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What makes you happy/joyful?

The Apple-Picker

23:07 / 23.08.02

You guessed it. This here is the compliment to Panarchy's What makes you mad/angry? thread.

~Bob Lassiter
~Invoking Bob Lassiter in a public fuck-you to someone kinda like an ex
~Tom Scharpling
~Aircheck
~and many other things on WFMU!
~my boyfriend
~my own apartment
*walking around naked in my own apartment
*sleeping nude in my own apartment
*cooking in my birthday suit in my own apartment
*taking long and lazy baths without a roommate knocking on the door crying, "I have to use the bathroom!" ('cause I have it open and 'cause I don't have a roommate)
*only having to listen to my own music
*many other wonderous things!
~when friends ask for the recipe of something I've made because they liked it so much
~my sister
~that relief right after having made a decision
~relieving myself (sorry. I know it's not a topic for dinner conversation, but it is a happy time)
~my kitties
~winning the lottery (not that I've won the lottery, but I suspect that at the very moment I won it, at least, I would feel joyful)
~a piece I've written receiving lots of praise from people I really respect
~the fact that I could go on and on and on with this list.

02:01 / 24.08.02

Knowing that I am not the only one who believes in magic. Knowing I can have an intellectual conversation with anybody on this website. Knowing that creativity is in me. And all of you.

Monkeyzilla Vs Tokyo

02:22 / 24.08.02

Kittens
Laughing
Eating cheesecake
Sleeping
The rare times thatI don't feel sick
Cheese Curds
My friends
When I feel safe.
When somebody tells me, "That's a good job."
Music, Rock Concerts, Music, Music, Music.
Getting new clothes.
Feeling worthwhile and loved.

05:46 / 24.08.02

Feeling love towards other people: Tiff and Gar and their baby, Amanda, Jason and Cat, Tristan, others.....

rain. it's raining. It's raining!!! It's finally raining!!!

swings

06:14 / 24.08.02

~ my life partner & soulmate
~ that I learned to slam dunk a basketball this summer
~ skateboarding
~ second on the "feeling love towards others" thing
~ feeling hope for myself, friends, and strangers
~ really good music
~ really good sex with the person mentioned at the beginning of this list
~ that there's magic in the world
~ that there's a world
~ that there's a magical world
~ beautiful moments with friends
~ beautiful moments with strangers
~ beautiful moments with myself
~ several of Philip K. Dick's novels
~ second on the "laughing" thing
~ when the Northern Lights and I dance together in the silence of the night
~ second on "the fact that I could go on and on and on with this list" thing

07:18 / 24.08.02

-A phone call from my four year old niece simply because she misses her uncle.
-My grandfathers woodstove after a long day of toboganning.
-The first morning waking up to the smell of cut grass.
-Finally getting a piece of artwork completed that sat there for months.
-A bottle of homemade red wine and a friend to share it with.
-Warm blankets on a cold morning.
-The first cup of coffee of the day, especially if I had to wait to get it.
-A old decaying treehouse in the country built by me and my father when I was a little kid.-Blackforrest cake my mother always makes everyone on their birthday.
-Hey Jude.-Popsicles.
-The smell of acrylic paint.
-A smile.-The Bailey's Irish Creme cheesecake they serve at my favorite pub.
-Untangling the mess my tacklebox ends up in before every summer.
-Dragon's Blood incense and the memories it evokes.
-The smell of old books.-The smell of new books.
-Pump up The Volumn and the friend it was watched with.
-How insanely amazing the average day is.
-Best friends you havent heard from in years and dont need to, because things will still be the same as on last day you saw them.
-The fact that we have a skunk, groundhog and racoons living in our yard.-Laughing because you're tired.
-Kites

07:36 / 24.08.02

- my zine being sold in nyc already
- the boy at starbucks making me a free vanilla frappuchino
- "southern hummingbird" by tweet
- orgasms
- the cute girl with pink hair who i always see at shows
- chocolate buttons
- writing
- all my many friends who i click with so well even when we haven't seen each other in the longest time.
- watching mtv base at j's
- tim westwood
- gossip
- my boy for showing me what love really is.

