1 |
Tom Waits |
2 |
Carey Mulligan in "An Education". |
3 |
the
possibility of someone smart being elected president in 2008 |
4 |
Studio 60 |
5 |
Bon Ivor's "Flume" |
6 |
Nikon
Digital SLR cameras |
7 |
fried eggs
on Saturday morning |
8 |
movie: Pan's
Labyrinth |
9 |
ratchet sets |
10 |
battery
powered drills |
11 |
the stick
shift |
12 |
the
satisfying resolute click of a key being pressed on a 15-year-old
Northgate computer keyboard, or an IBM model "M". |
13 |
the original Minolta 70-210mm f2.8 lens |
14 |
curried chicken |
15 |
the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich |
16 |
Linux |
17 |
Jennifer Connelly |
18 |
Peter Sellers, especially in "Dr. Strangelove" |
19 |
Ingmar Bergman |
20 |
Hockley Valley in the fall |
21 |
blizzards with clingy snow |
22 |
driving through Hastings, Ontario |
23 |
Algonquin Park |
24 |
Bob Dylan |
25 |
Apple pie a la mode |
25 |
Tiger ice cream |
26 |
the jetcycle |
27 |
community theatre |
28 |
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall |
29 |
PBS's Frontlilne |
30 |
High Definition and Surround Sound |
31 |
peaches |
32 |
strawberries |
33 |
Keira Knightly not getting breast
implants. |
34 |
Director Werner Herzog |
35 |
Jon Krakauer |
36 |
Ozu's films |
37 |
Greta Gerwig |
38 |
Charlie Chaplin |
39 |
Buster Keaton |
40 |
Pierre Trudeau |
41 |
ice bergs |
42 |
the jetcycle, only available in
Newfoundland |
43 |
Stanley Kubrick |
44 |
shelties |
45 |
the drive from Banff to Jasper |
46 |
E.B. White |
47 |
Larry Marshall as Simon Zealotes in "Jesus Christ
Superstar" |
48 |
Jules et Jim |
49 |
Jean Seberg, especially in "Breathless" |
50 |
MySQL databases: efficient, stable, and free |
51 |
Arcade Fire |
52 |
Lea Seydoux |
53 |
Wes Anderson |
54 |
balsamic vinegar salad dressing |
55 |
Lightwave 3D |
56 |
the Minolta 50 mm f1.7 lens, on a Sony Nex 7 camera |
57 |
The Sony VX-2000, in it's day, a terrific video
camera |
58 |
the Sony minidisc, in it's day, a terrific audio
recorder and I'll be damned if I can believe how long it would run
on that tiny little battery. |
59 |
blueberries |
60 |
the massive, belching, bleeping, monstrous "Big-Boy"
UP 4023, 4-8-8-4 ALCO Steam Locomotive, or
this one, a similar model. |
61 |
The T-34 tank |
62 |
PBS News Hour |
63 |
PBS Nova: Science is really very interesting |
64 |
Alice Munro, especially "Who do you Think you are?" |
65 |
oral sex |
66 |
the bikini |
67 |
San Francisco |
68 |
The Musee
Mecanique in San Francisco |
69 |
Robert Duvall |
70 |
Rutger Hauer as the dying android in "Blade Runner",
and his beautiful final speech |
71 |
Anchorage by Michelle Shocked |
72 |
"Silence is Golden", weirdly beautiful, by the
Tremeloes |
73 |
Bob Dylan doing "Just Like a Woman" in an Italian
accent at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in February 1974, with the
Band. |
74 |
The Band, especially "Stage Fright". and "The Night
They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "Cripple Creek": if there's one
thing in the whole wide world/I sure do like to see/It's when that
love of mine dips her donut in my tea". |
75 |
The guy who gave Bob Kelly a job after the
scandalous reckless prosecution of the Little Rascals Day Care case
in North Carolina. |
76 |
Judy Collins doing "Someday Soon". |
77 |
Keith Richard still being alive |
78 |
Ofra Bikel, documentary film-maker |
79 |
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