Things I Love. Can't you feel the joy?

Things I Love, Adore, and ... wait, I can't think of any more synonyms. I need a goddamn thesaurus.

1. Doggies!

2. Janeane Garofalo, of course. What, you think I wasn't gonna stick her in here?

3. Comedy Central Presents

4. Tina Fey. I don't believe in having "idols" but if I did, she'd be it.

5. The word "sidle" (not slide, dammit! that's not a typo)

6. Turning on the radio and the very next song they play is one I love

7. Alternative, punk, and indie rock music

8. Reading

9. Drawing

10. Smooth peanut butter (especially Skippy)

11. Spinach salads with ranch dressing, black olives, sunflower seeds, and cold spiral pasta

12. Thinking up a good story

13. Developing a new character

14. Guys with "mophead"

15. Guys with blue eyes

16. Red hair

17. Cussing

18. Cats, especially sleek black kitties

19. Snakes

20. Lizards

21. Salamanders

22. Chickens!

23. Manicotti

24. Black hair (I don't have it, but I wish I did)

25. Cool Janeane-esque black glasses

26. My birthday, 'cause I get money!

27. Perusing the dictionary and learning new words

28. Pizza with black olives

29. Black olives. Duh.

30. When nobody else is home so I can listen to my music as loud as I goddamn please

31. Sweet Tomatoes restaurant (where I can get the aforementioned spinach-olive-sunflower-seed-and-spiral-pasta salads)

32. Canned turkey-and-cream-cheese sandwiches

33. Vanilla Coke (yes, I still love this even though THEY FUCKING DISCONTINUED IT THE BASTARDS RARR RARR YOU WILL FEEL MY WRATH)

34. The movie "American Beauty"

35. Killing flies and sticking them into spiders' webs and seeing the spider suck the little diptera dry

35. Anything on those Discovery-channel-esque stations having to do with astronomy

36. Stargazing

37. Playing Zelda games

38. The word "brilliant," although I throw it around too much

39. Mint-chocolate-chip ice cream

40. Hearing a whole string of songs on the radio that I love

41. PJ Harvey!!!!

42. Garbage (the band. But only up until their third CD.)

43. Eggnog

44. The movie "Pulp Fiction" (I tried to tally all the times they say "fuck" or a variation thereof in that movie. I quit after around 200-something.)

45. Freedancing with reckless abandon

46. L.M. Montgomery books (been addicted to her since I was 10)

47. "The Simpsons"

48. Seeing a movie that I think is going to suck but turns out to be pretty good (Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser and Liz Hurley comes to mind)

49. Warm clothes just out of the dryer on a biting cold winter day

50. Hot chocolate with lots and lots of marshmallows

51. Catcher in the Rye

52. The Powerpuff Girls, especially Cuppo.

53. Peppermint tea

54. Wint-o-green Life Savers--not because of the taste, but because if you chomp 'em in the dark, they spark!

55. Lewis Black

56. Inuyasha

57. Finding money in my pocket that I didn't know was there

58. Chicks with deep voices (Daria O'Neill, Laura Prepon, Meredith McCoy [who does #18 in DBZ])

59. The voice of the guy who narrates "The New Detectives" on the Discovery Channel. I will seriously watch this show JUST to hear that guy.

60. Guys in bands with "rough" yet still melodic voices: Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer from the Clash, Greg Graffin from Bad Religion, Richard Butler from Psychedelic Furs, Tim Armstrong from Rancid, the guy from Stereophonics...)

61. Daria O'Neill (duh. wonder why I didn't add her on here before?)

62. Pad Thai noodles, with chicken and peanuts and that sweet-hot red sauce... my new favorite food

63. Discovering new (or even old) indie rock bands that I'd never heard of before, but love instantly when I first hear them

64. I have THE WORLD'S SNUGGLIEST KITTY

65. Questionable Content (hey, it's got sarcasm AND indie-rock references! what more could you ask for?)

66. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger SERIOUSLY BEST BOOK EVER

67. Using leetspeak in a purely ironic and facetious manner (e.g. OMGWTFBBQ OH NOES)

68. I Shouldn't Be Alive on the Discovery Channel

69. Mythbusters

70. The Bottom Forty - Non-Denominational Radio on 94.7

71. The Alternative on VH1 Classic

72. Subterranean on MTV2

73. The movie Donnie Darko (this may very well be my new favorite movie. I will be a sobbing mess during the last 15 minutes and I cannot listen to Gary Jules' version of "Mad World" for at least three days after watching this movie, without tearing up.)

74. Musical bridges (at least 90% of the time, they're the best part of the song)

75. Storm and the Balls

76. Meeting someone famous who turns out to NOT be an asshole (I've only met Keith Murray from We Are Scientists, and Storm Large, but neither of them had any assholery in them so far as I could tell)

77. The way all of the following words sound: Altruistically, apocalypse, discombobulated, emasculated, ephemeral, epiphany, exponentially, galvanize, joie de vivre, sidle, status (pronounced the British way, "stay-tus"), vendetta, vigilante. Actually "vigilante" is probably my favorite word to say out loud.

78. Any band in this list.

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.... maybe.