- Jul 9, 2010
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Do you have a disproportionate knowledge of something small, specific, or niche? Not just a hobby – so not reading, watching the footy, learning guitar – but a borderline obsession for something quirky? Are you a weirdo?
Trainspotters are the main ones and the genesis for the term. I don't really get the interest in standing by a rail track and noting the numbers on a freight train. But I do like trains in general. Lately, I've noted a few Transperth carriages have USB chargers now. The platforms at The Esplanade, South Beach were all removed lately too down past the Freo Railway Station... I started getting this weird want to have these stations reinstated: imagining people going down the beach, getting off at Little Creature's, even how often it would run, how ticketing would work, how much it would cost... in the end I've found plenty of hours poured into railpage and this youtube series, where some dorky know-it-all who patronises his friends while going to the least visited train station in the UK, guiding you through the Glasgow underground system, noting what Underground station is least used...
Probably an actual one for me are stadiums and sports merch, as well as a few bands.
I love old 90s soccer shirts and could spend hours going through warehouses and shops just checking out how a Pony strip used to fit, how a collar sits in certain eras, materials, s**t like that.
Love things like mythical lost songs from bands, again, could and have spent hours on websites hypothesising how a 2005 Blur album would have sounded and why they cancelled a stand-alone gig the night before.
But stadiums are the big one for me. Probably obvious, but it's a relic of youth. Everyone remembers going to the footy with their dad and the routine, ritual you'd have. But I remember being about 13 and spending some Freo shellacking imagining how a redevelopment would look for Subi, how things would sit, where you could add seats, where you'd have to change things.
But I love old grounds. When I first moved to Melbourne, I went to every old ground. Tripped down to Moorabbin back when the old stands were up, kicked the footy on pingers at Vic Park, had plenty of lunches at Glenferrie Oval, and for a few years my favourite sunny-arvo thing to do was kicking the footy over a six pack at Optus Oval.
It's not just the 'imagine all the stories,' it's the weird s**t. There are some old turnstiles sitting in this nice park just down from East Fremantle Oval, thought that was cool. The old painted signs for Fosters at Vic Park. I'd love to go to the UK and Europe and check out these old decaying relics, half-smashed fridges and broken down sinks and redundant ticket price listings.
Any train set fans or anything like that? Do you sit in the fields near Tullamarine watching planes take off and land?
Trainspotters are the main ones and the genesis for the term. I don't really get the interest in standing by a rail track and noting the numbers on a freight train. But I do like trains in general. Lately, I've noted a few Transperth carriages have USB chargers now. The platforms at The Esplanade, South Beach were all removed lately too down past the Freo Railway Station... I started getting this weird want to have these stations reinstated: imagining people going down the beach, getting off at Little Creature's, even how often it would run, how ticketing would work, how much it would cost... in the end I've found plenty of hours poured into railpage and this youtube series, where some dorky know-it-all who patronises his friends while going to the least visited train station in the UK, guiding you through the Glasgow underground system, noting what Underground station is least used...
Probably an actual one for me are stadiums and sports merch, as well as a few bands.
I love old 90s soccer shirts and could spend hours going through warehouses and shops just checking out how a Pony strip used to fit, how a collar sits in certain eras, materials, s**t like that.
Love things like mythical lost songs from bands, again, could and have spent hours on websites hypothesising how a 2005 Blur album would have sounded and why they cancelled a stand-alone gig the night before.
But stadiums are the big one for me. Probably obvious, but it's a relic of youth. Everyone remembers going to the footy with their dad and the routine, ritual you'd have. But I remember being about 13 and spending some Freo shellacking imagining how a redevelopment would look for Subi, how things would sit, where you could add seats, where you'd have to change things.
But I love old grounds. When I first moved to Melbourne, I went to every old ground. Tripped down to Moorabbin back when the old stands were up, kicked the footy on pingers at Vic Park, had plenty of lunches at Glenferrie Oval, and for a few years my favourite sunny-arvo thing to do was kicking the footy over a six pack at Optus Oval.
It's not just the 'imagine all the stories,' it's the weird s**t. There are some old turnstiles sitting in this nice park just down from East Fremantle Oval, thought that was cool. The old painted signs for Fosters at Vic Park. I'd love to go to the UK and Europe and check out these old decaying relics, half-smashed fridges and broken down sinks and redundant ticket price listings.
Any train set fans or anything like that? Do you sit in the fields near Tullamarine watching planes take off and land?
