Hey all, just wondered what interests/hobbies you all have when you're not writing?

- Soccer (aka real football)
- Reading
- Call of Duty 4
- Music
- and obviously watching a lot of movies

Real football indeed! Not like that phoney baloney 'American Football'

Forgot to say my own interests...

Reading - Big on graphic novels.
Films
Anime
Martial Arts - Jeet Kune Do.  Been thinking about taking up Eskrima also.

Quoted from Pard Martial Arts - Jeet Kune Do.  Been thinking about taking up Eskrima also.

You must be a dangerous guy hehe.

Quoted from NiK You must be a dangerous guy hehe.

Ha! Not particulary

Football (english) until my a buggered my ankle, still love to watch but it aint the same as snapping a fancy foot winger.

Watching movies, all genres...except romantic.

Xbox360, bit of cod4, hey Sniper whats your gametag?

Listening to music.

Fussig my pet rats...no seriously.

Quoted from alffy Xbox360, bit of cod4, hey Sniper whats your gametag?

TheGrimReaper - but that's on PC, not sure they use the same server as XBox.

No fraid not, oh well thought I might have been able to play you online.

I volunteer in acute care and do hand reflexology.

I'm interested in complimentary healing therapies and I study Kabbalah.

Every once in awhile I'll strum a few of my old tunes.

Sandra

i love music and obviously just like anyone on this site I have a great love for movies and making them unfortunately i slack too much to ever complete annything! uhm and pictures, parties, etc etc!

I definitely live for movies. My friends call me an encyclopedia for horror films.

I enjoy the Nintendo Wii. I finally bowled my first 300.

When I'm stressed, I like to clean and organize.

I'll sometimes crack open a book to get my mind off of whatever's bugging me. Last one I opened was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

I'm not really into most sports, but I like jogging, frisbee, and tennis (even though I'm terrible at it).

I am a big fan of poker: Rummy, Texas Hold 'Em, Five Card Draw, Three Card Stud. You name it, I'll play it.

I don't watch much television, mostly because I can't stand all of the crappy soap operas disguised as "compelling" dramas. Any show with doctors or lawyers I pretty much stay away from. It's just not my thing.

That said, I like Family Guy, I Love Lucy, Spongebob Squarepants, Roseanne, and Tales from the Crypt. All of them are entertaining, and I can watch each episode more than once. I'm also slowly getting into Weeds. The first season was actually pretty good.

I'm with Sham in that I can't stand TV "dramas." Usually when I watch TV it's to watch sports, big football, baseball and college basketball fan, or comedies. These days it's just The Office, 30 Rock and Scrubs, but my favorite all time has to be Arrested Development.

I'm a full-time college student double majoring in marketing and film studies so don't have much free time, especially with a job as well, but still hang out with friends, watching movies and going to concerts.

Nice! We have some interesting people on these boards

I'm still in full time education (college), so I don't have that much spare time... But when I do have spare time, I enjoy making music (hip hop). I own a music studio and work with various hip hop artists... So yeah, I'm quite musical. I also work out a lot, smoke weed on occasions (count as a hobby?) and watch films at an un-healthy rate

DVDs: I won't say just movies because I watch a lot of TV shows on DVD too. I've just started watching The Wire.

Crime Novels: I'm currently reading Lush Life by Richard Price, who, funnily enough, is one of the writers for The Wire.    

Football (Aussie Rules) I'm a staunch Collingwood supporter. Unfortunately we bowed out of the finals last week and finished 6th out of 16. However, I have a love hate relationship with football because the lefty in me thinks that it's the opium of the masses.

Politics: I usually get involved in election campaigns for the Greens.

Messing around on the net: I'm constantly spending way too much time on my computer. So much so that I have to keep deleting accounts on chat sites. Simply Scripts is the only site I've consistently remained part of.

Outside of writing I play piano in a band called Sky Architects ( http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=393592271 ) and compose imaginary film scores on the side. I enjoy playing football (again, real football, the kind you play with your feet) though I'll only watch it when Denmark's playing official games (suck it, Portugal!)

