List #48: Top 10 Postseason Predictions


01. The Rockies beat the Padres in tomorrow's NL Wild Card tiebreaker game, but fall in five to a more talented Phillies team in the Division Series.
02. Arizona tops Chicago in four; Cubs fans find something other than the Cubs to blame for the loss.
03. C.C. Sabathia gets a Game 1 win, but the Yankees take the next three to advance past Cleveland.
04. The Red Sox sweep the Angels.
05. The Phillies sweep the D-Backs in the NLCS.
06. New York over Boston in five in the ALCS.
07. The Yankees win their 27th World Series, defeating the Phillies in a tense Game 7 at Yankee Stadium.
08. A-Rod proves that he can perform in the playoffs, and is named the Series' MVP.
09. After winning a ring, A-Rod decides not to opt out, remains a Yankee, and wins his third MVP award.
10. Matt Holliday narrowly edges Jimmy Rollins and Prince Fielder as the NL MVP, while Sabathia and Jake Peavy win their respective leagues' Cy Young Awards.

List #47: Top 10 PJ Harvey Songs


01. "Driving"
02. "Nickel Under Foot"
03. "The Dancer"
04. "Plants and Rags"
05. "Send His Love to Me"
06. "This Is Love"
07. "Sheela-Na-Gig"
08. "Is This Desire?"
09. "The Devil"
10. "Yuri-G"

List #46: Top 10 Male Film Performances


01. James Stewart - Vertigo
02. Orson Welles - Chimes at Midnight
03. Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter
04. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
05. John Wayne - The Searchers
06. James Mason - Lolita
07. Charles Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux
08. Sean Penn - Dean Man Walking
09. Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris
10. George Sanders - Voyage to Italy

List #45: Top 10 Female Film Performances


01. Renee Maria Falconetti - The Passion of Joan of Arc
02. Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons
03. Marilyn Monroe - The Misfits
04. Ingrid Bergman - Notorious
05. Anne Wiazemsky - Au Hasard Balthazar
06. Nicole Kidman - Eyes Wide Shut
07. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka
08. Maggie Cheung - Actress
09. Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson - Persona
10. Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin - The Piano

List #44: Top 10 Great Pick-Me-Up Songs


01. Bubba Sparxxx - "Comin' Round"
02. Sleater-Kinney - "Words and Guitar"
03. Beyonce f/ Jay-Z - "Crazy in Love"
04. Madonna - "Into the Groove"
05. The Beatles - "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
06. Garth Brooks - "Friends in Low Places"
07. Ayumi Hamasaki - "Ladies Night"
08. Amy Diamond - "Welcome to the City"
09. T.I. - "What You Know"
10. Hanson - "MMMBop"

List #43: Top 10 Great Depressing Songs


01. The Smiths - "I Know It's Over"
02. The Notorious B.I.G. - "Suicidal Thoughts"
03. Bruce Springsteen - "Highway Patrolman"
04. Van Morrison - "T.B. Sheets"
05. Cat Power - "Names"
06. Neil Young - "Philadelphia"
07. John Lennon - "Working Class Hero"
08. Hole - "Northern Star"
09. Radiohead - "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
10. Lil Wayne - "Something You Forgot"

List #42: Top 10 Players in the NBA


01. Kobe Bryant (SG, Lakers)
02. LeBron James (SF, Cavaliers)
03. Carmelo Anthony (SF, Nuggets)
04. Kevin Garnett (PF, Celtics)
05. Steve Nash (PG, Suns)
06. Jason Kidd (PG, Nets)
07. Dirk Nowitzki (PF, Mavericks)
08. Tim Duncan (PF, Spurs)
09. Allen Iverson (PG, Nuggets)
10. Dwight Howard (C, Magic)

List #41: Top 10 Beatles Songs


01. "In My Life"
02. "A Day in the Life"
03. "Don't Let Me Down"
04. "Strawberry Fields Forever"
05. "Help"
06. "Tomorrow Never Knows"
07. "Helter Skelter"
08. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
09. "Got to Get You into My Life"
10. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"

