Filthy Armenian Adventures

In honor of our first live show LOS ANGELES, unlocking a favorite bull session on Joan Didion's landmark SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM (and the odious Netflix documentary about her) with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist. 

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It is a dark, dark age. But there are figures in the landscape, filthy particles in the air, and a city that has long served as a map of the apocalypse. Also dolmas. Welcome to the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure.

This is Act 1: Fire, Brimstone, & the Santa Ana Winds featuring Alec Mouhibian and Joan Didion's ghost. For the full magical evening and over 50 other patron-only episodes, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian

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Act 2: The Nose Knows feat. Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist)

Act 3: Celebutante Rape Therapy feat. Adam Lehrer (Safety Propaganda), Matthew Pegas (New Write Pod), and Noemi Castaneda

Act 4: Beauty and the Babitz feat. Mommy Milkers (@Mochak123)

Act 5: The Hard-R Ride of Paul Revere

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A propos of nothing, we explore the deceptions and wonders of female desire as revealed by Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss's shocking opera SALOME. With Mommy Milkers (the Girl from Baku @mochak123) and Veronica (@our_daily_pain).

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Few tickets remain for the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure LOS ANGELES, this Saturday September 23. With many great friends of the show including the ladies in this episode, Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, Adam Lehrer of Safety Propaganda, and more. Tickets here.

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Splendid dinner with Vera at Scarpetta in Cosmo where we discuss our idiotic generations, the sexual devolution, growing up on social media, paleolesbianism, neopuritanism, transmania, and more while she watches me eat a bowl of pasta.

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Be careful. There are people out there who can break into you with a wave of the hand. Such as this gay "drunk" cyborg I met in the land of trolls and Ibsen...

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I speak to the owner of Hollywood's last used bookstore, Counterpoint Records & Books (est. 1979) in Franklin Village, on the magic business of second hand books, surviving the apocalypse, famous customers, and keeping the lights on in Los Angeles.

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From noir and the western to the utopian world of screwball, where love is anything but love, and Hollywood reached its fairytale peak. Part 2 of my conversation with the film historian/critic/novelist David Thomson is all about being raised by movies, the importance (and occasional hazards) of insanity, and secrets of the moon.

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Story Board: George Bailey, James Stewart, perfect fathers, divorce, Julia Roberts, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Noel Coward, David Lean, Joan Didion’s last act, Virginia Woolf, a writer’s judgment, the loss of the great editor, Bob Gottlieb, Dino DeLaurentis, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Irving Thalberg, Harvey Weinstein, book industry, Little Shop Around the Corner, Preston Sturges, the big secret, directorial power, Freeway, Spike Lee, Chick Hearn, Pat Riley

David Thomson is the author most recently of the enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIGHT, and CONNECTICUT. 

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One year after our rain dance to conquer the death of cinema, film critic/novelist/historian David Thomson welcomes me back for a dreamy convo about the spiritual treasures and booby traps of noir, the western, and the screwball comedy -- three worlds of movieland he has realized and reinvented in his enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIGHT, and the upcoming CONNECTICUT.  

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Willa Cather, Irene Selznick, black and white, Billy The Kid, Wyatt Earp, Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the last great western), Shirtless Pitt, Robert Towne, Heaven’s Gate, the self-expression of driving, light therapy, the importance of addiction, sports, San Francisco, gold rush, Red River, Searchers, Noah Cross, Trump, Chinatown, John Huston, Wes Anderson, Mullholland Dr., Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, the problem with Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sydney Lumet, Otto Preminger, Eddie Mueller, Raymond Chandler vs James Ellroy, The Big Sleep, Didion, Babitz, studio system, film set romance