Filthy Armenian Adventures

129. The Hunt and After the Hunt

End of year sermon on the curious silence surrounding Luca Guadagnino's AFTER THE HUNT (most important movie of 2025), its connection to Thomas Vinterberg's THE HUNT (most important movie of the century), and what both have to say about recent discourses on the plight of the white millennial man.
 
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128. A Twilight Zone Christmas w/ Yeerk

Looking for Christmas lessons in Willoughby with the help of a nuclear holocaust, a magical black child, several harpy wives, a suicidal trumpet and other spiritual stocking stuffers only to be found in...The Twilight Zone.
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Guest starring Yeerk of Bistro Californium.
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127. Palisades Lost II

The Personal Palisades Tour takes a distressing turn as I struggle to find the idyllic childhood home where internet was discovered, Kobe grew his fro, and hot-and-sour soup was ladled for the teenage soul.
 
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126. Le Death of Art w/ Matthew Wilder

Is it still possible to be raped by art? On a rainy traumatic afternoon in Paris, Matthew Wilder and I ponder the question.
 
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125. Palisades Lost

A very personal tour of the ashen ruins of Pacific Palisades begins on the street where I was taught some elemental truths about life, authority, belief and the Holocaust.
 
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124. Dancers from the Dance w/ Zach Langley

An immersive rumination on the gay cruising nightlife captured in Andrew Holleran's 1978 masterpiece Dancer from the Dance, its modern day shadow offspring, and the morals of the story...
 
Guest starring Zach Langley of I'm So Popular
 
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123. The Greystone Mansion Murders w/ Matt Pegas

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: a tour of the Doheny Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, site of the still-unsolved 1929 murder mystery that inspired Raymon Chandler and the genre of L.A. noir.
Guest Starring Matt Pegas, author of The Black Album
 
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122. Maughamy Issues w/ Getting Lit

In the nuclear fallout of recent cinematic Chernobyls, we turn for guidance to the cool imperial mind of master noticer-storyteller Somerset Maugham, who gave us a timeless satire of literary culture and clout-chasing in his novel Cakes and Ale (1930) and reached some uncomfortable conclusions about the meaning of art in his intellectual memoir The Summing Up (1936).
 
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Guest starring Matthew Sini and Matt Fresca from the Getting Lit podcast
 
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Smoke Break: One Battle After Another

Some thoughts on the worst movie ever made, by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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121. Laughter in the Closet w/ Robert Plunket

Eureka! Literary treasure has been found. It is called My Search for Warren Harding, and it's about one man's zany scheming quest for literary treasure (the love letters of "the shallowest president in history") in early 1980s Hollywood. It is the funniest thing I have read in a long time, and perhaps the most enjoyable novel ever written about L.A.
Robert Plunket joins me to reflect on how he came to compose this closet masterpiece (1983), his even queerer follow-up Love Junkie (1992), his 30 year career as Mr. Chatterbox (Sarasota's beloved gossip columnist), how he almost swung the 2000 election, his proximity to Bush on 9/11 and Ruebens during PeeWee's 9/11, and what it was like to be raised by spies.
 
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