At our debut IVY Virtual Cocktail & Connection Roulette, over 40 members congregated over Zoom to share drinks, life stories, and most importantly brainstorm a Social Distancing Playlist, Reading List, and Ultimate Movie Night List. We hope that this impressive community collaboration will help you get through this pandemic without going stir crazy! Let’s flatten the curve together!
Songs to keep us (not so) isolated:
1. Caribbean Queen – Billy Ocean
2. Take on Me – Aha
3. Heal the World – Michael Jackson
4. There Will Be Time – Mumford & Sons, Baaba Maal
5. Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
6. Reach for The Stars – S Club 7
7. Man in the Mirror – Michael Jackson
8. Innocence Maintained – Jewel
9. The Long and Winding Road- The Beatles
10. Happy – Pharrel Williams
11. Miss Independent – Ne-Yo
12. Stupid Love – Lady Gaga
13. Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen
14. Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles
15. Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
16. Tormenta – Alex Anwandter
17. Where is the Love – Black Eyed Peas with Ariana Grande
18. Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen – Baz Luhrmann
19. Esme – Joanna Newsom
20. I’m so Excited – The Pointer Sisters
21. Ace Of Base – The Sign
22. World – Five for Fighting
23. It’s Alright Now – Eddie Harris
24. Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
25. Say So- Doja Cat
26. Oh Happy Day – From Sister Act 2
27. I Wanna Dance with Somebody- Whitney Houston
28. Don’t Stand so Close to Me – The Police
29. Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
30. À nos héros du quotidien – Soprano
31. One Man Band – Old Dominion
Check out our Spotify playlist that’ll DJ all these songs for you!
Books to explore the world from your couch:
1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
2. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
3. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
4. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
5. When things Fall Apart by Pema Chodrun
6. Ride of A Lifetime by Robert Iger
7. I Am Enough by Grace Byers
8. You Are The Universe by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos
9. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
10. Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien
11. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
12. The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
13. Rising Strong by Brene Brown
14. Great at Work by Morten T. Hansen
15. Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
16. Educated by Tara Westover
17. Carlos Castaneda – all of them 🙂
18. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
19. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
21. Truffle Boy by Ian Purkayastha
22. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
23. Harvard Business Review: On Managing People
24. Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
25. Ismael by Daniel Quinn
We’ve compiled these books into an Amazon Reading List, get reading!
Movies to keep you from watching the news:
1. Blade Runner
2. 100 Foot Journey (2014)
3. The Matrix (1999)
4. Memento
5. Metropolitan (1990)
6. Fleabag (series) on Amazon Prime
7. Free Solo
8. A Star is Born
9. Transformers
10. Moonlight
11. Inside Space X
12. Parasite
13. Il Postino
14. Scarface
15. Into the Wild
16. Tony Robbins- I am Not Your Guru
17. Three Strikes – The Documentary
18. The Pursuit of Happiness
19. Coach Carter
20. Shakespeare Behind Bars
21. Vanilla Sky
22. Wings Of Desire
23. Ready Or Not
24. Forrest Gump
25. Wild Wild Country- Documentary series
26: The Game Changers
27. I Heart Huckabees
Quoteworthy quotes to keep you calm:
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
• Always laugh when you can, it’s cheap medicine. – Lord Byron
• Change is the only constant.
• Be the change you want to see in the world. – Gandhi
• To be rather than to seem
• Know thyself – Temple in Delphi
• Be impeccable with your word
• May You Be Happy
• When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional. – Hunter S. Thompson
• The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller
• Let all that you do be done in love – 1 Corinthians 16:14
• Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.― Howard Thurman
• Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
• If you fall, the floor will always catch you.
• This Too Shall Pass
• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. MLK
• I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. – Jim Carrey
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Mountain doesn’t move but the road does. Chinese Proverb
