Hippy hobbies

I'm not asking you "what sorts of hobbies hippies have?" (since we all know that's beading and making tie-dye sheets. *snerk*) What I'm asking is what hobbies YOU have. What do you do in your spare time when you're not here reading and posting? What fills your little day, hobby wise?

Me:

1. I play a game called The Sims2 - for the building function, really. Playing the little families can be highly amusing, but it's the ability to build structures with a plethora of different style of build items that really turns me on about the game. Farms, ranch homes, victorian homes, libraries, health food stores. Anything you can imagine can be done in this game pretty much, build wise. So, that's fun.

2. I've been shopping on eBay, looking for anything "kitsch" and related to 70s decor, for the last year. Not because I have extremely bad taste :lol: But, I guess since I can recognize 70s crap in a nano second at a flea market, maybe that statement is becoming true after all. The reason I do this I'm sure, is because it takes me back to better days, when my Mom, Dad and brother were alive. The 60s/70s were not only tumultious times for the average middle class family, but also quite fun. My parents threw lots of cocktail parties - and after a fashion even they loosened up a bit. To remind myself of these times I find myself at flea markets/eBay purchasing things like; macrame owls, melmac dishes, the huge tiki wooden fork and spoons that hung on the wall (yes we had some) glass mushrooms, lucite grape clusters (coffee table decor - the Foremans from That 70s Show have a blue cluster on their coffee table) So yeah...fun. *lmao*

3. I do want to start beading again. That hit me last week. I think it's from hanging out here.

So, what fills your hobby time? And yeah, go ahead and be cheeky if you must...

 

My hobbies are reading anything, even the back of cereal packets, I'm learning to crochet (slowly), um, I love the sea, but that's not exactly a hobby..., ah, hiking, there's another. And barefooting to annoy everyone...

 

My Uncle grew up on the same street as the creator of sims did.
0.o
But as for my hobbies.
Music absolutely,playing and listening, it's my life pretty much.
And my cat, anything to do with my cat.
And i like to make things with paper, oragami, cute little monsters out of construction paper.
That's pretty much the outline of it.

 

guitar, reading and writing, music (of course goes with the guitar) I'm a big ebay ontrapanuer also, I love just buying things, using it, getting bored with it selling it and then using that money to buy something and start the whole cycle again. I hope to do a lot of traveling after I finish college or instead of it if I dont go, but I probably will.

thos are just some of the things, their are much more

 

I paint, and write.
I play the sim 2 as well (always makes me feel nerdy)
I body and face paint
I watch musicals.

 

I used to crochet all the time. It's MUCH easier than knitting, I can tell you that. Used to sew, embroider, do ceramics. Hobbies (bonified) have just gotten so expensive...I figure with beading, I'll start with the itty bitty beads we used to string.

Will Wright then? That is one man who doesn't HAVE to work the rest of his life. But he's creative and driven, so he probably always will. The Sims is an amazing series of games. Number one best seller of all time across the world, EVER. That would explain my 6 years of playing. *lol*

Isn't playing and instrument great? When you get in that zone and everthing sounds perfect, your voice is perfect....I was a legend in my own mind. heh In my younger years, my guitar and music were everything. I have a vintage 12 string Gibson and files and files of songs, that never get touched anymore.

 

The Sims 2 is the best! ^_^

My main hobby is playing the bassoon. Otherwise I like to play the alto saxophone, and sometimes draw, write, or make things on Photoshop.

 

reading, I'm HUGELY into watching movies, I like to say it's more of an artsy thing than a lazy-can't-scrape-my-ass-off-the-couch-thing, I dance and I like to write and i like clothes-shopping, designing, sewing, whatever. and thats pretty much it.

 

#1 music i take music very seriously and view it professionally( so does it stiil cout as a hobby?) maybe.

#2 practice, as in i can never just watch tv, i have to play an instrument while im watching.

#3 working out, do it like 3-5 times a week.

 

I've been playing guitar since middle school and I love to play just like everyone else, and I really like reading and poetry and what not... I just read the last Harry Potter and now I'm reading Crime and Punishment (which is a weird mix... hmm...) My friends and I are really into movies ( a lot of good mainstream movies, some artsy movies, and a lot of anime ). Also my brother and I go and play pick-up games of soccer with the foreigners down on campus.

