My Top 50 Video Games

June 25, 2010

1. Turtles 2
2. GoldenEye
3. Mario 3
4. Zelda: OFT
5. Mega Man 2
6. Mario 1
7. Zelda 1
8. Mario World
9. Sonic 2
10. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
11. Batman Returns (NES)
12. Mega Man 3
13. Sonic 1
14. Mario RPG
15. Bubble Bobble
16. Tetris
17. Mario 64
18. Turtles 4
19. FF7
20. Resident Evil 4
21. Smash Bros. (N64)
22. Star Fox 64
23. Mario Kart (N64)
24. Mega Man X
25. Contra
26. Donkey Kong Country
27. God of War II
28. Sim City 2000
29. Metal Gear Solid 2
30. Zelda: A Link to the Past
31. God of War
32. Double Dragon
33. Pac-Man
34. Turtles 1
35. Batman: TAS (GB)
36. Contra 3
37. Kirby’s Adventure Land
38. Turtles 3
39. Rampage (NES)
40. Pokemon Red/Blue
41. Wave Race
42. Zelda: Link’s Awakening
43. Wario Land 2
44. The Sims 2
45. Super Metroid
46. Duck Hunt
47. Wayne Gretsky’s 3D Hockey
48. Battletoads
49. X-Men Legends
50. Mario 2

Top 125 Albums of the 60′s

April 3, 2010

60’s:
The Beatles- The White Album
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
Led Zeppelin- I
The Beatles- Abbey Road
The Doors- The Doors
Cream- Disraeli Gears
The Kinks- The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
The Band- The Band
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground & Nico
The Beatles- Rubber Soul
Cream- Wheels of Fire
The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
The Band- Music from Big Pink
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
The Rolling Stones- Beggars Banquet
The Beatles- Revolver
The Who- Tommy
Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left
Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow
Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
Led Zeppelin- II
Bob Dylan- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Leonard Cohen- Songs of Leonard Cohen
Sly & the Family Stone- Stand!
The Beatles- Help!
CCR- Green River
The Who- The Who Sell Out
The Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour
The Zombies- Odessey and Oricle
Bloomfield & Stills & Kooper- Super Session
The Yardbirds- Roger the Engineer
The Beatles- A Hard Day’s Night
Otis Redding- Otis Blue
Love- Forever Changes
The Moody Blues- Days of Future Pasted
Bob Dylan- Nashville Skyline
Neil Young- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
The Kinks- Arthur
Captain Beafheart- Trout Mask Replica
The Kinks- Something Else
Aretha Franklin- I Never Loved a Man…
CSN- CSN
Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold As Love
Dusty Springfield- Dusty in Memphis
The Kinks- Face to Face
Santana- Santana
Jeff Beck Group- Truth
The Who- A Quick One
The Byrds- Mr. Tambourine Man
The Rolling Stones- Aftermath
Cream- Fresh Cream
Simon & Garfunkel- Bookends
The Doors- Strange Days
The Rolling Stones- Between the Buttons
Buffalo Springfield- Again
The Stooges- The Stooges
Booker T. and the MG’s- Green Onions
Johnny Cash- At Folsom Prison
Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground
Moby Grape- Moby Grape
Joan Baez- Joan Baez
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
The Doors- Waiting for the Sun
The Beatles- Please Please Me
Aretha Franklin- Lady Soul
Love- Da Capo
Jefferson Airplane- Volunteers
CCR- Willy & the Poor Boys
Bob Dylan- John Welsey Harding
Leonard Cohen- Songs from a Room
Donovan- Sunshine Superman
Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
The Who- My Generation
The Byrds- Younger Than Yesterday
The Grateful Dead- Live/Dead
The Yardbirds- Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds
Jethro Tull- Stand Up
Procol Harum- Shine On Brightly
Miles Davis- In a Silent Way
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Mama’s and the Papa’s- If You Can Believe Your Ears
Quicksilver Messenger Service- Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Allman Brothers Band- The Allman Brothers Band
Velvet Underground- White Light/White Heat
The Doors- The Soft Parade
John Coltrane- Giant Steps
Procol Harum- A Salty Dog
The Byrds- The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Ray Charles- Modern Sounds
The Bluesbreakers- John Mayall & The Bluesbeakers with Eric Clapton
The Small Faces- Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake
Buffalo Springfield- Buffalo Springfield
Donovan- Hurdy Gurdy Man
Bob Dylan- Another Side of Bob Dylan
Nico- Chelsea Girls
Procol Harum- Procol Harum
Simon & Garfunkel- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Tyme
Jefferson Airplane- After Bathing at Baxter’s
The Rolling Stones- Out of Our Heads
Fleetwood Mac- Then Play On
Pink Floyd- Saucerful of Secrets
Bob Dylan- The Times They Are A-Changin’
Donovan- Mellow Yellow
Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
Jefferson Airplane- Crown of Creation
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- East-West
James Brown- Live at the Apollo
The Bluesbreakers- A Hard Road
Blind Faith- Blind Faith
Traffic- Traffic
The Beach Boys- Smiley Smile
The Grateful Dead- Anthem of the Sun
The Moody Blues- In Search of the Lost Chord
The Rolling Stones- Their Satanic Majesties Request
The Soft Machine- The Soft Machine
The Beatles- With the Beatles
Jeff Beck Group- Beck-Ola
The Mama’s and the Papa’s- California Dreamin’

Top 10 of 1920

April 2, 2010

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene): M. Night’s favorite film.

