Show Notes: S01, E07 - Grabbing Life by the Arts
In this week's episode, we discuss pop music's worst lyrics, remember TV's best theme tunes, and wonder how many situations the words "only joking" can really get us out of.
Here's all the art we recommended.(Art we only mentioned in passing, and never intended as a problem-solving recommendation, is in italics.)
NEW: Underlined items are this week's top picks from each of our presenters.
Books
- Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within - Natalie Goldberg
- A Song of Ice and Fire series - George RR Martin
- All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Films / TV
- Braveheart
- The Karate Kid
- DuckTales
- The Raccoons
- Round the Twist
- The Trap Door
- Arthur
- Friends with Benefits
- Emma
- Clueless
- The Chase
- Blind Date
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- The Impossible
- Enchanted
- Meet the Parents
- Romeo + Juliet
- Succession (HBO series)
Music
- Crush - Jennifer Paige
- Strange - Celeste
- Bring it All Back - S Club 7
- Reach - S Club 7
- S Club Party - S Club 7
- You Gotta Be - Des'ree
- Life - Des'ree
- All That She Wants - Ace of Base
- You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
- One Night in Heaven - M People
- Petrified - Fort Minor
- Love the Way You Lie - Eminem
- Rhythm is a Dancer - SNAP!
- Somewhere Else - Razorlight
- Dark Angel - Electric Six
- That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
- Let it Be - The Beatles
- Dawn (Go Away) - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
A selection of the music mentioned in this episode can be found in the Agony Art Spotify playlist.
Other
Corrections
- Karl said that the short story behind The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was written by James Gruber, but the actual author was James Thurber.
Picture above from the music video for Strange by Celeste - © 2019 Universal Music Operations Limited
Episode jingles and music written and performed by Agony Art © 2020
