THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE COOL NOW

tea

unknown coffee places

reading books by like... Kirkegaard 

watching Gondry films 

drawing female genitalia, calling it art

observing inappropriate images and calling it art because you don't want to appear close minded

saying "f"

uggs

hating people who wear uggs

fake glasses

knowing art

having the corner on music knowledge

being funny

social justice

toms

american apparel

tattoos

gaussian blur

polaroids

60s

70s

footy pajamas for adults

moleskins

name dropping

wheatgrass

agnostic thought

discussing existentialism

knowing ZINN

native americans : INDIANS... ?

unicorns

politics

muted tones and browns

feathers

beads

intellectualism

fringe

i could go on forever.

i think... what i'm realizing more and more... is that there is NOTHING NEW under the sun...

i respect people who don't try and squeeze into conversations that they love unicorns because thats like almost become a hipster symbol... its cool to like unicorns now???

i like people that like their own things.. because they like them...

like Alex Johnson loving narwhals and everything that has to do with deep sea voyage.... studying ships and reading fictions about sailors... 

he likes that.

i like meaghan larkin loving paper cranes and hanging them everywhere and making them constantly.

i like lauren's amazing ability to memorize characters names in any movie she sees and the way she can recite a line back to you... i love that we enjoy the same absolutely ridiculous movies.

and the thing is...

Alex's infatuation with narwhals, was infectious.  We all started drawing them and talking about them and making jokes about them.

Meaghan's cranes are what I used to ask Grahm to prom... we hung them to mark our place in the art building ... 

Lauren and I have brought in so many people to watch those dumb movies with us...

its because when YOU have a quirky adoration for some part of creation or life... whatever...

people enjoy it more..

not when everyones scrambling to keep themselves on the top of the heap of ever changing trend followers.

Certainly, I like clothes that are in style... I enjoy tea and discussing good authors... but I think there is an attitude that can be carried that is false... fake... lacking....

it shouts out that you wouldn't admit to enjoying this THING if no one respected you for it... if everyone thought it was weird... you wouldn't even like it... 

cause you maybe you don't...