Modern Rubbish

Annelise Baer joins Wyatt for a quick roundup of some films he watched in 2023, that weren’t featured in episodes of the show.

Notes:

Talk to Me by Danny & Michael Philippou

Glorious by Rebekah McKendry

The Menu by Mark Mylod

Cobweb by Samuel Bodin

The Unbinding by Karl Pfeiffer

Foamy the Squirrel, “Amityville Toaster”

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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This week, we cover Alan Moore’s multimedia work Unearthing.

Notes:

Unearthing by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins

Unearthing by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins (photo book)

Unearthing by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins (album)

London: City of Disappearances, edited by Iain Sinclair

Dave McKean (artist)

Doseone (musician)

Anticon (record label)

Dead Dogs Two by cLOUDDEAD

Seven Souls by Material & William S. Burroughs

Mud & Starlight by Pádraig Ó Méalóid

Enochian magic

The Mindscape of Alan Moore

Footwork (genre)

The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, by Mötley Crüe & Neil Strauss (Wyatt mistakenly called this "The Filth", which is, in fact, a stupid comic by stupid Grant Morrison. It's so easy to confuse one stupid thing for another - apologies.)

I am the Cosmos by Chris Bell

“Really in this bitch” meme

Unicepter IV

Somnium by Steve Moore

Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose (X-Files episode)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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This week we use 2014’s The Canal as a launchpad for a discussion of what the reality of ghosts might look like, with our usual melange of tangents along the way!

Notes:

The Canal by Ivan Kavanagh

Videotape by Radiohead

Not Yet Remembered by Harold Budd & Brian Eno

“In flagrante delicto”

Charlie Day connections wall meme

Ecology of Souls by Joshua Cutchin

The Stone Tape BBC film

Magick / Liber ABA / Book 4 by Aleister Crowley

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Dave talks about his recent trip to a LaMonte Young concert, and the inward “Trip” that followed.

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Notes:

LaMonte Young

Marian Zazeela

5-MeO-DMT

Alex Grey

MOCA Geffen Contemporary

Ecstasy: In and About Altered States

Ecology of Souls by Joshua Cutchin

Hipgnosis

Magic & Mystery in Tibet, by Alexandra David-Néel

Venture Bros. “Hot Dolphin!” clip

Music by David Paha

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Wyatt was in Los Angeles, and was able to record our first in-person episode with Ang Wilson and returning guest Sam Jones! We watched Society by Brian Yuzna, and had a lot of fun discussing it afterwards.

Notes:

Society by Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna interview Part 1

Brian Yuzna interview Part 2

Oral history of Society

Audition by Takashi Miike

Warm Bodies (the Nicholas Hoult zombie movie)

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Providence by Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows

Lists of Note by Shaun Usher

Wilbur, the Cat

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The second half of our discussion on/about/around/adjacent to Crampton by Thomas Ligotti & Brandon Trenz.

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Millennium (TV series)

The Lone Gunmen (TV series)

Global Consciousness Project

Ulam spiral

Time Loops by Eric Wargo

Michael Richards (sculptor)

David Mandell

Joe Preston

Haunted Universe by Steven Norquist

The Universe is a Haunted House by Coil

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram

Jacob’s Ladder by Adrian Lyne

Rabbit in Your Headlights by UNKLE (feat. Thom Yorke)

Meister Eckhart

Music by David Paha.

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Our good friend Casey Anderson stops by for a chat about the best found footage film of all time, 2005’s Noroi: The Curse!

Notes:

Casey Anderson

Noroi: The Curse by Kōji Shiraishi

From Beyond by H.P. Lovecraft

Kami (Shinto)

Spirit of place

The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

Occult by Kōji Shiraishi

Grave Encounters by The Vicious Brothers

Unfriended: Dark Web by Stephen Susco

Paranormal Activity by Oren Peli

Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

As Above, So Below by John Erick Dowdle

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

A&W Canada

Unsane by Steven Soderbergh

Tangerine by Sean Baker

The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

The Russian text we refer to says “звезда”, which can be transliterated as “zvezda”, and is the Russian word for “star”. Thanks to our friend Raphael for the translation.

Autechre

Venetian Snares

IDM

Drag Me to Hell by Sam Raimi

Ungirls (Japanese comedy duo)

Alternate reality game

The Universe Is A Haunted House by Coil

Silent Hill 3

South Park: Randy is so startled

a wave press (Casey’s record label)

Experimental Music Yearbook

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

Our first episode with a content warning! This week’s episode uses the unproduced X-Files script Crampton by Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz as an entry point for a discussion on some very dark themes. Nothing too harsh, but we do feel it’s worth mentioning that if you’re not in a great headspace, maybe avoid Ligotti and our discussion of his work and ideas.

Notes:

Crampton by Thomas Ligotti & Brandon Trenz

The Clown Puppet by Thomas Ligotti

Matt Cardin

The Thomas Ligotti Reader, edited by Darrell Schweitzer

1-900 line commercials

Gabbo

Hive by Earl Sweatshirt

Protect Ya Neck by Wu-Tang Clan

Alan Watts god-play thing

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti

The Arising & Passing Away

Arthur Schopenhauer

David Benatar

Benatar / Sam Harris podcast episode

Ligotti’s music

South Park “can’t go back to Playboy”

Pentti Linkola’s Dumbo ears

Jack of all trades full quote

Secret Chiefs

The Unnameable by H.P. Lovecraft

Music by David Paha.

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Following directly on from our mad ravings on art and prophecy in the Radiohead episode, this week we get deeper into the weeds with Justin Benson’s and Aaron Moorhead’s schizoid mockumentary Something in the Dirt.

Notes:

Something in the Dirt by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

The Endless by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

Henry Kaiser

Hellier

Creating Christ by James S. Valliant & Warren Fahy

Blood and Mistletoe by Ronald Hutton

Randy Quaid conspiracy

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

A freewheeling ride through the LA noise music scene, hot takes on beloved Scottish comics writers, the utter failure of Google Glass and the weight of prophecy.

Notes:

Old Town Pasadena

John Wiese

Masonna

Radiohead

Weatherhouse by Philip Selway

In Limbo by Radiohead

Kid A Mnesia book

Humour by Stanley Donwood

Grant Morrison

Hypersigil

Binah

Simpsons Monkey’s Paw

Joel Biroco

Kenneth Grant

The Red Book by C.G. Jung

Humans can fail the Turing Test

Your Body Does Not Want To Be An Interface by John Pavlus, review of Google Glass in MIT Technology Review

Homunculus

Senses Working Overtime by XTC

Dude who drinks his son’s blood?

The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky

“And Then The Tree Cums”

After Many A Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley

William Randolph Hearst

Death to Everyone by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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