ATP® weekly rankings for professional tennis players. List of F1® pole
positions. FIFA® international football rankings. Lists for groceries for
supermarkets. Internet Movie Database (IMDb®)’s Top 250 movies. WHO Essential
Medicines List. Trip Advisor®’s top vacation rentals in the world. Billboard®
Hot 100 singles chart. Hundreds of check lists. Innumerable anonymous bucket
lists. Music fans playlists. Lists here, lists there. Lists around. Lists! Lists! Infinite lists for
anything, everything, everywhere, before, now, forever!
Many lists are used in order to
remember things, to forget things, to do something, to do nothing, to buy goods, whatever. Some lists are very
important. Some lists are essential. Other ones are useless. Anyway, due to my current leisure time, now I want to
honor the ten best lists I have seen in my entire life in a countdown fashion.
Therefore, to anyone who cares, here below is
my list of the best lists I’ve seen in my life.
10. The Bride's Death List Five (2003)
Taking it serious, having a list of
people you want to kill is horrible! Terrible! Illegal! Totally wrong! But reviewing it
fictionally, as a list written by the revengeful Bride against the Deadly Viper
Assassination Squad… Well, that’s different. It’s totally awesome. If you still
haven’t seen Quentin Tarantino’s Kill
Bill volumes 1 and 2, I recommend watching both volumes, hopefully one
after the other within a weekend. If you have seen them already, I suggest you
watch them again!
By the way, take into account the
fact that Tarantino intended to only make a single movie about the whole Kill Bill story, but its original cut
resulted quite lengthy, more than four hours long, it had to be divided in two
volumes for international distribution purposes. However, the mentioned
four-hour cut, re-titled Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, was screened
at select cinemas in 2011 (for more details about this just check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill ).
Also, I have a question for you all:
Who’s the fifth and final viper to be assassinated according to this # 10 list
within MY list? Here’s a hint: The name starts with a B.
9. Rob Gordon's Top Five Dream Jobs (2000)
Like I said, I have seen, read, listened to
thousands of lists and rankings about various different topics since the late
twentieth century. But right after I watched the modern classic film High Fidelity I noticed the existence of
a great handful of marvelous rocking lists, so cool that this mentioned film
and its rankings and lists probably inspired the creation of Top Five Records,
a music record store located in Lake Worth, Florida, United States.
Of all of the superb Top Five lists
mentioned in the mentioned great film, directed by Stephen Frears and having
John Cusack leading the cast under the character name Rob Gordon, I’m sharing
with y’all my favorite Top 5 list of those, with a few additional comments made
by myself in cursive letters:
Rob Gordon’s Top Five Dream Jobs:
# 1: Journalist for Rolling Stone®
magazine, 1976 to 1979. Get to meet The Clash, Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders!), Sex Pistols, David Byrne (Talking Heads!). Get tons of free records. (My comment: Yeeeeaaahhhh!!! This wonderful dream job reminds me of ‘Almost
Famous’, a classic film released in 2000 just like ‘High Fidelity’. The former
classic, not only directed but also written by Cameron Crowe, is based on his
real life experiences as a journalist for Rolling Stone® magazine in the
mid-seventies, working alongside legendary rock bands such as Eagles, King
Crimson [!!!], Led Zeppelin and more. Wow… What a coincidence! Had Rob Gordon
known about this coincidence, how envied would he have been back then!)
# 2: Producer, Atlantic Records. Get to meet Aretha (Franklin [obviously!]), Wilson Pickett,
Solomon Burke. More free records and a shitload of money. (My comment: Maybe this job can certainly give you tons of cash, but
how can one buy happiness? [Check out Rule # 48 of # 7 list inside of my OWN
current list of lists which will be briefly described below])
# 3: Any kind of musician. Besides classical or rap. Settle
for being one of the Memphis Horns or something. I'm not asking to be (Mick [obviously!]) Jagger or (Jimi [obviously!]) Hendrix or Otis
Redding. (My comment: Would he have
accepted to work as a clarinet jazz performer such as, say, Woody Allen?)
# 4: Film director. Any kind except German or silent. (My comment: I’m sorry, what?!?!? What about
working like Werner Herzog? What about, say, Sir Charles Chaplin?!?!?)
# 5: Architect. (My
comment: Uh-uh. Not a dream job for me, no siree! Unless I can become Alvar
Aalto or Art Vandelay [*rim shot*]!)
So yeah, in conclusion, this # 9
list is not perfect, but still it is marvelous! Yeeeaahhh!!!
8. One of Alice Cooper's concert set-lists (2011)
I’ve been a serious music fan since
I was a kid, particularly a rock fan. Fortunately, since 2000 I have assisted many
great rock concerts in different parts of the world, something for which I feel
very lucky and fortunate, and the best concert I think that I’ve attended to,
up to this date, is one performed by Alice Cooper.
