This 1992 album is celebrated as one of the best of the era but we look at the dysfunctional, toxic relationships between the five band members, and we find that the pressures of the music business, touring, and getting older, led to internal conflicts that made it harder for Faith No More to just be a group of goofy weirdos.

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• Angel Dust

Additional Resources:

• THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING
• Talking music and zoning with Roddy Bottom of Faith No More
• Faith No More - Making Of Angel Dust (Full)
• Faith No More: 'We’ve made bad decisions our whole career. That’s why the English champion us'
• 26 YEARS AGO: FAITH NO MORE RELEASE ‘ANGEL DUST’
• 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT FAITH NO MORE’S ‘ANGEL DUST’
• HEAVY METAL HOMO

This 1967 British TV show is revered as a cult classic that was radical and countercultural, while symbolizing philosophical arguments about individualism vs. collectivism. We take a deeper look at star Patrick McGoohan and the commercial interests behind the show to ask if it's ultimately more conservative than pop culture likes to remember.

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• The Prisoner

Additional Resources:

• A Spy Trapped in a Nightmare of Psychedelia
• GEORGE MARKSTEIN interviewed by Chris Rodley
• Number Six At 50: The 50th Anniversary Of 'The Prisoner'
• How did The Prisoner ever get made?
• Patrick McGoohan Explains The Meaning Of The Prisoner, A TV Cult Classic
• Alan Moore Remembers Patrick McGoohan’s “The Prisoner”: Part 1
• What on earth was The Prisoner all about?
• McGuire, J. T. (2014). A Mentor-Protégé Relationship?: Orson Welles, Patrick McGoohan, and The Prisoner Television Series. Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 31(7), 647.
• Hanna, E. (2014). Be Selling You: The Prisoner As Cult and Commodity. Television & New Media, 15(5), 433.
• Woodman BJ. Escaping Genre’s Village: Fluidity and Genre Mixing in Television’s The Prisoner. Journal of Popular Culture. 2005;38(5):939

This 1979 collection of essays attempts to reveal the 1960s and California as stories without narratives. We discuss how Didion's work was branded because of her gender, class, and lack of politics, despite her insistence that writing was only an attempt to make sense out of chaos.

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• The White Album

Additional Resources:

• The Top 10 Essays Since 1950
• Joan Didion’s Style
• Joan Didion: Staking Out California
• There's a reason Joan Didion's work endures: she changed the way we wrote
• We Tell Ourselves Stories: Didion’s “White Album” Takes to the Stage
• From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion
• The White Album, by Joan Didion

This 2015 Indian romantic comedy uses a meta-narrative to deconstruct expectations about identity and everyday life. We question the assumptions writer/director Imtiaz Ali makes about gender roles, while wondering how much the real infidelity between the lead actors complicated the film's big theme.

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• Tamasha

Additional Resources:

• ‘Tamasha’ not autobiographical, says Imtiaz Ali
• Anushka Sharma Rejected 'Tamasha' Because The Role Wasn't 'Meaty' Enough For Her
• 'Tamasha' is about choosing your own story: Imtiaz Ali
• An inspiration, a formula, a discovery— filmmaker Imtiaz Ali breaks down ‘love’
• Love aaj kal
• Watch Imtiaz Ali Talk about This Iconic Tamasha Scene Where Deepika Cried for Real
• Ranbir, Deepika break down on sets of 'Tamasha'
• Ranbir, Deepika's Personal History Doesn't Bother Tamasha Director
• Censor Board beeps saali in Imtiaz’s film
• 2 years of Tamasha: I meet people who tell me that the film changed their life, says Imtiaz Ali
• Here's why Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha is more than just a movie
• Why Imtiaz Ali Movies Are Beautiful And Most Of All Tamasha
• Tamasha Was Made With a View the Audience is Not Stupid, Says Imtiaz Ali

This 2012 experimental noise record was heralded as an important moment in musical evolution. We look at how the band approaches their process while unpacking their relationship with major label Epic Records. And we ask, how do noise, magick, and defecation contribute to the future of music?

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• The Money Store

Additional Resources:

• Suspicious Minds - The Resolute Mission Of Death Grips
• Death Grips Implode Punk and Rap Borders on New LP
• Band of the Year: Death Grips
• Death Grips: “There's a lot of recycling and destruction in the making of our music”
• Who Are…Death Grips