rambling sore throats make for memes and sore finger joints.
stolen. of course. and incomplete. of course.
100thingsthatilikethatmakemehappylist
1. my papers, for the most part
2. my cat lucky! plus the others
3. other people's sweet dogs
4. the old yellow schwinn we got this summer, taking it out for bike rides
5. traipsing around cities with my headphones on
6. diy art projects/movement. especially zines.
7. most of my visual flash memories of childhood
8. memories of my sister when she was a kid
9. fall apples
10. the market, when annoying rich posers from pittsford don't swarm there
11. blackberries
12. tea time
13. greg dulli's persona as head of the afghan whigs
14. records
15. that one perfect dress syndrome
16. days i like my body a lot, as they seem a rare treat often out of the blue
17. that perfect cup of hot coffee first thing in the morning
18. comfortable but supercute shoes
19. the fish pond
20. when you're closing a great, intimate conversation with a friend and you realize, wow, i'm lucky i can engage in that, that i have somebody to talk to in such a special way
21. mail, letters
22. wild rabbits
23. black squirrels! they look like daisy. not mangy ones, but the ones in ontario. so cute.
24. being so close to a big lake
25. having a valid passport
26. that one vegetable knife downstairs. that is the best knife ever. also that one meat knife.
27. pomegranates
28. fall sweaters
29. girl hair
30. boy wrists
31. mix tapes
32. corduroy pants
33. rebecca gates/the spinanes
34. amazing drummers like janet weiss and noah leger
35. drinking beer out of bottles versus out of cans
36. the color red
37. mary timony's outfit the day she came to pittsburgh a few winters ago. so cute.
38. handknit scarves and socks
39. rochester burgers and garbage plates
40. montreal
41. friendly but not creepilyfake towns and cities
42. the winter holiday season. yes, commercial and a mess, but i still get mistyeyed. tinsel and breakable ornaments, you know.
43. freshman year of high school
44. having mentors i genuinely admire and learn from
45. the economist
46. library stacks
47. that i was so obsessed with mermaids versus princesses when i was a kid
48. language. miraculous. :)
49. pop culture phrases that just make you laugh, like oh snap
50. the old toad, and the fact that yesterday i saw a woman walking out to a parking lot in the middle of the 'burbs wearing a faded black old toad tshirt!
51. quarters and dimes
52. my teeth, actually. and my feet, ha.
53. cute and smart boys. sigh.
54. the fact golden girls is like law and order almost, in that it plays for four hours every weekday practically
55. attending weddings
56. having vivid dreams
57. kristin hersh
58. you know when you have a fever or are upset? and you get under a tight tidy pile of bedding and your limbs instantly feel cool and soft? and you just have to enjoy it and drift to sleep? i love that sensation. it's similar to the fuzzy dreamy sensation you get when you're 6 and your parents hold a huge party, right, and it's waaay past your bedtime and someone picks you up and you only faintly sense it and they put you under the sea of coats in the bedroom and you've still got your mary janes and stockings on and everything...that utterly safe feeling people so rarely get to experience
59. cake
60. reading old yearbook messages, slambooks (haha), notes written during class, etc.
61. crew memories
62. pizza for breakfast or at 4am before deciding to stay up to watch the sun rise
63. the prospect of learning the craft of book binding, and the thinking behind various ways of doing it
64. satisfying a desperate thirst. woah.
65. greasy spoon open late or all night diners. yum to the mood of such places.
66. ethnic enclaves
67. the korean alphabet
68. the letter m
69. stone soup. soup in general, and soup seasons.
79. house/interior painting
80. crying when art moves you. any format, to have it just break through you.
81. weird social incidences where you're like, this would make a great chapter for a novel or scene for a play right here
82. when truth is stranger than fiction
83. cultural narrative, and breaking it apart to tool around and peer at its innards.
84. when you can tell someone understands things aren't as simple as any blanket theory could ever make them, that nothing encompasses all the ways that some phenomena occur. favorite example topics: sex, sadness
85. the way that, yes, it's frustrating that as women we have all of these prefab images we're supposed to try to smoosh ourselves into like paper doll cutouts, but at the same time, the way it's kind of awesome in a twisted light because you can use that fucked up history of handedtous molds to subvert it or turn it on its head. and it's all right there for you already to mess with in a way i'm not sure is as clearly ripe and rich a playing field for men in terms of messing with and building identity. i kind of love it and still resent the place it come from, and it's great like that. s'also why i love mary timony so much, and actresses who you can tell understood this and used it too. it makes everything more complicated in a good way--it gives what occurs room to breathe instead of squashing it down to mere sparse theory or ideology--and is much more honest a reworking than everyone merely choosing to say, oh, bitch is bad. floozy is bad. let's pretend it never happened. etc. oh history and culture i love you.
more later.