List #40: Top 10 Non-Asian Horror Movies of the Past 10 Years


01. demonlover (Assayas)
02. The Blair Witch Project (Myrick/Sanchez)
03. Wolf Creek (Mclean)
04. The Descent (Marshall)
05. War of the Worlds (Spielberg)
06. Trouble Every Day (Denis)
07. 28 Days Later (Boyle)
08. eXistenZ (Cronenberg)
09. The Others (Amenabar)
10. Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro)

List #39: Top 10 East Asian Horror Movies


01. Koma (Law)
02. Vital (Tsukamoto)
03. Dumplings (Chan)
04. Audition (Miike)
05. The Eye 2 (Pang/Pang)
06. The Host (Bong)
07. Infection (Ochiai)
08. Kairo (Kurosawa)
09. Ju-on (Shimizu)
10. Shutter (Banjong/Parkpoom)

List #38: Top 10 TV Shows That I Really Need To Get Into


01. Friday Night Lights
02. The Wire
03. 30 Rock
04. Ugly Betty
05. Everybody Hates Chris
06. Lost
07. Battlestar Galactica
08. Rescue Me
09. The Office
10. The New Adventures of Old Christine

List #37: Top 10 Pazz & Jop 2007 Contenders


01. Kanye West - Graduation
02. M.I.A. - Kala
03. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
04. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
05. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
06. LCD Soundystem - Sound of Silver
07. Feist - The Reminder
08. Common - Finding Forever
09. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
10. The New Pornographers - Challengers

List #36: Top 10 Romantic Movies


01. Sunrise (Murnau)
02. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
03. City Lights (Chaplin)
04. Before Sunrise / Before Sunset (Linklater)
05. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
06. L'Atalante (Vigo)
07. Ninotchka (Lubitsch)
08. The Piano (Campion)
09. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
10. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong)

List #35: Top 10 Movie (or TV) Musicals


01. Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
02. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
03. Once More With Feeling (Whedon)
04. Swing Time (Stevens)
05. Top Hat (Sandrich)
06. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
07. A Star Is Born (Cukor)
08. The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
09. Fiddler on the Roof (Jewison)
10. The Sound of Music (Wise)

List #34: Top 10 Fantasy Lottery Buys


01. Trip to Tokyo
02. Apartment in Downtown Vancouver
03. Nintendo Wii
04. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
05. Emily Carr Art Institute tuition
06. Fully-equipped laptop
07. Shiba dog
08. A crapload of clothes and accesories
09. Eau de Camille by Annick Goutal
10. Fine food & wine... lots of it

List #33: Top 10 Animals


01. Dogs
02. Dinosaurs
03. Seals
04. Cats
05. Whales
06. Monkeys
07. Elephants
08. Goats
09. Foxes
10. Sloths

List #32: Top 10 Films of the '80's


01. Shoah (Lanzmann)
02. Do the Right Thing (Lee)
03. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
04. The Dead (Huston)
05. A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou)
06. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg)
07. L'Argent (Bresson)
08. Amadeus (Forman)
09. The Shining (Kubrick)
10. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)

List #31: Top 10 Albums of the '80's


01. Prince - Sign 'o' the Times
02. X - Wild Gift
03. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
04. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
05. Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
06. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
07. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
08. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
09. Michael Jackson - Thriller
10. Sonic Youth - Sister

List #30: Top 10 Film Critics Working Today


01. Jonathan Rosenbaum
02. J. Hoberman
03. Amy Taubin
04. Armond White
05. Godfrey Cheshire
06. Kent Jones
07. Dave Kehr
08. Manohla Dargis
09. Stephanie Zacharek and Andrew O' Hehir (and also the inexplicably fired Charles Taylor)
10. Chris Dashiell and Howard Schumann

List #29: Top 10 World Cities I'd Like to Visit


01. Paris
02. Hong Kong
03. Dublin
04. Moscow
05. Prague
06. Tokyo
07. Rome
08. Taipei
09. Rio de Janeiro
10. London

List #28: Top 10 Britney Songs


01. "...Baby One More Time"
02. "Toxic"
03. "Oops!...I Did It Again"
04. "I'm a Slave 4 U"
05. "Everytime"
06. "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
07. "Anticipating"
08. "Outrageous"
09. "Born to Make You Happy"
10. "My Prerogative"

List #27: Top 10 Films I'd Like to Catch at the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival


