Art’s Interests

I’ve given up on trying to categorize, justify, or understand why I like the things I like. I think it takes away from liking something to explain why you like it, kind of like how explaining a joke ruins it. (This unplanned depreciation is called the Introspection Illusion.) My interests are below in an unplanned order.

1. Coming up with band names
2. Robots
3. Donuts
4. The book If You Want to Write
5. Emma Goldman
6. Voltairine de Cleyre
7. Kristin Hersh and her bands
8. Fiona Apple
9. Sharon Van Etten
10. Courtney Barnett
11. Boards of Canada
12. Radiohead
13. J Dilla
14. “Just the Way You Are” by Billy Joel, and an old keyboard that played this song in every one of its digital instruments
15. Keyboards in R&B songs
16. Rhodes piano
17. Vinyl records, especially ones you can’t find at just any record store and ones I learned about from my mom
18. The Dorian mode in music
19. Chronologically adjacent albums’ different takes on the same song, such as with Say Goodbye on Hunkpapa and The Real Ramona and Morning Bell on Kid A and Amnesiac
20. Fretless bass (consider the Labyrinth soundtrack)
21. The part in a song where the cello gets loud for a few seconds, where it’s usually very sad (consider “A Boy Like That/I Have A Love” from West Side Story)
22. Giraffes
23. Walking until my hips hurt and my feet blister
24. Running until I can’t, sometimes accidentally a half marathon, sometimes purposefully a marathon
25. Haiku
26. The Nostalgia of the Infinite, a painting by Giorgio de Chirico
27. ICO (the video game), but I still need to play it
28. Shadow of the Colossus
29. Spyro The Dragon, and its outstanding soundtrack
30. The chemistry of philosophized colors
31. Making lists (like this one)
32. Self-reference (like above)
33. Writing quickly into a journal
34. Water
35. Floating on top of a body of water looking up at the sky even though my bone-dense legs sink
36. Sisu
37. The idea of passing something down for generations and the high quality of that thing to make it happen
38. Sonnets
39. Receiving a handmade card
40. Pokémon
41. Overcast skies at temperate temperatures, also called cool, gray days
42. The speed of clouds
43. Noticing the leaves softly rustle in trees
44. Sunlight shining through and around said leaves
45. Calamitous seascapes
46. Math as a game to play, as a juggling of concepts, not a juggling of numbers
47. Peanut butter warmed by the toast it’s on
48. Jazz, especially as covers of songs I like
49. How birds are a bunch of varied, tiny dinosaurs
50. Rivers
51. The city of Newport, RI
52. Large bodies of water reflecting the blue sky that’s already set with the sun
53. Repair
54. Sorting
55. Driving several tanks of gas straight
56. The reflection of cool, gray light on the dining table
57. The reflection of cool, gray light on hot, dark coffee
58. Sipping on the same cup of coffee all day
59. Spiders
60. Driving at 45 mph, especially over bridges