books miscellaneous movies music tv

1. ABBA^W
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Memphis Belle
4. Enya^W
5. Zumba (“the Latin-dance exercise craze”)
6. The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
7. The Far Side, Gary Larson
8. Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook^W
9. Dookie, Green Day
10. The Disney Afternoon^W

1. “Appalachian Spring,” Aaron Copland
2. The Hobbit , J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Young Americans, David Bowie
4. Christian Smith
5. Maestoso, Symphony No. 3 in C minor,* Camille Saint-Saens^W
6. The Simpsons

“challenging but fun!”

*follow the link to listen!

1. Brazil
2. Let It Be, Tim, or Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements
3. Motherless Brooklyn and Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem
4. Newsradio
5. The Iron Giant
6. Grosse Pointe Blank
7. London Calling, The Clash
8. Runaways and Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan^W
9. The Venture Bros.
10. Boys & Girls in America, The Hold Steady

1. “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” Sam Cooke^W
2. “Oh My Angel,“ Bertha Tillman
3. “I’m A Lonely Stranger,” Arthur Conley
4. The Invincibles (“Can’t Win,” “Keep on Trying,” and of course “Heart Full of Love”)
5. “All in My Mind,” Maxine Brown (“live!”)
6. American Movie
7. Treme
8. The Wire
9. Hanna-Barbera Laff-A-Lympics
10. The San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series Collector’s Edition (I haven’t seen this)

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

1. Mallrats
2. Doom II
3. Wet Hot American Summer
4. Good Luck, Big D & Kids Table
5. Concert poster for The Dismemberment Plan, Saturday, June 7th, 2003 @ Slims
6. The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
7. Environmental Science Merit Badge (circa 1995)
8. Andrew W.K. @ Irving Plaza 3/16/10
9. Pork Soda, Primus
10. The Wire

*Dan personally provided his own links for this list. Click each item to see video, pictures and more! Thanks Dan!!

1. Lovely Rose Darjeerling tea from Mariage Freres
2. Emma Goldman^W
3. redwood trees
4. American Beauty
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. Star Wars
7. Deadwood
8. Six Feet Under
9. The Dalai Lama
10. Ammachi
11. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi^W

1. Toy Story
2. The O.C.
3. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Titanic
5. The Strokes
6. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
7. Mean Girls
8. Superbad
9. “Who’s Lovin’ You,” Jackson 5
10. Moulin Rouge!

Watch Bridget and her college roommate Kate discuss their lists on MagpieTV: Episode 3!

1. The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book, Bill Watterson
2. LEGOs
3. Desiderata, Max Ehrmann
4. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
6. “The Problem of Those Who Wait ” (from Beyond Good and Evil), Fredrich Nietzsche
7. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, Walt Whitman
8. The Hubble Deep Field^W image*
9. “Sleeping with One Eye Open,” Mark Strand**
10. The Colbert Report

*follow the link. seriously.

**listen to Mark Strand discuss his poem on “Weekend America.”

1. The Coen Brothers^W (especially Fargo, No Country…, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski…?)
2. The Wire^W (especially seasons 3 and 4)
3.  Wendell Berry^W (essayist/poet/farmer… How cool is that?)
4. Radiohead
5. The Office (BBC)
6. Kurt Vonnegut^W
7. Catherine O'Hara^W
8. Steve Martin
9. Warner Bros. cartoons (especially Chuck Jones stuff)
10. Michael Chabon

Watch John and his wife, Celia Keenan-Bolger, try to collaborate on a list on MagpieTV: Episode 2! (sometimes magpie lists are best kept… separate.)

1. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
2. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
3. “I Can Write The Saddest Verses,”* Pablo Neruda
4. “Bluebird,”* Charles Bukowski
5. The Princess Bride
6. Tombstone
7. Deadwood
8. Mad Men
9. Green Onions, Booker T & The MG’s
10. “Evil (Is Going On),” Howlin’ Wolf

*Follow the links to read the poems!

1. The Dramatic Imagination, Robert Edmund Jones
2. Introspective, Pet Shop Boys
3. Deadwood
4. “Adagio for Strings,” Samuel Barber*
5. Babette’s Feast**
6. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. Extras / The Office / Stand-Up, Ricky Gervais & Steve Merchant
8. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
9. The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
10. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle

*follow the link to hear an NPR story discussing the impact of Barber’s “Adagio for Strings!”

**why not watch it now?

“This was fun! I so wanted to be pretentious and intellectually superior. Hopefully I failed.”

1. Banksy
2. The Dharma Bums,  Jack Kerouac
3. Amelie
4. Julian Casablancas
5. Michael Pollan
6. Furr, Blitzen Trapper
7. Carla Bruni*
8. Dexter^W
9. Zach Galifianakis
10. National Geographic

*have a listen!

1. The Song of the Lioness^W, Tamora Pierce
2. Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
3. The Girl With the Silver Eyes, Willo Davis Roberts
4. Pride and Prejudice (“the 1996 BBC miniseries and the Jane Austen book“)
5. The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
6. My So-Called Life
7. Joss Whedon^W(“particularly, but not limited to, Buffy the Vampire Slayer“)
8. Veronica Mars^W
9. The Lord of the Rings
10. Anne of Green Gables (“The 1985 and 1987 Canadian TV miniseries!”)

Hear what Ariella has to say about Anne of Green Gables!

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1. Almost Famous
2. Grey’s Anatomy
3. Dancing in the Moonlight, King Harvest
4. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
5. Brushfire Fairytales, Jack Johnson
6. Isaac Gritsevsky (“my grandpa”)
7. So You Think You Can Dance
8. Costa Rica^W
9. Hilarie Burton’s character in One Tree Hill (“I’m a silly one, I know!”)
10. Scott Harrison, founder of Charity: Water

1. You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers
2. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
3. In Utero, Nirvana
4. Pierrot le fou
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Bachelor No. 2, Aimee Mann
7. Having a subway system and keeping it [Sonic Youth^W] > Dave Longstreth > Kurt Cobain^W > Bob Dylan^W > The Beatles^W > SMiLE Bootleg via Brian Wilson’s 2004 Update > Revolver > Pet Sounds > Beach Boys^W > Having a public transportation system and demolishing it > Sgt. Pepper
8. Freaks and Geeks
9. Blink 182, Enema Of The State = Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings & Food
10. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, by Andy Warhol/others/?

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Guacamole at Casa Vega
3. The squirrels at the park on Tujunga
4. Elbow (band)^W
5. Sigur Ros^W or Goldfrapp^W – LIVE
6. Pumpkin Loaf (the food)
7. 1:11, 12:12, 4:44, 5:55
8. Hummingbird feeder
9. Charmed (“yes. Charmed.”)
10. Salmon En Croute (Trader Joe’s)

read about faleena’s latest project in the magpie blog!

1. Jesus is Magic, Sarah Silverman
2. Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, Maria Bamford
3. Houston, We Have A Problem, Greg Proops
4. Six Feet Under
5. Strangers with Candy
6. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
7. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
8. Official Book Club Selection, Kathy Griffin
9. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
10. “Losing My Edge,” LCD Soundsystem

laugh with some of Steve’s own comedy in the Magpie Blog!

1. Sling Blade
2. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
3. Illusions, Richard Bach
4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
5. Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling  (“over and over and over…”)