01. The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)
02. The Man from London (Tarr)
03. Useless/Our Ten Years (Jia)
04. 10 + 4 (Akbari)
05. The Duchesse of Langeais (Rivette)
06. The Last Mistress (Breillat)
07. My Winnipeg (Maddin)
08. Go Go Tales (Ferrara)
09. The Edge of Heaven (Akin)
10. Tarrafal (Costa)

List #26: Top 10 Videos I've Watched Recently on YouTube


01. "Metric - Dead Disco (Live Encore)"
02. "Robyn - Medley and Konichiwa Bitches"
03. "Zombie Kid Likes Turtles"
04. "Lil Wayne - Show me what you got freestyle"
05. "Mia - Jimmy (full length video)"
06. "Cloverfield - 1-18-08 - Spoof - Monstrous - Overnight"
07. "Video Mash Ups: The Killers vs. Nelly Furtado"
08. "Crashing Nemo Trailer Mash Up"
09. "Make It Rain / By: David Sides"
10. "Take Me Home Tonight (Firefly - River/Jayne)"

List #25: Top 10 Tracks on Graduation or Curtis


01. 50 Cent - "I Get Money"
02. Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
03. Kanye West - "Everything I Am"
04. 50 Cent f/ Akon - "I'll Still Kill"
05. Kanye West f/ Chris Martin - "Homecoming"
06. 50 Cent f/ Justin Timberlake & Timbaland - "Ayo Technology"
07. Kanye West - "Good Morning"
08. Kanye West - "Big Brother"
09. 50 Cent f/ Nicole Scherzinger & Young Buck - "Fire"
10. 50 Cent f/ Mary J. Blige - "All of Me"

List #24: Top 10 Songs That Make Me Wish
I'd Grown Up in the '60's and '70's


01. Ramones - "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker"
02. Van Morrison - "The Way Young Lovers Do"
03. James Brown - "Good Good Lovin'"
04. Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
05. The Mamas and the Papas - "California Dreaming"
06. New York Dolls - "Looking for a Kiss"
07. Al Green - "Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun"
08. The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
09. Love - "Alone Again Or"
10. The Slits - "A Boring Life"

List #23: Top 10 Songs That Remind Me of Growing Up
in the '80's and '90's


01. Pearl Jam - "Jeremy"
02. Garth Brooks - "Friends in Low Places"
03. Duran Duran - "Rio"
04. Dr. Dre - "Dre Day"
05. Michael Jackson - "Black or White"
06. Eddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight"
07. Whitney Houston - "How Will I Know"
08. The Cranberries - "Dreams"
09. Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"
10. Offspring - "Self Esteem"

List #22: Top 10 Filmmakers Over 75


01. Jean-Luc Godard
02. Clint Eastwood
03. Manoel de Oliveira
04. Jaques Rivette
05. Chris Marker
06. Eric Rohmer
07. Alain Resnais
08. Agnes Varda
09. Claude Chabrol
10. Michael Snow

List #21: Top 10 Filmmakers Under 45


01. Jia Zhang-ke
02. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
03. Peyton Reed
04. Lucretia Martel
05. Francois Ozon
06. Lynne Ramsay
07. Samira Makhmalbaf
08. Satoshi Kon
09. Bong Joon-ho
10. Judd Apatow

List #20: Top 10 Artists I'd Love to See Live


01. PJ Harvey
02. Jay-Z
03. Joanna Newsom
04. Prince
05. Madonna
06. Lucinda Williams
07. Lil Wayne
08. Justin Timberlake
09. Tom Waits
10. Miranda Lambert

List #19: Top 10 Live Shows I've Attended


01. M.I.A. & LCD Soundsystem @ Metro (Chicago, IL)
02. Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ The Pageant (St. Louis, MO)
03. Morrissey @ The Pageant (St. Louis, MO)
04. Fiery Furnaces @ Blue Note (Columbia, MO)
05. Kanye West @ The SIU Arena (Carbondale, IL)
06. Radiohead w/ Stephen Malkmus @ UMB Bank Pavilion (St. Louis, MO)
07. Sleater-Kinney @ Cannery Ballroom (Nashville, TN)
08. The Rolling Stones @ FedEx Forum (Memphis, TN)
09. Ashlee Simpson @ Palace Theatre (Louisville, KY)
10. Wilco @ The SIU Arena [parking lot] (Carbondale, IL)