i appreciate any one who will get dressed up for no particular reason, maybe simply to walk to the grocery store and back, but fail to see the reasoning in dressing nicely all the time. i like renting movies near midnight. i prefer organic fruit, but have yet to completely make the transition to organic food as a whole. i like people who knowingly contradict themselves. i like it when the sun is shining when i wake up at two in the afternoon. i like japanese girl punk and mod clothes. i'm still searching for that perfect pair of white go-go boots. i am openly biased against people who either don't like the music i like or enjoy the music i openly despise. this is my achilles heel, a flaw, but i am trying to be honest. i like juice, but admittedly still drink soda like an adolescent. i drink coffee but am fine with tea-lovers. i sew bags that most people wouldn't use and skirts that only my friends are really interested in, and i believe that when designing something for a particular person to wear, you must always focus on the personality of the piece and how that will either reflect or clash with the intended party's perspective. i like to read books quickly, especially if they're really good, so i can pass them on to others. i like to discuss music, books, and movies, sometimes in minutae so as to completely dissect the subject. i'm a details person. i collect vinyl because i like music in such a tangible, visible form ("look! the needle hits the groove and there is music! it's a miracle!"). i'm still attempting to draw a really good portrait of my best friend. i like kitschy, campy anything. i enjoy tv movies about sororities, especially a lost classic called "dying to belong" starring pre-oscardom hillary swank, post "saved by the bell" mark paul gosselar, and post "blossom" jenna von oy (six!), as well as that girl who was the second becky on "roseanne" and is now on "scrubs." that movie, and the shannon doherty/mid-nineties watered-down alterna-rock/thriller classic, "friends til the end." i like collecting and slowly learning to play random instruments. i like the sound of a good horn section, and get goosebumps when the part is really killer. i like creating songs to pre-recorded casio-beats. i like listening to sad songs when others are unhappy, because it allows me to get into their perspective. i like the beatles, and i think anyone who doesn't is missing something essential in their emotional make-up. if i had to choose between flying and invisibility, i'd pick the former, since i tend to become the latter depending on the social situation. i like picking out the pop culture references in songs. i think it's funny that in the hootie and the blowfish song, "i only wanna be with you," the guy throws in a large dylan quote from the "blood on the tracks" song "idiot wind." i like finding that one fantastic song by a mediocre artist or band. i like to go to sleep dreaming about how "television without pity" would recap my day. i like to make lists about random things pertaining to myself, but am not constrained to that particular topic, because i also like to make lists pertaining to the other people i know.
