What are your hobbies?

[remphish1]

Collect anything, used to collect anything? Discuss!

 

1) I collect autographs..at least I used to..over the years I amased a large collection of signatures and even used to attend book signings etc. Some of the best ones I got in person: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, Tom Petty, Billy Joel, Jon Stewart, Dave Chappelle, James Earl Jones etc. I also inherited a signed letter from Dwight Eisenhower and got a Michael Jackson signature from my dad's cousin who worked on the Thriller tour in 83?

 

2) I buy postacards from every spot I visit that has them. I must have 2000 or so...

 

3) Vinyl- I just got a new turntable and I have been rummaging through all the record stores near NYC and even when I am on vaction..

Yay Vinyl!

[Lammycat]

Used to collect coins and stamps as a kid. That turned to collecting, near-obsessively, GD shows on tapes. That turned to discs. I have other hobbies that don't include collectin stuff, though.

 

I knew a dude who used to collect his used cigarette butts and write the dates he smoked 'em on the filter. He had several large trash bags full.

[StuStu]

Recording concerts. It started with the Grateful Dead in 1989.

[ih8music]

I used to home brew before my kids were born. Got pretty good at it - great hobby if you enjoy flavorful beer.

 

Will return to it eventually, just tough right now to find time for it.

[cryptique]

Aside from collecting music (I have tons of CDs and LPs, though not nearly as many as some people on this board), my only other collection is of vintage games. I mostly collect stuff that has great graphic design on the box, and/or is really old (and still in decent condition), and/or is something I remember from my childhood. The closet beneath the stairs is filled with games, but someday I hope to find a good way to display the collection -- though that probably won't happen at our current house.

[Guest Speed Racer]

I have all UT/Jeff/Wilco shows that have been circulated, through 2006ish (that is, when Pat started placing his seat cushion on his keyboards for effect - you really need to reign it in when people can *hear* that your actions are annoying), and all volumes of the DVD Project minus one or two, maybe.

 

I collect all correspondence I've received since probably 6th or 7th grade.

[PopTodd]

I guess you could say that playing music/writing songs is my #1 hobby. (Although I think that it probably goes beyond that.)

 

Also:

Cooking

 

I used to collect autographs. Some of my more-prized ones:

Bill Cosby, Joe Walsh, Roald Dahl, Ernie Banks, Gayle Sayers, Walter Payton, Steve Morse

[Lammycat]

No offense to authograph coolectors, but what do you do with it once it's collected? Do you use it to tell the story of how you "met" the person? Do you sit on it and it collects monetary value? Not being a wise-ass, I've just always been intriqued by the people that are intriqued by getting autographs.

 

I got John Prine's authograph once while he was walking down the street in Teluuride for the Bluegrass Fest. He shakily scratched it out on a $5 bill I had and laughed and said "like you're not gonna spend it" (I was looking haggard and toasted from camping/paertying for a few days). I used that 5-spot on the bus ride from Denver-Boulder a day later without giving it more than a few seconds of contemplation....

[PopTodd]

No offense to authograph coolectors, but what do you do with it once it's collected? Do you use it to tell the story of how you "met" the person? Do you sit on it and it collects monetary value? Not being a wise-ass, I've just always been intriqued by the people that are intriqued by getting autographs.

 

I was a kid. I think that it just enthralled me that I had, in my possession, something that was once in the possession of somebody that I admired. And, even if it was just a slip of paper, nonetheless, it bore their signature, as proof that they did, in fact, possess it.

 

Now, I am not so much into the autograph thing. But, when I was a kid, that was pretty much the appeal: made me feel a little closer to these folks.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Oh, dear, running! Running is a hobby of mine. How could I forget. Been running for 12 years. Two halfs, one marathon, one marathon training regimen (dropped out day before the race), two Ragnars, four years in high school, four years in college.

 

On that note, I don't know if this counts as a hobby as much as a quirk, but I also have a knack for remembering useless statistics and numbers about my life. (Seen Forrest Gump 283 times; have eaten from the deli I frequent 60 times in 3 years, 55 of which I ordered a turkey melt, one salad, two ruebens, a club and a chicken sandwich; I have eaten at Chipotle 93 times, the first time ordering chicken with pinto beans, every other time a veggie fajita burrito, ordered chips 20 times. Of the 40 or so files in my office at any given time, I can recite their numbers, usually only forgetting one or two. That kind of thing.)

 

I sometimes worry about what I can't fit in my brain because of these numbers, but I can't not remember them.

