Posted by Atticus on January 13, 2005, at 21:54:14
In reply to Anyone here collect things? OCD?, posted by Angel Girl on January 12, 2005, at 22:54:43
I do have a huge collection of Japanese "kaiju." The word, roughly translated, means "weird creatures." I really love the loopiness and campiness of Godzilla and have since I was a child (and I love the zaniness of Japanese pop culture anyway -- it's just so irrepressibly over the top). I went on a yearlong tear in 2003 on e-Bay buying tons of rare Japanese monster and robot models. One of them's even from 1962 -- eight years before I was born. Why this particular interest? No idea. One day it simply faded. Still fun to look at though. A briefer one was t-shirts of Japanese punk bands, whose style it is to use English language names, even if the grasp of the English is a bit shaky and leads to haiku-esque or absurdist band names like Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (a female punk duo) and Pizza of Death. I don't think it's OCD. I think that it's just so easy to keep looking for similar things on the Internet, and the hunt is fun. My newest obsession: Japanese anime such as "Cowboy Bebop" and old episodes of "Cyborg 009". ;) Atticus
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