Things We Love (That We Think No One Else Loves) - NYTimes.com

At the magazine?s weekly ideas meeting, not everyone agrees on what makes an interesting story (of course ? that?s why we have an ideas meeting). Outside work, our individual tastes also run counter at times to what our friends or colleagues consider tolerable. Below, some things that staff members say they love, even when they suspect no one else does (or will admit to loving).

FOOD & DRINK:

• I love instant coffee, even when the option of freshly-ground coffee is at hand. What makes it worse is that I actually grew up in a coffee farm. My grandmother was the owner of a very large coffee plantation, so my excuse for substituting instant coffee for fresh out of the plant coffee for most people is confusing. But I just love the taste! Some milk and sugar, and I am set. My mornings simply wouldn?t hold to the same standards if instant coffee didn?t exist. Sorry freshly-ground coffee.

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• Big fruity, oaky chardonnay.

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• Shirley Temples, with extra cherries.

• Pi?a coladas. And not just on vacation.

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• Boston cream pie. Every other middle-American cuisine has had its revival. Why not this?

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MUSIC:

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• I like out jazz, like late Coltrane when he?d stopped worrying about songs and just went off into the stratosphere instead, and Larry Young?s ?Khalid of Space.?

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• I really truly love yodeling music. Especially the Cackle Sisters from the 1930s-40s. They made amazing music.

• The soundtrack from ?Grease.?

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• The idea that it?s O.K. to put on Stevie Wonder?s ?Evil? at a dance party.

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• I listen to a ton of country music ? mainstream Nashville, Top 20 stuff. No one I know personally likes that at all.

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• Kesha. Especially this video:

MOVIES AND T.V.:

• ?Arthur.? The Dudley Moore/John Gielgud movie, not the cartoon about the kid aardvark.

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• I can?t stop watching the ?Real World?/?Road Rules? challenges on MTV no matter how ridiculous it is or ever was.

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• The ?American Pie? movies

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• ?Boogie Nights.? I thought it was a fantastic movie, maybe even a classic. And on top of that I found it incredibly funny. When I tell this to people, I generally get a strange reaction ? most think it?s an average movie that?s terribly depressing . . .

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• Teen dramas, in particular the sort of stuff that runs on the Soap Network over the weekend. ?The O.C.,? ?One Tree Hill,? ?90210? (the original class, not these new kids), ?Veronica Mars,? ?Dawson?s Creek,? ?Felicity.? I love it all.

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• ?The Chronicles of Riddick.? Vin Diesel at his All-Galaxy best.

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• Mostly no one is surprised that I like what I like, except when I tell them how much I enjoyed ?You, Me and Dupree? ? an almost universally panned rom-com. I?ve seen it twice!

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• I love the movie ?America?s Sweethearts.? Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 31 percent approval rating. Among its many charms it has Hank Azaria in a supporting role as a Latin lover named Hector Gorgonzolas.

LIFESTYLE:

• Navy and black together and especially red and pink together. Red and pink is one of my favorite color combinations though everyone else in the world seems to think it?s hideous.

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• Car shows and car museums

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• I adore algebra. Quadratic expressions, factoring, differential equations, functions and algorithms. Finding the value of variables always brings me a great deal of joy.

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• Khloe Kardashian. My friends can admit she is the lesser of evils, but I love her. I think she?s completely awesome.

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• I really like Teen Vogue Magazine, seven years removed from being a teenager.

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• Joe Frank, the spoken-word artist. (And whoever likes the Cackle Sisters? I like them too. You are not alone.)

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Source: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/things-we-love-that-we-think-no-one-else-loves/

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