As Amy starts on a road trip with her mother and since this is also Mother's Day week, Amy asked us for mother and daughter stories. Randy went with the high-strung people in Seattle novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple [Amazon] [Goodreads] and Joseph chose the 1993 drama The Joy Luck Club (Amazon).
Show notes
What We're Into Lately:
Randy - The new Alabama Shakes album, Sound And Color.
- While we discussed Jupiter Ascending and Joseph expressed his...feelings about it, Amy mentioned her disappointment at the Chicago locations not including the Harold Washington Library. For those not familiar, here it is with its striking red walls and fantastic aluminium sculptures on the roof:
- The actress who played Auntie Lindo in The Joy Luck Club, Tsai Chin, is also notable for her history in the Bond films. She betrays Bond in the beginning of You Only Live Twice (1967) and is Madame Wu, one of the fellow high-stake Texas Hold Em players in Casino Royale (2006).
- A good profile of Andrew McCarthy, travel writer, can be found in Details.
- We didn't know about it at the time, but apparently there is a movie in the works for Bernadette which Richard Linklater is in talks to direct. Randy thinks Julianne Moore is perfect for the part, Amy goes for Amy Aquino but Joseph has the nutty idea of Courtney Cox (but may have been watching too much Cougar Town).
- If you're interested in all in TED Talks, which Joseph is probably completely unfair to in describing a lot of them as woo-hoo, you can browse them at the TED website.
Music
- Opening Music: Mr. T, "Treat Your Mother Right," possibly the greatest Mother's Day video ever:
- Closing Music: Taylor Swift, "The Best Day."
- Closing Music: Taylor Swift, "The Best Day."
Next Episode
Randy decided he wanted to do with courtroom stories for our next podcast. For the movie, Amy went with the 2011 Matthew McConaughey vehicle The Lincoln Lawyer (sorry, not streaming anywhere but dirt cheap on Amazon). Joseph went all meta and went with Dominick Dunne's fictionalized version of covering the OJ Simpson trial for Vanity Fair, Another City, Not My Own [Goodreads].
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