Episode 64 - The Art Of The Possible

Randy wanted non-cynical works of art about politics (I know, right)!   Joseph picked David McCullough's non-fiction book 1776, about that year in the American Revolution.  Amy picked the HBO film All The Way, the LBJ biopic starring Bryan Cranston.

What We're Liking Lately

• Randy talked up BrainDead, sadly, not picked up for a second season but available on Amazon Prime.

• Randy also is a bgi fan of Difficult People, the Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner Hulu original.

• Amy is watching The Get Down on Netflix.

• Joseph was reading Robertson Davies The Deptford Trilogy.

• Joseph really enjoyed the Lili Tomlin and Julia Garner movie Grandma.

• Finally, Joseph was surprised to enjoy the Mark Waid-penned Archie.

Show Notes

• At one point we talked about why Canada never had a revolution against the UK.  This is a pretty good timeline of the whole process and how Canada technically became really independent as late as 1982.

• Amy and Randy mention the song The Battle Of New Orleans, relating to the War of 1812, which is a damn fine Johnny Horton.

• Enjoy LBJ ordering pants:

• The LBJ 1964 Democratic Convention Speech:

• The trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets:

On the Next Show


Joseph asked for thing that are Loopy But I Love It / Awesome People Doing Awesome Things.  Amy went with the insane 2007 movie Shoot Em Up and Randy went with the novel Roald Dahl's Matilda.

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Episode 63 - Swapping Bodies

Amy asked for body swap stories and boy did we deliver! Joseph came up with the 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella Shadow Out Of Time while Amy had us watch the 1984 Steve Martin & Lily Tomlin comedy All Of Me.  Extra credit from Randy: "The Prisoner Of Benda," season six, episode 10 of Futurama.

(Note: Joseph was going through a thunderstorm so there will be a decent amount of thunder sound in the beginning of the podcast.)

What We're Liking Lately

• Randy has been enjoying Halt and Catch Fire, recently renewed for a fourth and final season.

• Amy has been reading Dave Holmes' Party Of One (since taping this, Joseph has also read this and can concur that it's damn good).

• Dave Holmes' excellent podcast is International Waters.

• Joseph recommended season 2 of Catastrophe and warned everyone away from Batman Vs Superman.

Show Notes

• Opening music: Stormy Weather - Ella Fitzgerald

• Closing music: All of Me - Frank Sinatra

• There have been a lot of Body Swap movies and TV shows.

On the Next Show


Randy asked for optimistic politics!  Amy came up with the HBO film All The Way, starring Bryan Cranston as LBJ and Joseph came up with David McCullough's 1776.

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Episode 62- Hippie on a Rocket

Joe was a little sick of dystopian science fiction (and this was even before the last Divergent movie) and asked the crew for optimistic science fiction.  Randy choose Star Trek: First Contact for the movie and Amy chose Spider & Jeanne Robinson's Stardance for the novel. 

 

What We're Liking Lately

• TIFF doesn't have a separate site for the Lightbox, but it's whole site is fantastic. - Randy
• Weiner - Randy
• Tickled - Randy
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Netflix) - Amy
• Being Erica (Hulu) - Amy
• Son Of Saul - Joseph
• Penny Dreadful (Netflix) - Joseph
• Sensitive Skin (the Canadian version!)

Show Notes

• Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison

• Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be-bop) - Q-Feel. (As heard by many in the seminal 1980s dance movie "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" starring future Oscar winner Helen Hunt.)
• Amy and Randy are obviously wrong about The Inner Light, one of the best Next Generation episodes [editorial comment by Joseph].
• If you want to read far too much about Starfleet uniforms, here you go.

On the Next Show

Amy wanted body swap stories!   Sorry, none of us chose the Kirk Cameron classic Like Father Like Son.

Joseph chose the 1936 novella The Shadow Out of Time by HP Lovecraft.
Randy chose the 1984 movie All Of Me, starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin.

Extra credit from Randy: "The Prisoner Of Benda," season six, episode 10 of Futurama.

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Episode 61 - Second Chances

Randy wanted us to talk about art that involves Second Chances, where people get the chance to fix things our screw them up even more.   Amy selected the novel Almost Like Being In Love while Joseph picked the movie Fetching Cody.

What We're Liking Lately

• UnREAL - Amy
• Casual - Joseph
• Dramaworld - Joseph
• Maya And Mary - Randy
• Veep - Randy

Show Notes

• Opening music: Almost Like Being In Love - Ella Fitzgerald

• Closing music:  "Click, Click, Click, Click" by Bishop Allen
• Martin Short's autobiography, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend is fantastic.
• Joseph was on We Love To Watch, previously Listen To Our Podcast, talking about Candyman,

On the Next Show

Joseph chose the theme and wanted us to look at some Optimistic Science Fiction.   Randy chose the movie Star Trek: First Contact and Amy had the novel Stardance.

