Hobbies - Do You Have Any?

[Victoria]

Originally Posted by ila

That sounds interesting. Does any of it involve welding? I've always wanted to try welding, but I'm not going to go out and buy a welder just to try it. I do like grinding and shining metal. Don't think I could make anything that would be considered art though.

I can weld TIG and MIG

Here is the inside of my Hobby

Good luck guys

[mykel73]

I like to draw and paint.

[Mad_Bad!!]

I play bass guitar in a hard rock band.
At the moment we only play cover songs (AC/DC, Kiss, Guns N' Roses... the usual stuff) but we plan on start writing something after we've played live for a while (we're getting started again 'cause we changed the singer) and get an established (and demoed) setlist.
I also like playing videogames and reading comics (I love Marvel).

[Arato]

For me Im in to my Battlefield2142 and Im also in to Tae Kwon Do, got my blackbelt in 1988.

[captaindunsel]

Definitely computers. When I was doing sys admin work, my then (shemale) girlfriend used to complain that I'd work on computers all day and then come home and play with them all night...

Of course, I always found time to play with her too. :D

[BlueRaven88]

Originally Posted by Mad_Bad!!

I play bass guitar in a hard rock band.
At the moment we only play cover songs (AC/DC, Kiss, Guns N' Roses... the usual stuff) but we plan on start writing something after we've played live for a while (we're getting started again 'cause we changed the singer) and get an established (and demoed) setlist.
I also like playing videogames and reading comics (I love Marvel).

Try doing some cover work for Nirvana and/or Seether. They rock harder than tryhards like Kiss and AC/DC, and Guns'N'Roses only had 1 good song and it was Sweet Child of Mine, and don't start going on about how good AC/DC are or whatever cos I'm Australian and I STILL say they suck because it's true.

Seether have 3 albums by the way (technically 4 but the second was an extended re-release of the 1st so it has all the same songs plus more, so I only count it as 3 albums) - Disclaimer II, Karma & Effect, and their newly released album titled Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces. Personally Karma & Effect is my fave, but everyone has different tastes

[Mad_Bad!!]

I don't like grunge (I can bear only a little Soundgarden, but I totally hate Nirvana), and I fine modern alt rock and mainstream rock like Nickelback and Seether to be extremely dull, samey and boring.

I actually have a few dreams: a power metal group, a melodeath one or one to play nowadays obscure hair metal.
But I'm quite happy with what I play now. I love AC/DC, GnR and Kiss. I find modern rock bands to be the real "tryhards", 'cause they try to rock as hard as the old bands but always fail.

[Ogryn1313]

Hmm...too many hobbies. At 32 I'm still a kid at heart.

Wargaming and wargame model making, making model scenery.
I still play video games, PS2, PS3, PC.
Still buy graphic novels. Only dirty stuff though.
I collect all kinds of things. Even porn mags.
Target shooting.
Camping.
Masturbation.
Many more.

[TheSkronkDonkey]

Originally Posted by Mad_Bad!!

I don't like grunge (I can bear only a little Soundgarden, but I totally hate Nirvana), and I fine modern alt rock and mainstream rock like Nickelback and Seether to be extremely dull, samey and boring.

I'm such a philistine that I've never even heard of Seether, but I agree with you on Nickelback. The song that everyone really likes this year: "Rock Star"? UGH. Not my scene. I call them Oatmeal Rock. To each, their own.

For modern rock and of those currently putting out, I look to Oasis (Classic Beatles-esque stuff) and MUSE (Great Prog Rock). For the real heavyweights, Elvis (and all the other 50's stars), The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Queen, Nirvana. People like GnR are very, very good, but not at that top level. IMO, anyway. For what it's worth, I listened to "November Rain" a bunch of times the other week.

Must also give a shout-out to more esoteric branches like shoegaze. Sofia Coppola (via "Lost In Translation" and "Marie-Antoinette") has put me onto some pretty cool stuff, like My Bloody Valentine and New Order. Thanks to Russell Brand, I also really dig The Smiths. Thanks to an Oasis-mad mate, I have a lot of love for The Stone Roses, too. Shit! There is so much stuff out there!

One confession: I don't really "get" heavier forms of music, but there are songs by Metallica and Nine Inch Nails that I find incredible. Of course, I'm only name-dropping people virtually everyone has heard of.

I can't really define my taste in music, except to say that I'm obsessed with Elvis. And I do mean OBSESSED. He is definitely one of my hobbies. I collect and talk about him -- and LISTEN! -- all the time. For other world class voices, I look to Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, Tim and Jeff Buckley and Amy Winehouse. Man, Amy has copped so much bad press, but one spin of "Back To Black" and I'm gone. In fact, I really love a LOT of soul / RnB / motown.

