The Lists

Some of the winners from my lists:

Top row: Brooke Burke, Babe Didrickson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Shawshank Redemption. Middle row: Mel Gibson as Mad Max, the Master Chief in Halo, Bruce Campbell as Ash. Bottom row: Kiefer Sutherland in 24, the 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500, Eric Clapton.

The 10 Greatest Athletes. (1 Rule: NO HORSES!)

1) Babe Didrickson- Yep, a woman. But if you knew somebody who entered 8 of 10 events in the national AAU track meet and won five; who won two gold medals in the 1932 olympics; who took up golf and won 82 tornaments as an ameteur and a pro; who was a three-time All-American in basketball; who won championships in billards, cycling, shooting, speed skating, squash, swimming and tennis; and who pitched in several major league exhibition games (she struck out Ted Williams), wouldn't you say that's the greatest athlete you've ever heard of?
2) Jim Brown-Was the greatest football AND lacrosse player ever. He also was a damn good baseball and basketball player. He was even offered a professional boxing contract.
3) Wayne Gretzky- Dominated hockey like no one has ever dominated any sport.
4) Jim Thorpe- He was a good baseball player, a great track and fielder, and an even greater football player.
5) Babe Ruth- During World War II, when Japanese soliders charged American troops, they would sometimes scream, "To hell with Babe Ruth." Not "to hell with FDR" or "to hell with Douglas MacArthur," but "to hell with Babe Ruth." What bigger compliment could an American recieve?
6) Wilt Chamberlain- You think it's a feat to score 50 points in an NBA game? Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points in one season. He scored 100 points in a game. He led the league in assists one year despite being a center. He scored more than 65 points 15 times, this has only been accomplished five other times by everyone else.
7) Jesse Owens- In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he showed up Hitler by setting 3 world records and tying another. All in 45 minutes.
8) Muhammad Ali- He could whoop your tail.
9) Michael Jordon- I won't lie to you. I hate Michael Jordon. He pushed off against Bryon Russell in his "last" game. He got all the breaks and all the calls. And he went to UNC, and I hate the Tar Heels. But, everyone else says he's good so he found a way to my list.
10) Mickey Mantle- He had more slug than any speedster and more speed than any slugger.

Top 5 Quarterbacks
1) John Elway (best arm ever, won the most games as a starting QB, lost three Superbowls with a bad team and won two with a good team)
2) Johnny Unitas (best field general, could win a game by himself)
3) Joe Montana (best at winning the big games)
4) Sammy Baugh (basically the first QB to dominate football with his arm)
5) Dan Marino (owns all the stats, but always choked in crunch time)

OK I did a lot of research on the athletes but the rest of my lists are just personal favorites . . .

Bands/Artists
1) Lynyrd Skynyrd
2) Eric Clapton
3) Dave Matthews Band
4) Pink Floyd
5) Sheryl Crow
6) Metallica
7) Jan Akkerman / Focus
8) The Who
9) U2 (but not in the 90's)
10) Led Zeppelin
11) Green Day

Top 10 Songs
1) Freebird- Lynyrd Skynyrd
2) Crossroads- Clapton/Cream
3) Crush- DMB
4) Hero of the Day- Metallica
5) Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
6) Last Goodbye- Jeff Buckley
7) Fire and Rain- James Taylor
8) Sweet Home Alabama- Skynyrd
9) Safe and Sound- Sheryl Crow
10) Lay Down Sally- Clapton

Top 10 Celebrity Babes
1) Brooke Burke (former host of Wild On!, current host of Rank and model)
2) Jennifer Love Hewitt (the actress)
3A) Anna Kournikova (tennis phenom, yeah right)
3B) Britney Spears (pop princess)
5) Penelope Cruz (actress, if you watch Vanilla Sky you will fall in love with her, guaranteed)
6) Denise Richards (actress, supposedly)
7) Heidi Klum (swimsuit model)
8) Janet Jackson (singer)
9) Tyra Banks (model and "actress")
10) Shakira (singer/belly dancer)

Top 10 Cool Guys
1) Bruce Campbell (Ash of the Evil Dead movies, King of Theives in Hercules)
2) Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer of 24 and my favorite actor)
3) Eric Clapton (the guitar god)
4) Ray Park (Darth Maul in Star Wars and Toad in X-Men)
5) Sam Raimi (director of the Evil Dead movies and Spider-Man)
6) Samuel L. Jackson (the man of a million movies)
7) Rafael Vederetta (former Wake Forest basketball player)
8) Frank Oz (voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy)
9) The guy who voices the EA Sports commercials
10) Whoever Deep Throat is

Top 10 Movies
1) Vanilla Sky (it's great if you see the message in the movie. message: "you control your life with the little things you do." don't get caught up in the crynoization; its just a vehicle.)
2) The Shawshank Redemption (best ending i've ever scene)
3) Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (honest to God, this movie is hilarious)
4) Army Of Darkness aka Evil Dead 3 (the most fun movie to watch, ever)
5) The Road Warrior aka Mad Max 2 (The best action movie ever)
6) Spider-Man (really fun summer movie)
7) Evil Dead 2 (he has a chainsaw attached to his arm- nothing gets cooler than that).
8) The Matrix (no explanation needed)
9) Bullitt (long live Steve McQueen)
10) Mad Max (the action movie that started it all, including Mel Gibson's movie career)

