Filthy Armenian Adventures

102. O for Orson w/ Darius Csiky

Borges called CITIZEN KANE a "labyrinth with no center" but it was the center of the labyrinth that was Orson Welles, and our final destination in the second half of this tour of the magician's career, after we pass through TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRIAL (1962), THE IMMORTAL STORY (1968), F FOR FAKE (1975), and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (2018)... and realize that in his flaws, if not his greatness, Orson Welles was a lot like us.
 
With Darius Csiky of 8pl8s podcast
 
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101. The Failure of Orson Welles w/ Darius Csiky

Zoomer Orson Welles protege joins me for a Citizen Kane-like adventure through the entire career of the man who believed in magic perhaps too much -- or, perhaps, too little. We look at almost every film he made, we lean in for his radio, we applaud his theater, we gasp at his tricks and read his biography ("Rosebud" by David Thomson). Maybe we can find out what this giant boy was missing...
With Darius Csiky host of 8pl8s podcast
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100. Advise and Consent w/ Jack Mason

Best novel about Washington D.C. and first movie to openly depict homo is a harrowing, eternal tale of the lonely gay man who stands up to the communist blob. Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist joins for a state of the union spurred by Allen Drury and Otto Preminger's ADVISE AND CONSENT.
 
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99. Bob Dylan: The Unknown Ideal

I review the Oscar-nominated biopic A Complete Unknown, before reprising my own interactive case for Bob Dylan the artist, the man, and the prophet on a mission to make America great again.
 
Originally aired in 2023 as "Bob Dylan on Hollywood Blvd. Vol 1 & 2," this is one of my deepest most personal solo adventures, full of outlandish historical claims that might be fun to compare to how things are turning out.
 
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98. Hollywoodland Art Right w/ Wyatt Torosian

It's one thing to see a sign, it's another thing to live up to it. As the tree of liberty shows new life in Washington, Wyatt Torosian joins me for a Hollywoodland tour into the storybook origins of the Art Right.
 
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97. Blue Velvet at Bob's Big Boy w/ Matthew Wilder

Coffee and milkshakes at the historic diner where David Lynch saw Frank Booth fuel this meditation on the secret ingredients of his genius in the early period from ERASERHEAD (1977) to the world-altering masterpiece BLUE VELVET (1986).
 
Guest starring filmmaker Matthew Wilder (AMERICAN MARTYR, YOUR NAME HERE).
 
Location: Bob's Big Boy in Burbank
 
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Links to: The Alphabet and The Grandmother, two creepy early short films by Lynch

96. Lynch Highway w/ Yeerk

What did David Lynch know that we don't know? The first stop on that investigation is LOST HIGHWAY (1997), the ultimate movie about O.J. and Nicole and the burning of Los Angeles.
 
Also reviewed: "David Lynch Keeps his Head," David Foster Wallace's essay from the set of that movie in Griffith Park.
 
Yeerk of Bistro Calfornium joins me for our first deranged ride into the genius of a departed master.
 
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95. The California State

As fires continue to rage, two men share the harrowing experience of losing their homes this month -- Max in Altadena, Matt Himes in Pacific Palisades -- and we consider the suddenly viable question of: Can California turn red?
 
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94. The Burning of Los Angeles

What happened? What does it mean? Who is to blame and what signs have emerged from the burning of Los Angeles?
 
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Smoke Break: Fire!

There is a fire.
 
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