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:
- Barney and Friends
- The Holy Bible
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Disney’s animated renaissance (from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King)
- Adventures in Odyssey
- The Giving Tree
- Youth sports
- Potstickers
- Whiffle ball
- Old Time Radio (Abbot and Costello; The Aldrich Family)
- Matt Christopher books
- Star Wars
- Home Alone
- Madden video game series
- The Hardy Boys book series
- The Sandlot
- The Sound of Music
- The Super Bowl
- IMDB
- DC Talk
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Peter Pan (and Hook)
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- Any Robin Hood story
- Space Jam
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Backyard Baseball
- Recess (and Disney’s “One Saturday Morning”)
- The Wayside School series by Louis Sachar
- EB White’s Charlotte’s Web
- Boy Meets World
- Roller Coaster Tycoon
- CS Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia and later theological works)
- Sportscenter
- A Christmas Story
- Disney Channel Original Movies
- The Sims
- Relient K
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Sports Illustrated
- KNBR 680 Sports Radio (especially “The Razor and Mr. T” show)
- MxPx
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Tooth and Nail Records
- Ocean’s 11
- Survivor
- Wikipedia
- Yellowcard’s “Ocean Avenue”
- A Walk to Remember
- Purevolume.com
- Snopes.com
- Myspace
- Underoath
- Warped Tour
- mewithoutYou
- The iPod
- Blue Like Jazz and other Donald Miller books
- Rob Bell (books, sermons, and more)
- Invisible Children
- Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
- Derek Webb’s Mockingbird
- Little Miss Sunshine
- To Write Love on Her Arms
- Arrested Development
- Keith Green
- Johnny Cash
- Good Will Hunting
- There Will Be Blood
- Wall-E
- The Dark Knight
- David Bazan
- Scene It (Xbox 360 edition)
- Manchester Orchestra
- The Format/fun.
- Shane Claiborne (particularly The Irresistible Revolution; Jesus For President)
- When Helping Hurts by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The works of Greg Boyd (particularly The Myth of a Christian Nation)
- NT Wright (particularly After You Believe)
- Friday Night Lights
- The Social Network
- The Tree of Life
- Anthony Bourdain’s tv shows
- John Steinbeck (particularly East of Eden and Travels with Charley)
- The AV Club.com
- Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet
- Soong Chan Rah’s The Next Evangelicalism
- Parks and Recreation
- Craft Food/Drink culture
- Grantland
- The Wire
- This American Life
- Radiolab
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- StuffChristianCultureLikes
- Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
- Comedy Bang Bang
- FiveThirtyEight
- Hamilton
