100 Most Influential Cultural Items in My Life

A list of the 100 most important cultural items in my life to date. It’s focused more on items that are consumed/experienced. I’d like to think that each of these helped to evolve something special in who I am as a person, though I’m sure some are just things I really like a lot.

If you would like an explanation as to why something is listed on here, please ask and I’ll write up the impact.

Presented chronologically:

1. Barney and Friends
2. The Holy Bible
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 
4. Disney’s animated renaissance (from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King)
5. Adventures in Odyssey 
6. The Giving Tree
7. Youth sports
8. Potstickers
9. Whiffle ball
10. Old Time Radio (Abbot and Costello; The Aldrich Family)
11. Matt Christopher books
12. Star Wars
13. Home Alone
14. Madden video game series
15. The Hardy Boys book series
16. The Sandlot
17. The Sound of Music
18. The Super Bowl
19. IMDB
20. DC Talk
21. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
22. Peter Pan (and Hook)
23. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
24. Any Robin Hood story
25. Space Jam
26. Raiders of the Lost Ark
27. Backyard Baseball
28. Recess (and Disney’s “One Saturday Morning”)
29. The Wayside School series by Louis Sachar
30. EB White’s Charlotte’s Web
31. Boy Meets World
32. Roller Coaster Tycoon
33. CS Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia and later theological works)
34. Sportscenter
35. Google
36. A Christmas Story
37. Disney Channel Original Movies
38. The Sims
39. Relient K
40. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 
41. Sports Illustrated
42. KNBR 680 Sports Radio (especially “The Razor and Mr. T” show)
43. MxPx
44. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
45. Tooth and Nail Records
46. Ocean’s 11
47. Survivor
48. Wikipedia
49. Yellowcard’s “Ocean Avenue”
50. A Walk to Remember 
51. Purevolume.com
52. Snopes.com
53. Myspace
54. Underoath
55. Warped Tour
56. mewithoutYou
57. The iPod
58. Blue Like Jazz and other Donald Miller books
59. Rob Bell (books, sermons, and more)
60. Invisible Children
61. Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
62. Derek Webb’s Mockingbird
63. Little Miss Sunshine
64. To Write Love on Her Arms
65. Arrested Development
66. Keith Green
67. Johnny Cash
68. Good Will Hunting
69. There Will Be Blood
70. Wall-E
71. The Dark Knight
72. David Bazan
73. Scene It (Xbox 360 edition)
74. Manchester Orchestra
75. The Format/fun.
76. Shane Claiborne (particularly The Irresistible Revolution; Jesus For President)
77. When Helping Hurts by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett
78. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
79. The works of Greg Boyd (particularly The Myth of a Christian Nation)
80. NT Wright (particularly After You Believe)
81. Friday Night Lights
82. The Social Network
83. The Tree of Life
84. Anthony Bourdain’s tv shows
85. John Steinbeck (particularly East of Eden and Travels with Charley)
86. The AV Club.com
87. Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet
88. Soong Chan Rah’s The Next Evangelicalism
89. Parks and Recreation
90. Craft Food/Drink culture
91. Grantland
92. The Wire
93. This American Life
94. Radiolab
95. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
96. StuffChristianCultureLikes
97. Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
98. Comedy Bang Bang
99. FiveThirtyEight
100. Hamilton