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  1. WTF with Marc Maron
  2. WFMU: BD Best Show Gems
  3. “Mother and Son Skit” by Nichols and May
  4. Beastie Boys lyrics explained
  5. “UK surf wave of mutilation,” Pixies
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Hannah     New Mexico
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  1. Lucille BallW
  2. getting haircuts
  3. The Black Keys
  4. Within You Without You,” The BeatlesW
  5. Do Right Woman,”  Aretha Franklin
  6. Julie TaymorW
  7. NPR
  8. www.etsy.com
  9. Michael Pollan
  10. Michel FoucaultW

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

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Mara Grubb   Student   Bellingham, WA
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  1. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  2. “Echidna’s Arf” and “Don’t you Ever Wash that Thing?” from Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere
  3. Rock My Religion, Dan GrahamW
  4. Darkness/Light/Darkness,* Jan SvankmajerW
  5. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (10:00 every night on 640 KFI)
  6. Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook, Sally Fallon
  7. The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
  8. The World is a Beautiful Place,* Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  9. The Wonderful World That Almost Was, Paul Thek
  10. Mr. Show

Read Greta’s thoughtful explanations in The Magpie Blog!

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  1. The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
  2. All the Real Girls
  3. Miss Misery,” Elliott Smith (live performance at The Academy Awards)
  4. The Story of Everest
  5. Late Night With David Letterman
  6. Oh You’re So Silent Jens, Jens Lekman
  7. The Goonies
  8. Mutual Appreciation
  9. All Hail West Texas, The Mountain Goats
  10. Bioshock for XBOX 360
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Joey Devine   Comedian   San Francisco, CA
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  1. The teachings of Gautama BuddhaW
  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!

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  1. Robert Wilson’s Woyzeck
  2. Breaking The Waves
  3. The Famished Road, Ben Okri
  4. Valley Girl (the movie!)*
  5. Valley Girl (the sound track!)**
  6. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
  7. Democracy Now!
  8. Abbey Road
  9. REDCAT
  10. Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott

” *I think this was the first movie I ever recorded onto VHS off of HBO. We watched it every day for about a year.
**consequently, I memorized the soundtrack.”

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  1. Brothers, The Black Keys
  2. This American Life
  3. A Bit of Fry and Laurie
  4. Lisbon, The Walkmen
  5. Physics: Principles with Applications, Douglas C. Giancoli
  6. Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman
  7. Mad Men
  8. Middle Cyclone, Neko Case
  9. Mario & Luigi Super Star Saga
  10. Don’t Try This at Home, Billy Bragg
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Tony Gibson   Chocolatier   Sonoma, 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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