BULL SESSION 6: Conservative Long Covid w/ H.L. Mencken, Jack Mason, Barrett Avner
Summoning H.L. Mencken to diagnose and exorcise the latest national bout of puritan brain fog so we can all have a free and idiotic summer. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Barrett Avner of Contain. This is the free first hour, for the full 2.5 (and many other intimate premium episodes) subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Recommended reading: "Puritanism as a Literary Force" essay by H.L. Mencken
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17. Chicagohood
Local bard Berto (Ghost Jail), justice of the peace Illych (Chicago Transplant Authority), Texan noseman Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), and transplant scholar Boystown George drink every drop of sex, politics, and religion in that deep Chicago night in search of a cure. This is Part 1: "I Wish My Mom Was Michael Jackson." For the full 3.5 hour nocturnal extravaganza, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: Cheesie's, Wang's, Sidetrack, The Closet, and other unidentified corners of Boystown in Chicago, Illinois.
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16. Perversity in Vienna, Pride in Sarajevo
15. Beverly Hills Rabbi feat. David Wolpe
BULL SESSION 5: Joan Didion Had An Abortion (w/ Jack Mason)
Jack returns from The Perfume Nationalist to ponder what is wrong with Joan Didion, what is depressing beyond belief about that Netflix documentary that memed her, and what rings true and timeless and based and redpilled about her classic book Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), written when she was a Goldwater girl with a little secret.
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14. Ballad of a Berkeley Boy (feat. Thaddeus Russell)
13. Married to the Movies with David Thomson
I visit David Thomson — author of the iconic Biographical Dictionary of Film, Have You Seen...?, Sleeping With Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire, Disaster Mon Amour, and dozens of other books that make him the greatest film critic/historian/writer who ever lived — at his home in San Francisco for a very personal conversation about the horrifying erotic aftermath of MeToo and how to escape, or transcend, the "death of cinema."
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SHOT LIST: Ukraine, Life in the Pandemic, Sight & Sound, Licorice Pizza, Los Angeles, The Academy, Long form television, Golden Age of Streaming, Twin Peaks The Return, Podcasts , Criterion, His Girl Friday, Will there be a new Biographical Dictionary of Film edition?, The Trilogy, Pauline Kael the bully (power drunk), Chelsea vs Liverpool, The democratic brotherhood of sports and movies, Bridgette Bardot’s nude scene, The reality of sexual desire, promiscuity, James Toback, The reality of women, The Big Sleep, Montgomery Clift’s sexuality, Kieran Hickey, Spencer Tracy’s sexuality, Beard marriages, Kevin Spacey
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12. Shant Mesrobian Is Not Amused
BULL SESSION: Mommy Issues & Houellebecq w/ Jack Mason
Jack from The Perfume Nationalist hops back on the air to examine French troublemaker Michele Houellebecq's rich and hilarious novels "Elementary Particles" (1998) and "Submission" (2015) for clues as to the long slow decline of the western LIBido. This is the first hour preview, for the full three hour bull session (and plenty of other premium episodes) subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
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