Top Ten Lists (Updated November 4, 2024)

Top 30 Bands/Musical Acts (in no order)

First Tier (1-10)

Siouxsie & The Banshees + Nine Inch Nails (tied for first)

Lady Gaga

Joy Division

Depeche Mode

Fleetwood Mac (+ Lindsey Buckingham solo)

Sting (solo + The Police)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Current 93

Ministry

Garbage

 

Second Tier (11-20)

Bauhaus

Dead Can Dance

Coil

Whitehouse (+ Cut Hands & Consumer Electronics)

Nico

Sonic Youth

Throbbing Gristle   

Yes

Miley Cyrus

 

Third Tier (21-30)

Kate Bush

Skinny Puppy

Chappell Roan

Keane

Ladytron

Suzanne Vega

Manic Street Preachers

Aphex Twin  

Harry Styles

 

Top 10 Favorite Albums (in no order)

A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (Siouxsie & The Banshees) 1982

The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails) 1994

The Marble Index (Nico) 1968 

The Holy Bible (Manic Street Preachers) 1994

Dead Can Dance (Dead Can Dance) 1984

Tusk (Fleetwood Mac) 1979 

A Bell Is A Cup... (Wire) 1988

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Aphex Twin) 1992 

Horse Rotorvator (Coil) 1986

Closer (Joy Division) 1980

 

Top 20 Favorite Fiction Writers (in no order)

H.P. Lovecraft 

J.-K. Huysmans 

Stephen R. Donaldson 

Bret Easton Ellis 

William Shakespeare

Yukio Mishima 

Meredith Gran

J.G. Ballard 

Thomas Ligotti 

Cormac McCarthy

 

Second Tier (11-20)

Thomas Pynchon

John Bellairs 

Carson McCullers

Dennis Cooper

Clark Ashton Smith 

Grant Morrison 

William S. Burroughs

Arthur Machen 

Yasunari Kawabata

Jean Lorrain

 

Top 10 Favorite Novels (in no order)

La-bas (J.-K. Huysmans) 

Guide (Dennis Cooper)

American Psycho (Bret Eason Ellis)

Sea of Fertility (Yukio Mishima) 

The Gap Cycle (Stephen R. Donaldson) 

Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll) 

The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)

The White Plague (Frank Herbert)

 

Top 20 Favorite TV Shows (in no order)

First Tier (1-10)

Friends 

Game of Thrones 

Seinfeld 

Frasier

The Office (American version)

Family Matters

Saved By The Bell (original series)

Castlevania

Monk

Zorro (1990-1993 series)

 

Second Tier (11-20)

True Detective (season 1 only) 

Twin Peaks

Fawlty Towers 

The Vicar of Dibley 

Blackadder

Mr. Bean

Hannibal

Death Note (anime) 

Batman: The Animated Series

How I Met Your Mother 

 

Top Ten Favorite Movies (in no order)

Reality Bites (1994)

Patriot Games (1992)

Jackie Brown (1997)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

A Serious Man (2009)

Jurassic Park (1993)

House of Gucci (2021)

Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (1983) 

Les Miserables (2012) 

First Reformed (2017)

 

Top 10 Favorite Video/Computer Games (in no order)

Deus Ex (2000)

Thief Gold (1999)

System Shock 2 (1999)

Doom (1993)

Final Fantasy VI (1994)

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (2004)

Sid Meier's Civilization VI (2016) 

Perfect Tides (2022)

Shenmue (whole series) 

Pentiment (2022) added 1-13-25

(* Honorable Mentions: Ultima VII- 1992 + Elder Scrolls: Skyrim- 2011)

 

Misc. Favorites 

Favorite color(s): blue, black, mauve 
Favorite number(s): 28, 88 (tie) 
Favorite holiday: Christmas (2nd place: Halloween) 
Favorite animal: cat 
Favorite bird(s): crow, owl, hummingbird
Favorite sea creature: sharks (especially Great White Sharks and the Hammerhead shark) 
Favorite stuffed animal growing up: Shark Puppet 
Favorite food: Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup + rice, & Chicken-flavored Rice-A-Roni
Favorite body part: the eye 
Favorite card game: Hearts
Favorite board game: Clue 
Favorite Clue character: Mrs. Peacock 
Favorite city: Providence, Rhode Island 
Favorite planet: Saturn 
Favorite Zodiac sign: Gemini 
Favorite subculture: Goth 
Favorite artist: Andy Warhol 
Favorite movie director: Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson (tie) 
Favorite living actor: Sean Bean 
Favorite living actress: Winona Ryder
Favorite comic strip(s):, Doonesbury (1^st), Calvin & Hobbes (2^nd)

Favorite Game of Thrones character: Qyburn

Favorite sport: Basketball
Favorite basketball player: John Stockton 
Favorite Beatles song(s): Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer (tie) 
Favorite electronic music program: Voyetra Digital Orchestrator 
Favorite architectural style: Brutalism 
Favorite art movement(s): Surrealism, Symbolist, Pop 
Favorite carnivorous plant: Nepenthes lowii 
Favorite comic book superhero: Batman
Favorite Batman villain(s): Dr. Simon Hurt, The Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, The Mad Hatter 
Favorite comic book writer: Grant Morrison (2nd place: Alan Moore)
Favorite science fiction book series: The Gap Cycle (Stephen R. Donaldson) 
Favorite movie monster: Godzilla
Favorite Doom monster: Cacodemon 

Favorite DOOM levels: E2M4 (Deimos Lab), E3M4 (House of Pain), E3M7 (Limbo)

Favorite Record Label: Mute
Favorite Broadway musical: Les Miserables 
Favorite Shakespeare play: Macbeth 
Favorite Star Wars character: Momaw Nadon 
Favorite Mario Kart racer: Toad
Favorite Warhol Superstar: Edie Sedgwick 
Favorite old school Hollywood star: Audrey Hepburn 
Favorite Hogwarts House: Slytherin 
Favorite Harry Potter character: Luna Lovegood 
Favorite Ninja Turtle: Leonardo 
Favorite Disney Villain: Scar (The Lion King) 
Favorite horror writer: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti (a close second) 
Favorite Cthulhu Mythos monster: Cthulhu 
Favorite book(s) of the Bible: Revelations, Ecclesiastes (tie) 
Favorite Egyptian deity: Bast 
Favorite Ancient culture: Ancient Egypt

Favorite Historical Time Period: The Middle Ages