Show Notes: S04, E01 - My Best Friend is Dating My Ex!

 

We're back for a new series, and we're jumping straight into it with high-brow culture like Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Fast and Furious family, Ninja Sex Party, and so much more.

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

• Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkis Reid
• The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five - Tom Roston
• A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• Kindred - Octavia Butler
• Spare - Prince Harry
  

Films / TV

• Friends
• My Best Friend's Girl
• The Simpsons
• American Pie
• Loser
• Hitch
• The Dark Knight
• Flight of the Conchords
• Titanic
• All Dogs Go to Heaven 
• Marley & Me
• A Dog's Purpose
• The Land Before Time
• Lassie Come Home
• Carve Her Name with Pride
• Marriage Story
• Ted Lasso
• Good Will Hunting
• The Green Mile
• Coco
• Toy Story 3
• Schindler's List
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Up
• Cast Away
• The Notebook
• F9: The Fast Saga
• Fast X
  

Music

• Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
• A Punch Up at a Wedding - Radiohead
• Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
• Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
• You Got the Love - Candi Staton
• Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton
• Let's Dance - David Bowie
• Love the Way You Lie - Eminem & Rihanna
• The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) - Ylvis
• Baby Shark - Pinkfong
• Welcome to My Parent's House - Ninja Sex Party
• Tainted Love - Hayseed Dixie
• I'm On a Boat - The Lonely Island, T-Pain
• I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
• Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
• It's Time to Party - Andrew W.K.
• Party Hard - Andrew W.K.
• Party Til You Puke - Andrew W.K.
• Happy - Pharrell
• We're Young and Beautiful - Carrie Underwood
  

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

Corrections

• We talked about Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson's feud in this episode, as if it were stil ongoing. Listeners will be relieved to know the feud has since been resolved - phew!

Picture above from F9: The Fast Saga © Universal Pictures

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