books movies music poetry

1. The Station Agent
2. any poetry by Pablo Neruda read in a sunny window
3. Nice Girls Don’t Explode
4. 311, 311
5. Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
6. Dazed & Confused
7. Legend, Bob Marley
8. Only by the Night, Kings of Leon
9. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
10. Aquemini, Outkast

1. Taxi Driver
2. “Nutshell,” Alice in Chains
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (soundtrack), Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
4. “The Thrill Is Gone,” * B.B. King
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour
7. Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane
8. Vertigo
9. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
10. Euphoria Morning, Chris Cornell

*follow the link for B.B. King’s “The Thrill is Gone” on youtube!

1. Mignonette, The Avett Brothers
2. U2
3. Jenny Lewis^W (“whether in Rilo Kiley, Jenny and Johnny, or her solo work, I will take her in any form!”)
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
5. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
6. In the Desert, Stephen Crane
7. parenthood (not the movie or tv show, but my experience of)
8. The Long, Hot Summer
9. Six Feet Under
10. Ireland

“I tried to take your advice and not stress over this, but it was a challenge! It’s funny, I feel inspired on a daily basis, but when it came down to it, so many of my choices were from way back in my past. Am I filling my time with mediocre music/books/movies or is it more difficult, the older I get, to fall as hard and feel as deeply for things? I don’t know- but I loved the process.”

1. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
2. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Living the Truth, Dr. Keith Ablow

Judi is “Aunt Judi” to me; read about “Family (1st)Fridays” in the Magpie Blog!

1. Lund University
2. Vastgota Nation
3. Soder Spoletorp
4. Gerdahallen
5. Lundabocker
6. Nova Lund
7. Kaffe
8. TGR-stores
9. Swedish Snaps^W
10. Northern Lights

1. “Purple Rain,” Prince and the Revolution
2. Saturday Night Live (The Early Years! )
3. Licensed to Ill, The Beastie Boys
4. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
5. On Writing, Stephen King
6. Shopgirl, Steve Martin
7. “Hotel California,” The Eagles
8. Cool Hand Luke
9. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
10. Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman

1. Fight Club
2. Six Feet Under
3. Amelie
4. The Pavilion, Craig Wright
5. Friday Night Lights
6. American Beauty
7. Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
8. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
9. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
10. Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums – it’s a toss up

1. Pharmako, Dale Pendell
2. ”The Way Things Go,” Fischli & Weiss
3. Deadwood
4. Sequoia Sempervirens
5. SNL Digital Short: “The Tizzle Wizzle Show“
6. Wolves in the Throne Room
7. ”Indeterminacy,” John Cage
8. oldworld Japanese knives
9. Danner Hiking Boots
10. Harry Potter Books

1. The Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown 2006- Fast Division*
2. Frankie Manning and Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers* (“Especially Hellzapoppin from 1941″)
3. Wildflowers, Tom Petty
4. Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times, Willie Brown
5. Cooking with Trader Joe’s
6. Take a Little Piece of My Heart, Erma Franklin
7. “Forever,”  Ben Harper (Welcome to the Cruel World)
8. Sea Green, See Blue,* JayMay (Autumn Fallin)
9. The Loose Marbles performing in New Orleans with Meshiya Lake*
10. Sookie Stackhouse, Charlaine Harris

*this Magpie list is link-crazy; click around for Jaymay on youtube, lindy-hop madness, and a New Orleans street performance with Meshiya Lake!

1. Frog and Toad
2. The Bad Plus
3. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
4. The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
5. Fugazi^W
6. Wild Zero
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
8. They Might Be Giants
9. FLCL^W
10. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

Gio plays upright bass in a bluegrass project, The Brothers Comatose; check out their song, “Trippin’ On Down the Mountain,”  in the Magpie Blog!

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. Withnail and I
3. Home for the Holidays
4. His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
5. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
6. The Syringa Tree^W, Pamela Gien
7. “Life Uncommon,” Jewel*
8. Making Hay, John Jeppson
9. Sweet Honey In The Rock
10. Shakespeare

*follow the link to watch Jewel sing “Life Uncommon” on youtube!

1. Dr. Who
2. “God Only Knows,” The Beach Boys
3. Harry Potter Books and Movies
4. Reddit
5. Funny cat videos/photos
6. Really good food
7. Travel
8. Sleeping
9. Gel Pens
10. The combination of Peanut Butter and Chocolate.

1. The Bible^W
2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch*
3. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
4. The Wizard of Oz
5. The Sandlot
6. “What A Wonderful World*,” Louis Armstrong^W
7. “Listen to the Music,*” Doobie Brothers

*follow links to youtube for music and for Randy Pausch’s entire “last lecture!”

D. Lee  ”Uncle Doug”  to me! Read about Family (1st!) Fridays in the Magpie Blog!

1. Our Lady of 121st Street, Stephen Adly Guirgis
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Office
4. Twelfth Night^W, William Shakespeare
5. Cabaret
6. Hello, Dolly!
7. Diet Coke
8. Barbra Streisand^W
9. Disneyland^W*
10. To Kill a Mockingbird ,Harper Lee

*we went to Disneyland for this week’s Magpie Minute; check it out!

1. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
2. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
3. Fingerprints of God, Barbara Bradley Hagerty
4. Radical Prayer, Matthew Fox
5. Illusions, Richard Bach
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, Fannie Flagg

“What a fabulous idea this ‘blist’ is!!”

1. Capturing the Friedmans
2. Maxwell
3. Kale^W
4. The Legend of 1900
5. Women,  Food,  and God, Geneen Roth
6. “Phenomenal Woman,” Maya Angelou
7. What I Want My Words to Do to You
8. Saved By The Bell (“not the college years!”)
9. “Sweet Thing,” Mary J Blige OR “Lay With You,” Debarge (“it’s a toss up between these two songs! “)
10. Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology, Joseph Pilates
11. Gratz Pilates Equipment

Watch Kit discuss her list on MagpieTV!

1. ABBA^W
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Memphis Belle
4. Enya^W
5. Zumba (“the Latin-dance exercise craze”)
6. The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
7. The Far Side, Gary Larson
8. Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook^W
9. Dookie, Green Day
10. The Disney Afternoon^W

1. “The Custom-House” chapter of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Workin’ Together, Ike and Tina Turner
3. The Last Picture Show
4. Starbucks Earl Gray Tea Lattes and Vanilla Bean Scones
5. All of Joan Didion’s non-fiction
6. All of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
7. Mark Ruffalo and Rory Culkin in You Can Count on Me
8. Mark Wahlberg in I Heart Huckabees
9. Everyone in Boogie Nights
10. Rubber Soul, The Beatles

“Hi Eve!”

1. “Why?” Annie Lennox
2. “Vogue,” Madonna
3. The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
4. Taboo (musical)^W, Boy George
5. Leigh Bowery^W
6. “The End,” Jason Reeves
7. Take It Like A Man, Boy George
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. “Friday I’m In Love,” The Cure
10. “If You Forget Me,” Pablo Neruda

“it was soooooo diffucult limiting myself to 10 – I made it as well rounded as I possibly could…”

1. The Missing Piece, Shel Silverstein
2. “sound of silence on the first snowfall”
3. Like a Prayer, Madonna
4. E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Night, Eli Wiesel