

I'm a life-long Beatle fan. The same as OP, I have every album that they've put out, every 8track, cassette and cd. I also saw them live, and saw Paul on a Wings tour.

I also collect fountain pens and inks, scarves (four drawers full), art and hand blown art glass (41 pieces).

I'm nearly 70, and have been collecting since I bought my first small painting at age 15.

R95 That’s nice. I’d love to pick through your pens, scarves, and blown glass while we throw your Beatles collection in a fire.

^^^ Sorry. Should’ve signed it R94. The Beatles Hater.

I like you, the Beatles hater.

The early 1960’s—music, fashion, architecture, movies. Just everything.

dong

Well, OP, I'm pretty much like you, except for me it's The Supremes, and Diana Ross.

abstract paintings

Halloween. I love having a party for the adult and giving out candy and toys to the kids. I was buying Halloween toys last week.

We'll start seeing Halloween stuff out by the end of August. Once that happens, you know the holidays are right around the corner and the cool weather is on it's way.

I can't wait, this heat and humidity is very uncomfortable. Come on winter I'm ready!

r104 the Halloween store in my area opened last week.

R86

I love you too.....

Feet n cock

R105 That's july is really early. Late August I could see, but July? That's to early.

I'm always happy to see the seasonal holiday stuff get put out. That always means summer is winding down and Halloween Thanksgiving and Christmas is coming which is my favorite part of the year. It also means cool weather which I love. This heat and humidity is unbearable.

R107. Foot queens are repulsive

Bi Men, White Men and Pete Buttigieg!

Tracey Ullman and Martin Short

All things Cybill and all things Kristy

Recovering dish queen. Only two sets left. Neither is china.

The British Royal Family. No, I'm not joking.

The paranormal.

Straight feet n cocks

Yes, carnies and traditional circus people, and the carnival life.

French and English Gothic architecture. The life and works of Shakespeare (I love Eric Sams.). Any period of Egyptian history. Egyptian Revival and Egypt in film (Memorabilia from DeMille's 1934 "Cleopatra"). Italian Renaissance-through-early-Baroque painting. Painters in the Russian Plein Air/Russian Landscape group (God, they're wonderful.). Early (pre-Ming) Chinese music. Horror and Halloween traditions, films and artifacts. Funeral and Cemetery history.

Findom

OP, change just about everything you wrote from The Beatles to The Doors, and you have my obsession.

R115 MissLucy, can you be more specific?

Reruns of "Alice" on Antenna TV

Working out. With the music that I like on my ear.

OP, you mean passion, not obsession.

Words matter.

Maybe OP can’t stop collecting Beatles stuff.

Eating ASS!

I started a thread about my new obsession!

R126 Sounds interesting. Please let us know how it works out for you.

R120 I've had a huge number of paranormal experiences, from the time that I was three years old up until the present. I don't find them scary at all, but they fascinate me. Visual experiences, auditory experiences, and tactile ones as well...somebody who wasn't visible placing his/her hand on the top of my head. Many of these experiences took place where I am now living, and my partner has shared a few of them. I have also seen my cats react to them. I could write a book.

R128 Thank you. I would love to hear more.

R129, I've told many of the stories on Datalounge over the last couple of years. It's just a matter of finding them. At the moment I'm busy with something that I can't get away from, but later, I think I can find them, and I'll leave some links in a post on this thread.

R129 I found this one, will look for more.

When a former partner of mine died, I arrived home from the hospital that night to find the clock he kept by the side of the bed had stopped at the precise time he died. About a month later, as I came out of the bedroom one morning, he was standing at the end of the hallway, wearing his favorite shirt. He was looking directly at me, with a little smirk that he often had when he was teasing me about something. Then, in an instant, he simply vanished. Now you see him, now you don't.

[R131] You’re lucky, I wish I could see people after they go, but I don’t have those powers. My dad just died and I’m devastated. I want to see him once more because he went so suddenly. He had a heart attack.

