This week, we're helping listeners lose weight (or not), sit around doing nothing, and move on with the times, with the help of Bruno Mars, The Beautiful South, The Truman Show, and so much more brilliant art.

Here's all the art we recommended.

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

Bold 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

  • Hatchet - Gary Paulson
  • Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  • The Vegetarian - Han Kang

Films / TV
  • The Last Samurai
  • Fight Club
  • Yes Man
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Nightbitch
  • The Truman Show
  • The Mask
  • Ghost Ship
  • The Whale
  • The Mummy
  • George of the Jungle
  • Fat Friends

Music
  • I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
  • The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars
  • Wavin’ Flag - K’naan
  • The Times They Are A-Changin’ - Bob Dylan
  • A Change Would Do You Good - Sheryl Crowe
  • The Sweetest Thing - U2
  • Perfect 10 - The Beautiful South
  • Rotterdam - The Beautiful South
  • All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor
A selection of the music mentioned in this episode can be found in the Agony Art Spotify playlist.


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