things I do like

The Smiths listening to old voicemails Submarine (2010) typewriters oinkopig21 likes to talk about themself in the third person sometimes vampires Albert Camus potatoes a nice ornate door with a lot of character fountain pens long winter coats the crackles of a record after you've started the turntable but before the music begins getting lost in unfamiliar places getting lost in familiar places checking the post box (Nice Dream) playing the bass guitar leaving things as "an exercise for the reader" spending warm summer days indoors The Pleasure Principle (1979) attending other people's birthday parties talking in extremely convoluted and enigmatic ways, or using extended metaphors that only half-work Vincent van Gogh James Garfield labyrinthine used bookstores mirrors Mark Rothko these youtube videos Industrial Society and Its Future (1995) Fyodor Dostoevsky cigarettes my room! direct eye contact my telephone hyperbole for comedic effect Wikipedia A Toccata of Galuppi's by Robert Browning lavender (the colour) lavender (the scent) Jeopardy! indirect eye contact overhearing bits of the conversations of strangers shaving my face New Order whatever KMFDM can do for you witnessing the startle response occur in other people cemeteries and graveyards Urinetown: The Musical Emil Cioran writing awful poems this performance of creep Liebestraum No.3 by Liszt the metric system Lee Harvey Oswald Celsius talking to myself, thinking to myself Getting Killed

things I do not like

being told I am "doing too much" the book Naked Lunch movie stars (except for Humphrey Bogart) feeling exhausted to the point of nausea Jean-Paul Sartre online asynchronous classes people who enter my room without permission vampire hunters soap operas nuclear weapons freeways/highways/motorways those stupid reindeer decorations that people put on their cars during christmastime God going on vacation with my family superhero movies travelling on planes without someone I'd be okay with perishing alongside (in a horrific aviation accident) fascism instagram reels raw carrots Elvis Presley sitting with my back towards the door "nice dreams" the concept of spelunking text messages eating meat celebrating my birthday introducing myself Jackson Pollock elevators cars Spotify swimming pools swimming in the ocean cucumbers the last two or three sips of a hot chocolate when all the cocoa is concentrated at the bottom so it's really rough and unpleasant to drink AI "artists" designer clothing brands beat poetry citronella game shows fireworks shopping malls filial piety opening gifts in front of people American involvement in foreign regime change fast food most remakes of most movies notions of objectivity Fahrenheit the university I attend and the city it is located within
go back home