I still think I need something new to squeal about. I’ve had my three filmic fascinations for years, but Bond, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings are all so mainstream, I now need to get myself off the beaten track. Of course, I’ll probably always love all three: I wrote about my fascination with bond and trek in my thesis; I’m still more than a little obsessed with 007’s Olympic appearance, probably in part because it echoes the parachute jump in The Spy who Loved me, one of my cinephilliac moments; and meeting Patrick stewart was undoubtably one of the most special events of my life, again in part because it relates to my work. Thus it seems to me that all my obsessions are interrelated, usually having some sort of connection with London 2012 Olympics, my masters thesis, or London in general. In fact I once tried to roughly sketch out those relationships; what I want to do now is get away from that network.

In other words, I think it’s time to expand my horizons. I still have the problem I wrote about here. I need to find something more niche, less well known. Similarly, having been to mega-events like the paralympic closing ceremony and python’s final performance , I think I now need to start hunting down smaller, more intimate gigs. It is as if the big stuff can now be ticked off, so I can now start to investigate the smaller things. The question is, how? One cannot deliberately search for an obsession – they usually just spring on you when you least expect, just as pieces of awesomeness can occur at any given time. What I need to, the, is keep my eyes open, be vigilant and curious, and try to stop reverting to my usual mainstream interests.