100thingsthatilikethatmakemehappylist
1. my papers, for the most part
2. my cat lucky! plus the others
3. other people's sweet dogs
4. the old yellow schwinn we got this summer, taking it out for bike rides
5. traipsing around cities with my headphones on
6. diy art projects/movement. especially zines.
7. most of my visual flash memories of childhood
8. memories of my sister when she was a kid
9. fall apples
10. the market, when annoying rich posers from pittsford don't swarm there
11. blackberries
12. tea time
13. greg dulli's persona as head of the afghan whigs
14. records
15. that one perfect dress syndrome
16. days i like my body a lot, as they seem a rare treat often out of the blue
17. that perfect cup of hot coffee first thing in the morning
18. comfortable but supercute shoes
19. the fish pond
20. when you're closing a great, intimate conversation with a friend and you realize, wow, i'm lucky i can engage in that, that i have somebody to talk to in such a special way
21. mail, letters
22. wild rabbits
23. black squirrels! they look like daisy. not mangy ones, but the ones in ontario. so cute.
24. being so close to a big lake
25. having a valid passport
26. that one vegetable knife downstairs. that is the best knife ever. also that one meat knife.
27. pomegranates
28. fall sweaters
29. girl hair
30. boy wrists
31. mix tapes
32. corduroy pants
33. rebecca gates/the spinanes
34. amazing drummers like janet weiss and noah leger
35. drinking beer out of bottles versus out of cans
36. the color red
37. mary timony's outfit the day she came to pittsburgh a few winters ago. so cute.
38. handknit scarves and socks
39. rochester burgers and garbage plates
40. montreal
41. friendly but not creepilyfake towns and cities
42. the winter holiday season. yes, commercial and a mess, but i still get mistyeyed. tinsel and breakable ornaments, you know.
43. freshman year of high school
44. having mentors i genuinely admire and learn from
45. the economist
46. library stacks
47. that i was so obsessed with mermaids versus princesses when i was a kid
48. language. miraculous. :)
49. pop culture phrases that just make you laugh, like oh snap
50. the old toad, and the fact that yesterday i saw a woman walking out to a parking lot in the middle of the 'burbs wearing a faded black old toad tshirt!
51. quarters and dimes
52. my teeth, actually. and my feet, ha.
53. cute and smart boys. sigh.
54. the fact golden girls is like law and order almost, in that it plays for four hours every weekday practically
55. attending weddings
56. having vivid dreams
57. kristin hersh
58. you know when you have a fever or are upset? and you get under a tight tidy pile of bedding and your limbs instantly feel cool and soft? and you just have to enjoy it and drift to sleep? i love that sensation. it's similar to the fuzzy dreamy sensation you get when you're 6 and your parents hold a huge party, right, and it's waaay past your bedtime and someone picks you up and you only faintly sense it and they put you under the sea of coats in the bedroom and you've still got your mary janes and stockings on and everything...that utterly safe feeling people so rarely get to experience
59. cake
60. reading old yearbook messages, slambooks (haha), notes written during class, etc.
61. crew memories
62. pizza for breakfast or at 4am before deciding to stay up to watch the sun rise
63. the prospect of learning the craft of book binding, and the thinking behind various ways of doing it
64. satisfying a desperate thirst. woah.
65. greasy spoon open late or all night diners. yum to the mood of such places.
66. ethnic enclaves
67. the korean alphabet
68. the letter m
69. stone soup. soup in general, and soup seasons.
79. house/interior painting
80. crying when art moves you. any format, to have it just break through you.
81. weird social incidences where you're like, this would make a great chapter for a novel or scene for a play right here
82. when truth is stranger than fiction
83. cultural narrative, and breaking it apart to tool around and peer at its innards.
84. when you can tell someone understands things aren't as simple as any blanket theory could ever make them, that nothing encompasses all the ways that some phenomena occur. favorite example topics: sex, sadness
85. the way that, yes, it's frustrating that as women we have all of these prefab images we're supposed to try to smoosh ourselves into like paper doll cutouts, but at the same time, the way it's kind of awesome in a twisted light because you can use that fucked up history of handedtous molds to subvert it or turn it on its head. and it's all right there for you already to mess with in a way i'm not sure is as clearly ripe and rich a playing field for men in terms of messing with and building identity. i kind of love it and still resent the place it come from, and it's great like that. s'also why i love mary timony so much, and actresses who you can tell understood this and used it too. it makes everything more complicated in a good way--it gives what occurs room to breathe instead of squashing it down to mere sparse theory or ideology--and is much more honest a reworking than everyone merely choosing to say, oh, bitch is bad. floozy is bad. let's pretend it never happened. etc. oh history and culture i love you.
more later.