- Art Young
- Lisa Lyons
- Mark Matcott
- David Pope/Heinrich Hinze
- Laura Gray/Laura Slobe
- Bruce Petty
- Walter Crane
- William Morris
- Chips MacKinolty
- Phil Evans
- Henri-Gustave Jossot
- C.E. Setzer
- Murray (from Young Comrade[USA] newspaper)
- Roberto Zamarin
- Marjane Satrapi
- Carlo (Jesse Cohen)
- George Grosz
- Otto Dix
- Théophile Steinlen
- Joe Sacco
- Sam Wallman
- Keith McDougall
- Safdar Ahmed
- Tom Civil
- Honoré Daumier
- Charles Philipon
- Ernest Riebe
- Ambrose Dyson Jr
- Clifford Harper
- Chris Ware
- Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow)
- Carlos Latuff
- Spain Rodriguez
- Ron Cobb
- Skip Williamson
- Rick Amor
- Noel Counihan
- Frank Hardy
- Andrew Marlton (First Dog On The Moon)
- Balfour Ker
- Käthe Kollwitz
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20 Old Fashioned Boy Names
- Brett
- Brent
- Brad
- Trent
- Todd
- Troy
- Tim
- Malcolm
- Russell
- Justin
- Mitch
- Gram
- Kyle
- Reece
- Howie
- Shane
- Dale
- Mike
- Adam
- Zach
Top 150 basketball words and terms
- swish
- in the paint
- weak side
- hesitation move
- moving screen
- charity stripe
- basketball IQ
- eurostep
- rim protection
- towel waver
- In-Your-Face!
- playing unselfishly
- point*s* guard
- putting on a clinic
- facial!
- wet ball
- tight rims
- flagrant foul
- gets the teardrop to fall
- playing downhill
- hard foul
- dropping dimes
- double dribble
- denied by _____
- broke his ankles
- throws it down
- put back
- adjustment
- dunk
- crossover
- ball hog
- foul trouble
- charge
- clutch
- banked off the glass
- skyhook
- sweep the series
- missed a call
- great work from the bench
- loose ball
- pump fake
- grown man move
- The Infrastructure
- throw it to him on the block
- good on the offensive glass
- can not connect
- the basket and the contact
- allyoop
- bank
- box out
- fake him out
- goes to the bench
- defensive stops
- in the post
- coast-to-coast
- struggled offensively
- friendly roll
- pick and roll
- shake and bake
- posterised
- shakes the defender
- stops on a dime
- catchin’ fire
- clean the glass
- break away
- jabstep
- stops and pops
- floater
- flop
- turnaround-fadeaway-jump-shot
- hook
- backdoor cut
- feet set
- air ball
- and-one
- ball reversal
- bite on something
- buzzer beater
- big man
- layup
- empty the bench
- fastbreak
- goaltending
- hops
- loose ball
- man-to-man
- zone
- pure shooter
- shot clock violation
- sixth man
- triple-double
- use the glass
- to the bucket
- drive to the lane
- draws in the defence
- three-ball
- road game
- assist
- caught fire
- the bucket and the foul
- leak out
- coaches decision
- stretch four
- smalls
- bigs
- move the ball
- hit shots in transition
- Hack-A-Shaq
- Going midget
- one-legged step-back with the right kickback
- back cut
- investigate and penetrate
- shooters ready to fire
- guard looking to make something happen
- bank shot
- post up
- off the ball
- hate-orade
- jacking it up
- _____ will pop
- gets the roll
- step in to your shots
- shimmies
- has come out shooting well
- ducks inside
- the drop off
- runs the lane
- picks him up off the switch
- stripped of the ball
- drops the hammer
- benchwarmer
- penetration
- all ways
- steps into it
- moving the ball
- isolation
- iso
- can’t get a look
- post-heavy
- forrrrr-Three!
- downtown
- finger roll
- outlet pass
- chucker
- in-and-out
- violation
- deee-Fence!
- let’s go, ____ ,let’s go!
- Princeton offense
- The Showtime Lakers
Favourite passenger cars (grouped within manufacturer)
- Holden LJ Torana GTR 1972
- Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1 1970
- Holden HB Brabham Torana SL 1967
- Holden HT – 1969 Sedan
- Holden HT – 1970-71 Monaro Coupe
- Holden HT – 1969 Kingswood Wagon
- Holden TX Gemini SL Coupe 1975
- Holden HT – 1970 Belmont Panel Van
- BMC ADO16 Morris 1300 MkII Traveller (estate version) 1969
- BMC ADO16 Austin 1300 GT Mark III 1972
- AMC Gremlin (all models, 1974 is nice)
- Volvo 244GL 1974
- Volvo 242 DL 1976
- Mitsubishi (Chrysler) Valiant Galant GB 1972
- Mitsubishi Chrysler Sigma (GE) SE Sedan 1977
- Volkswagen Golf I 1974
- Ford Escort (all models)
- Ford Pinto (all models 1971-80)
- Ford Cortina 1600E Mark II Estate 1966
- Ford Cortina Mark II 4-door Saloon 1966
- Triumph 2000 Mk 2 Saloon 1971
- Triumph Vitesse Courier Van 1962
- Chevrolet Vega – 1971 Hatchback Coupe
- Chevrolet Vega – 1973 GT
- Chevrolet Vega – 1971 Panel Express
- Chevrolet Chevy II Nova Sedan 1976
- Toyota Corolla E20 1970
- Nissan (Datsun) Bluebird 510 1967
- Nissan (Datsun) Violet 710 Series 1973-77
- Plymouth Barracuda 1968
- Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Sedan 1977
- Pontiac Firebird 1974
100 favourite Christian words
- papal
- beatitude
- primate
- indulgence
- immaculate
- tabernacle
- hell
- sodality
- pardon
- epistle
- disciple
- revelation
- supper
- potentate
- ecclesiastes
- ascension
- cannonicity
- apostasy
- calling
- devotional
- sin
- passover
- archbishop
- benediction
- amen
- sermon
- gospel
- divine
- eucharist
- antichrist
- anointing
- mephistopheles
- cross
- faith
- incarnaton
- covenant
- godfearer
- godhead
- idolatry
- creation
- redemption
- miracle
- grace
- trinity
- Leviticus
- reforrmed
- blasphemy
- mass
- chrism
- repentence
- proselytes
- sacrament
- commandments
- tetragrammaton
- diocese
- salvation
- blessed
- transubstantiation
- lent
- eden
- consecrated
- vision
- unction
- celibate
- denomination
- chaste
- resurrection
- spirit
- testament
- samaritan
- gethsemenon
- palm
- vow
- epiphany
- incarnation
- advent
- heretical
- sabbath
- crucifixion
- vestments
- dispensations
- temptation
- creed
- pope
- judgement
- babtistery
- liturgical
- aumbry
- see
- paraclete
- friar
- oblate
- communion
- rite
- quartodecimanism
- holyrood
- contemplation
- apocalypse
- passion
- rapture
Favourite words
- fickle
- masterclass
- mouth-breather
- unmolested
- recalcitrant
- Trotsky-ish
- peloton
- bivouac
- imprimatur
- louche
- beachhead
- dull
- intention
- unflappable
- latecomers
- edgy
- bothered
- prerogative
- mate
- evidently
- nomenclature
- precocious
- coy
- intense
- considerate
- upset
- overshare
- stud
- overhead
- outcomes
- cowabunga
- pest
- compulsive
- grubby
- vestibule
- balustrade
- deliberate
- obedient
- pragmatic
- reactive
- knuckledragger
- bitter
- hospitable
- barrier
- inappropriate
- filigree
- apogee
- pedigree
- perigee
- bromide
- quintessence
- quarrel
- febrile
- merit
- flaneur
- inchoate
- distraught
- documented
- literate
- wink
- backhanded
- minging
- mocking
- inheritance
- hoary
- adage
- febrile
- nary
- elegiac
- erstwhile
- acumen
- presuppose
- astringent
- rarified
- irascible
- aspic
- multihyphenate
- foray
- heirloom
- bequeath
- cackhanded
- attenuation
- heft
- equanimity
- apocryphal
- resentment
- mercurial
- hutch
- profound
- presumptious
- transgression
- alacrity
- fleeting
- canard
- quash
- foundered
- flounder
- intransigence
- district
- fillip
- profound
- exceptionalist
- restive
- plodder
- percolated
- schtum
- displaced
- diminished
- somewhat
- antediluvian
- sneer
- deceit
- kiosk
- demurred
- fulfilled
- querelous
- ennui
- plaything
- vainglorious
- pander
- exegesis
- agreement
- supplicant
- fissiparous
- sophisticate
- bleating
- restraint
- cladding
- roughcast
- pebbledash
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- archaic
- lapidary
- equivocation
- equivocate
- ceviche
- maquette
- inculcated
- pond
- eye-fucking
- cocoon
- sequestered
- augered
- luxuriate
- keening
- pique
- nous
- incriminating
- acquiesced
- contrived
- comeuppance
- palatial
- neophyte
- fledgling
- milklings
- turncoat
- flitting
- profound
- unrequited
- reciprocity
- impish
- doyen
- peripatetic
- prurient
- expert
- inexplicable
- peccadilloes
- obloquy
- opprobrium
- calumny
- disrepute
- excoriated
- unconvincing
- perusing
- paucity
- epigones
- Matriculation
- Duped
- Magnate
- louche
- suggests
- Traipsed
- exception
- salutory
- cusp
- stopgap
- intransigent
- panagyrics
- manqué
- chancer
- self-styled
- self-appointed
- beatific
- mirthful
- phlegmatic
- equinimity
- savant
- exasperation
- provocative
- purposelessness
- plucky
- puckish
- sympathy
- extraordinary
- insignificant
- sojourn
- shrewd
- dogsbody
- fracas
- plaudits
- brickbats
- irreverent
- courteous
- acquiesced
- paucity
- quasi
- mandarin
- extant
- hobbled
- debilitating
- tract
- wan
- shiftless
- burnout
- suspicious
- intense
- cri de coeur
- enthusiasm
- encouragement
- anhedonia
- poor
- stolen
- sidekick
- equanimity
- spate
- resilience
- copacetic
- intuitive
- sexpot
- besieged
- cute
- snub
- seminal
- fascinator
- fatso
- perspicacity
- furrowed
- shrewd
- nomenclature
- ample
- purist
- astute
- choke
- Traditional
- Obstreperous
- Censorious
- Obsequious
- phonies
- goodwill
- picante
- rent
- efficacy
- erstwhile
- puckish
- greed
- mercurial
- sucour
- unreconstructed
- butt
- underestimated
- incentives
- constraints
- expectations
- rewards
- quixotic
- squires
- conquistidor
- fixate
- renounce
- diminished
- boy
- boistorous
- begone
- élan
- compulsion
- stimulous
- flagrant
- decree
- shagrin
- whistleblower
- indolent
- tragedy
- crooked
- please
- incompatible
- acceptance
- lightweight
- transient
- unsurprisingly
- unceasing
- kiosk
- porcine
- revisited
- insensitive
- toppings
- imperious
- apocryphal
- obsequious
- street
- paddle
- scaffold
- staph
- neon
- uncompromising
- dislocated
- subsequently
- taste
- contest
- benefactor
- unceremoniously
- compelled
- discarded
- checkered
- surpass
- convenient
- annoying
- risk
- indicator
- play
- mutable
- express
- nevertheless
- newcomers
- pedant
- emphasis
- nuance
- coterie
- cohere
- concomitent
- insidious
- abrupt
- abbrasive
- meh
- commitment
- participate
- controversial
- resisted
- embedded
- dual
- duel
- conform
- cause
- pause
- conventional
- mannered
- vein
- forefront
- orphan
- pedophile
- quotidian
- disco
- folk
- blues
- punk
- content
- discontent
- disconcerting
- unreconstructed
- erratic
- confident
- extraordinary
- slurs
- epithets
- obscenities
- dwell
- dwelling
- bitterness
- articulate
- compelling
- flagship
- dilute
- method
- mimicry
- severe
- aquiline
- pandering
- overdog
- assert
- prosaic
- convoluted
- nonplussed
- bucollic
- chatty
- playful
- content
- insular
- temperence
- cease
- passive
- epic
- auxiliary
- nasty
- facile
- frothing
- depthless
- wobble
- exile
- excommunication
- shat
- useless
- husk
- fecund
- self-involved
- excessive
- fine
- seen
- milquetoast
- opportunity
- apothacary
- grotto
- form
- function
- breeder
- sheeple
- assimilate
- cheek
- kimono
- philanderer
- overexcited
- progenet
- plantagenet
- lotion
- incremental
- jest
- malevolent
- genteel
- malingerer
- cool
- tat
- patter
- folksy
- yuck
Top 5 Soundgarden songs
- Pretty Noose
- Burden in my Hand
- My Wave
- Outshined
- The Day I Tried To Live
Top 20 band names
- Pretty Good Sex
- Hot Chip
- Motörhead
- The Fascist Fair Go Party
- Lurid Yellow Mist
- Big Black
- Slayer
- Devo
- AC/DC
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Free Kitten
- Big Star
- N.W.A.
- Smudge
- Happy Mondays
- The Smiths
- INXS
- Megadeath
- L7
- The Ramones
Top 10 sport umpires of all-time
- Mills Lane (boxing)
- Mohamed Lahyani (tennis)
- Joey Crawford (basketball)
- Terry Tata (baseball)
- Dickie Bird (cricket)
- Ken Kaiser (baseball)
- Eddie Reed (baseball)
- Pam Postema (baseball)
- Ron Luciano (baseball)
- Eddie Crouch (basketball)
Top 50 songs by The Church
- Feel
- It’s No Reason
- A New Season
- Easy
- Comedown
- City
- Reptile
- Operetta
- Monday Morning
- Almost With You
- Myrrh
- North South East West
- Sealine
- Fly
- Destination
- Already Yesterday
- Metropolis
- Tear It All Away
- Just For You
- No Explanation
- Too Fast For You
- Electric Lash
- Block
- Happy Hunting Ground
- Disenchanted
- Laughing
- Delirious
- Night of Light
- Hotel Womb
- The Unguarded Moment
- Another Earth
- Youth Worshipper
- Louisiana
- Spark
- Terra Nova Cain
- Blood Money
- My Little Problem
- Lost
- Cobalt Blue
- Fading Away
- Lustre
- Happenstance
- After Image
- Under The Milky Way
- Lullaby
- Anaesthesia
- Unified Field
- Antenna
- Bel-Air
- A Month of Sundays
Top 20 Died Pretty songs
- Doused
- Blue Sky Day
- DC
- Good At Love
- A State of Graceful Mourning
- Misunderstood
- The 2000 Year Old Murder
- Next To Nothing
- Godbless
- Stop Myself
- Towers of Strength
- Springenfall
- Sweetheart
- Harness Up
- The Love Song
- Winterland
- Whitlam Square
- Satisfied
- Radio
- When You Dance (Neil Young cover)
Top 50 songs of Midnight Oil and R.E.M. from the 90’s (combined)
- Drums of Heaven by Midnight Oil
- So Fast, So Numb by R.E.M.
- Blue Sky Mine by Midnight Oil
- What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? by R.E.M.
- Star Me Kitten by R.E.M.
- Renaissance Man by Midnight Oil
- Near Wild Heaven by R.E.M.
- I Took Your Name by R.E.M.
- King of the Mountain by Midnight Oil
- Bittersweet Me by R.E.M.
- New Test Leper by R.E.M.
- Losing My Religion by R.E.M.
- Strange Currencies by R.E.M.
- Half A World Away by R.E.M.
- Truganini by Midnight Oil
- Shiny Happy People by R.E.M.
- Time To Heal by Midnight Oil
- Forgotten Years by Midnight Oil
- Underwater by Midnight Oil
- Bring On The Change by Midnight Oil
- Daysleeper by R.E.M.
- Be Mine by R.E.M.
- Man on the Moon by R.E.M.
- At My Most Beautiful by R.E.M.
- Surf’s Up Tonight by Midnight Oil
- Bang and Blame by R.E.M.
- The Wake-Up Bomb by R.E.M.
- Low by R.E.M.
- I Don’t Sleep, I Dream by R.E.M.
- Crush With Eyeliner by R.E.M.
- E-Beat by Midnight Oil
- New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 by R.E.M.
- My Country by Midnight Oil
- Undertow by R.E.M.
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight by R.E.M.
- Radio Song by R.E.M.
- Ignoreland by R.E.M.
- Barest Degree by Midnight Oil
- Leave by R.E.M.
- Electrolite by R.E.M.
