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when memes collide
08/05/2005 = 06:20 PM

This is a combination of two memes. It's like they hooked up for a dirty, sweaty quickie ... sorry, I'm back.

The main bit of this is ganked from kristintracy.

Make a list of 100 things you like in no particular order. Avoid the obvious (significant other, pie ...) and be completely honest with yourself. If you try to think of things that you are curious about and inspired by, you'll end up discovering a lot about yourself and, in doing so, developing a sort of bank of your interests and ideas.

The part it mated with was a meme from Trish.

List ten songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're no good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the ten songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.

I decided to do the 100 Things (Including 10 Songs) That I Like List.

I tried not to harp on the stuff I'm always on about in here anyway, but I think a couple of regulars might have (oh, that freaky-deaky bug man™!) sneaked in.

I also noticed that it was incredibly hard to think of things I like. I thought of changing it to suit myself: to list things I don't like, instead; or to cut the list to fewer than 100; but I decided to persevere, which always annoys me because I can never remember how many Rs are in the word persevere. Should there be one before the V? I always have to look it up, which breaks my concentration. Such as it is. Where was I? Oh, yeah. Anyway, I persevered, and noticed something else:

If you can come up with 100 things you like, even in no particular order, you wind up in a fairly good mood.

Which, as far as I'm concerned, makes this a good positive-thinking exercise, if nothing else.

If you feel like doing this, fine. I'll even "tag" you after the fact once you've done it. But don't feel obligated.