Yeah, Will Wright is really creative and original, my friends and I have played the Sims since it came out. Have you guys heard of uhhh... well I just forgot the name but, he's creating a new game where you design your species and help it evolve from a microscopic cell to a civilisation that populates whole planets, then whole galaxies, and colonize throughout the universe. It's going to be awesome!

 

i write and play music,and poetry.
i watch alot of history channel.
a study alot about the hippy movement and all the great hippies of old
i would like to learn how to make hemp jewelry,a couple of my exs made some 4 me but id like to learn,i see lots of cool beads and shit to put on hemp that i never see on store bought hemp

 

I make clothes, jewelry out of hemp (with my own beads and pendants that I carve out of avocado seeds), paint, draw, knit, longboard, garden, write short stories and poetry, play lacrosse, skateboard, cook and bake, play the flute, piano, and guitar.

I think that's it.

 

Wow. Prodigee.

 

I draw and paint listen to music, SING, read, write (anything)
THINK
meditate
relax
go on hipforums
take photos
talk to friends
I LOVE THE SIMS! and the Sims 2 even more!
make random things out of random materials
write letters
watch movies
dance
take slow walks
look at flowers
look at people
look at EVERYTHING - i stare alot
play with balloons, lol and lately, mostly because of Thom's (younghippie) influence i've started hacky sacking. im still really crap, but im getting better =]

theres probably more :S can't remember atm

peace
love Jane

ps
carve beads and pendants out of avocado seeds? :O that is soooo cool!

 

Music, computers, books, movies, writing, walking, etc.

 

Music - for the most part, guitar. I'm working on my jazz playing and that's what I love.

Art - I spend a lot of time painting...especially abstract expressionism like Rothko, and surrealism...and strange Jewish mystic stuff.

Writing - I write poetry and short stories mostly. I want to write a novel, though I am yet to begin.

Reading - at the moment, I'm totally into the Beats - Ginsberg is my absolute hero, but I love Kerouac and Corso, and lately William Carlos Williams. I read Everything is Illuminated a few months ago, and it's gotta be one of my favourite books ever.

Nature - I love the outdoors and I go hiking when I can. And camping, but I don't get much of a chance to do that.

Travelling - I just got back from Europe...

Going out to concerts and things, especially jazz...

Judaism and Kaballah - lately I've been really into all this crazy mystic stuff, so I'm reading about that and trying to study it a little. I've become much more "religious" as well, ...(but still ultra-liberal) so I don't know if religion is a hobby...

Cooking

Watching movies - I'm not lazy or anything, but I think films are a really great art form and its something I love to view...if it's interesting..

Psychedelics - It is a classic hippie passtime. I use it spiritually, but I LOVE LSD and mushrooms.

Dreaming - Everyone spends so much time sleeping, but dreaming is a great hobby...if you actually choose not to ignore all your dreams, it can be a pretty cool trip...

There's a lot more stuff I do, but here's a start...

 

I totally forgot to say cooking. It's one of my passions when I'm not working and not Simming. Sometimes I Sim and cook at the same time, running back and forth from the kitchen to my game. heh I used to be a cook in the health food industry, and at a restaurant in San Diego called Drowsey Maggies, which has been defunct for many years now.


So many simmers! Who'd have guessed! And so many creative folks. Carving beads from avocado seeds? Wow...

 

Well i jog and do other things good for health in the summer. In the winter i have Aikido. I play guitar and write some songs. I meditate and believe in Hinduism. I love to be in nature and i play roleplay games with computer and with the traditional way.

 

i happen to be an archer so i love doing that in my backyard
i love to write in my journal or doodle
post on hipforums
I LOVE buying junk on ebay, u can buy stuff for like so little its great
im ALWAYS in search for a bf (i <3 drummers, musicians in general)
save a drum bang a drummer thats wat i say lol XD
i do happen to write poetry but the funny thing is i have to be really pissed to do it the poetry i write has sinister undertones lol

 

Any of the Simmer's here members of Neighborhood99? A Sim forum? If you are, my screenname there is SeasonofTheWytch. I build homes for people to put in their games.


ETA: Oh, and the new Will Wright game is called "Spore".