- Suspicion by R.E.M.
- Lotus by R.E.M.
- Monty Got A Raw Deal by R.E.M.
- Gravelrash by Midnight Oil
- Airportman by R.E.M.
- In The Valley by Midnight Oil
- Tongue by R.E.M.
- Blot by Midnight Oil
- Departure by R.E.M.
- Redneck Wonderland by Midnight Oil
10 nice things about Canberra
- Aboriginal Tent Embassy
- Telstra Tower (good place to be studious for the price of $7.50)
- Smiths Alternative Bookshop (come for the culture, stay for the pumpkin soup)
- Tilley’s (lesbian bar)
- Sweet Bones Bakery Cafe (Lonsdale Street Traders is nice if you’re in the mood for hipster things)
- National Library of Australia (I’m sure the other government institutions like the National Archives have equally awesome rare stuff to read and watch)
- Impact Comics
- Landspeed (music shop)
- National Gallery of Australia
- all the 90s sensibility (so much enviro activism, 90s indie music everywhere, and a large public service – ha)
12 names with assonance (not including myself)
- Annie Oakley
- Eric Aarons
- Andrew Ettinghausen
- Alex Ellinghausen
- Ian Angus
- Ursula Andress
- Idi Amin
- Oona O’Neill
- Isabelle Allende
- Emma Alberici
- Adam Elliot
- Igor Iasine
Top 40 songs written by John Lennon
- I’m Only Sleeping
- Love
- Good Night
- Julia
- You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
- Woman
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- Getting Better
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- Rain
- The Word
- One Day (At A Time)
- Nowhere Man
- Glass Onion
- Revolution
- A Day In The Life
- I’m In Love
- She Said She Said
- Mean Mr. Mustard
- Polythene Pam
- Happy Xmas (War is Over)
- Oh My Love
- Hey Bulldog
- All You Need Is Love
- Because
- Come Together
- You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
- With A Little Help From My Friends
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Now and Then
- Baby You’re A Rich Man
- Watching The Wheels
- How?
- I Found Out
- You Are Here
- Dear Prudence
- Sun King
- Gone From This Place
- Nobody Told Me
- Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Fave fashions of resistance movements and the revolutionary left
- shaved head (promoted by Rodchenko circa Russian Revolution)
- Phrygian cap, pantalons (trousers), la carmagnole (short jacket), sabots (clogs) of the Sans-Culottes circa French Revolution
- leather clothing (promoted by Sverdlov amongst the Bolsheviks pre-1917, they were sometimes refered to as the ‘Leatherites’)
- handkerchief code of the homosexual underground circa 20th century
- afro, black leather jacket, powder blue shirt, black pants, black shoes, black
beret, and optional black gloves of the Black Panthers (promoted by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale) - red bandana circa Spanish Civil War
- white helmets with a red line around the bottom and a large black ‘Z’, worn by the student activists in the Nihon Kakumeiteki Kyõsanshugisha Dõmei Kakumeiteki Marukusushugi-ha (Japan Revolutionary Communist League Revolutionary Marxist Faction) aka Kakumaru-ha.
- overalls (promoted by Stepanova after the Russian Revolution)
- Jungenschaftsjacke (also known as a juja or young stem jacket) of the Edelweiss Pirates circa German Third Reich
- red ribbons worn by activist Phillipinos at work in the late 1980s.
- sabots (clogs) of the ‘sabotteurs’ and pre-Luddites of 15th century Netherlands
- dyed red leather of the Red Sotnia (a faction in the Red Army during the Russian Revolution)
- kente cloth of American Black Nationalism
- membership card carried in the shoes of the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
- Early geometric Bolshevik textiles (designed by Varvara Stepanova)
- Tute Bianche (Italian autonomists in the 90s, they wore white overalls to evoke the ‘ghosts’ that would haunt the ghost town police proposed to make of a squatted area).
- fustian jackets, worn by workers during the Chartist era in the 19th century as a symbol of their class allegiance.
- umbrellas (carried by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the Umbrella Movement).
- orange felt hats (promoted by Orange Alternative, worn at anti-government protests in 1988 in the wake of the Solidarnosc/Solidarity uprising in Poland).
- raincoats (with ‘End Apartheid’ written on them, worn by British anti-apartheid activists during their long, ongoing protest in the 1980s).
100 titles I like
- Born Sandy Devotional
- The Doctor is Sick
- Pale Fire
- I Was The Hunter and I Was The Prey
- Wide Boys Never Work
- The Difference Between Me and You Is that I’m Not on Fire
- A Cloud In Trousers
- Who Are These Friends of the People, and How They Fight Against the Social-Democrats
- Middle Class Revolt
- Hycacinths and Thistles
- The Hissing of Summer Lawns
- Diving Board Harmonic
- The Soft Machine
- Check Your Head
- An Unsocial Socialist
- Jellybelly
- Die Nigger Die! (this was a book of the Black Liberation era by H Rap Brown – M.A.E)
- Howl
- Puberty Blues
- My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours
- The Naked Civil Servant
- Once a Jolly Comrade
- Property is Condemned
- Hating Alison Ashley
- Blondes Have More Fun (In The Hitler Youth)
- Double Bummer
- If You’re Not Famous at Fourteen, You’re Finished
- You’re The One For Me, Fatty
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Red Wank: The Journal of Rank and File Masturbation
- Steal This Book
- Between Thought and Expression
- Nevermind
- Wild Socialism
- Evol
- Hard On For Jesus
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Tigermilk
- Shoplifters of the World Unite
- Thunderhead
- Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be
- Loveless
- I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Hammer, The Sickle and The Washing Up
- In the Grass All Wine Coloured
- Without MSG I Am Nothing
- 18 In A Week
- The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
- Brave New World
- He Poos Clouds
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Motorcycle Emptiness
- Southpaw Grammer
- The Naked Lunch
- Bring On The Dancing Horses
- Property is Theft
- Don’t Want To Be Grant McLennan
- Everything is Fixed
- Live Through This
- Young and Full of the Devil
- I’m in the Future, Now
- Hourly, Daily
- Forget About Him I’m Mint
- It’s Only Right and Natural
- Rare Breed
- Waltzing Materialism
- The Unhappy Elitist
- This Nation’s Saving Grace
- Shabooh Shoobah
- Enjoy Your Worries You May Never Have Them Again
- Hard For You
- Doolittle
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Jung Talent Time
- Sister
- Mike Love Not War
- All That False Instruction
- So What?
- Drugs Are Wasted On The Young
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
- The Raggered Trousered Philanthropists
- Sorry ‘Bout The Violence
- All Hands On The Bad One
- War and Peace
- Rice is Nice
- Funhouse
- What Makes A Man Start Fires
- Shaved Women
- The Art Scab
- A Slap In The Face Of Public Taste
- Fear and Whiskey
- Beyond Good and Evil
- You Know My Name, Look Up The Number
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- On The Beach
- My Thyme is Up (fictional title within the novel ‘Unless’ by Carol Shields – M.A.E.)
- Thriller
- What is to be Done?
Top 50 R&B songs (one song each artist)
- Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey
- Over by Drake
- Losing You by Solange
- You Gotta Be by Des’ree
- Rimshot (live) by Eryka Badu
- Sexodus by M.I.A.
- Only To Be With You by Roachford
- All 4 You by Janet Jackson
- Roses by Outkast
- Dy-Na-Mi-Tee by Ms Dynamite
- Tha Crossroads by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
- Still by Macy Gray
- All Good? by De La Soul (ft Chaka Khan)
- Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado (ft Timbaland)
- Waterfalls by TLC
- I Swear by All-4-One
- Soldier of Love by Sade
- 212 by Azealia Banks
- Whatta Man by Salt-n-Pepa
- Regulate by Warren G (ft Nate Dogg)
- Say My Name by Destiny’s Child
- Thinkin Bout You by Frank Ocean
- 1 Thing by Amerie
- Ignition (Remix) by R. Kelly
- Star by The Roots
- Cheers (Drink To That) by Rihanna
- Wut by Le1f
- The Pressure by Jhene Aiko
- Pony by Ginuwine
- Try Again by Aaliyah
- Cleopatra’s Theme by Cleopatra
- Devil’s Pie by D’Angelo
- Never Ever by All Saints
- Cold War by Janelle Monáe
- Happy by Pharrell Williams
- Breathe Again by Toni Braxton
- I’ll Make Love To You by Boyz II Men
- Irreplaceable by Beyoncé
- Loyal by Chris Brown
- Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keys
- Let Me Blow Ya Mind by Eve (ft Gwen Stefani)
- Caught Out There by Kelis
- My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It) by En Vogue
- Work by Kelly Rowland
- I Got It by Eddie Murphy
- All The Time by Jeremih (ft Lil Wayne and Natasha Mosley)
- Cake by Trey Songz
- House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls by The Weeknd
- U Got It Bad by Usher
- Take Me As I Am by Mary J. Blige
Top 10 Clouds songs
- Here Now
- Down From The Sky
- Bubble Baby
- Foxes Wedding
- Loud
- Aquamarine
- Cloud Factory
- Immorta
- Fear The Moon
- Anaesthesia
Left-wing political graphic designers
- Robin Fior (also known as Reuben Fior)
- William Morris
- Jan Tschichold
- John Sloan
- Lisa Lyons and Kit Lyons
- Atelier Populaire
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Gerd Arntz
- Karel Teige
- John Heartfield
- Remeike Forbes
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- Emory Douglas
- Redback Graphix (Michael Callaghan and Gregor Cullen)
- El Lissitzky
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Evelyn Barker
- Robert Brownjohn
- Grapus (Pierre Bernard, François Miehe and Gérard Paris-Clavel)
- Chips Mackinolty
- Theo Ballmer
- Inkahoots (Chris Stannard, Geoff Heller and Robyn McDonald)
- Tibor Kalman
- Roberto Zamarin
- Zdeněk Rossman
- Rufus Segar
- Kalle Lasn
- Peter Kennard
- Pearce Marchbank
- Xanti Schawinksy
- Barney Bubbles
- Josh MacPhee
- Paul Renner
- Ken Garland
- Richard Hollis
- David King
- Noma Bar
- Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
- Edward Wright
- Shigeo Fakuda
- Jonathan Barnbrook
- Bazooka
- Stenberg Brothers
- Desmond Jeffery
- Milton Glaser
- Richard Paul Lohse
- Paul Schuitema
- Jindřich Heisler
- Roman Cieslewicz
- Rich Black
- Stieg Larsson
- Steven Heller
- Victor Deni
- Hans Hillman
- Herb Lubalin
- Paula Scher
- Stefan Sagmeister
- Erik Spiekermann
- Paul Rand
- John Percy
Favourite 20 Australian Hockey Players (all time)
- Damon Diletti
- Mark Hager
- Paul Gaudoin
- Paul Lewis
- Greg Corbitt
- Ric Charlesworth
- Jackie Pereira
- Eddie Ockenden
- Rechelle Hawkes
- Lachlan Elmer
- Keiran Govers
- Jamie Dwyer
- Simon Orchard
- Ken Wark
- Michael York
- Alyson Annan
- Brent Dancer
- Nova Peris
- Troy Elder
- Baeden Choppy
Top 5 relatives of famous people
- Rembrandt Bugatti
- Modest Tchaikovsky
- Dolly Wilde
- Eleanor Marx
- Dave Franco
Top 5 buzz words of the Left (from the post Anti-Capitalist Movement era)
- wild socialism
- technological adolescence
- disaster capitalism
- full communism
- magical voluntarism
Top 200 political songs (max one song representing each artist)
- Blackfella Whitefella by Warumpi Band
- Union City Blue by Blondie
- Which Side Are You On? by Florence Reece
- Ping Pong by Stereolab
- Rough Justice by Bananarama
- Labour Theory of Value by Alex C (from Occupy Sydney)
- Glad It’s All Over by Captain Sensible
- Where’s My Jumper? by The Sultans of Ping
- Cunts Are Still Running The World by Jarvis Cocker
- Yang Yang by Yoko Ono
- Rights For Gays by John Maus
- History of Communism (Soviet Union) by Jeffrey Lewis
- Rise by Public Image Limited
- Rockstar (Olympia) by Hole
- Hard Knock Life by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (from Annie)
- Destroy 2000 Years of Culture by Atari Teenage Riot
- Crazy World by Frightwig/Redd Kross
- The Age Of Self by Robert Wyatt
- Peace Attack by Sonic Youth
- We Are All Bourgeois Now by McCarthy
- Original Faubus Fables by Charles Mingus
- Sunshowers by M.I.A.
- Up Against The Wall by The Tom Robinson Band
- Something In The Air by Thunderclap Newman
- Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) by The Valentine Brothers / Simply Red
- The Bombs Dropped On Xmas Day by The Reels
- Modern Girl by Sleater-Kinney
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) by Melanie
- Blue Sky Mine by Midnight Oil
- Ban Marriage by Hidden Cameras
- Understanding Marx by The Red Shadows
- Drunk on Election Night by Dan Kelly
- IPC by Light Asylum
- To Be Young Gifted And Black by Nina Simone
- The Night I Fell In Love by The Pet Shop Boys
- CIA Man by The Fugs
- Get Off The Internet by Le Tigre
- Out Of Time by Blur
- Motorcycle Emptiness by Manic Street Preachers
- Heatwave by The Blue Nile
- Nuclear War by Sun Ra / Yo La Tengo
- Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones
- Children of the Revolution by T-Rex
- Give Fraser The Razor by Red Peril
- Marx and Engels by Belle and Sebastian
- 911 Is A Joke by Public Enemy
- Rally by Phoenix
- Generals and Majors by XTC
- The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
- John Howard The Actor by Ross McLennan
- Why I Hate Xmas by White Town
- Look In The Mirror by Simply Red
- Turnover by Fugazi
- Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell
- Hegira Émigré by of Montreal
- Hurricane by Bob Dylan
- Society Is My Friend by Kurt Vile
- Middle Class Revolt by The Fall
- Part Of The Union by The Strawbs
- Smalltown Boy by Bronksi Beat
- The Last Guy by Arlo Guthrie
- Arcarsenal by At The Drive-In
- Funeral Pyre by The Jam
- Hoops With Fidel by Neon Neon
- New Name Blues by Dick Diver
- Communist Daughter by Neutral Milk Hotel
- Family Treet by The Raincoats
- Not Great Men by Gang of Four
- Finest Worksong by REM
- I Am Woman by Helen Reddy
- All Women Are Bitches by Fifth Column
- Police On My Back by The Clash
- Solid Rock by Goanna
- Right Wing Fags by The Fauves
- Caucasian Guilt by Noh Mercy
- Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- U-Mass by Pixies
- Pretend That We’re Dead by L7
- War Pigs by Black Sabbath
- The Mistakes of Trotsky by Red Krayola
- Vote for Henry by Henry Heng’s campaign team
- For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield
- Come Out by Steve Reich
- Freedom Day by Max Roach
- Wardance by Killing Joke
- Common People by Pulp
- Butchers Tale (Western Front 1914) by The Zombies
- 99 Luftballons by Nena
- Caught in the Act by Redgum
- Spirits In The Material World by The Police
- Sky Pilot by Eric Burdon and The Animals
- Know Your Product by The Saints
- Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
- Tonight The Streets Are Ours by Richard Hawley
- Russian Revolution Blues by Julian Cope
- 16 Military Wives by The Decemberists
- Belfast by Boney M
- Potshot Heard Around The World by The Dead Kennedys
- This Generation by Roachford
- Taxman by The Beatles
- Revolution by The Pretty Things
- Red Revolution by Marcus Hook Roll Band
- Sorry Dad, I Was Late For The Riots by Future of the Left
- The Good Anarchist by Television Personalities
- Mr Suit by Wire
- The One On The Right Is On The Left by Johnny Cash
- Killing In The Name Of by Rage Against The Machine
- Breaking The Law by Judas Priest
- U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifa
- Have a Nice Day by Crass
- Gurindji Blues by Galurrwuy Yunupingu (featuring Vincent Lingiari)
- Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire
- Waiting On The World To Change by John Mayer
- The Internationale by Traditional
- Kill All Hippies by Primal Scream
- Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs by The Minutemen
- Superhighway by Yothu Yindi
- The Songs of Investment Capital Overseas by Art Bears
- I Make The Product by Desperate Bicycle
- Search and Destroy by Iggy and The Stooges
- Suicide is Painless by Johnny Mandel
- We’re A Winner by The Impressions
- I Don’t Like It by Pauline Pantsdown
- Born To A Family by The Go-Betweens
- Racist Friend by They Might Be Giants
- Chicken Parma by Loin Groin
- F.S.O. by Regurgitator
- Black Boys on Mopeds by Sinead O’Connor
- Never Been In A Riot by Mekons
- Don’t Talk to Sociologists by Art & Language
- The Power Is Yours by Redskins
- Brother Is Gone by Ry Cooder
- 5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO by The Coup
- Winter In America by Gil Scott Heron
- Life Is A Pigsty by Morrissey
- Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas
- The Candidate by Urge Overkill
- Senator by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
- Black or White by Michael Jackson
- The Small-l Liberal Song by Miranda Wood and Emma Norton
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band
- Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) by Marvin Gaye
- The Message by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious FIve
- It’s Obvious by Au Pairs
- Say It Loud (I‘m Black and I’m Proud) by James Brown
- Everyday People by Sly and The Family Stone
- Fuck Tha Police by N.W.A.
