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  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
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Trevor Baierl     Playa del Rey, CA
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  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
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  1. Style Wars
  2. Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme
  3. Scratch
  4. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
  5. This is the Life: How the West was One
  6. The Freshest Kids – A History of the B-Boy
  7. Rock the Bells
  8. Jay Z – Fade to Black
  9. Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
  10. Rize

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  1. Frog and Toad
  2. The Bad Plus
  3. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
  4. The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
  5. FugaziW
  6. Wild Zero
  7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  8. They Might Be Giants
  9. FLCLW
  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!

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  1. Dream,” Priscilla Ahn
  2. Yesterday,” Atmostphere
  3. Miss Congeniality
  4. You Can Call Me Al,” Paul Simon*
  5. Meng Li Xiao Xiang
  6. John Mayer
  7. Jurassic Park
  8. Finally Moving,” Pretty Lights*
  9. Outside Lands Festival 2010

*follow the links for listening and viewing pleasure!

 

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Valerie Lee     Santa Cruz, CA
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  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
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Joey Devine   Comedian   San Francisco, CA
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  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 TreeW, 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!

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Antonia Stout   Artist   Los Angeles, CA
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  1. The BibleW
  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 ArmstrongW
  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!

 

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D. Lee     Rocklin, CA
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  1. Our Lady of 121st Street, Stephen Adly Guirgis
  2. The Wizard of Oz
  3. The Office
  4. Twelfth NightW, William Shakespeare
  5. Cabaret
  6. Hello, Dolly!
  7. Diet Coke
  8. Barbra StreisandW
  9. DisneylandW*
  10. To Kill a Mockingbird ,Harper Lee

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

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Victoria Martinez   Actor   San Diego, CA
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  1. Capturing the Friedmans
  2. Maxwell
  3. KaleW
  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!

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  1. ABBAW
  2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  3. Memphis Belle
  4. EnyaW
  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 HandbookW
  9. Dookie, Green Day
  10. The Disney AfternoonW
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Jack Austin   Consultant   Portland, OR
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  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!”

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Tara Everhart   Writer/Bartender   Los Angeles, CA
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  1. “Why?” Annie Lennox
  2. “Vogue,” Madonna
  3. The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
  4. Taboo (musical)W, Boy George
  5. Leigh BoweryW
  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…”

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  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*
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  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
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  1. Brazil
  2. Let It Be, Tim, or Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements
  3. Motherless Brooklyn and Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem
  4. Newsradio
  5. The Iron Giant
  6. Grosse Pointe Blank
  7. London Calling, The Clash
  8. Runaways and Y: The Last Man, Brian K. VaughanW
  9. The Venture Bros.
  10. Boys & Girls in America, The Hold Steady
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Brendan Hay   Writer   Bay Area, CA
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  1. Robert Wilson’s Woyzeck
  2. Breaking The Waves
  3. The Famished Road, Ben Okri
  4. Valley Girl (the movie!)*
  5. Valley Girl (the sound track!)**
  6. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
  7. Democracy Now!
  8. Abbey Road
  9. REDCAT
  10. Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott

” *I think this was the first movie I ever recorded onto VHS off of HBO. We watched it every day for about a year.
**consequently, I memorized the soundtrack.”

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  1. No Country for Old Men
  2. City Of God
  3. The Prestige
  4. DJ Shadow
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  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!

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  1. Miserere,” Tallis Scholars
  2. Time to Say Goodbye,” Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
  3. I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston
  4. I Dreamed A Dream,” Susan Boyle
  5. And Still I Rise”* Maya AngelouW
  6. This Is My Beloved, Walter Benton
  7. Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden
  8. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
  9. Lawrence of Arabia
  10. The Godfather: Part II

*follow the link to watch Maya Angelou recite this beautiful poem, “And Still I Rise,” on youtube!

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