Anyone who has gone on a social media site has been able to witness people posting all about their favorite stuff. People on Facebook are posting ten things over ten days that they love, people on Twitter are sharing favorite films, albums and snack foods. People are eager to share their favorite stuff right now.
It makes sense, people have time, and they know other people might want to catch a movie, listen to new music or play a different game.
It鈥檚 also fun to learn things about the people you know.
Whether it鈥檚 a high school principal who is deep into hair metal or an IT professional who seems to only watch movies about football, you get a glimpse into the internal lives of people you know. Sometimes you aren鈥檛 extremely surprised by the results, sometimes you are, but you do learn a little bit more about the people who surround you.
These are usually presented as just the poster, album cover or case, which is a smart way to structure it. Lots of people aren鈥檛 comfortable explaining why they love something, they just know that they do. Sometimes they don鈥檛 even have a clear reason, it was just the right art at the right time in their lives.
But I don鈥檛 want to do this over social media, because I have this space to fill and I intend to use it as a break from serious world events anyway, at least for the time 小蓝视频.
In terms of my top five albums, I鈥檒l go with Kid A by Radiohead, Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, Sam鈥檚 Town by The Killers, Blackstar by David Bowie and The Budos Band III by The Budos Band. The tradition is to offer no explanation for those choices, and each would require an entire column on their own to really explain. Some of them are associated with extremely happy memories, others with sad ones, but they鈥檙e as much about the time I listened to them most as they are about their actual quality.
Top five for film would be City of God, Millennium Actress, A Separation, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Le Doulos. A certain editor might note that only one of those was filmed in English. But really, none of them are in the same language, because I鈥檓 a fan of cinema from around the world, and every nation has someone with something valuable to say in it. The pick of Star Trek will probably confuse someone 鈥� it definitely confused the cashier at FutureShop when I bought the DVD years ago 鈥� but I love that film and every time I watch it I love it more.
Top five games is a tricky one, but on reflection it would be Final Fantasy IX, Vagrant Story, Super Mario World, Metroid: Zero Mission and Front Mission 3. It鈥檚 a varied list, but it does make me look like one of those insufferable people who declare games were all better in the good old days 鈥� the newest game on that list, Metroid: Zero Mission, is from 2004, but is a remake of a game from the 1980s. I love a ton of modern games, Persona 5 was an instant classic and the updated version was just released, but if we鈥檙e talking about favorites I can鈥檛 think of a more accurate list.
The thing with all of my favorites, and the favorites of most other people, is that it鈥檚 always about more than the quality of the entertainment. It鈥檚 about the time in your life, the memories it鈥檚 associated with, and how they became associated with them.
