Good Looking Out

Breaking from tradition here, and instead of coming with our normal assignments, we go off script here and kind of just talk about what's on our minds. It's the right thing to do, hope you all agree, let us know! Enjoy in this episode a massive rant about the douche level of Jon Favreau, The Revenant, Every Frame a Painting, Deadpool, join us on a tasting of a flight of bourbons, Joe Lansdale, a new sous vide machine Eric got, the series 11/22/62 and Cooking by Michael Pollan.

One after the other, new series here, new series there... There are plenty that aren't mentioned here that you already know about, but if you're on the look out for something new, save yourself the subscription to US Weekly and just start here. We cover off on our favorite new series, coming from all channels, that you need to be watching. Included this week: Baskets, Casual, Horace and Pete, The Expanse, Black Mirror, The Vikings and High Maintenance. 

Picasso said that "good artists borrow, great artists steal." Somewhere in between there is the artist that falls in love with a story so much that they need to re-live it again in another place and time. That's what we're talking about here today, our favorite reinterpretations. We start out with some chili and chianti and move (not so) quickly into: The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearny, Steve Martin in Roxanne, O Brother Where Art Thou, Metallica's One, The Cure's Killing an Arab, Bruce Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad, and Miller's Crossing.

In 60 years, no one is going to make a differentiation between 2015 and 2016, so here's our time capsule to all the robot people listening in 2075 so they know the shit that was correct in 2015. Including but not limited to: Star Wars, Fargo Season 2, The Leftovers Season 2, PIZZA RAT, Fresh Off the Boat audiobook, Into the Badlands (we hate it), Detective podcast,  New York Times and Rick and Morty. Happy New Year to everyone, here's to a year of reading, watching and listening to the best shit in the world.

Pour a glass of whisky and explore the world of hitman movies with us. Focusing a little more than usual this time and looking at the sub-genre of contract killers. By no means an exhaustive list, but covering off on our faves including The Mechanic, The American, Leon The Professional, La Femme Nikita, Ghost Dog, Le Samourai  and others.

STUMPISODE! It's the end of the year, so we're looking to stump the hump with three of the best tracks of the year that the other hasn't heard. Picks include Low's What Part of Me, Disclosure from Caracal (Deluxe) feat. Lorde, Everyday from ASAP Rocky, Novella's Follow, White Reaper's Sheila, and Solace from Myriam Gendron. 

Feels like the books could use a little attention, been awhile since we dedicated a whole episode, so we take some time this episode and talk about three of our picks that we believe are modern classics. Titles include Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece All the Pretty Horses, Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon, George Saunders' Tenth of December, Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself, The Guards by Ken Bruen and John Scalzi's Old Man's War. It's winter time, time to hole up and start reading and you could do a whole lot worse than starting with this list.

Tackling what could be an endless topic here, one we're certain to circle back to, and that's underrated movies. Films that we believe, for whatever reason, didn't receive their due. Included here, The Leftovers, Project Greenlight, Sexy Beast, Passion Fish, Moon, Melancholia, Alphaville, The Imitation Game, Steve Jobs and Man on Fire. 

Grab a drink and put a buzz on with us as we dig in to some of our favorite foods and drinks. Join us as we get into (literally) a few of our favorite dishes. Eric has a killer food hack for a dessert that everyone loves, along with a massive discovery of a recipe we've been trying to duplicate for years and Santos brings in a few home cookin' faves. Mix in a couple of bad ass cocktails and we're there. 

Stumpisode time. This go around we look to confound each other with a TV series that the other hasn't seen. We get kind of high-brow with some picks like Rick and Morty, My Name is Earl and  Reno 911, but then keep it real with The History Channel's Vikings and Happy Valley. Sundance TV's Rectify also makes a strange appearance here. Competition can drive you to do some weird shit.