1. Amar Es Combatir, Mana
2. A Night at the Opera, Queen
3. Spanish for 100
4. Jason Reitman^W
5. Edgar Wright
6. Christopher Nolan^W
7. Dressing up as Santa
8. the late Robert Jordan^W
9. Brennan Manning
10. Barack Obama

1. Great Northern?, Arthur Ransome
2. The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson
3. The Pianist
4. Schindler’s List
5. Stone Cold, David Baldacci
6. A View From the Bridge, Arthur Miller
7. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
8. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
9. Candide, Voltaire

1. Lucille Ball^W
2. getting haircuts
3. The Black Keys
4. ”Within You Without You,” The Beatles^W
5. ”Do Right Woman,”  Aretha Franklin
6. Julie Taymor^W
7. NPR
8. www.etsy.com
9. Michael Pollan
10. Michel Foucault^W

Hey! Mara is my cousin; read about “Family 1st Friday’s” in The Magpie Blog!

1. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
2. The Shining, Stephen King
3. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
4. “anything Russian”

“books I am either too tired or to afraid to read (or reread). until this baby starts sleeping I can’t afford to have any nightmares! nor can I keep my eyes open for D.F.W. or Dostoevsky…”

Note: New mother Jessamyn Harris also submitted a fun and appetizing list of her favorite restaurant eats in Northern California; see it in “Another Kind Of List,” posted in The Magpie Blog!

1. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
2. Achtung Baby, U2
3. Wings of Desire
4. Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott^W
5. Jane Austen^W, all of it–from the novels to Clueless & Jenifer Ehle in the BBC
6. La Femme Nikita
7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
8. I’m Your Man, Leonard Cohen
9. Drop Dead Gorgeous
10. Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke (collected by Daid Wagoner)

1. Pride & Prejudice
2. Chronicles, Bob Dylan
3. “Cosmic Dancer,”  T REX
4. About a Boy & Jerry Maguire (boys growing up and becoming men!)
5. “Bonzo’s Montreux,” John Bonham
6. Atticus Finch’s courtroom speech in To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Annette Funicello dancing in pastel heels in Babes in Toyland
8. “The Longest Time,”**  Billy Joel
9. “Hot Pants,”  James Brown
10. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

1. Beyond the Mountain, Steve House
2. Snatch
3. Pineapple Express
4. Katy Perry
5. Blueberry Pie
6. Tea
7. Flight of the Conchords

1. All music by Seal
2. Favorite Nigerian Food: Jollof Rice + Dodo (fried plantain) with grilled chicken
3. Stinson Beach, CA
4. Cuba (Cayo CoCo^W!)
5. Propeller Head Music Software
6. Volkswagon (“Love my Jetta”)
7. Transformers  (and the soundtracks)
8. Facebook  (every so often that is!)
9. Duke University
10. Apple iPad

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 Tempest, William Shakespeare^W
2. Serenity
3. America Magazine
4. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
5. Clueless
6. The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
7. Bossypants, Tina Fey
8. Mary Russell^W Mysteries, Laurie R. King
9. The New America, Bad Religion
10. Mack The Knife, Ella Fitzgerald^W

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. 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. “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. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
2. Blood In The Ashes, William Johnstone
3. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
4. The Devil Makes Three
5. The Rugrats Movie
6. Toast Machine
7. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
8. Electric Apricot
9. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
10. Sunday jams at the Phoenix Theater

“I’m just a normal young musician with a lot more to learn in music and even life.”

1. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow ” Israel Kamakawiwo’ole^W
2. Tommy Boy
3. V for Vendetta
4. The Confession(?)
5. Disney Movies

1. French films, especially Amélie & La Femme Nikita
2. This House of Sky, Ivan Doig
3. ”Brown Eyed Girl” * Van Morrison^W
4. English Premier League Football, Arsenal (see Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby)
5. Best in Show
6. Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke or pretty much any poem he ever wrote
7. ”The Sweetest Thing” & ”Running to Stand Still” U2
8. i thank you God for most this amazing day… E. E. Cummings^W
9. Romeo + Juliet ( Shakespeare, Zefferelli & Baz Luhrman)
10. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
    

*follow the link to hear Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” on youtube!

“Thanks for the advice about getting stuck on producing the ”ultimate” list. I could either create 30 different lists of ten or spend way too much time trying to make a perfect one–which takes some of the fun out of it. This is a great idea for a site The only difficulty was to not just create a list made up entirely of other people’s top ten.”

1. My daughter
2. A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane
3. Travels with My Aunt, by Graham Greene
4. Mondovino
5. Good Mexican food
6. The smell of the sea on a hot and stormy day
7. Amadeus
8. Five Leaves Left, Nick Drake
9. The White Ribbon
10. Bali^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. Already Dead, Denis Johnson
2. Enter Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Wu-Tang Clan
3. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. Canticle V (The Death of St. Narcissus), T.S. Eliot^W
5. The Celebration
6. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
7. Oblivion: Stories, David Foster Wallace
8. Lonesome Crowded West, Modest Mouse
9. Marcel Duchamp*
10. Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut

*follow the link to a cool website about Marcel Duchamp!

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