one hundred things i love:

because everyone has a muse...

1. kanye west
2. grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup
3. checked vans slip-ons
4. songs that sound like snowstorms
5. a good clean rain
6. breezes through open windows
7. f. scott fitzgerald
8. black t-shirts
9. american apparel hoodies
10. lions licking their wounds
11. a good hook
12. tetris
13. british children's fantasy
14. the second part of trilogies
15. unagi nigiri
16. joe mauer's swing
17. wes anderson movies
18. trains
19. minneapolis
20. skipping stones on lake superior
21. used book stores
22. animated robots
23. diner coffee
24. bangs
25. sleeping in
26. moleskine notebooks
27. public radio
28. dark-humored, canadian comic strips
29. deciding what people's daemons would be
30. sweater vests
31. button downs
32. the sexual tension in the empire strikes back
33. bar booths with ripped upholstery
34. the super nintendo entertainment system
35. hayao miyazaki
36. breakfast joints
37. cheap beer
38. libraries with ladders
39. rappers whose genesis was comic books
40. girls who are bookish with a hint of glamour
41. literary tattoos
42. "rooftop" by the envy corps
43. listening to one song on repeat for eight hours
44. sledding
45. reading other people's favorite books
46. the online edition of the new yorker
47. nytimes.com travel section slide shows
48. almost anything neil gaiman touches
49. ann curry
50. advocating book loves
51. digital delay
52. the way dave grohl plays drums
53. an ice cold fountain coke, especially when i'm hungover
54. lakes
55. autumn leaves
56. ice sculpture
57. pop culture writing
58. splitting a pitcher at the c.c. club
59. pizza by the slice
60. public transportation
61. dystopic film and fiction
62. "wonderwall"
63. reading while it snows
64. cooking with someone who knows what she's doing
65. subtext
66. theatre concerts
67. kickball
68. tazo refresh tea
69. kung pao chicken
70. shrimp etouffee
71. the sunrise across a northern minnesota lake
72. canadian chanteuses
73. the sound a needle makes when it touches a record
74. naps on the sectional
75. comic books
76. plaid
77. warm chocolate chip cookies
78. passionate people
79. mint chocolate cupcakes
80. partners in crime
81. fables and myths
82. dragons
83. a good burger
84. scrabble
85. the smell of coffee and donuts
86. furtive hand holding
87. shoreline
88. the smell of dust jackets
89. british post-punk
90. imagining what i'm going to do with my powerball winnings
91. hemingway short stories
92. playing shows
93. listening to people read their work
94. amusing others with my chopstick skills
95. farfisa
96. recording in the studio
97. the word tricksy
98. rereading tolkien
99. milkshakes with the tin
100. cinematic moments