- Oliver’s Army by Elvis Costello
- War Requiem by Benjamin Britten
- Fight The Cuts by Cornelius Cardew
- Took The Children Away by Archie Roach
- Let England Shake by PJ Harvey
- We Take Care Of Our Own by Bruce Springsteen
- Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
- We Have Survived by No Fixed Address
- Commencement Day by Blue Scholars
- Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) by Pink Floyd
- Solidarity by Angelic Upstarts
- Rat Race by The Specials
- The Establishment Blues by Rodriguez
- Elected by Alice Cooper
- Black Boy by Coloured Stone
- Complication by The Monks
- The Songs of Investment Capital Overseas by Art Bears
- Muckaty by Kylie Sambo
- Soldier, We Love You by Rita Martinson
- First We’ll Take Manhattan by Leonard Cohen
- Black Thighs by The Last Poets
- Smash It Up by The (International) Noise Conspiracy
- Fuck You by Lily Allen
- Peace Train by Cat Stevens
- All You Fascists by Billy Bragg and Wilco
- Standing In The Way of Control by The Gossip
- The Phillip Ruddock Blues by TISM
- A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
- Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Crushed By The Wheels of Industry by Heaven 17
- American Life by Madonna
- Whiteliberalonwhiteliberalaction by mclusky
- Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
- Ruler of the Land by Casey Bennetto (from Keating the Musical)
- I Went Out With a Hippy and Now I Love Everyone Except For Her by Frenzal Rhomb
- While The Iron Is Hot by Trees
- Dole Song by Fresh Maggots
- Star Hotel by Cold Chisel
- My People by The Presets
- Mercenaries by John Cale
- Cold War by Janelle Monae
- President Gas by The Psychedelic Furs
- 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton
- Identity by X-Ray Spex
- From Little Things Big Things Grow by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly
- Jet Set Junta by Monochrome Set
- Free Bobby Now by Lumpen
- Politicians in my Eyes by Death
- Talkin’ Bout A Revolution by Tracey Chapman
- Pig Nixon by Red Star Singers
- Uncle Ho by Pete Seeger
- Symphony No 11 ‘The Year 1905’ by Dmitri Shostakovich
- Bourgeois Blues by Leadbelly
Fave songs of flute rock (or songs with flute/recorder type sounds in it, don’t be picky)
- Little Sister by Nico
- My Boyish Days by Care
- A Man on the Make by Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes
- We Rule The School by Belle and Sebastian
- Warm Love by Van Morrison
- Summer Painter by Bill Callahan
- Duncan by Paul Simon
- Dour Percentage by of Montreal
- Adiemus by Karl Jenkins
- So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright by Simon and Garfunkel
- Winter In America by Gil Scott Heron
- Pretend You Love Me by Sonny and The Sunsets
- Where Ya Gonna Run To by Redgum
- Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles
- Nescafe ad (circa 90s)
- California Dreamin’ by The Mamas and The Papas
- Watershed by Mark Hollis
- Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon and War
- Undun by The Guess Who
- Going Up The Country by Canned Heat
- Cuckoo Cocoon by Genesis
- The Bottle by Gil Scott-Heron
- Painted Eyes by Hercules and Love Affair
- I’m Ready by Bryan Adams
- Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones
- I Talk To The Wind by King Crimson
- Backwash by Blodwyn Pig
- Can’t You See by The Marshall Tucker Band
- Down Under by Men At Work
- Sing Child Sing by Heart
- Wild Thing by The Troggs
- Strange Way by Firefall
- True Love Leaves No Traces by Leonard Cohen
- Tuesday Afternoon by The Moody Blues
- Thick As A Brick (side one) by Jethro Tull
- Black Cherry Pie by JEFF the Brotherhood
- Black Star by David Bowie
“Top 10 Inane Lists on Alex’s Blog” for Jeremy Gibson. Whenever anyone googles your name from now on they will find this list, haha
- bland foods
- aggressive album titles
- sailors
- masculine portmanteaus
- Bob Dylan and Neil Young songs (combined)
- elderly actors
- songs with water sounds
- seasons of Project Runway
- wood
- celebrity animals
Top 10 Teenage Fanclub songs
- Everything Flows
- Alcoholiday
- Straight and Narrow
- Star Sign
- I Need Direction
- Sparky’s Dream
- Aint That Enough
- My Uptight Life
- The Word’ll Be Ok
- Neil Jung
Socialist Alternativisms
- a whole series of
- the ones and twos
- well, actually
- open slather
- tens of
- palpably
- missed opportunity
- far from wanting to
- not all up up and away
- and these sorts of things
- layers of
- wholesale
- hand over fist
- good intervention
- fudge the issue
- nothing could be further from the truth
- distort the content of my argument
- backed to the hilt
- strawman argument
- armed to the teeth
- to emphasise the last speakers point
- on the frontfoot
- playing a leading role
- gone forward
- outward perspective
- qualitatively moving forward
- getting on top of the politics
- political situation
- spirited
- I agree with that
- small beer
- just to reinforce that
- scumbags
- bastions of reaction
- top end of town
- kicked in the teeth
- swampy milieu
- don’t have a crystal ball
- importantly
- behind the eight ball
- stick the boot in
- runs on the board
- struggle
- class snuggle
- around the traps
- shibboleth
- stare reality in the face
- hit the ground running
- respond to things that come up
- a lot less traction
- vibrant
- sexist shitbags
- racist shitbags
- bending the stick
- cushy offices
- temerity
- meted out
- give them their head
- go to water
- actuality
- two things: (one)…
- chauvenist
- hot house
- revolutionary unity
- mass
- audience
- formations
- accomodating
- shift
- paper member
- horizontal recruitment
- mobilisation
- front foot
- back foot
- just following on from
- I really agree with that
- driving a train through
- get rich quick scheme
- building on sand
- rich shits
- paper over
- making the arguments
- reportback
- generalise it out
- opportunists
- Labor hacks
- problematic
- fuckwit
- morons
- fuckwitted morons
- the two aren’t counterposed
- outrageous
- contradiction
- rampant
- no truck
- a phenomena
- flat political climate
- objective
- material reality
- material conditions
- objective conditions
- mates in big business
- propagandistic view
- politically unserious
- apolitical chit-chat
- abstract
- concrete
- why are there so many bureaucrats around?
- shame
- qualitative growth
- demarcate our audience
- smash
- adventurers
- trot bot
- raise the level
- reflect
- downplay
- challenge
- soft
- ___’s wet dream
- circle jerk
- kick up a fuss
- ring around
- pick them up on it
- seizing opportunities
- sprint to the finish
- kinda touch on
- deterioration
- from below
- outward looking
- flows on from
- force the pace
- hollowing out
- tendencyitis
- turn to
- benefit from
- close the discussion there
-
hard yards
-
do what we can
-
barrier
-
pull your finger out
-
do what we can
-
duh
-
chase these people up
-
holds no truck
-
respectable channels
-
deadshits
-
combatative
-
pulling people closer
-
discrediting
-
longtime-socialist
-
argue the toss
-
ilk
-
the heat around
-
getting out on the streets
-
just talking to people more generally
-
plays into the fact that
-
intervene
-
capitulate
-
utter capitulation
- harden the fuck up
-
pitch
-
demoralised
-
argue the toss
-
overblown perspective
-
deadshits
-
capitulation
-
pitch
-
solidarise
-
piloried
-
wall us off
-
build something real
-
impunity
-
leaps!
-
concretise
-
challenge sexism
-
condemn
-
antinomies
-
agent
-
imputation
-
mediation
-
totality
-
precondition
-
overcoming
-
reification
-
revolutionary defeatism
-
defeatism
-
cohering
-
mumble minute
-
puts a limit on the growrh
-
elements
-
soft on
-
so the starting point for us should be
-
the political situation
-
the balance of forces
-
paucity
-
preparedness
-
discredited
-
manoeuvring
-
freelancing
-
sober assessment
-
verbal commitment
-
upturn
-
downturn
-
stall
-
lecture bash
-
poster run
-
contacts
- contact work
-
MDGs
- look at it in context
- and that
Favourite 30 onomatopoeic words
- cor
- meh
- welp
- sigh
- coo-ee
- phwoar
- pwore
- woo
- gah
- wah
- booo
- heh heh
- hmmm
- urgh
- groan
- ker-ching
- ahem
- grrrr
- flip
- wow
- achoo
- squish
- cuckoo
- wail
- shhh
- pfft
- mmm
- tsk
- chink
- bash
Top 20 cemeteries (I’ve visited)
- Highgate Cemetery, London
- Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington DC
- Père-Lachaise, Paris
- Forest Lawn, Los Angeles
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles
- Soviet War Memorial, Berlin
- San Michele, Venice
- Lake View Cemetery, Seattle
- Cimitière du Montparnasse, Paris
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague
- Westminster Abbey, London
- Fremantle Cemetery, Perth
- Catacombes de Paris, Paris
- Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC
- Broome Pioneer Cemetery, Broome
- Fawkner Memorial Park, Melbourne
- Taj Mahal, Agra
- Waverley Cemetery, Sydney
- Hólavallagarður, Reykjavik
- West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide
Top 10 little things
- matchbox cars
- Teeny Little Super Guy
- teacup piglets
- Rob Brydon’s small man in a box
- Little Mouse from ‘Look Around You’
- Tom Thumb
- Life’s Too Short
- Little Hiawatha
- Little Red Schoolbook
- Prince
Top 20 uplifting songs
- Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
- You Learn by Alanis Morissette
- Push by The Cure
- Jackie Wilson Said by Van Morrison
- Hazy Jane II by Nick Drake
- Gold Day by Sparklehorse
- Sooner Or Later by The Grass Roots
- Hot Fun In The Summertime by Sly and The Family Stone
- World In Motion by New Order
- Shiny Happy People by REM
- Reach Out (I’ll Be There) by Four Tops
- I’ll Be Alright by Passion Pit
- Up Our Lives by Lambchop
- 12345 by Screamfeeder
- Wide Open Road by The Triffids
- Incinerate by Sonic Youth
- Lay Down by Melanie
- Positive Bleeding by Urge Overkill
- Today by The Smashing Pumpkins
- See Me, Feel Me by The Who
Top 15 songs about tennis
- Andy Murray by Drew McCulloch
- Stop Breathin’ by Pavement
- The Symbol by Action Bronson
- Tennis by Chris Rea
- Bambo Banga by M.I.A.
- Chalk Dust – The Umpire Strikes Back by The Brat
- Outbreak of Vitas Gerulaitas by Half Man Half Biscuit
- Autograph by Bryan Brothers Band (featuring Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic)
- Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis by Half Man Half Biscuit
- Anyone for Tennis by Cream
- Venus and Serena by Super Furry Animals
- Jump Around by House of Pain
- Gold Digger by Kanye West
- Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John
- He Whipped My Ass In Tennis (Then I Fucked His Ass In Bed) by Pansy Division
Top 40 electro-pop (indie sorta) songs (of recent years)
- My Whole World’s Coming Apart by John Maus
- Ready 2 Wear by Felix Da Housecat
- Polish Girl by Neon Indian
- The Reflection Of You by Bear in Heaven
- Sulk by Trust
- Kaili by Caribou
- Trying To Be Cool by Phoenix
- I’ll Be Alright by Passion Pit
- Motion Sickness by Hot Chip
- You And I by Washed Out
- Kaputt by Destroyer
- The Truest Faith by Korallreven
- The Bay by Metronomy
- Second Summer by Yacht
- Red Alert by CSS
- Midnight City by M83
- Nocturne by Wild Nothing
- Nightcall by Kavinsky
- Digital Versicolor by Glass Candy
- Shine A Light (Flight Facilities remix) by The C90s
- Dance The Way I Feel by Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
- Slow Down by Poolside
- Shopping (I Like It) by Neon Neon
- Time To Pretend by MGMT
- Round and Round by Ariel Pink
- My Delirium by Ladyhawke
- Amanaemonesia by Chairlift
- Digital Love by Daft Punk
- You by Gold Panda
- Default by Django Django
- Still Left With Me by Craft Spells
- Cherry Blossom Girl by Air
- A Tooth For An Eye by The Knife
- Portamento by Turnstyle
- In My Arms by Mylo
- Viz by Le Tigre
- O.N.E. by Yeasayer
- Get Free (Bonde Do Role remix) by Major Lazer
- Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen
- Banana Ripple by Junior Boys
Top 15 Masculine Portmanteaus (and other man words)
- manflu
- bromance
- dudevorce
- boylemia
- gaydar
- dickflick
- manscaping
- fratire
- guyliner
- nannawank
- homoerotic
- brotein
- manarchist
- manbag
- mangina
Top 50 words and terms associated with typography
- orphans
- widows
- muttons
- small caps
- cursive penmanship
- cyrillic character sets
- ordinals
- stepping
- em dash
- roman
- old style figures
- type
- OpenType
- TrueType
- slab
- variants
- terminals
- two-story lowercase
- neo-grotesque
- stem
- thickness
- weight
- width
- descenders
- ascenders
- monumental inscriptions
- apertures
- case forms
- script face
- italic
- bold
- leading
- superscript
- subscript
- matrices
- ornamentation
- body text
- slant
- serif
- condensation
- points
- foundry
- punctuation
- informal
- tracking
- compositor
- font
- glyphs
- nib drafting
- ligature
Top 20 Sidekicks
- Milhouse (The Simpsons)
- Smee (Peter Pan)
- Pokey (Gumby)
- Bez (The Happy Mondays)
- Schuyler (Now You See Him, Now You Don’t)
- Number One Son (Charlie Chan)
- Archimedes (The Sword In The Stone)
- Jackie McDonald (Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday)
- Avenger (Harvey Birdman)
- Kato (The Green Hornet)
- Oody (Garfield)
- Luca Brasi (The Godfather)
- Six (Blossom)
- Watson (Sherlock Holmes)
- Smithers (The Simpsons)
- The Enforcer (Recovery)
- Andy Richter (Conan O’Brien)
- Kimmy Gibbler (Full House)
- Muttley (Dick Dastardley)
- Chewbacca (Star Wars)
75 favourite political words
- rump
- pig
- tailing
- scab
- entryism
- caucus
- tendency
- front
- splittist
- workerist
- pre-class
- middle
- class
- liquidationist
- grandstanding`
- ultra-left
- syndicalist
- sectional
- sectarian
- sectariana
- material
- consciousness
- reaction
- dialectic
- steward
- alienation
- slate
- movementist
- lifestylist
- right
- left
- hard
- soft
- far
- international
- comrade
- league
- swampy
- milieu
- utopian
- socialist
- communist
- militant
- delegate
- oppressed
- labour
- materialist
- idealist
- tributary
- circle
- abstract
- concrete
- hegemonic
- agenda
- united
- popular
- organiser
- demoralise
- bureaucracy
- careerist
- split
- agitate
- struggle
- cop
- scapegoat
- feudal
- industrial
- fascist
- chant
- liberate
- marginalise
- petit
- bourgeois
- deviationist
- meeting
Favourite Quentin Tarantino films (the ones he directed, in order)
- Jackie Brown
- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill volume 1
- Kill Bill volume 2
- Grindhouse: Death Proof segment
- Django Unchained
- Four Rooms: The Man From Hollywood segment
- Resevoir Dogs
- Inglourious Basterds
Top 30 non-album songs by Stephen Malkmus and Pavement (combined!)
