books movies music poetry

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 116^W
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.”

1. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
2. Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
3. Famous Blue Raincoat, Jennifer Warnes

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 Ionesco^W
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.”

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. 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!!

1. The Wire (and also, the Terry Gross interview with Wire producer Ed Burns*)
2. Joan Didion^W (“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 CARRIER^W makes for This American Life” (especially the job that takes over your life,*episode # 37)
6. Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls^W
   
7. The Food Project
   
8. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
9. My Dad
10. Magnetic Fields
11. Roald Dahl^W

*follow the links to listen!

1. Siouxsie Sioux^W
2. Santa Sangre
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Frida Kahlo^W
5. Delicatessen
6. Ann Demeulemeester
7. Jeff Koons^W“Balloon Dog“
8. Vivienne Westwood
9. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
10. Bette Davis^W (actor) and Betty Davis (singer)

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

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. 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!

1. Nikosi Sikelele
2. kora music of Mamadou Diabate
3. “any good pipe and drum band” (eg. Edinburgh Military Tattoo!)
4. Henri Rousseau’s jungle paintings
5. San Francisco Saxophone Quartet
6. Opus the penguin^W from Bloom County
7. watercolors from the original The Story of Babar books
8. paintings and sculptures of George Lilanga^W
9. perfectly fried okra
10. Angels in America, Tony Kushner

1. The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
2. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
3. “Hit ‘Em Up,” Tupac Shakur*
4. silence, e.e. cummings
5. Verdi’s Requiem, Guiseppe Verdi*
6. Bedroom in Arles^W, Vincent van Gogh
7. Check Your Head, Beastie Boys
8. Charles Bukowski^W
9. The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway
10. Ode to Joy, Ludwig van Beethoven*
11. Presto (Summer) from The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi*

*watch and listen! (especially Ode to Joy…)

“I put eleven, because I could not retract anything, but I also didn’t want to add anything after eleven. So, I think my magpie list has eleven. I hope that doesn’t break any rules. And if it does, please let me re-do it, so I can subtract the one that really should be retracted, which could take several hours of epic self scrutiny.”

1. Venus de Milo^W, 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

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. The Coen Brothers^W (especially Fargo, No Country…, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski…?)
2. The Wire^W (especially seasons 3 and 4)
3.  Wendell Berry^W (essayist/poet/farmer… How cool is that?)
4. Radiohead
5. The Office (BBC)
6. Kurt Vonnegut^W
7. Catherine O'Hara^W
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.)

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.)

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. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
2. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
3. “I Can Write The Saddest Verses,”* Pablo Neruda
4. “Bluebird,”* Charles Bukowski
5. The Princess Bride
6. Tombstone
7. Deadwood
8. Mad Men
9. Green Onions, Booker T & The MG’s
10. “Evil (Is Going On),” Howlin’ Wolf

*Follow the links to read the poems!

1. Blind Pilot
2. Andrew Bird
3. Damien Rice
4. She & Him
5. Marketa Irglova^W
6. Glen Hansard^W
7. Belle & Sebastian
8. Regina Spektor^W
9. Moxy Fruvous^W
10. Good Evening

Magpie Note: Trying something new with the format; let me know what you think!

“Hey cousin Eve! These are my top jams! Love ya! Can’t wait for other family member’s posts!”*

Beth’s List:

1. “Just the Way You Are,” Bruno Mars
2. “Low,” Flo Rida
3. “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love,” Usher
4. “Dynamite,” Taio Cruz
5. “Cooler Than Me,” Mike Posner
6. “Pocketful of Sunshine,” Natasha Bedingfield
7. “I Gotta Feeling,” Black Eyed Peas
8. “Just Dance,” Lady Gaga
9. “Boom Boom Pow,” Black Eyed Peas
10. “Yeah,” Usher

Andy’s List:

*Read about Family Fridays in The Magpie Blog!