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What are your obsessions?

SciFiGreg

Apparently it's common for Aspies to have unusually focused or niche interests so I figured I'd find out what other peoples interests are.

I'll go first.

Mine are:

  • Sci-Fi TV (Trek, Stargate, Babylon 5, The Expanse - Trek was my gateway drug, which I started watching at the age of 5. I even remember episode titles from a few seconds of viewing or starship registry numbers)
  • Trance & Progressive House music - not commercial bilge you hear played on the radio - underground stuff you'd hear at a proper club or event rather at your local meat market (I pretty much exclusively listen to these genres)
  • Cats (If I see one in the street I have to make friends, if it's a timid cat I have to try and win its trust - for some reason a friendly cat makes me super happy, perhaps I have toxoplasmosis)
  • The Simpsons
  • Technology (I work in IT support and am always using or fiddling with tech)
  • Science - I listen to a number of podcasts and find things like advances in genomics interesting
  • Religion - more specifically from the view of an atheist (me) - trying to understand how people are duped into believing such things from a neurological and psychological perspective (this stems from being raised by fundamentalist evangelical Christians, who've turned out to be massive hypocrites)
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  • Collecting music (no particular genre).

    Electronic music production.

    Collecting, repairing, restoring watches (mainly automatics because they don't "tick") selling and buying them.

    Film. I like every aspect. Set design, costume, cinematography, direction, casting, e.t.c.. I can appreciate a good 80's action film as much as a Tarkovsky film. If it's got something I like, I like it.

    I read a lot but everyone does here it seems. The Dune books are my favourite fiction books.

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    What type of electronic music do you produce?

  • in reply to SciFiGreg

    I tend not to stick to one genre. I've made quite a bit of Drum and Bass but I haven't made that for a while. I used to make a lot of sample based hip-hop too. I tend to make more downbeat stuff now. Trip-hop, Electro, and a lot of what people would call Ambient. The last thing I completed was a collaboration with a guy I know. It was what I'd call slowed down Electro but with no hi-hats. We decided not to structure it in conventional 16 bar verses. It was pretty unstructured. I just let the mood take me most times.

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  • in reply to SciFiGreg

    I tend not to stick to one genre. I've made quite a bit of Drum and Bass but I haven't made that for a while. I used to make a lot of sample based hip-hop too. I tend to make more downbeat stuff now. Trip-hop, Electro, and a lot of what people would call Ambient. The last thing I completed was a collaboration with a guy I know. It was what I'd call slowed down Electro but with no hi-hats. We decided not to structure it in conventional 16 bar verses. It was pretty unstructured. I just let the mood take me most times.

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