Definitive List of the Best Things Ever

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1. Pie
2. Yiddish
3. Ally's ass
4. Leee's unibrow
5. DJ Griz
6. the Pet Shop Boys version of WHere the Streets Have No Name
7. Hooters
8. cherry blossom trees in the spring!
9. Mike Daddino's Cowboy Hat
10. p l a y s t a t i o n!

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 3 May 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ico
Together (film)
On Your Own (blur song)
Pat Lawlor pinball machines
The Invisibles volume 3 issue 1
Rockafella Skank : Fatboy Slim : Glastonbury 98
Robinson's Orange & Mango
Dr. William Whyte
www.doonesbury.com

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 3 May 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris Morris

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 3 May 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

family guy
walkmen
lego

― webber (webber), Saturday, 3 May 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Leee's been listening to "My Console"!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 3 May 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

fresh bagels from H & H at 4 in the morning

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 3 May 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

and sex of course

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 3 May 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

soft-shell crab hand rolls
chilpotle peppers
andouille sausage
coffee
milk chocolate
raspberries
raymond carver
lavender
bichon frise/maltese x puppies
lilies
tulips

― estela, Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm to blame for the propegation of "My Console" throughout the world. Or would the correct word be "thank"?

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

p l a y s t a t i o n!

Thanked, obv.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Songs that just list the names of Playstation games: classic or BETTER THAN ANYTHING EVER?

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

please replace Chris Morris with Darin Morgan. maybe. Ask me again tomorrow.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit, H, you stole my answer!

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Hamlet
2. Booker T. and the MG's
3. personal computers
4. Nabokov
5. Motown
6. rock and roll
7. air conditioning
8. chicken fried chicken
9. The Simpsons
10. beer

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

A few Thanksgivings ago, I wrote an alphabet of things to be thankful for ("A is for ... something or other," etc.), but all I remember from it now is "N IS FOR NOT GETTING KICKED IN THE BALLS." That probably ought to be on a definitive list, though.

Also Elvis in Memphis, "Fett's Vette," Tanqueray Malacca, and Oh God, which is on cable even as we speak.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, "A is for apples, to put in the pie, B is for blowjobs, because I'm a guy." It's all coming back now. This was not a family Thanksgiving.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

www.brunching.com
snow
Clea Duvall
"Ride a White Swan"
androgyny
Sir John Falstaff
mechanical pencils
the music from level 1 of Sonic the Hedgehog
A Charlie Brown Christmas
"Surfin' Bird"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Mega Man II
Curried chicken
F!lep!le
Sock and Flea
Nethack
Twin Peaks
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
France and the French since they can't seem to get love anywhere else
Blueberries
Shin Ramyun
String cheese
Caramello
i'm hungry...

― Dan I., Saturday, 3 May 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to mention Al Jackson Jr, but thanks to Kenan for including him along with the rest of Booker T & the MGs. If we're talking musicians, I want to mention Esquerita and King Curtis.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 May 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Vivian Stanshall
"Dangermouse"
Lee & Herring's Fist Of Fun
Jim Woodring's "Frank"

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 3 May 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Strawberries
Kittens
French roast coffee
Sateen sheets
"Gimme Shelter"
Kissing
Nutella
Evenings out when the temperature is neither too cold nor too hot
Beef chow foon
That state of mild drunkenness when I deludedly believe that all is right with the world.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 3 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Great Sasuke
Cherry 7up
flame-print Chuck Taylors
Dr. Zoidberg
Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
Roast beef with mustard and lettuce on Vienna
"Space Mutiny" on MST3K
badgers
Any song where Thirston Howl III raps in both English and Spanish
The Lotus Europa
Bruce Lee vs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the original footage of Game of Death
Japanese baseball jerseys
Nickalicious' bike-throwing story
The Gramercy Riffs
Brian "Spanky" Kendrick
"The Daily Show"
The organ riff from Funkadelic's "You Hit the Nail On the Head"
The Kill Bill trailer
Ronnie Dobbs

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1. playstation
2. football
3. house
4. sleep
5. beer

What a caricature I am.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

At least you didn't put "potatoes" as #6

(disclaimer: I'm part Irish-American)
(disclaimer #2: I'm part like every other European country or something. My ass should be called NATO Patrin)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Magnolia trees, honeysuckle blossoms, fog on the Mississippi, nectar snowballs with pineapple, neutral grounds, Frenchmen Desire Good Children, Avery Island and the tour of the McIlheny (i.e., tabasco sauce) factory, breakdancers and magicians in front of St Louis Cathedral, paint sweating off of apprentice human statues, the sheer in-your-face impracticality of barbecued shrimp, grillades and grits, and frozen daiquiris in thirty-nine flavors.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Off the top of my head, the Thai food at Renu Nakorn in Norwalk, MST3K DVD sets and clearance sales at dying record chain stores. Many other candidates I could list have wisely already been mentioned.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Air
Water
Food

