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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. “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. WTF with Marc Maron
2. WFMU: BD Best Show Gems
3. “Mother and Son Skit” by Nichols and May
4. Beastie Boys lyrics explained
5. “UK surf wave of mutilation,” Pixies

1. Beyond the Mountain, Steve House
2. Snatch
3. Pineapple Express
4. Katy Perry
5. Blueberry Pie
6. Tea
7. Flight of the Conchords

1. David Sedaris
2. Transcendental Meditation
3. Frank’s Wild Years, Tom Waits
4. Woody Allen^W
5. Kristen Wiig
6. Maria Bamford
7. Mitch Hedberg
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Debbie Harry^W
10. Candace Bushnell

Melinda Hill is one funny lady; click on her name, below, to see her website, and read her blog, “Marriage Material!”

1. The Horrors
2. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
3. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
4. The Mighty Boosh
5. Little Britain

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. The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
2. All the Real Girls
3. “Miss Misery,” Elliott Smith (live performance at The Academy Awards)
4. The Story of Everest
5. Late Night With David Letterman
6. Oh You’re So Silent Jens, Jens Lekman
7. The Goonies
8. Mutual Appreciation
9. All Hail West Texas, The Mountain Goats
10. Bioshock for XBOX 360

1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Boxer, The National
3. The Mercy Seat, Neil LaBute
4. Richard III, William Shakespeare
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Martin McDonagh
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
9. It’s Blitz!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. That Mitchell and Webb Look*

1. The Coen Brothers^W (especially Fargo, No Country…, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski…?)
2. The Wire^W (especially seasons 3 and 4)
3.  Wendell Berry^W (essayist/poet/farmer… How cool is that?)
4. Radiohead
5. The Office (BBC)
6. Kurt Vonnegut^W
7. Catherine O'Hara^W
8. Steve Martin
9. Warner Bros. cartoons (especially Chuck Jones stuff)
10. Michael Chabon

Watch John and his wife, Celia Keenan-Bolger, try to collaborate on a list on MagpieTV: Episode 2! (sometimes magpie lists are best kept… separate.)