And music and video games. ”My life in film” just sounded better as a title.

Last night I laid restless in bed feeling sick. The sick part is not what bothered me. What bothered me is that I was rearranging my music library in Google Music and suddenly felt really overwhelmed. My music library wasn’t good enough a representation of the person that I was or that I am, for that matter. It wouldn’t matter to a person who cares little about music but it’s such a big part of my life. I extended the thought to films, series and video games and I realized I don’t have a huge database called ”Raph”. I mean, no sane person does but I feel very strongly about the fact that I can visualize where I was or who I was with simply by remembering which artist or film I was into at that particular moment in time. Nostalgia is very important to me. I am so passionate about so many things that I feel it would be too much of a waste to not remember these things when I’m going to be older. Also, for me, it gets easier to focus on the future when I have my past in order. It helps define who I am and where I’m from. So in my head, I started working on a chronological list of musicians, films, series and video games that helped define who I am today (yes, I am such a freak, no, I kid you not).

I sorted the list by decade. Sometimes you’ll notice I put an artist, film or video game that was more famous in an earlier time period versus in a more recent decade. That’s because it played more of a defining role in my life at that time.

80’s-90’s

Michael Jackson
Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque
Sega
Wonderboy in Monsterland
Olive et Tom
Tortues Ninja
Game Boy
Tetris
Mario

00’s-10’s

Almost Famous
Snatch
The Big Lebowski
The Killers
More Radiohead
Death Cab for Cutie
Coldplay
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Requiem for a Dream
Rage Against the Machine
Weezer
Moby
The Beach
Traffic
Road Trip
High Fidelity
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Amores Perros
Jackie Brown
Dreamers
Stealing Beauty
Last Tango in Paris
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
The Strokes
Kings of Leon
Clap your Hands Say Yeah
Arcade Fire
Silversun Pickups
Crash
The Village
Closer
Lost
Prison Break
The OC
How I Met Your Mother
Eurotrip
The Butterfly Effect
9 songs
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Garden State
The Shins
Along Came Polly
Wicker Park
House of Flying Daggers
Sigur Ros
Lord of the Rings 1,2,3
Ocean’s Eleven
Fast and the Furious
Black Hawk Down
Vanilla Sky
Blow
Enemy at the Gates
Zoolander
Not Another Teen Movie
Amélie
Monster’s Ball
Clerks
Cidade de Deus
The Pianist
Minority Report
Bush
Placebo
Ice Age
Gangs of New York
8 mile
Austin Powers
XXX
Adaptation
25th hour
La Haine
Infernal Affairs
Hable con Ella
Lucia y el Sexo
Y tu mama Tambien
40 days and 40 nights
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pirates of the Carribean
Stereophonics
Kill Bill
Lost in Translation
Big Fish
Habana Blues
How to Lose a Guy in 10 days
21 grams
Thin Red Line
Intolerable Cruelty
Tape
Sum 41
Goodbye Lenin
The Edukators
Swimming Pool
V for Vendetta
Memento
Sin City
Brokeback Mountain
Wedding Crashers
Madagascar
Paris
Munich
The Blair Witch Project
Hard Candy
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Departed
The Lives of Others
She’s the One
Die Welle
Happy Feet
Paris, I love you
New York, I love you
Ratatouille
Into the Wild
Little Miss Sunshine
You Me and Everyone We Know
The Unicorns
Juno
I’m not there
Southpark
Family Guy
The Dark Knight
Auberge Espagnole
Burn After Reading
Kung Fu Panda
Hurt Locker
You don’t Mess with the Zohan
Yes Man
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Enemy at the Gates
La Vita e Bella
David Gray
The Fray
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
That 70s Show
The Hangover
The Pianist
Ash
Noir Desir
Ratatouille
The Believer
Matchstick Men
Annie Hall
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Jack Johnson
Ben Harper
Irreversible
La Meglio Gioventu
L’ultimo Bacio