Stuff I Like

Shay
Sleeping with Shay (take that how you will)
A Single Explosion/We’re So Heavy/Bright End of Nowhere/Sort of a Protest Song/Flashdance II/Suburbia/Fated/Prime Time Deliverance/So Long Mrs Smith/Fearless
Metal Gear Solid 4
How organized my iTunes is
Making NES sounds in Garageband
Bixby Canyon Bridge/Grapevine Fires/What Sarah Said/Death of an Interior Decorator/Transatlanticism
Le Samourai
Finding faces
Arizona Red Apple Green Tea
Tetley Pomegranate Green Tea
Lists
How I have become a House convert
Playing music
Writing music
Trying to write music
Failing at writing music
Learning (for [insert whatever deity/cosmic force you subscribe to here]’s sake don’t ask me about something I don’t know the answer to, because I will HAVE to find out)
Color
Solitaire in most any form (I still don’t get Freecell)
The Spore Creature Creator icon in my dock
Shaving with a new blade
Being alone in my work section so I don’t have to use headphones to listen to music
How Beautiful Midnight is ten years old and still sounds as amazing and refreshing as it did when I was 14
Coming back from my second 15 minute break and only having 75 minutes until the end of my shift
Two days off in a row
Clean bedsheets
Not being sick
Not being tired
The Steve Wilkos Show (I am going to hell for this)
Songs with piano in them
Female vocalists
The word discombobulated
Using italics for emphasis
Irony
Wilco
Rooms
Google Earth
Raspberries
Strawberries
Most berries, even Crunch Berries
How I read the last three lines aloud with a swagger
Having a guitar chord widget on my dashboard
The word widget
The silence and calm of the early morning
Telling people that swearing at the IVR when they call 411 and not answering the questions in the order presented doesn’t make it work any better
Telling people that swearing at me when calling 411/0 doesn’t make me work any better
Winning
M&M Meat Shops chicken fajita kits
Indian (East) food
How Seinfeld is relevant to any conversation
Strings
Noticing how the dock in OSX reflects things, such as typing if TextEdit happens to be close to it
Falling asleep beside Shay, our backs touching
Firefox
Flickr
del.icio.us
Honeysuckles
Lilacs
Softsoap Pomegranate Mango Body Wash
St Ives Apricot Face Scrub
Crayons
My MacBook Pro
Sunsets
Sunrises
Doing silly and probably immature things
Grocery shopping with Shay
Chimichangas
Dad’s chili
Peanut butter cookies
Flash games
Saying that people have “sand in their vagina”, whether they are male or female
nearfantastica.com
Lawn gnomes
Amelie
IKEA
A good stretch
A good yawn
Arsenal FC
Calgary Flames
Hockey/soccer season
Hearing Shay sneeze
Hang up calls at work- so good for my stats
Shay taking pictures of me, even though I make a huge fuss about it all the time
Rubbing Shay’s legs when they are all smooth
How I have a dictionary on my computer to look up words like vacuum
Mug Root Beer
Root Beer floats
Unagi
Sushi in general
Virgin Mobile’s automated system and how they try to be hip and cool- “to keep going in English, hit 1… if you’re already hooked up with Virgin Mobile, punch in your 10-digit mobile number… we can’t wait to talk to you, please choose what tunes you wanna listen to…to chill out press one, to get pumped up press 2, to listen to what we’re listening to, press 3….“
Showers
Watching Shay draw
Shay’s art
Wordfinds
Wii Sports
LOLCATS
hotchickswithdouchebags.com
The Empire Strikes Back
Don Hertzfeldt
Films with great cinematography (sup Pan’s Labyrinth?)
Possible two hour waits on hold while on a relay call- sup easy night?
How we have styrofoam plates in the staff lounge at work
Making paper airplanes out of scrap paper
Puns (the crappier the better)
Ender’s Game
Daphne Gottlieb
Counting my steps when I walk
Some of the songs I’ve written
Lap Steel
Saying things are bitchin’
Lucid dreaming
Peaches
Books
Miyazaki
Gel pens
Laurentian Pencil Crayons
The horribly cute video I made for Shay using iMovie
Films so bad they’re fabulous (eg Starship Troopers)
The number of options you get on a Mac when taking a screenshot (want to capture a single window? No problem! Want to capture just a part of a window so cropping afterwards is unnecessary? Have at ‘er!)
Karma
America’s Next Top Model (a boy is allowed to have a guilty pleasure, is he not?)
The fact I just admitted I like ANTM
The position sensitive key on my work keyboard
Dissonance and minor chords
Octave slides when playing bass
Passing tones
Shooting stars
Northern Lights
Birds chirping
The photomontage screensaver I have set up
People watching
Subtitles
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Batman
Butterball Turkey Dogs
Turkey
Rosemary ham and swiss grilled cheese sandwiches with spicy mayo, dipped in ketchup
The word ketchup
How I am stacking books on top of each other in my bookcase
Penguins and how they waddle
This frigging adorable commercial
How I heard Metal Airplanes one of the first times it was ever played live
People who say please and thank you
How the 118 frequently turns right into route 3
DVD special features
OSX’s exposé, particularly the active screen corners function (even MORE particularly, the application windows function)
“Those missile men with their master plan don’t get paid to understand…”
How many awesome shortcuts OSX has
Power ballads
Giving my screen at work the middle finger when people are being dicks
The screen lock feature on iPods
Being funny
Laughing
The right song coming on at the right time
Robots
Mythbusters
Calgary Zoo
Royal Tyrrell Museum (get spelling)
Dinosaurs
Spy stories
Simplicity
Dichotomy
Animals
Playfighting
Gingerbread houses
Snow forts
Going for walks
Frolicking in the rain
Frolicking in general
The word frolic
My daddy
The snare hits in Avalanche at 4:11
Finding things