I've been developing a lot of lists lately and I wanted to share two of them. These lists were tough to go through and probably need some rework, but creating them gave me some comfort. Also, I limited myself to 20 for each. The number is arbitrary and only picked to provide a constraint.

Favorite albums, in no particular order, limited to one album per artist, listed by artist alphabetically:

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Bjork - Medulla
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
Nine Inch Nails - Halo 8: Downward Spiral
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Postal Service - Give Up
Radiohead - Kid A
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Sigur Ros - ( )
The Antlers - Hospice
The Beatles - Revolver
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
Tune Yards - Nikki Nack
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Favorite movies, in no particular order, limited to three movies per director (because I'm a sucker for Wes Anderson), listed by year chronologically:

The Big Lebowski - Coen Brothers
Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze
American Psycho - Mary Harron
Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
The Royal Tenebaums - Wes Anderson
Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson
Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 - Quentin Tarantino
Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
The Darjeeing Limited - Wes Anderson
Scott Pilgrim vs the World - Edgar Wright
The Social Network - David Fincher
Her - Spike Jonze
Nymphomaniac Vol 1 and 2 - Lars Von Trier
Under the Skin - Jonathan Glazer
Upstream Color - Shane Carruth
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson
The Lobster - Yogos Lanthimos
Swiss Army Man - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Columbus - Kogonada
Mother! - Darren Aronofsky