My new listing technique is unstoppable

In true High Fidelity style, I’ve written down some top 10s of stuff. Just stuff. I’m pretty sure that absolutely anything that’s worthwhile in life can be placed somewhere in a top 10. Prove me wrong, I dare you.

Best things my students in Japan said

  1. BEARD IS A LOT OF HEART!!!!
  2. My head is full of baby
  3. DOUBLE CROCODILE!!!
  4. I don’t like being radioactive.
  5. My job doesn’t pay well but at least I get free CABBAGE!
  6. It was Night Bird of ultra-hit crops Charle Stones!
  7. So I said with my whole sadness, “You can say that again”
  8. MONKEY! MONKEY! I’m a monkey, I’m a chimpanzee

Movies

  1. Fight Club
  2. Run Lola Run
  3. Requiem for a Dream
  4. Blade Runner
  5. High Fidelity
  6. Aliens
  7. 25th Hour
  8. Amelie
  9. Memento
  10. Lost in Translation

More on movies.

CDs

  1. Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman
  2. The Postal Service – Give Up
  3. The Shins – Chutes too Narrow
  4. Gerling – When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun
  5. Bjork – Post
  6. The National – Boxer
  7. Dntel – Life Is Full of Possibilities
  8. The Avalanches – Since I Left You
  9. Tool – Aenima
  10. Ullrich Schnauss – Far Away Trains Passing By

More on music.

Books

  1. William Gibson – Idoru
  2. Douglas Adams – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
  3. Neal Stevenson – Cryptonomicon
  4. Steven King – The Gunslinger Chronicles
  5. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
  6. Haruki Murakami – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
  7. Isobelle Carmody – Ashling
  8. Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
  9. Tim Winton – Dirt Music
  10. George Orwell – 1984

More on books.

Gross foods

  1. Chikuwa
  2. Fake banana lollies
  3. Natto
  4. Yong Tau Foo
  5. Chicory coffee
  6. Licorice allsorts
  7. Cod roe onigiri
  8. Kani Miso (Crab brains & raw egg)
  9. Blood pudding
  10. Cold pork pies

Games

  1. The Dig
  2. System Shock
  3. Wipeout 2097
  4. Sam and Max
  5. Quake
  6. SiN
  7. Planescape Torment
  8. Uridium
  9. Starcraft
  10. Full Throttle

More on games.

Singles

  1. Jim White – Still Waters
  2. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
  3. Underworld – Dirty Epic
  4. Kings of Convenience – I’d Rather Dance With You
  5. The Shins – Pink Bullets
  6. Ellen Allien – Sehnsucht
  7. Underworld – Jumbo
  8. Machine Gun Fellatio – Just B’Coz
  9. Frou Frou – Let Go
  10. Orbital – Halcyon On and On

Remixes

  1. Coldplay – Clocks (Royksopp’s Trembling Heart remix)
  2. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights (Iron and Wine mix)
  3. Royksopp – Remind Me (Somebody Else’s Club mix)
  4. Ladytron – Playgirl (Tobias Newmann remix)
  5. Felix da Housecat – Madame Hollywood (Tiga’s Mister Hollywood remix)
  6. Orbit – Lush 3-3 (Underworld mix)
  7. Infusion – Legacy (Junkie XL remix)
  8. The Whitlams – No Aphrodisiac (Machine Gun Felatio remix)
  9. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (Acid edit)
  10. Kings of Convenience – I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From (Royksopp remix)