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  1. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve SeenSam CookeW
  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)
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Joe Kostelnik     San Francisco, CA
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  1. Enter the Void (“it is the 2001 of the 2000s!”)
  2. NirvanaW
  3. Lee HazlewoodW
  4. The Velvet UndergroundW
  5. John Cassavetes
  6. Werner Herzog
  7. Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds
  8. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  9. Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
  10. Mom

“It’s all about the past and the moment and how it takes me into the future.”

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Justin Willis von Werner     Bozeman, MT
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  1. Ciao! Manhattan
  2. The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbit
  3. Selena
  4. Oh No They Didn’t!
  5. Liquid Sky
  6. Approximately Infinite Universe, Yoko Ono
  7. The Two Sisters (Directors Cut)
  8. Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill, AM Homes
  9. From Burger it Came*
  10. Chex Mix

*If you only follow one link today, follow this one to Dominic Bisignano’s animated short. It’s incredible.

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  1. Harold and Maude
  2. Suzanne,Leonard CohenW
  3. Starry, Starry Night
  4. Robert Maplethorpe’s flowers
  5. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  6. Twin Peaks
  7. “The Only Living Boy in New York“, Simon & Garfunkle
  8. Stardust Memories
  9. John Lewis

“I guess all the rain has got me in touch with my melancholy side. So glad you are doing this.”

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  1. Earth*
  2. Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir, Peter Balakian
  3. The Lives of Others
  4. The Fall, Albert Camus
  5. L’affaire Farewell*
  6. “The Long Goodbye”*, Ara DinkjianW
  7. Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
  8. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
  9. Il Postino
  10. Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah

*follow links to trailers and music!

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  1. Nocturne #2 in E flat, Chopin
  2. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
  3. Every single Valdemar novel, Mercedes Lackey
  4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
  5. Love Me If You Dare
  6. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
  7. In the Hand of the Goddess, Tamora Pierce
  8. Look at Miss Ohio,” sung by Band of Heathens
  9. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116W
  10. She’s a Wild One,” Evangeline

“My most treasured books, songs, movie and sonnet. I had to cheat on #3 – all of her books are so good that I could not narrow it down to just one.”

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Bree   Student   Berkeley, CA
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  1. James Taylor’s Greatest Hits (“in constant rotation with Willie Nelson’s Stardust“)
  2. Cinema Paradiso
  3. La Cantatrice Chauve (The Bald Soprano), Eugene IonescoW
  4. The Glass Family Stories, J. D. Salinger
  5. Energy, Operation Ivy
  6. Weetzie Bat,  Francesca Lia Block
  7. La Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain (Amelie)
  8. Funeral, Arcade Fire
  9. Midnight Train To Georgia,” Gladys Knight & the Pips
  10. Love Is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield

“These items, for one reason or another, were catalysts in my ever changing perspective of life. Mostly in chronological order.”

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Jason Hougaard   Art Director   Los Angeles, CA
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  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
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Mark Alexander   Sales   St. Louis, MO
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  1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  2. Self Pity,” D.H. Lawrence
  3. Charles BukowskiW
  4. Midnight Run
  5. Purple Rain
  6. BrooklynW, New York
  7. Final Draft
  8. Paper, Pencil and Ink
  9. GoodFellas
  10. The Alchemist, Paul Coelho
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  1. Mallrats
  2. Doom II
  3. Wet Hot American Summer
  4. Good Luck, Big D & Kids Table
  5. Concert poster for The Dismemberment Plan, Saturday, June 7th, 2003 @ Slims
  6. The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
  7. Environmental Science Merit Badge (circa 1995)
  8. Andrew W.K. @ Irving Plaza 3/16/10
  9. Pork Soda, Primus
  10. The Wire

*Dan personally provided his own links for this list. Click each item to see video, pictures and more! Thanks Dan!!

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  1. Lovely Rose Darjeerling tea from Mariage Freres
  2. Emma GoldmanW
  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 GandhiW
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Jessica Govoni     Lafayette, CA
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  1. The Wire (and also, the Terry Gross interview with Wire producer Ed Burns*)
  2. Joan DidionW (“All things…I always go to them when I’ve lost my way.”)
  3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,  Junot Diaz
  4. Badlands
  5. “all the pieces SCOTT CARRIERW makes for This American Life” (especially the job that takes over your life,*episode # 37)
  6. Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for GirlsW
  7. The Food Project
  8. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
  9. My Dad
  10. Magnetic Fields
  11. Roald DahlW

*follow the links to listen!

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Devin Browne   Journalist   Phoenix, AZ
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  1. Siouxsie SiouxW
  2. Santa Sangre
  3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  4. Frida KahloW
  5. Delicatessen
  6. Ann Demeulemeester
  7. Jeff KoonsWBalloon Dog
  8. Vivienne Westwood
  9. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
  10. Bette DavisW (actor) and Betty Davis (singer)

“I love lists, can’t live without them! Eve, you rock.”

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Greg "G-Spot" S.     Los Angeles, CA
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  1. The Fall
  2. The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe
  3. La Condition Humaine, René Magritte
  4. Black Coffee,” Ella Fitzgerald
  5. PomegranateW
  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!

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Kate Robinson   Student   Eugene, OR
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  1. Toy Story
  2. The O.C.
  3. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. Titanic
  5. The Strokes
  6. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  7. Mean Girls
  8. Superbad
  9. Who’s Lovin’ You,” Jackson 5
  10. Moulin Rouge!

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

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Bridget Egan   Student   Eugene, OR
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  1. Venus de MiloW, Alexandros of Antioch (attributed)
  2. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67,” Ludwig von Beethoven
  3. The Original Star Wars Trilogy
  4. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  5. Christa, Edwina Sandys
  6. Thousand Roads, David Crosby
  7. Ghostbusters
  8. Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
  9. All That You Can’t Leave Behind, U2
  10. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Andrea Smith
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1. bicycles
2. Maira Kalman
3. The Black Stallion
4. Balint Zsako
5. knitting
6. Tanya Davis
7. the short films of Sadie BenningW
8. the website of Miranda JulyW
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!

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  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.”

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  1. The Coen BrothersW (especially Fargo, No Country…, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski…?)
  2. The WireW (especially seasons 3 and 4)
  3.  Wendell BerryW (essayist/poet/farmer… How cool is that?)
  4. Radiohead
  5. The Office (BBC)
  6. Kurt VonnegutW
  7. Catherine O'HaraW
  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.)

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  1. This American Life
  2. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
  3. The Sound of Music
  4. The Wire
  5. Barack Obama (especially his “race speech…“)
  6. Sufjan Stevens
  7. Elizabeth Gilbert at TED
  8. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
  9. Laura Nyro
  10. The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald

Watch Celia and her husband, John Conlee, try to collaborate on a list on MagpieTV: Episode 2!  (it doesn’t go very well.)


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