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 3 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

talking in fake backwards tape talk
talking to animals in their own language
that thing you can do where you saw off the top of your head & short circuit your brain with a knife

― duane (lucylurex), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

free improvisation psych rock free jazz girls and cake

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

free improvisation psych rock free jazz girls
are thee coolest girls
on the scene
[/singing]

― duane (lucylurex), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

superball
beeswax
taj mahal - 'chevrolet'
waves
fog
anne meara in the daytrippers
camera
maté
reason
madrona
birch bark
poison tree frogs
puffy clouds
moon pix cover
nag champa

― ron (ron), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

grover

― ron (ron), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

coffee, cats, finding an old broken amp or stompbox cheap or free and knowing how to fix it, fender reverb, low top chuck taylors, printing the first take, love letters, making things up, mario kart, falling in love and knowing that you're done looking.

Okay, I realize that I sound like a hopeless romantic indie rocker.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

burritos
my neighbor totoro
biz markie
coca-cola (classic)
everything bagels
the crust from pizza hut pizza
cum shots (in real life)
the "be my baby" drum intro
krazy kat
mega man 2
the muppet show
korean bar-b-que
car bombs (the drink, not the terrorist activity)
robocop
cheesesteaks
monkeys & apes
a bar with a decent jukebox
french fries
lemmy's wart
"rave scare" stories on local news
long drives (with no particular place to go)
coffee (@ any time of day)
"fuck chuck phillips & bill o'reilly"
viking helmets
hell houses
iced tea (unsweetened, & with unlimited free refills)
buffalo wings
mitchell
the mp3
all-u-can-eat sushi
al green
the snoopy sno-cone machine
the simpsons (seasons 3-7)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

sloths
fender rhodes
magnetic faders
dr. bronners peppermint
chamomile
the funky little fish at the thai restaurant that eats rocks and spits them out of it's neck

― ron (ron), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Chrysler Building
Hot, firm bread pudding
Sheplers.com
Piyo-piyo
Chank Diesel
Duane Park in Tribeca
Walter Benjamin
Passeriformes
Being kissed on the neck

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

And the Tree of Life project.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

jess' list is the awesomest yet

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I must admit, I have a soft spot for the Chrysler Building as well.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

music, especially if it contains guitars
nachos
friendship
boners
biking
marijuana

in roughly that order

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 3 May 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

^bros before boners

― buttch (Oops), Saturday, 3 May 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

''free improvisation psych rock free jazz girls
are thee coolest girls
on the scene
[/singing]''

I hear ya!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 3 May 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

totally unexpected great vinyl finds
evangelists who believe in backwards masking
Paris
Found Magazine
Apple Computers

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ice cream
the half a second between walking and dreaming
good friends
wombats

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 3 May 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine dozing off with a wombat friend while eating ice cream! Nirvana!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 May 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Otomo Yoshihide
Blood Orange Orangina
Q-tips
Sideburns
Skateboards
Legoland Main Street
Delphiniums
Jane Jacobs
The WPA
Art deco
Bubble baths
Squirrels

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 3 May 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

loudspeakers
cigarettes
pissing outdoors
fire
the internet
boobies
samplers/drum machines
stars at night
my hair in the "morning"

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the half a second between walking and dreaming

anthony falls asleep on his feet?

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Nate's list is dangerously close to mine...

1. Retrofuturism
2. Renu Nakorn Thai
3. Daily showings of Futurama
4. World Link TV's music video show
5. PowerBook G4
6. French crime movies
7. Trader Joes
8. Learning how to make the perfect Turkish Coffee
9. The Museum Of Jurassic Technology
10. Photographs of Los Angeles taken in the 1930s-1940s

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot to say that my original list was a collaboration with a bunch of folx who I've obviously forgotten due to my meteoric rise back to number 3 in ILB. < /prima donna >

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

fast cars
the new york public library
mint chocolate
georges de la tour
pine trees
chanel #19
'vertigo'
the furniture wing at the met
big dumb yellow dogs
bicycling

― may, Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i would like to add:
nico
jean richie
gin
cheap easter chocholate.
the cherry carol
catholic churches
the work of agnes martin
penii

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

spencer
fireworks
champagne
cigarettes
bubbles baths
the moments between the sky's shift from purple to black
long, slow, gentle moments making love
driving in convertibles at midnight down stretches of empty highway
louis armstrong & ella fitzgerald
night blooming jasmine

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

eyeliner
phil oakey
magic mushrooms
the renderers
rainy days
drums
hot morning showers
the smell of clean skin and clean hair
tentacles of fog touching the port hills

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yoshimi of the Boredoms
Mega Man II (third or fourth vote for this)
Neil Innes
The Square of UK Computer Magazine Greatness of the late 80's/early 90's (Your Sinclair, Zero, Game Zone, Amiga Power)
Sparks' "Kimono My House" & "Propaganda"
Adult Swim cartoons
"A Bit Of Fry & Laurie"

