Lists! Lists! And More Random Lists! by Aaron Moeller
My 6 Favorite Novels1. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
2. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
3. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
6. Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
5 Great Short Stories
1. "Work", Denis Johnson
2. "1/3, 1/3, 1/3", Richard Brautigan
3. "Tracy's Tiger", William Saroyan
4. "Cathedral", Raymond Carver
5. "Rock Springs", Richard Ford
10 Great Driving Songs
1. "Money for Nothing", Dire Straits
2. "Telephone Road", Steve Earle
3. "Golden", My Morning Jacket
4. "Working on the Highway", Bruce Springsteen
5. "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere", Dwight Yoakum
6. "Give Back the Key to My Heart", Uncle Tupelo with Doug Sahm
7. "Police and Thieves", The Clash
8. "No Business", Bonnie Raitt
9. "Yer So Bad", Tom Petty
10. "My Heart is the Bums on the Street", Marah
5 Cheesy '70s-'80s Songs That for Some Reason I Don't Turn Off When They're on the Radio
1. "Biggest Part of Me", Ambrosia
2. "Against All Odds", Phil Collins
3. "On and On", Stephen Bishop
4. "Lost in Love", Air Supply
5. "Lady in Red", Chris DeBurgh
5 Great Live Albums
1. Live 1966, Bob Dylan (with the Hawks)
2. Live in New York City, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
3. Live at the Harlem Square Club, Sam Cooke
4. Live at the Apollo, James Brown and His Famous Flames
5. It's Too Late To Stop Now, Van Morrison
6 Great Guitar Solos I Heard On My Car Stereo This Week
1. "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)", The Band (Robbie Robertson)
2. "Reelin' in the Years", Steely Dan (Walter Becker)
3. "Sultans of Swing", Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler)
4. "Let's Go Crazy", Prince
5. "Ramblin' Man", The Allman Brothers Band (Dickie Betts, I think)
6. "Hotel California", The Eagles (Don Felder or Joe Walsh - I don't know)
6 Great Story Songs
1. "Romeo is Bleeding" - Tom Waits
2. "Pancho and Lefty" - Townes Van Zandt
3. "Let it Roll" - Guy Clark
4. "Gallo del Cielo" - Tom Russell
5. "My Ride's Here" - Warren Zevon
6. "Tecumseh Valley" - Townes Van Zandt
10 Great Story Songs by Bruce Springsteen
1. "Racing in the Street"
2. "Incident on 57th Street"
3. "Nothing Man"
4. "Brothers Under the Bridge"
5. "The River"
6. "Jungleland"
7. "Zero and Blind Terry"
8. "Highway Patrolman"
9. "The Promise"
10. "Cautious Man"
4 Nevada Cities/Towns I Can Name Off the Top of My Head
1. Reno
2. Las Vegas
3. Carson City
4. Reno
5 Immensely Satisfying Food Orders at US Chain Restaurants and Fast Food
1. Crispy Orange Chicken Bowl (Applebee's)
2. Chicken Tender Melt with Ranch (Perkins)
3. 1/3 lb. Frisco Burger (Hardee's)
4. Beef and Chedder Melt (Arby's)
5. Big Bacon Classic (Wendy's)
5 Things to See at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York
1. An eighteenth-century camera obscura
2. One of two Giroux daguerreotype cameras in North America, produced in 1839
3. A lunar orbiter camera developed for NASA
4. Speed Graphic camera used for the '45 photograph of the Iwo Jima flag raising
5. One of the largest collections of American cameras in the world
4 Best Lists on this Blog Posting So Far
1. 5 Great Short Stories
2. 5 Immensely Satisfying Food Orders at US Chain Restaurants and Fast Food
3. 10 Great Driving Songs
4. 5 Things to See at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York
5 Underrated Sitcoms
1. WKRP in Cincinnati
2. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
3. King of the Hill (As underrated, that is, as a show can be that's been on for 11 years)
4. Strangers with Candy
5. Taxi (the Andy Kauffman aspect isn't underrated, but the rest of the show is)
10 Great Recurring TV Characters
(Note: these aren't supporting characters, but rather occasional characters. If you come across any of these characters while flipping through the channels, quickly hit record on your TiVo or VCR, it's a guaranteed great episode.):
1. Nick Tortelli (Cheers, as played by the insanely underrated Dan Hedaya)
2. Adam (Northern Exposure, Adam Arkin)
3. Richard Lewis (Curb Your Enthusiasm, as himself)
4. Col. Flagg (M*A*S*H*, Edward Winter)
5. Miss Goddard, the sex-crazed town librarian (Newhart, Kathy Kinney)
6. J. Peterman (Seinfeld, John O'Hurley)
7. Newman (Seinfeld, Wayne Knight)
8. Ernest T. Bass (The Andy Griffith Show, Howard Morris)
9. Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons)
10. Officer Shiflett, (Newhart, Todd Susman)
I'll be back soon with more, including the lists of my 5 best friends and my 10 favorite/least favorite relatives.
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