1. Your walls are adorned with posters, banners, stickers, homemade signs, lyric quotations, etc.
2. You own every album on CD, cassette AND vinyl.
3. You have over 200 items in your Rush collection.
4. You take the time to count the 200+ items in your Rush collection, and keep a record of them.
5. You've watched your Rush Spotlights (MuchMusic) so many times that you've memorized the part where Geddy says, "We have such a hardcore, dedicated cor -- you know, audience...", and you can say it right along with him.
6. You've watched your Rush Spotlights so many times that you've memorized the part where Neil says, "When we won the Juno for Best Group in '74, '75... something like that, we were stunned, because, you know, we couldn't get a highschool gig in Canada at the time...", and you can say it right along with him.
7. While watching concert videos, you crank it up and try to pretend that you're actually there.
8. You become utterly excited when you see anything that says "2112", "RUSH", "Lee", "Alex", "Neil", "Peart", "Dirk", "Pratt", or anything pertaining to a song or album title.
9. You become utterly disappointed when you see something that's close to but isn't "2112", "RUSH", "Lee", "Alex", "Neil", "Peart", "Dirk", "Pratt", or pertaining to a song or album title (such as "3112" or "RUST").
10. You call Toronto "Rushville".
11. You get excited and have concert flashbacks over hearing the theme to The Three Stooges or 2001: A Space Odessy.
12. You get excited and have concert flashbacks upon seeing the "Let's go out to the lobby and get ourselves a treat..." cartoon (from the TFE tour intermission).
13. You have dreams about Rush concerts.
14. You have dreams that involve Rush in the weirdest ways so that even your Rush fan friends laugh at you.
15. You swear you see Geddy drive past you on your way home from school/work.
16. You don't remember your life before Rush.
17. You lecture everyone you know on the correct pronounciation of "Peart" (It's Peert, dammit!).
18. You talk to your Rush pictures.
19. You keep a scrapbook, filled with every little Rush thing you can find.
20. You go to library to do "research".
21. Your friend goes to the Orbit Room and you get him/her to pick up a business card or some other piece of memorabilia for you.
22. You tend to suffer from Rush Withdrawl.
23. Then you end up suffering from Rush Withdrawl-Induced Silliness.
24. You have/had more in common with your teachers than with your classmates.
25. You try/tried to relate anything and everything in school to Rush.
26. You've lost count of how many school projects you completed on Rush.
27. While bored in class/at work, you write "Rush Rules" so many times in the margin of your paper that it turns into a mass of unlegible scribbles.
28. A generic cartoon that you started drawing turns into a cartoon of Neil.
29. You find an article about them in the newspaper first thing in the morning and take it to school/work with you so you can read it ASAP.
30. You buy a magazine just because an article mentions them or there's a tiny little picture of them.
31. When Rush gets the Order Of Canada and appears on the front page of the paper you drag your friend to the mall on your lunch break to show him/her the pic.
32. When you're upset, the most depressing Rush song cheers you up more than the happiest song by anyone else.
33. You're shocked to learn that Neil, of all people, owns a computer.
34. After learning that Alex and Neil have dogs, you start to wonder about Geddy.
35. You are overjoyed to find that Geddy also watches Pingu.
36. After getting your hair cut to shoulder-length, you look in the mirror and think, "I'm starting to look like Geddy Lee.... ALRIGHT!"
37. Even though you're often annoyed by tedious, repeating threads on a particular Rush mailing list, you don't complain (too much) because you're just glad that there's still a band to make up tedious, repeating threads about.
38. You continuously try to convince others that "my obsession with Rush is healthy because I'm not stalking them............... yet."
39. You start a countdown of how many years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds there are until the year 2112 (Someone actually did this! Unforunately, the page is defunct now).
40. You can come up with 10 more of these things off the top of your head.
41. You're convinced that Neil Peart's least favorite sound in the entire world is that of a modem connecting.
42. When describing yourself, "Rush" is the first word that comes to mind.
43. When friends describe you, "Rush" is the first word that comes to mind. "Sick" is the next.
44. Your entire class and half your grade/your entire department and half your company knows who your favorite band is.
45. A Rush-fan friend or family member lends you a bunch of his Rush stuff, and then forgets he/she gave it to you. And then, conveniently, so do you :-)
46. You nearly have an aneurysm when a Rush video you don't have comes on TV and you don't have a tape ready.
47. When people ask you what your dream job is, you tell them, "Official Rush Historian".
48. You print pictures of them off the Internet just so you can have more for your scrapbook.
49. You write the word "Rush" in every font from every album on a textbook covering, and then later use it as the cover of your scrapbook.
