The Top 50 Things, as selected by Mike Sugarbaker
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  1. Shaolin Soccer
  2. Yo La Tengo, The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (I was at the show!)
  3. You can see yourself the way others see you, if you allow yourself to be transformed by how they see you.Human behavior is mostly pretending.
  5. Rocketship, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
  6. Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  7. This could mean starting a movement. Do you have that kind of time?
  8. Optiganally Yours, Spotlight on Optiganally Yours

  9. What is a Geek?


  10. Does that thought ever get you anything? Why keep thinking it?
  11. Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
  12. I'm Just Here For The Food, by Alton Brown
  13. The Work of Director Spike Jonze (DVD)
  14. Home Movies Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD
  15. Brunetto T-Shirts gives you the power. Unless they don't want to.
  16. That's right: it's the Street Hawk fan site.
  17. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher
  18. Is it that nothing like this existed before, or that I didn't know how to stumble into it accidentally?
  19. The turkey Dripper at Steve's
  20. Death Cab For Cutie, Something About Airplanes
  21. Maker's Mark brand Kentucky bourbon
  22. The Believer
  23. The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
  24. The Name Of The World, by Denis Johnson
  25. The Work of Director Michel Gondry (DVD)
  26. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  27. Millennium: The Complete First Season DVD box set
  28. Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
  29. brainstorms, a third place.
  30. A.C. Newman, The Slow Wonder
  31. tyranny/biology
  32. Tillamook Swiss cheese slices
  33. Koyaanisqatsi
  34. 20 Minute Loop, Yawn + House = Explosion
  35. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
  36. MoonBase Commander is the most fun a grownup can find in the kids' software section (without being gross, anyway)
  37. Elephone, The Shivering
  38. Stop Making Sense (DVD)
  39. Garlic fries should be had at Gordon Biersch or, perhaps, not at all
  40. Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets
  41. 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.
  42. Prefuse 73, Extinguished: Outtakes, Alternate Takes and Beats from One Word Extinguisher
  43. Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
  44. Schizopolis
  45. 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale, New Belgium Brewing Company
  46. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts (Orbital meets Mogwai)
  47. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
  48. It Must Have Been Something I Ate: The Further Adventures Of The Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten
  49. Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen, by Alton Brown
  50. The Raymond Brake, Piles of Dirty Winters

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