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    100 favorite things : june 2007

    I wonder how many times now I've made these lists. I remember doing the first one in 1991 or 1992.

    • positive attention

    • giving and receiving affection

    • teaching

    • thinking through an idea

    • writing

    • narrative + non-narrative

    • poetry + poets

    • chapbooks + small presses

    • fonts

    • graphic design + visual composition

    • adobe illustrator + photoshop

    • feeling competent

    • feeling competent enough to acknowledge the existence of things I still need to learn

    • photography

    • abstraction

    • complex irregular forms

    • abandoned buildings + ruins

    • taking walks

    • trails + hikes

    • the woods

    • the ocean

    • mysticism + devotional practice

    • the drone

    • making music

    • audiomulch

    • laptop computers

    • itunes + the ipod

    • databases + indexes

    • index cards

    • libraries

    • the internet

    • del.icio.us, flickr, etc.

    • gifts and gift economies

    • the spring conference

    • letters + journals

    • dreams + dreamwork

    • the films of david lynch

    • stanley kubrick's 2001

    • richard linklater's slacker

    • ensembles and character networks

    • network diagrams

    • conversations

    • bonfires

    • candles

    • altars + shrines

    • things my friends have made for me

    • making things for my friends

    • collage

    • william s. burroughs

    • david foster wallace

    • earned sincerity

    • playing

    • playing games

    • rule-systems and constraints

    • strategies and plans

    • making lists + taking notes

    • the boundary line between knowledge + non-knowledge

    • BDSM

    • collaboration

    • taking inspiration from other people's work

    • completing a project

    • an ongoing project

    • dark chocolate

    • ice cream

    • biscuits + gravy

    • diners + greasy spoons

    • roadtrips

    • mix tapes + mix CDs

    • unexpected things discovered while traveling

    • vernacular signage

    • book darts

    • reading

    • reading in the bathtub

    • keeping a reading log

    • blogs + blogging

    • zines

    • dancing

    • feeling confident about my physical appearance / level of desirability

    • flirting + the thrill of reciprocated flirting

    • jokes + puns

    • things that are cute

    • Japanese aesthetic systems

    • mazes + labyrinths

    • dungeons and dragons + its trappings

    • graph paper

    • new sketchpads

    • pigma pens

    • the tension between permanence and ephemerality

    • "this too shall pass" / "perhaps"

    • ecclesiastes

    • myths + mythic systems

    • paul klee

    • mark rothko + the rothko chapel

    • robert rauschenberg

    • marcel duchamp

    • grant morrison

    • the marvel universe

    • watching movies

    • having broad tastes

    • not being bored


    That's my list. I also love collecting these from other people, so write 'em up and send 'em to me. Or post one to your own blog and send me a link!

    In other news: thinking, thinking, thinking, about self-pity, self-loathing, growth, responsibility, desire, love, trust, etc. More soon.

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    Friday, June 15, 2007
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