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 4 May 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitive-a-licious List of Best Things Evah (first draft):

*film of chimpanzees eating fermented fruit off the vine & getting drunk
*nag champa
*making love
*pinot noir
*the sound of your child singing
*grilled sea bass
*The Big Lebowski
*eating berries right off the vine
*fuckin
*everything in its right place < /thom yorke>
*goat cheese
*having conversations consisting entirely of eye-contact
*watching meteor showers laying in the bed of my truck in autumn
*sweet stanky ganj
*Prince's "DMSR"
*tabouli
*kittens-in-pints
*"Bite my shiny metal ass!" < /bender>
*the webbernet
*Spirited Away
*gettin it aaawwwwwn-ah
*Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Live at Montreaux performance
*the Dymaxion World Map (and all other Bucky Fuller everything!)
*red curry
*strawberry tequila (just had for the 1st time last night...YOWZAH!)
*karaokeing
*the beach
*the woods
*the view from the top of the mountain
*sex of course

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 4 May 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

te he he, I'm glad you liked the bike-throwing story Nate...it was one of those moments that really bothered me when it happened, but like a week later I started laughing AND STILL HAVEN'T STOPPED!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 4 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Steve McQueen
Iced coffee
Pulp
That dude that plays Puddy on Seinfeld, he's top
The tattoo on my neck
Cameras
Coney Island
Cats
Fathers and Sons
Getting to play with a certain someone's hair

Special CD-Only Bonus Track:
My dominatrixy suit

― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Cricket
Talking about cricket
Thinking about cricket
Sleeping

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Best things ever:
non-stop flights
air conditioning
TiVo
cell phones
Apple laptops
MiniCoopers
WorldLinkTV
swimming pools
KitchenAid mixers/Henckel knives
flexible cutting boards

foie gras
champagne
goat cheese
beef
salmon

Los Angeles
Paris

X, The Clash, Blondie, Birthday Party, Paris Combo, Billie Holliday, Plimsouls, 60s-80s retro garage rock/psych, Joy Division, The Damned, The Jam, The Motors, old traditional country, country gospel, black gospel, 1930s-50s blues and jazz

black and white films
films w/ cary grant, doris day, humphrey bogart, spencer tracy, katharine hepburn, rosalind russell
anything produced by David Chase
sex and the city before it got lame
The Prisoner, Get Smart, Batman, Gumby, Dark Shadows, Jeeves & Wooster, Coupling (the UK show, not the US one), AbFab

gosh i am easy to please!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 23 August 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

-rap music
-boys who give you chills
-boys with soft curly hair
-boys who smell lovely
-Ruth Brown
-LaVern Baker
-Lil' Willie John
-Eminem
-50 Cent
-Romio No E
-skateboarders
-freshly painted nails
-kids who come up to me in the halls and say "Yo, Ms. C*******" and engage me in complicated handshakes
-cigarettes
-Lone Star

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 23 August 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

1. rainfall
2. homemade bread products
3. Diet Cherry Coke
4. comfortable jeans
5. cottony tops
6. cold winter days
7. Whataburger
8. H-E-B on a Saturday night
9. tweaker/David Sylvian collaborations (obsessed, moi?)
10. little slight moments of hope
11. Saturday afternoon cooking shows on PBS

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 23 August 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to submit a final version of my previous list.

1. my boyfriend

Thanks.

― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Saturday, 23 August 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

- Waking up a half hour before your alarm goes off on a very cold morning and knowing you have twenty minutes left to sleep
- a moment of clarity
- girls with weird eyes
- animals
- having a reason to be hopeful
- walking outside on a nice day and finding a place so tranquil and beautiful you have to stop and soak it up for a minute
- smoke and fire
- getting dirty just so you have an excuse to get clean again
- writing
- playing with kids and forgetting how old you are
- exercise, adrenaline, bruises, and injuries that can't slow you down

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Saturday, 23 August 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

- "Pale Blue Eyes" by the Velvet Underground
- Crown Royal w/ water
- getting to work with my 80-year old grandfather, even though he just makes every job harder, longer and more costly
- those moments of thought just before you drift off to sleep, that are so brilliant they need to be written down, but getting up to do so would ruin the moment
- smoking outside when it's cold
- walking from a cold, air-conditioned place into the Texas sun
- vice versa

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

-kids who come up to me in the halls and say "Yo, Ms. C*******" and engage me in complicated handshakes

Hahahahaha

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

more suggestions to add?

- London parks in Autumn
- homemade pasta sauce
- newly laundered sheets
- friendly cats and playful kittens
- reading on a relaxed train journey

― Bob Six, Sunday, 11 November 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

-Burritos at four a.m.
-Parties that never end
-Dogs that love cats
-And...and twins

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 11 November 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

the color blue
new order
human men
egg rolls + hot mustard

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 11 November 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

– Turducken. I have faith in you turducken

― Abbott, Sunday, 11 November 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

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