Modern Rubbish

Due to some technical difficulties, the episode scheduled for this week isn’t ready - while we’re sorting that out, please enjoy this unreleased conversation which was originally intended to be our second episode. We’re surprised that we didn’t feel our discussion of 1984’s Night of the Comet was worth releasing at the time of recording, but here we are.

Notes:

Night of the Comet (1984) by Thom Eberhardt

Autechre

Burbank, California

“If you have to ask, you’ll never know”

Comet Hale-Bopp

Halley’s Comet

Captain Ron (1992) by Thom Eberhardt

Video Cat

A note about the budget: the film grossed $14,418,922 total in the US against a $700,000 budget.

El Rey theatre

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (song)

Neal Stephenson is tired of dystopias

Limmy’s Show

Black Mirror sucks

The Cheepnis by Frank Zappa

Victoria Nelson (author)

Digital vs. Analog photograhpy video

The Haunting (1963) by Robert Wise

Ringu (1998) by Hideo Nakata

Annihilation (2018) by Alex Garland

Drum Machines Have No Soul stickers

Zuckerzeit by Cluster

Death Piggy - Boner (song)

A Boy and His Dog (1975) by L.Q. Jones

Call Me Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles

Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch

Daniel Lanois

Ridley Scott doesn’t understand his own work

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The farce continues! It’s another “mini” episode that’s over an hour long!

In this one, we discuss some of our formative experiences with horror media and list our biggest early influences.

Notes:

Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone

City of the Living Dead by Lucio Fulci

Tetsuo: the Iron Man by Shinya Tsukamoto

Ulver (band)

Terrestrials by Sunn O))) & Ulver

Scary Muzak by Ulver

Poltergeist II: The Other Side by Brian Gibson (with effects by H.R. Giger!)

Phantasm by Don Coscarelli

Spectrophobia

Tales from the Crypt (TV series)

EC Comics - Tales from the Crypt was an EC series, so a “duh” moment for Wyatt’s commentary.

Creepshow by George A. Romero

Bordello of Blood by Gilbert Adler

Cannibal Corpse (band)

Metalocalypse (TV series)

Beetlejuice (TV series)

Germelshausen by Friedrich Gerstäcker, possible source of the Brigadoon story.

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Thomas Ligotti

Super Mario Bros. 2 (video game)

The Gate (film trailer)

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley

The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade

William Blake

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Robert Anton Wilson

Counterculture

Thomas Metzinger

The Imp of the Perverse

Modular synthesizer

Intrusive thoughts

China Miéville

Miéville talking about octopus intelligence

The Secret Tradition of the Soul by Patrick Harpur

The Osiris myth

Vacation Vinyl

Harrassor (band)

The Thing by John Carpenter

Escape from New York by John Carpenter

American Movie by Chris Smith

The Ring (2002) by Gore Verbinski

Hurt (Johnny Cash version)

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails version)

Venture Bros. henchmen clip

JG Thirlwell

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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Our first episode with a guest! We welcome our friend Sam Jones to the Rubbish Bin™, and together we discuss David Cronenberg’s 1999 oft-overlooked techno-thriller/body-horror gem, eXistenZ.

Notes:

Louis Cole

Podcast The Ride

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Einstürzende Neubauten

My Life With the Spirits by Lon Milo DuQuette

Night hag

Simpsons Naked Lunch joke

Yorgos Lanthimos

Room To Dream by David Lynch

Superhot (VR game)

Tech-gnostic

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

ReBoot (TV series)

From Beyond (story by H.P Lovecraft)

From Beyond (film by Stuart Gordon)

Society (film by Brian Yuzna)

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

CanCon (“Canadian Content”)

Marshall McLuhan

Raëlians

Ray Kurzweil

Sabina Spielrein

Ween

Dean Ween will kill you

James Woods Simpsons joke

Christopher Priest

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Another supplemental episode that’s almost as long as a proper episode! This time it’s an extended riff on categories / classifications of horror and their uses / abuses.

Notes:

A History of Heavy Metal by Andrew O’Neill

"Get a hobby"

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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We cover a lot of ground in this discussion of Takashi Miike’s 2003 film Gozu, from “is Gozu a horror movie” to “who played Robocop?”, with stops at “John Waters loves his freaks” and “what you saw was the planet Venus” along the way!

