1. “Purple Rain,” Prince and the Revolution
2. Saturday Night Live (The Early Years! )
3. Licensed to Ill, The Beastie Boys
4. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
5. On Writing, Stephen King
6. Shopgirl, Steve Martin
7. “Hotel California,” The Eagles
8. Cool Hand Luke
9. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
10. Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman

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. Style Wars
2. Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme
3. Scratch
4. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
5. This is the Life: How the West was One
6. The Freshest Kids – A History of the B-Boy
7. Rock the Bells
8. Jay Z – Fade to Black
9. Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
10. Rize

1. The Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown 2006- Fast Division*
2. Frankie Manning and Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers* (“Especially Hellzapoppin from 1941″)
3. Wildflowers, Tom Petty
4. Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times, Willie Brown
5. Cooking with Trader Joe’s
6. Take a Little Piece of My Heart, Erma Franklin
7. “Forever,”  Ben Harper (Welcome to the Cruel World)
8. Sea Green, See Blue,* JayMay (Autumn Fallin)
9. The Loose Marbles performing in New Orleans with Meshiya Lake*
10. Sookie Stackhouse, Charlaine Harris

*this Magpie list is link-crazy; click around for Jaymay on youtube, lindy-hop madness, and a New Orleans street performance with Meshiya Lake!

1. Frog and Toad
2. The Bad Plus
3. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
4. The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
5. Fugazi^W
6. Wild Zero
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
8. They Might Be Giants
9. FLCL^W
10. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

Gio plays upright bass in a bluegrass project, The Brothers Comatose; check out their song, “Trippin’ On Down the Mountain,”  in the Magpie Blog!

1. “Dream,” Priscilla Ahn
2. “Yesterday,” Atmostphere
3. Miss Congeniality
4. “You Can Call Me Al,” Paul Simon*
5. Meng Li Xiao Xiang
6. John Mayer
7. Jurassic Park
8. “Finally Moving,” Pretty Lights*
9. Outside Lands Festival 2010

*follow the links for listening and viewing pleasure!

1. The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
2. All the Real Girls
3. “Miss Misery,” Elliott Smith (live performance at The Academy Awards)
4. The Story of Everest
5. Late Night With David Letterman
6. Oh You’re So Silent Jens, Jens Lekman
7. The Goonies
8. Mutual Appreciation
9. All Hail West Texas, The Mountain Goats
10. Bioshock for XBOX 360

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. 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. The Bible^W
2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch*
3. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
4. The Wizard of Oz
5. The Sandlot
6. “What A Wonderful World*,” Louis Armstrong^W
7. “Listen to the Music,*” Doobie Brothers

*follow links to youtube for music and for Randy Pausch’s entire “last lecture!”

D. Lee  ”Uncle Doug”  to me! Read about Family (1st!) Fridays in the Magpie Blog!

1. Train
2. Lifehouse
3. Justin Nozuka
4. Daughtry
5. Trey Songz
6. Alicia Keys^W
7. Bruno Mars
8. Colbie Calliat
9. Bob Marley^W
10. Pepper

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. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
2. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
3. Fingerprints of God, Barbara Bradley Hagerty
4. Radical Prayer, Matthew Fox
5. Illusions, Richard Bach
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, Fannie Flagg

“What a fabulous idea this ‘blist’ is!!”

1. Capturing the Friedmans
2. Maxwell
3. Kale^W
4. The Legend of 1900
5. Women,  Food,  and God, Geneen Roth
6. “Phenomenal Woman,” Maya Angelou
7. What I Want My Words to Do to You
8. Saved By The Bell (“not the college years!”)
9. “Sweet Thing,” Mary J Blige OR “Lay With You,” Debarge (“it’s a toss up between these two songs! “)
10. Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology, Joseph Pilates
11. Gratz Pilates Equipment

Watch Kit discuss her list on MagpieTV!

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. “The Custom-House” chapter of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Workin’ Together, Ike and Tina Turner
3. The Last Picture Show
4. Starbucks Earl Gray Tea Lattes and Vanilla Bean Scones
5. All of Joan Didion’s non-fiction
6. All of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
7. Mark Ruffalo and Rory Culkin in You Can Count on Me
8. Mark Wahlberg in I Heart Huckabees
9. Everyone in Boogie Nights
10. Rubber Soul, The Beatles

“Hi Eve!”

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…”

1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Boxer, The National
3. The Mercy Seat, Neil LaBute
4. Richard III, William Shakespeare
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Martin McDonagh
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
9. It’s Blitz!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. That Mitchell and Webb Look*

1. The Missing Piece, Shel Silverstein
2. “sound of silence on the first snowfall”
3. Like a Prayer, Madonna
4. E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Night, Eli Wiesel