Top 5 Video Games
1) Halo
2) Soul Calibur
3) Test Drive
4) Dead or Alive 3
5) NFL Quarterback Club 98

(Halo 2 will probabley be #1 once i get it come Christmas 2003)

Top 5 TV Shows
1) 24 (basically the longest movie ever, since it follows a single plot line (in real time) for a full season)
2) Rank (Wild On! used to be here but since Broke Burke changed shows to Rank I changed the ranking )
3) Pardon the Interruption (All sport fans should watch this)
4) Friends (Hey, the show is absolutley hilarious, period.)
5) Who's Line is it Anyway? (Great improv skit show on ABC)

The Only 4 Things You Need to Kick Ass in a Post-Apocalyptic Landscape
1) A shotgun
2) A vehicle
3) Football pads
4) A title as a name (The Warrior or The Mariner or The Man, etc.)

Top 5 Cereals
1) Cap'n Crunch (good God almighty this has to be #1)
2) Great Grains (amazingly tasty for a healthycereal)
3) Cinnamon Toast Crunch
4) Honey Nut Cherrios (a good cereal to mix with others)
5) Lucky Charms

Top 6 Guitar Players
1) Eric Clapton (Yardbirds, Cream, Derek and the Dominos)
2) Jimi Hendrix
3) Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
4) Brian May (Queen)
5) Gary Rossington (Skynyrd)
6) Jan Akkerman

Now I know all of you are going "who the Hell is Jan Akkerman?" Well, he's an guitarist (obviously) who was briefly popular in the 70's when he was in the band Focus. He has recently come out with some new material, and he is quite simply the shiznit on acoustic guitar. Trust me, if there was ever a guitar-off with guys from my list; Akkerman could hold his own and then some with the rest of these guys.

Top 6 Cars
1)1967 Ford Shelby Mustang GT-500 (Eleanor)
2) My 1999 dark blue Ford Explorer XLT with unstoppable brush guards (Barbara)
3) My friend Holli's 2001 Ford Mustang GT Bullitt (Frankie)
4) My now totaled 1996 red Ford Explorer XLT (Jenna, 1996-2001)
5) My friend Brian's 1980 Honda Civic CRX complete with a decal of Brian's face on the hood (Gomez)
6) Whatever the latest Aston Martin DB7 Vantage is

My 4 Best Friends (alphabetical, i couldn't dare choose whose better then who)
1) Erica Chiodo (the sweetest and purtiest girl i've met)
1) Brian Ganch (a year younger than me and goofy as hell)
1) Kurt Gula (my only best friend to follow me to Wake Forest)
1) Chris Thomas (me and Chris will one day rule the movie business, just wait)

Top 5 Movie Characters
1) Mad Max (Mel Gibson in Mad Max, The Road Warrior and Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome)
2) Ash (Bruce Campbell in The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness)
3) Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade)
4) Sofia (Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky)
5) Yoda (the voice of Frank Oz in the Star Wars series)

Top 6 Car Chases
1) The 1973 Mustang Fastback being chased by the entire Los Angeles Police Department for 40 minutes straight in the original Gone in 60Seconds (which came out on 1974).
2) Steve McQueen chasing a Dodge Charger in his classic green Mustang GT around San Fransisco in the movie Bullitt.
3) Mel Gibson driving a big rig and fending off other people trying to get on board with his shotgun.
4) Jason Strathem racing his BMW 395i and being chased by cops through some French town in The Transporter.
5) Nic Cage driving the '67 Mustang Shelby and being chased by the cops.
6) The generic car chase from the Dukes of Hazard TV show with the General Lee (a Dodge Charger) making jumps and being chased by a few cops.

(Does Spider-Man chasing his uncle's killer through New York City count as a car chase? He is chasing a car, but he's web-slinging and not chasing the killer with another car. Hmm . . .)

Top 5 Action Sequences that aren't Car Chases
1) In Mission: Impossible, when Tom Cruise blows up the helicopter in the tunnel and jumps on to the bullet train.
2) The lobby gunfight in The Matrix.
3) In Star Wars: A New Hope, the X-Wings flying through the trenches of the Death Star.
4) In the season finale of Twenty-Four, when Kiefer Sutherland rams into the warehouse in a van and then kills around ten other guys with his two pistols.
5) Jean Reno battling the SWAT team in The Proffesional.

Top 5 Sword Fighters
1) Yoda (the voice of Frank Oz; jumped to #1 outta nowhere thanks to Attack of the Clones)
2) Athos (Kiefer Sutherland in The Three Muskatters)
3) Ramirez (Sean Connery in Highlander; actually my favorite role of Connery)
4) Darth Maul (Ray Park in The Phantom Menace; bonus points for originality with the double lightsaber)
5) Leonardo (gotta give it up for the Ninja Turtle)

By the way, my rankings change a lot depending on how I feel whenever I update this P.O.S. site.