The Top 50 Things, as selected by Mike Sugarbaker
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  1. Yo La Tengo, The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (I was at the show!)
  2. The Believer
  3. 20 Minute Loop, Yawn + House = Explosion
  4. It Must Have Been Something I Ate: The Further Adventures Of The Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten
  5. A.C. Newman, The Slow Wonder
  6. Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen, by Alton Brown
  7. Rocketship, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
  8. Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
  9. Millennium: The Complete First Season DVD box set
  10. STUNT HAMSTERS
  11. The New Pornographers, Electric Version

  12. What is a Geek?


  13. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
  14. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  15. Is it that nothing like this existed before, or that I didn't know how to stumble into it accidentally?
  16. The Work of Director Michel Gondry (DVD)
  17. The Work of Director Spike Jonze (DVD)
  18. Maker's Mark brand Kentucky bourbon
  19. The Raymond Brake, Piles of Dirty Winters
  20. tyranny/biology
  22. Lay's Salt and Vinegar flavor potato chips
  23. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
  24. MoonBase Commander is the most fun a grownup can find in the kids' software section (without being gross, anyway)
  25. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts (Orbital meets Mogwai)
  26. Optiganally Yours, Spotlight on Optiganally Yours
  27. Tillamook Swiss cheese slices
  28. Prefuse 73, Extinguished: Outtakes, Alternate Takes and Beats from One Word Extinguisher
  29. Brunetto T-Shirts gives you the power. Unless they don't want to.
  30. 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale, New Belgium Brewing Company
  31. Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
  32. Does that thought ever get you anything? Why keep thinking it?
  33. www.wunderland.com I cannot overstate how incredible this site is. Check out the game designs. Read the cool elliptical comic. Look at the pictures of Rubik's Cube art and roller coasters. Buy a stuffed broccoli. Seize the time. Just do it. Et cetera.
  34. Koyaanisqatsi
  35. Stop Making Sense (DVD)
  36. Home Movies Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD
  37. Elephone, The Shivering
  38. Garlic fries should be had at Gordon Biersch or, perhaps, not at all
  39. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher
  40. The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
  41. Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
  42. Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets
  43. Death Cab For Cutie, Something About Airplanes
  44. REJECTED (DVD)
  45. Shaolin Soccer
  46. brainstorms, a third place.
  47. Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  48. This could mean starting a movement. Do you have that kind of time?
  49. The turkey Dripper at Steve's
  50. The first DVD I got myself wasn't Lord of the Rings, or even the once-obligatory Matrix. It was Waking Life.

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