Filthy Armenian Adventures

53. What A Woman Wants

A propos of nothing, we explore the deceptions and wonders of female desire as revealed by Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss's shocking opera SALOME. With Mommy Milkers (the Girl from Baku @mochak123) and Veronica (@our_daily_pain).
 
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52. The Las’ Lesbian of Las Vegas PREVIEW

Splendid dinner with Vera at Scarpetta in Cosmo where we discuss our idiotic generations, the sexual devolution, growing up on social media, paleolesbianism, neopuritanism, transmania, and more while she watches me eat a bowl of pasta.
 
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51. The Erotic Heritage Museum

Is Las Vegas the last city where lesbians are born? A Las' Lesbian takes me on a tour of the still moderately woke-free Erotic Heritage Museum, an eccentric altar of smut co-founded by a preacher and pornographer in the city of sin.
 
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Limited tickets are available for FAA presents LOS ANGELES, our first live show & party on September 23, starring show favorites Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), Adam Lehrer, illusionist Garin Hovannisian and more. A night of magic, mirth, fire and brimstone. Get tickets here.
 
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49. The Cyborg of Oslo

Be careful. There are people out there who can break into you with a wave of the hand. Such as this gay "drunk" cyborg I met in the land of trolls and Ibsen...
 
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47. The Book Shop on Franklin

I speak to the owner of Hollywood's last used bookstore, Counterpoint Records & Books (est. 1979) in Franklin Village, on the magic business of second hand books, surviving the apocalypse, famous customers, and keeping the lights on in Los Angeles.
 
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46. Oscar Wilde at Heart (w/ Jack Mason & Zach Langley) PREVIEW

In the dying days of a great century, a certain love dared speak its name. But there was evil in the tone. We examine The Picture of Dorian Gray, De Profundis, and the starry starry tell-tale life of Oscar Wilde, up to his tragic demise at the hands of an eternal scheming bottom.
 
Guest starring Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) and Zach Langley (I'm So Popular).
 
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45. Cinema Insanity with David Thomson (PREVIEW)

From noir and the western to the utopian world of screwball, where love is anything but love, and Hollywood reached its fairytale peak. Part 2 of my conversation with the film historian/critic/novelist David Thomson is all about being raised by movies, the importance (and occasional hazards) of insanity, and secrets of the moon.
 
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Story Board: George Bailey, James Stewart, perfect fathers, divorce, Julia Roberts, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Noel Coward, David Lean, Joan Didion’s last act, Virginia Woolf, a writer’s judgment, the loss of the great editor, Bob Gottlieb, Dino DeLaurentis, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Irving Thalberg, Harvey Weinstein, book industry, Little Shop Around the Corner, Preston Sturges, the big secret, directorial power, Freeway, Spike Lee, Chick Hearn, Pat Riley
 
David Thomson is the author most recently of the enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIGHT, and CONNECTICUT. 
 
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44. Cinema Immortality with David Thomson

One year after our rain dance to conquer the death of cinema, film critic/novelist/historian David Thomson welcomes me back for a dreamy convo about the spiritual treasures and booby traps of noir, the western, and the screwball comedy -- three worlds of movieland he has realized and reinvented in his enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIGHT, and the upcoming CONNECTICUT.  
 
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Story Board:
Willa Cather, Irene Selznick, black and white, Billy The Kid, Wyatt Earp, Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the last great western), Shirtless Pitt, Robert Towne, Heaven’s Gate, the self-expression of driving, light therapy, the importance of addiction, sports, San Francisco, gold rush, Red River, Searchers, Noah Cross, Trump, Chinatown, John Huston, Wes Anderson, Mullholland Dr., Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, the problem with Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sydney Lumet, Otto Preminger, Eddie Mueller, Raymond Chandler vs James Ellroy, The Big Sleep, Didion, Babitz, studio system, film set romance
 

43. Hollywood Forever (PREVIEW)

Welcome to the cemetery of restless dreams. Where poets and businessmen, Jews and Armenains still vie for your attention. Where many stars are buried, waiting for you to rediscover (or join) them. Matthew Pegan (The New Write) and I interrogate the illusions Hollywood Forever (est. 1899).
 
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The Cast: Phil Ramone, Hatte McDaniel, Tyrone Power, Burt Reynolds, Cecil B. Demille, Dee Dee Ramone, Eddie Little, Jack Nitzsche, John Huston, Mel Blanc, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Estelle Getty, Toto, Bugsy Siegel, Rudolph Valentino, Richard Saakovich Der Boghossian, et al.
 
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42. Bob Dylan on Hollywood Blvd.

From the fancy old stage of the last vaudeville theater on a boulevard of crime, Bob Dylan reveals who he is, and how to make America great again.
 
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