Saturday, July 7, 2012

My 100 favorite things ever

Pretty difficult to come up with this list. I didn't count songs, only albums. And no individual person could be in here.


1.      Literature
2.      “The Dead” by James Joyce
3.      Dubliners by James Joyce (1914)
4.      Sports
5.      Baseball
6.      New York City
7.      New York Yankees
8.      The Twilight Zone
9.      Dinosaurs
10.  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1849)
11.  Hamlet by William Shakespeare
12.  History
13.  The United States of America
14.  The novel
15.  Film
16.  Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
17.  National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
18.  Catholicism
19.  Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)
20.  Dogs
21.  Broadway
22.  Rock & roll
23.  Jurassic Park (1993)
24.  Creedence Clearwater Revival
25.  Basketball
26.  College football
27.  Fordham University
28.  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
29.  Green Bay Packers
30.  Cinnabon
31.  Poetry
32.  The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)
33.  Blues music
34.  Pink Floyd
35.  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
36.  London Calling by The Clash (1979)
37.  Psycho by Robert Bloch (1959)
38.  Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
39.  The Rolling Stones
40.  Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
41.  Field of Dreams (1989)
42.  Roller coasters
43.  The Joshua Tree by U2 (1987)
44.  Seinfeld
45.  Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in Ulysses
46.  The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966)
47.  The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
48.  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
49.  Psycho (1960)
50.  Democracy
51.  Pastrami
52.  Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy
53.  Deep-dish Chicago pizza
54.  Great Britain
55.  The Who
56.  Chicago
57.  The English language
58.  Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (1965)
59.  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
60.  Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty (1989)
61.  Jaws (1975)
62.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
63.  Titanic (1997)
64.  Rear Window (1954)
65.  War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898)
66.  The Doors
67.  Jeep Wranglers
68.  Harmonicas
69.  New York Giants
70.  Autumn
71.  Milwaukee Brewers
72.  Corned beef
73.  Golf
74.  Hockey
75.  Apocalypse Now (1979)
76.  Ford Mustangs
77.  Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
78.  Nicole Holm’s tweets
79.  Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan (1966)
80.  The Stranger by Billy Joel (1977)
81.  Vertigo (1958)
82.  Psych
83.  Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
84.  Apartment 9
85.  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1954)
86.  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
87.  Macbeth by William Shakespeare
88.  Cheese
89.  Hotel California by Eagles (1976)
90.  Mount Rushmore
91.  Minnesota Twins
92.  University of Notre Dame
93.  Willy and the Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
94.  The Wall by Pink Floyd (1979)
95.  Halloween
96.  The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (1973)
97.  Lamborghinis
98.  New Era
99.  Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (1975)
100.                      Star Wars (1977)

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