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1. The Xanth^W Series, Piers Anthony
2. Footloose
3. Stomp
4. “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson^W
5. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
6. Fight Club: A Novel, Chuck Palahniuk
7. Christ of Saint John of the Cross^W, Salvador Dali^W
8. The Office: The Complete BBC Collection
9. Derren Brown
10. Naomi Klein

Christ of Saint John of the Cross, Salvador Dali

1. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
2. Finding Neverland Soundtrack, Jan A. P Kaczmarek
3. Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet
4. E. E. cummings^W (!!!)
5. Spring Awakening
6. Regina Spektor (espec. ”On The Radio” and “Consequence of Sound“)
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
8. John Patrick Shanley^W
9. Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
10. The Royal Tenenbaums

Hannah Mae is my cousin, and I am so excited to post her list that I’m not even going to wait for Family (1st) Fridays!

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. 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. “Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard,” Wilco^W
2. The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper
3. German
4. Danish Butter Cookies
5. Bock^W
6. Devotion to the Cross, Pedro Calderon de la Barca^W
7. Scotland Yard Family Game
8. Contact Mics
9. Mille Bornes Card Game
10. “Madame George” Van Morrison^W

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!

1. Fight Club
2. Six Feet Under
3. Amelie
4. The Pavilion, Craig Wright
5. Friday Night Lights
6. American Beauty
7. Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
8. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
9. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
10. Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums – it’s a toss up

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. Withnail and I
3. Home for the Holidays
4. His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
5. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
6. The Syringa Tree^W, Pamela Gien
7. “Life Uncommon,” Jewel*
8. Making Hay, John Jeppson
9. Sweet Honey In The Rock
10. Shakespeare

*follow the link to watch Jewel sing “Life Uncommon” on youtube!

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. “Why?” Annie Lennox
2. “Vogue,” Madonna
3. The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
4. Taboo (musical)^W, Boy George
5. Leigh Bowery^W
6. “The End,” Jason Reeves
7. Take It Like A Man, Boy George
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. “Friday I’m In Love,” The Cure
10. “If You Forget Me,” Pablo Neruda

“it was soooooo diffucult limiting myself to 10 – I made it as well rounded as I possibly could…”