Fiction by other people (and music, too)

This is the official "What I'm Watching" page. A few years ago, I took an interest in learning what kinds of fiction I liked and why. Part of this process was to consider all the shows I've watched, and trying to measure (purely subjectively, of course) how much I liked them. I began posting the resulting lists on this website, and eventually decided to keep them posted on their own page. Ta Daaa...

These lists were originally inspired by the Billboard hit charts I studied when running Randomize aNd Customize, my college radio show. The television list came first in 2006, simply posted as an afterthought on EG SP (my MySpace page). It has expanded to something I 'officially' update every July (though I might do mid-year ones). A music list was started in 2008, followed by a list for novels in 2009, and finally films in 2010. Novels and films are updated every two years, also in July. The music updates are proving to be more sporadic.

2011 All-Time Top 15 TV shows

1: Sliders
2: Stargate SG-1
3: Lost
4: Haibane Renmei
5: Star Trek: Voyager
6: Firefly
7: Kino's Journey
8: Wolf's Rain
9: Star Trek: TNG
10: Avatar: The Last Airbender
11: Serial Experiments Lain
12: Touched by an Angel
13: Reboot
14: Paranoia Agent
15: Stargate Atlantis

2011 All-Time Top 12 Novels

1: Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
2: Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
3: Just a Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito
4: Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
5: Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
6: Kitty Norville (series: 1-3 read) - Carrie Vaughn
7: New York Trilogy, The - Paul Auster
8: Dragon DelaSangre (series) - Alan F. Troop
9: Legend of Drizzt (series) - R. A. Salvatore
10: A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
11: Animal Farm - George Orwell
12: Accidental Time Machine, The - Joe Haldeman

2011 All-Time Top 30 Songs

1: Puddle of Mudd - Blurry
2: Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane
3: Linkin Park - In The End
4: Foo Fighters - The Pretender
5: Björk - Army of Me
6: Chevelle - I Get It
7: Payable On Death - Find My Way
8: Sick Puppies - You're Going Down
9: Payable On Death - I And Identify
10: Foo Fighters - Rope
11: Demon Hunter - Fading Away
12: Skillet - Rebirthing
13: Chevelle - Vitamin R
14: Sick Puppies - So What I Lied
15: Fireflight - Liar
16: Fuel - Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
17: Payable On Death - Will You
18: Breaking Benjamin - So Cold
19: Payable On Death - Sleeping Awake
20: Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
21: Sixx:A.M. - Lies of the Beautiful People
22: Three Days Grace - Never Too Late
23: 009 Sound System - Speak to Angels
24: Chevelle - The Fad
25: Chevelle - The Clincher
26: Night Ranger - Sister Christian
27: Foo Fighters - DOA
28: Sick Puppies - Odd One
29: Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
30: Oleander - Why I'm Here

2010 All-Time Top 10 Movies

1: The Truman Show
2: Pleasantville
3: The Thirteenth Floor
4: Back to the Future (Trilogy)
5: Groundhog Day
6: Titanic
7: Brazil
8: Vanilla Sky
9: Office Space
10: The Matrix (Trilogy)

Related:
My Blog
Caffeine Novel
Exit 9 Page

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