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unusual facts about obsession


Caroline Glick

Glick is featured as a speaker in the documentaries Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East and Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.


Baldassare Forestiere

For a fictionalized account of Forestiere and his obsession, see the short story "The Underground Gardens" by T. Coraghessan Boyle, published in The New Yorker (May 25, 1998).

Blitz the Ambassador

While in school he amassed awards for his visual art, but later developed an obsession with hip hop music after hearing his older brother play the classic Public Enemy album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Brian Earnshaw

John Wood: Architect of Obsession Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, Bath: Millstream Books, 1988 ISBN 0-948975-13-X

Cathy

On the episode "Don Geiss, America and Hope", Liz Lemon's boyfriend Wesley compares her obsession with food to being like "a Cathy cartoon that just won't end".

Chuck Versus the Other Guy

The episode ends showing the Eiffel Tower in the background, referencing Chuck's obsession with the tower in "Chuck Versus First Class".

Count Von Cosels Obsession

"Count Von Cosels Obsession" is the first single by Swedish group ChansoNoir featuring composer Fredrik Klingwall.

Dance Dance Dragon

As Lunar New Year 2012 marks the year of the Dragon, the film explores the Chinese's age-old obsession with the Dragon and having children on a "Dragon year" (see Chinese zodiac).

Dani's House

Toby (Harry Culverhouse) 2008, 2010 & 2012: Toby is a friend of Dani's that is shown to have low intelligence and an obsession with his hair, which he continuously spikes up with hair gel.

Daniel Radosh

In pop-culture circles, Radosh is known for his obsession with tracing Huckapoo's attempts to infiltrate popular consciousness.

David Del Tredici

Much of his early work consisted of elaborate vocal settings of James Joyce (e.g. I Hear an Army, Night Conjure-Verse, and Syzygy) and a decade long obsession with the work of Lewis Carroll (e.g. Pop-Pourri, An Alice Symphony, Vintage Alice, Adventures Underground, and Final Alice).

Deep Obsession

By 2003, Deep Obsession had parted company with both their founding producer and songwriting partner Christopher Banks, and record label Universal Music.

Deep Obsession are a New Zealand dance/pop group formed by producer/songwriter Christopher Banks in 1997 with singers Zara and Charlie Lawson.

Dreyse needle gun

Prominent Austrians frequently betray a subtle and often humorous obsession with the Prussian Needle gun in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities.

Garforth

The book The Modfather was set in Garforth in the late 1970s and early 1980s detailing David Lines adolescence in the town and his obsession with Paul Weller.

Gigantomania

Albert Speer reports in his memoirs that Hitler's irrational obsession for the gigantic was also demonstrated in his demand for super-heavy tanks, which had limited usability in the battlefield.

House model

For example, Kate Moss's widely known work for Calvin Klein, particularly her Obsession advertisements is a small part of a wide-ranging modelling career.

J. A. Baker

The book recounts a single year from October to April (probably of 1962/3) from the author's ten-year obsession with the peregrines that wintered near his home in Chelmsford, Essex in eastern England.

John Nee

In August 2007, Nee announced his obsession with the ukulele while on RTÉ Radio 1 presenter Dave Fanning's show, Drivetime with Dave.

Journey Through the Impossible

His mother Madame de Traventhal, in the hope of curing him of his obsession, sends for a physician newly arrived in the country, a certain Doctor Ox.

Ken Stephinson

He persuaded Michael Palin to present one episode, after hearing him confess on radio that he had an "obsession" with railways.

Lady Franklin's Revenge

Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History is a non-fiction book by Canadian historian and writer Ken McGoogan.

Laura Bravo

Bravo was responsible for the artwork from all Nuclear Death releases after Phil Hampson (guitarist, main music composer and artwork artist of the band up to the second LP) left the band, and also worked on the artwork for other bands such as Terrorthrone's Demo/CD Sick Obsession to Pain.

Mario Sorrenti

He has undertaken campaigns and directed commercials for Calvin Klein, and has shot Kate Moss for the Calvin Klein Obsession ads.

Matt Starr

In early 2013, Matt was asked to join the rock band Burning Rain for their 2013 release "Epic Obsession".

Michael Zarnock

Zarnock's obsession with toy car collecting prompted him to write the book Ultimate Guide to Hot Wheels Variations Krause, now out of print after two printings (2002 and 2003).