- Tale in a Hard Time (Fairport Convention cover)
- Dynamic Calories
- No Tan Lines
- Sin Taxi
- Greenlander
- Mr Jolly
- Harness Your Hopes
- Shoot The Singer
- Give It A Day
- I Love Perth
- Holly Springs Orchestra Song
- Sensitive Euro Man
- Fractions and Feelings
- Easily Fooled
- For Sale The Preston School of Industry
- My First Mine
- Winner of the
- Stub Your Toe
- You’re Killing Me
- Polish Mule
- Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
- No More Kings
- Pennywhistle Thunder
- Doctor Drop
- Time For The Gravity Bong
- Walk Into The Mirror
- Decouvert de Soleil
- Old Jerry
- Wow Ass Jeans
- Malay Massaker
Favourite 10 tag questions
- ‘ey
- unna
- right
- yes
- innit
- isn’t it
- is it not so
- shall we
- aren’t you
- aren’t I
20 songs of my love life
- Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush
- Ladies and Gentlemen by Custard
- Portamento by Turnstyle
- Help The Aged by Pulp
- Death Goes To The Disco by Pulp
- You Never Should by My Bloody Valentine
- Handsome Devil by The Smiths
- The Boy With The Thorn In His Side by The Smiths
- Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me by The Smiths
- Found That Soul by Manic Street Preachers
- Dig For Fire by The Pixies
- Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
- Magic In Here by The Go-Betweens
- Who Takes Home by You Am I
- Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants
- Intravenous Agnostic by Manic Street Preachers
- Feel by The Church
- You And I by Washed Out
- Ocean Spray by Manic Street Preachers
- Ice Wharf by Ice Drugs
Top 5 sports writers
- CLR James
- Dave Zirin
- Frank Deford
- Lester Rodney
- Trevor Grant
20 favourite left-wing political quotes (of medium length)
- Leon Trotsky:“Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”
- Buenaventura Durruti: “You must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.”
- Oscar Wilde: “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: “The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.”
- Bertolt Brecht: “General, your tank is a powerful vehicle, it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: it needs a driver.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Rise like lions after slumber. In unvanquishable number, shake your chains to earth like dew, which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many — they are few.”
- Martin Niemöller: ” First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”
- Malcolm X: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
- John Maynard Keynes: “[Capitalism is] the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.”
- Albert Einstein: “I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate (the) grave evils (of capitalism), namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.”
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “If money, According to Augier, “comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek,” capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.”
- Noam Chomsky: “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.”
- Adam Smith: “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
- Antonio Gramsci: “My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.”
- Karl Marx: “But the revolution is thoroughgoing. It is still traveling through purgatory. It does its work methodically. … And when it has accomplished this second half of its preliminary work, Europe will leap from its seat and exult: Well burrowed, old mole!”
- Henry David Thoreau: “I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. [….] [T]he principal object is not that mankind may be well and honestly clad but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched. In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
- Slavoj Žižek: “Why are today so many problems perceived as problems of intolerance, not as problems of inequality, exploitation, injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, not emancipation, political struggle, even armed struggle?”
- Leon Trotsky: “Without a guiding organization the energy of the masses would dissipate like steam in a piston-box. But nevertheless what moves things is not the piston or the box, but the steam”
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: “It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult—and far more precious—to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.”
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!”
Top 15 Television Shows About Food
- The Supersizers eat…
- You Are What You Eat
- The French Chef
- Man v. Food
- The Chopping Block
- Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection
- Catch & Cook
- Come & Get It with Peter Russell-Clarke
- Afternoon Show (the cooking segment hosted by James Valentine)
- Two Fat Ladies
- Iron Chef
- The Great British Bake Off
- The Great Food Truck Race
- Ace of Cakes
- Madhur Jaffrey’s Flavours of India
Top 15 old-timey, circus type performers
- Billy The Mime (mime)
- Mabel Stark (tiger tamer)
- Charles Blondin (tightrope)
- Pete Firman (magician)
- Minnie Woolsey AKA Koo Koo (‘freak’)
- Emmet Kelly (clown)
- Uri Gellar (spoonbender)
- General Tom Thumb (‘midget’)
- Tambo (‘savage’)
- Charlie Chaplin (mime)
- Con Colleano (tightrope)
- Henri L’Estrange (tightrope and balloonist)
- Johnny Knoxville (daredevil)
- Phillipe Petit (tightrope)
- Harry Houdini (escape)
Top 20 chocolate related foods
- Toblerone
- Terry’s Chocolate Orange
- M&Ms (with the peanut butter filling)
- Aero (mint)
- Reece’s Pieces
- Lindt Lindor
- Flake
- Coco Pops
- Milky Way
- Crunch
- Twirl
- Ice Magic (mint flavour)
- white chocolate buttons
- Freddo Frog
- Mint Pattie
- Booja-Booja truffles
- chocolate coated coffee beans
- Milky Bar
- mocha (as in the coffee drink)
- Cadbury dairy milk chocolate (but in those little, little rectangles)
Favourite 20 celebrity animals
- Topsy the elephant
- Christian the lion
- Koko the gorilla
- Incitatus the horse
- Ken Allen the orangutan
- Alex the parrot
- Laika the dog
- Paul the octopus
- Batyr the elephant
- Sam the koala
- Casper the cat
- Bubbles the chimpanzee
- Clara the rhinoceros
- Marocco the horse
- Nim Chimpsky the chimpanzee
- Seamus the dog
- Saint Guinefort the dog
- Bouncer the dog
- Clever Hans the horse
- Boye the dog
Top 25 album titles that didn’t happen
- Nirvana – I Hate Myself And I Want To Die (In Utero)
- Stephen Malkmus – Dear Mom, Send Money (Stephen Malkmus)
- Beastie Boys – Don’t Be A Faggot (License to Ill) [they subsequently had an apology for their homophobia printed in a gay magazine]
- Morrissey – Education In Reverse (Viva Hate)
- New Order – Carry On New Order (Republic )
- Redd Kross – Black Motorcycle Madonna (Researching The Blues)
- Blink 182 – Vasectomy, Vasect-a-you (Take Off Your Pants And Jacket)
- Stephen Malkmus – L.A. Guns (Mirror Traffic)
- Super Furry Animals – (Text Messaging Is Destroying The Pub Quiz As We Know It (Rings Around The World)
- Offspring – Chinese Democracy [You Snooze, You Lose] (Splinter, this was mooted before Guns N Roses had released Chinese Democracy)
- The Beatles – One Down, Six To Go (Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, they had just signed a six album record deal)
- Beastie Boys – Thick Like Beyoncé’s Leg (The Mix-Up)
- The Rolling Stones – Hard Knocks and Dirty Socks (Let It Bleed)
- Metallica – Metal Up Your Ass (Kill ‘Em All)
- Bryan Adams – Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard of You Either (You Want It You Got It)
- The Beach Boys – Dumb Angel (Smile)
- Talking Heads – Melody Attack (Remain In Light)
- Pavement – Farewell Horizontal (Terror Twilight)
- Stevie Wonder – Let’s See Life The Way It Is (Songs In The Key Of Life)
- Eric Clapton – The Best Guitarist In The World: There’s One In Every Crowd (There’s One In Every Crowd)
- The Beatles – Everest (Abbey Road)
- Madonna – Stiff Is The New Hard (American Life)
- Wilco – Get Well Soon Everybody (The Whole Love)
- The Rolling Stones – Yesssireee (Exile On Main Street)
- The Teardrop Explodes – Everybody Wants To Shag The Teardrop Explodes (Kilimanjaro)
Top 40 Redd Kross songs
- Dumb Angel
- I Hate My School
- Ugly Town
- Jimmy’s Fantasy
- Bubblegum Factory
- Zira (Call Out My Name)
- Lady In The Front Row
- Vanity Mirror
- Ballad of a Lovedoll
- Elephant Flares
- Crazy World
- I’m Alright
- Where I Am Today
- One Chord Progression
- Annie’s Gone
- Peach Kelli Pop
- Follow The Leader
- Neurotica
- Kiss The Goat
- Cover Band
- Mess Around
- Annettes Got The Hits
- The Faith Healer
- Janus, Jeanie and George Harrison
- Notes and Chords Mean Nothing To Me
- Play My Song
- Standing In Front of Poseur
- Love Is You
- 1976
- Frosted Flake
- Linda Blair
- Citadel
- Cellulite City
- Teen Competition
- McKenzie
- Love Is Not Love
- Girl God
- Pay For Love
- I Don’t Know How To Be Your Friend
- I Was Born To Love You
Top 25 Australian food and beverage TV commercials from the 1980s and 1990s
- Snappy Tom (“The cats of Australian have made their choice” series)
- Crunchy (1988)
- Meadow Lea (“You oughtta be congratulated” series)
- Aussie Sunrice (1990)
- Sultana Bran (1990)
- Cottees Cordial (“My dad picks the fruit” series)
- Street’s Choc Block (1987)
- Bushells Tea (1990)
- Bushells Tea (1989)
- Cheezels (1991)
- Solo (1986)
- Red Rooster (1987)
- Lamb (‘dinner with Tom Cruise’ series)
- Schweppes (1987)
- ETA Magerine (‘Ripper Rita’ series)
- Uncle Toby’s Muesli Bars (1988)
- Continental Cup-a-Soup (1987)
- Cherry Ripe (1989)
- Samboy (1992)
- Vienetta (1989)
- Nescafe (1994)
- Schweppes Cola (1990)
- Kit Kat (1988, grey dresssed office workers on escalator)
- Smiths Crisps Lite (1986)
- Snappy Tom (1990)
Top 10 aggressive or violent titles
- The Difference Between You and Me Is I’m Not on Fire by Mcluskey
- Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will by Mogwai
- You Me Carpark…Now by Smudge
- I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass by Yo La Tengo
- The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
- Eat Pray Thug by Heems Two-Fisted Art by The Moodists
- A Slap In The Face of Public Taste by David Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Vladmir Mayakovsky, Victor Khlebnikov
- Leftover Life To Kill by Caitlin ThomasTurn of the Screw by Henry James
- Blood In, Blood Out by Taylor Hackford
- Hate Your Friends by The Lemonheads
Top 15 robber barons, tycoons, moguls, magnates, evil rich people, etc.
- Howard Hughes
- Mir Osman Ali Khan
- Alan Bond
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Oprah Winfrey
- William Randolph Hearst
- John Jacob Astor
- William Vestey (later ‘Lord Vestey’)
- John Warne Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Jay Gould
- Henry Clay Frick
- J.P. Morgan
- Christopher Skase
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
Top 21 songs with water sounds
- Tael of a Saeghors by Makers of the Dead Travel Fast
- Cities in Dust by Siouxie and The Banshees
- Raining Blood by Slayer
- Helicopter by Deerhunter
- Dolphins by Fred Neil
- Ghosts of the Night by The Mavis’s
- Glob Waterfall by Joe Meek
- Water Curses by Animal Collective
- Midnight on the Bay by Neil Young and Stephen Stills
- Spray Water On The Stereo by Turnstyle
- Behind The Waterfall by The Apples in Stereo
- If It Rains by Robert Forster
- Oceans of Weep by Ariel Pink
- 1983…A Merman I Should Turn To Be by Jimi Hendrix
- The Sound of Rain by The Go-Betweens
- Ocean by The Velvet Underground
- Waterfalls by TLC
- Rain Is Falling by Electric Light Orchestra
- Champagne Supernova by Oasis
- Tangerine by Big Boi
- Sing Swan Song by Can
Top 30 of Mean Culture
- Helena – The Goldfish Blender by Marco Evaristti [visual art]
- You Can’t Do That On Television [television]
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia [television]
- Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow by Felt [music]
- Heathers [film]
- Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan [music]
- I’m Alan Partridge [television]
- Nighty Night [television]
- Vice Magazine [writing]
- Simon Amstell [comedy]
- You’ve Never Lived by The Go-Betweens [music]
- Ren and Stimpy [television]
- The Classical by The Fall [music]
- Jackass [film]
- Ricky Gervais [comedy]
- Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself by Morrissey [music]
- Mean Girls [film]
- The Young Ones [television]
- Rock Star (Olympia) by Hole [music]
- Mark Prindle Record Reviews [writing]
- South Park [television]
- Red Symons [comedy]
- Family Guy [television]
- U.G.L.Y. by Daphne & Celeste [music]
- Sarah Silverman [comedy]
- How Ya Like Me Now by Kool Moe Dee [music]
- Dogfight [film]
- Idiot Box by The Damned [music]
- Hey Dad! [television]
- The Weakest Link [television]
Top 25 Perth songs
- Farmers Never Visit Nightclubs by The Triffids
- Closet Fan by 7 Day Weekend
- Sunny Romance by Thermos Cardy
- I Love Perth by Pavement
- World Famous In Perth by Turnstyle
- Big Gay Heart by The Lemonheads
- Premonition by The Manikins
- Lovers by Effigy
- Yes I Am by Cinema Prague
- This Is My Happy Hour by The Scientists
- Half Full Glass of Wine by Tame Impala
- Military Strongmen by Jebediah
- At First Sight by The Stems
- Why Are All The Cars Outside Real? by Eskimo Joe
- Hope Grocery by Sodastream
- Good Dancers by The Sleepy Jackson
- Perth Is A Culture Shock by The Victims
- Applecross Wing Commander by You Am I
- Anky Fremp by Flanders
- Ghosts Have The Best Time by The Panda Band
- Holidayz by The Stickfigures
- Will The World by El Horizonte
- Demented by Lamia
- Brazen Head by Header
- Perth by Bon Iver
Top 10 sailors of all time
- Ben Lexcen
- Donald Crowhurst
- Richard Halliburton
- Percy Shelley
- James Misson
- Ernest Shackleton
- Harry Bridges
- Bernard Moitessier
- David Dicks
- any Somalian pirate
Top 25 soul songs
- Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing by Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye
- (Last Night) I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All by Fifth Dimension
- Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
- Reach Out, I’ll Be There by Four Tops
- Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye
- (Sittin’ On) The Dock of The Bay by Otis Redding
- Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield
- Here My Dear by Marvin Gaye
- Pillow Talk by Sylvia
- My Momma Never Taught Me How To Cook by Annette Peacock
- Love, Reign o’er Me by Bettye LaVette
- (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin
- Hard Times by Baby Huey
- Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love) by The Delfonics
- Respect Yourself by The Staple Singers
- Let’s Stay Together by Al Green
- You Make Me Feel Brand New by The Stylistics
- Higher & Higher by Jackie Wilson
- Living For The City by Stevie Wonder
- Don’t Turn Around by Black Ivory
- I Can’t Stand The Rain by Ann Peebles
- People Make The World Go Round by The Stylistics
- Hold On! I’m Comin’ by Sam and Dave
- Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) by Valentine Brothers
- Mean Man by Betty Harris
Favourite 20 redheads
- Mark Twain
- Rolf Kristian Larson
- Molly Ringwald
- Willy Nelson
- Vladimir Lenin
- Danny Bonaduce
- Malcolm X
- Charlotte Coleman
- Malcolm McLaren
- Josh Homme
- Sylvia Plath
- Mick Hucknall
- Rita Hayworth
- Emily Dickinson
- Jim Courier
- Kevin Shields
- Woody Allen
- Robert Redford
- Boris Becker
- Carl Newman
Favourite 10 iron man athletes
- Trevor Hendy
- Grant Kenny
- Guy Leech
- Guy Andrews
- Ky Hurst
- Caine Eckstein
- Phil Clayton
- Jeremy Cotter
- Sean Kenny
- Kendrick J Louis
Top 100 songs of Bob Dylan and Neil Young (combined)
- I’ll Keep It With Mine by Bob Dylan
- Under The Red Sky by Bob Dylan
- I Believe In You by Bob Dylan
- Simple Twist Of Fate by Bob Dylan
- Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan
- You’re A Big Girl Now by Bob Dylan
- One More Cup of Coffee by Bob Dylan
- Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan
- Mississippi by Bob Dylan
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan
- Are You Passionate? by Neil Young
- Midnight On The Bay by Neil Young
- Powderfinger by Neil Young
- Razor Love by Neil Young
- Sugar Mountain by Neil Young
- Walk On by Neil Young
- Till The Morning Comes by Neil Young
- Cripple Creek Ferry by Neil Young
- Don’t Let It Bring You Down by Neil Young
- Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Neil Young
- Tell Me Why by Neil Young
- When You Dance I Can Really Love by Neil Young
- I Believe In You by Neil Young
- Birds by Neil Young
- Heart Of Gold by Neil Young
- It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan
- Property of Jesus by Bob Dylan
- Transformer Man (MTV Unplugged version) by Neil Young
- Visions of Johanna by Bob Dylan
- Tired Eyes by Neil Young
- Spirit On The Water by Bob Dylan
- The Great Divide by Neil Young
- Tell Me That It Isn’t True by Bob Dylan
- The Loner by Neil Young
- Here We Are In The Years by Neil Young
- Honest With Me by Bob Dylan
- Don’t Cry No Tears by Neil Young
- Winterlong by Neil Young
- Will To Love by Neil Young
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right by Bob Dylan
- Revolution Blues by Neil Young
- Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
- Angry World by Neil Young
- Hurricane by Bob Dylan
- After The Goldrush by Neil Young
- Black Diamond Bay by Bob Dylan
- Hey Hey, My My (Out Of The Blue) by Neil Young
- Burned by Neil Young
- Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by Bob Dylan
- Lay Lady Lay by Bob Dylan
- Positively 4th Street by Bob Dylan
- Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young
- Horseshoe Man by Neil Young
- Long May You Run by Neil Young
- Harvest Moon by Neil Young
- Broken Arrow by Neil Young
- She’s A Healer by Neil Young
- Harvest by Neil Young
- Series of Dreams by Bob Dylan
- Tonight’s The Night (Part 1) by Neil Young
- All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan
- See The Sky About To Rain by Neil Young
- I Am A Child by Neil Young
- Goin’ Back by Neil Young
- Maggie’s Farm by Bob Dylan
- Cortez The Killer by Neil Young
- Ballad Of A Thin Man by Bob Dylan
- Buckets of Rain by Bob Dylan
- Hitchhiker by Neil Young
- I Want You by Bob Dylan
- Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again by Bob Dylan
- It’s A Dream by Neil Young
- Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
- Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan
- Forth Time Around by Bob Dylan
- Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan
- Good To See You by Neil Young
- If You Ever Go To Houston by Bob Dylan
- Pardon My Heart by Neil Young
- Not Dark Yet by Bob Dylan
- One Of Us Must Know by Bob Dylan
- Peaceful Valley Boulevard by Neil Young
- Love Sick by Bob Dylan
- Daddy Went Walkin’ by Neil Young
- The Man In Me by Bob Dylan
- From Hank To Hendrix by Neil Young
- Oh Sister by Bob Dylan
- Jolene by Bob Dylan
- Ambulance Blues by Neil Young
- Girl From The North Country by Bob Dylan
- Man In The Long Black Coat by Bob Dylan
- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll by Bob Dylan
- Unknown Legend by Neil Young
- Chimes Of Freedom by Bob Dylan
- Ballad of Hollis Brown by Bob Dylan
- Shot Of Love by Bob Dylan
- If Not For You by Bob Dylan
- Computer Age by Neil Young
- My Back Pages by Bob Dylan
Top 10 moments of food gorging in film
- Honey, I Shrunk The Kids [finding the giant Monte Carlo biscuit]
- Precious [stealing the fried chicken]
- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure [Napoleon goes to Ziggy Pig]
- Meet The Feebles [Heidi gets chocolate gateau in her cleavage]
- Nadia [Nadia Comaneci eats carbs before the Olympics]
- Death Becomes Her [Helen consoles herself with chocolate]
- Santa Claus the Movie [B.Z. scoffs the candy cane and floats away into space]
- Batman Returns [The Penguin eats his birthday fish]
- Stand By Me [pie eating contest]
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory [basically the whole movie]
Top 10 animated films of all time
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Toy Story 3
- The Sword in the Stone
- The Chipmunk Adventure
- Robin Hood
- Ratatouille
- Persepolis
- Fritz the Cat
- Charlotte’s Web
- Sleeping Beauty
Top 100 TV theme songs of all time
- Golden Girls [Thank You For Being a Friend by Cynthia Fee]
- Portlandia [Feel it all Around by Washed Out]
- Jem [JEM–Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous by Anne Bryant]
- Partridge Family [C’mon, Get Happy by Diane Hilderbrand, Danny Janssen and Wes Farrell]
- ALF [A.L.F. by Alf Clausen]
- Perfect Strangers [Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now by Jesse Frederick and Bennett Salvay]
- Growing Pains [As Long As We’ve Got Each Other by John Bettis and Steve Dorff]
- Beyond 2000
- Degrassi Junior High [The Degrassi Junior High Theme by Lewis Manne and Wendy Watson]
- Step By Step [Second Time Around by Jesse Frederick and Bennett Salvay]
- Family Ties [Without Us by Jeff Barry and Tom Scott]
- Welcome Back Kotter [John Sebastian]
- M*A*S*H [Suicide is Painless by Johnny Mandel]
- Twin Peaks [Angelo Badalamenti]
- The Cosby Show [Kiss Me by Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby]
- Baywatch [I’m Always Here by Joe Henry, Cory Lerios and John D’Andrea]
- Sesame Street [Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street? by Joe Rapose, Jon Stone and Bruce Hart]
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [Will Smith and QD3, also credited as The Fresh Prince in association with A Touch of Jazz, Inc.]
