Favorites (Last Updated 6-25-09)
I haven't bothered to restrict myself to a top ten of anything, as I'm not exactly sure how ten became the magic number for such things. This also saves me a lot of needless deletions, and orderings that are ultimately unnecessary. After all, is anyone really going to read this?
Movies (Listed alphabetically)
Air Force One
Apollo 13
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Back to the Future (trilogy)
Batman Begins (and The Dark Knight)
Blast from the Past
Dodgeball
Dogma
Donnie Darko
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Forrest Gump
The Fugitive (I don't think I've even seen U.S. Marshalls)
Galaxy Quest
The Godfather
The Golden Compass
The Goonies
The Green Mile
Hollywood Homicide
Indiana Jones (quartet)
Interview with the Vampire
King Kong (1933 version)
Liar Liar
The Lord of the Rings (the recent trilogy, not the bad animated version)
The Matrix (the first one, not the other two)
Minority Report
Mission: Impossible (the first one but not the second two)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Neverending Story
Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Prestige
The Princess Bride
The Producers (1968)
The Shawshank Redemption
Shooter
Shrek (the first two movies, the third was just painful)
Signs
Silence of the Lambs
The Simpsons Movie
Sin City
The Sixth Sense
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
Speed (the first one but not the second)
Star Wars (original trilogy, but not the first two prequels)
There's Something About Mary
Tropic Thunder
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
X-Men (All three movies)
Books (listed
alphabetically by Author's last name)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Watership Down by Richard Adams
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
Another Fine Myth/Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Moving
Mars by Greg Bear
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Magic Kingdom For Sale by Terry Brooks
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Andromeda Strain by Michael Chrichton
Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous
With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Phillip Jose Farmer
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
The
Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
Flowers
for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. le Guin
The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Ringworld by Larry Niven
His
Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Memnoch, the Devil by Anne Rice
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
Way
Station by Clifford Simak
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Television (titles listed
alphabetically)
Frasier
Heroes
Jeopardy!
King of the Hill
Lost
Mythbusters
The Simpsons
Smallville
South Park
Star Trek (The Original Series)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (starting with the third season)
Survivor
Music Albums (bands/artists
listed alphabetically, albums by the same band listed by release date)
America - Greatest Hits
Christina Aguilera – “Stripped”
The Beatles - Greatest Hits
Bon Jovi – “Crossroads”
The Calling – “Camino Palmero”
Kelly Clarkson – “Breakaway”
Counting Crows – “Films About Ghosts”
Creed - Greatest Hits
Jim Croce - Greatest Hits
Dido - Life For Rent
Evanescence – “Fallen”
Goo Goo Dolls – “A Boy Named Goo,” “Gutter Flower”
Green Day – “American Idiot”
Gordon Lightfoot – “Gord's Gold”
Journey - Greatest Hits
Led Zeppelin - "Mothership"
The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy Soundtrack
Maroon 5 – “Songs About Jane”
Matchbox Twenty - "Exile on Mainstream"
Edwin McCain – “Far From Over”, “Misguided Roses”
Don McLean – “Tapestry,” “American Pie,” Self-Titled
Scott Miller and the Commonwealth – “Thus Always to Tyrants”
Smash Mouth – “All-Star Smash Hits”
Nickleback – “The Long Road,” “All the Right Reasons”
Queen - Greatest Hits I
Seether – “Disclaimer II”
Shinedown – “Us and Them”
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Styx - Greatest Hits
3 Doors Down – “The Better Life,” “Away From the Sun,” “Seventeen Days"
Train – “My Private Nation,” “For Me Its You”