yoli and i did this last five years or so ago. for­get how we came up with the idea, but the goal is to write 100 things that make you happy. the restraint i placed on myself regards music/film/etc. i.e. it’s a cop-out if i write all the bands i like, so i won’t. also, these are in no order at all.

1. yoli
2. my friends who make me want to bet­ter myself: bran­don, objet, peter, marc
3. shad­ows
4. sim­ple food that dis­plays its terroir
5. snooty beer
6. port
7. movies with subtitles
8. any­thing in a for­eign language
9. con­ver­sa­tion
10. clean sheets
11. a big bed
12. my really crazy ran­dom dreams
13. the sound of snow or leaves crunch­ing underfoot
14. the chang­ing of seasons
15. thun­der­storms
16. when you can’t pre­dict the end of movie, or when it ends ambiguously
17. dou­ble enten­dres in lyrics
18. see­ing my breath on a cold night lit by the moon
19. ink and get­ting it on my hands
20. learn­ing etymologies
21. appre­ci­at­ing my friends’ creativity
22. the driving/good music/good com­pan­ion nexus
23. barack obama, and what he rep­re­sents, and what the united states rep­re­sents (deep down)
24. when i’m at a con­cert and the back of my head tin­gles from smil­ing too much
25. when a song i know and have loved for years still makes the base of my brain tingle
26. ger­many
27. music that makes me feel like i am some­where else
28. typog­ra­phy, good and bad
29. maps
30. try­ing to iden­tify a scent
31. humour that doesn’t insult my intelligence
32. noah, my brother
33. dex­ter & phoebe, the dachshunds
34. pen­guins
35. lol­cats
36. learn­ing a new language
37. artists who refuse to have a niche
38. brushed alu­minum
39. learn­ing some­thing so obscure that it is useless
40. the scent of old books
41. being far away from humanity
42. being sur­rounded by humanity
43. the world’s cities and villages
44. diver­sity
45. DIY with­out an attitude
46. min­i­mal­ism
47. travel writ­ing
48. food pho­tog­ra­phy
49. min­er­als
50. music that feels like it’s a tan­gi­ble part of the environment
51. anti­heroes
52. wrought iron
53. the sound of waves at night when lying down to sleep
54. hand­writ­ing
55. robots
56. new socks
57. archaic trades
58. trains
59. caves
60. glac­i­ers
61. in music, a sense of tim­ing and restraint
62. recon­tex­tu­al­i­sa­tion
63. hauntol­ogy
64. anachro­nism
65. coin­ci­dences
66. hoaxes
67. short sto­ries
68. any food that has been smoked
69. maple syrup
70. any pork product
71. raw fish
72. euro­pean breakfasts
73. secrets to be found
74. the 75% plea­sure, 25% pain sen­sa­tion of hot wax on skin (like a bit of salt in your sweets)
75. the weird feel­ing i get in the pit of my stom­ach on the first warm day of spring
76. a good hair day
77. the grey spaces (neu­rotyp­i­cal­ity, gen­der, sexuality)
78. dusk
79. nat­ural bod­ies of water, flow­ing or still
80. small enclosed spaces
81. notic­ing some­one doing the right thing when they think they aren’t being watched
82. learn­ing that a famous per­son whose pub­lic work and life you enjoy actu­ally has an inter­est­ing pri­vate personality
83. a cool breeze through a win­dow while you read on an early june afternoon
84. djing
85. get­ting back in touch with lost friends
86. hockey
87. col­lege football
88. base­ball games
89. ara­bic grammar
90. reuse
91. har­nessed chaos
92. vocoders
93. the 909 handclap
94. echoes
95. hon­esty among men, women, and men & women
96. press­ing my head against cold steel or porce­lain on a hot day
97. the sound of pen­cil on paper, or whis­per­ing, as heard from sev­eral feet away in a quiet room
98. wak­ing up much ear­lier than nec­es­sary and real­is­ing you can stay in bed for another cou­ple hours
99. light in late august
100. not know­ing everything

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