Today, I've been listening mainly to Elvis (non-rock stuff), Bobby Darin and Neil Diamond. Rock doesn't feature highly in my world. I also like film soundtracks -- in fact, I've been listening to the "End Credits" music for "Kill Bill, Volume 1" a LOT this week. Just can't get enough. The words "Tarantino" and "poor music" should NEVER go together. Apart from that sentence. If it happens again, the universe will implode. Then there's electronic stuff like Brian Eno, Daft Punk and Vangelis. I seem to like bits 'n' bobs from all over. Oops, this isn't the music thread, is it? :D

Can I also just mention Elton John, The Bee Gees, ABBA (pop meisters supreme), Wham! and, oh shit ...... I'm a pop fiend, aren't I?

Originally Posted by Ogryn1313

Masturbation.

LOL! This is every man's hobby!

The problem with me is that I have an obsessive mind. I get fixated on very specific things and can't shake them loose. They seduce me, noose me and won't let me go. This is becoming a real problem for me. Every time I go looking at porn (which is basically every day), I get totally crazed and feel like I have to experience it all. No matter how many shemale picture or movie pages I look at, it doesn't seem like enough. I have this desire to try and sample it all, lest it all fall from existence. So you can imagine my sense of being totally overwhelmed when I'm looking at all these thumbnails and knowing I can't possibly click them all. In fact, I don't want to click them ALL, but I want to click so many, and seek out others, that there's this restless part of my brain that won't simmer down. It keeps saying, "More! More! More!". LOL. I guess this is what it's like to have a drug addiction.

Anyway, my other hobbies include:

Films (Watching And Commenting Upon)
Books
Walking (For Miles)
Computers (Less Of A Hobby These Days)

[BlueRaven88]

Originally Posted by Mad_Bad!!

I don't like grunge (I can bear only a little Soundgarden, but I totally hate Nirvana), and I fine modern alt rock and mainstream rock like Nickelback and Seether to be extremely dull, samey and boring.

I actually have a few dreams: a power metal group, a melodeath one or one to play nowadays obscure hair metal.
But I'm quite happy with what I play now. I love AC/DC, GnR and Kiss. I find modern rock bands to be the real "tryhards", 'cause they try to rock as hard as the old bands but always fail.

Lol I will admit that yes, Seether does get it's main influence from Nirvana, but the new bands don't rock as hard as the old ones? HAHAHAHAHA! Tell that to Lamb of God, Parkway Drive, Hatebreed, Bleeding through and many more; and Nickelback are trying to live up to no one's name. They are a unique band with no discernable influences in their songs, and at least all the new bands now adays have some decent grinding melodies to them (Nirvana had it also) and meaningfull lyrics, whereas retards like Kiss just basically sung about partying and gay crap like that, and AC/DC and GnR had no meaningful lyrics whatsoever, and all 3 bands (apart from the guitar solos in guns and roses, slash just plain melts faces) had very bland generic melodies to them.

If you want to follow up on more of Slash's work, he is now in a band called Velvet Revolver. They aren't half bad, but still aren't as good as the modern-day, bass-heavy singers, grinding music melody bands of today

[Mad_Bad!!]

I was talking about modern rock bands, and you bring out modern bands which aren't rock but metal/metalcore/hardcore... what do they have to do with what we were talking about? I'm not an idiot, I know that Lamb of God play heavier music than both Seether and Kiss, but that's not the point. "To rock harder" and "to play a heavier genre" are different things. So you aren't convincing me of anything.
I already know (and like) like Velvet Revolver.
I find some of GnR songs to be very meaningful (have you ever listened to Civil War? Estranged? And I could go on...).
Kiss and AC/DC don't have very meaningful lyrics, I can agrre on that, but they surely are funny!!! And very catchy, also. By the way, I don't see what's wrong with lyrics about party or sex... what's your problem, you don't like having fun? Also, they influenced literally TONS of bands. And don't tell me Ace Frehley and Angus Young aren't good guitar players...

By the way, if you go in the topic abuot music tastes, you can get a better idea of what I like. I'm statring to think that you think I only like "old" bands...

[tlover]

Originally Posted by Victoria

I can weld TIG and MIG

Here is the inside of my Hobby

Good luck guys

Nice work, what is it for.
I'm good at arc welding.

[ila]

Originally Posted by Victoria

I can weld TIG and MIG

Here is the inside of my Hobby

Good luck guys

Man, that's awesome. If I ever get down to TO I've gotta let you know so I can see that in person.

[BlueRaven88]

Pretty much my only hobbies are listening to music and searching for ladyboys online. not having much luck in my searches though (i'm not looking for porn or escorts, i'm looking for ladyboys that want LTR's with westerners).
I play a couple of video games though. At the moment I got back into Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn/Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. Such a sweet game and add-on. Just completed tonight again in fact. This time around I played a Neutral Good Half-Elf Mage/Thief and did the romance with Aerie (hope you know what I'm talking about because it is an old style game brought out in 2001 or so, it's predecessor Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast were brought out in the late 90's)

Yeah feer my leet geekness -_-'