50. You make a list like this one.
51. Your main hobby is your Rush website.
52. If someone mentions Rush/Geddy/Alex/Neil on TV or radio, chances are you've got it on tape.
53. You can talk about them for hours on end and never run out of things to say.
54. You and your Rush fan friends have inside jokes about them.
55. You quote them all the time.
56. You have officially proclaimed Rush as The Best Band In The World.
57. You have details from your first concert memorized.
58. You have a "Rush Shrine".
59. You've memorized every word and every note of every song.
60. You spend hours pondering over the meaning of every lyric.
61. You try your best to look like either Geddy, Alex or Neil, somewhat unsuccessfully.
62. When a Rush song comes on the radio, or a video comes on the TV, you freak out and crank it up.
63. If you're in the car, and a Rush song is on the radio when you arrive at your destination, you refuse to get out because "THE SONG ISN'T OVER YET!!!!"
64. You attack anyone who threatens to tear down the Rush pictures in your locker/workspace.
65. No one makes fun of them in front of you anymore because they're terrified of severe injury or death.
66. You buy everything that says Rush on it.
67. You have approx. 20 hours (at least) of videotape taken up by Rush stuff.
68. You give both your Rush fan and non-Rush fan friends pop quizzes on them.
69. You name your pet(s) after the members of Rush/albums/songs.
70. You name your children after them, or you're planning on it.
71. If one of them does anything that's even remotely funny, it's hilarious to you and you think everyone should know about it.
72. You're always thinking about them and you worry when something bad happens.
73. Even though you've never met them, you just know that they're three of the best guys to ever walk the face of the earth.
74. People tell you you're obsessed.
75. You have Rush parties, normally by yourself, and enjoy them immensely.
76. You make mixed Rush tapes, just for the heck of it.
77. You have their videos memorized, and if you miss something you knew was there, you get mad at yourself.
78. You wish you could be related to one of them, even if they were just some distant uncle that you never saw, because that would rock!
79. You have a "sixth Rush sense" and you can tell when there's a Rush song on the radio before you turn the radio on. Sometimes you even know what song it is!
80. On each of their respective birthdays, when you wake up you're happier than you are on your own birthday, you sing "Happy Birthday" to their picture, put on a Rush shirt, listen to Rush all day, and come up with prospective gift ideas.
81. On holidays you wish your poster(s) a Happy _______.
82. You are very happy to read the same magazine articles over and over and over again, just to see if you missed anything the last time.
83. This is not the first time you've read The Masked Rider.
84. It scares you (almost to sanity) to think about how much more obsessed you'd become if you didn't have any semblance of a life at all!
85. Everything reminds you of Rush.
86. Your Internet name is Rush-related.
87. You get very upset and very defensive when people say that Rush is Satanic/into drugs/too old, etc.
88. You get very upset and very defensive when people say that Geddy sings/looks like a girl.
89. You listen to the beginning of the A Story Of Kings CD over and over again just so you can learn the correct pronounciation of "Zivojinovich".
90. You nearly kill yourself trying to get your tape set up because Rush is about to come on TV.
91. Every Rush song must be listened to completely -- if you are interrupted, you must start the song over again.
92. You've been into them for so long that you actually think you know what they're like, even though you don't.
93. You know every single fact about them, and just about every single rumour.
94. People are shocked (and sometimes scared) by what you know about them.
95. If a fellow Rush fan doesn't know something that you do, you just can't believe it, because it's so obvious, everyone knows that, geez.
96. You feel very strongly about making Rush History a mandatory course in schools across the country.
97. You can start singing any Rush song at the drop of a hat.
98. You're listening to a Rush album as you read this.
99. Everyone thinks that everything you do has to be Rush-related (but it doesn't....... really...)
100. You think those who hate Rush for no good reason should beat themselves senseless with a wrench.
101. You have an extreme fear of losing your Rush collection to fire, theft or natural disaster.
102. While listening to/watching a live version of 2112, you join in with the "HEY!"s.
103. Playing air instruments is something you just can't help.
104. You nearly drive off the road when you see a licence plate with "YYZ" somewhere in it.
105. During "dry periods" (such as in between albums) you find Rush hour traffic exciting.
106. You go to the Toronto Airport just to collect luggage tags.
107. You have 5 or 6 pages of notes that you took right after a concert so that you wouldn't forget anything.
108. You pick up a wristband for a Rush concert, then win tickets to that concert off the radio, then find out the tickets are crappy, and instead of being grateful that you're going, you try your luck at Ticketmaster for seats to the next concert (and manage to snag better ones!)