In the late 90’s I got to really dig
deep into Alice Cooper’s catalogue, much deeper than usual hits such as
“Poison” and “I’m Eighteen” which are just about the tip of the iceberg (thanks a
lot to Dad for this!). Since then, Alice Cooper became my favorite rock artist,
and finally on May 28th, 2011, I got the chance to see such legend
live for the first time ever, exactly at Estadio Cubierto Malvinas, Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
Its set-list included a handful of
the usual famous hits along with many marvelous surprises, such as “Halo of
Flies”, which was a totally unexpected and wonderful surprise, not only because
it’s not a famous song but also because it is one of my all-time favorite songs
(if you ever want to check out my All-Time Top 100 Favorite Songs [which I like
a lot but still did not qualify to my own Top 10 Best Lists I’ve Seen in My
Life {*LoL*}] just ask me!)!!!
Because of the mentioned facts above
herewith, such set-list is my all-time favorite in relation to live concerts I've attended to. The
complete mentioned set-list can be checked in detail via the following link:
7. John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey's Wedding Crashers rules (2005)
John Beckwith (top left) and Jeremy
Grey are divorce mediators in Washington D.C. who "crash" wedding
parties to meet and bed women. That’s the main phrase to initiate describing the plot of
the super funny film Wedding Crashers,
co-starring Owen Wilson (yes, top left), Vince Vaughn, Chrisopher Walken, Rachel
McAdams, Isla Fisher and Bradley Cooper, and directed by David Dobkin.
Such movie has its flaws. It’s not
perfect, not one of the best movies I’ve seen (if you want to see my Top 100
All-Time Favorite Films I’ve Ever Seen [which did not qualify to the list you
are checking out as we speak!] just let me know!), but still, it’s hilarious!
It features great scenes with comedy, hysterical improvised conversations
between the two main characters, sensational songs, gorgeous actresses, a
surprising apparition by another famously comic actor in the middle of the film
and my seventh favorite list of all time: The Rules of Wedding Crashing.
Such set of rules looks like some
sort of law (The Wedding Crashers Act?), a constitution or something like that,
composed by one hundred and ten (110) rules. In my opinion not all of those
rules are to be followed but maybe, taking them as mere friendly suggestions,
they can actually be successfully applied in our real lives!
The complete mentioned set of rules
can be studied on this link:
6. Any of MTV®'s Top ("N" Number)
Video Countdown hosted by Daisy Fuentes (1993 - 1997)
When in family home we started receiving
MTV® in late ‘93, I got completely blown away watching so many great rock
videos for superb songs that, for one thing, didn’t appear in the usual radio
stations in my hometown city, and for the other thing, it was a breakthrough
for me to watch tons of great rock music videos during the rest of the decade.
And besides the quality of the music
videos I had the luck to be able to appreciate back in that epoch (ahhh, those
were the days!), the fact of having great VJ’s (video jockeys, that is) hosting
different music video shows was always very nice, VJ's including Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren (Loder and
Soren anchored MTV® News; they were not technically VJ’s but I still remember
them!) Kennedy, John Sencio, John Norris, Bill Bellamy… And Daisy Fuentes.
Fuentes principally used to host MTV®’s
weekly Top 20 Video Countdowns aired on Fridays, and no matter which video was Number One in
those countdowns, just to see her for two hours every week (including repetitions on Sundays) it was completely
worth it. Such a sight for sore eyes… Such a nice, attractive, gorgeously beautiful
babe!
5. Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar's Top Ten
Babes We Would Have Liked To Have Seen In The Game (1993)
Now talking about babes, I cannot make
my Top Ten Best Lists I’ve Seen in My Life without including Wayne Campbell and
Garth Algar (AKA Wayne’s World)’s Top
Ten Babes We Would Have Liked To Have Seen In The Game.
Wayne’s World started
as a Saturday Night Live sketch created
by Mike Myers (left) and Dana Carvey in 1989 and it became a huge success,
in such a way that later in 1992 Wayne’s
World was released as a movie and then later a lot of merchandise goods appeared,
including but not limited to caps, t-shirts and video games in different
consoles.
Around that time I got the Wayne’s World Super Nintendo® video game
as a gift (thanks again, Dad!) developed by the American company THQ. That game
received many negative reviews and today in the 21st Century has
been almost completely forgotten by almost everyone in the world, but I still
enjoy playing it on a frequent basis, not only because of the adventure/action
scenes, but also because I got access to some of the coolest and funniest Wayne’s World top ten countdowns, and the one selected for my list
is the one about babes, as mentioned earlier above.