- H.R. Pufnstuf [by Les Szarvas, and technically also Paul Simon]
- The Greatest American Hero [Believe It Or Not by Mike Post and Stephen Geyer]
- Full House [Everywhere You Look by Jesse Frederick, Bennett Salvay and Jeff Franklin]
- A Country Practice [Mike Perjanik]
- Taxi [Angela by Bob James]
- Hey, Dad! [Mike Perjanik]
- Inspector Gadget [Shuki Levy and Haim Saban]
- Laverne & Shirley [Making Our Dreams Come True by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox]
- The Love Boat [Paul Williams and Charles Fox]
- Gumby [William George “Bill” Loose and Kohn Seely]
- Murder She Wrote [John Addison]
- L.A. Law [Mike Post]
- T-Bag [Wonders in Letterland by Summers with Marty]
- ABC News [Majestic Fanfare by Charles Williams]
- Four Corners [Rick Turk]
- Alvin & The Chipmunks [Thomas Chase and Stephen Rucker]
- The White Horses [Ben Nisbett and Micheal Carr]
- Prisoner [Alan Caswell]
- Sons & Daughters [Peter Pinne and Don Battye
- He-Man [Shuki Levi]
- Ask The Lleyland Brothers [Provist Bros.]
- Come & Get It with Peter Russell-Clarke
- Family Matters [Jesse Frederick, Bennett Salvay and Scott Roeme]
- Doogie Howser M.D. [Mike Post]
- Hill Street Blues [Mike Post]
- Cheers [Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy]
- Sale of the Century [Jack Grimsley]
- Kingswood Country [Mike Perjanik]
- SuperTed [John Debney]
- Thomas the Tank Engine [Mike O’Donnell and Junior Campbell]
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Love is All Around by Sonny Curtis]
- Care Bears [Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan]
- Dr. Who [Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire]
- Daria [You’re Standing On My Neck by Janet Wygal, Tricia Wygal, Delissa Santos, Cindy Brolsma and Jennifer Richardson]
- Neighbours [Tony Hatch]
- Days of Our Lives [Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart and Charles Albertine]
- Echo Point [Nick Howard]
- Perfect Match [Rick Turk]
- It’s A Knockout [Rick Turk]
- Bewitched [Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller]
- Ducktales [Ron Jones]
- Who’s The Boss [Brand New Life by Martin Cohan, Blake Hunter, Larry Carlton and Robert Kraft]
- Pugwall
- Press Gang [Peter Davis, John Mealing and John G. Perry]
- Gummi Bears [Silversher and Silversher]
- Fraggle Rock [Margaret Loesch]
- Diff’rent Strokes [Alan Thicke]
- Round The Twist [Andrew Duffield]
- The Muppets Show [Sam Pottle and Jim Henson]
- Rawhide [Ned Washington and Dimitri]
- Quantum Leap [Mike Post]
- You Can’t Do That On Television [National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band Ink]
- Melrose Place [Tim Truman]
- Beverley Hills 90210 [John E. Davis]
- The Adventures of Blackbeauty [Denis King]
- The Jetsons [Hoyt Curtin]
- Hawaii Five-O [Morton Stevens]
- Danger Mouse [Mike Harding]
- Peter Gunn [Henry Mancini]
- Mr Squiggle [Frank Strangio]
- Burke’s Backyard [Home Among the Gum Trees by Bob Brown and Walter Johnson Jr.]
- Play School [Richard Connolly]
- Teletubbies [Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport]
- Postman Pat [Bryan Daly]
- Grange Hill (original theme) [Chickenman by Alan Hawkshaw]
- S.W.A.T. [Barry De Vorzon]
- Maude [Dave Grusin, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman]
- Murphy Brown [Steve Dorff]
- Northern Exposure [David Schwartz]
- Roseanne [W. G. Snuffy Walden]
- ER [James Newton Howard]
- Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers [Mark Mueller]
- Seinfeld [Jonathan Wolff]
- Chicago Hope [Jeff Rona and Mark Isham]
- Picket Fences [Stewart Levin]
- James at 15 [John Ford Coley]
- Boy Meets World [Ray Colcord]
- Blossom [Stephen Geyer and Mike Post]
- Doug [Fred Newman]
- Mission:Impossible [Lalo Schifrin]
- Miraculous Mellops [Chris Harriott]
- Jennifer Slept Here [Clint Holmes, Ann Jillian, Joey Murcia and Bill Payne]
Top 10 songs by The Hidden Cameras
- A Miracle
- Death of a Tune
- Wandering
- In The Union of Wine
- For Fun
- I Believe in the Good of Life
- She’s Gone
- The Fear Is On
- High Upon the Churchgrounds
- Awoo
Top 25 ABC presenters
- Michael Tunn
- Calamity Jane Gazzo
- James Valentine
- Peter Russell-Clarke
- David Marr
- Alan Saunders
- Helen Razer
- Richard Fidler
- Margaret Pomeranz
- Jeremy “Junglist” Ray
- Stephen Crittenden
- Judith Lucy
- Deborah Kennedy
- Peter Holland
- Geraldine Doogue
- Francis Leach
- Stuart Littlemore
- Dylan Lewis
- Elle McFeast
- Roy Slaven
- HG Nelson
- Wil Anderson
- Benita Collings
- Kerry O’Brien
- Phillip Adams
Top 50 structures in the Brutalist architecture style
- Architecture and Planning building, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, (designer unknown)
- Salk Institute, La Jolla, California (designed by Louis Kahn)
- Alexandra Road Estate, London, England (designed by Neave Brown)
- Tricorn Centre (car park and shops) in Portsmouth, England, (designer unknown)
- Prentice Women’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois (designed by Bertrand Goldberg)
- Habitat 67 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (designed by Moshe Safdie)
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (designed by Arthur Erickson)
- National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh (designed by Louis Kahn)
- Richard G. Folsom Library, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (designed by Quinlivan Pierik & Krause)
- Cameron Offices, Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory (designed by John Andrews)
- Government Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts (designed by Paul Rudolph, M.A. Dyer, Desmond & Lord, and Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott)
- TU Delft Aula, Delft, Netherlands (designed by Van den Broek en Bakema / Jo van den Broek and Jaap Bakema)
- National Theatre, London (designed by Denys Lasdun)
- Rockhill, Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, (designer unknown)
- Chatswood Civic Centre, Chatswood, New South Wales, (designer unknown)
- Robin Hood Gardens housing estate, Poplar, London (designed by Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson)
- Joseph Regenstein Library (University of Chicago), (designed by Skimore Owings and Merrill)
- Trinity Square Shopping Centre (car park), Gateshead (designed by Owen Luder Partnership)
- Sirius Apartments, Sydney, New South Wales (designed by Tao Gofers)
- Hotelli Olympia Tallinna. Tallinn, Estonia, (designer unknown)
- Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, New Hampshire(designed by Louis Kahn)
- Flaktürm VI Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany, (designer unknown)
- Consolidated House, Wellington Street, Perth, Western Australia, (designer unknown)
- Fermilab in Chicago (designed by Robert Rathbun Wilson)
- Washington Metro subway system, Washington, D.C., (designer unknown)
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (designed by Le Corbusier)
- Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia (designed by John C. Portman)
- Rhodes Tower, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio (designed by Rode, Guenther, and Bonebrake)
- Ameritrust Tower (also known as Cleveland Trust Tower), Cleveland, Ohio (designed by Marcel Breuer)
- Unite d’Habitation, Marseilles, France (designed by Le Corbusier)
- Oxley Business Centre, Crow’s Nest, Sydney, (designer unknown)
- Qualcomm stadium, San Diego, California (designed by Frank L. Hope and Associates)
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (designed by James Johnson Sweeney and Mollison)
- Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, (designer unknown)
- Queen Elizabeth Towers, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada, (designer unknown)
- Nelson Fine Arts Center, Ariona State University (designed by Antoine Predock)
- Council House, Perth, Western Australia, (designed by Jeffrey Howlett and Don Bailey)
- Perth Entertainment Centre, Perth, Western Australia, (designer unknown)
- University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Tower, Sydney, New South Wales, (designer unknown)
- Buffalo City Court Building, Buffalo, New York (designed by Pfohl, Roberts and Biggie)
- Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Pasay City, Philippines, (designed by Leandro Locsin)
- Knight Campus, Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), Warwick, Rhode Island, (designer unknown)
- Landstadt building, Malmö, Sweden, (designer unknown)
- Trelllick Tower, London (designed by Erno Goldfinger)
- Joseph Mark Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (designed by John Carl Warnecke)
- Park Hill Estate, Sheffield (designed by Ivor Smith & Jack Lynn)
- Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario (designed by Murphy, Schuller, Green & Martin)
- Alley Theatre Houston, Texas, (designer unknown)
- Roger Stevens Building, University of Leeds (designed by Chamberlin Powell & Bon)
- Freeway Park, Seattle, Washington (designed by Angela Danadjieva /Lawrence Halprin)
Top 10 breakfast foods
- weet-bix with hot water
- weet-bix with no hot water
- vegemite and margerine on toast
- vegemite with no margerine on toast
- porridge
- cornflakes
- scrambled tofu
- fried mushrooms
- biscuits and gravy (in the American sense)
- coco pops
Top 10 Talk Talk songs
- Such A Shame
- I Believe In You
- Myrrhman
- Give It Up
- Living In Another World
- Life’s What You Make It
- After the Flood
- It’s My Life
- New Grass
- The Rainbow
Top 30 child actors
- Huckleberry Fox
- Jack Wild
- Frankie Muniz
- Baby Peg
- Jackie Coogan
- Junior Durkin
- Christine ‘Moose’ McGlade
- Alisdair Gillis
- Charlotte Coleman
- Soleil Moon Frye
- Roddy McDowall
- Sal Mineo
- Ben Geurens
- River Phoenix
- Corey Feldman
- Wil Wheaton
- Jerry O’Connoll
- Gary Coleman
- Zbych Trofimiuk
- John Hasler
- Sarah Monahan
- Matthew Krok
- Tina Yothers
- Troy Beckwith
- Clayton Williamson
- Rebecca Smart
- Noah Taylor
- Rodney McLennan
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Kristian Schmid
Fave Christian ministers
- Father Georgy Gapon [despite the treachery]
- Vicar Conrad Noel
- Jean Meslier
- Reverend Thomas J. Hagerty
- Reverend John ‘Jock’ Garden
- Father Charles ‘Charlie’ Liteky (also known as Angelo Liteky)
- Bishop Franklin Spencer Spalding
- Reverend Martin Luther King Jr
- Father Gustavo Gutiérrez
- Father Ignacio Ellacuria
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Reverend James Gareth Endicott
- Archbishop Wynn Wagner
- Father Leonardo Boff
- Father Camilo Torres Restrepo
- Father Roy Bourgeois
- Father Ted Kennedy
- Father Peter Kennedy
- Father Paul Webb
- Father Bob Maguire
- Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
- Reverend Allan Boesak
- Pastor Jay Bakker
- Pastor Carl Strehlow
- Minister Richard Price
- Father John Ball
Top 10 memoirs
- Holding The Man by Timothy Conigrave
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
- Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell
- The Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy
- Breaking The Surface by Greg Louganis
- The Naked God by Howard Fast
- Thin He Was And Filthy-Haired by Robert Llewellyn
- 1001 Australian Nights by Dave Graney
- My Life in France by Julia Child
Top 30 Morrissey songs
- Sister, I’m A Poet (live version off ‘Beethoven Was Deaf’)
- I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
- The Last of the Famous International Playboys
- Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself
- The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
- Piccadilly Palare
- Tomorrow
- Speedway
- Hairdresser On Fire
- Jack the Ripper
- Suedehead
- Alma Matters
- Everyday Is Like Sunday
- The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils
- Whatever Happens, I Love You
- Late Night, Maudlin Street
- Ouija Board, Ouija Board
- I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
- Dagenham Dave
- Mute Witness
- The Boy Racer
- Roy’s Keen
- Life is a Pigsty
- Disappointed
- You’re the One for Me, Fatty
- Mama Lay Softly by the Riverbed
- Ordinary Boys
- Boxers
- Have-a-Go Merchant
- Glamorous Glue (live version off ‘Beethoven Was Deaf’)
Top 100 alliterative names (in alphabetical order)
- Alan Alda
- Ansel Adams
- Beau Brummell
- Boris Becker
- Bruce Bolden
- Billy Boat
- Billy Brownless
- Björn Borg
- Bobby Brown
- Cassius Clay
- Cornelius Cardew
- Casey Kasem
- Claudette Colbert
- Clarence Clemens
- Christopher Columbus
- Charlie Chaplin
- Chas Chandler
- Cab Calloway
- Carl Cox
- Chris Cooper
- Chevy Chase
- Danny DeVito
- Daniel Defoe
- Dick Dale
- Diana Dors
- Doris Day
- Dom Delouise
- Dominique Dawes
- David Duchovny
- Erik Estrada
- Ernie Els
- Emilio Estevez
- Fred Funk
- Flavor Flav
- Farrah Fawcett
- Fyvush Finkel
- Graham Greene
- Gilbert Gottfried
- Galileo Galilei
- Greta Garbo
