Show Notes: S02, E11 - How Sweet to Be Three Idiots

In this, our one year anniversary episode, we discourage larceny with examples from The Italian Job and The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson, and encourage wallowing in teenage angst with the help of the Twilight series and The Sex Pistols.

Here's all the art we recommended.

(Art we only mentioned in passing, and never intended as a problem-solving recommendation, is in italics.)

Underlined items are this week's top picks from each of our presenters. If you're only going to try one of the pieces of art we mentioned, try these ones first.

Books

• The Feather Thief - Kirk Wallace Johnson
• The Beach Boys - Keith Badman
• The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
• The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
• The Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer
• Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
• Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• Factfulness - Hans Rosling
• A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
• The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
• The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

Films / TV

• Journey to the Centre of the Earth
• Finding Nemo
• The Italian Job (1969)
• The Italian Job (2003)
• The Transporter
• The Blues Brothers
• Dennis the Menace
• Dennis the Menace
• Back to the Future
• The Simpsons
• Twilight
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Twilight: New Moon
• Harry Enfield and Chums
• Dumb & Dumber
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Seventh Python
• Forrest Gump
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• The Big Short
• The Great British Bake Off
• Dexter's Laboratory
• Dredd

Music

• Sweet Harmony - The Beloved
• Love Train - The O'Jays
• Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder
• Getta Bloomin' Move On! (The Self Preservation Society) - Quincy Jones
• I Fought the Law - The Clash
• I Don't Wanna Know - Diddy, Mario Winans, Enya
• Boadicea - Enya
• Ready or Not - Fugees, Ms Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Pras
• The Last Time - The Rolling Stones
• Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
• Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
• good 4 u - Olivia Rodrigo
• Misery Business - Paramore
• Don't Stand So Close to Me - The Police
• Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
• Surfin' U.S.A. - The Beach Boys
• Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
• Come Together - The Beatles
• You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry
• You Can't Catch Me - John Lennon
• Sweet Little Sixteen - John Lennon
• Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Changes - Black Sabbath
• Blink 182
• Lou Reed
• The Velvet Underground
• Iggy Pop and the Stooges
• Ramones
• Sex Pistols
• God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols
• London Calling - The Clash
• Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
• How Sweet to Be an Idiot - Neil Innes
• Whatever - Oasis
• Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
• Whatever You Want - Status Quo

A selection of the music mentioned in this episode can be found in the Agony Art Spotify playlist.

Corrections

• Enya didn't sue P Diddy for using her sample without permission - it looks like she actually sued the Fugees for that.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the TV series) began in 1997, not 1999 as Aaron said.

Picture above from the The Feather Thief - © Natural History Museum, London

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