Africa, justice and puzzles
Hugo Adam Bedau, Upton Sinclair, and Rutherford B. Hayes
The top ten albums are, in no particular order: Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy, Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails, Voodoo U by Lords of Acid, Bad by Michael Jackson, Synchronicity by The Police, Demonic Electronic by Bile, Tactical Neural Implant by Front Line Assembly, Thunder Perfect Mind by Current 93, Love's Secret Domain by Coil, Haus Der Luege by Einsturzende Neubauten, oh and for the eleventh, Naive by KMFDM.
Best of the Best one and two, ralph moeller is wonderful, simon rhee is great too, Girls Just Want to Have Fun (the dude sucks though, reminds me of an ultra religious obese dog), t1 and t2, bloodsport, gaslight, virtuosity (love it), and bad boys 2 (marsupials anyone?)
Ali G, Law and Order, all three varieties, So You Think You Can Dance (reminds me of my youth), The Ultimate Fighter, Are You Being Served?, The Iron Chef, most shows on Animal Planet, I haven't had cable in years and I keep a 13-inch TV in my closet, I am hardly a consistent TV watcher.
The top ten are, in no particular order: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, The Plague by Albert Camus, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by Salinger, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, Nausea by Sartre, The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
My Dad, Leo, my brothers, Forrest and Krishna, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Lazzarini, Will Shortz, The Black Widow, Forrest Griffin, Takeru Kobayashi, and Frantz Fanon