miscellaneous movies music people tv

1. The Best of The Guess Who
2. Jethro Tull, watching Ian Anderson rock on the flute with one leg
3. Andrea Bocelli, “Time to Say Goodbye“ …goosebumps everytime
4. Night, Eli Wiesel (listening to him makes me want to hop a flight and audit his classes)
5. Ayaan Hirsi Ali^W, it took guts for her to write books about Islam
6. Memento …over and over and over
7. Original Japanese Iron Chef
8. “Take a Little Piece of my Heart,” Janis Joplin^W
9. Creating dishes from food with the people who grew it around the table.
10. When a great chef asks, ”is there anything you don’t like? may I cook for you?”

1. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were afraid To Ask (Watch it now!)
2. E.E. Cummings^W‘ poem Self-Excoriation 1, 2, and 3.
3. The Revolution of Everyday Life, Raoul Vaneigem (Read it for free; just follow the link!)
4. “Nashville Blues,” Doc Watson
5. Days of Heaven
6. Patti Smith is a new fascination after reading Just Kids
7. Five Easy Pieces
8. Lolita, Vladimir Nobokov
9. The entire album of Graceland by Paul Simon has saved my life more than once. It can make the worst day better.
10. Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer

1. The Jerk
2. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble
3. “Series of Dreams,” Bob Dylan*
4. The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
5. Odetta^W
6. In Living Color*
7. Rumi^W
8. Mermaids
9. Happy Days, Samuel Beckett
10. Nina Simone – Live at Montreux 1976 (follow the link to watch right now!)

*follow to youtube!

1. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
2. Bob Dylan
3. Shane
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. The Last Waltz
6. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
7. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
8. The Great Gatsby
9. Flight of the Conchords
10. King Lear,* William Shakespeare
11. James Taylor

*follow that link to read King Lear in its entirety. You know you want to!

1. ferries (the boat kind)
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Poutine^W
4. Brown ale^W
5. disc golf
6. libraries
7. Irish Breakfast tea^W
8. Bill Bryson
9. Ella Fitzgerald
10. bikes

1. Amar Es Combatir, Mana
2. A Night at the Opera, Queen
3. Spanish for 100
4. Jason Reitman^W
5. Edgar Wright
6. Christopher Nolan^W
7. Dressing up as Santa
8. the late Robert Jordan^W
9. Brennan Manning
10. Barack Obama

1. Lucille Ball^W
2. getting haircuts
3. The Black Keys
4. ”Within You Without You,” The Beatles^W
5. ”Do Right Woman,”  Aretha Franklin
6. Julie Taymor^W
7. NPR
8. www.etsy.com
9. Michael Pollan
10. Michel Foucault^W

Hey! Mara is my cousin; read about “Family 1st Friday’s” in The Magpie Blog!

1. “Lucinda/Ain’t Goin’ Down to the Well”- Tom Waits^W
2. Singers
3. Later recordings of Robert Johnson^W
4. Boardwalk Empire on HBO
5. Shuffels
6. Marvin Pontiac (Read this:John Lurie^W!)
7. Shakers
8. Dashiell Hammett^W
9. Pigeon, Patrick Suskind
10. Sinners

1. The Paladium in LA in the 40′s, hosted all the big bands (“I was there on many weekends:  Glen Miller^W, Tommy Dorsey^W, Benny Goodman^W, Artie Shaw^W“)
2. Songs: “I’ll Never Smile Again;”  ”Begin the Beguine;” (“I’m still trying to play my clarinet like A. Shaw! ha!”)
3. I was president of UCLA’s Men’s Glee Club in ’47 – ’48 and we did Shows in Royce Hall – My American Cousin and H.M.S. Pinafore! Great fun!
4. Boy’s Life magazine
5. Building – Tree house and also digging a cave in a vacant lot!
6. Body Surfing in Santa Monica Bay and skating on local sidewalks
7. getting a bicycle at Christmas
8. Travel – we drove to New York and back 1936-37 (Dad’s work took us there and back)

I thought it would be nice to post my grandfather’s  list for Family 1st Fridays in July; a  World War II Veteran, he is  still inspiring in a myriad of ways!  Thanks, Granddad, for supporting the Magpie List!

1. Citizen Kane
2. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare^W
3. Ulysses, James Joyce
4. piano concerto no. 1, Tchaikovsky*
5. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
6. My Parents
7. The courage to be mild
8. Mac Computer
9. German Board Games
10. Richard Burton^W

*follow the link to listen to Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto no. 1 on youtube!