1. KCRW World Music Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
3. Bacon^W
4. “September,” Earth, Wind & Fire
5. Stay With Me, Lorraine Ellison
6. “Post-screening kumquatinis, lobster rolls and french fries at the Hungry Cat in Hollywood”
7. “Good Luck,” Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula
8. “Damn Your Eyes,” Etta James
9. McConnell’s Turkish Coffee ice cream
10. The Big Picture

“Very hard to cut this list to ten!”

1. Joan Jett^W
2. Pat Benatar^W
3. Billy Idol^W
4. Lady Gaga^W
5. Blink 182^W
6. Le Tigre^W
7. Cat Power^W
8. Death Cab For Cutie^W
9. Michelle Branch^W (“before she went country”)
10. Annie Lennox^W
11. Paramore^W
12. Johnny Cash^W
13. Nine Inch Nails^W
14. Flyleaf^W
15. Rent (musical)^W, and Rent, the movie!
16. Les Miserables (musical)^W
17. The Phantom of The Opera (musical)^W
18. Cats (musical)^W
19. Chicago (musical)^W
20. Hedwig and The Angry Inch (musical)^W
21. The Rocky Horror Show^W
22. Walk the Line
23. Gia
24. Avatar
25. The Runaways

“…and many many many more. Too many to name.”

I found Megan on youtube — watch her garage performances in the Magpie Blog! (No, seriously. Girl can sing.)

“This is a list of some of my breakdown songs…I had to cut it off at ten; basically, these songs make me cry on the first note and all the way through.”

1. It Takes Two
2. Marie Antoinette
3. “Anything ‘Wizard of Oz.’ …Anything.”
4. Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi
5. Pretend You’re Alive, Lovedrug
6. The Killers, Daniel P. Mannix^W*

MagpieTV: Episode 1 — Watch Zeb discuss his list!

*fun fact: the killers is a book about a cock-fighting rooster who battles a hawk, but daniel p. mannix had other interests as well; he co-founded the official munchkin convention of the international wizard of oz club!

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. The Cowboy & The Lady, Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
2. Kill the Moonlight, Spoon
3. Jesus’ Son
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
6. Innocent Man, Billy Joel
7. Almost Famous
8. Farewell Waltz: A Novel, Milan Kundera
9. Neil Young’s Voice (“especially “Heart Of Gold, live!”)
10. Townes Van Zandt^W

“I can’t believe Kalen Egan and I both have Who Framed Roger Rabbit.  WTF?!”

1. The Holy Bible^W
2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
3. “Deathbed,” Relient K
4. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
5. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
6. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkein
7. The Lord of the Rings ( The Motion Picture Trilogy)

1. Cancer As a Turning Point, Lawrence LeShan
2. Pride and Prejudice^W
3. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, IZ

1. Patti Smith( “poetry and song”)
2. Cate Blanchett (“especially in Hedda Gabler at BAM“)
3. Henrik Ibsen^W
4. Anais Nin^W
5. Mysore style^W Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga^W
6. 80s Movies (“especially Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,  and The Breakfast Club“)
7. My Daughter, Sadie
8. Jerry Garcia^W
9. Graceland, Paul Simon (“my desert island CD that always makes me happy”)
10. Honesty and Inner Strength

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. 2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack
2. The Gilded Palace Of Sin, The Flying Burrito Brothers
3. Atlas Obscura
4. Durango Boots
5. The Most Beautiful Songs of Africa, Orchestra Super Mazembe^W
6. Lisbon, The Walkmen
7. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
8. Collapse
9. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond

“awesome, Eve, just awesome”

1. Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
2. Continuum, John Mayer
3. Jane Eyre, Charlette Bronte
4. Gossip Girl, Cecily von Ziegesar
5. Sense & Sensibility
6. Cruel Intentions Soundtrack
7. “Green Eyes,” Coldplay
8. The Parent Trap (“w/Lindsay Lohan^W‘”)
9. …Baby One More Time, Britney Spears^W
10. Fight Club

1. Koloman Moser^W
2. Egon Schiele
3. Alfred Hitchcock^W
4. Ernest Hemingway^W
5. The Beatles
6. Edie Sedgwick^W
7. Paris
8. Yuan Yuan Tan^W
9. The 60's^W
10. My family

1. Minuet in G,* Bach
2. Mikrokosmos 131, Bela Bartok
3. Canope, Claude Debussy
4. Lanquidity, Sun Ra
5. Aventures,* Gyorgy Ligeti
6. Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no.4), Frederic Chopin
7. Madlib^W/Yesterdays New Quintet*
8. Karlheinz Stockhausen^W
9. Blue in Green, Miles Davis and Bill Evans
10. Apple Pie (“yum”)

*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. Days of Heaven
2. John Wesley Harding, Bob Dylan
3. Back to the Future
4. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
5. “In the Penal Colony,*” Franz Kafka
6. The White Album, The Beatles
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
8. Boogie Nights
9. Dog Day Afternoon
10. Bonnie and Clyde

*click the link to read the entire story!

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. Summerhill, A.S. Neill^W
2. French Women Don’t Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
3. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
4. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
5. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
6. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky
7. L’Auberge Espagnole
8. School of Rock
9. Garden State (“the soundtrack!“)
10. Awareness, Anthony De Mello

Read more about Melia’s project, “Reschool Yourself,”  in the Magpie Blog!