2. The Golem (Carl Boese & Paul Wegener): Go Jews!

3. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (John S. Robertson): John Barrymore never looks so good.

4. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith): Another great epic from Griffith.

5. Neighbors (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton): Keaton was the best stunt person ever.

6. The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo): Z.

7. Last of the Mohicans (Clarence Brown & Maurice Tourneur): Better than Mann’s.

8. One Week (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton): I really do love Keaton.

9. Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux): Forgotten sadly.

10. The Penalty (Wallace Worsley):Long live Lon Chaney!

This is the end of my top 10′s. Thank you for all the comments.

Top 10 of 1921

March 31, 2010

1. The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjostrom): Haunting.

2. The Kid (Charlie Chaplin): Aw.

3. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram): Incredible.

4. Der Mude Tod (Fritz Lang): Destiny!

5. Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith): Two Gish’s for the price of one.

6. The Play House (Buster Keaton): Welcome to the play house.

7. The Sheik (George Melford): Better than the sequel.

8. The Goat (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair): I like goat cheese.

9. The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo): One of the better versions.

10. The ‘High Sign’ (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton): He was a master…ok.

Top 10 of 1922

March 31, 2010

1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau): Max! Come back, Max!

2. Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty): The first documentary.

3. Haxan (Benjamin Christensen): Witches everywhere.

4. Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim): The last Stroheim film….I promise.

5. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang): Almost as good as the sequel.

6. The Electric House (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton): Hilarious.

7. Cops (Buster Keaton): Yet another great short.

8. Blood and Sand (Fred Niblo): Oh those bulls.

9. Phantom (F.W. Murnau): Just slightly below the awesomeness of Nosferatu.

10. Robin Hood (Allan Dwan): Fairbanks is the shit.

Top 10 of 1923

March 30, 2010

1. La Roue (Abel Gance): Made Akira Kurosawa want to be a director.

2. Three Ages (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton): Intolerance spoof.

3. A Woman of Paris (Charlie Chaplin): Underrated.

4. Merry-Go-Round (Erich von Stroheim)- Erich was a god.

5. Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton): Yet another great Keaton film.

6. Scaramouche (Rex Ingram): Swords!

7. The Pilgrim (Charlie Chaplin): One of the better Chaplin shorts.

8. Safety Last! (Newmeyer & Taylor): Everyone knows the clock stunt.

9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley): Yet another great Chaney film.

10. Felix in Hollywood (Otto Messmer): *does the Felix pace*

Top 10 of 1924

March 28, 2010

1. Greed (Erich von Stroheim): I want the full cut!

2. He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjostrom): I was close to crying.

3. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton): His second best.

4. Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh): Aladdin takes a lot from this.

5. The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau): Does he get the last laugh?

6. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang): Fantasy was never better.

7. The Iron Horse (John Ford): The only silent Ford that matters.

8. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (Fritz Lang): Seigfried’s wife is mad.

9. The Navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton): Just as good as Sherlock, Jr.

10. Michael (Carl Th. Dreyer): A tale of homosexual love.

Top 10 of 1925

March 27, 2010

1. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chapin): *plays with some yams*

2. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein): It’s freaking Potemkin.

3. Paris qui dort (Rene Clair): Brilliant short.

4. The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian): Chaney’s best film.

5. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton): Hilarious when he is running from the women.

6. The Big Parade (King Vidor): One of the best war films.

7. Strike (Sergei M. Eisenstein): Can’t believe Eisenstein made two great films this year.

8. The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt): Badass. Dinosaurs fighting and eating humans right and left.

9. Visages d’enfants (Jacques Feyder): Feyder shoud be more remembered.

10. Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ernst Lubitsch): Wilde and Lub compliment each other.

Top 10 of 1926

March 24, 2010

1. The General (Buster Keaton): Keaton’s best.

2. Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown): Garbo is evil.

3. Faust (F.W. Murnau): That Mephisto…

4. Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin): Herzog loves Pudovkin.

5. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger): One of the most creative films.

6. La boheme (King Vidor): Gish was an amazing actress.

7. Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff): Rain.

8. Don Juan (Alan Crosland): Had a soundtrack with it.

9. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa): Madness is a good word for it.

10. The Son of the Sheik (George Fitzmaurice): That sexy Valentino.

Top 10 of 1927

March 23, 2010

1. Metropolis (Fritz Lang): Masterpiece.

2. Napoleon (Abel Gance): I’m still waiting on the sequels, Gance.

3. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau): Vasco’s favorite.

4. The Three-Sided Mirror (Jean Epstein): Epstein knew how to use the camera.

5. The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubtisch): Possibly my favorite of his.

6. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann): Like Man with the Movie Camera but you watch a day in the life of Berlin.

7. The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland): You ain’t heard noting yet.

8. The Unknown (Tod Browning): Creepy Chaney.

9. The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin): Like Eisenstein’s montage editing but with things blowing up.

10. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock): Jack the Ripper.


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