Top Five of Almost Everything

Here are lists of things I like. There're not necessarily the best of everything, but they are the ones, in each category that have most affected my life at the stage when you draw up a list. Many of them I would probably not like so much now, but there you are...

BOOKS
  • Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
  • The Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
  • Three Men in A Boat - Jerome K Jerome
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence - Robert Persig
  • Superpig - Willie Rushton
OPERAS
  • L'Elisir d'Amore - Donizetti
  • The Magic Flute - Mozart
  • La Boheme - Puccini
  • The Barber of Seville - Rossini
  • La Traviata - Verdi
MUSICALS
  • Candide - Bernstein
  • The Arcadians - Talbot & Monckton
  • Iolanthe - Gilbert & Sullivan
  • The Mikado - Gilbert & Sullivan
  • Company - Sondheim
PLACES
  • Berwick-upon-Tweed
  • Clifton, Bristol
  • Glasgow, esp. West End
  • Hay-on-Wye
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
TV PROGRAMMES
  • The Beiderbecke Trilogy - Alan Plater
  • The Day Today
  • Doctor Who
  • A Very Peculiar Practice - Andrew Davies
  • The Young Ones
FILMS
  • Annie Hall
  • Rumblefish
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • This is Spinal Tap
  • Truly, Madly, Deeply
COMPUTER GAMES
  • Civilisation
  • Planetoid
  • Rescue on Fractalus
  • Star Raiders
  • Tomb Raider II
COMPUTERS
  • Apple ][
  • Apple Macintosh Plus
  • Atari ST
  • BBC Micro Model B
  • Psion Organiser 3a
POP ALBUMS
  • L.A. Woman - The Doors
  • Lexicon of Love - ABC
  • Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners
  • Sign 'o' the Times - Prince
  • Station to Station - David Bowie
DANCE ALBUMS
  • Entroducing... - DJ Shadow
  • Insides - Orbital
  • IMA - BT
  • Leftism - Leftfield
  • Second Toughest in the Infants - Underworld
INSTRUMENTAL ALBUMS
  • Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield
  • Last train to Lhasa - Banco de Gaia
  • Tubular Bells ][ - Mike Oldfield
  • United Kingdoms - Ultramarine
  • Voices - Vangelis
SINGLES
  • Cream - Prince
  • Embracing the Sunshine - BT
  • Open Up - Leftfield & Lydon
  • Two Tribes - Frankie goes to Hollywood
  • Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
DRINKS
  • Chablis
  • English Breakfast Tea
  • Gin & Tonic
  • Madeira
  • Flower's Original
FOOD
  • Aromatic crispy duck
  • Mince pie supper with salt & sauce
  • Pralines & cream Haagen Daz
  • Salted peanuts
  • Venison