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Posted: 8th April 2003 22:56

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Anyone have any hobbies besides video games?

I tend to mimic people alot.  (hence the avatar)  But I also do some writing, including short stories and poetry.

I know theirs artists and writers that contribute, but surely there's some that havent mentioned it or don't contribute.  (I could but I'm not to happy with it.)

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Posted: 9th April 2003 00:04

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Posted: 9th April 2003 02:05

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I write, read, and I collect ancient-style weapons (swords, daggers, sais, stars, etc.)

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Posted: 9th April 2003 02:17

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i love music more than anything else, and my dream was always to go somewhere with my music, so im always kind of saddened when i know i cant have that cuz im gonna be in the army for the next six years.  i like to play guitar, bass, harmonica, and sometimes drums when i come across a set.  if i could ever find someone who bootlegged one of my shows or if i had a good recording, i would make a site or something and post links if anyone was interested.  i dont think lyrics or anything like that is welcome on the fanart/fanfic page, and i also dont want to offend anyone (particularly the webmaster or staff) because there is some rather harsh language in a few and somewhat violent subjects to a lot of my songs and i wouldnt want to offend anyone that didnt care for my views or ideas. im kind of an over-the-top kind of person, and not everyone likes that, so i pretty much keep it to myself.

i also work at a butcher shop, which although i get paid to do it, i would probably do it for free because its an easy job and you meet a lot of nice people and its a good skill to have i guess. im the only person i know who doesnt dread going to work 7 days a week, i actually look forward to it and count down the hours. stop thinking weird things about me.

thats about it, i dont get out much.



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Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

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Posted: 9th April 2003 10:53

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Hobbies, eh?

Music is THE most important thing in life. (aside from family, friends, etc.) From the moment I wake up until the moment I go to sleep, I'm listening to something which I tend to call "g00d music". Heck, I even go to sleep while listening to music.
I collect cd's. At last count, I had 134. I like to buy a couple of different cd's every couple of weeks, hence the sig.
Top 10 Bands-
-Rage Against the Machine
-Nonpoint
-tool
-System of a Down
-311
-Red HOt Chili Peppers
-Local H
-Offspring
-Stone Temple Pilots
-Foo Fighters

I also play music, as many of you know. I'm a professional ameteur at the bass (does that make sense?) I play in a band called Amoxicillin. Right now, we just do songs from other bands we like, but we've recently started to write our own stuff. Besides the bass, I'm a pro at the trumpet (ph33r my brass power!) Been playing it since the fourth grade. I also play set, though not good enough to be bragging. And I have some skills on the piano/keyboard.

Sports also a big part of my life. I love playing basketball, tennis, golf, baseball, and roller hockey. And I'm an avid sports watcher as well. I watch nearly anything on ESPN or Fox Sports Net.

I like to write short stories. To date, I have completed about 6 or 7 short stories (1 submitted to CoN) and have about 10-13 that are left unfiinished. I aspire to become a newspaper columnist when I graduate from high school. So writing is important to me.

Between all that, school, (bleh :p)  and working at a movie theater, those are my hobbies.



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Posted: 9th April 2003 11:08

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I like to read, mostly fantasy. There's the whole video game thing. Right now I'm addicted to FIFA 2003. Love music and all that. Intramural season has just starter so I've started playing soccer again. Sleep has become a hobby of mine since it requires some ingenuity to get it in with my homework among other things.

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Posted: 9th April 2003 20:24

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oh man...
Hobbies, eh?
Okay, here goes
Listening to music- Linkin Park, D-12, Eminem, Drowning Pool, Ozzy Osbourne...
Playing warhammer 40k- a tabletop wargame
Discussing my hobbies online- obvious
reading/writing i suppose are hobbies of mine
watching footie (UK)- SAINT MIRRREN TILL I DIE! :)
and thats my hobbies. oh, and endlessly making anti-french jokes.

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Posted: 10th April 2003 00:10

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I like to write,photography,painting,sking,singing,cooking gormet meals :E  stuff like that

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Posted: 10th April 2003 00:22
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i do lots of things, dancing, swimming, skating, skiing, drawing, painting -(not saying i do it well)

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Posted: 10th April 2003 00:25

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The closest thing I have to a hobby is my writing and the occasional game playing; I don't do much with my life. :shakeshead:

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Posted: 10th April 2003 16:44

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Sports is my life, it doesn't count as a hobby. That said, my hobbies include:

Music. I love music, mostly concious hip-hop, also a little R&B and Jazz. I think I'll imitate Sabin and list my top ten artists/groups:
Black Star
The Roots
De La Soul
J-Live
Mission
Common
Wu-Tang
Outkast
Pharcyde
Tribe Called Quest

Reading, Writing, Biking, and Chess also qualify, but a little less enthusiastically than music.

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"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
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Posted: 10th April 2003 18:49

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I know you swim well Brenny..seeing how you have a pool and all lol :E



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Posted: 11th April 2003 00:00
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Hobbies. Let me lay it down in list form

-sleep (i'm a proffessional :E)
-GTA: Vice City (i'll kill you all, i guarantee)
-chilling in my last 2 months of high school (major w00t factor)
-womanizing (not so much anymore.. but i'm still a pro at it)
-quality time with my AWESPME drum set (at least 3 hours a day... well, i try to)
-chilling with mi amigos
-spinning rock cuts at Neo's Clubbb (and that's my JOB! sweet!)
-pumping iron at the gym and getting geared up for the Air Force in June

that's me

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Posted: 11th April 2003 01:38

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you play drums? i thought you played bass... damn who was that again?

