books movies music theater

1. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
2. Finding Neverland Soundtrack, Jan A. P Kaczmarek
3. Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet
4. E. E. cummings^W (!!!)
5. Spring Awakening
6. Regina Spektor (espec. ”On The Radio” and “Consequence of Sound“)
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
8. John Patrick Shanley^W
9. Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
10. The Royal Tenenbaums

Hannah Mae is my cousin, and I am so excited to post her list that I’m not even going to wait for Family (1st) Fridays!

1. The Thin Red Line
2. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
3. King Henry V, by William Shakespeare
4. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
5. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais, the Clash
6. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
7. Stuntin’ like My Daddy, ‘Lil Wayne and Birdman
8. Heat
9. The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe
10. Pragmatism, by William James

1. ”Crying,” Roy Orbison
2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
3. Little Miss Bossy
4. Tommy Boy
5. The Sword in the Stone
6. ”Crying” by Moonlight Towers
7. Thrump-O-Moto, James Clavel
8. The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room
9. ”Teenage Sonata,” Sam Cooke
10. She’s All That

1. The Jerk
2. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble
3. “Series of Dreams,” Bob Dylan*
4. The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
5. Odetta^W
6. In Living Color*
7. Rumi^W
8. Mermaids
9. Happy Days, Samuel Beckett
10. Nina Simone – Live at Montreux 1976 (follow the link to watch right now!)

*follow to youtube!

1. As A Man Thinketh, James Allen
2. “A Change is Gonna Come” Sam Cooke*
3. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
4. Acua Verde Nachos
5. Avocados
6. 21, Adele
7. Aesop Rock
8. Amazon Kindles
9. NY Times Crossword Puzzles
10. Shameless on Showtime

*follow the link to listen to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come!”

“Eve, you go girl.”

1. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
2. Taurus, Ocote Soul Sounds
3. After Hours
4. Follow Me Down, Sarah Jarosz
5. Decencia, Álvaro Enrique
6. Salt Song, Stanley Turrentine
7. Why the Dalai Lama Matters, Robert Thurman
8. Handbook for Writers, Celia Millward
9. Scratching the Beat Surface, Michael McClure
10. Sweet ‘n’ Sour, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

1. Savages, Don Winslow
2. Sleeper, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
3. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
4. Fantasy Black Channel, Late of the Pier
5. The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois
6. Bionic Six^W
7. Batman: The Animated Series
8. Frog and Toad Are Friends
9. Rumpelstiltskin^W
10. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

1. Throwing Copper, Live
2. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
3. The Last Unicorn
4. Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Judy Blume
5. Affirmation, Savage Garden
6. The Little Mermaid
7. The Lord of the Rings,  J.R.R. Tolkien
8. Darkest Days, Stabbing Westward
9. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
10. Seven Citadels, Geraldine Harris

1. “Maps & Atlases,” The Charm
2. “Dawn of the Tinman,” Rig 1
3. Young Guns
4. Elephant Eyelash, WHY?
5. ”You’re Going Back,” Tallest Man on Earth
6. Pars Vite et Reviens Tard, Fred Vargas
7. Limitless
8. Pablo Francisco
9. Tombstone
10. Lugano, Switzerland

1. The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
2. David Hockney
3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
4. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
5. Sunrise
6. Blue, Joni Mitchell
7. The American, Henry James
8. Espresso Vivace (Seattle)
9. Skippy Dies: A Novel, Paul Murray
10. Peugeot

1. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
2. Bob Dylan
3. Shane
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. The Last Waltz
6. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
7. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
8. The Great Gatsby
9. Flight of the Conchords
10. King Lear,* William Shakespeare
11. James Taylor

*follow that link to read King Lear in its entirety. You know you want to!

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
2. The last 10 minutes of Six Feet Under
3. Fraggle Rock
4. All About Eve
5. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
6. Aimee Mann songs from the Magnolia soundtrack
7. The musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. “Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying,” Belle and Sebastian^W
9. Mulholland Drive
10. Reality Bites

1. Madness and Civilization, Foucault
2. The Thin Red Line
3. Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos
4. A Clean Well Lighted Place, Hemmingway
5. The I Hate to Cook Book, Peg Bracken (“…pretty much every word she wrote”)
6. Words for the Wind, Theodore Roethke
7. The Best of James Taylor(I’m not sure my dad could actually drive without this playing)
8. Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke
9. Zoolander
10. Self-Help, Lorrie Moore

“A cousin posted a list here than posted about you on Facebook–another cousin has since added a list; it’s so interesting to see what they wrote…this is a way of knowing them. It just never came up at family reunions while I was perfecting my angst ridden teenager & they were refusing to take off the water wings & get out of the pool.”

1. The Band, all their albums but especially The Last Waltz
2. Dr. Dog, albums Fate and Shame, Shame
3. How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
4. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
5. Singing with Megan Smith of Misner & Smith
6. Bass Lake in Point Reyes National Seashore
7. True Stories, The Talking Heads
8. Woody Guthrie^W
9. Shakespeare^W
10. In My Craft Or Sullen Art, Dylan Thomas^W

Read a little more about Sam Misner (the silly way I came to know him) in the Magpie Blog!

1. ferries (the boat kind)
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Poutine^W
4. Brown ale^W
5. disc golf
6. libraries
7. Irish Breakfast tea^W
8. Bill Bryson
9. Ella Fitzgerald
10. bikes

1. Great Northern?, Arthur Ransome
2. The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson
3. The Pianist
4. Schindler’s List
5. Stone Cold, David Baldacci
6. A View From the Bridge, Arthur Miller
7. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
8. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
9. Candide, Voltaire

1. Lucille Ball^W
2. getting haircuts
3. The Black Keys
4. ”Within You Without You,” The Beatles^W
5. ”Do Right Woman,”  Aretha Franklin
6. Julie Taymor^W
7. NPR
8. www.etsy.com
9. Michael Pollan
10. Michel Foucault^W

Hey! Mara is my cousin; read about “Family 1st Friday’s” in The Magpie Blog!

1. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
2. The Shining, Stephen King
3. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
4. “anything Russian”

“books I am either too tired or to afraid to read (or reread). until this baby starts sleeping I can’t afford to have any nightmares! nor can I keep my eyes open for D.F.W. or Dostoevsky…”

Note: New mother Jessamyn Harris also submitted a fun and appetizing list of her favorite restaurant eats in Northern California; see it in “Another Kind Of List,” posted in The Magpie Blog!

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. Pride & Prejudice
2. Chronicles, Bob Dylan
3. “Cosmic Dancer,”  T REX
4. About a Boy & Jerry Maguire (boys growing up and becoming men!)
5. “Bonzo’s Montreux,” John Bonham
6. Atticus Finch’s courtroom speech in To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Annette Funicello dancing in pastel heels in Babes in Toyland
8. “The Longest Time,”**  Billy Joel
9. “Hot Pants,”  James Brown
10. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars