And it seems their sustained obsession with my obsession has helped me stay on track.
When the Pop star died in 1987, he left a lode of material from which to mine exhibitions, not just big-market paintings but also photographs that emphasize his voyeuristic obsession with the camera.
All sorts of police forces get into difficulty for all sorts of reasons - an obsession with speed cameras, a badly handled murder case or casual data retention which offends the civil liberties lobby but doesn't catch crooks.
But it's about more than just colour: other visual motifs include long tracking shots, 90-degree whip pans and tilts, rostrum shots over miniature models, intertitles (font: Futura), montages, storybook stylings, and an almost Kubrickian obsession with symmetry and camera movement.
As someone who covets glass seltzer bottles, suitcase record players, and has a rather unhealthy obsession with vintage film cameras, I was quickly enchanted by this collection of personalities, practices, and items from a bygone era.
Punctuating the hand-held tourism is Brian's insufferable video diary, which reveals nothing, save his obsession with online hookups and on-camera masturbation.
Off camera, it exposed an obsession with ratings and approval, insiders say in Trump Revealed.
He deplores the modern obsession with poor runs of form, intrusive TV cameras on the technical areas, strident phone-ins and talk of a crisis when a side has lost three in a row.
Essentially that's what "Capturing the Friedmans" is all about, the American middle-class obsession with documenting innocuous daily life with eight-millimeter cameras, and now videotape.
