MEDIA

• Why we love a list
• New Yorker Mag Why our brain loves lists
• Nora Ephron's What I Will Miss List

FILM

• Hunger Games 4: You know how I survived? I make a list in my head of all the good things I’ve seen people do.
• Groundhog Day: Are you making some kind of list? Did you call my friends and ask what I like and what I don't like?
• C'mon C'mon Joaquin Phoenix. Boy lists all the things he'll remember about his mother.
• Twlight : Edward: “Definitely won’t make my list of Top Ten favorite evenings.” Bella: “You have a list?” Edward: “All the nights I spent with you. Number one is when you said you’d marry me, Mrs. Cullen.”
• High Fidelity : Barry: Top 5 songs about death. A Laura's Dad tribute list, okay? Okay. Leader of the Pack. The guy fuckin' beefs it on his motorcycle and dies, right? Dead Man's Curve. Jan & Dean. Dick: Do you know that right after they recorded that song Jan himself crashed his car... Barry: It was Dean you fuckin' idiot...Rob: It was Jan. It was a long time after the song. Barry: Okay, whatever. Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down - Laura's Mom could sing it. You know what I'd want? One Step Beyond by Madness. And, uh, You Can't Always Get What You Want. Dick: No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill. Barry: Oh God. You're right! Dick: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. Barry: You bastard! That's so good - that should have been mine... The night Laura's daddy died. Sha na na na na na na na na! Brother what a night it really was. Mother what a night it really... angina's tough! Glory be!
• Bucket List : themed
• Schindler's list : This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.

TV

• Tony Hawk doc where he talks about a list of things he mad that he's not proud of. Later burned it in a fire.
• Mad Men (Season 4 Episode.8 Summer Man) "A List of Things I’d like to do. One, climb mount Kilimanjaro...Go anywhere in Africa, actually; Two, gain a modicum of control over the way I feel. I want to wake up and I want to be that man."
• Kominsky Method Norman's daughter's list of wrongs for AA
• Big Mouth "Department of Puberty": "that cunt made a list!!"
• Wayne's World: Wayne's Top Ten women
• Muppet Movie : going to LA we've both got our lists
• Life's Too Short : Liam Neeson's list
• David Letterman's nightly Top 10 list
• South Park Episode : the list episode
• Sex and the City : "time to make the list. reasons why you like steve. reasons why you don't."
• The Buried Life : tv show on fulfilling your bucket list
• Modern Family : (sexual role playing) "I'm a married man. Tell me about your wife. She's beautiful. If she's so very beautiful then why are you here with me? Because she's always so tired and she's always making lists of things to do. Maybe if you did them she wouldn't be so tired. Oh no, she could make lists for days. But back to your mouth and how sexy it is. Uh uh, I want to go back to these alleged lists and your nagging wife."
• Anderson Cooper : ridicu-list
• Malia's List : about her dad, president obama
• Hasan Minaj - “I love lists” - King’s Jester

MUSIC

• Go-Go's - Girl Of 100 Lists
• "With her mania for making lists" --Christopher Ciccone on Madonna
• Roseanne Cash "The List" record: from the list of 100 best country songs written by her father, Johnny Cash
• Patsy Cline, She's Got You: a song listing all the things she has but not him
• Ambrosia (biggest part of me): make a list baby...of the things I'll do for you...ain't no risk now...in lettin' my love rain down on you
• Hall & Oates (kiss on my list): your kiss is on my list...of the best things in life
• John Cougar Mellencamp (danger list): they don't know my name. put me on the danger list just too wild to tame.
• Jets to Brazil (wish list): add another line to my wish list
• Gordon Lightfoot (on my list): there's a little love on my list for tonight. with a bit of luck i'll check it off toss around what is up, what is down
• Her Space Holiday (wish list): wish list instrumental
• Killers (my list): you should have known by now you were on my list
• Toby Keith: start livin', that's the next thing on my list
• Hawthorne Heights (cross me off your list): cross me off your list
• Saul Williams (demands on my list): I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands.
• Kelly Clarkson, etc (grown up christmas list): my grown up christmas list
• Matt Pond pa (a list of sound): we want to make up a list of sound the repetition we will not turn down
• Eels (guest list): but I don't know if you know what I mean because I'm never on your list
• Metric (list): calling from the next hotel - can you put me on the list?
• Cool Calm Pete (the list): the list goes on
• Jerry Clower (you're on my list): i'm makin me a list rant
• L7 (shitlist): I grab my pen and I write out a list of all the people that won’t be missed
• Andrew Sisters: high on my list
• Pavement (list of dorms):
• Gregory Isaacs (crazy list):
• Kate Bush (the wedding list): I got him and I did not miss. I pinned him on the wedding list!
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones (the list): it's just a list a million reasons that I missed

SPOKEN WORD

• George Carlin: an incomplete list of impolite words
• Jeanne Robertson: left brain's grocery list
• Doug Benson: a list of things
• Kathy Griffin: on the d-list
• Bill Hicks: love list no future
• Henry Rollins: first on the list
• Lizzo “ohh let me make a list cause you’re beautiful” - I love you bitch.

WEB

• Mcsweeneys Lists
• How to Steal like an artist

MISC

• Craigslist
• Media: best of lists, amazon, twitter lists, netflix lists
• Famous lists: Forbes list, People Magazines most beautiful people, NY Times book list,
• Christmas Lists
• Wish Lists
• "The List" Robert Belknap
• list books: about me, list yourself, 1000 things to do before you die
• SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco
• The Metterling Lists --Woody Allen
• glazomania: passion for list-making

Qutoes:

• Jonathan Lethem and Allison Freeman on Lists

"We make lists of things we want to remember, and then we lose the lists. My life is a tattered assemblage of abandoned calendars, misplaced agendas, water-damaged address books with names blurred, family trees I've never managed to hold coherently in mind, third cousins unrecalled named for third uncles unmet, files of papers I've misplaced or never look into, schoolwork praised by teachers with faces I can't bring to mind. I once found a packet of love letters from a woman I couldn't recall. A list of mummified sentiments as useless as a grocery receipt. Our memories may be tomb-worlds, after all, a place to spare others having to dwell. Whereas the one thing I am sure I can remember about your eyes is that each time I see them they'll be eyes I could never have forgotten. We list things in order to cross them off, to relegate them with relief to the kingdom of amnesia. So leave me off your lists." Jonathan Lethem, "Things to Remember", The Ecstasy of Influence

• Quotes from SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco
  • The list doesn't destroy culture; it creates it. Wherever you look in cultural history, you will find lists.
  • What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often.
  • How, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.
  • We also have completely practical lists -- the shopping list, the will, the menu -- that are also cultural achievements in their own right.
  • In "Ulysses," James Joyce describes how his protagonist, Leopold Bloom, opens his drawers and all the things he finds in them. I see this as a literary list, and it says a lot about Bloom.
  • The list is certainly prevalent in the postmodern age. It has an irresistible magic.
  • We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end.
  • It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
  • So what did that definition look like? It was a list, a list of characteristics.
  • He lists the things he loves and the things he doesn't love. He loves salad, cinnamon, cheese and spices. He doesn't love bikers, women in long pants, geraniums, strawberries and the harpsichord.