Modern Rubbish

It’s a good day to die on this episode, as we come up with some stuff to say about Joel Schumacher’s 1990...film?...Flatliners.

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Flatliners

The Cell

What Dreams May Come

Hatoful Boyfriend

Candyman

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This week, we trip balls along with Ken Russell’s psychedelic body horror touchstone, Altered States!

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Altered States

Fleischer Studios

Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher” from Betty Boop

John C. Lilly

Gunbuster (anime)

Joel Biroco

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Epigenetics

Rupert Sheldrake

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We return from our hiatus with this episode on Don Hertzfeldt’s couch gag for long-running animated series, The Simpsons!

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Don Hertzfeldt’s Simpsons couch gag

Sadness Sets Me Free by Gruff Rhys

Smashing Pumpkins 1979 music video

Team America Everyone Has AIDS song

Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt

Homer’s Phobia (Simpsons episode)

The Cartridge Family (Simpsons episode)

City of Quartz by Mike Davis

The World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt

Ko Un (poet)

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Wyatt joined Arden & Casey at their art space / venue, Trade School, in Altadena, California, for a screening of Saw X!

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And on this, the last day of X-Mas, we discuss another Darin Morgan classic, the wonderfully absurd Jose Chung’s From Outer Space!

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For the fourth week of X-Mas, we give you our favourite cicadaman, Eugene Tooms!

This one begins with a long (but fun) preamble on other topics, so if you’re itching for X-Files content, skip to around 30 minutes in.

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Tooms

Squeeze

Dave’s painting

Félix Labisse (painter)

Simpsons Australia coffee/beer bit

Wyatt hates OPN

The Lillywhite Sessions by Ryley Walker

It’s My Life by Talk Talk

Donal Logue (actor)

Dandadan (anime)

The Ghost Whisperer (series)

Paper wasp

Venture Bros. “ignore me” guy

Stasi (DDR secret police)

Conner Habib

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X-Mas continues with this satanic panic classic.

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Die Hand Die Verletzt

Satanic panic

Illuminatus!

Rain of animals

Bart vs. Australia

Michelle Remembers by Lawrence Pazder & Michelle Smith

Satan Wants You (documentary)

Pennyroyal (podcast)

Hellier (TV Series)

Heaven’s Gate

Pan’s Labyrinth (film)

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Podcast patron saint Steven Warwick returns for a lovely chat about infamous X-Files episode Home. Merry X-Mas to us all!

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Home

Steven Warwick

Fear Indexing the X-Files by Nora Khan and Steven Warwick

Control (video game)

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Nan Goldin

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Chris Morris

Sutcliffe Jugend (band)

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We’re kicking off “X-Mas”, our all-December-long celebration of all things X-Files! First up is legendary season 3 episode, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.

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Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose

Split (film)

The Exorcist (TV show)

Darin Morgan

Jerusalem by Alan Moore

Mama (film)

Whitest Kids U Know auto-erotic asphyxiation sketch

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Five-time guest Sam Jones returns to the show to talk about infamous j-horror nightmare, Takashi Miike’s Audition.

Audio notes: Dave was sick, Sam’s cleaner was present, and Wyatt’s heater was (still is) broken, so he was huddled in a closet for the duration. Apologies for any auditory oddness.

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Audition by Takashi Miike

Arrested Development “and that’s why you always leave a note” bit

The Care and Keeping of the Male Slave (Kids in the Hall sketch)

Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes

Modern Rubbish Episode Five: Gozu

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans by Werner Herzog

Conny Plank

Steve Albini

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