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IMDB rating: 7.00 Plot: Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a hard task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure, since you can (for instance) eat all you want without getting fat. |
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Hey, ‘Why you so obsessed me?’
15.10.09
Lately, I’ve been feeling like Mariah Carey.
Why would I feel like that?
Because people are obsessed with me, what I do and this very column I write.
Eminem isn’t obsessed with me, heavens no. But if he was, that would be kind of awesome and a separate column to write about in itself.
Anyways, I’m assuming most people who have even bothered to open the Spartan Daily to this column on a bi-weekly basis were waiting to read what’s grinding my gears.
Well, gears are grinding my gears. Gearheads to be exact. Not gearheads specifically, but the concept a gearhead represents - which is an obsession.
More broadly, people who have an obsession with something, anything really.
Obsession means “a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling,” according to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
People, me included, are obsessed with a variety of things.
Some people are obsessed with shopping, celebrities, urinals, Polish hookers, Kimbo Slice, burritos, drugs, working out or something as obscure as San Diego sports franchises.
A common obsession for people is their cars. Hence the title “gearheads,” for people obsessed with automobiles.
It’s easy to see why people would become obsessed with their car, because not only is it a mode of transportation, but for some it’s an expression of their personality, a chick magnet or a secondary home to store items that Xzibit would laugh at if it was featured on the TV show “Pimp My Ride.”
A gearhead is someone who is into everything about cars, such as the look of the body of the car, the color of the car and, especially, how to modify and fix them.
Some people might even be obsessed with the function of gears, cogs, sprockets, whatever you want to call them. Hell, even an obsession with the grinding of gears.
Who knows?
I’m not without obsessions. I’m obsessed with sports, video games, professional soccer player Luca Toni, viewing funny pictures on the Internet and much, much more.
I used to have an unhealthy obsession with video games to the point where I was probably killing my face to face social life.
I played video games, read Web sites about video games, magazines about video games, listened to podcasts about video games and talked with my friends for hours on end about video games.
Any obsession, even video gaming, can become unhealthy. I’m not talking about an obsessive compulsive disorder, but an unhealthy obsession with things.
Unhealthy obsessions can consume your life and cause anxiety if that obsession is not filled.
My unhealthy obsession was basically squashed when I first stepped foot inside the Spartan Daily newsroom last semester.
Sure, I was inundated with a ton of work, but it was the camaraderie with the writers and editors that made me forget about spending my leisure time playing video games by myself or over the Internet when I could be out and about.
I’ve written a previous column defending video games as a viable and legitimate hobby, and I stand by that, but my priorities have changed.
And now my obsession with the Spartan Daily has my gears spinning once again.
Having obsessions can be a great, but don’t let them take over your life.
I just hope my other new obsession aside from the Spartan Daily doesn’t drive me crazy.
Sergio Marks