Vicious Circle

Morgan Krantz is a filmmaker and all around good, nice guy. we talk smoking with children, mothers (Rest In Peace), burning hair, living and working inside a long running TV series, acting as compared to living on an Oil Rig, directing, isolation, growing up in Los Angeles, Jon Lindsey’s Body High, The Master Of Cum, Betsey Brown, Actorcellectuals and all the actor memes, exposing oneself, putting your guts and dick on the table, the impulse to relate to each other as artists, being employed by a corporation, artists and brands and dirty words, John Giorno, giving Warhol head with shaking fingers, pissing off your parents with your movies, deep exposure, the hot pot, the cold eye, sense memory and dealing with your past and a lot of other pulverizingly personal shit - available now on everything (thank you to the ion pack for reminding me about mario paint, which scores this sode)

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this episode is off the cuff, just sort of drunk and turned into a baby announcement but also just a jam of songs and good feels, love you happy new year 

It's not really ghosting when everyone's a ghost - returning from time off from making a record, I really appreciate everyone who listened to this project in 2021. This really isn't a podcast, since I don't use an IPod to make it. Thanks to everyone supporting at the patreon, I don't know what this project is, I just know I like making shit - I sat down to record a sode last night but I recorded this instead. love you!

As we hit critical levels of clout fuckery, obsession, pile-climbing and boredom I asked the man, the mirror, the artist formally known as Kanye (now, Ye) to spend some on the pod. Please forgive the audio quality, I did not have a long time with him and the room was noisy

Andrew is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He fronts the band Miike Snow along with an endlessly diverse list of projects + collaborations spanning the past 10+ years. We talk working with Liam Gallagher, Caroline Polachek, not trying, organic boundaries, corporate spaces, fourth rate goop aesthetics, pre-recorded trip sitters, problematic spiritual leaders, Keith Raniere, listening loudly, moral relativism in the face of a flamethrower,  talent and vision vs winner-takes-all, “most people”, the accelerationists, Fukuyama, liberal capitalism, living with the broken heart of a potential future, peace and love, black pills and clear pills, the Disneyfication of the world, Jacolby Satterwhite, the crazed fantasy of the self, dressing like an anime demon, The La’s, constructing the world, taking rubber bullets, ambient surveillance, dreaming dreams, William Bennett and Whitehouse, Yamantaka Eye and Hanatarash, and taking a long hard sleep before getting back to the important work.

Solo mode: as a break from conversation this is a music heavy sode. Just Matthew and a random playlist happening song to song, no planning. Things have been feeling more chaotic than usual, so sit back + enjoy an hour or so of laying assed out on a couch listening or however you want to get into it

Blending your art with your personality, the strangest tools, Neptune, working with Brandy, creeping cultural traumas, drinking in the bathtub every night, fucking with temporality, hype.m, owning what you put into the world, The Green Knight, the death of content in the face of good films, our ever present algorithm, Yorgos Lanthimos, following your own rules of physics as an artist, the things that shape us first, the end of the overexposure era, anon as a possible future for pop stars, and liberation from everything.
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heir to a hundred thousand screenshots, the illusive floridian we know simply as tom tuna. we discuss simon rex, suitcase pimps, A24, feral bitch fall, bret easton ellis, todd the millennial, black pilling boyfriends, cocaine cowboys, memetic news, tracking trends, taste bombs, complacency posting, hardware gore subreddits, prozac, jon rafman, the lost week with azealia banks, self-imposed exile, channeling manic energy through posting, michael pitt as the “SINK PISSER”, rainbow coalition, interpol puppets, urinal soap selfies, james dean death cult summer, gay tucker carlson to true religion fashion pipeline, dennis hopper, disposable art forms, cellectual summer 2021, commiting social suicide, passionate nerd posting, faceless anon celebrity, being true to yourself and never apologizing for anything, and jailbreaking your life.

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on the eve of the full moon, I thought I was recording a solo pod - but thankfully that didn’t happen. Alisha and I speak about the moon, guns, glock training, aiming for ankles, god on the timeline, making the internet beautiful, BDSM, friendster, shaped and sharpened words, writing slowly, fugue states, wasting material on the timeline, speculative fiction, the pleasure of smoking anything, fixations, elliot smith, seppuku, death takes, aging, growing up in las vegas, smoking indoors, paradise, mall kids, xanga, snowbirds, forfeiting your shitty corporate job, personal lives and capitalist labor, and chris brown. 

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we discuss what it means to do polarizing work, the fear of being misunderstood, peter “petra” vack, warning labels on artwork, her film ACTORS, the cult of children and babies, cashing in on the sacred, living anonymously in the abyss, ASSHOLES, fetishism of trans aesthetics in a culture of fear, the master of cum, finding your voice, attachment to the struggle, The Scary Of Sixty-First, Dasha Nekrasova, being exposed vs being demonized, dealing with the messy to balance the calm, the idea of ourselves as the prison, NPC oblivion, overcoming a creative paralysis by breaking the paralysis of identity, and love.

Betsey Brown is an actor, director and sister who is in the final throes  of finishing her film ACTORS, which she sent me before we recorded this sode. It’s not available to watch just yet, but the answer to “why” sort of lives in this podcast.

Warning: this episode contains certain “triggers” but we want you to feel them, that's the point.