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    100 favorite things

    I've done a list of 100 favorite things at least once a year for over ten years now, as a way of taking stock of good things in my life. I realized this morning that it's been a year since I last made such a list (here's the old one), so I just took the time to make up a new one. Here goes:

    1. coffee

    2. computers

    3. photocopiers

    4. thinking

    5. spiral-bound index cards

    6. reading in the tub

    7. cities

    8. abandoned buildings

    9. graffiti and street art

    10. public transportation

    11. generative processes

    12. experimental music

    13. trails and paths

    14. roadtrips

    15. mix tapes / mix CDs

    16. greasy spoons

    17. cafés

    18. being inside the homes of people I care about

    19. inspecting bookshelves

    20. word of mouth

    21. libraries

    22. collections

    23. independent bookstores

    24. record shopping

    25. narrative

    26. hypertext

    27. the Internet

    28. smut

    29. sex

    30. hooking up with someone for the first time

    31. hooking up with someone who’s been my lover for a long time

    32. nonmonogamy

    33. old friends

    34. writing letters / getting mail

    35. the spring conference

    36. unitarians

    37. making music

    38. writing

    39. drawing

    40. sketchbooks

    41. pigma pens

    42. effects pedals

    43. the wire

    44. the empty bottle

    45. brian eno

    46. john cage

    47. drones

    48. imaginary year

    49. collaboration

    50. improvisation

    51. number none

    52. comics

    53. board games

    54. role-playing games

    55. inventing games

    56. data visualization

    57. japanese design

    58. japanese music

    59. zen buddhism

    60. body literacy

    61. cycles

    62. hybridization

    63. zines

    64. novels

    65. science fiction

    66. david cronenberg

    67. david lynch

    68. hal hartley

    69. jim jarmusch

    70. teaching

    71. projects

    72. things my friends made for me

    73. digital cameras

    74. corrosion patterns

    75. decasia

    76. my dinner with andre

    77. slacker

    78. italo calvino’s invisible cities

    79. jorge luis borges’ labyrinths

    80. ben marcus’ the age of wire and string

    81. information

    82. misinformation

    83. conspiracy theories

    84. collage

    85. rubber cement

    86. photoshop and illustrator

    87. chocolate

    88. ice cream

    89. eating a meal with someone

    90. solitude

    91. audiomulch

    92. gift economies

    93. serialized narratives

    94. buffy the vampire slayer seasons 2-6

    95. maps

    96. seasons

    97. taking walks

    98. conversations

    99. indexes

    100. lists


    I love reading about other people's favorites, so if you want to make me a happy man, make a list like this and send it to jeremy AT invisible-city.com.

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    Tuesday, October 07, 2003
    10:12 AM

     

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