Filthy Armenian Adventures
FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES is a travel agency for the soul that takes you all over the map of our cultural apocalypse and deep into its most forbidden and forgotten territories, where the Santa Ana Winds are always blowing and all guests are dared to abandon their masks... Subscribe to the show on Patreon get 2x the adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones, plus 10+ monthly Smoke Break mini-eps on topics of the day, and priority to live events. Created and hosted by Alec Mouhibian. Society & Culture arrow_drop_down Add optional categories Note: Apple Podcasts only recognizes the first category and subcategory. Podcast logo * (jpg or png) newimage.jpg arrow_drop_down Select image Apple Podcasts Requirement: Artwork must be a minimum size of 1400 x 1400 pixels and a maximum size of 3000 x 3000 pixels, in JPEG or PNG format. Highly recommended: Include a show title, brand, or source name as part of your podcast artwork. More Options keyboard_arrow_down Update Options Podbean.com Copyright © Podbean.com 2024. All Rights Reserved.
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Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
Let's try to save the blues from SINNERS. After reviewing Ry Coogler's latest up against the much more profound BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2006) and more liberated CROSSROADS (1986), I take Glen Rockney and Crypto Psi of Rare Candy on a personal-historical tour of the music that made me the man (and woman) I am today.
For the full 3+hour jukebox fish fry subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian -- you'll also get access to our upcoming live event HIVE this June in LA (14th), Austin (17th), NYC (21st) and London (tbd)
Also mentioned in this episode:
Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music That Developed from It by LeRoi Jones
Rock Folk: Portraits from the Rock n' Roll Pantheon by Michael Lydon
And a roster of bluesman and women too long to list.
Tuesday May 20, 2025
Tuesday May 20, 2025
Some thoughts on the bad news about Scott Adams, and an appreciation.
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Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
A celebration of Erich Auerbach's masterpiece Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, in light of the last decade's institutional conspiracy to shrink reality in Western media, which hits a grotesque low in Netflix's Adolescence.
Guest starring Yeerk of the Bistro Californium podcast
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Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
Joan's secret love, Eve's secret letters, and the art of gossip with Lili Anolik, author of Didion and Babitz and Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Some thoughts on the passing of a warrior.
See FAA 18 Mortal Combat with David Horowitz and the Secret Chapter: Death is the Mother of Beauty
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
In this smoke break mini ep, I review the new album Pretty in Scorn by Cara Cunningham
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Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Art, drugs, or religion? Reviewing the Playstation classic Alan Wake 2, Adam Lehrer and I speculate on the nature, potential, and business of video games.
Adam Lehrer is deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of System of Systems
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Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Mike White as our Molière, what normies and bossy bottoms miss about The White Lotus, and the astonishing Christian conclusion to season three that nobody is talking about.
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Guest starring Cara Cunningham and Adam Lehrer (deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of System of Systems)
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Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Between a terrified Russian at a gay bar in La Marais and a crafty general at Père-Lachaise, the queer quest for God in Paris culminates with a mystery at the gates of Sacré-Cœur.
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Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
A quest for the secret third thing in Paris begins, as usual, in the surprisingly gay right wing underground of Rue Princess...
Guest starring Enaygee
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