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Episode 60 - Pretty Pictures

For Amy's rather broad theme of "Art and/or Artists" Joseph selected the 2014 documentary film FINDING VIVIAN MAIER while Randy picked Deborah Davis's 2004 non-fiction work STRAPLESS about the John Singer Sargent's "Portrait of Madame X"

What We're Liking Lately

• Full Frontal With Samantha Bee - Randy
• Not Safe With Nikki Glazer - Joseph
• Sailor And Fiddler, by Herman Wouk - Joseph
• Hush - Joseph
• Gate Of Hell - Joseph

Show Notes

• Opening music: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade 

• Closing music:  "Click, Click, Click, Click" by Bishop Allen
• John Singer Sargent at the Art Institute of Chicago.
• Sargent's painting of Mrs. George Swinton, great-grandmother of Tilda Swinton.

• Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.

• Paul Delaroche's La Jeune Martyre

On the Next Show

Randy chose the theme "Second Chances.'  Amy chose the Steve Kluger novel Almost Like Being In Love and Joseph went with the Canadian movie Fetching Cody.

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Episode 58 - Louisa, Uma, and Evan Rachel

Randy asked for underrated works, so Amy chose the little seen/known film The Life Before Her Eyes for Uma Thurman's (and, it turns out, Evan Rachel Woods') performance, while Joe picked one of Louisa May Alcott's books that has nothing to do with the March family: Eight Cousins.

What We're Liking Lately

• You're the Worst - Amy
• Catastrophe - Amy
• Pulling - Amy
• The Carmichael Show - Randy
• Jessica Jones - Joe (Check out the Jewel costume he mentions.)

Show Notes

• Amy misspoke - it was not the Project Gutenberg ebook she read, but the archive.org one. Go to page 25 in the pdf file to see the Scottish illustration she and Joe discuss. 
• Joe recommends Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
• Randy did some follow-up sleuthing regarding the cougar:
  
  Here's a screengrab of the giant cat from the movie - it certainly appears to be a cougar. (In the first shot of this scene, the cat is in the foreground; in this shot, it's obviously in the background. So all of us were right about how it was framed.)
  
  Also, while trying to find this, I found another reference to cougars in the movie. While Adult Diana is prepping dinner, Emma's watching TV in the other room, and it's a nature program of some sort, and we hear the narrator of the nature program say something about mother cougars protecting their young.
  
  So many things are definitely not a coincidence. But I think it's probably a bit under-developed as a symbol, actually, since I'm don't know what it means. 
  

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Joe's theme is "The Year You Turned 16." Randy chose 1989's The Russia House by John le Carré. Amy picked Dogfight (1991), starring Lili Taylor and River Phoenix.

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Episode 57 - Supes Up!

We delve into many things Superman this week by looking at three different versions of the legendary superhero.  But first it's...

What We're Liking Lately

• Booker T. Jones's current live show. Check out a YouTube playlist of some of the set list as well as Amy's pictures and video clips from the show in Athens, GA, on February 27.  -- Amy
• You can also look at pictures and video clips of Jay Gonzalez, the opener, with his acoustic keytar. Or sample his music on YouTube -- Amy
• Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman -- Randy
• Until Dawn -- Joe

Show Notes

• Another World, the now defunct soap opera, for which Anne Heche won a Daytime Emmy. Check out the list of "Before they were famous" guest appearances
• Antipodes Map!
• One viewer's take on the differences in the Lester and Donner cuts of Superman II
• Mallrats conversation about Superman coitus
• Robert Kennedy did indeed write in his book The Pursuit of Justice "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."  However, he prefaced it with "In the words of the old saying." Amy's a lazy librarian, so someone else should go look up where it actually originated.
• Sarah Douglas is still pretty
• Bruce Timm, one of the influential artists working on Justice League
• Boing Boing's post about the Playmate gallery
• Justice League opening credits
• It looks like Tuesday Morning Quarterback is now part of a NYT blog
• The best bits of that Vanity Fair interview with Jennifer Garner, along with commentary by the Fug Girls
• The problem with learning your culture through the written word is that you often don't know how to pronounce things. So, with that in mind, Amy would like to let you know that the correct way to say "louche" is so that the vowel sound rhymes with coo, not cow. (She used it to describe Stamp's Zod.) Also, Beethoven's "Eroica" is not pronounced remotely like the way Amy mangled it. Say "heroic." Now add an "uh" to the end. Take of the aitch sound. Change the first vowel from ee to uh. There, now you've got it. 

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Randy asked for underrated works, so Amy chose the little seen/known film The Life Before Her Eyes for Uma Thurman's performance, while Joe picked one of Louisa May Alcott's books that has nothing to do with the March family: Eight Cousins.

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