List things you like or love. TV shows, music, people, poetry, activities, whatever

Good God, reading DU is like reading a truck stop bathroom wall--everybody hating something or someone. Be positive. Who the hell spends time worrying about what tv shows or artists or musicians or books they hate when you got 50 brazillion options you can enjoy instead? Why do people find it better to hate than to enjoy?

I just watched Ratatouille again. I love that movie. And I love Peter O'Toole in that movie, and in everything I've ever seen him in. And I love Gene Wolf Novels, and old Paul Simon songs, and "The Life of Pi," and tofu dishes at Pei Wei, and driving along the beach, and "Music of the Spheres" wind chimes. And life, damnit. Life is fun. Even when it's not, it is. What do you enjoy? Aside from kicking the dog or yelling at kids on your lawns, for some of you schnauzers.

I take joy in so many things!

How can I possibly choose?

My family, my DU family, my poetry, my pictures!

And these are just the ones that come to mind right off the bat...

What a great idea for a thread, sweetie!

:hug:

Scream about 900 bodies floating in the Gulf during a media blackout, and everyone posts. Say happy stuff, and unless you are named California Peggy, no one listens. :)

I love.

I love the fact my daughter turned out good. I still beat myself up wondering how, but I guess I had a plan all along :D

Oh, and I love you!

:*

B-)

And happy I am for your daughter and you!

:hi:

Here's a sample of the music I love:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=8243295

Other things include:

The Simpsons
Harry Potter series
The Young And The Restless
Winter weather blogs/snow
Coast To Coast AM/paranormal/GhostHunters
Christmas and Christmas movies
John Grisham
The Philly pro teams
Penn State football
Star Wars
Mexican food
Keeping up my crush list for fun
Moderating DU
Italian food
Good sleep
Dogs
Family
Writing
Big Brother & American Idol
Reading in general
Computers and discussions about computer security

Man, this is hard.

Hmmm...


Errrr....


Ah, there's this...no wait, I hate that.

Ummm....

Uhhhh...

Ok, I give up.

Nah, just kidding, God bless God bless...

I love my best friend and my ex-wife. I love my cat, Frisco. I love music. I love Godzilla related anything (and just monster movies in general). I love a day where the weather is in the 30's, it's overcast, and there's a hint of snow falling. I love sex, though this kind of thing should go without saying. I love science, all fields. I love hockey. I love people who can create something from nothing. I love intelligence (because I lack it myself!). I love a good meatball. I love any game where you can kill Nazis or zombies. Any game that lets you kill Nazi zombies is nirvana!

There's probably a few other things here and there. :)

:P

I love my cat, too! Never played a game where I killed Nazis. Zombies, yes.

My family and friends. My old bands. My dog. Beer. Boobs. Beer and boobs. My records. Lulz on the DU. All that.

and the people in my life.

Lelapin is my joy and I can't imagine a single day without her.

Oh, and the cats would be most unhappy if they weren't mentioned too. ;)

Which Lelapin? :rofl:

most kinds of music, many types of books and only one Lelapin. :)

I'm not even complicated. :)

I just judge people more by the books they read, and how and why they read them, than by just about anything else.

I've got "Utopia" and I continue to slog through it. I've also been reading Lincoln's Melancholy and a few sappy Christmas short stories. :)

Utopia and depression.

Are you reading "A Christmas Carol" in those sappy SSs?

:)

I love snuggling up under the covers with a good mystery novel before going to sleep at night.

I love my first cup of coffee in the morning.

I love being with my friends and enjoying a good meal with them.

I love my family and especially watching my niece and nephew change and grow up.

I love going to museums and bookstores and music stores.

I love going new places.

If you're ever in Austin... :)

Except coffee. Blech. It can't taste the same to other people as it tastes to me.

I love my kid. I love him even more when he sleeps all night through instead of wandering in the wee hours, causing me interrupted sleep as well--but that hardly ever happens. Even so, he's a good kid.

I love my family, my friends, the fact that we had a lovely fall and now it's snowing. I love the fact that I have the career I always wanted (writer) and have learned much of what I always wanted (metaphysics)--and yet there's still so much to know.

I love my broken-down old house even though it's taking FOREVER to fix up.

I love all the great things I've done in my life (and lived) and I cherish the memories of those times.

I love to sing even if it's just in the car nowadays.

I love the fact that my brother is the only person on the planet who can make me laugh till I pee my pants a little. Oh--and I love it when my mother and her sister get the giggles like they're little kids, even though they're in their 80s.

And I love DU and the opportunity to yammer about stuff just like this! :D

I always wanted to be a writer, too, but can's seem to do the business end of it. So I post obsessively here. :)

Maybe that old chestnut about "do what you love..." is valid--I dunno. But when I tried to market myself I made a hash of things. When I stop forcing it, things seem to work out. :shrug:

but never sent anything to the right people, and never really built on anything I wrote. I did what I loved, but wound up only making money at things I don't. That sounds more negative than it is. :)

:hug: Thanks for asking!