I enjoy following and debating politics, religion and the likes, but will never write anything political, and you won't find me in a demonstration shouting slogans that rhyme more than they make sense. I detest crowd culture.

I like old adventure games like Maniac Mansion and its sequel Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island etc. But also new stuff like COD4, Oblivion and Mass Effect. Am eagerly anticipating Fallout 3.

I've been told I have latent autistic tendencies when it comes to historical dates, and I generally enjoy watching the history channel and Discovery.

Also I can list all the American presidents except two at any given moment.

Oh and I love accents and dialects. When I'm bored I spend time learning different dialects of the English language. My favorite right now is Australian.
Last time I was drunk I started striking up conversation with strangers in a bar and pretended I was in fact from Perth, and only in Denmark studying, but as it turned out all the bartenders in the bar that nigh were aussies themselves.  And it was upposed to be an Irish pub!
That didn't deter me though as I tried to get chummy with a cute girl from Sydney, still insisting we were from the same country...

Good times.

On the topic of Aussie Rules footy, this is what happens in our game when a player kicks his 100th goal for the season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLPiAdLMhkg&feature=related

The player is Hawthorn's Lance "Buddy" Franklin, who many people think is on the way to becoming the game's greatest player ever. He's 6 foot 6 and can run like the wind. This Saturday Hawthorn will be playing Geelong in one of the most eagerly anticipated grand finals in years. Geelong won the premiership last year and only dropped one game this year in the regular season. It should be a cracker of a game.

Quoted from Death Monkey Outside of writing I play piano in a band called Sky Architects ( http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=393592271 ) and compose imaginary film scores on the side.

Hey TJ

You guys sound pretty good. Some of your songs reminded me of Coldplay.  

Porn.
Hanging out with friends.
Anything to do with the color pink.
Basketball.
Crying myself to sleep.
Modest Mouse.
Strangling animals in the woods.

Quoted from banditfive Porn. Hanging out with friends. Anything to do with the color pink. Basketball. Crying myself to sleep. Modest Mouse. Strangling animals in the woods.

And comedy.  Don't forget comedy.

Metal, drinking and Texas Holdem.

On the more productive side, editing has officially become my second favorite part of the filmmaking process. Almost as fun as writing, as there's definitely a lot of parallels between the two. Unfortunately, it's much more time consuming.

I think enough people, here, know that I homebrew and make mead.  I'm also a member of the Society of Creative Anachronisms, where I'm hoping to learn how to make cordials and stuff.  I've also taken up archery (something I put down many years ago) again.  Next year, I'll probably take up juggling; at a recent Renfaire, I was surprised by how few jugglers I saw.


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe Next year, I'll probably take up juggling;

Fiddling with your nuts near the highway off ramp is not legit juggling!

Quoted from Shelton Fiddling with your nuts near the highway off ramp is not legit juggling!

I beg to differ...

Quoted from Don I beg to differ...

Yeah, Don, but everybody knows you have giant, freak of nature, watermelon balls.  You obviously don't apply in this conversation.

Quoted from Shelton Yeah, Don, but everybody knows you have giant, freak of nature, watermelon balls.  You obviously don't apply in this conversation.

Actually, I'm hung like a mouse.  No one was more surprised than me when the DNA tests came back and showed the boys were actually mine...

Don

Quoted from Don Actually, I'm hung like a mouse.  No one was more surprised than me when the DNA tests came back and showed the boys were actually mine...

That could be true, but being hung and having giant watermelon balls are two different things.

See?  This is why "After Dark" ended as a huge failure.  You just weren't up to speed on your genitalia.

Quoted from Don Actually, I'm hung like a mouse.  No one was more surprised than me when the DNA tests came back and showed the boys were actually mine... Don

Are you hung like a mouse or is the mouse hung like you?

He's hung like Chuck Norris!


Phil

Don't tell me Phil read that best selling book about Chuck Norris...