top 5 lists

Rochester Pizza Places

Oh yes, we have more than our fair share of great pizza in Rochester.

• Brandani's
• Guida's
• Veltre's
• Gaetano's
• Papa John's^*

^* - Kidding! I'm kidding! Just give another slot to Brandani's, they deserve two.

Books, Fiction

• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• The English Patient - Micahael Ondaatje (really, any/all books by Ondaatje)
• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
• The Plague - Albert Camus

Films

• Fargo
• Get Shorty
• The Apartment
• The Princess Bride
• Dr. Strangelove

Films, Most Depressing

• Dancer in the Dark
• Requiem for a Dream
• The Mosquito Coast
• Leaving Las Vegas
• American History X

Music, Classical

• Symphony No. 9 (Ode to Joy) - Ludwig van Beethoven
• Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
• Symphony No. 9 (New World) - Antonin Dvorák
• Requiem - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• The Goldberg Variations - Johann Sebastian Bach

Music, Jazz

• Someday My Prince Will Come - Miles Davis
• Whistle Stop - Kenny Dorham
• A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
• Play - Bobby McFerrin & Chick Corea
• Page One - Joe Henderson

Music, Rock/Pop/Dance/Other

• End of the World Party (Just in Case) - Medeski, Martin & Wood
• The Joshua Tree - U2
• Ghost in the Machine - The Police
• Phantom Power - The Tragically Hip
• Graceland - Paul Simon

Rochester Restaurants

• Hogan's Hideaway
• Sinbad's
• California Rollin'
• Moscow's
• The King and I

Democrat Media Hacks

• Randi Rhodes
• Eleanor Clift
• Paul Krugman
• Maureen Dowd
• James Carville

Republican Media Hacks

• Sean Hannity
• Ann Coulter
• Robert Novak
• Michelle Malkin
• Mary Matalin

Breakfast Cereals

• Post Blueberry Morning
• Wheaties
• Grape Nuts Flakes
• Crunchberry Captain Crunch
• Buckwheats (whatever happened to Buckwheats? *sniff*)