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and dont say writing.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:37 (twenty-three years ago)

rockist got me thinking about this when he said he couldnt really get involved with anyone who wasnt passionate about something.( or something to that effect )
do you think you need a passion?
have you lost yours?

― donna (donna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i guess i better say "music" before 9000 people do.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

no thats not enough jess. how is it? please elaborate.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:49 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread kills all passion.

― Denise Lambert, Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

that's rather ironic.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)

no, that comment did.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:54 (twenty-three years ago)

cranking up my guitar, distortion and overdrive both at 9 is one of my passions. feedback rules....
and yeah its important to feel passionate about some stuff in yr life be whatever it may cos otherwise whats the point of being here?

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Thursday, 7 November 2002 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

less time talking about passion and more time EXPERIENCING it.

guaranteed dick-witherer of an expression: "please elaborate."

if any of us felt enough passion about anything, none of us would be here.

― Denise Lambert, Thursday, 7 November 2002 08:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i think places, i mean yes you could say music/books etc, which is, to an extent, true, but i love going to places, and thinking about places too (ones i have been to and ones i have not). obvious things like going to america, but seemingly more mundane trips too (i went to sutton for tea on monday and i loved going there because it was somewhere new). i love it!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 7 November 2002 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

if any of us felt enough passion about anything, none of us would be here.

I don't see that that follows. After all lots of us are at work. I for one would love to be in bed with my boyfriend/singing/shopping for books/performing a poem right now, but all of that is less easily disguised as work, you know?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 7 November 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, think the being in bed with your boyf might raise one or two eyeborws...

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 7 November 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmmm... I try to have a few different passions, but my greatest one is music.
I agree with Archel. I would love to be rocking all night and partying every day, but I have to go to work. I can't bring my little practice amp to my cubicle, gig bag in hand, and then bang away. And I'm not allowed to listen to other people's music at my desk either. But it is ok for me to chat with strangers on ILE ABOUT music or whatever. So that's what I do.
I do work a bit on my passion at work when I have a chance - making fliers, updating the band web page, emailing/calling to set up shows, writing lyrics... that sort of thing. But it gets lonely back here in my cube, so I thought - hey, why not post to ILE and meet some nice fine peeps?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm fact-checking!!"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheese.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

football, food, my girlfriend, jackass and a few more things probably.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, and maps too. i suppose thats linked to the other stuff, but i just love maps!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Dance music, writing about dance music, dancing about dancefloors, eating, talking.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

oo! oo! i love maps too. did you go to the exhibition in the british library, "lie of the land: the secret lives of maps"? i tried to go one weekend i was in london but they had shut the library during its normal opening hours, grr. the website is good though. i must get the book.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

My man (puke), puppets, animaton and general childishness

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

ohmygod i'd forgotten all about that angela! i havent been, i hope its still on, i'm going to go as soon as i get the chance.

have you been to the university of texas map page? its great

(posting cd this afternoon)

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

photonic crystals!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i think the exhibition finished last april unfortunately. i'll go and check out the university of texas map page now. yeah, a cd on the way!!!

i remembered another passion (well, that's perhaps slightly too strong a word for it), i also love pop-up books (or paper engineering to be fancy). my favourite is great one called "waiting for filippo" which is about brunelleschi.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, and maps too. i suppose thats linked to the other stuff, but i just love maps!

gareth, you share my passion.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

fruit!

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i am also obsessed with waterfalls.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

and their environs.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

elaboration

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Places. PLaces. Places. Writing about places. listening ot music, it's about places it helps. Drawing places. Photographing places.

Oh, and old churches and other places of worship (ie other religions)

And the things people believe who go to them (even though I don't beleive them myself).

People.

My daughter.

on and on and on.

― jon (jon), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

More passions: (I don't have a one-track mind!)
Movies, Food, Creative Projects (bracelet-making, zine-making, attempting to crochet, whatever seems fun at the time), Decorating my apartment, Journaling, Games that require strategy (chess, scrabble, various card games), Vintage clothing, Reading...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

fine wine and broads.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I have many passions: (I have an eight track mind!)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Stuff and things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Round my way, Stuff & Things is a euphemism for shagging.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

places, like gareth. especially wilderness type places and places with extensive histories. and fairy tales, on many levels i've always been obsessed with them. which relates to places in a way, because my favorite places give me the same feelings as good fairy tales.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Round my way, Stuff & Things is a euphemism for shagging.

No, that's stuffing things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

St Tibulus.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

down with that sort of thing.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Careful now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

that would be an ecumenical matter.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

That exhibition was wicked good. Mind you, any room full of loads of different maps = wicked good AFAIAC.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

talent, truth, tv, travel, and beer.

