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1. Our Lady of 121st Street, Stephen Adly Guirgis
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Office
4. Twelfth Night^W, William Shakespeare
5. Cabaret
6. Hello, Dolly!
7. Diet Coke
8. Barbra Streisand^W
9. Disneyland^W*
10. To Kill a Mockingbird ,Harper Lee

*we went to Disneyland for this week’s Magpie Minute; check it out!

1. The teachings of Gautama Buddha^W
2. The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
3. When Elephants Weep, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
4. “Video” and “Private Party,” India. Arie
5. A General Theory of Love , Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon
6. “As Tragic,” John Craigie*
7. A Prairie Home Companion on NPR*
8. “Broken Wing,” The Shook Twins
9. Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
10. There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz

“Some of these books and songs are recent favorites and some I’ve loved for a long time.”

*follow the links to John Craigie on youtube and the Shook Twins official site!

Ariel’s my cousin; to read more about Family 1st Friday’s, get thee to the Magpie Blog!

1. ”Thunder Road,” Bruce Springsteen
2. Dillon Beach
3. The 400 Blows
4. The San Francisco Giants
5. Bright Eyes
6. “You’re a Big Girl Now,” Bob Dylan
7. Miller’s Crossing
8. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
9. Crosby St. in NYC
10. Joel Burns

“You rock Eve! What a great idea for a site!

check out Magpie Minute #4 for my experience with The 400 Blows!

1. Harold and Maude
2. “Suzanne,” Leonard Cohen^W
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.”

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. Lovely Rose Darjeerling tea from Mariage Freres
2. Emma Goldman^W
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 Gandhi^W

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 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. 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.)