books miscellaneous movies music

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

laugh with some of Steve’s own comedy in the Magpie Blog!

1. Midnight Cowboy (“the movie & the theme!”)
2. The Source, James Michener
3. The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinski^W
4. Mark Rothko^W
5. Symphony No. 1, Gustav Mahler^W
6. La Valse Maurice Ravel^W

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

1. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie
2. Transformer, Lou Reed
3. Cripple Crow, Devendra Banhardt
4. Mixed Up, The Cure
5. Parallel Lines, Blondie
6. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
7. The Greatest, Cat Power
8. Harold and Maude Soundtrack, Cat Stevens^W
9. Shadows Collide With People, John Frusciante
10. The Very Best of T. Rex, Vol. 1, T. Rex

“So much music, not enough time (sigh).”

1. Arthur – Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire, The Kinks
2. The Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks
3. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
4. Anchorman
5. Hills Like White Elephants, and The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
6. The Flaming Lips – The Fearless Freaks
7. The World According to Garp, John Irving
8. Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt
9. Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Spiritualized
10. Bicycles (“the kind you ride”)
11. Campfire  (“the kind you burn”)
12. Sea Food (“the kind you eat”)

Read about Travis and his latest musical endeavor here!

1. “She’s Electric”,  Oasis^W
2. “You Wouldn’t Like Me,” Tegan and Sara
3. “You Make My Dreams”  Hall & Oates^W
4. “What the Snowman Learned About Love”, Stars
5. “All My Days,” Alexi Murdoch
6. “Swimming,” Florence & The Machine^W
7. “First Day of My Life,” Bright Eyes
8. “Walking Out of Stride,” Badly Drawn Boy
9. “Something Good Can Work (Ted & Francis Remix),” Two Door Cinema Club^W
10. “Suspended From Class,” Camera Obscura

“I love this concept. My list’s a bit up and down, some older favorites with some newer finds – probably wouldn’t sound good as an actual playlist!”

1. Harold and Maude
2. the bone people^W, Keri Hulme
3. “Hold On,” Tom Waits
4. “Home,” Eric Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
5. Women Be Wise, Bonnie Raitt & Sippie Wallace
6. “Trouble,” Cat Stevens
7. “Long, Long, Long,” The Beatles
8. The Nutcracker^W, Tchaikovsky
9. Outlander, Diana Gabaladon
10. “Hymn to Freedom,” Oscar Peterson

1. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Ender's Game^W, Orson Scott Card
4. I Love You, Man
5. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
6. “Sweet Pea,” Amos Lee
7. Haruki Murakami^W
8. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air^W
9. Jurassic 5^W
10. Modern Family

1. This Book Will Save Your Life, A.M. Homes
2. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
3. Geek Love, Katharine Dunn
4. Frank O'Hara^W
5. Sarah Vowell^W
6. The Bird And The Bee
7. The Blow^W
8. Camera Obscura
9. Devendra Banhart^W
10. She & Him
11. Lykke Li^W
12. The Kinks^W

“the books that have left an impression…the music I’m listening to tonight” October 2008

1. The Metric System^W
2. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
3. Square Nails (“Hand forged, one at a time.”)
4. Acadie, Daniel Lanois
5. Wilco^W
6. Brighten the Corners, Pavement
7. Box of Moonlight
8. Being There
9. Landscape Architecture^W
10. 16 ” powder day off Shuksan Arm on top of a 50’ base

“Landscape architecture is the perfect balance of art and science.”

1. The Wire
2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
3. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
4. Race, Paul Mooney
5. Pastel Blues, Nina Simone
6. Bravebird, Amel Larrieux
7. Cee-Lo Green^W
8. The Truth, Prince^W
9. Ballads, James Brown^W

“That’s a start. HOLLA.”

Watch Sayre and Eve drink beer and discuss his list in MagpieTV, episode #4!

1. Nocturne in Black and Gold-The Falling Rocket^W,  James Abbot McNeil Whistler, circa 1875
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Miranda July
4. Loose Woman: Poems, Sandra Cisneros
5. “Possibly Maybe,” Bjork^W
6. Arrested Development
7. My So-Called Life
8. Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman
9. Paris, Je T’Aime
10. Among My Swan, Mazzy StarW

Explore Ashley’s blog, “Sally Lou Vintage,” and read about our Magpie photo shoot!

1. Mary Oliver^W
2. Carolyn Kizer^W
3. Marilynne Robinson^W
4. Michelle Obama’s speech about Fear
5. Raymond Carver^W
6. Youssoupha
7. Ma Rainey^W
8. Edith Piaf^W
9. Judith Warner, NYT
10. Ugly Betty (the character)

“Your question is great and it kind of weirded me out because it is exactly one that I have been asking myself for MONTHS now as I try to finish up my Master’s Thesis in English Lit.”

1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (age 5)
2. Pulp Fiction (age 11)
3. Do the Right Thing (age 13)
4. Rushmore (age 15)
5. Elvis Costello^W  (age 16)
6. The Wild Bunch (age 19)
7. Werner Herzog (age 20)
8. Goodbye the Band (age 22)
9. There Will Be Blood (age 24)
10. Der ring des nibelungen^W, Richard Wagner (Present)

“I know I’m breaking the rules with the age thing, but you know what I say to your rules? F–k tha Police.”

1. Can’t Hardly Wait
2. Meet Joe Black
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
4. A General Theory of Love, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
5. The Beatles^W
6. Coldplay^W
7. The Office
8. Freaks and Geeks
9. Anna Liisa Liiver
10. Matthew Genitempo

Watch the music video Chad directed for The Wild Moccasin’s song, “Psychic China,” in the Magpie Blog!

1. Talking Heads^W (age 3)
2. Laurie Anderson^W (age 4)
3. Koyaanisqatsi (age 6)
4. Kurt Vonnegut^W (age 11)
5. They Might Be Giants^W (age 13)
6. Boredoms (age 15)
7. John Cage^W (age 16)
8. Yoko Ono^W(age 19)
9. INLAND EMPIRE (age 22)
10. Prince^W (age 24)