Apologies for the quality of Wyatt’s audio in this one. He’s doing his penance with the Minotaur now.

Notes:

Gozu by Takashi Miike

Folk horror

Nagoya, Japan

Ichi the Killer by Takashi Miike

Audition by Takashi Miike

William S. Burroughs

Slow Chocolate Autopsy by Iain Sinclair

Renji Ishibashi vs. Iain Sinclair

Visitor Q by Takashi Miike

John Waters loves his freaks

Soylent Green (film)

Naked Lunch (film)

Robocop was played by Peter Weller

Burroughs’ Word Virus concept

Barbarous words

The Golem (film)

Jose Chung’s From Outer Space Trebek/Ventura clip

Darin Morgan

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Ito / Kojima picture

MPD Psycho (TV series) by Taskashi Miike

Gozu Tennno (deity)

Pazuzu (demon)

Gozu & Mezu

The Minotaur

Indiewire interview with Miike

Burning Chrome by William Gibson

The Dr. Hibbert laugh

The Ray Liotta Goodfellas laugh

Courtly love

South Park “there was a spooky ghost - this is ectoplasm!” clip

Dave (TV series)

Chiaroscuro

David Lynch short film - Premonitions Following An Evil Deed

Krzysztof Penderecki

Waterphone (instrument)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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A quick list of 6 examples of short-form horror Wyatt would suggest checking out.

Notes:

The Thing on the Fourble Board (episode of Quiet Please, 1948)

The Town Manager by Thomas Ligotti (from Teatro Grottesco, 2003)

The Weird (short-story anthology, 2011)

Box by Takashi Miike (from 3 Extremes collection, 2004)

The Moons at Your Door EP by Current 93 (2015)

The Moons at Your Door (short-story collection 2016)

Inside (video game, 2016)

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito (appendix to Gyo, 2002)

Music by David Paha

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Musings on accepting your own bad taste, rejecting irony and the cultural darkness that was the hipster era.

Notes:

Frank Zappa

Weird Al

Flight of the Conchords

Mike Patton

John Zorn

Captain Ahab

“The Cobrasnake”

Dov Charney

Creepy American Apparel ads

The CIA (nightclub)

Luther Burbank

Blue Monday (original by New Order)

Blue Monday (cover by Orgy)

“Presence by Led Zeppelin is an underrated album”

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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We initially meant for this to be a mini episode on 12 minute YouTube short My House Walkthrough, but as seems to happen with us, it blossomed into a full-length episode.

Lots of tangents and metaphysical speculation in this one, though we do eventually get around to the film itself, right around around the 13 minute mark.

Notes:

My House Walkthrough by nana825763

My House.WAD game playthrough

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Ergodic literature

Octet by David Foster Wallace

Hafler Trio

Casey Anderson

John Cage’s 4’33”

Strange loop

Naraka (Buddhist “Hell”)

Calvinist predestination

Eternalism

Ship of Theseus

MTV Cribs

The rice experiment

Maranasati (death meditation)

The Aghori

Accelerationism

P.T. (“Playable teaser” for Silent Hills)

Feedback

Heaven by Talking Heads

Duncan Barford

Space Is The Place by Sun Ra

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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A few thoughts that didn’t quite fit into our discussion of Lake Mungo.

Notes:

Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur

Da’ath

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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Episode three uses Roman Polanski’s 1999 thriller The Ninth Gate as a jumping-off point for our most explicitly magick-oriented discussion yet. We’re very sorry for the lack of Autechre. We’ll try to do better. We hope you can forgive us.

Notes:

The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The Cardinal & The Corpse by Iain Sinclair & Chris Petit

Satanist Sketchers

The Unknown God by Martin P. Starr

The Pepsi-Cola Addict by June-Alison Gibbons

Grimoires

Garth Brooks & the devil SNL sketch

Peter Dreher, who painted the same glass every day (though he sadly passed away in 2020 - Dave's mistake)

Circuit bending

Ol’ Dirty Bastard “yeah, the pussy was good”

Betalevel

Jason Brown’s Paranoid Machines talk

Babalon

Ergot poisoning

Brought to Light by Alan Moore

Stellas Daemonum by David Crowhurst

Jason Miller

The Typhonian magickal current

The Alan Moore interview (not with Stewart Lee - Wyatt's mistake). The relevant bit begins around the 56 minute mark, but the whole thing (as well as part one) is well worth a listen.

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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