January 17, 2014

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

    1 comment:

    Smamy said...

    Favorite sports venue