Likes

(in order of appearance in consciousness)

1. the smell of coffee
2. coffee
3. rain
4. late night turboprop flights to Omaha
5. mid-1980's Chrysler products
6. the sound of far-off marching bands
7. the smell of far-off burning leaves
8. the smell of gasoline
9. the smell of secondhand smoke
10. Franziskaner and Weihenstephaner weissbiers
11. Rhodes pianos
12. the sound of a trap set played sans-instrumentation
13. women
14. women with glasses
15. several
16. things
17. pertaining
18. to
19. women
20. (omitted
21. for
22. propriety)
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29. old Chinese men
30. old shoes
31. driving aimlessly
32. airports
33. cats
34. burritos drowned in green sauce
35. ownerless dogs who look like they've got places to go
36. emerging from the movie theater surprised to find it is still midday
37. the hum of a room full of vending machines
38. the smell of low-budget hotel hallways
39. the smell of churches
40. Christmas lights
41. Korean red bean stew
42. college campuses
43. darkrooms
44. positive remarks from doctors re: my pulse
45. the smell of books
46. waking up on Saturday thinking it's Friday before remembering it is Saturday
47. The Brothers Lounge on 38th and Farnam
48. choosing a point in the distance and walking there
49. the way cornfields swirl when you're passing them on the highway
50. the month of September
51. Old Spice deodorant
52. deserts
53. fog
54. cranberry juice
55. suit coats
56. boxer briefs
57. the lo-fi voices of bank tellers
58. pneumatic tube systems
59. dumbwaiters
60. the smell of sawdust
61. payphones
62. getting on the wrong bus
63. taking the stairs two at a time
64. the sweet, fetid smell of zoos
65. taking so long to finish a book you feel like you're living in it
66. being told off by Bob Dylan
67. thrusting my hands in my pockets
68. hooded sweatshirts
69. dissonance
70. harmony
71. dreaming
72. taking a crap
73. arriving in a small town where the high schoolers still sit on the hoods of their cars parked on Main Street on a Friday night
74. garlic
75. listening to pathological liars
76. trees lit up by streetlights
77. maps
78. my facial hair
79. the Berlin U-Bahn system
80. mustard
81. the sound of a band tuning in the moments before the lights come up
82. trains
83. garages
84. absurdly long showers
85. mammals
86. pet names
87. the delirium that comes after running six miles
88. photographs of microorganisms
89. the names of places on the arrivals/departures board
90. those upside-down-J-shaped metal pipes that stick up from the ground and every so often emit a mysterious steam
91. the diner at 3 AM
92. plucking leaves from low-hanging tree limbs
93. baseball diamonds
94. the fold-down seats in the back of a pickup truck
95. tollbooths
96. paintings of feudal scenes
97. mailboxes with their red flags up
98. miniature golf courses
99. losing track of time in a writing frenzy
100. talking to myself
101. kimchi
102. the shrieking of espresso machines
103. learning animal noises in foreign languages
104. tree sloths
105. new car smell
106. kicking rocks
107. organizing my bookshelf
108. microscopes
109. telescopes
110. root beer
111. picking my nose
112. Air Force bases
113. extremity numbness caused by an electric razor running up the back of your neck
114. the dobro
115. sandwiches
116. cicadas in the evening
117. and crickets at night