Originally I wanted to make a 'Top (insert number) of Everything' list, but I had two problems:
a. I couldn't decide on a number (ie. top 3, top 10, etc.)
and b. I couldn't limit myself to any finite number (ie. top 3, top 10, etc.)
So I've made a decision - I can remember a wonderful anything for almost every year of my life (excluding the first three,) so I will make a Top of Everything list per year. Because I can, I'm including the first three years as well.
Right now there will be 18 entries in each category. After November 19th that number will increase by one.
| Year | Movie | Book | Song | Item |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Old Yeller | The Island of the Skogg | Goodbye Old Paint | Books |
| 1986 | Dumbo | Ramona The Pest | Most of The Time - Bob Dylan | Tape |
| 1987 | All Summer In A Day | Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse | Chant A Psalm - Steel Pulse | Cardboard |
| 1988 | Fern Gully | To Kill a Mockingbird | I Don't Wanna Grow Up - Tom Waits | Forks |
| 1989 | The White Seal | Ramona Forever | We Are Not Alone - Frank Zappa | Band-aids |
| 1990 | The Land Before Time | Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman | If We Hold On Together - Diana Ross | String |
| 1991 | Buckaroo Banzai | The Winter of Our Discontent | Flying Cowboys - Rickie Lee Jones | Cats |
| 1992 | Homeward Bound | Catcher in the Rye | Shapes and Sizes - Joan Armatrading | Cold water |
| 1993 | An American Tail | The Razor's Edge | Redemption Song - Bob Marley | Two story houses |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Writing Down the Bones | Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band | My camera |
| 1995 | The Scent of Green Papaya | Hare's Choice | N.Y.C. - Steve Earle | Foreign films |
| 1996 | The Truth About Cats and Dogs | Stranger in a Strange Land | Gorecki - Lamb | Blank journals |
| 1997 | Contact | Cannery Row | Rainmaker - Harry Neilson | Small boxes |
| 1998 | Cinema Paradiso | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Just Another Day - John Mellencamp | Sweatshirts |
| 1999 | Se7en | Another Roadside Attraction | Imperfectly - Ani Difranco | Writing impliments |
| 2000 | As Good as it Gets | Sometimes A Great Notion | Blackbird - Beatles | Surgical instruments |
| 2001 | Suicide Kings | To Kill A Mockingbird | Hyperballad - Björk | The clean foods |
| 2002 | Tampopo | The Grapes of Wrath | California - Joni | Photoshop |
| 2003 | Frida | A Passage to India | Decades - Joe Walsh | Flip flops |
| 2004 | City of God | Dandelion Wine | When I Was A Boy - Dar Williams | My orange bike |
| 2005 | High Fidelity | Middlesex | Up All Night - Counting Crows | Nikons |
| 2006 | Match Point | Off The Map | Jesus, etc. - Wilco | The BCN Metro |
| 2007 | Babel | Tropic of Cancer | Fidelity - Regina Spektor | My Subaru Forester |
| 2008 | My MacBook Pro |
| Year | Musician | Actor | Thing To Be | Musical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Jethro Tull | Kirk Douglas | Cat | The Sound of Music |
| 1986 | Barenaked Ladies | Phillip Glasser | Writer | Oliver |
| 1987 | Frank Zappa | Anthony Hopkins | Architect | Mary Poppins |
| 1988 | Joe Walsh | Gabriel Damon | Semi-truck driver | 1776 |
| 1989 | Jeff Beck | Samuel L. Jackson | Inventor | Cats |
| 1990 | The Allman Brothers Band | Steve McQueen | Water taster | Man of La Mancha |
| 1991 | K.D. Lang | Steve Martin | Photographer | Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| 1992 | Ani Difranco | Chris Farley | Book store owner | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1993 | Rickie Lee Jones | Jeff Goldblum | Engineer | Moulin Rouge |
| 1994 | Tom Waits | Steve Buscemi [note] | Baker | Tommy |
| 1995 | Steve Earle | James Earl Jones | Singer on Broadway | Evita |
| 1996 | Joan Armatrading | Judi Dench | Screen play writer | Dancer in the Dark |
| 1997 | Dave Matthews Band | Janeane Garofalo | Graphic artist | Newsies |
| 1998 | Hugh Masekela | Jodi Foster | Writer for Scientific American | Hair |
| 1999 | John Mellencamp | Helen Hunt | Web site designer | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 2000 | Björk | Jack Nicholson | Runner | Cabaret |
| 2001 | Lamb | Christopher Walken | Supreme Court Justice | Hairspray |
| 2002 | Joni Mitchell | John Cusack | Appellate advocacy lawyer | Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
| 2003 | Dar Williams | Nicole Kidman | Heart surgeon | RENT |
| 2004 | Kaki King | Faye Wong | Dog lover | The Last Five Years |
| 2005 | Sarah McLachlan | Scarlett Johansson | More feminine | |
| 2006 | Guided by Voices | Meryl Streep | Honest | |
| 2007 | Regina Spektor | Kiefer Sutherland | Fluent in Spanish | |
| 2008 | Sigur Rós | Graphic Designer |
Candidates for unfilled spots:
Book - The Cider House Rules, Henry and June, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Lolita
Musician - Wilco, Animal Collective, Neutral Milk Hotel
Musical - 2005 (that one I saw at Ashland that was really really good...)
@ Alexis Ettner 2004