books food miscellaneous tv

1. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Pumpkin Spice Granola
4. 20 under 40
5. Down comforters
6. “Wax & Wire,” * Loch Lomond
7. The New Abs Diet
8. Parks & Recreation

*follow the link to listen to Loch Lomond’s “Wax & Wire” and download their album,  Night Bats, here.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ”Thunder Road,” Bruce Springsteen
2. Dillon Beach
3. The 400 Blows
4. The San Francisco Giants
5. Bright Eyes
6. “You’re a Big Girl Now,” Bob Dylan
7. Miller’s Crossing
8. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
9. Crosby St. in NYC
10. Joel Burns

“You rock Eve! What a great idea for a site!

check out Magpie Minute #4 for my experience with The 400 Blows!

1. “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” Sam Cooke^W
2. “Oh My Angel,“ Bertha Tillman
3. “I’m A Lonely Stranger,” Arthur Conley
4. The Invincibles (“Can’t Win,” “Keep on Trying,” and of course “Heart Full of Love”)
5. “All in My Mind,” Maxine Brown (“live!”)
6. American Movie
7. Treme
8. The Wire
9. Hanna-Barbera Laff-A-Lympics
10. The San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series Collector’s Edition (I haven’t seen this)

1. The Godfather
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
3. Nintendo
4. Arguing with Idiots, Glenn Beck
5. Bon Jovi
6. Van Halen, Van Halen
7. Pinheads and Patriots, Bill O’Reilly

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. “Self Pity,” D.H. Lawrence
3. Charles Bukowski^W
4. Midnight Run
5. Purple Rain
6. Brooklyn^W, New York
7. Final Draft
8. Paper, Pencil and Ink
9. GoodFellas
10. The Alchemist, Paul Coelho

1. Lovely Rose Darjeerling tea from Mariage Freres
2. Emma Goldman^W
3. redwood trees
4. American Beauty
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. Star Wars
7. Deadwood
8. Six Feet Under
9. The Dalai Lama
10. Ammachi
11. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi^W

1. The Fall
2. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe
3. La Condition Humaine, René Magritte
4. “Black Coffee,” Ella Fitzgerald
5. Pomegranate^W
6. “Knife,” Grizzly Bear
7. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
8. “Delivery“
9. Moleskine
10. Synecdoche, Byron Kim

Watch Kate and her college roommate Bridget discuss their lists on MagpieTV: Episode 3!

1. The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book, Bill Watterson
2. LEGOs
3. Desiderata, Max Ehrmann
4. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
6. “The Problem of Those Who Wait ” (from Beyond Good and Evil), Fredrich Nietzsche
7. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, Walt Whitman
8. The Hubble Deep Field^W image*
9. “Sleeping with One Eye Open,” Mark Strand**
10. The Colbert Report

*follow the link. seriously.

**listen to Mark Strand discuss his poem on “Weekend America.”

1. bicycles
2. Maira Kalman
3. The Black Stallion
4. Balint Zsako
5. knitting
6. Tanya Davis
7. the short films of Sadie Benning^W
8. the website of Miranda July^W
9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
10. skinny dipping

“Thanks so much for the nice words about my work. It’s lovely to know that it reaches people in far away places.”

Read about Andrea’s work, “How To Be Alone,” and my own experience with self-induced solitude, in The Magpie Blog!

1. “This Must Be The Place,” Talking Heads
2. Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris
3. Raising Arizona
4. the first chapter of “East of Eden,” John Steinbeck
5. estuaries
6. an empty truck
7. the term “civil twilight” and the actual civil twilight
8. national brand narrow ruled eye-ease paper
9. Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot
10. pinon

“this was the quickest this floodgate ever opened…back and forth between the things that feel like they’ve ALWAYS been there and the things that MOST RECENTLY arrived. it feels like what i would stuff in my bag immediately pre-apocalypse. …now i wanna put the word ‘apocalypse’ on there.”

1. Ohad Benchertrit
2. red lipstick
3. raw milk
4. barm^W
5. synchronicity
6. asynchronicity
7. Frank Stitt
8. your heart within my heart (?)
9. Sista Nella Flo
10. Milo Minderbinder
11. Mac Wellman

1. It Takes Two
2. Marie Antoinette
3. “Anything ‘Wizard of Oz.’ …Anything.”
4. Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi
5. Pretend You’re Alive, Lovedrug
6. The Killers, Daniel P. Mannix^W*

MagpieTV: Episode 1 — Watch Zeb discuss his list!

*fun fact: the killers is a book about a cock-fighting rooster who battles a hawk, but daniel p. mannix had other interests as well; he co-founded the official munchkin convention of the international wizard of oz club!

1. Koloman Moser^W
2. Egon Schiele
3. Alfred Hitchcock^W
4. Ernest Hemingway^W
5. The Beatles
6. Edie Sedgwick^W
7. Paris
8. Yuan Yuan Tan^W
9. The 60's^W
10. My family