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A Few of my Favorite Things
Remembering; singing; dancing; silliness; coffee with cream; Diet Coke; double-strength Bigelow English Teatime with Stevia; Wendy’s; Sonic burgers; Gyro Picado from Crazy Jim’s; french fries; Jack in the Box; kibbe; soda from the fountain in a plastic cup; Backwoods Sweet Aromatic cigars on a cold night; memories of Widmere Hefeweizen, Newcastle, Corona, Black and Tan, shots of bourbon, Rolling Rock and so on and on…; oblivion; clarity; grilling burgers at the Monastery and then eating them; cold nights and warm fires at the Monastery with many circles of friends; my mom’s cooking; omelets; sitting outside talking with friends all night at the 5 & Diner; laughing; peace; anger; volition; wanderlust; a place to call home; chaos; stability; being a father; being a husband; Camelback Mountain at sunset from the back patio; the moon; the full moon; winter in Lakewood; being the first person to walk through the snow at night; Cleveland; the Lake when it’s frozen and when its stormy and when it’s serene; my mom and dad and all my brothers and my sister and my cousins and all the crazy relatives and their crazy lives; taking care of my wife when she’s sick; taking care of my wife and she’s well; playing wrestle-tack and fight-tack with my son; writing in the morning; just writing; freedom; Napster; old manual typewriters; the 1930s in Europe; reading; Kafka; Dostoyevsky; Hammett; Highsmith; Atwood; Miller; The Three Investigators; night; walking; hiking; solitude; thinking; imagining a world without commercials or flashing ads; imagining; sleeping; dreaming; powerful dreams; learning to let go; getting older; being so damn good looking; my opinions; hot dogs; Nerds; Sweet Tarts; cookies; pumpkin pie; apple pie; ice cream; turkey dinner; mashed potatoes and gravy; pot pies; popcorn; original Star Trek; original Twilight Zone; Tremors; Henry and June; Angel Heart; original Star Wars; The White Stripes; dreaming of Meg White; Jennifer Tilly; Catherine Zeta-Jones; my wife; women; ladies; girls; being smitten; Christina Ricci; Naomi Watts; movies on the big screen; stories from the Old Testament; myth; reality; the world between the two; moments such as this; Debussy; Satie; Turnia; Martin; Paco de Lucia; classical music; calming my soul with a guitar; skateboarding; riding a beach cruiser around town; the Metroparks in Cleveland; the ethereal feeling of laying in bed in the morning half awake half asleep; staying up all night; greasy food after a night of drinking; a good squat on the john; my dark side; hardboiled fiction; monster films; being many people at many different times of my life; driving fast and aggressive; video games; killing my friends playing 007 Goldeneye; simulated violence; actual peace; publishing books; everything about books; fonts; page layout; paper selection; cover stock; picking colors; smelling a new book; smelling an old book; basketball; screaming at the TV watching basketball; exercising; eating right most of the time; being Syrian, Irish, Polish and who knows what else; being an American; being middle class and living better than the kings of lore; being alive in this time historical and technological transition; print on demand; digital photography; analog; MP3; MP3 players; old Van Halen; Ratt; Tool; Mr. Bungle; Fantamos; Tomahawk; Rachel’s, Music for Egon Schiele; Faith No More; Jimi Hendrix; The Doors; Nine Inch Nails; That Dog; Primus; Jane’s Addiction; 80s music; The Shins; surf music; gothabilly; goth; Marilyn Manson; Cursive; Red Hot Chili Peppers; A Perfect Circle; Mazzy Star; Tori Amos; celebrity crushes; piano concertos; hiding at the doorway listening to my son sing; covering up my son in the middle of the night and giving him a kiss while he sleeps; laughing at the silly things he says; picking him up after a rough day at work and forgetting about the bullshit of work when I see his face; finally appreciating my life; faith; the F word; fowl language such as calling someone a chicken fucker; foul language such as calling a chicken a fucker; swearing; cursing; being redundant; fuck you; eat shit; kiss my ass; fuck off; go fuck yourself; what the fuck; fut the wuck; saying douche bag; saying the wrong thing at the wrong time; saying the right thing at the wrong time; saying something all the time; talking your ears off; making long lists; gazing at the stars; gazing at my wife; lustful deeds done with the door closed; lustful deeds done in open places hoping not to get caught; lust; love; food; drinks; music; sensory intoxication; fantasies; stories; fictions; fables; the story of my life; telling this story; The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time; Britney Murphy; did I say Meg White? Jerome, Arizona; The Baghdad Theater in Portland, Oregon; the stripper named Christian at the Candy Shop; Christmas eve; Christmas day; toys on Christmas; not having to call Christmas, Happy Household Holidays, anymore; the comfort and coziness and comfort of sitting in a heated house with the lights off looking at the lit Christmas tree (and sometimes being a little lit myself while doing this); putting the presents under the tree Christmas eve; watching my son open his gifts; spoiling him; Christmas music; the scenery while shopping at Fashion Square Mall; sweaters; hot coco with my wife’s homemade marshmallows; watching Christmas specials with my family; National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation; actually feeling peace, love, and joy around the holidays; getting completely and obscenely wasted on New Year’s Eve; the night Serena and I danced to 100 Dollar Bills over and over on New Year’s Eve; postcards; playing cards; playing a wicked game of Hearts with my friends; levity; good spirits; being smitten by passion; being in control of my emotions when I need to be; falling in love with everyone and everything; hating the world as needed; magic; magicians; sleight of hand; stories about magic and magicians; legerdemain; being redundant once again and being redundant about stating that being redundant is one of my favorite things; the magic of not knowing all the answers to all the wicked and wonderful things in life that make it so wonderful and yet so dangerous and mysterious…
And these are just a few of my favorite things.
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