Verbs and nouns which represent things that make me smile: Art. Affection. Awkwardness. Baking. Blankets. Cassette tapes. Creativity. Cuddling. Drawing. Driving. Existentialism. Eating. Finding lost items. Fire. Good grammar. Grey Goose. Holding hands. Ice cream. Language arts. Making out. Mashed potatoes. Naps. Off-color comedies. Pacifism. Passion. Poetry. Punctuation. Quirkiness. Rock'n'roll. Sarcasm. Snow. Soul Caliber II. Spraypaint. Stencils. Talking. Thinking. Typing. Umbrellas. Video games. Walking. Watching movies. Wit. Words. Writing. You, probably.The following are things I could live without. Apathy. Angst. Boats. Boredom. Brusselsprouts. Conservatives. Country music. Fascists. Fat people. Fear. Gangsters. Grills. HipHop. High school. Ignorance. Liberals. Maple syrup. Overtime. Police. Pop. Rap. Selfishness. Spiders. Turtlenecks.
People who have made an impression on me, whether dead or alive. George Orwell. Dave Grohl. Elliott Smith. Salvador DalÃ. Che Guevara. Jack Nicholson. Jason Schwartzman. Luke and Owen Wilson. Freddy Mercury. Sufjan Stevens. Jesus. Ghandi. Oprah. What a list.
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