- “Purple Rain,” Prince and the Revolution
- Saturday Night Live (The Early Years! )
- Licensed to Ill, The Beastie Boys
- Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
- On Writing, Stephen King
- Shopgirl, Steve Martin
- “Hotel California,” The Eagles
- Cool Hand Luke
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman
books comedy movies music
- Fight Club
- Six Feet Under
- Amelie
- The Pavilion, Craig Wright
- Friday Night Lights
- American Beauty
- Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
- Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
- Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums – it’s a toss up
- Frog and Toad
- The Bad Plus
- Stardust, Neil Gaiman
- The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
- FugaziW
- Wild Zero
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- They Might Be Giants
- FLCLW
- 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!
- “Dream,” Priscilla Ahn
- “Yesterday,” Atmostphere
- Miss Congeniality
- “You Can Call Me Al,” Paul Simon*
- Meng Li Xiao Xiang
- John Mayer
- Jurassic Park
- “Finally Moving,” Pretty Lights*
- Outside Lands Festival 2010
*follow the links for listening and viewing pleasure!
- The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
- All the Real Girls
- “Miss Misery,” Elliott Smith (live performance at The Academy Awards)
- The Story of Everest
- Late Night With David Letterman
- Oh You’re So Silent Jens, Jens Lekman
- The Goonies
- Mutual Appreciation
- All Hail West Texas, The Mountain Goats
- Bioshock for XBOX 360
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Withnail and I
- Home for the Holidays
- His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- The Syringa TreeW, Pamela Gien
- “Life Uncommon,” Jewel*
- Making Hay, John Jeppson
- Sweet Honey In The Rock
- Shakespeare
*follow the link to watch Jewel sing “Life Uncommon” on youtube!
- The BibleW
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch*
- Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Sandlot
- “What A Wonderful World*,” Louis ArmstrongW
- “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!
- Our Lady of 121st Street, Stephen Adly Guirgis
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Office
- Twelfth NightW, William Shakespeare
- Cabaret
- Hello, Dolly!
- Diet Coke
- Barbra StreisandW
- DisneylandW*
- To Kill a Mockingbird ,Harper Lee
*we went to Disneyland for this week’s Magpie Minute; check it out!
- Capturing the Friedmans
- Maxwell
- KaleW
- The Legend of 1900
- Women, Food, and God, Geneen Roth
- “Phenomenal Woman,” Maya Angelou
- What I Want My Words to Do to You
- Saved By The Bell (“not the college years!”)
- “Sweet Thing,” Mary J Blige OR “Lay With You,” Debarge (“it’s a toss up between these two songs! “)
- Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology, Joseph Pilates
- Gratz Pilates Equipment
Watch Kit discuss her list on MagpieTV!
- ABBAW
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Memphis Belle
- EnyaW
- Zumba (“the Latin-dance exercise craze”)
- The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
- The Far Side, Gary Larson
- Dungeons & Dragons Player's HandbookW
- Dookie, Green Day
- The Disney AfternoonW
- “The Custom-House” chapter of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Workin’ Together, Ike and Tina Turner
- The Last Picture Show
- Starbucks Earl Gray Tea Lattes and Vanilla Bean Scones
- All of Joan Didion’s non-fiction
- All of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
- Mark Ruffalo and Rory Culkin in You Can Count on Me
- Mark Wahlberg in I Heart Huckabees
- Everyone in Boogie Nights
- Rubber Soul, The Beatles
“Hi Eve!”
- “Why?” Annie Lennox
- “Vogue,” Madonna
- The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
- Taboo (musical)W, Boy George
- Leigh BoweryW
- “The End,” Jason Reeves
- Take It Like A Man, Boy George
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- “Friday I’m In Love,” The Cure
- “If You Forget Me,” Pablo Neruda
“it was soooooo diffucult limiting myself to 10 – I made it as well rounded as I possibly could…”
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Boxer, The National
- The Mercy Seat, Neil LaBute
- Richard III, William Shakespeare
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Martin McDonagh
- There Will Be Blood
- Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
- It’s Blitz!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- That Mitchell and Webb Look*
- The Missing Piece, Shel Silverstein
- “sound of silence on the first snowfall”
- Like a Prayer, Madonna
- E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial
- Night, Eli Wiesel
- Brazil
- Let It Be, Tim, or Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements
- Motherless Brooklyn and Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem
- Newsradio
- The Iron Giant
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- London Calling, The Clash
- Runaways and Y: The Last Man, Brian K. VaughanW
- The Venture Bros.
- Boys & Girls in America, The Hold Steady
- Robert Wilson’s Woyzeck
- Breaking The Waves
- The Famished Road, Ben Okri
- Valley Girl (the movie!)*
- Valley Girl (the sound track!)**
- Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
- Democracy Now!
- Abbey Road
- REDCAT
- 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.”
- ”Thunder Road,” Bruce Springsteen
- Dillon Beach
- The 400 Blows
- The San Francisco Giants
- Bright Eyes
- “You’re a Big Girl Now,” Bob Dylan
- Miller’s Crossing
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
- Crosby St. in NYC
- Joel Burns
“You rock Eve! What a great idea for a site!
check out Magpie Minute #4 for my experience with The 400 Blows!
- “Miserere,” Tallis Scholars
- “Time to Say Goodbye,” Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
- “I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston
- “I Dreamed A Dream,” Susan Boyle
- “And Still I Rise”* Maya AngelouW
- This Is My Beloved, Walter Benton
- Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden
- The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Godfather: Part II
*follow the link to watch Maya Angelou recite this beautiful poem, “And Still I Rise,” on youtube!