Things you love and can't stand anymore

[dfan]

I recently realized that there are a fair number of things that I think are totally awesome but never really want to see or hear again, largely through overexposure I guess. That is, any reference to them is more likely to make me roll my eyes and think "Not that again," rather than think "Oh yeah, I love that," even though I do.
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[merde]

monty python and hitchhiker's guide are both on my list too. also harry potter, at the moment.

last year asparagus was on the list.

[veek]

Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the associated fandom.

That's the only thing that comes to mind: usually, if I get sick of something, I no longer love it.

[saltbox]

Yes to all three. Also (and I'm sad to say this), They Might Be Giants and Tom Lehrer. Humorous things are more susceptible to this phenomenon for me, too. I think maybe because for something to be funny, there usually needs to be an element of surprise, or at least unexpectedness. And when humorous things get overexposed, you lose the feeling of surprise and thus their key enjoyment.

[kvarko]

Yeah, I was contemplating whether They Might Be Giants would be on my list...

Skinner: "We need a name that's witty at first, but seems less funny everytime you hear it."
Apu: "How about the B-Sharps?"
[Everyone laughs loud at first, then less, then the laughter tapers off]
Skinner: Perfect!

[dfan]

Oh yeah, Tom Lehrer, good one. For some reason the early They Might Be Giants songs are still surprisingly fresh for me, though.

[saltbox]

I think I overlistened to They Might Be Giants more than you! On the other hand, the Violent Femmes, who I also overlistened to, still has a nostalgic ring to me. So I think it's the humor factor!

related examples?

[fmi_agent]

Interesting question. Dittoes on the Monty Python.

I have lots of "favorite" CDs that I haven't listened to in years. Once in a while I'll get out a CD I used to love, play it once, then put it back on the shelf, where it will sit for another several months or years.

Almost all IF games, even if I love them, I can't go back and replay.

Re: related examples?

[cris]

I was thinking of music, too, but I think that having a stack of CDs that you only listen to once every year isn't necessarily the same thing. You ought to follow it up with the question of ... "if I hear songs from this album on the radio will I be psyched and nostalgic or will I change the channel?"

A New Order song would probably fall in the former. Anything by The Prodigy would definitely be in the latter.

Also, Monty Python isn't quite overexposed for me, yet, but I do wish that Terry Jones would stop doing mediocre BBC documentaries.

[jrw]

Actually, Monty Python was like that for me but I recently renewed my appreciation for it. I had a whole lj post about this re-appreciation that I never quite got around to writing, but the reason I never got around to writing it is also the subject of an lj post that I haven't got around to writing. But now I have more time to write since I'm not writing the other thing that was getting in the way any more (and there's a third lj post about that...)...

But let's see. What am I burned out on even though I love it? The obvious answer is that movie I made a couple of years ago. And I'm a little that way about interactive fiction in general at the moment, although I think that is temporary...