- Harry Hay
- Herbie Hancock
- Herman Hesse
- Harry Houdini
- Hubert Humphrey
- Iwan Iwanoff
- Jim Jones
- Jesse James
- Jim James
- Joe Jackson
- Janet Jackson
- Joshua Jackson
- Jack Johnson
- Jasper Johns
- Janis Joplin
- James Joyce
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Ken Kesey
- Kato Kaelin
- Kris Kristopherson
- Kurt Cobain
- Leroy Loggins
- Lucy Liu
- Lucy Lawless
- Lindsay Lohan
- Lyle Lovett
- Loretta Lynne
- Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes
- Lennox Lewis
- Martin Mull
- Mike Myers
- Nick Nolte
- Ozzy Osborne
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Parker Posey
- Pablo Picasso
- Pricilla Presley
- Quentin Crisp
- Ryan Reynolds
- Robert Rodriguez
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Robert Redford
- Roy Rogers
- Ruby Rose
- Sebastian Smee
- Soupy Sales
- Sylvester Stallone
- Sam Snead
- Sarah Silverman
- Susan Sarandon
- Steven Street
- Tina Turner
- Ted Tinling
- Timothy Treadwell
- Vince Vaughn
- Wiley Wiggins
- Walt Whitman
- Wim Wenders
- William Wilberforce
- Zinedine Zidane
Top 30 types of wood
- Pink Ivory
- Brazilwood
- Balsa
- Ebony
- Bastard Ironwood
- Jarrah
- Teak
- Elm
- Bigtooth Aspen
- Oak
- White ash
- Maple
- Poplar
- Birch
- Spruce
- Cedar
- Willow
- Tupelo
- Blackheart Sassafras
- Wenge
- Larch
- Afzelia
- Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir
- Persimmon
- Dogwood
- Grenadilla
- Hop-Hornbeam
- Trumpet Tree (Ipê)
- Bloodwood
- Sipo
Top 10 sports commentators of all time
- Dennis Cometti
- Jim Courier
- Liz Chetkovich
- Steve Carfino
- Richie Benaud
- Sue Barker
- Phil Liggett
- Pam Shriver
- John McEnroe
- Tim Gossage
Top 10 Alex or Alexander related songs
- In Particular by Blonde Redhead
- Alex Chilton by The Replacements
- Neighborhood #2 (Laika) by Arcade Fire
- Alex (Stolen Script) by Ghostface Killah
- Smart Alex by The Adicts
- Alex by Girls
- Alexander by Sekiden
- Alec Eiffel by The Pixies
- Alex the Seal by Spiderbait
- Alex by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
30 skills I’d like to have
- carpentry
- fire starting
- computer programming
- minor surgery
- perfumery
- ice fishing
- animating
- horticultural grafting
- pastry cooking
- car mechanics
- flute playing
- boxing
- wood whittling
- bonsai
- buckskin tanning
- food sculpture
- yoga
- sewing
- piano playing
- plastics manufacture
- speed reading
- stone skipping
- food science
- hair cutting
- gum leaf playing
- fondant /cake decorating
- book binding
- drawing
- alcohol brewing
- raft making
Top 100 hip hop songs of all time (one song representing an artist)
- Wildcat Rap by Perth Wildcats (1989 roster)
- Fashion Party by Das Racist (featuring Chairlift)
- XXXO by M.I.A. (Jay-Z remix)
- I Hate My Job by Cam’ron
- Di-na-mi-tee by Ms. Dynamite
- Tha Crossroads by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
- Gossip Folks by Missy Elliot
- U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifa
- Chinese New Year by Clipse (featuring Roscoe P. Coldchain)
- Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry
- President’s Paranoia by Atmosphere (featuring Slug)
- Keep It On The Real by 3X Krazy
- Flashing Lights by Kanye West (featuring Dwele)
- Over by Drake
- Eye Know by De La Soul
- Commencement Day by Blue Scholars
- Buffalo Gals by Malcolm McLaren & the World’s Famous Supreme Team
- Keep Ya Head Up by 2Pac
- Just A Friend by Biz Markie
- The Message by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
- Shake Your Booty by Public Enemy
- Mike the Mentor by Rhymefest
- Kick Push by Lupe Fiasco
- The Choice is Yours by Black Sheep
- Professor Booty by Beastie Boys
- Beef – Notorious B.I.G. (featuring Mobb Deep)
- Where It’s At by Beck
- Tightrope by Janelle Monáe (featuring Big Boi)
- Perfect Skies by Main Attrakionz
- The Rough Side of Town by Organized Konfusion
- So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast
- Down River by Wilcannia Mob
- Down By the Forces of Nature by Jungle Brothers
- Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z (featuring Alicia Keys)
- Remainz by Gang Starr
- Therapy by Heltah Skeltah
- Rapture by Blondie
- Tangerine by Big Boi
- Love Rap by Spoonie Gee
- Strawberry Girl by The Cool Kids
- Regulate by Warren G (featuring Nate Dogg)
- Got Your Money by Ol’ Dirty Bastard (featuring Kelis)
- Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros by Flight of the Conchords
- From Sac to the Boonies by Mac Dre
- Fuck Da Police by N.W.A.
- Fix Up, Look Sharp by Dizzee Rascal
- Push It by Salt-N-Pepa
- That’s The Breaks by Kurtis Blow
- Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic (featuring Felly)
- Who Am I? (What’s My Name?) by Snoop Doggy Dogg
- Airplane, Trains and Automobiles by Dope Game
- The Good Die Young by 50 Cent
- Phantom by Mr. Lif (featuring EL-P)
- Wu Wear: The Garment Renaissance by RZA (featuring Method Man and Cappadonna)
- Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo by Del tha Funkee Homosapian
- Exhibit C by Jay Electronica
- Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J
- Deep by East 17
- I Used To Love H.E.R. by Common
- Pursuite of Happiness by Kid Cudi (featuring MGMT)
- Liquid Swords by GZA
- On Fire by Lil’ Wayne
- Drop by The Pharcyde
- Sobb Story by Leaders of the New School
- Mr. Wendal by Arrested Development
- Provider by N*E*R*D
- Take Me Home by Brother Ali
- Glaciers of Ice by Raekwon (featuring Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa and Blue Raspberry)
- Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty by Nature
- Run’s House by Run-D.M.C.
- Hip Hop by Dead Prez
- Parents Just Don’t Understand by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
- Can I Kick It? by A Tribe Called Quest
- The Power by Snap
- Aint No Half Steppin by Big Daddy Kane
- Jump Around by House of Pain
- Bust A Move by Young MC
- If I Ruled The World by Nas (featuring Lauryn Hill)
- Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang
- My Philosophy by KRS-One
- Paid in Full by Eric B and Rakim
- I Got Cha Open by Black Moon
- I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need To Get By by Method Man (featuring Mary J. Blige)
- Doo Wop (That Thing) by Lauryn Hill
- Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaata
- Muckaty by Kylie Sambo
- U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer
- None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock
- Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
- Blinded By The Lights by The Streets
- Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
- Black Sweatshirt by Sage Francis
- The Proud by Talib Kweli
- Frontin by Pharrell
- Can It All Be So Simple? by Wu Tang Clan
- History by Mos Def (featuring Talib Kweli)
- Wild Thing by Tone Loc
- PSK, What Does It Mean? by Schoolly D
- Jizz in My Pants by The Lonely Island
- Obama Nation Part 2 by Lowkey (featuring M1 & Black the Ripper)
Top 10 queer films
- The Man Who Loved, Yngve
- I Love You Phillip Morris
- Another Country
- Totally Fucked Up
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Beautiful Thing
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- The Naked Civil Servant
- The Raspberry Reich
- Shortbus
12 favourite otter species (in order)
- Old World Otter [also know as Eurasian Otter] (Lutra lutra)
- Smooth-Coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata)
- North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis)
- Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)
- Hairy-Nosed Otter (Lutra sumatrana)
- Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
- African Clawless Otter (Aonyx capensis)
- Oriental Small-Clawed Otter (Aonyx cinerea)
- Spotted-Necked Otter (Hydrictis maculicollis)
- Marine Otter (Lontra felina)
- Neotropical Otter (Lontra longicaudis)
- Southern River Otter (Lontra provocax)
Top 20 jazz songs (one song representing each artist)
- Charles Mingus – Original Faubus Fables
- Bill Evans – Some Other Time
- Max Roach – Freedom Day
- Dave Brubeck – Take Five
- Sun Ra – Nuclear War
- Miles Davis – All Blues
- Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man
- John Coltrane – Resolution
- Eric Dolphy – Hat and Beard
- Dizzy Gillespie – Sabla Y Blu
- Duke Ellington – It Don’t Mean A Thing
- Charlie Parker – Now’s The Time
- Archie Shepp – You’re What This Day Is All About
- Pharaoh Sanders – You Got To Have Freedom
- Art Blakey – Moanin’
- Thelonious Monk – Well You Needn’t
- Hank Mobley – Dig Dis
- Bobby Hutcherson – Effi
- Art Tatum – Tiger Rag
- Jean-Luc Ponty – Elephants in Love
Top 5 sneakers of all time
- PF Flyers – Bob Cousy All Americans
- Lacoste Strike Nubucks
- Converse ‘Chuck Taylor’ All-Stars
- Adidas Superstars
- Nike waffle trainers
Top 20 elderly actors
- Ruth Gordon
- Will Geer
- Vivean Gray
- Ian McKellen
- Bea Arthur
- Betty White
- Rue McClanahan
- Estelle Getty
- Angela Lansbury
- Katherine Hepburn
- Henry Fonda
- Don Ameche
- Jessica Tandy
- Hume Cronyn
- Gene Hackman
- Agnes Moorhead
- Maggie Smith
- Anne Charleston
- Ian Smith
- James Cromwell
Top 10 wussy albums of the 1970s
- Paris 1919 by John Cale
- After The Goldrush by Neil Young
- Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
- Tapestry by Carol King
- Bare Trees by Fleetwood Mac
- Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel
- Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
- All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
- A Story by Yoko Ono
- Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens
Top 10 British TV comedy shows
- I’m Alan Partridge
- Look Around You
- Nighty Night
- The League of Gentlemen
- The Mighty Boosh
- The Inbetweeners
- The Peter Serafinowicz Show
- The Young Ones
- The Goodies
- Never Mind The Buzzcocks (the Simon Amstell years)
Top 15 places to get a coffee in Melbourne
- El Joyero (Thornbury)
- Bomb (Abbotsford)
- Penny Farthing (Northcote)
- Ray’s (Brunswick)
- Mixed Business (Clifton Hill)
- Red Door Corner Store (Northcote)
- A Minor Place (Brunswick)
- The Breakfast Club (Northcote)
- Thousand Pound Bend (CBD)
- Captains of Industry (CBD)
- Kitschen Pantry (Thornbury)
- Northern Soul (Thornbury)
- Palomino (Northcote)
- Lentil As Anything (Abbotsford)
- New International Bookshop [when I make it!] (Carlton)
Top 10 novels of all time
- Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
- The City and The Pillar by Gore Vidal
- À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Inside Mr Enderby by Anthony Burgess
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Top 10 albums of all time
- Kimberley Street Retirement Village by Thermos Cardy
- A Walk Across the Rooftops by The Blue Nile
- Smoke Ring For My Halo by Kurt Vile
- Chelsea Girl by Nico
- Exit the Dragon by Urge Overkill
- Night of the Wolverine by Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes
- Starfish by The Church
- Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express by The Go-Betweens
- Adult Baby by Guy Blackman
- Born Sandy Devotional by The Triffids
Top 10 movies of all time
- Puberty Blues
- A Clockwork Orange
- Fight Club
- Chinatown
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Muriel’s Wedding
- Educating Rita
- On Golden Pond
- The Joy Luck Club
- Terms of Endearment
Top 5 shades of white (Pantone color system)
- Bone White 12-0105 TCX
- Winter White 11-0507 TPX
- White Smoke 12-0704 TCX
- Bright White 11-0601 TCX
- Whitecap Gray 12-0304 TPX
Favourite 10 cloud formations
- mammatus
- altocumulus lenticularis
- arcus (roll cloud formation)
- arcus (shelf cloud formation)
- cirrus uncinus
- cumulus congestus
- altocumulus undulatus
- stratus nebulosus
- altocumulus
- cirrus fibratus
Top 3 bland foods
- rice
- melba toasts
- cucumber
Top 50 post-punk songs
- Greenhouse Holiday by No Fixed Address
- He Beat Up His Boyfriend by The Mekons
- Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow by Felt
- At Home He’s A Tourist by Gang of Four
- Such A Shame by Talk Talk
- Nomi Song by Klaus Nomi
- Tale of the Saeghors by Makers of the Dead Travel Fast
- Leave The Capitol by The Fall
- Fade To Grey by Visage
- Cities in Dust by Siouxie and The Banshees
- Passionate Friend by The Teardrop Explodes
- The 15th by Wire
- Villiers Terrace by Echo and The Bunnymen
- On My Block by The Go-Betweens
- Consolation Prize by Orange Juice
- Mr Clarinet by The Birthday Party
- Making Plans for Nigel by XTC
- Farmers Never Visit Nightclubs by The Triffids
- Alice by The Cocteau Twins
- Push by The Cure
- Sometimes (I Just Can’t Live With Anyone) by Laughing Clowns
- Well I Wonder by The Smiths
- Seconds by The Human League
- Love Like Blood by Killing Joke
- Transmission by Joy Division
- Almost With You by The Church
- Song From Under the Floorboards by Magazine
- Rise by Public Image Ltd.