You are an obsession I cannot sleep I am your possession Unopened at your feet There's no balance No equality Be still I will not accept defeat I will have you Yes, I will have you I will find a way and I will have you Like a butterfly A wild butterfly I will collect you and capture you You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? I feed you I drink you By day and by night I need you, I need you By sun or candlelight You protest You want to leave Stay Oh, there's no alternative Your face appears again I see the beauty there But I see danger Stranger beware A circumstance In your naked dreams Your affection is not what it seems You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? My fantasies have turned to madness And all my goodness Has turned to badness My need to possess you Has consumed my soul My life is trembling I have no control I will have you Yes, I will have you I will find a way and I will have you Like a butterfly A wild butterfly I will collect you and capture you You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me? You are an obsession You're my obsession

Saw Paul McCartney in concert at the Tacoma Dome. It sucked because of the million fans and the nose bleed seats. Had binoculars and still couldn't be sure it was him.

Obsessed with Sharon Tate(before), singing to music, gardening and animals.

R132 My dad started showing up in my dreams a while after he died. Not right away though. In my dreams, he sometimes speaks and sometimes just stands there smoking a cigarette. Mostly he wants me to know he is okay. Everything is okay and not to worry so much. I treasure the dreams and they come and go. I hope your dad does the same for you. Be open to it.

Star Wars. Used to buy a lot of Star Wars stuff. Lately I've been getting rid of some of it as I feel like I'm tired of so much "Stuff" but I will watch most Star Wars content that is out there. I still have my action figures and toys from the 1970's. Thought I would have a big house some day with a room to put it all in on display, but alas, here I am at 52 still renting a tiny 400 sq foot house so that's not ever happening. I'm going to sell most of them as some of them are worth $. I've reached the age where I'd rather have the money and more space. It will hurt to let them go, but at some point, one has to. I still remember how excited my grandmother was to give me the Millennium Falcon playset one Christmas. It was the best gift, ever.

Huge Star Wars fan here, R136. I too like 70s and 80s Star Wars figures and toys.

Nice, r137! My figures are all loose because back then, we played with our toys and had no idea they would be worth anything. I have several of the more popular ones though, including Boba Fett, Vader, Obi Wan and Chewbacca. I have what's left of an inflatable lightsaber, a Han Solo blaster from Empire, a sonic landspeeder, the falcon (complete with everything except the box), Dagobah playset, Tie Fighter and some of the old send away stuff like the Yoda backpack for Luke and the oxygen masks from Empire. The send away stuff was always fun to get in the mail. I remember going into Gemco and buying figures for $1. For awhile I was collecting all the Playskool mini figures stuff. Now, I am more inclined to keep my Gentle Giant statues as.

they are nice collectables.

I hit enter too early!

Making playlists

No comments about the Animotion song at R133? DL, you're slipping.

Someone sure has a Rocco Richie obsession - he should come on this thread and explain it.

R142 it stems from his madge obsession

Food. No, I'm a bit overweight but not a fattie.

But I love to cook. I watch a shitload of cooking videos. I like preserving, canning, and fermenting stuff. I cook pretty elaborate meal for my partner. I'm off the carbs for now but I still love to cook for him.

[quote] No, I'm a bit overweight but not a fattie.

R144, YTF.

I’m obsessed with changing my last name to Chambers like Diane Chambers in Cheers.

R145 - I'm 6'2 and weigh 201 lbs.

Was referenced earlier in the thread R141.

R147 I'm interested!

[quote]Trying to figure out if Jacqueline Kennedys hair was chestnut brown or not. Chestnut brown hair is my favorite color of hair.

Only her hairdresser knows for sure! Wasn't her main hairdresser, Kenneth? Unfortunately, Kenneth died in 2013.

Kenneth had an interesting life.

A friend knew a guy who lived in Orlando. He was rich and his house was packed with Disney memorabilia including one of the Space Mountain cars. Then he died. She has no idea what happened do that stuff.

Disney started merchandising all the way back with Mickey Mouse when he bacame popular so there must be tons of stuff out there.

Good for you r147. Top or bottom?

Big things in small packages.

Obsession. Sigourney Weaver. Biographies of Henry James and Dickens. Virginia Woolf. 70s movies. Oh, and Miss Ross.

Making masculine men quiver like Jello when I put my tongue up their butt

R155. Ew. You’re into SCAT

Classic Architecture and Urbanism. I love to purchase city/country photography for that reason.

hot dudes with fuzzy butts