Modern Rubbish

All October long, we're narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! This week's story is an ominous and dread-filled drift through childhood, The Specialist's Hat, by Kelly Link.

Narrated by Wyatt Keusch, with brand new music by David Paha.

This week we get into another Koji Shiraishi  found-footage / mockumentary experiment, 2009’s Occult.

Notes:

Occult (film) by Koji Shiraishi

Dandadan (manga) by Yukinobu Tatsu

Occult word etymology

Notes on Evil by Steven Warwick

Heaven’s Gate (space death cult)

Eno hammocks

From Beyond (film) by Stuart Gordon

From Beyond (story) by H.P. Lovecraft

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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All October long, we're narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! This week's story is the wonderfully eerie maritime tale, A Redress For Andromeda, by Caitlín R. Kiernan.

Narrated by Wyatt Keusch, with brand new music by David Paha.

This week we talk about Dave’s favorite horror movie, John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece of cosmic-polar horror, The Thing!

Notes:

The Thing by John Carpenter

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

The Thing From Another World by Christian Nyby

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Simpsons “Lenny’s brain coin” gag

Michel Foucault & AIDS

Kenneth Grant (occultist)

KAOS 14 (including Alan Moore’s Kenneth Grant article)

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Part two of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture.

Notes:

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Casey Anderson returns to the show to discuss Wyatt’s favorite movie, Pulse!

Notes:

Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Casey Anderson

Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

“J-Horror”

Conway’s Game of Life

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

Japanese economic miracle

Death Stranding (game)

“Siloing”

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Human Shadow Etched In Stone

Hibakusha

Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Butoh (dance)

Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky

a wave press

KAOS Network

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The first part of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture.

Notes:

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A Dark Song is both a wonderfully effective horror film and also an uncommonly realistic representation of the actual occult experience.

It’s been a while since we’ve done an explicitly occult-oriented film, so we hope it’s understandable that we go a bit hard on the magick talk for this one.

Notes:

A Dark Song by Liam Gavin

The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage

The Magick of A Dark Song by Duncan Barford

The Abramelin Diaries by Ramsey Dukes

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Although we generally try to stick to the high ground and only talk about things we love, our Alien episode brought up a lot of negative thoughts about 2017’s irredeemably bad series entry, Alien: Covenant, so we thought it would be fun to indulge those for a change.

Notes:

Alien Covenant

Black Rain (film)

Ridley Scott’s Apple commercial

Budweiser frogs commercial

Wassup commercial

Tootsie Pop commercial

Mark Trayle

Noel Gallagher’s Oasis DVD commentary

The Counselor (film)

Whitest Kids U Know Sex Robot sketch

Die Toteninsel by Arnold Böcklin

Episode Twenty-Eight: Basket Case

Our Robocop Remake

The most important scene from Our Robocop Remake

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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This week we tackle Ridley Scott’s 1979 “haunted house in space” masterpiece, Alien.

Notes:

Alien by Ridley Scott

Slit-scan photography

Handsome Squidward Prometheus aliens

Ripley cat lady meme

NASA facility with its own weather system

William Gibson’s Alien 3

Dark Star (film)

Galaxy of Terror (film)

Barry Schrader

Metroid (video game series)

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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