My top tens

Tastes shift, and favorites come and go.

It's a fact of life.

Because of this any attempt to list my ten favorite whatevers will only result in a list of my tastes at the moment. A year down the road, things in favor could fall out, and others could take their place.

With all that as caveat, I offer up my all-time top tens (or so, and in no order within each list)...

• Movies...(not necessarily the greatest, just my favorites)
• Hero
• The Usual Suspects
• Dr Strangelove
• Fight Club
• Hoosiers
• The Muppet Movie
• The Player
• The Thin Red Line
• The Big Lebowski
• Goodfellas 
• Books (must've read each at least twice to earn inclusion in the list)
• Brave New World
• Slaughterhouse 5
• The Electric Brae
• The Book of Basketball 
• Infinite in All Directions
• Haunted
• Iowa Baseball Confederacy
• Radioactive: a tale of love and fallout
• The Disappearing Spoon
• The Great Shark Hunt 
• Albums/CDs (the most prone to shifting tastes...avoiding Greatest Hits packages)
• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
• The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Blood on the Tapes - Bob Dylan bootleg
• A Ghost is Born - Wilco
• Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
• Alright, Still - Lily Allen
• Gold - Ryan Adams
• Graceland - Paul Simon
• Step Inside This House - Lyle Lovett
• Body Talk - Robyn
• Traveling Wilburys - Traveling Wilburys
• Television Shows (also very much prone to shifting tastes)
• The Wire
• Deadwood
• Scrubs
• Mad About You
• Parks and Recreation
• Bob's Burgers
• Archer
• The Daily Show
• The Colbert Report
• Sportscenter
• Albums/CDs (greatest hits collections only)
• Action Packed: The Best of the Capitol Years - Richard Thompson
• The Best of 1980-1990 - U2
• A Quiet, Normal Life - Warren Zevon
• Carry on Up the Charts - The Beautiful South
• Decade - Neil Young
• The Hits/The B-Sides - Prince
• Just Another Band from East LA - Los Lobos
• Personal Best - Harry Nilsson
• The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
• The Very Good Years - Frank Sinatra 
• Comics (not full series)
• Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
• Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
• Spider-Man: Blue
• Supreme: Story of the Year
• Pride of Baghdad
• Superman: Secret Identity
• Eternals
• Batgirl: Year One
• Superman: Red Son
• Batman: The Long Halloween
• Superman/Batman: Absolute Power
• Dark Knight Returns 
• Comic series
• Planetary
• Sandman
• Invincible
• All-Star Superman
• Powers
• Watchmen
• Astro City
• Ultimate Spider-Man
• Astonishing X-Men (Whedon's run)
• Fables
• DMZ 
• Locke & Key
• Scott Pilgrim
• Restaurants & foods
• cajun - Knotty Pine on the Bayou
• burger - Terry's Turf Club
• steak - Jeff Ruby's (downtown)
• breakfast - Waffle House (Cincinnati-Dayton Rd location, specifically)
• all-around casual - Troy's Cafe & Catering
• best fries - Senate
• pasta - Paesano's
• pizza - Dewey's and Betta's Italian Oven
• Greek - Greek Isles
• bbq - Eli's

Are there any other 'favorites' that you'd like to know?