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Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...
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Posted: 11th April 2003 02:06

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Quote (therandyrhoads @ 10 Apr 2003, 21:38)
you play drums? i thought you played bass... damn who was that again?

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I also play music, as many of you know. I'm a professional ameteur at the bass (does that make sense?)


I play bass! Something both Tim and I forgot to mention is that we're in the same band. I play bass and lead vocals, Tim is the drummer, and then of course we have a lead guitarist (she's not a CoN member, so you wouldn't know her).

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The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear
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Posted: 11th April 2003 02:54
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Making music -guitar, bass (play in a band that actually plays decent venues :D)

Video Games

Listening to music - Beatles, Pink Floyd, Sublime, Bob Marley, Deftones, Disco Biscuits, 2 Skinnee J's

Piercings - I am fascinated with body modifications, currently have 3/8" earlobes (stretching to 7/16") and eyebrow.  Planning on doing tongue soon.  I am fascinated with the anceint cutural aspects especially.  My choice of piercings is related to the tribal signifigance of them (ask me in chat and I can explain :D)

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Old enough to know better
Not old enough to care
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Posted: 11th April 2003 03:11

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I'm an eccentric person with boring hobbies ¬.¬  I like to: read and analyze children's literature (reading in general isn't a hobby; it's something I do...like breathing), Victorian fashion and culture, 1920's fashion and culture, T.S. Eliot, Tennyson, classical Greek and Roman literature, geisha culture, collect interesting poker cards, watch anime, critically analyze anime, write fiction, draw, follow certain illustrators and artists, indulge in Japanese pop culture, and be as strange as possible.

I'm an Asian Studies major now, so I also spend a lot of time looking at Japanese society, culture, and history, and especially at gender issues.  So a hobby has turned into actual academic research.  I'll be doing it for the rest of my life now ^^;

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Posted: 11th April 2003 03:15

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my hobbies include sports mostly football, wrestling, and rugby (BGSU RUGBY SWEET 16 BOUND, wish me luck), coaching wrestling, playing guitar and writing songs, drinking and partying, and history especially the Civil War (I have visited many battlesites and will visit the greatest battlefield in American history this summer, Gettysburg).



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Posted: 11th April 2003 18:24

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I play bass! Something both Tim and I forgot to mention is that we're in the same band. I play bass and lead vocals, Tim is the drummer


ohhh... yeah it kinda hit me a little later that i had the wrong guy. at least i wasnt TOO far off, what with you guys playing together.

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Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...
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Posted: 13th April 2003 16:08

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My hobbies include:

TRYING TO write poetry (got great inspiration, but not enough percentage in the drinks :p )

Trying to invent/master new tricks with my playing-chain. :D

Quake3Arena. I like playing with anime-originating models (Zero, Cloud Strife, Sephiroth, Oni Link, Fuchikoma, Vivi...)

And looking up stuff in the internet ;>

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Posted: 14th April 2003 21:31

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history especially the Civil War (I have visited many battlesites and will visit the greatest battlefield in American history this summer, Gettysburg).



if you like civil war sites, i can assure you 100% that you will enjoy gettysburg, especially if you havent already been there. go to downtown gettysburg and look at all the shops and other buildings, they havent changed in over 175 years (theres even a building with a cannon shell sticking out of the second story wall). make sure to visit the bloody angle, the peach orchard and devils den in particular. im sure you will appreciate the town and all the battlesites.

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Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...
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Posted: 14th April 2003 23:29
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hmmm....

drawing
music
breakdancing
anime to an embarassing extreme ;/
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Posted: 14th April 2003 23:34
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trying to get all the bob dylan songs on mp3, as well as being sorted -_-
wandering sometimes, ill do more of that when it's warmer.
reading Tom Brown Junior
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Posted: 16th April 2003 12:38

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As a hallmark of my family, I do everything (though not at the same time). I try to focus on things which lead to a full, hearty life. Things such as music, liturature, learning, potatoes, and the great outdoors. I would have to say that the hobby which I take part in most often is thinking.

Edit: By liturature, I meant both writting and reading.

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Posted: 16th April 2003 13:13

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I mostly read but I also play Magic. I listen to a lot of music, not as much as Sabin, but it is still a major factor in my life.

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Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
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Posted: 17th April 2003 22:52

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potatoes? care to explain Iain. I didn't know  potatoes could be a hobby :)

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Posted: 18th April 2003 05:43

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potatoes? care to explain Iain. I didn't know  potatoes could be a hobby

I second that motion. Potatoes as in "Potato Gun" or "Couch Potato"?

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Posted: 18th April 2003 13:02

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I try to focus on things which lead to a full, hearty life.
Does not the preparation and consumption of potatoes meet this description? :E
And Dark Paladin, don't tell me you'd waste perfectly good potatoes in such a way. :blah:
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Posted: 18th April 2003 18:12

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I used to play Saxophone and Basson, but have since slacked off of my music playing.  I also used to take karate, because my dad used to own a karate school because he's an uber-black belt-ninja-cop. White water rafting was fun, but I almost drowned doing that, so geh... I have plenty of books filled with old coins, since I used to collect them, but I haven't done it in years. Now I'm in the "websites and computer technologies own me" portion of my life. Oh how I love the internet.
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Posted: 18th April 2003 20:52

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I try to focus on things which lead to a full, hearty life.
Does not the preparation and consumption of potatoes meet this description? :E
And Dark Paladin, don't tell me you'd waste perfectly good potatoes in such a way. :blah:

Of course not! I have had people describe it to me, including my father (mostly middle school time-period :rolleyes:)
I still don't get it

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