you know you are a fanatic when.....

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1. Your boyfriend/girlfriend is jealous of your favourite artist.
2. Are tempted to rent any movie of your favourite band, even though you own multiple copies of them.
3. All your friends already know anything there is to know about your favourite band and so they don't ask because they don't want to hear it yet again.
4. You plaster your room with pics of your favourite band.
5. You have thought about rigging the mic on the football field and having it play a song of your favourite band in the middle of a game.
5. When you are convinced that every piece of music has ideas that were stolen from your favourite band.

I know there are a few similar lists out there.
Does everyone have weird little quirks that let them know they're obsessed? :)

― tomato, Saturday, 17 August 2002 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

You plaster your room with pics of your favourite band.

In that case, we've all been fanatics at one point or another. Or have we?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

6. you've ever taken those masturbation fantasies and turned 'em into fan fiction.

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm glad you said 'fan fiction' and not 'reality' -- although that counts too...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

As long as it's not with Calvin & Hobbes -- people like that should be put into prison.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, quite so. *shudders*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

LOL - ok, now want a scary list?
you know you are obsessed when
- family friends ask about the progress of your CD's collection
- You fly half way round the world to attend a concert and none of your friends/fam think that's unusual
- Your uncle's girlfriend (or any other relative) cut out of a pic of her music mag's and mailed it to you because she knew you were a fan.
-you can never have enough posters
-you can never fave enough t-shirts
-when you have a Wallpaper and Theme going on your computer

― davedriscoll, Sunday, 18 August 2002 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

When the band recognizes you and calls you by name.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 18 August 2002 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

When the band recognizes you and calls you by interweb username.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 18 August 2002 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Each members of your favorite band has multiple restaining orders against you.

― Lord Custos Alpha, Sunday, 18 August 2002 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

When you talk about them a lot : Duane = fan of Hipgnosis QED.

― maryann, Sunday, 18 August 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

...you're defending their subpar current works with phrases like:

"they didn't fall off, they just progressed"

"they didn't fall off, they just matured"

"they're really nice blokes"

"they really respect their fans"

"sales were bad because of lack of promotion" (Jacko fans score high here of course)

"Can you play better than them? Then shut up!"

"The solo stuff he's doing now is just as good as the old stuff"

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Sunday, 18 August 2002 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

you wonder what the inspiration of your fanaticism would do in "x" situation...supposedly straight edge kids have actually been heard mumbling "what would ian do ?"

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 18 August 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

1. giving up a night of possibly-brilliant sex to stay home and determine the running order of a compile of your favourite artist (that you're actually putting together for the person you've spurned)

2. having to buy a larger suitcase during an overseas trip to haul all the cds and vinyl you bought back home.

― angelo stravoskoufis (angelo), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The band recognise you, call you by name, and start showing off their new shoe collections to you.

― kate, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

You start eyeing furnaces to see if they are Reznor heaters. (That may just be exclusive to me though...)

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

You build a secret room in the basement of your house, behind a hidden door, where you then construct a towering alter lit with candles and decorated with straw and rag effigies of your chosen band, shrouded with plumes of burning incense, then spending months and months in these dingy surrounds pennning an entire religious litany and dogma around your musical Gods, refusing to answer either the telephone of front-door until your work is done and you emerge from the blackness blinking and brainwashed into believing that you must liberate the souls of your favourites by hunting them down and slicing open their jugulars with a rusty razor since this, of course, is the only way to release their deitific beings from the confines of the flesh, stopping at nothing to achieve your goal, ignoring the mounting restraining orders and injunctions until after one fateful night whereupon you smuggled a 25 inch machete into a live show and sucessfully clambered onto the stage to carry out your deluded divine mission, you wake up to find yourself tied to the floor in a padded cell and a brace of electrodes strapped to the side of your head.

― Roger Fasist, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:27 (twenty-three years ago)

poseur

― lawrence kansas, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, perhaps you are right. The secret room and towering alter would be clear warning signs huh.

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Fav band ever:
>>You plaster your room with pics of your favourite band.
....I like to think of it as being a shrine

Fav local band:
You're greeted at the door with "I thought you'd be coming."

Sad but true!

― Miss Laura, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One mark of a fanatic is the person who says "you can't compare any of artist X's albums because they're all completely different." This sucks because even though there may be some truth to it, non-fans never believe it.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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