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

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1. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
2. Achtung Baby, U2
3. Wings of Desire
4. Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott^W
5. Jane Austen^W, all of it–from the novels to Clueless & Jenifer Ehle in the BBC
6. La Femme Nikita
7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
8. I’m Your Man, Leonard Cohen
9. Drop Dead Gorgeous
10. Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke (collected by Daid Wagoner)

1. The Sartorialist
2. The Devil Wears Prada
3. Moulin Rouge!
4. Lucky Magazine
5. Hotel Costes CD’s
6. Mad Men
7. Boardwalk Empire
8. The Social Network
9. So You Think You Can Dance
10. Mesrine: Killer Instinct