- The Ghost in You by The Psychedelic Furs
- New King Jack by Sekret Sekret
- The Village by New Order
- Ant Music by Adam and the Ants
- Gut Feeling by Devo
- Shout and Deliver by The Reels
- Only Loved At Night by The Raincoats
- Homosapian by Pete Shelley
- Sleep by This Heat
- Ghost on the Highway by Gun Club
- Spasticus Autisticus by Ian Dury and The Blockheads
- Tally Ho by The Clean
- We Are All Prostitutes by The Pop Group
- Real to Real by Simple Minds
- Credit in the Straight World by Young Marble Giants
- P.A.s by Scritti Politti
- Otis by The Durutti Column
- This is the Day by The The
- No Word From China by Pel Mel
- Happy Man by The Sunnyboys
- Death Goes To The Disco by Pulp
- Temple of Love by The Sisters of Mercy
Top 30 action films of all time
- Terminator 2
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- District 9
- The Rise of The Planet of the Apes
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Dark Knight
- Toy Story 3
- Point Break
- Machete
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Land and Freedom
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World
- Rasberry Reich
- Fight Club
- Planet of the Apes
- Batman Returns
- Batman
- Superman
- Superman II
- Avatar
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- The Fugitive
- Moonraker
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Enter the Dragon
- Terminator Salvation
- True Romance
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash
- Beverley Hills Cop III
- Kill Bill
Favourite 10 hair colours
- platinum blonde
- flaming orange
- dirty blonde
- strawberry blonde
- jet black
- salt and pepper
- steel grey
- sable brown
- chestnut brown
- white
Top 25 English language poets
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- William Carlos Williams
- Sylvia Plath
- W.B. Yeats
- Gregory Corso
- Maxine Clarke
- Anne Sexton
- T.S. Eliot
- Audre Lorde
- Lesbia Harford
- Walt Whitman
- Kay Ryan
- Robert Lowell
- e.e. cummings
- Santo Cazzati
- Dorothy Parker
- Hart Crane
- Federico García Lorca
- Langston Hughes
- Henry Lawson
- Oscar Wilde
- Carol Ann Duffy
- John Keats
Top 30 cultural institutions in the world
- Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York City
- American Museum of Natural History – New York City
- DDR Museum – Berlin
- Kröller-Müller Museum – Oterlo, The Netherlands
- National Bonsai and Penjing Museum – Washington DC
- Schwules Museum – Berlin
- Ho Chi Min Museum – Hanoi
- The Museum of Science and Industry – Manchester
- The British Museum – London
- Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago
- National Museum of Natural History – Washington DC
- Windsor Castle – Windsor, UK
- The Tower of London – London
- National Museum of Art – Washington DC
- National Gallery – London
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli – Naples
- People’s History Museum – Manchester
- Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou) – Paris
- Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons – London
- British Library – London
- Tate Britain – London
- National Portrait Gallery – London
- Musée du Louvre – Paris
- Galleria degli Uffizi – Florence
- Whitechapel Gallery – London
- National Museum of American History – Washington DC
- Musée Rodin – Paris
- Manchester Museum – Manchester
- V&A Museum of Childhood – London
- Art Gallery of Western Australia – Perth
Favourite 5 condiments
- Jack Daniels Old #7 mustard
- Heinz tomato ketchup
- sambal oelek
- soy sauce
- wasabi
Top 20 songs by Belle and Sebastian
- The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
- Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying
- Electronic Rennaissance
- Sunday’s Pretty Icons
- There’s Too Much Love
- Stay Loose
- Slow Graffiti
- Winter Wooskie
- Jonathan David
- Come on Sister
- Nice Day for a Sulk
- I’m A Cuckoo
- Like Dylan in the Movies
- Funny Little Frog
- Me and the Major
- A Summer Wasting
- She’s Losing It
- To Be Myself Completely
- Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
- The Rollercoaster Ride
Top 10 movies with animals in prominent roles
- My Side of the Mountain
- The Day of the Dolphin
- Storm Boy
- Milo and Otis
- Uccellacci e uccellini
- Lassie Come Home
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Turner and Hooch
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Repossessed
10 ways to get warm without a heater
- cat on lap
- rubbing hands together
- hugging
- hot water bottle
- rubbing lard on skin
- staying in bed
- sipping soup
- wearing a trapper hat
- take a long walk
- wear thick socks
Top 50 disco songs of all time
- Menergy by Patrick Cowley
- Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches & Herb
- Get Dancin’ by Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes
- You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) by Sylvester
- Daddy Cool by Boney M
- More, More, More by Andrea True Connection
- Keep It Comin’ Love by KC and The Sunshine Band
- I’m Coming Out by Diana Ross
- Good Times by Chic
- More Than A Woman by Bee Gees
- Got To Be Real by Cheryl Lynn
- We Are Family by Sister Sledge
- Shine A Little Love by Electric Light Orchestra
- Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor
- I Love The Night Life (Disco ‘Round) by Alicia Bridges
- Heart Of Glass by Blondie
- You Should Be Dancing by Bee Gees
- Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough by Michael Jackson
- Love To Love You Baby by Donna Summer
- Shake, Shake, Shake (Shake Your Booty) by KC and The Sunshine Band
- That’s The Way (I Like It) by KC and The Sunshine Band
- I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan
- Lady Marmalade by Patti LaBelle
- Upside Down by Diana Ross
- Celebration by Kool & the Gang
- The Hustle by Van McCoy
- Grease by Frankie Valli
- A Warm Summer Night by Chic
- Have A Cigar by Rosebud
- Knowing Me, Knowing You by ABBA
- Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & Fire
- Get Down Tonight by KC and The Sunshine Band
- Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love by Barry White
- Jive Talking by Bee Gees
- Turn The Beat Around by Vicki Sue Robinson
- Disco Inferno by The Trammps
- Le Freak by Chic
- Stayin’ Alive by Bee Gees
- Livin’ Thing by Electric Light Orchestra
- Let’s Groove by Earth, Wind & Fire
- You Make Me Feel Like Dancing by Leo Sayer
- Everybody Dance by Chic
- You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate
- You Can’t Change That by Raydio
- I Want Your Love by Chic
- Can You Feel It by The Jacksons
- Born To Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez
- Xanadu by Olivia Newton-John
- Can’t Stop The Music by The Village People
- It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls
Top 10 parting phrases
- take it easy
- farewell
- peace out
- later
- b-bye
- so long
- cheerio
- best of luck
- pip pip
- be gone
Top 12 citrus
- finger lime (technically ‘citrus’? I don’t know.)
- satsuma mandarin
- Navel orange
- Valencia orange
- imperial lemon
- key lime
- kaffir lime
- kumquats
- grapefruit
- blood orange
- tangelo
- pomelo
Top 30 logos of all time
- Telecom Australia (Pieter Huveneers design, 1975)
- Black Panthers (1966)
- Michelin (Marius Rossillon design, 1898)
- Lacoste (1933)
- Australia Post (Pieter Huveneers design, 1975)
- Solidarnosc (Jerzy Janiszewski design, 1980)
- Western Australia Ministry of Education (circa 1990)
- Apple (circa 1977)
- General Electric (1899)
- World Wide Fund for Nature [WWF] (Peter Scott design, 1961)
- Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
- Penguin (derived from an idea by the un-named secretary of Allen Lane in 1935, Jan Tschichold design, 1948)
- His Master’s Voice (derived from the Francis Barraud painting, 1899)
- Cadbury ‘glass and a half’ (1928)
- Black Flag (Raymond Pettibon design, 1977)
- I [heart] NY (Milton Glaser design, 1973)
- Chupa Chups (Salvadore Dali design, 1969)
- CBS (William Golden design, 1951)
- Coca Cola (Frank Mason Robinson design, 1885)
- Nestle (Henri Nestlé design with the worm still in the bird’s mouth, 1868)
- BP (Landor, circa 2000)
- CBGBs (1973)
- Kentucky Fried Chicken (circa 1978)
- IBM (Paul Rand design, 1972)
- BBC (circa 1997)
- Greyhound (1929)
- Kodak (circa 1971)
- ABC (1963, from an idea in a staff competition from space engineer Doug Rickard, adapted in 1965 by ABC’s senior graphic designer Bill Kennard)
- Pepsi (Caleb Bradham idea, circa 1950)
- AC/DC (Bob Defrin design, 1977)
30 favourite animals to go extinct in modern times
- Indefatigable Galápagos Mouse
- Steller’s Sea Cow
- Pig-footed Bandicoot
- Dodo
- Moa
- Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)
- Honshū Wolf
- Hokkaidō Wolf
- King Island Emu
- Toolache Wallaby
- Mexican Grizzly Bear
- Lesser Bilby
- Falkland Islands Wolf (Warrah)
- Bulldog Rat
- Quagga
- Caspian Tiger
- Sea Mink
- Bubal Hartebeest
- Giant Auk
- Cave Lion
- Laughing Owl
- Baiji
- Sardinian Pika
- Caucasian Moose
- Gould’s Mouse
- Laysan Rail
- Japanese Sea Lion
- Kawekaweau
- Male Passenger Pigeon
- Turquoise-throated Puffleg
Top 50 music videos of all time
- Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
- M.I.A. – Born Free
- Talk Talk – It’s My Life
- Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
- Beck – Lost Cause
- Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Pavement – Stereo
- Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
- Blondie – Rapture
- Hidden Cameras – A Miracle
- Fujiya and Miyagi – Ankle Injuries
- Morrissey – Everyday is Like Sunday
- Björk – All Is Full Of Love
- My Bloody Valentine – Soon
- Blur – Coffee and TV
- Kraftwerk – The Robots
- Public Enemy – Night of the Living Baseheads
- R.E.M. – It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Sonic Youth – Dirty Boots
- Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
- Madonna – Vogue
- Minutemen – This Aint No Picnic
- Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
- Stephen Malkmus – Discretion Grove
- Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
- Korallreven – The Truest Faith
- Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice
- Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
- Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy
- Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
- C&C Music Factory – Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
- Air – Playground Love
- Pulp – Bad Cover Version
- Barnes and Barnes – Fish Heads
- Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
- At The Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
- Kylie Minogue – Slow
- Prince – Dirty Mind
- Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At
- The Smiths – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
- The White Stripes – The Hardest Button To Button
- The Saints – Know Your Product
- Queen featuring David Bowie – Under Pressure
- Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It
- David Bowie – Let’s Dance
- Cliff Richard – Wired for Sound
- The Blue Nile – Tinsetown in the Rain
- Junior Senior – Move Your Feet
- Michael Jackson – Black or White
- The Beatles – Rain
Top 20 game show hosts of all time
- John Burgess
- Eden Gaha
- Simon Amstell
- Julian Clary
- Tony Barber
- Tim Ferguson
- Mike Meade
- Fiona McDonald
- Stuart Hall
- Anne Robinson
- Michael Pope
- Greg Evans
- James Sherry
- Ian Turpie
- Sophie Formica
- Graham Kennedy
- Simon Watt
- Peter Berner
- Rob Brough
- Rob Guest
Top 3 metal bands
- Slayer
- Judas Priest
- Celtic Frost
Top 12 metals and semi-metals
- gold
- lithium
- calcium
- aluminum
- tin
- zinc
- nickel
- mercury
- tungsten
- cobalt
- lead
- arsenic
Favourite 10 suburbs in Melbourne
- Footscray
- Frankston
- Thornbury
- Brunswick East
- Northcote
- Sunshine
- Preston
- Fawkner
- Resevoir
- Collingwood
Top 10 dancers
- Isadora Duncan
- Merce Cunningham
- Willi Ninja
- Lil’ Buck
- Robert Helpmann
- Michael Clarke
- Busby Berkeley
- Bobby Farrell
- Michael Jackson
- Karen from The Red Shoes
Top 50 documentaries (not music related)
- Word is Out
- F for Fake
- Capturing The Friedmans
- Touching The Void
- Born Rich
- Storyville: The Genius and The Boys
- Rocking The Foundations
- Grizzly Man
- Keep The River On Your Right
- The King of Kong
- The September Issue
- The Times of Harvey Milk
- That Man: Peter Berlin
- Out In Nature
- The War on Democracy
- Paragraph 175
- Spellbound
- Roger & Me
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
- The Kid Stays In The Picture
- Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
- Crumb
- Helvetica
- Before Stonewall
- The Devil’s Playground
- The Celluloid Closet
- Lost in La Mancha
- The Universe of Keith Haring
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Unzipped
- Exit Through The Gift Shop
- Benny and The Dreamers
- Harlan County, USA
- How The West Was Lost
- Jesus Camp
- The Naked Bunyip
- Pumping Iron
- My Architect
- Paris Is Burning
- A Bigger Splash
- Sketches of Frank Gehry
- Hoop Dreams
- Best Worst Movie
- Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters
- The Weather Underground
- The Battle of Chile
- The Story of the Weeping Camel
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- Seven Up!
Top 5 chip styles
- fish n chip style
- crinkle cut
- waffle
- shoestring
- steak cut
Top 5 slave revolts
- Third Servile War against the Roman Republic [also known as The War of Sparticus] (73-71BC)
- Zanj Rebelli in Southern Iraq (869-883 AD)
- Thrall Tunni rebellion against the Swedish monarch Ongentheowon [also known as Egil] (ca. 515)
- St. Domingue slave revolt in Haiti (1791 )
- Tacky’s War in Jamaica (1760)
Top 20 fashion designers and fashion houses
- Walter Van Beirendonck
- Comme des Garçons
- Bernhard Willhelm
- Marc Jacobs
- Manish Arora
- Gareth Pugh
- Rudi Gernreich
- Cathy Pill
- Matthew Williamson
- Rifat Ozbek
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Leigh Bowery
- Avsh Alom Gur
- Basso & Brooke
- Alexander McQueen
- Christian Lacroix
- Lanvin
- Catou
- Biba (Barbara Hulanicki )
- Denis Simachev
Top 50 cartoon characters
- Yogi Bear
- Theodore Sevillle (The Chipmunks)
- Marge Simpson (The Simpsons)
- Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear (Toy Story 3)
- Towelie (South Park)
- Claudia Vorstein (The Chipmunk Adventure)
- Klaus Vorstein (The Chipmunk Adventure)
- Buttercup Utonium (Powerpuff Girls)
- Ernest Penfold (Danger Mouse)
- Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Prince John (Robin Hood [1973])
- Merriweather (Sleeping Beauty)
- Skeleton (SuperTed)
- Harvey Birdman
- Myron Reducto (Harvey Birdman)
- Daria Morgendorffer (Daria)
- Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
- Skeletor (He-Man)
- Cringer (He-Man)
- He-Man
- Archimedes (The Sword in the Stone)
- Kay (The Sword in the Stone)
- Mr Burns (The Simpsons)
- Eric Raymond (Jem)
- Pepe Le Pew
- Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
- Ren (Ren and Stimpy)
- Bobby Hill (King of the Hill)
- Tom Sloane (Daria)
- Mumm-Ra (Thundercats)
- Pidge (Voltron)
- Boo-Boo (Yogi Bear)
- Boris Badenov (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
- Natasha Fatale (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
- Count Duckula
- Doctor Claw (Inspector Gadget)
- Penny (Inspector Gadget)
- Simon Seville (The Chipmunks)
- Dave Seville (The Chipmunks)
- Garfield
- Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
- Papa Smurf (The Smurfs)
- Randy Marsh (South Park)
- Gumby
- Pokey (Gumby)
- Astroboy
- Ursula the Sea Witch (The Little Mermaid)
- Olive Oyl (Popeye)
- Mom (Futurama)
- Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
Top 5 celebrity chefs
- Peter Russel-Clarke
- Julia Child
- Heston Blumenthal
- Jennifer Paterson
- Ferran Adrià
Top 10 songs by Simply Red
- Your Mirror
- Money’s Too Tight To Mention
- Jericho
- Holding Back The Years
- Stars
- Come To My Aid
- Fairground
- Something Got Me Started
- A New Flame
- For Your Babies
Top 10 forms of ‘fake’ meat
- Bai Dai fish pieces
- whole fish
- Boca burgers (beef style)
- fried chicken pieces
- breaded chicken drumsticks
- chicken nuggets
- mutton
- hot dog style sausages
- crab for soup
- mince meat for pies
Top 30 sports cars of all time
- Bugatti Type 57SC Atalante Coupe
- Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe
- Bugatti Type 59 Grand Prix
- Bugatti Type 54 Grand Prix
- Lotus Seven
- Chevrolet Corvette (1954)
- Alfa Romeo Carabo
- Alpine A110 (Berlinette)
- Maserati Boomerang
- Ferrari 250 GTO
- Lancia Stratos HF
- Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Coupe (1963 )
- Lancia Strato Zero
- De Tomaso Pantera(1971)
- Porsche 959
- Holden Efijy
- Lamborghini Countach (1971)
- Maserati Bora
- BMW M1
- Vector W8
- Dome Zero
- Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona
- E25 BMW Turbo
- Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (1974 )
- Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
- Ferrari F40
- Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing
- Lamborghini Miura
- Mazda Miata
- Dodge Viper GTS
60 songs that define the grunge era (one song representing each act, no particular order)
- On A Plain by Nirvana
- Olympia (Rock Star) by Hole
- Touch Me I’m Sick by Mudhoney
- Outshined by Soundgarden
- Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam
- Pretend We’re Dead by L7
- Zero by Smashing Pumpkins
- No Excuses by Alice in Chains
- Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots
- Bruise Violet by Babes in Toyland
- Ritual Device by Tad
- Sundial by Tumbleweed
- Jewels and Bullets by You Am I
- Daddy by Magic Dirt
- Tumbling by Snout
- Dart by Screamfeeder
- That Ain’t Bad by Ratcat
- Here Now by The Clouds
- Atomic Electric by Rebecca’s Empire
- God In A Dustbin by The Falling Joys
- Findaway by silverchair
- Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
- Saturated by The Beasts of Bourbon
- Feel The Pain by Dinosaur jr
- Skull by Sebadoh
- 100% by Sonic Youth
- Ain’t No Right by Jane’s Addiction
- Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill
- Cocksucker Club by Pansy Division
- Longview by Green Day
- Everlong by Foo Fighters
- Los Angeles by Frank Black
- Do You Love Me Now? by The Breeders
- If I Can’t Change Your Mind by Sugar
- Trigger Cut by Pavement
- Solar Sister by The Posies
- Jimmy’s Fantasy by Redd Kross
- Positive Bleeding by Urge Overkill
- Anky Fremp by Flanders
- Drugs by Ammonia
- Something Good Must Come by Knievel
- Web in Front by Archers of Loaf
- Waiting Around by Smoking Popes
- Say It Ain’t So by Weezer
- Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles by The Flaming Lips
- The Hurdy Gurdy Man by Butthole Surfers
- Last Cup Of Sorrow by Faith No More
- What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? by R.E.M.
