Personal Canon

In which I share about the movies, TV, and music that made me who I am...

I was inspired by a great post from

Alix Klingenberg

wherein she and her husband decided to write a list of 100 movies that they love in an attempt to identify their personal canon. You can read her post via the widget below.

For the list nerds and seasonally affected

I could have probably come up with 100 movies but decided, instead, to focus on my top 30 movies, TV shows, and musical artists/groups. Order doesn’t imply I like something more or less than the others on the same list. [Top XX books is missing as my attempt to create such a list for books led to me staring at a blank wall for far too long. May be a future post.]

Movies

1. Amelie

2. Pride and Prejudice - the Kiera Knightly version

3. Ghostbusters

4. Marry Poppins

5. Aladdin - the animated one

6. Bridge Over the River Kwai

7. WALL-E - even if it makes me bawl when I watch it

8. White Christmas

9. Top Gun - the original one, still haven’t seen the new one

10. Casino Royale

11. Chicago

12. Mean Girls - Lindsay one though the musical is also great

13. Die Hard

14. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

15. Dr. Strangelove

16. Galaxy Quest

17. Singin’ in the Rain

18. Indiana and the Temple of Doom

19. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1979 version

20. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

21. The Sound of Music

22. The Wizard of Oz

23. Nightmare Before Christmas

24. My Fair Lady

25. Hot Fuzz

26. My Best Friend’s Wedding

27. Mama Mia

28. Persuasion - the 2022 version

29. Crazy Rich Asians

30. Shakespeare in Love

Television Shows

1. Scrubs

2. Gilmore Girls

3. Shrinking

4. RuPaul’s Drag Race

5. Great British Baking Show

6. Endeavor

7. Chuck

8. 30 Rock

9. Brooklyn 99

10. Friends

11. Dance Academy

12. The Wire

13. Call the Midwife

14. Parks and Rec

15. Ted Lasso

16. Stargate SG1

17. Royal Pains

18. Jeopardy

19. Boy Meets World

20. Seventh Heaven

21. Roseanne

22. That Girl

23. Mary Tyler Moore

24. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

25. Dr. Pimple Popper

26. Charmed

27. Rome

28. Top Gear

29. Dr. Who

30. Father Brown

Musical Artists/Groups

1. Newsboys

2. James Taylor

3. Japanese Breakfast

4. Chicago

5. Genesis

6. Green Day

7. Coldplay

8. Spyro Gyra

9. Britney Spears

10. Orbital

11. Taylor Swift

12. Aretha Franklin

13. Barry Manilow

14. Mumford and Son

15. Kelly Clarkson

16. Cake

17. Dave Matthew’s Band

18. Florence and the Machine

19. Bette Midler

20. ABBA

21. Switchfoot

22. Enya

23. Billy Joel

24. Red Hot Chili Peppers

25. Sublime

26. Josh Groban

27. Reba McEntire

28. Dolly Parton

29. Rage Against the Machine

30. Brad Paisley

Tell me - what’s in your personal canon? Anything you’d think I’d like based on the above?