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