4 Lists of 10

10 Things I Love That Everyone Hates (or pretends to hate):
1. TOP MODEL
2. Painfully skinny fashion models
3. The possibility of Paris Hilton venturing into serious acting
4. Fidel Castro
5. The Recession (everything is so cheap!)
6. White trash cooking
7. Old Nazi film footage
8. Disappointment over President Obama
9. Small, yappy dogs
10. Farting


10 Things You Should Do Before You Die:
1. Go on a safari
2. See The Rolling Stones in concert
3. Steal something expensive
4. Get to know your parents
5. Forgive your parents
6. Buy cowboy boots and a Stetson
7. Write a passionate letter to the editors of your favorite magazine
8. Adopt a homeless animal
9. Try marijuana and cocaine and Ecstasy (but not at the same time)
10. Tell a despised person exactly what you think of him/her


10 Overrated Things:
1. The Beatles
2. French food
3. Lip moisturizer (Vaseline works much better)
4. College
5. John F. Kennedy
6. Impressionism
7. Twitter
8. Punk rock
9. Andy Warhol’s silkscreens
10. Almost any book in the English Literature curriculum in American high schools (FRANKENSTEIN, THE GREAT GATSBY, and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD to name just a few)


10 Underrated Things:
1. Roxy Music (their romantic, lush sounds are endlessly influential)
2. Cilantro
3. Cliff’s Notes and the “… For Dummies” series
4. The color orange
5. The warm disposition of the English
6. George Michael (in the United States)
7. Semicolons
8. Astrology
9. Feminism
10. Jon Bon Jovi (a better-than-decent actor, passionate activist, philanthropist, devoted husband of more than 20 years, musician)