In the spirit of High Fidelity, I occassionally contemplate my own "Top Fives." It's usually hard enough to narrow the field to five things, so I usually don't bother putting them in any particular order (and I sometimes include more than five).
Movies Almost Famous Good Will Hunting Dead Poet's Society The Breakfast Club A Few Good Men The American President The Shawshank Redemption	Bands/Musicians Endpoint Led Zeppelin / Black Sabbath Bob Mould Subhumans Ani Difranco
Shows I've Seen 1989 Bad Brains @ Soulard Preservation Hall (Quickness Tour) ~1995 Morphine @ First Avenue 1996 Ani Difranco @ University of Minnesota's Northrup Auditorium (Dilate Tour) 1991 Fishbone @ The American (Reality of My Surroundings Tour) 1997 Bob Mould @ First Avenue (acoustic, solo tour) Endpoint, EVERY time I saw them!!!
Books Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould	Guilty Pleasures Madonna (mostly earlier stuff) Electronica Football / Football movies Kenny Rogers Disco
Movies to Describe the American High School Experience Fast Times At Ridgemont High - "You dick!" Heathers - "Dear Diary, my teenage angst bullshit has a body count!" The Breakfast Club - "Demented and sad, but social." Dead Poet's Society - "YAWP!" & a sweaty toothed madman Pump Up The Volume - "Feeling fucked up in a fucked up time and a fucked up place doesn't make you fucked up. It makes you a perfectly normal reaction to a fucked up situation."
Restaurants Sam & Harry's (Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle) K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen (New Orleans' French Quarter) Il Panino Express (Boston's North End) Red Bones (Boston's Davis Square) Vo's (Minneapolis' Nordeast) Llywellyn's (St. Louis' Central West End)	Worst Movies Body of Evidence Mission to Mars Angel Eyes Excalibur Cats & Dogs
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