― amy (amy), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

mine is people.
with runners-up of music, reading, creating 'stuff', places and i dont mean cities so much as the natural wilderness areas on our planet, space, thinking and dreaming, communicating.
sometimes i just feel 'passionate' about being here breathing, living, being aware. but im usually dancing in the kitchen at those times singing loudly at the rain outside.
:-)

― donna (donna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"if any of us felt enough passion about anything, none of us would be here"

ha ha ha but somewhat true...

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Bad weather, conkers, nice socks, mud, travelling on buses at night, good sunsets.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Walking on the beach, sunsets, cuddling.

ha ha.
Trying to make it sound like a personal ad.

But, yeah, I really like nice socks too. I am passionate about them!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't feel that I have one right now.

Then again, this is probably symptomatic of general depression/lack of joy/anhedonia in my life right now, that I don't feel passionate about anything. How do I put some passion back in my life? And I don't mean those cheesey ads where long married couples put on leather keks and reignite their sex lives.

I mean, how do you take emotions which are just so burned out from overburn, and make them actually work again? How do I find the idiot joy that I used to experience over stupid things?

― kate, Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Drink some coke.
It makes me giddy, anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Been wondering that myself, Kate, vis-a-vis music pop and otherwise. I think talking about it helps, but also just learning to relax a bit -- especially if you feel like you have to keep up with everything (a real problem when it seems like everyone else is but you!). The idiot joy, I think, ultimately surprises you most of all. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I need obsession in my life. I NEED it, to make me get out of bed in the morning, to make me haul my sorry ass out of the house. Lately I've been falling back more and more on obsessions with people, specifically lovers or ex-lovers, and this is so unhealthy it seems to have burned out the passion receptors in my brain.

I remember when I used to be able to obsess about a band, or a work or art, or a book. It's not that nothing is inspiring me any more, I just don't seem able to respond any more.

It's a vicious cycle, depression leads to an inability to experience passion, and lack of passion only reinforces depression. Drinking used to be a shortcut to idiot joy, now more likely than not drinking only leads to more abject depression.

I used to fall in love with bands or boys or books twice a week. I want my passion back, dammit. But now I'm even dispassionate about passion itself.

― kate, Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

you need a big change kate, something to shock you out of the mire.
i agree, drinking makes it worse.
can you take a break? get out for a bit and do something totally unrelated to your normal daily life?
boredom can stifle passion quickly and you end up feeling like there is nothing worth being passionate about.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

That's a good idea, Donna. I have fallen into a horrible rut with bad habits. Breaking the rut would probably shake me back into me being my normal, usual "falls in love twice a day" sort of person. Moving and getting out of this hellhole is going to be a big shock, but in a GOOD way.

Maybe I should run away for a few weeks/days. Be back for when I have to tour, but just get the hell out for a little while.

― kate, Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

well it is 'nanna-type' advice admittedly but it does work and has done wonders for me many times.
even if you cant get away immediately, the thought that you will soon helps a bit, and i have found if i do something as simple as go for a walk to the local park / library i get a small burst of life again to keep me going for a day or so ( or an hour but hey it all counts ).
one good one is to go see and old friend who lives elsewhere.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm passionate about ideas. Never had the opportunity to college or a even a decent high school. But I'm always looking for ideas in music, art, literature, film, just about anything. Music is probably the biggest of them. there is a real joy to having your mind blown by a great piece of music or reading a book that turns you world upside down. Cooking and good conversation with friends make life worth living too.

― Juan (Juan), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm passionate about Waldo. I've got posters in my room and all the books.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"i am also obsessed with waterfalls. "
me TOO.

Have you seen "Nurpu" the kayaking movi....
I'll start a new thread for this topic.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate, try being obsessed with Buddhism or Taoism. (That sounds flippant but it's not.)

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Used to be alcohol, now reading. Everyone here must love reading a bit. Is there something about reading that's a kind of physical pleasure? It seems a very enduring activity, as much as sex and eating, more than listening to music.

― Some Girl, Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

'my favorite places give me the same feelings as good fairy tales. '

Yes, nice line - and both give me the same feeling as good dreams.

How do you people do that italics thing when quoting other people's messages?

― jon (jon), Friday, 8 November 2002 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Like this but replace () with <>:

(I) put your text here (/I)

― Miss Laura, Friday, 8 November 2002 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant to put fireworks too.

― alix (alix), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

It's people first for me - usually my oldest friends first, though they are currently slightly pushed aside by an exciting new relationship. Other than people, it's certainly music more than anything, and although variety is a vital part of that, if I had to choose one area it would be vintage soul.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 November 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

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