109. You arrive at Ticketmaster 2 or more hours early.
110. You bring a list of tour merchandise to the concert so you can figure out exactly what you want to buy ahead of time.
111. You have nothing in your music collection but Rush.
112. You have a Rush theme on your computer.
113. Upon hearing a song by another band, you can immediately tell how much influence Rush has had on their style.
114. You like a band simply because they state Rush as an influence.
115. You can play air guitar, air bass, and air drums to any Rush song perfectly, but if someone handed you a real instrument you'd be lost.
116. Your non-Rush-fan friends know the answers to Rush trivia.
117. You get misty-eyed listening to a track on a Rush live album because it was recorded at your very first Rush concert.
118. When first hearing a song on a live album that was recorded at a show you went to, you listen very intently to see if you can hear yourself.
119. You have extremely weird Rush-related dreams, and after waking up and saying, "What the hell was that?!?!", the next thing out of your mouth is, "That was COOL."
120. If you live near Toronto, you spend time looking through local phonebooks for Weinrib, Zivojinovich and Peart.
121. If you don't live near Toronto, you spend time looking through local phonebooks for Weinrib, Zivojinovich and Peart to see if they have any relatives in the area.
122. You can relate to 10 or more things on this list.
123. You buy Rush vinyl even though you don't have a record player or the one you have doesn't work, and then you go over to the house of someone who does have a record player just so you can listen to them.
124. Whenever you go to Toronto, you say, "I'm going to Rushville today." and people know what you're talking about.
125. You actually spent the time to make an alphabetical song list, and count all the songs.
126. You can guess at silly things in Rush trivia and end up answering correctly.
127. You know you have reasons for loving Rush so much, but you can't seem to put them into words.
128. You can't understand why anybody would hate "I Think I'm Going Bald" or "The Speed Of Love".
129. You and people who don't like Rush do not get along very well.
130. You've cried to at least one of their songs.
131. Alex makes you laugh so hard it hurts.
132. You spend time coming up with different ways to "Rush-a-size" your room/apartment/home, including designing wall-length Rush murals.
133. You think about the different personalized Rush plates that you could have on your car.
134. You know that you'd probably have more friends and get more dates if you didn't sit at home with your Rush stuff all the time, but you don't care.
135. When your parents/significant other/children tell you to turn down the Rush, you refuse on the basis that you're just doing them a favour.
136. You spend more on travelling to various shows than you did for the tickets.
137. You learn more from Neil's lyrics than you do/did at school.
138. Everyone tells you the latest Rush news as soon as they hear it, just in case, by some weird aligning of the planets, you didn't.
139. You write song parodies.
140. You write Rush stories.
141. You sing harmony with the songs.
142. You come up with concepts for new Rush videos, even if the songs are 20 years old.
143. After one song on a CD finishes, you start signing the first lines of the next song before it even starts.
144. You skip your graduation/postpone your wedding/risk going into labour to go to a Rush show.
145. You're nearly unconscious with a fever, and yet you still manage to somehow make it to the Rush concert that night.
146. After attending a concert or watching/hearing an interview, you tell everyone about how Geddy said this, and Alex did that, and how it was SO funny, and then Neil said this...
147. You beg and plead with your parents to let you miss a day of school to go see Rush get their spot on the Canadian Walk Of Fame, and they relent and take you. As a result you get lots of great pictures to put on your webpage PLUS you get Geddy & Alex's autographs 8-)
148. After Geddy grins at you and signs your CD cover, you try to convince everyone you know that he thinks you're cute :-)
149. You suffer a conflict of interest when the brand new album from your other favorite band comes out the same day as the South Park soundtrack, which features Geddy and Alex.
150. When you listen to Victor, or My Favorite Headache, and you can't really get into it, because it's not Rush. -- Wayne
151. RUSH IS LIFE -- Everything else is just details.