I like [almost] everything

Yesterday, Blog, we learned that I like Liv Schreiber dressed either as a man or a woman. This just went to reinforce my sense that this blog could be subtitled “Eclectic R Us.” It also put me in mind of that beloved song by Pat McCurdy that runs like this:

I like men and I like women

I like sinkin’, I like swimmin’,

I like dogs and I like cats,

I like cows in cowboy hats.

I like knives and forks and spoons,

I like to whistle happy tunes;

I like to come, but not too soon...

I like everything!

I like almost everything, to the point where it’s almost more interesting (assuming it’s interesting at all, which may be a leap) to know what I don’t like.

Take for example Ipo, my iPod, who currently stores 30 genres of music. This morning during my workout and drive I heard these random tracks:

Manhattan Transfer – Route 66

The Four Seasons – Candy Girl

Sisters of Mercy – This Corrosion

[title of show] (OBC) – Part of It All

Roxette – The Look

Vince Guaraldi – Baseball Theme

Hair (OBC) – Good Morning Starshine

Eric Carmen – That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll

Bryan Adams – Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman

I’m hard pressed to come up with a type of music not on Ipo, as I do have a rap song, a couple country songs, and something approximating death metal. But here’s what I don’t like: late Beatles. I actually don’t like “Eleanor Rigby--I know, Blog, it’s a scandal.

When it comes to movies and TV shows, I’m also pretty eclectic. “The Sound of Music” to “3:10 to Yuma,” “Forbidden Planet” to “Office Space,” “Lethal Weapon” to “Beaches,” “Saw” to “Veggie Tales,” I can dig it. What I don’t like? Mob movies and stuff about drug dealers. With the rare exception (e.g., the Godfather movies) they are just not my scene, and no I didn’t watch “The Sopranos.” Weird though how I like “Breaking Bad.”

I will also eat just about anything. I even ate dirt on a dare when I was a kid. Along with unsweetened Koolaid powder, but let’s not digress. I do have a problem, however, with offal and celery. Offal, you know, Blog, is stuff like brains and headcheese. And while every other veggie is fine with me, celery is as awful as offal. Put a stalk in my bloody mary and I will be offally offended.

What’s that you say, Blog? You think our Randometer would enjoy a list of random things I don’t like? Well, I’m happy to oblige! I don’t like:

• The current obsession with stainless steel appliances.
• Chimpanzees (although I do like “Another Postcard with Chimpanzees” by Barenaked Ladies).
• Not cutting the tags off stuffed animals.
• All amusement park rides that have height requirements, and most of the ones that are for kiddies too (although it’s fun watching other people ride them).
• Chewing gum (and it’s not fun watching other people chew it).
• Knotted up telephone cords.
• When Google Alerts turns up bogus stuff that has nothing to do with the topic.
• Top hats when they are not worn to look elegant (e.g., Slash and the Mad Hatter).
• And the ultimate thing to be hated in my world: Misuse of the term “enthused.”

But you know, Randometer, as much fun as that was, I believe it’s far better to think about the random things one likes (see bizarradore). I feel extremely fortunate to be born such an eclectically-inclined person. Life would be even better if I could say I liked soccer, the band XTC, tarantulas, scotch, and the Great Plains.

Okay, fellow eclecticophiles, what do you like? Click the right-on box if cows in cowboys hats rock your world!