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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

You may be surprised which artists had more than ONE Top 40 hit and you may also be surprised which ones only had two. See how well Randy and Joe do on a quiz about Two Hit Wonders.

You may be surprised which artists had more than ONE Top 40 hit and you may also be surprised which ones only had two. See how well Randy and Joe do on a quiz about Two Hit Wonders.

Joe asked Randy and Amy to pick from the year they each turned 16. So Randy chose THE RUSSIA HOUSE from 1989 and Amy chose DOGFIGHT from 1991.

The theme of "underappreciated" led to discussion of Louisa May Alcott's EIGHT COUSINS and Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood in THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES. Show notes: http://tryandlikeit.blogspot.com/2016/04/episode-58-louisa-uma-and-evan-rachel.html

To coincide with the release of "Batman v Superman" we discuss three filmed iterations of the alien from Krypton: "Superman II," "Man of Steel," and two episodes of the animated series "The Justice League."