List #18: Top 10 Active Pitchers in Baseball


01. Johan Santana (SP, Twins)
02. Mariano Rivera (CL, Yankees)
03. Roy Halladay (SP, Blue Jays)
04. Roy Oswalt (SP, Astros)
05. Trevor Hoffman (CL, Padres)
06. Jake Peavy (SP, Padres)
07. Josh Beckett (SP, Red Sox)
08. Brandon Webb (SP, Diamondbacks)
09. Chien Ming-Wang (SP, Yankees)
10. Andy Pettitte (SP, Yankees)

List #17: Top 10 Active Offensive Players in Baseball


01. Alex Rodriguez (3B, Yankees)
02. Albert Pujols (1B, Cardinals)
03. Vladimir Guerrero (RF, Angels)
04. Magglio Ordonez (RF, Tigers)
05. Ryan Howard (1B, Phillies)
06. Barry Bonds (LF, Giants)
07. David Ortiz (DH, Red Sox)
08. Justin Morneau (1B, Twins)
09. Hideki Matsui (LF, Yankees)
10. Prince Fielder (1B, Brewers)

List #16: Top 10 Songs I Don't Like by Artists I Do


01. Liz Phair - "Why Can't I"
02. R.E.M. - "Everybody Hurts"
03. Madonna - "American Life"
04. The Beatles - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
05. OutKast - "Roses"
06. The Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"
07. Eminem - "Ass Like That"
08. Jay-Z f/ Beyonce - "Hollywood"
09. Missy Elliot - "Lose Control"
10. M.I.A. - "Boyz"

List #15: Top 10 Songs I Like by Artists I Don't


01. Modest Mouse - "Float On"
02. Dido - "White Flag"
03. Bon Jovi - "Wanted Dead or Alive"
04. Christina Aguilera - "Genie in a Bottle"
05. Ryan Adams - "New York, New York"
06. Metallica - "No Leaf Clover"
07. Bright Eyes - "When the President Talks to God"
08. Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger"
09. Sum 41 - "We're All to Blame"
10. Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"

List #14: Top 10 Albums of the Past 10 Years


01. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
02. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
03. Robyn - Robyn
04. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
05. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up on Me
06. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
07. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
08. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
09. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

List #13: Top Food Dishes


01. Risotto con Pomodori at Caffe de Medici (Vancouver, BC)
02. Cashew Chicken Delight at Siam Thai (Victoria, BC)
03. Pizza with cheddar, mozzarella, feta, spinach, and cashews (my own creation) at The Joint (Victoria, BC)
04. Chicken Don at Kaya (Carbondale, IL)
05. Seasonal Risotto at The Pink Door (Seattle, WA)
06. Lemon Chicken, House Chow Mein and Vegetable Chop Suey at Kimbo (Victoria, BC)
07. Mushroom, Salami, and Black Olive Pizza at San Remo's (Victoria, BC)
08. Portobello Ravioli with Yellow Rice at Mary's (Herrin, IL)
09. Luci's Lasagna at Luciano's (Victoria, BC)
10. Garlic Bread w/ Cheese at Lisa's (Herrin, IL)

List #12: Top 10 Buffy Characters


01. Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head)
02. Spike (James Marsters)
03. Anya Jenkins (Emma Caulfield)
04. Faith Lehane (Eliza Dushku)
05. Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar)
06. Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter)
07. Glory (Clare Kramer)
08. Drusilla (Juliet Landau)
09. Jonathan Levinson (Danny Strong)
10. Clem (James Charles Leary)

List #11: Top 10 East Asian Pop Songs


01. Rene Liu & Stanley Huang - “Black Black Heart”
02. Wink - "Sabiashii Netaigyo"
03. Teddy Robin & the Playboys - "Magic Colors"
04. Ayumi Hamasaki - "Will"
05. Namie Amuro - "Wowa"
06. Hayami Yu - "Get Out of My Life"
07. Justin Heathcliff - "You Know What I Mean"
08. Lee Jung Hyun - "Q"
09. Shiina Ringo - "Gamble"
10. Jolin - "Dancing Diva"

List #10: Top 10 Singers


01. James Brown
02. Polly Jean Harvey
03. Corin Tucker
04. Prince
05. Lucinda Williams
06. Morrissey
07. Solomon Burke
08. Neko Case
09. Chan Marshall
10. Tom Waits

List #9: Top 10 Bands


01. Sleater-Kinney
02. The Beatles
03. Ramones
04. Talking Heads
05. Destiny's Child
06. The Smiths
07. Sonic Youth
08. Fleetwood Mac
09. X
10. Radiohead

List #8: Top 10 Rappers


01. Jay-Z
02. The Notorious B.I.G.
03. Rakim
04. Lil Wayne
05. Ghostface Killah
06. Chuck D
07. Scarface
08. Bubba Sparxxx
09. Snoop Dogg
10. Eminem

List #7: Top 10 Actors


01. Orson Welles
02. Sean Penn
03. James Stewart
04. James Mason
05. James Gandolfini
06. Marlon Brando
07. Jack Nicholson
08. Marcello Mastroianni
09. Robert Mitchum
10. Nick Nolte

List #6: Top 10 Actresses


01. Ingrid Bergman
02. Marilyn Monroe
03. Greta Garbo
04. Jennifer Jason Leigh
05. Maggie Cheung
06. Jeanne Moreau
07. Agnes Moorehead
08. Isabelle Huppert
09. Liv Ullman
10. Kirsten Dunst

List #5: Top 10 Filmmakers


01. Orson Welles
02. Jean-Luc Godard
03. Robert Bresson
04. Carl Theodor Dreyer
05. Abbas Kiarostami
06. Hou Hsiao-hsien
07. Yasujiro Ozu
08. Terrence Malick
09. F.W. Murnau
10. Steven Spielberg

List #4: Top 10 Books


01. Ulysses, James Joyce [tie]
01. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce [tie]
01. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce [tie]
04. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
05. This Is Orson Welles, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, and Jonathan Rosenbaum
06. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
07. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov [tie]
07. Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi [tie]
09. Grown Up All Wrong, Robert Christgau
10. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss

List #3: Top 10 TV Shows


01. The Sopranos [tie]
01. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer [tie]
01. Gilmore Girls [tie]
04. Seinfeld
05. The Late Show with David Letterman
06. The Real World [New York (92) through Chicago (02), especially San Francisco (94), Seattle (98), and Hawaii (99)]
07. I Love Lucy
08. The Wonder Years
09. My So-Called Life
10. Firefly

List #2: Top 10 Songs


01. The Ronettes - “Be My Baby”
02. Sleater-Kinney - “Good Things”
03. The Mountain Goats - “Oceanographer’s Choice”
04. The Beatles - “In My Life”
05. Van Morrison - “Crazy Love”
06. The Notorious B.I.G. - “Juicy”
07. The Smiths - “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”
08. Jay-Z - “Heart of the City”
09. Prince - “When U Were Mine”
10. Rene Liu & Stanley Huang - “Black Black Heart” (Chinese version)

List #1: Top 10 Films


01. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 66)
02. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 28)
03. Citizen Kane (Welles, 41)
04. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 42)
05. Days of Heaven (Malick, 78)
06. Sunrise (Murnau, 27)
07. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, 97)
08. Sátántangó (Tarr, 94)
09. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 58)
10. Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Godard, 88-98)