Your tastes-

Do you find yourself defending them a lot? Are your tastes for music, food, movies, humor, etc. more acquired, or more intrinsic? Do you tend to indulge your preferences based on what you can afford? Is your motive for trying something new primarily curiosity, suggestion, trust or resourcefulness? Or maybe to confirm your worst judgement on the matter? The pics I've posted are examples of my own taste-cravings fulfilled at one point or another. I left out music cause y'all tend to freak out on that subject ;). Plus, I'm lazy.



Most of my tastes I acquired from my Dad. My brother & I both like classical music, the Stones & the Beatles because of him. My taste in books has a lot to do with him, and with life after college. With food, I'll try just about anything out of curiosity. My older friend, whom I admired, stepped out once when I was eighteen. I looked at her bookshelf and snuck a peek in her fridge because I wanted to see what a woman like her ingested to make her so fabulous. This is where I discovered the "acquired taste".

I'd tried an olive, which I hate. Once every five years I see if I still hate them. Her place is where I quickly picked up on salt & vinegar potato chips, black coffee, etc.



My taste in books is pretty linear. First off, I'll read just about any genre pertinent to my own current preoccupation- humor, politics, biography, fiction, horror. I have to REALLY trust someone's experience before I read a book suggested to me... I've had too many weird experiences of a friend & me making pained faces at each other because the book meant SO MUCH to them, and I couldn't for the life of me get into it. And visa-versa.

mostly in the area of humor, corniness and sentimentality.

But many of my tastes are distinctly my own and I've grown comfortable knowing how different and outside the mainstream many of them are.

I bravely tried the olive test as well, and I just can't eat them, although I like the taste that comes through with olive oil and I no longer have to pick every single errant sliver of black olive off a pizza slice. I'm pretty fearless about trying things, skittish only in the areas of organ meats, little fishes in oil sort of things, and anything in the mayonnaise line.

I hope no one is profiling my amazon wish list. I understand it but it could cause concern among the orthodoxy.

This would be a good time to say I really admire your drawings.

Good to see ya!

I make decisions on what I like and don't like as I go along. Some are an acquired taste (my politics are somewhat different than a lot of people around me). Some just seem to fit my natural sweet charming disposition (punk rock). Some are based on sheer laziness (most of the movies I watch just happen to be on at the time when I plop down on the couch to watch television). Some things I picked up from other people.

I read any and everything I have time to read, granted it crosses my line of sight while I have the time. I do prefer Stephen King for his wry sense of humor. Stephen King's sense of humor is something I could go on and on about. He strips away all of the fake niceties of the unmentionable acts all people perform and "goes there." It's a refreshing dose of reality in a humorous way that entertains me to no end. In other words, I especially love his toilet humor.

I just do my thang and just be me. As the great Joan Jett once said:

"You shouldn't care what people think of you
All you can do is be yourself
No matter how they see you
You really can't be somethin' else
You're not the only one that feels this way
Inside they look the same as you
When it seems never ending
Remember they're pretendin' too"

My pocket would become trans-fat-lucent :cry: -----------> :hi:

I'm not. It is just the homophobes around me don't understand why a man likes to cook, watch "chick flicks," grow flowers, save bunnies, garden, watch birds, promote love, etc...

Hec, for the first thirty-two years of my life others had done all those things for me. I just didn't know what I was missing :P

I keep telling them, "all that isn't what makes you gay - wanting to bang someone the same sex is." Ignernt fools.

:hi:

If I don't think a movie, song or whatever someone else thinks is good or funny, etc., those people who do like whatever always feel the need to convince you to like it as much as they do and get frustrated if they can't. The "You just don't get it then" is usually their way of convincing themselves their right and you're wrong. The two things that happen the most (to me) is where someone has to explain why their favorite morning shock jock or certain movie is funny. I know what's funny when I see or hear it and if it's really funny it doesn't need an explanation and I haven't listened to a typical morning shock jock show for over 15 years.

I've gotten into quite a few discussions about this, but I'll sum it up in a nutshell:

Hated "Napoleon Dynamite".
Hate cowboy/country western flicks.
Hate almost all fantasy-type movies, ie. ET, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, LOTR. Bleck.
Hate rap music and country music.
That Celtic "Lord of the Dance" stuff freaks me out.

I tend to lean with reality-type movies, like political thrillers, documentaries, indy flicks - with a few comedies here and there.
I love suspense thrillers, both in books and movies.
I love baseball and football. Used to be into basketball, but not so much anymore unless I'm actually playing it myself.
I love classic rock, metal, jazz, RnB, some classical.

I've actually been "admonished" for not liking "Napoleon Dynamite", like I've just said something sacriligious.
People tell me that I don't like fantasy movies because I have no imagination (which is probably true).
People tell me that country music is the new thing, and that I gotta get with the program.

I don't care what other people are into, so why should they care about my likes/dislikes? It's kinda ballsy to be so judgemental of such things, if you ask me.