Top Five

Here's a list of my top five favorite (or least favorite) things, as ripped off from "High Fidelity" (great movie, better book):

Five Favorite Fruits, not counting Elton John
(sorry Mom, couldn't resist):
1. Strawberries
2. Blueberries
3. Apples
4. Oranges
5. Bananas

Five Favorite Vegetables (insert outdated Terri Schiavo joke here):
1. Tomatoes
2. Cucumbers
3. Broccoli
4. Corn
5. Cauliflower

Five Favorite Power Ballads (so bad they're good):
1. "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner
2. "Open Arms" by Journey
3. "The Flame" by Cheap Trick
4. "When the Children Cry" by White Lion
5. "Winds of Change" by Scorpion

Five Favorite Stand-Up Comics:
1. George Carlin
2. Mitch Hedberg (R.I.P.)
3. Richard Pryor
4. Margaret Cho
5. Jeff Foxworthy/Ron White/Bill Engvall (3-way tie)

Five Favorite Places to Shop for Clothing Baaahgins:
1. Garment District
2. Filene's Basement
3. TJ Maxx
4. Marshall's
5. Walgreens - it takes some sorting through bins, but you can find yourself some very comfy sweats, PJs, socks, mittens etc.

Five Ways I Won Rich's Heart:
1. Spilling salad dressing on my shirt on our first date
2. Blowing a huge bubble resulting in gum stuck to my glasses
3. Learning all the words to "Long Haired Country Boy" by Charlie Daniels, AND singing along when Joe Nichols performed it at FanFair last June
4. Hocking a lungie out the window of his truck while driving down Route 1
5. Buying him socks

Five Favorite Childhood Memories:
1. Eating a lobster-shaped red candy lollipop
2. Dancing in the basement with my life-size Grover doll
3. Sledding downhill for several hours in below-freezing temperatures, then going inside and drinking mug after mug of cocoa
4. Sucking on my chlorine-infused hair after "free swim" at the Y
5. The swings

Five Shows I Try Not to Miss:
1. Daily Show
2. The Colbert Report
3. House
4. Boston Legal
5. Letterman

Five Shows I Often Miss and Feel Bad About It:
1. Family Guy
2. The Simpsons
3. Degrassi: Next - I'm about a season and a half behind!
4. Letterman, because he's on at the same time as Stephen Colbert
5. Inside the Actors Studio

Five Girls I'd Go Gay For:
1. Angelina Jolie
2. Catherine Zeta-Jones
3. Maria Sharapova - How does she exert herself that hard and still look so good? 5 minutes on a treadmill and I'm a sweaty red-faced freak!
4. Kate Winslet
5. Kiera Knightley

Five Celebrity Couples I'd Happily Never Hear From Again:
1. Britney and Kevin
2. Hilary Duff and her dog-faced sister
3. Paris Hilton and whoever she's fucking at the moment
4. Carson Daly and his dumbass show
5. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, who I actually used to respect

Five Favorite Places I've Visited:
1. St. George's, Bermuda
2. St. Petersburg, Russia
3. San Francisco
4. Copenhagen
5. Porvoo, Finland

Five Places I'd Like to Visit Someday:
1. Venice
2. Paris
3. Morocco
4. Santorini
5. The Panama Canal

Five Pet Peeves:
1. Finding a dead bug in my glass after finishing most of my drink
2. Camel toes
3. Underwires that stick up way too high and poke me in the armpit
4. Umbrella-busting gusts of wind
5. Realizing I missed a spot after shaving my legs

I may add more later. And feel free to comment with your own lists!