- Vow by Garbage
- What’s Come Over Me? by Frente
- Boy Racer by Morrissey
- Love Spreads by The Stone Roses
- A Design For Life by Manic Street Preachers
- Live Forever by Oasis
- There’s No Other Way by Blur
- Everything Flows by Teenage Fanclub
- Stutter by Elastica
- A Life Less Ordinary by Ash
- Dress by PJ Harvey
- Just by Radiohead
Top 10 scents (non perfume related)
- petrol
- bubblegum
- synthetic ‘strawberry’
- vanilla
- smoke from a wood fire
- old books
- toast
- coffee
- play-doh
- fresh rain
Top 25 hats and caps
- trapper hat
- ushanka
- night cap with pom-pom
- feather bonnet
- pileus
- Phrygian cap
- sou’wester
- baseball cap
- flat cap
- cowboy hat
- tuque
- newsboy cap
- wimple
- pork pie hat
- Tam o’ Shanter
- coonskin cap
- visor
- chaperon
- nurses cap
- mob cap
- coolie hat
- boater
- energy dome
- Panama hat
- a hat by Phillip Treacy
Top 75 dog breeds
- Hare Indian Dog
- Paisley Terrier
- Dachshund
- Bullenbeisser
- Airedale Terrier
- Talbot
- Kai Ken
- Combai
- St. Bernard
- Foxhound
- Azawakh
- Rajapalayam
- Pug
- Doberman Pinscher
- Beagle
- Mountain Cur
- New Guinea Singing Dog
- Rough Collie
- Dutch Smoushond
- English Foxhound
- Komondor
- German Shorthaired Pointer
- Dalmatian
- Great Pyrenees
- Field Spaniel
- Hortaya Borzaya
- Ibizan Hound
- Japanese Chin
- Greyhound
- Jonangi
- Pharaoh Hound
- Kanni
- Korean Jindo Dog
- McNab
- Kyi-Leo
- Indian Spitz
- Lakeland Terrier
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Maltese
- Cirneco dell’Etna
- Grand Griffon Vendéen
- Mountain View Cur
- Norfolk Spaniel
- Norwegian Buhund
- Landseeer
- Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever
- Old Danish Pointer
- Kromfohrländer
- Papillon
- Kishu
- Pont-Audemer Spaniel
- Pyrenean Shepherd
- Dogo Cubano
- Russian Toy
- Mucuchies
- Skye Terrier
- Otterhound
- South Russian Ovcharka
- Hamiltonstövare
- Australian Cattle Dog
- Telomian
- Rampur Greyhound
- Toy Bulldog
- Great Dane
- Dunker
- Koolie
- Pointer
- Irish Water Spaniel
- Toy Trawler Spaniel
- Rat Terrier
- Peruvian Hairless Dog
- Chihuahua
- Moscow Watchdog
- Siberian Husky
- Dingo (I guess people say it’s not technically a dog)
Best seasons of Project Runway (in order)
- Season 8
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 4
- Season 3
- Season 5
- Season 7
- Season 6
Top 10 premiership footballers from the West Coast Eagles (1992, 1994, 2006)
- Karl Langdon
- Chris Lewis
- Peter Matera
- Chris Mainwaring
- Ashley McIntosh
- Dean Kemp
- Craig Turley
- Guy McKenna
- Brett Heady
- David Wirrpanda
Top 15 National Parks in the United States (in order)
- Yellowstone
- Badlands
- Redwood
- Death Valley
- Grand Teton
- Rocky Mountain
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Yosemite
- Kings Canyon
- Sequoia
- Arches
- Olympic
- Shenandoah
- Zion
- Jellystone (honourable mention)
Top 10 Steve Martin movies
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- HouseSitter
- ¡Three Amigos!
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles
- Roxanne
- L.A. Story
- Parenthood
- Father of the Bride Part II
- Father of the Bride
- The Jerk
Top 10 green leafy vegetables
- kangkong
- celery
- kale
- cos lettuce
- baby bok choi
- broccolini
- broccoli
- iceberg lettuce
- baby spinach
- rocket
Top 30 songs by Dinosaur Jr
- Loaded
- The Wagon
- Crumble
- In A Jar
- No Bones
- Goin’ Home
- The Lung
- Pick Me Up
- Out There
- Water
- They Always Come
- What Else Is New
- Feel The Pain
- Little Fury Things
- I’m Insane
- Budge
- Mick
- Not The Same
- Sure Not Over You
- I Know Yer Insane
- Puke + Cry
- Kracked
- Never Bought It
- Forget The Swan
- Said The People
- I Ain’t Sayin
- Sludgefeast
- Tarpit
- Repulsion
- Get Me
Favourite photographers
- Broomberg/Chanarin (Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin)
- Richard Mosse
- Guy Bourdin
- Lazlo Maholy-Nagy
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Wilhelm von Gloeden
- Syd Shelton
- Richard Avedon
- Philippe Halsman
- Will McBride
- Bob Mizer
- David Bailey
- James Bidgood
- Herbert Bayer
- Annie Leibovitz
- Robert Capa
- Andy Warhol
- Cecil Beaton
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Helmut Newton
- Mick Rock
- Diane Arbus
- Simon Norfolk
- Matthew Brady
-
Red Saunders
Top 10 models
- Maggie Tabberer
- Iman
- Edie Sedgewick
- Kate Moss
- Quentin Crisp
- Twiggy
- Dorima
- Nico
- Anjelica Huston
- Jerry Hall
Top 10 film songs / scores
- Walkabout by John Barry (from Walkabout)
- De usuahia a la quiaca by Gustavo Santaolalla (from The Motorcycle Diaries)
- Main Title (Golden Ticket /Pure Imagination) by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
- Consuelo Leaving by Belle and Sebastian (from Storytelling)
- Prologue – Dirty Rotten Theme by Miles Goodman (from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
- The John Dunbar Theme by John Barry (from Dances with Wolves)
- Pepperland by George Martin (from Yellow Submarine)
- Prologue – Bedknobs and Broomsticks by Irwin Kostal (from Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
- Fiction by Nathan Larson and Nina Persson (from Storytelling)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (main title) by Ennio Morricone (from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
15 favourite kitchen appliances or utensils
- large knife
- rice cooker
- coffee bean grinder
- colander
- Scanpan flat-bottomed wok
- bendable chopping board
- ladle
- grater
- salad spinner
- pastry brush
- can opener
- lemon squeezer
- metal mixing spoon
- filleting knife
- mortar and pestle
Top 75 seasonal songs
- Summer in the City by The Lovin’ Spoonful
- A Warm Summer Night by Chic
- Autumn in New York by Billie Holiday
- Hot Fun in the Summertime by Sly and The Family Stone
- Autumn Sung by Sodastream
- Spring Rain by The Go-Betweens
- One Summer by Daryl Braithwaite
- Hell of a Summer by The Triffids
- Winter Wooskie by Belle and Sebastian
- Autumn Sweater by Yo La Tengo
- Winter Wonder by Jeremy Jay
- Winterlong by Neil Young
- Summer Cannibals by Patti Smith
- Summer Cum by Avi Buffalo
- We Gathered in Spring by Midlake
- Winter Song by Nico
- Summer’s Cauldron by XTC
- Winter’s Way by The Laughing Clowns
- Winter Friend by Yoko Ono
- Autumn Shade by The Vines
- Come On Spring by Antenna
- It’s Summertime by Flaming Lips
- Summer Wasting by Belle and Sebastian
- Spring Song by Paul Robeson
- Summer Wino by Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males
- Summer Lovin’ by Meuscram
- Autumn Glass by Sekiden
- Winter Love by Robyn Hitchcock
- Autumn’s Child by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band
- Summertime Clothes by Animal Collective
- Cummer in Summertime by Julian Cope
- Delius (Song of Summer) by Kate Bush
- Summer Breeze by Stylus
- In The Summertime by The Mixtures
- Summer Here Kids by Grandaddy
- The Boys of Summer by Don Henley
- White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes
- Autumn by Felt
- Let’s Pretend It’s Summer by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- My Autumn’s Done Come by The Tinderstick
- Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon and Garfunkel
- Winterwonderland by Ross McLennan
- Dark Autumn by Grand Buffet
- Summer Fun by The Barracudas
- My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion by The Flaming Lips
- Autumn Leaves by Miles Davis
- Excerpt from a Winter’s Day by Underground Lovers
- Winter in America by Gil Scott Heron
- Bummer in the Summer by Love
- Winter Lady by Leonard Cohen
- It Might As Well Be Spring by Nina Simone
- Eternal Summer by Celtic Frost
- Some Other Spring by Billie Holiday
- Winter by The Fall
- Summer Babe By Pavement
- Wintertime Again by Beachfield
- Winter Dies by Midlake
- In The Bleak Mid Winter by Bert Jansch
- Winter’s End by Marchine Translations
- Summertime by The Sundays
- Winter-A-Go-Go by Yo La Tengo
- Winter Rodeo by Turnstyle
- Autumn Air by The Very Most
- Winter Wonder Land by Animal Collective
- It’s Winter and You Don’t Love by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
- Fall Breaks and Back to Winter by Jim O’Rourke
- Summer Turns To High by R.E.M.
- Winter Must Be Cold by The Apples in stereo
- Autumn Almanac by The Kinks
- Autumn is Your Last Chance by Robyn Hitchcock
- Summertime by Lenny Breau
- Indian Summer by Beat Happening
- Russian Autumn Heart by The Church
- Sweetheart in the Summer by Ween
- In The Heat Of The Summer by Phil Ochs
Top 5 food products prepared out of soy beans
- soy milk
- firm tofu
- soy sauce
- roasted soy beans
- silken tofu
Top 70 architects
- Jeffrey Howlett
- Smiljan Radic
- Iwan Iwanoff
- B.V. Doshi
- James Stockwell
- Glenn Murcutt
- Oscar Niermeyer
- Alvar Aalto
- Hannes Meyer
- Le Corbusier
- Walter Gropius
- Eduardo Souto Moura
- Frei Otto
- Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi
- Rem Koolhaas
- Renzo Piano
- Louis Kahn
- Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
- Jean Nouvel
- Peter Zumthor
- José Selgas and Lucía Cano
- Sou Fujimoto
- Toyo Ito
- Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu
- Shigeru Ban
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Bertrand Goldberg
- Daniel Burnham
- Arne Jacobsen
- Victor Horta
- Otto Wagner
- Antonio Sant’Elia
- Vesnin Brothers
- Ivan Fomin
- Buckminster Fuller
- Félix Candela
- Marcel Breuer
- Henning Larsen
- Bjarke Ingels
- Thomas Heatherwick
- Joseph Karakis
- Moisei Ginzburg
- David Adjaye
- David Chipperfield
- Mario Bellini
- Jean Nouvel
- Norman Foster
- Forbes and Fitzhardinge
- Barozzie Vega
- Thom Mayne
- Robin Boyd
- Harry Seidler
- Glen Murcutt
- ARM: Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt, Ian McDougall and Tony Allen
- John Denton
- Bill Corker and Barrie Marshall
- Roy Grounds
- Nigel Coates
- Robin Falck
- Vitor Rodrigues
- Peter Behrens
- César Pelli
- Frank Gehry
- Giò Ponti
- Jørn Utzon
- Peter Parler
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- William Van Alen
- Elizabeth Diller
- Ray Kappe
Top 50 Australian actors (in order)
- John Hargreaves
- Cate Blanchett
- Noah Taylor
- Graeme Blundell
- Rachel Griffiths
- David Gulpilil
- Matt Day
- Sophie Lee
- Garry McDonald
- Nell Schofield
- Ernie Dingo
- Errol Flynn
- Ruth Cracknell
- Genevieve Lemon
- Chips Rafferty
- Sacha Horler
- Alex Dimitriadis
- Rebecca Smart
- Kristian Schmid
- Judy Davis
- Sam Worthington
- Geoffrey Rush
- Tom E. Lewis
- Bill Hunter
- Frances O’Connor
- Jonathon Dutton
- Jack Thompson
- Deborah Mailman
- Jacki Weaver
- Kym Gyngell
- Bruce Spence
- Toni Collette
- Graham Kennedy
- Bryan Brown
- Noni Hazlehurst
- John Jarratt
- Magda Szubanski
- Heath Ledger
- Wendy Hughes
- Peter Finch
- Bud Tingwell
- Joan Sydney
- Hugo Weaving
- Sandy Gore
- Jacqueline MacKenzie
- Shaun Micallef
- Salvatore Coco
- Geoff Paine
- Leigh Whannell
- Nicole Kidman
Favourite 8 characters in Deadwood TV series
- Jane Canary
- Francis Walcott
- Mr Wu
- Al Swearengen
- E.B. Farnum
- Doc Cochran
- A.W. Merrick
- Jack McCall
Top 10 manifestations of water (in order)
- glass of water
- hail
- water pistol squirt
- clouds
- kettle steam
- iceblocks
- rain
- leaky tap
- igloo
- rising steam from a subway grate
5 favourite words
- trousers
- bespoke
- minging
- tabernacle
- tits
10 other people with descriptive terms in their names
- Wild Bill Hickock
- Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
- Long John Baldry
- ‘Evil’ Graham Lee
- Shakin Stevens
- Screaming Lord Sutch
- ‘The Coward’ Robert Ford
- Long John Silver
- Calamity Jane Gazzo
- The Notorious B.I.G.
25 great songs by bad musical acts
- Everlong by Foo Fighters
- Keeping Secrets by Motor Ace
- Military Strongmen by Jebediah
- More Than You Are by Grinspoon
- Stop by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- A Song For The Lovers by Richard Ashcroft
- Tornadoes by Ben Lee
- Something Good Must Come by Knievel
- Is There Any Love In Your Heart? by Lenny Kravitz
- Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam
- Unsent Letter by Machine Gun Fellatio
- In The Meantime by Spacehog
- All Star by Smashmouth
- Revolution Regained by The Living End
- Sour Girl by Stone Temple Pilots
- Behind The Sun by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- In The Meantime by Spacehog
- Live Forever by Oasis
- My Happiness by Powderfinger
- Outside of Me by Killing Heidi
- Why Are All The Cars Outside Real? by Eskimo Joe
- Perfect Family by Diana Ah Naid
- Findaway by silverchair
- Burden In My Hand by Soundgarden
- Buck Rogers by Feeder
Favourite names for a boy
- Huckleberry
- Tenderfoot
- Hightower
- Templeton
- Coles
- Milo
- Otis
- Cornelius
- Jerry
- Micah
- Bailey
- Bay
- Tane
- Kaan
- Hart
- Oliver
- Kelly
- Gary
- Dale
- Alex
Top 8 hairstyles
- hi-top fade
- mop top
- undercut
- quiff
- bob
- devilock
- Croydon facelift
- jewfro
Top 20 trees
- palm tree
- wattle
- myrtle (Western Australian/Peppermint)
- redwood
- Douglas Fir
- Joshua Tree
- weeping willow
- Tasmanian Blue Gum
- elm
- maple
- Mountain Ash
- Old Tjikko (Norway Spruce)
- oak
- Yakushima (conifer)
- mallow
- Eurasian Smoketree
- buxus (box tree)
- baobab
- birch
- plane-tree
Top 12 athletes who have tested positive to drugs
- Carl Lewis
- Petr Korda
- Mark French
- O.J. Mayo
- Marion Jones
- Ekaterini Thanou
- Hans Gunnar-Linjenwall
- Dean Capobianco
- Andre Agassi
- Lance Armstrong
- Linford Christie
- Barry Bonds
Top 10 Columbo episodes
- Murder by the Book (Season 1, Episode 1)
- Murder Under Glass (Season 7, Episode 2)
- The Most Dangerous Match (Season 2, Episode 7)
- Death Lends A Hand (Season 1, Episode 2)
- The Most Crucial Game (Season 2, Episode 3)
- Lovely But Lethal (Season 3, Episode 1)
- An Exercise in Fatality (Season 4, Episode 1)
- Dead Weight (Season 1, Episode 3)
- By Dawn’s Early Light (Season 4, Episode 3)
- How to Dial A Murder (Season 7, Episode 4)