movies tv

1. The Great Escape
2. Gladiator
3. American Beauty, Grateful Dead
4. The Wire
5. American Graffiti
6. M*A*S*H (the movie!)
7. The Sting
8. Chinatown
9. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1. Jeans (from Jnco to James, I’ve loved them all)
2. Steak (thick cut, rib-eye, butter, A1 on the side)
3. Italian movies (The Conformist, Blow Up, Caro Diario)
4. Bernice Bobs Her Hair^W and all the short stories of  F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
5. Paul Simon’s Graceland album
6. Pearl Jam (I am serious, ages 12 – 20)
7. The Wonder Years^W
8. The Baby-Sitter’s Club #1 /Sweet Valley High #1: Double Love books (let’s be honest, they are the same thing)
9. Summer Camp
10. Dracula (Bram Stoker’s, Coppola’s, Sesame Street‘s)

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. 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. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. The Office (BBC!)
3. “Ojala,” Silvio Rodriguez^W
4. Made in Britain
5. Back To Black, Amy Winehouse
6. People Hold on, Eddie Kendricks
7. ”This is” series by M. Slasek
8. The Corner, David Simon & Edward Burns
9. ”Periodico de Ayer”  Hector Lavoe^W
10. Annie Hall

1. As A Man Thinketh, James Allen
2. “A Change is Gonna Come” Sam Cooke*
3. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
4. Acua Verde Nachos
5. Avocados
6. 21, Adele
7. Aesop Rock
8. Amazon Kindles
9. NY Times Crossword Puzzles
10. Shameless on Showtime

*follow the link to listen to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come!”

“Eve, you go girl.”

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
2. The last 10 minutes of Six Feet Under
3. Fraggle Rock
4. All About Eve
5. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
6. Aimee Mann songs from the Magnolia soundtrack
7. The musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. “Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying,” Belle and Sebastian^W
9. Mulholland Drive
10. Reality Bites

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 Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel, Nick Cave
2. Strangeland, Tracey Emin
3. The King’s Speech (“I was a sceptic, but it’s brilliant”)
4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
5. Jessie J’s cover of the Naked and the Famous’ ”Young Blood”
6. August Sander^W ‘s photography
7. Miranda (TV series on BBC)
8. Arsenic & Old Lace
9. Victor Hugo’s Delicatessen in Edinburgh (by the Meadows)
10. Kitchen, Nigella Lawson

1. The NBA Playoffs
2. JetBlue Cheeps
3. Haley Reinhart on American Idol
4. Baconalia at Denny’s
5. Empire Records
6. ”The Infanta” by The Decemberists
7. Parks & Recreation
8. Community
9. Mine Is Yours, Cold War Kids
10. Diet Coke

1. Languages
2. The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffeneger
3. “One,”  U2*
4. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
5. “Changes,” Tupac Shakur^W
6. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
7. “Livin’ on a Prayer,” Bon Jovi
8. Sex and the City (the show!)
9. The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
10. Henry and June, Anais Nin

*Follow the link to hear “One,” by U2, or access the complete album, Achtung Baby, here.

1. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Pumpkin Spice Granola
4. 20 under 40
5. Down comforters
6. “Wax & Wire,” * Loch Lomond
7. The New Abs Diet
8. Parks & Recreation

*follow the link to listen to Loch Lomond’s “Wax & Wire” and download their album,  Night Bats, here.

1. Raincoats, Raincoats
2. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
3. Francois Truffaut^W and Jean-Pierre Léaud^W
4. “Gloomy Sunday,” * Rezso Seress
5. The short stories of Roald Dahl^W
6. Love and Death
7. Myrna Loy^W and William Powell^W
8. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
9. Parks and Recreation
10. tUnE-yArDs

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 Graham^W
4. Darkness/Light/Darkness,* Jan Svankmajer^W
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!

1. The Horrors
2. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
3. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
4. The Mighty Boosh
5. Little Britain

1. Mignonette, The Avett Brothers
2. U2
3. Jenny Lewis^W (“whether in Rilo Kiley, Jenny and Johnny, or her solo work, I will take her in any form!”)
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
5. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
6. In the Desert, Stephen Crane
7. parenthood (not the movie or tv show, but my experience of)
8. The Long, Hot Summer
9. Six Feet Under
10. Ireland

“I tried to take your advice and not stress over this, but it was a challenge! It’s funny, I feel inspired on a daily basis, but when it came down to it, so many of my choices were from way back in my past. Am I filling my time with mediocre music/books/movies or is it more difficult, the older I get, to fall as hard and feel as deeply for things? I don’t know- but I loved the process.”

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. Pharmako, Dale Pendell
2. ”The Way Things Go,” Fischli & Weiss
3. Deadwood
4. Sequoia Sempervirens
5. SNL Digital Short: “The Tizzle Wizzle Show“
6. Wolves in the Throne Room
7. ”Indeterminacy,” John Cage
8. oldworld Japanese knives
9. Danner Hiking Boots
10. Harry Potter Books

1. Dr. Who
2. “God Only Knows,” The Beach Boys
3. Harry Potter Books and Movies
4. Reddit
5. Funny cat videos/photos
6. Really good food
7. Travel
8. Sleeping
9. Gel Pens
10. The combination of Peanut Butter and Chocolate.

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!