The title says it all. Top 10s are cool. Here are some. They are all subject to change at any time. I'll add more whenever I can think of one.

(Disclosure: Most of these haven’t been updated in years and would look different now.)

Favorite Movies

Almost Famous

Children of Men

High Fidelity

Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies)

Lola rennt

Magnolia

Se7en

Persona

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Albums for Eternity

Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate

Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare

Interpol – Antics

Radiohead - OK Computer

The Thermals – The Body, the Blood, the Machine

Slut – Alienation

Tocotronic – Tocotronic

Foals – Antidotes

Gang of Four – Entertainment!

The Beatles – Revolver

Tomte - Für immer die Menschen

 

Songs for Eternity

The Beatles – For No One

M.I.A. – Bad Girls

Interpol – Pioneer to the Falls

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

The Thermals – Here's Your Future

Tocotronic – Hi Freaks

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – The Sweets

Kanye West – Power

Leonard Cohen – Love Calls You By Your Name

Elliott Smith – Between the Bars

 

Favorite Bad Movies

Dollman

Double Team

Soldier

House of the Dead

Shocker

Star Crash

Road House

The Skulls

Batman & Robin

I Know Who Killed Me

  

Most Important Books

Daniel Quinn – Ishmael/My Ishmael/The Story of B

Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the United States

Stephen King – It/The Dark Tower (and much more)

J. Zornado – Inventing the Child

Sven Regener – Herr Lehmann/Neue Vahr Süd

Jean Liedloff – The Continuum Concept

Juli Zeh – Spieltrieb

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun

Chris Cleave – The Other Hand

John Green – Looking for Alaska

 

Favorite TV Series

The Wire

In Treatment

Six Feet Under

Extras

The Office (UK)

Mad Men

ER

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Jessica Jones

The End of the F***ing World

 

 

Favorite Podcasts

Blank Check

Evolution of Horror

This Had Oscar Buzz

Unspooled

The Daily

Filmspotting

How Did This Get Made?