Your obsession makes you interesting.
Actor Alan Cumming has started a website documenting people’s obsessions. On www.itsasickness.com you can join existing obsession groups (Shakespeare, sloths, Buffy, etc) and add your own, then upload photos, videos and articles.
“Itsasickness is an obsession network honoring sicknesses; the objects of our obsession. We believe that no one is ever more interesting than when they talk about what they love. To do your sickness justice is to own it.”
Here’s Alan talking about the project on the Joy Behar show.
While it’s painfully obvious what I have been obsessed with for the last 20 years, this project made me think about past obsessions. I have dreadfully bad memory, but here’s what I was able to dig up:
- James Bond movies
- Paul Newman
- AFN/BFBS Radio
- Film posters
- Joao Gilberto / Brazilian music
- Sports (tennis & baseball) and sports clothes (Adidas)
- Field recording gear
- U2 live concert tapes
- Ireland
- Robbie Robertson
- Eddie Izzard