The Apple-Picker

12:22 / 24.08.02

Amen to the smell of old books. The smell of old books, and records.

~my favorite strawberry jam on homemade bread
~when my boyfriend tells me that he just ate a piece of toast with the strawberry jam I made him on it
~singing!
~visiting my parents
~rain. It was so beautiful last night, it smelled clean and it made steam float off the lanterns that light my building.
~Kermit the Frog
~the Weezer video with Kermit the Frog
~receiving real mail
~the Kids in the Hall
~shiny pennies, shiny copper
~pure maple syrup
~being in the woods

13:03 / 24.08.02

Yes on the pure maple syrup!!! (every winter our family (aunts , uncles, cousins, grandparents) would tap trees at my grandfathers and spend a few weeks making it.) Good times, good times.

15:54 / 24.08.02

Sex.

Someday, when I find a publisher for my book of smut based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, I'll jump around and act undignified.

Sex.

Cute kittens and puppies.

Sex.

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

18:03 / 24.08.02

My other half, without whom I feel incomplete.
Love and sex (with the above in particular)
Early mornings.
sunrises and sunsets.
Friends.
Sky, clouds, rain and sun.
Natural landscapes: mountains, lakes, rivers, forests, coasts, sea etc.
Large cities.
Wine
Beauty.
Overcoming depression/negativity.
Dreams, day and night.
A good nights sleep.
Festivals.
Travelling
Helping people.
Life’s crazy roller coaster ride.
My strength.
Dancing, singing.
And as others have said, being able to carry this list on and on.

03:40 / 25.08.02

The chances of me being ran-over and killed are increasing.

09:14 / 25.08.02

well isn't that nice.

Having Battenberg cake and fresh coffee for breakfast whilst listening to Exile on Main street. yeah.

10:22 / 25.08.02

Going outside in the cool morning air and walking around (barefoot) in the dew covered grass as the sun is comming up. Then going back to sleep.

Birds.
Potlucks.
Driving on deserted roads in the middle of the night, radio all the way up.
The fact that kids will always love and play baseball for all the right reasons, regardless of what adult athletes do.

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:00 / 25.08.02

Contact from that particular person.

13:16 / 25.08.02

not knowing which is cooler, my fingers or the inside right side of my waist

Tryphena Absent

13:54 / 25.08.02

When I feel really pissed off on a Friday and I turn the radio on and get this severe urge to just go out and dance all night and it makes the world so much better.

Getting my hair cut.

Singing really badly really loudly.

Reading a book that makes me feel something.

Getting a handwritten letter addressed to me through the letterbox.

A sense of freedom

My vices: tea, cigarettes, sex and chocolate

The Apple-Picker

16:04 / 25.08.02

Mangoes! I just ate my first ever mango this morning. I'm singing "mango, mango, mangoooooes. mango, mango, mangoooooooes" all through my apartment now. Bliss.

18:55 / 25.08.02

If I had the html skills, I'd link to the Barbelith 'Peace Mango' song for you, Janina - I'm sure someone will.

Okay, I'm writing this because I'm down and feeling gloomy and I ought to look on the bright side of things.

Sunshine
Good food and wine with friends
My family
Flying
Being home
My flat, my bike, my new shoes - material things can be good, too
Bagels with tomato
Plums (the fruit, but the 'lither, too!)
Long, silly nights in the pub with people I like
Phone calls

I'm sure there are lots more things, but I feel too flat to think of them. More later if I cheer up.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:46 / 26.08.02

- The Afghan Whigs. They saved rock and roll for me.
- The SO. Has completely disproved many of my theories about myself & relationships.
- The Two Towers trailer. Cor blimey that's a lot of orcs.
- The fact that Donnie Darko is finally coming out in the UK soon. And how many everyone I know who's seen it loves it.
- Reading black & white comics about crazy kids.
- Writing (albeit slowly and painfully) the scripts for black & white comics about crazy kids.
- Junk food. I am bad.

13:47 / 26.08.02

- my mother's daft freckle-faced English Setter puppy
- watering outdoor plants on a quiet warm evening
- all of my wife's various laughs (especially her giggle)