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

Throbbing Gristle 

Ministry

Garbage

 

Second Tier (11-20)

Bauhaus

Dead Can Dance

The Cure

Coil

Current 93

Whitehouse (+ Cut Hands & Consumer Electronics)

Nico

Suzanne Vega

Sonic Youth 

Yes

 

Third Tier (21-30)

Wire

Madonna

Kate Bush

Skinny Puppy

Chappell Roan  

Keane

Ladytron

Aphex Twin

Manic Street Preachers 

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)

First Tier (1-10)

H.P. Lovecraft 

J.-K. Huysmans 

Stephen R. Donaldson 

Bret Easton Ellis 

Dennis Cooper

Yukio Mishima 

Meredith Gran

J.G. Ballard 

Thomas Ligotti 

Cormac McCarthy

Second Tier (11-20)

Thomas Pynchon

John Bellairs 

Carson McCullers

William Shakespeare

Clark Ashton Smith 

Grant Morrison 

William S. Burroughs

Arthur Machen 

Yasunari Kawabata

Tom Clancy

 

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) 

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (2011)

(* Honorable Mention: Ultima VII- 1992)

 

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 (1st), Calvin & Hobbes (2nd)
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