I love my family, fur-kids, and good friends the most.

Everything else is "strongly like" or "really enjoy". Here are a few of those: the ocean, snow, the mountains, foggy mornings, the color turquoise, turquoise jewelry.

Horses, Dr. Zhivago, kindergarteners, old-time democrats, good food, great art, soul music. Lots more.... just a sample listed here.

:)

doggy kisses
kisses from girls
history
Liz
fantasizing
John
Laurence
Taylan
beers with mates
Ben
Scott
people enjoying my work
Martin Lawrence
laughing
campari
Jim

THAT Martin Lawrence? Rarely see him on a "love" list.

I do have a picture of him as my desktop now though

because I could imagine you saying "I'll throw in Martin Lawrence just to see if anyone is paying attention."

Not that I don't like Martin. I do, and I think that when he's got a good script or a good routine, he's fantastic. He's just done some weaker stuff here and there that gets him criticized a lot.

He'll never beat that one.

Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Nirvana, The Beatles, Johnny Walker Black Label, advanced mathematics, cosmology, anthropology, poetry, and epic saga movies.

Peter O'Tool is one of my favorite actors, too. I watch Lawrence of Arabia every few months and haven't gotten tired of it yet. Another actor I can't get enough of is Sir Ian Mckellen.

Favorite movie: Citizen Kane
Favorite composer: Mozart
Favorite food: Sushi
Favorite pet: my beagle, Charlie
Favorite song: "Free Ride" by Embrace from the "Permanent Midnight" soundtrack.

How's that?

:rofl:

I love McKellan, too.

I've only watched Lawrence of Arabia once, but keep meaning to see it again.

What area?

them.

I love the sound of my son's laughter and the smile on my daughter's face and my husband doing something dorky and laughing at himself.

I love the hot sun on my skin and a cold beer in my hand, the first Winter snowstorm and no-school days. I love the smell of the air in the Spring and the clear night sky in the Fall.

I love my mom's spaghetti and meatballs and a glass of merlot and cigarette out on the front porch after a shitty day at work.

I love any books by Mark Salzman and Anne Lamott and most books by Stephen King. I love Karen Armstrong. I love books and school and pens and paper and BookTV. I love Billy Collins' poetry and LOTR and The Golden Compass books.

I love disaster movies.

I love good margaritas on the rocks with salt and mexican food. I love Cabo San Lucas and the ocean.

I love Zelda Nintendo games.

I love Republicans being out of power.

Great idea jobycom - puts everything in perspective :-)

I also love my best friend. And football. (Real football, not throwball.)

I love popcorn with cheddar cheese... or with a Dr. Pepper (not both).

I love my insane-o cat.

I love wearing slippers and socks, and warm, comfy pj's. I love cold weather.

I love hot cocoa with cream.

I love It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

I love sharing secrets. I love talking about sex. I love thinking about sex, too. Okay, enough about sex.

I could go on... (not about sex... I meant about things I love).

So American football is called football even though most things are done with your hands. Football for everyone else we call soccer, and socking someone is done with your hands, yet in soccer you don't use your hands and you aren't allowed to hit anyone, anyway.

Enough to make you think that either Americans or the rest of the world is crazy.

Everyone knows that!

TV shows: The Wire, Homicide, Lost, The Sopranos, The Office, My Name is Earl
Movies: The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Fargo, Idiocracy, The Right Stuff
Music: The Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, The Smashing Pumkins
Books: Political biographies, anything Carl Hiaasen (fiction or non-fiction)

Things in general: Swimming, taking drives, baseball (Orioles, Marlins, Rays), football (Ravens), all things Florida

My family.

Taking a hot bath with music playing. Walking or playing in the rain, jumping in the puddles.

To read and listen to music. The smell and feel of crisp fall morning,leaves dancing in the wind and crunching underfoot. Photography, in my photos I see things people look at every day and never notice.

To swing on a swing like the child I am inside,not a care in the world and for those precious few minutes...I don't have any worries. Smiling faces, children's laughter, the smell of a baby after a bath. My ex, things may not have worked out they way we wanted but the love and friendship are still there. Sex,coffee,chocolate,wine, and so many more things.


This is a great thread. A little positive thinking never hurt anyone.

good books--currently reading Shock Doctrine . I love Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood , Douglas Adams,more than I can name
good music --Pink Floyd. Dylan. Italian Tenors,James Taylor, Queen, Beethoven , Stravinski , Mozart also more than I can name
good art--at present I am devouring a 2 DVD set about The Louvre. I love Rennasance art and impressionism
good friends--
family-my sisters are my treasure(even the one that drives me nuts)
my cats , Tansy and Lilith(most of the time)
my garden
my computer--it keeps me in touch with what is going on ,and old friends
the daily show--Boston Legal--Ugly Betty--Colbert--Countdown--Rachel Maddow--Democracy Now--book TV (most times)
Goodwillin' --antiqueing and going to the christmas tree display (soon) at Meijers Gardens with my daughter in law where I will get in trouble for touching stuff

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