100 Things (Including 10 Songs) That I Like List

1. Words. They're my favorite. When I have words, I have everything.
2. Those French's Onion thingies that go on the top of the green bean casserole. (But I like to eat them out of the can. Or on top of chili.)
3. Penguins — not where you can smell the fishosity, but pictures, artwork, or swimming underwater at Mystic Aquarium are all fine with me.
4. Very Irresistable perfume by Givenchy.
5. Finally seeing my page rebuild without getting a parse error.
6. Energy beverages Fizzy-lifting drinks, especially if their cans have lizards on.
7. Tylenol.
8. Song: I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick.
9. Chimay Grande Reserve ale, in a chilled glass.
10. Getting positive feedback about anything I've worked really hard on.
11. Song: Fuck It by Deni Bonet.
12. Giving surprise presents to people (when I can afford to do so).
13. Göt 2 B In Therapy hair conditioner.
14. Whose Line Is It Anyway? Specifically, Brad Sherwood.
15. Watching other people play poker on television, 'cos you can see everybody's hand.
16. Astronomy. I heart Carolyn Porco. And Emily Lakdawalla.
17. Basic cake with buttercreme frosting. Preferably yellow cake with chocolate frosting, but let's face facts: cake is cake.
18. Bad weather that you don't have to go out in and are all stocked up for (books, hot chocolate, blankets, et cetera).
19. Monty Python, except anything related to booting all over a restaurant. I'm talking to you, Mr. Creosote.
20. Good news from old friends.
21. Guys on game shows who can do impressions. Give me an old episode of Match Game with Brad Garrett or Fred Travalena and I'm in six levels of heaven.
22. Al Kooper's new album, Black Coffee. Available on iTunes if you're interested. iTunes is dangerous.
23. Dog Eat Doug.
24. Red hots, Georgia reds, whatever you call those extra-spicy hot dogs that are generally only available in summertime.
25. The smell of cigarettes. Yes, I still like it even though I quit nearly three years ago.
26. Buying mixed olives by the pound at the deli.
27. Boys carrying something heavy or fixing something.
28. Song: Kashmir by Dejah Voodoo (Spice remix).
29. Gil Grissom. Freaky-deaky bug man™. Mrwowr.
30. Thinking I'm getting a phone call from someone I don't want to talk to, and finding out it's actually someone I like.
31. Cold Jamaican ginger beer when I have a sinus headache.
32. Bear hugs.
33. Song: I Never by Rilo Kiley.
34. Adobe In-Design.
35. "Having lunch" or "cocktails" with faraway friends by synching our times, then eating and drinking the same thing.
36. Heavenly Creatures, which is an amazing movie, but the ending is horrible, which is why it didn't make my list of movies with good endings. (This observation has been brought to you by the letter Duh.)
37. Song: Half as Much by Charlie Rich.
38. Noisy, stompy boots.
39. Rob Lowe is pretty much great in everything he performs.
40. Any fuzzy, cute creature that makes me go "Awww." Without biting.
41. Lime-basil candles.
42. Good hair days.
43. When Snoopy is writing his "dark and stormy night" novels on top of his doghouse.
44. Anything Dave Barry swears he is not making up.
45. People who apologize when they're wrong.
46. People who apologize when they're right but feel bad that they hurt your feelings anyway.
47. Freshly-baked artisan bread, with the crust all crunchy, ripped from the loaf, not cut.
48. Strawberry Fruit₂O.
49. Pottery and ceramics with iridescent glaze.
50. Blingo prizes.
51. The Mythbusters. I like their personalities as much as I like what they're doing: blowing stuff up in the name of research.
52. Hanes bedsheets — the ones that make you feel like you're wrapped in a huge comfy t-shirt.
53. Quoting a line from a movie and having the other person catch the reference — better yet, having him or her deliver the next line.
54. Song: Time and Tide by Basia.
55. Engrish dot com.
56. Smart-assed kids who make grownups do double-takes.
57. Seeing something quool at the same time I actually have a camera handy.
58. Sleep, whether it be a quick nap, just 'cos I can, or finally getting to go to bed after being awake far too long, or that delicious feeling of thank heavens I'm finally drifting off that can only be appreciated by anyone who's ever experienced slow-sleep insomnia. Yay sleep.
59. Gem and jewelry shows, if they're not too crowded and people can get past my just-looking-and-wishingness without getting impatient.
60. Farmers' markets that smell like apples and ripe honeydew.
61. Song: Green Onions by Al Kooper.
62. When someone just hands me a straight line and practically forces me to make a joke out of it that will cause everyone in the room to snort coffee out of their noses. It just makes me feel so heroic. Like I've done something constructive for the planet.
63. Tums Smooth Dissolve.
64. The Every-Other Actors — people like Bill Pullman and Brendan Fraser who, for every really stupid and embarrassing character they play, counter with another that is interesting and likeable.
65. Turtle soup. With a spoonful of dry sherry drizzled on right before serving. Pardon my toe-curling.
66. Lava lamps.
67. Hearing the words "cancer free" about someone you love.
68. My pink shirt with the brown buttons. It makes me look almost rosy-cheeked.
69. The sound of a Hammond B3 being used in a rock composition. (In skater waltzes or polkas, not so much.)
70. Finding out that something I already own is "in."
71. Song: Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo.
72. Documentaries or news items about Egyptology.
73. Big, goofy, loveable dogs.
74. Pretzels — in order of preference: oversized soft hot pretzels, hard fat sourdough stick pretzels, and mini pretzels.
75. Getting glurge email from someone I don't like and being able to reply, "This is a hoax. Check snopes.com next time."
76. New books and time to read them.
77. Kevin and Kell. Lindesfarne is my favorite hedgehog ever.
78. When people use unfamiliar (or made-up) words or phrases that fit perfectly. Like "holy mother of burlap" or "heavens to Stanley" (both of which I just made up this second).
79. Huge bunches of roses with all different colors mixed together.
80. Broccoli rabe and marinated eggplant on the same sandwich. They sort of cancel each other out, but in a good way.
81. Any punk band that wears tartans and/or has anything to do with pirates. Argh.
82. The Complimenting Complimenter.
83. Shiny kitchen gadgets of any and all sorts.
84. Big boxes of crayons or markers that have every color I need.
85. Waking up with the answer to a question that's been plaguing me during the day.
86. Getting the giggles from something immature (like the new "turtle nut" coffee from Dunkin' Donuts — who wants an ice-cold cup of reptilian gonads?) and, even better, having someone else get the giggles from it at the same time you do.
87. Heavy, humid, ponderous weather all day, finally broken by a rip-roaring, wind-blowing, window-rattler of a thunderstorm. Nothing too damaging, just enough to make the next day's weather really fresh and cool.
88. Neck rubs.
89. The Reduced Shakespeare Company.
90. Song: Up All Night by Boomtown Rats.
91. Stuff that finally arrives after having been backordered and I've forgotten about it. It's like a present to the now-me from the couple-of-months-ago-me.
92. When someone says, "Give me that!" and snatches away whatever I'm trying to fix/open/explain, only to fail at it as miserably as (or worse than) I was already doing. And not saying to them, "I could have told you that" — but thinking it.
93. My blue shirt that is very nondescript on the hanger, but somehow, when I'm wearing it, suddenly everyone is falling all over themselves to tell me how nice I look.
94. Riding shotgun and saying, "Boy, I'd sure like to see what they've got going on over there," and having the driver actually stop.
95. Smoked bleu cheese. I had it for the first time Thursday and oh, my.
96. Boys with dimples.
97. GMail™.
98. I also like making up non-sequiturs to fluster eavesdroppers. When I see someone looking like they're listening to my phone call or whatever, I say stuff like, "Well, you know, I would suck your dick, but I skipped lunch and I need something more substantial than that." Which can sometimes get really interesting for the person on the other end of the call. Especially when it's a girl.
99. Song: Move Me by Bud Buckley (rough draft. So. Quool).
100. That Axe boy-spray. Those commercials are exaggerated, but only barely. Mmmm.

Retrotags:

Trish
Bards-Bitch
Deb-Siobhan
Sally-Dally-Do
Blondbunny
The Cranky One
Gwyn
The Mom

See number 40.

drinking: spring water
listening to: The Creepniks, Zombie Kind of Love
stupid thing overheard: "I'm telling you, it just doesn't pay to be rich."