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!

1. Jeans (from Jnco to James, I’ve loved them all)
2. Steak (thick cut, rib-eye, butter, A1 on the side)
3. Italian movies (The Conformist, Blow Up, Caro Diario)
4. Bernice Bobs Her Hair^W and all the short stories of  F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
5. Paul Simon’s Graceland album
6. Pearl Jam (I am serious, ages 12 – 20)
7. The Wonder Years^W
8. The Baby-Sitter’s Club #1 /Sweet Valley High #1: Double Love books (let’s be honest, they are the same thing)
9. Summer Camp
10. Dracula (Bram Stoker’s, Coppola’s, Sesame Street‘s)

1. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Fragile, Nine Inch Nails
4. the smell of new pointe shoes
5. “When the Stars Go Blue” Ryan Adams
6. Remarks of Senator Barack Obama at the New Hampshire primary, Jan. 8, 2008
7. The Big Lebowski
8. Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos
9. A Single Man
10. an empty dance studio

1. The Best of The Guess Who
2. Jethro Tull, watching Ian Anderson rock on the flute with one leg
3. Andrea Bocelli, “Time to Say Goodbye“ …goosebumps everytime
4. Night, Eli Wiesel (listening to him makes me want to hop a flight and audit his classes)
5. Ayaan Hirsi Ali^W, it took guts for her to write books about Islam
6. Memento …over and over and over
7. Original Japanese Iron Chef
8. “Take a Little Piece of my Heart,” Janis Joplin^W
9. Creating dishes from food with the people who grew it around the table.
10. When a great chef asks, ”is there anything you don’t like? may I cook for you?”