[remphish1]

No offense to authograph coolectors, but what do you do with it once it's collected? Do you use it to tell the story of how you "met" the person? Do you sit on it and it collects monetary value? Not being a wise-ass, I've just always been intriqued by the people that are intriqued by getting autographs.

 

I got John Prine's authograph once while he was walking down the street in Teluuride for the Bluegrass Fest. He shakily scratched it out on a $5 bill I had and laughed and said "like you're not gonna spend it" (I was looking haggard and toasted from camping/paertying for a few days). I used that 5-spot on the bus ride from Denver-Boulder a day later without giving it more than a few seconds of contemplation....

 

 

I started collecting Autographs when I was 8. I got a book how to get signatures and it gave a list off all the places (Agents address, studios of where to write to to get autographs). I think I sent out 200 letters just as a hobby. I got some great things back which I used to display all over my room. When I was slightly older I had goals to meet some of my favorite bands etc and just figured an signature was something I could look at to look back on the meeting. I also like the stories the autograph tells. As I mentioned before I have an Eisenhower signed letter. In the letter which he wrote as a General in 1946 he was explaining to a foreigner who was fighting in the war that he can not be granted aid. It tells an interesting story.

[Lammycat]

Yeah, I can see that. I got Dave Silk's autograph (Miracle on Ice/Boston Bruin) when he played for the New Haven Nighthawks....

[The High Heat]

I used to have a massive baseball card collection, but I stopped buying them in the early '90's when the market became flooded with several different brands and the prices skyrocketed. I gave them to my nephews several years ago, but sometimes I miss being able to reel off stats because all the time I spent studying those cards. I do wish I still had the cards from the 70's, even just reminisce about long hair and ugly uniforms.

[u2roolz]

I Enjoy Native American art, ballroom dancing and pornography.

[The High Heat]

I Enjoy Native American art, ballroom dancing and pornography, but not neccessarily in that order.

[cryptique]

I Enjoy Native American art, ballroom dancing and pornography, sometimes simultaneously.

[Good Old Neon]

Pork chops, raindrops, belly flops and hatin' cops.

[The Inside of Outside]

I used to home brew before my kids were born. Got pretty good at it - great hobby if you enjoy flavorful beer.

 

Will return to it eventually, just tough right now to find time for it.

Me too.

 

Love to play golf. Camp. Smoke cigars.

 

Don't collect much. Trying to purge stuff; six people in one house = not much room for any one person's stuff. Got rid of baseball cards, beer cans, and vinyl records several years ago. I do collect concert ticket stubs....

[tinnitus photography]

I knew a dude who used to collect his used cigarette butts and write the dates he smoked 'em on the filter. He had several large trash bags full.

 

that's not a hobby, that's a disorder.

[tinnitus photography]

I Enjoy Native American art, ballroom dancing and pornography.

 

i had no idea that Navajo bukkake vids existed.

[u2roolz]

I Enjoy Native American art, ballroom dancing and pornography.

 

A very special free gift to the person to identify the movie this quote comes from without using Google.

[anthony]

My hobby is playing (and slowly collecting) acoustic guitars and other stringed instruments (I just bought a 6-string Uke in Maui). GAS is crippling obsession.

[barbkm]

Don't know if this is a hobby, but I recently started doing stand up comedy. I took a class that's offered through Caroline's Comedy Club in NYC just to improve my public speaking skills -- as part of my Individual Development Plan (of IDP) for work. Turns out, I'm pretty good. I've done two New Talent Nights at Caroline's (Darrell Hammond was at one show and told me I was good.) And a few shows in NJ.

 

I started as a total goof, but now it's beginning to show some progress. I've only been doing this since Nov., but other comics who've been in the biz for years tell me I'm a natural. Who knows... I could start a totally new life at 40? I even got Wilco related jokes, but can't use them cos no one would get it.

[pillowy star]

Cooking and eating (especially Asian and Indian cuisine), and of course travelling the world.

 

My biggest hobby used to be going to shows, the more the better, but these days what with a busy working & social life it's too much of a hassle. All the waiting around and listening to mostly crappy support acts just takes the fun away. I even had a hard time buying tickets for one single Wilco show this year, and only did it because it's almost walking distance from where we live.

[jff]

Playing guitar and drums. Attempting to make home recordings.

 

I have a lot of LPs, which I've been accumulating since 9th or 10th grade. I don't like to think of myself as a collector. I have no interest in owning a record just because it's rare or "collectable."

 

We buy refrigerator magnets from any place we visit.