comedy music radio
- Lucille BallW
- getting haircuts
- The Black Keys
- ”Within You Without You,” The BeatlesW
- ”Do Right Woman,” Aretha Franklin
- Julie TaymorW
- NPR
- www.etsy.com
- Michael Pollan
- Michel FoucaultW
Hey! Mara is my cousin; read about “Family 1st Friday’s” in The Magpie Blog!
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- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- “Echidna’s Arf” and “Don’t you Ever Wash that Thing?” from Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere
- Rock My Religion, Dan GrahamW
- Darkness/Light/Darkness,* Jan SvankmajerW
- Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (10:00 every night on 640 KFI)
- Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook, Sally Fallon
- The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
- The World is a Beautiful Place,* Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- The Wonderful World That Almost Was, Paul Thek
- Mr. Show
Read Greta’s thoughtful explanations in The Magpie Blog!
- The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
- All the Real Girls
- “Miss Misery,” Elliott Smith (live performance at The Academy Awards)
- The Story of Everest
- Late Night With David Letterman
- Oh You’re So Silent Jens, Jens Lekman
- The Goonies
- Mutual Appreciation
- All Hail West Texas, The Mountain Goats
- Bioshock for XBOX 360
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- The teachings of Gautama BuddhaW
- The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
- When Elephants Weep, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- “Video” and “Private Party,” India. Arie
- A General Theory of Love , Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon
- “As Tragic,” John Craigie*
- A Prairie Home Companion on NPR*
- “Broken Wing,” The Shook Twins
- Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
- 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!
- Robert Wilson’s Woyzeck
- Breaking The Waves
- The Famished Road, Ben Okri
- Valley Girl (the movie!)*
- Valley Girl (the sound track!)**
- Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
- Democracy Now!
- Abbey Road
- REDCAT
- 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.”
- Brothers, The Black Keys
- This American Life
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie
- Lisbon, The Walkmen
- Physics: Principles with Applications, Douglas C. Giancoli
- Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman
- Mad Men
- Middle Cyclone, Neko Case
- Mario & Luigi Super Star Saga
- Don’t Try This at Home, Billy Bragg
- The Wire (and also, the Terry Gross interview with Wire producer Ed Burns*)
- Joan DidionW (“All things…I always go to them when I’ve lost my way.”)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- Badlands
- “all the pieces SCOTT CARRIERW makes for This American Life” (especially the job that takes over your life,*episode # 37)
- Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for GirlsW
- The Food Project
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
- My Dad
- Magnetic Fields
- Roald DahlW
*follow the links to listen!
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