If you’re a Wayne’s World fan I’m sure you’ve already seen the W.W. list I’m
writing about. If you don’t, find the game and play it! Or easily find it completely played from start to finish on
YouTube®. Or else execute Plan C: Just click on the following link:
4. "How to write good" list (1986)
This list was created by Frank L.
Visco, and it got published in the June 1986 issue of Writers' Digest®. Also, As
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, quote, I
hate quotations, unquote.
This list is very cunning,
hilarious, clever, smart, spontaneous, admirable, unforgettable, a million
times better than hundreds of thousands of lists I’ve witnessed up to this date.
This list (which makes me laugh
every time I read it) always helps me to be sort of specific about stuff when I deliver
professional advice to friends, relatives and clients. Seriously.
This list (as shown here) is just a
resume. A higher amount of recommendations in order to write good and better
than the rest of the world just check out the following link:
3. The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness track list (1995)
This is by far my favorite rock
album (if you want to take a look at my Top 100 All Time Favorite Rock Albums just
let me know!). Like the music video for its famous single “Tonight, Tonight”, listening this double album makes me feel like having a trip to the moon. Also, enjoying it from start to finish is a fantasy becoming real, like a dream coming
true, like teardrops falling down for smiles, like many more clichés I can find
in my bedroom desk.
Each song is very different from
each other, from everything else, as if they were different identified persons.
The album has a great selection of different rock styles from super heavy,
energetic and contagious guitar riffs (“X.Y.U.”, “Bullet with Butterfly
Wings”) to almost quiet but beautiful ballads (“Stumbleine”, “To Forgive”) and
many other options in between (“Thru the Eyes of Ruby”, “Porceline of the Vast
Oceans”, “Zero”…), and almost all of them were musically composed and lyrically
written by the head of Smashing Pumpkins, singer and guitarist Billy Corgan.
The other three members of the
original musical quarter created in Chicago, Illinois, United States, guitarist
James Iha, bassist D’arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain (one of my all-time favorite drummers, and if you... You know what I mean [^^]) also
contributed to the mentioned timeless classic with their admirable musical
talents.
For all of these reasons and more,
the mentioned album has the best track list I enjoy listening to once and again. Those are
just my two cents, you know. And for more information about this mentioned
album, including my all-time favorite CD track list, check here:
2. Stanley Stupid's stupid things-to-do-today
list (1996)
The movie The Stupids, directed by
the very talented John Landis (the guy who directed Michael Jackson’s
“Thriller” music video, and classic motion pictures such as Animal House, The
Blues Brothers, Spies Like Us and more), starring comedian actor Tom Arnold,
got completely panned by the critics and it totally bombed at the box office.
I saw it once when it was
recent and I haven’t completely repeated it since then, but it has one scene
that is subliminal. One scene that makes the creation of this movie totally
worth its own existence. The only hilarious scene in the whole movie: The one
in which Stanley Stupid (played by Tom Arnold) checks his own stupid “things-to-do-today” list.
The way that this scene was displayed,
the way it was included in the mentioned film, will be remembered eternally.
Just to think about this super short list gives me a smile. I totally admire
this list like a fountain of happiness.
I know, I know… That seems pretty
senseless… But whatever!!!
1. Top Ten Best Lists I've Seen in My Life
(2017)
I’ve never seen a
list like the one I’m typing as we speak. Maybe I had different inspirations
from Seinfeld, the way they managed
to create the possibility of creating a Seinfeld
show within Seinfeld's fourth season, and later a coffee table book about coffee tables… Or the way
Christopher Nolan’s Inception had
that sequence of a dream within a dream within a dream, possibly inspired (in my proof less hypothesis) on The Alan
Parsons Project’s first track of their 1976 debut album Tales of Mystery and Imagination, “A Dream within a Dream” (greatly
including the voice of Orson Welles!)… Or the fact that Inception came many years after Scrooge McDuck had a very similar
story published about dreams withing dreams (I do have proof for this: http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invented-by-donald-duck-seriously.html)…
Or other artistic inspirations coming
from the album cover of Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma
(1969), or the brilliant scene of Lloyd Bridges’ appearance on Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker’s
Airplane! (1980) in front of a
photograph showing himself in front of his own photograph and so on…
Or just the fact that a very good
friend always teases me because of my huge number of lists for the stuff that I
like with comments like “Another list?!? You’ve made so many lists!!! Lol!”.
Anyway, it’s true. I have a lot of
lists. I've made many lists. I enjoy lists! Maybe it’s a guilty pleasure. If yes, well, yes: As said
by Alice Cooper: I’m guilty, I don’t
care. So there you go. Laugh at me, ignore me, sue me, or just like The
Alan Parsons Project said: Turn me to
stone. Do anything you want with me!
2017
this is number 1 on my favorite list of compilation lists
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