System of Systems

Jack Mason, the iconic creator of the Perfume Nationalist podcast, joins the show to definitively define what we call "The Gen-X Problem", with numerous digressions into topics like Huysmans, Nan Goldin being a junkie hag, Gavin McInnes, Satanic Panic, Howard Stern, Steve Albini, Brat, Kamala and more...

SOUNDTRACK
Douglas Coupland on Gen-X 
Madonna "Pray for Spanish Eyes" 
Burzum "Dunkelheit" 
Kool Keith "Blue Flowers" 
Trump on Stern 
Aphex Twin "Digeridoo" LIVE 
Nirvana "Aneurysm" LIVE 
LINKS
The Perfume Nationalist on Patreon 
Follow Jack at X: @lotus__point
Adam Lehrer, The Safety Propaganda Conceptual Manifesto, point #190
Adam Lehrer, A Generation in Transition Part #1
Adam Lehrer on Steve Albini

DJ, producer and founder of iconic NY techno label L.I.E.S., Ron Morelli, makes the honorable decision to redeem his entire generation and join in the effort to save America

LINKS:
L.I.E.S. at Bandcamp 
L.I.E.S at Instagram

Gary Beauvais is a Michigan based artist and musician who has been recording beneath the name Mammal since the beginning of the '00s. This year, however, he released a new album called Deserted. I shit you not, this is one of the best records of the year. Haunting and emotive.
Gary discusses the record with the boys, as well as the transition of his project from industrial noise to the haunting electro folk he makes now, shitty record labels, physical pain, and his relationship with God.

SOUNDTRACK
Mammal "I believe in God" 
Black Flag "Can't Decide" 
Saint Vitus "Zombie Hunger" 
Laundry Room Squelchers live in 2000 
Mammal "The Drift" 
LINKS
Follow Gary On Instagram: @oldmammal
Mammal on Bandcamp 

Self-medicated on benzos and weed, Adam hits up Matt to discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life
LINKS:
Adam on Trump

Adam explains his experiences as a contributor of Compact Magazine, how it was pitched to him versus what the magazine has become, based around the recent resigning of friend of the show Nina Power as an editor of the project after Luke Turner leaked private communications between her and former guest Daniel Miller that were presented as evidence during their legal battle with the sociopathic British artist Turner.. Hate to have to be acknowledging Luke Turner in 2024, but that's where we are.

FULL EPISODE at PATREON

SOUNDTRACK
Coroner "Mental Vortex" 
Unrest "I Do Believe You are Blushing"  
Nervous Eaters "Shit for Brains" 
Pentagram "Sign of the Wolf" 
Ginuwine "So Anxious" 
LINKS:
Nina Power on the debacle
Daniel Miller on the trial between himself, Nina and Turner 
Sohrab Ahmari on Elena Velez 

People have been telling me for years that the artist Shay Semple and I would get along. Finally, we started bonding on Instagram over a shared contempt for the Tumblr art of Nina Hartman. Shay, who hails from the Fentanyl cesspool of Vancouver, is the OG MAGA art world figure, known equally for his irreverent paintings, his provocative zines, and his hilarious rants, discusses with Adam his art world cancellation, the downfall of all that is punk rock, moral and intellectual weakness, demographic shifts, the Opioid Crisis and more.

SOUNDTRACK:
Blasphemy "Nocturnal Slayer" 
D.O.A. "Woke up Screaming" 
Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Violent Onsen Geisha (attached)
RBL Posse "More like an Orgy"
Shinki Chen "Gloomy Reflections"
T. Rex "Life is Strange" https://music.apple.com/us/album/life-is-strange/1443929834?i=1443930741
LINKS:
Follow Shay on Instagram: sancho_panza69 https://www.instagram.com/sancho_panza69/
Buy Shay's "Right Wing Yoga" zine https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/63775/

Udith Dematagoda, editor of Hyperidean Press and author of the stellar new novel Agonist, joins Adam and Matt to discuss his home country of Scotland's greatest cultural export: Trainspotting and Trainspotting 2
FULL EPISODE
LINKS 
Buy Udith's novel Agonist 
Follow Udith on Substack
The cast of Trainspotting reunites

Adam discusses the good, the bad and the bewildering of 2024, as of June. 
WRITE-UP LINK

Ben Werther is a conceptual artist, born in Nashville and living in New York, whose new exhibition at No Gallery, “WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER SPEAK, SING ME A SONG.” , presents a fascinating sequence of photographs that initially look like on the ground photojournalistic documents of armed combat. Upon further inquiry, however, you learn that these images were captured during Werther's attendance at a number of MilSim LARP rituals, in which Americans don military fatigues and arm themselves with airsoft rifles and pantomime military conflict. The exhibition also offers the work in book form, along with the cryptic writing of the artist complicating the images' meaning.
Here, Adam and Ben speak about the work, MilSim, the cultural condition of LARPing and identity craft, Thomas Ligotti True Detective Season 1, mythology, Joseph Campbell, and more.

PATREON LINK

SOUNDTRACK:
Gak "Gak 1"
Veles "A Dark Dream"
Point Blank "Prone to Bad Dreams"  
Engurdetz "Det ar Dumt" 
Fields of the Nephilliim "Moonchild"
Rhythm and Sound "King in my Empire" 

LINKS
Ben Werther at No Gallery
Ben's Instagram: @neverben

Famed fashion designer and high fashion's Dimes Square rep Elena Velez discusses her last two insta-iconic shows, the mud fight of SS 2024 and the Gone with the Wind Ball of FW 2024, and her resilience in the face of high and mighty fashion editors and her refusal to play along. We accept you One of US!
Soundtrack: 
Total "You'll Get Yours Yet" 
Lungfish "Amnesiax" 
Andy Stott "Dark Details" 
Nico "You Forgot to Answer" 
Goldie "Angel" 
LINKS: 
Elena Velez website
Adam Lehrer on Elena Velez
Elena Velez at Twitter: @_velcel