HI HI HI HI

I am totally here. But, as you can see, The Magpie List is on a bit of a hiatus. I love every single aspect of this project, but find my life fuller and more busy than ever before. Starting TML showed me how much I can do and how far I can go with connections and knowledge. I can’t find enough hours in the day to read all the wonderful books you’ve recommended, watch the movies! Hear the songs! And all of it inspired me to reach even higher: I’m in my first year in a graduate school program, I started free-lance writing, I started teaching!

It is ironic that the very thing that has inspired my life must take a back-burner in it, but I think you (dear readers) understand.

Keep on collecting and sharing treasures. I’ll pop in here again soon.

love and shiny buttons,

Eve Sturges

1. Being There
2. Defending Your Life
3. Spirited Away
4. “Inspiration Information,” Shuggie Otis
5. Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
6. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
7. The Rainbow Goblins, Ul de Rico
8. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
9. Not a Pretty Girl, Ani DiFranco
10. “Empire State of Mind,” Jay-Z

Deanna Russo is one part of “Married Single Divorced,” a new web series coming out later this summer! I had a chance to visit her on the set; read about it in The Magpie Blog!

1. City of Thieves, David Benioff
2. The End of Faith, Sam Harris
3. Straight Man, Richard Russo
4. Henry Fool
5. Glengarry Glen Ross
6. Sling Blade
7. Albuquerque Lullaby, Dan Bern
8. This is the 21st Century, Marillion
9. The Joe Schmo Show
10. Ken Burns’ Baseball

1. Jamie’s Italy (cooook booook!!!)
2. The Princess Bride
3. Star Wars
4. Conan (the books)
5. Conan the Barbarian (the movie)
6. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (does that count?)
7. Any book by Andrea Camilleri
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
9. Anything by P.G. Wodehouse, especially if it has Jeeves in it
10. All the Monty Python movies
11. Billy Madison
12. Braveheart
13. Yojimbo

Gio plays a mean upright bass with The Brother’s Comatose; their new album is coming out…any…day…now! Check them out, have listen!

1. The Great Escape
2. Gladiator
3. American Beauty, Grateful Dead
4. The Wire
5. American Graffiti
6. M*A*S*H (the movie!)
7. The Sting
8. Chinatown
9. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1. Refernce, Ryann Bosetti
2. The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry
3. “Colours,” Donavan
4. 100% Guido, Harsh Patel
5. “So So Sick,” Unrest
6. Adagio For Strings, Christian Oldham
7. The Gentlewoman
8. Forest Lawn: The Great Mausoleum
9. LePigeon, Jerry Pigeon
10. Christine, Alan Clarke

1. Hiking along the coast in Nova Scotia
2. The King’s Speech
3. Taking a class on western films
4. Zeitoun, David Eggers
5. Planning trips
6. Snowshoeing on the lake
7. Playing Mexican Train Dominoes with my family
8. Walking my dog
9. Riding my bike 28 miles to eat breakfast
10. Preparing my old legs to jog 6 miles

1. The Goonies
2. Labyrinth
3. The Neverending Story
4. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
5. The Princess Bride
6. Hook
7. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
8. Willow
9. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
10. The Karate Kid Collection

“10 Kids’ movies from the 80′s and 90′s that influenced who I am today”

Read about “Broke-Ass Stuart” in the Magpie Blog, and visit his own website to read what he has to say about  his movie list!

1. ”Song Three Blues,” Alberta Cross
2. ”Service Bell,” Grizzly Bear feat. Feist
3. ”Wolves,” Phosphorescent
4. ”Kill a Man,” Gram Rabbit
5. ”When I’m Small,”  Phantogram
6. ”You May Be Blue,” Vetiver
7. ”In the Direction of the Moon,” Wolf Parade
8. “6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know),”  Neon Indian
9. ”Strange Fruit,” Nina Simone^W
10. ”New Kanada,” Solid Gold

“round 2…i am such an audiophile.” (see Amanda’s first list here!)

this list is so video-crazy, i couldn’t choose just one, so it’s just a link-fest!

1. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel (song and album!)
2. The Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling
3. Arrested Development
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
5. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
6. Pickin’ Up The Pieces, Fitz and the Tantrums (album)
7. Moulin Rouge!
8. Pushing Daisies
9. The Little Mermaid
10. Cinema Paradiso
11. Parks and Recreation

read about my discovery of modern communication and the design genius of Kate’s Blimp Cat Studios in the Magpie Blog!