the dreaming tree

second list of 100 things…
read at your own risk…you could lose brain cells…

1. i love the beatles
2. when i started learning to play guitar, i tried to do it left-handed so i could be like paul mccartney
3. it didn’t work out.
4. i started playing baseball at age 5
5. it worked out.
6. sometimes i sit alone at night and watch sportscenter.
7. i love discovering new music.
8. and sharing it with someone else may be the best part.
9. i laugh a lot.
10. legos and g.i. joes were staples of my childhood.
11. i would still play with legos if i had time.
12. i barely have time to brush my teeth anymore.
13. not that i’m that worried…i’ve never had a cavity.
14. is my breath bad?
15. one of my favorite things to be able to do with a girl is nothing.
16. cause that means that i feel really comfortable with her and don’t feel like i have to force anything.
17. i think ponytails are hot.
18. my dad puts mayonnaise on his peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
19. that is utterly gross.
20. i would love to learn a semitic language.
21. what do people with linguistic degrees end up doing?
22. i think my favorite animal would have to be…just dinosaurs in general.
23. i am clinically depressed.
24. which makes me feel like no one understands me.
25. i love looking at other people’s handwriting.
26. i used to practice my signature…and other people’s.
27. i hate being patronized.
28. i hate stupid people.
29. but sometimes i’m stupid.
30. if a=b and b=c, then a=c.
31. that’s called the transitive property.
32. a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced on whether or not i have bread.
33. i want to own my own recording studio.
34. when i was a young one, i called beans bim-bims.
35. and i used to call panting hef-heffing.
36. love is a risk i’m willing to take.
37. i know next to nothing about politics.
38. i never understood the purpose of parades.
39. martin guitars are better than taylors.
40. cause…they just are.
41. #41.
42. if you name a song untitled…isn’t it titled?
43. genius is a term that is used entirely too freely these days.
44. especially in music and writing.
45. am i a genius?
46. i hate bands that try to be who they aren’t.
47. mayor dave played in dallas!
48. i cannot decide if i’d like to live in a large city like dallas or not.
49. i’m on a rap kick recently.
50. can’t explain it.
51. the above phrase applies to much of my life.
52. i was in a 4-h club called the little rock leprechauns.
53. and yes, i approved of the name at the time.
54. i like taco bell.
55. i think i put that on the other list.
56. i practice writing left-handed in class.
57. i’m left-footed.
58. and my left eye is dominant.
59. i’ve only been drunk once.
60. and i hated it.
61. lemme repeat that.
62. and i hated it.
63. i fell asleep to the matrix: reloaded last night.
64. i like chinese food.
65. no, i love chinese food.
66. what is so evil about 666?
67. i am a civil war reenactor.
68. but i haven’t been to an event in about three years.
69. i fight for the union.
70. cause we won.
71. seriously…get over it.
72. i like trucks.
73. i think bubbles are so fun to play with.
74. i’ve got an eminem and a tupac sticker on my guitar case.
75. indian and oriental music is fascinating to me.
76. but then, so is every other form of music.
77. why is 7 the “heavenly” number?
78. speaking of numbers, those fascinate me, as well.
79. that doesn’t mean i always love math class.
80. i’m working on a hole in my guitar.
81. it’s next to the existing soundhole.
82. i still don’t have a cell phone.
83. chair is a weird word to me.
84. history is alive.
85. i was on the quiz bowl team.
86. rode the bench.
87. i missed being a national merit semi-finalist by one lousy point.
88. celebrity is an odd concept, don’t you think?
89. my mom wouldn’t let me play football till my senior year of high school.
90. i coulda been a contenda.
91. i’ve drawn on my keyboard with a sharpie.
92. apple computers are schweet.
93. too bad they’re too expensive.
94. i suddenly have a desire for a laptop.
95. not like, just then…in the past few weeks.
96. i am absent-minded.
97. where are my keys?
98. i used to get headaches on certain days of the week.
99. i have done every conscious thing possible to avoid a southern accent.
100. until next time…