Magnetic attraction analysis

To offset the bummeritude of the post below, and to reflect my attitudinal adjustment after BRFIV: The Revenge: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To Big Rock Friday, I present the following inspired by Danielle Laporte of White Hot Truth, who consistently and regularly blows my mind:

What am I drawn to?

1. Fabrics made out of weird stuff like plants, pop bottles, other old fabrics. I spend hours hanging out at Dream Designs fingering preposterously priced duvet covers made out of wheat or something.
2. Scandinavia. I’ve never understood this one; my people are from the Netherlands, not the, uh, Uberlands.
3. The colour peach [always have been, esp. when it was still fashionable i.e. the Cotton Ginny era]
4. Swearing. Sorry, Mom.
5. Monochromatic colour schemes [see Danielle's blog, and this blog, in spite of the occasional non-Oliver-repelled bit of purple ]
6. Riedel wine glasses.
7. Long and improbably phrased sentences, the kind where you have to look partway up the page to find out what all the subclauses have been describing. This may account for the DFW obsession, and before that, Douglas Adams.
8. Tassels. If there’s a tassel somewhere within 10 paces of me I’ll be fondling that bad boy in no time. I actually went to a set design store in Toronto once and spent $16.95 on a single tassel…FOR NO REASON…just to have.
9. The comments on good blogs.
10. Sustainable technology like composting toilets and bike-driven blenders and solar chargers and ISO container condominiums &c. &c.
11. All rodents, esp. chipmunks
11a) All weasels and otters
11b) Most birdies
11c) Heck, almost all animals, even rats. When a rat runs in front of me on my bike I say hello to it: “RAT!” I say.

12. Strangely coloured heirloom vegetables, which I almost have to touch when I’m at Capers or the farmer’s market or something, as if to convince myself they are real potatoes or tomatoes or cucumbers or whatever.
13. The II – IV progression, either minor or major, repeated ad infinitum, in any rhythmic or tonal context, for as long as you think you can get away with it [e.g. Sade]. I’m into subdominance.
14.  People who say what they really mean. This is a learned skill.
15. Limericks. The dorkier the better*.
16. Goofy weed-fuelled/road movies like Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and similar
17. The Mellotron. And Danelectro guitars. I know they’re not great guitars, I just like the way they look.

This exercise gets even more potent when you are inspired to write down or tell somebody what YOU are drawn to, so pass it on.

*There once was a man from Japan
Who wrote verses that never would scan
When asked why this was
He replied, “Well, because
I always try to fit as many words into a line as I can.”

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