Playing Along With Joke's Meme

Movies You Need To See To Understand Me Better (Note that I’m not necessarily proud of all these—it’s just that I’ve seen them an awful lot, and they’ve made their marks, for better or worse.)

16 Candles
Revenge of the Nerds
Grease
Better Off Dead
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
The Iron Giant
The Philadelphia Story
The Breakfast Club
The Evil Dead
Say Anything
High Fidelity

Albums You Need To Listen To to Understand Me Better

BNL – Gordon
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live Rust
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
Hole – Live Through This
The Powerpuff Girls Soundtrack
The Pulp Fiction Sound Track
The White Stripes – Elephant
Green Day – American Idiot

TV Shows You Need to (Have) Watch(ed) To Understand Me Better

Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Full House
Sesame Street
The Simpsons
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (before the migration to the Sci-Fi Channel)

Books You Need To Read To Understand Me Better

(See the disclaimer from the Movies section.)
Go Ask Alice
Virgins
Crime & Punishment
Flowers in the Attic (the collection)
Harriet the Spy
The Age of Reason
The Diary of Ann Frank
Harry Potter 1-6
All of Judy Blume
Most of Beverly Cleary
All of LM Montgomery
All of Madeleine L’Engle
Roosevelt & Hitler
Backlash
Fast Food Nation


Games You Need To Play To Understand Me Better

6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Trivial Pursuit
Scrabble
Phase Ten
Four Square

Musicals/Plays You Need To See To Understand Me Better

Grease
Westside Story
An Ideal Husband
Macbeth
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
No Exit

Periodicals You Need To Read To Understand Me Better

Atlantic Monthly
Magazine of the ALA

Catalogs You Need To Get--not necessarily order from--To Understand Me Better

(These are the ones I get, anyway.)
Pottery Barn
Griot's Garage
LL Bean
Title 9 Sports
Athleta

Places You Need To Visit To Understand Me Better

One place explains so very much: Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania.