books miscellaneous movies tv

1. Almost Famous
2. Grey’s Anatomy
3. Dancing in the Moonlight, King Harvest
4. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
5. Brushfire Fairytales, Jack Johnson
6. Isaac Gritsevsky (“my grandpa”)
7. So You Think You Can Dance
8. Costa Rica^W
9. Hilarie Burton’s character in One Tree Hill (“I’m a silly one, I know!”)
10. Scott Harrison, founder of Charity: Water

1. You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers
2. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
3. In Utero, Nirvana
4. Pierrot le fou
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Bachelor No. 2, Aimee Mann
7. Having a subway system and keeping it [Sonic Youth^W] > Dave Longstreth > Kurt Cobain^W > Bob Dylan^W > The Beatles^W > SMiLE Bootleg via Brian Wilson’s 2004 Update > Revolver > Pet Sounds > Beach Boys^W > Having a public transportation system and demolishing it > Sgt. Pepper
8. Freaks and Geeks
9. Blink 182, Enema Of The State = Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings & Food
10. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, by Andy Warhol/others/?

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Guacamole at Casa Vega
3. The squirrels at the park on Tujunga
4. Elbow (band)^W
5. Sigur Ros^W or Goldfrapp^W – LIVE
6. Pumpkin Loaf (the food)
7. 1:11, 12:12, 4:44, 5:55
8. Hummingbird feeder
9. Charmed (“yes. Charmed.”)
10. Salmon En Croute (Trader Joe’s)

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1. Summerhill, A.S. Neill^W
2. French Women Don’t Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
3. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
4. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
5. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
6. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky
7. L’Auberge Espagnole
8. School of Rock
9. Garden State (“the soundtrack!“)
10. Awareness, Anthony De Mello

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1. West Ham United Football Club
2. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
3. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (“really ALL Charlie Kaufman^W films”)

“and the 15 albums that have REALLY touched my life”

1. The Police – Ghost In The Machine
2. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
3. Genesis – Three Sides Live
4. Michael Jackson – Thriller
5. Pearl Jam – Vs.
6. Radiohead – The Bends
7. Jeff Buckley – Grace
8. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
9. Dave Matthews Band – Before These Crowded Streets
10. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
11. The Strokes - Is This It?
12. Division Day – The Mean Way In
13. Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
14. Gavin Castleton – Home
15. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (“and Blood Bank, I know I’m cheating”)

1. Friends
2. Saturday Night Live
3. The River, Bruce Springsteen
4. Blue Collar Comedy Tour
5. “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Bob Dylan
6. “Life Goes On,” Tupac
7. Magnolia
8. Eminem
9. The Killers
10. Coca-Cola^W

1. Felicity
2. Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself, Judy Blume (“really any Judy Blume book but this one in particular!”)
3. Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Novel, (“and the film!”)
4. Dork Whore, Iris Bahr
5. Wall-E
6. Rent
7. Shakespeare in Love
8. Pride and Prejudice (“and the film!“)
9. Sex and the City

“That’s all I can think of for right now but more may come later! Good luck!”

1. Jesus is Magic, Sarah Silverman
2. Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, Maria Bamford
3. Houston, We Have A Problem, Greg Proops
4. Six Feet Under
5. Strangers with Candy
6. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
7. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
8. Official Book Club Selection, Kathy Griffin
9. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
10. “Losing My Edge,” LCD Soundsystem

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1. The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
2. Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, The Mountaineers^W
3. King’s Quest^W, Roberta Williams
4. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost^W
6. Natural Capitalism, Amory B. Lovins
7. The Goonies
8. “Embryo,” Black Sabbath
9. A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
10. The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein