Show Notes: S03, E04 - Tickling Your History Bones

This week, we're helping listeners with self-esteem slumps and inspiration insufficiencies, with the assistance of everything from Eminem to Austin Powers.

This episode also contains some audio issues, so if you hear occasional crackle, it's more likely to be the recording than your headphones. Sorry about that.

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

• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
• Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
• Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant - Andrea Dworkin
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• American Pastoral - Phillip Roth
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
• Rabbit, Run - John Updike
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway - Susan Jeffers
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

Films / TV

• Game of Thrones
• Heroes
• Batman Begins
• Batgirl
• It
• Futurama
• The Dark Knight
• Memento
• The Prestige
• Tenet
• South Park
• Shallow Hal
• Love Island
• 8 Mile
• Daredevil
• The Simpsons
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Halloween
• Dead Poets Society
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• 127 Hours
• Hannah Montana the Movie
• Extras

Music

• No More Heroes - The Stranglers
• Heroes - David Bowie
• Hero - Enrique Iglesias
• Golden Brown - The Stranglers
• Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz
• Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
• Layla - Eric Clapton
• 21 Seconds - So Solid Crew
• Not Afraid - Eminem
• The Reunion - Bad Meets Evil
• 3 a.m. - Eminem
• Every Breath You Take - The Police
• Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
• The Climb - Miley Cyrus
• Party in the U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus
• The Climb - Joe McElderrey
• Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
  

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

Other

• Source: Norman Mailer stabbed his wife
• Source: Allen Ginsberg supported NAMBLA
• Source: Eric Clapton's racist rant
• Source: Eric Clapton supports fox hunting
• Source: Eric Clapton thinks people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are "under hypnosis"
• Guardian article about Diana Athill

Corrections

• Aaron wrote down and said "Andrea Sworkin" when he meant "Andrea Dworkin", because he is an idiot.
• The reason Aaron thought he couldn't say "Simone de Beauvoir", even though he had already said it correctly, was that he had written down "Simone de Beauvour", which was incorrect and confusing to his tiny brain. Rather than cut the bit where he said, "I can't pronounce that," we decided to leave it in to make Aaron really feel the shame of his stupidity.

Picture above from Not Afraid by Eminem © 2010 Interscope

Episode jingles and music written and performed by Agony Art © 2020-2022