My Top 10 Favorite Michael Jackson Songs

10. Jam
9. Remember the Time
8. P.Y.T.
7. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
6. Beat It
5. The Way You Make Me Feel
4. Rock With You
3. Black or White
2. Wanna Be Startin Something
1. Billie Jean

My Top 10 Favorite Novels of All Time

My top 10 favorite novels of all time list is filled with "children's" novels. That's most of what I read - some of these I've read over ten times.

10. Poppy by Avi
9. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
8. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
7. Call of the Wild by Jock London
6. Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
5. Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar
4. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
3. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
2. Holes by Louis Sachar
1. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

When I read #1 and #3 aloud, I have to concentrate on breathing to be able keep on reading and not completely choke up. #2 is an amazingly woven story.

My Top 10 Favorite Songs of All Time

These are my current top 10 favorite songs of all time.

10. Wanna Be Startin' Something by Michael Jackson
9. Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp
8. West End Girls by The Pet Shop Boys
7. Bad Day by Daniel Powter
6. I'm Yours by Jason Mraz
5. Viva la Vida by Coldplay
4. Pop Muzic by M
3. Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
2. Centerfold by J. Geils Band
1. Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners

My Top 10 Favorite Restaurants

These are my current top 10 favorite restaurants (dine in.)

10. Italian Coffee Bar
9. Old Spaghetti Factory
8.Panera Bread
7.Logan's
6.Texas Roadhouse
5. Moe's
4. Qdoba
3. Olive Garden
2. La Fogata
1. Hacienda

The Top 10 BEST Movies I Have Ever Seen

This is NOT a list of my favorite ten movies. For that list, see yesterday's post.

This is a list of the 10 movies that I think are the best, ones that I think had excellent story lines, plot twists, visuals, cinematography, sound, acting, music, etc.

10. Groundhog Day
9. Grease
8. Green Mile
7. Braveheart
6. Dances with Wolves
5. Fargo
4. Saving Private Ryan
3. Pirates of the Caribbean
2. Forrest Gump
1. Shawshank Redemption

Only two of these movies made yesterday's list of favorites.

My Top 10 Favorite Movies of All Time

This was harder than I thought it would be. I have this rather odd list (which will be blogged about someday) that I thought would make this easy. It was tough to narrow it down though. After I had it narrowed down to ten, it was also difficult to rank them. I like all of these movies very well, but for different reasons. That made it tough to rank them. The only easy one was movie number #1. I knew it would be there.

This is not a list of the ten movies that I think are the "best." I think that list would look quite a bit different. This is simply a list of my favorites. And some of them I have not seen in quite a while, so I am going by how well I remember liking them.

10. Lucas

9. E.T.

8. Can't Buy Me Love

7. The Notebook

6. Fargo

5. Stand By Me

4. Lassie (2006)

3. Back to the Future

2. Sixteen Candles

1. Shawshank Redemption

My Top 10 Favorite Video Games of All Time

I'm doing a series of top 10s. Here is the first one.

My Top 10 Favorite Video Games of All Time:

10. NBA Live ’95 - PC

9. Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix - XBOX (This is the one that got me hooked on DDR.)

8. Super Mario Galaxy – Wii

7. Tetris Worlds - XBOX (I love games that Kristi and I enjoy playing together.)

6. 10 Yard Fight - NES (Brent Warren and I used to play a version of the game in which you were not allowed to pass. Almost every game was a close, intense battle that revolved around precise strategy and clock management. Great memories.)

5. Techmo Bowl - NES

4. Crash Team Racing - Playstation (Kristi and I had a lot of fun playing this one together too. It's also a lot of fun trying to beat your own ghost.)

3. Grand Theft Auto III – Playstation 2 (I had heard a lot of evil things about these titles. I didn't think I would like it at all. It happened to come with the used PS2 that we bought to play DDR on. I tried it and quickly discovered just how much fun it is to drive a car like a mad man and flee from the police - in a virtual world. It's an amazingly fun game with actually much less foul language and graphic violence than your usual major motion picture action flick.)

2. Super Mario Bros. - NES

1. Mech Assault – XBOX (Playing this online on XBOX Live is the greatest gaming experience of my life. It's amazing. I want to buy it again.)