Mischa Scorer

In 2003 he wrote and directed “Degas and the Dance” for PBS “Great Performances” series, a film in HD about the painter Edgar Degas and his obsession with dancers.

Mur Lafferty

Early topics included her obsession with Alton Brown and her uncomfortable crushes on the hosts of her child's TV shows like Steve Burns, and expanded to discussions of games, movies and television shows.

Nicomi Nix Turner

She often suggests that her mother, a teacher of Anatomy & Physiology, started the visual obsession with the human form, for the most part internally.

Ossessione

Ossessione (English: Obsession) is a 1943 film based on the novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain.

Pride

According to buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, Pride (along with hatred, obsession, arrogance, envy and greed) is a mental toxin, a mental affliction, that is often responsible for a mental state of anger, jealousy or envy, and therefore resulting in unhappiness.

Re: Woyzeck

The play explores modern society's obsession with murder, while exploring modern military practices, the medical profession, religious doctrines and the constant surveillance provided by video phones and video sharing sites such as YouTube.

Régine Zylberberg

It was here, she told writer-director Michael Feeney Callan, who documented her home life in his television series, My Riviera, through deprivation and poverty, she developed a lifelong obsession with shoes: "We were poor, we had nothing, so shoes became a symbol of freedom."

Richard Switzer

Arguably the youngest film producer in history, his first two films are due for a 2014 release, A Fatal Obsession and Buddy Hutchins, featuring talent such as Jamie Kennedy, Eric Roberts, Tracy Nelson, and Sally Kirkland.

Rogue Moon

Graham Sleight, another science fiction scholar, writes that Rogue Moon takes the themes of Who? — "identity, ethics, memory, scientific obsession — and intensifies its gaze on them. But it also has a new concern, death. Like its predecessor, it uses an almost arbitrary science-fictional device to examine an existential question, in a way that a mimetic novel never could."

Shayne Ward

On 8 March 2011, Shayne performed the title track from the album Obsession on The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

Shunkinsho

Shunkinshō (novella), by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎), concerning the lifelong love affair of a blind aristocratic musician and her retainer/pupil/partner in obsession husband.

Space Mix '98

We Take the Chance published by Blue Obsession Music/Warner Chappell

Sunday Night Show

He impersonated "The Merchant" from Resident Evil 4 He wanted to buy things from other listeners, sang many classic songs and was accused by Iain of having an obsession with urine after a failed call involving a urine chart during Triple M. The Merchant was confused at the fact he had an enemy called "The Alpha" and doesn't know how him and "The Alpha" became enemies.

Talk Tonight

It is also mentioned in the Oasis book by Paul Mathurs, Take Me There, that his friend also had an obsession with Snapple Strawberry Lemonade, which contributed to the line in the song, "all your dreams are made of strawberry lemonade." The song also featured on the DVD Live By The Sea after Noel makes a mistake on the track "D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?".

The Cadillac

George's obsession with Marisa Tomei makes Susan suspicious when she comes home and finds him on the couch watching My Cousin Vinny and again, later, when she finds him watching Only You (specifically, scenes in which Tomei is on screen).

The Chemist

The Chemist (user) a known user on punknews.org or orgsummit.com, known for his obsession with Lagwagon.

The Clarion Project

The group has been involved in the production or distribution of films such as Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, The Third Jihad, and Iranium.

The Frogs and the Lobsters

Horatio Hornblower, the central character, is assigned to a division of the invading army that is to hold the bridge at Muzillac, but the royalist officer in charge is a butchering madman whose obsession with revenge over his former subjects does nothing to help the doomed invasion.

The Max Headroom Show

The interviews were brief and always managed to get onto the subject of Max's obsession with golf.

The Russell Howard Show

There were a number of recurring motifs in the show, namely an apparent obsession with football pundit Mark Lawrenson, and curiously the Dyson Airblade hand dryer.

Two Steps Behind

Filipino-Chinese singer Rachelle Ann Go covered the song for her 2007 album Obsession.

Vampire: The Requiem

Ventrue are regal vampires who value power and dominion to the point of obsession, self-styled "lords of the night" they represent vampirism as a metaphor for maddening power, like Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Vindaloo

The TV series Red Dwarf main character Dave Lister is fond of vindaloo to the point of near gastronomic obsession, choosing it above all other dishes whenever available.

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia

Mrs. Tolman explains Dr. Tolman's obsession with the film El Topo, and the fact that he grinds his teeth at night.


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