Randy wanted non-cynical works of art about politics (I know, right?) Joseph picked David McCullough's non-fiction book 1776, about that year in the American Revolution. Amy picked the HBO film All The Way, the LBJ biopic starring Bryan Cranston.
Episode 63 - Swapping Bodies
Amy asked for body swap stories and boy did we deliver! Joseph came up with the 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella Shadow Out Of Time while Randy had us watch the 1984 Steve Martin & Lily Tomlin comedy All Of Me.
Episode 62- Hippie on a Rocket
Joe was a little sick of dystopian science fiction (and this was even before the last Divergent movie) and asked the crew for optimistic science fiction. Randy choose Star Trek: First Contact for the movie and Amy chose Spider & Jeanne Robinson's Stardance for the novel.
Episode 61 - Second Chances
Randy wanted us to talk about art that involves Second Chances, where people get the chance to fix things our screw them up even more. Amy selected the novel Almost Like Being In Love while Joseph picked the movie Fetching Cody.
Episode 60 - Pretty Pictures
For the rather broad theme of "Art and/or Artists" Joe selected the 2014 documentary film FINDING VIVIAN MAIER while Randy picked Deborah Davis's 2004 non-fiction work STRAPLESS about the John Singer Sargent's "Portrait of Madame X"