Filthy Armenian Adventures

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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My Other Show, and Jerry Sandusky

As I take a few extra days to prepare my bombshell Bob Dylan adventure, allow me to introduce my other podcast THE BACK WALL, a raunchy and reactionary psychedelic sports show I co-host with Glen Rockney of Rare Candy fame. This is our most popular episode so far, and you need no interest or knowledge of sports at all to care about it. It features one of the biggest media/legal scandals of the century, one that most people assume to be legit. The ep features John Ziegler, former LA talk radio host and the central character in David Foster Wallace's excellent feature story The Host, who torpedoed his career to prove that ex Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is innocent.
 
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41. The (Ike &) Tina Turner Manifesto w/ Adam Lehrer

The power of love, the power of hate, the power of private dancing. Adam Lehrer joins for a bull session memorial of FAA goddess Tina Turner, and to recount his chilling experience with a ghost in New England. We also discuss exciting developments in the avant-garde publishing scene, and how to transcend the internet-addled creative doldrums of our time to actually make something real, with examples from his most recent book Safety Propaganda: Conceptual Manifesto for Psychological Warfare. Plus Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Fleetwood Mac, evil, and more. 
 
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Lehrer is also the author of Communions and the Safety Propaganda substack and hosts the podcast System of Systems
 
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40. Exodus (PREVIEW)

Hippie sermons in the desert. Zoomers cancel Blink182. The hipster devolves from rock n roll to useless lib nag. Not Star Wars, but Spiderman explains the end of things. Pirates aren't what they used to be, but one old man still Claptons for freedom. See something, say something. Those who do/do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. 
 
My neck. 
 
My back.
 
With one or two magic moments, Coachella 2023 comes to a close.
 
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39. Coachella, Where Art Thou?? (WEEKEND 2, 2023)

One week and one year later, the holograms have taken over. I return to Coachella to fill in for Frank Ocean, remember Ruth Brown, reminisce to Calvin Harris, and seek the one weapon in this world that can thwart the K-POP invasion.
Weekend 2, 2023.
 
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38. Coachella, Where Art Thou? (Weekend 1, 2022) PREVIEW

Water communism, bathroom feminism, FOMO and other dyslexic prophesies from a popular desert festival that was lost and found in deuces wild. Plus a news update on the state of bisexual affairs. For the full episode, and many more exclusive delights, subscribe to Filthy Armenian Adventures at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for as little as $5 a month. 
 
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37. The Rock & Roll Hypothesis (feat. Greil Marcus)

Amid our long cultural intermission, the greatest ever critic and historian of ROCK & ROLL welcomes me into his home for an afternoon reverie on some of our favorite music artists and their covers of the American Dream.
 
Greil Marcus was the very first records editor of Rolling Stone and the author of critical masterpieces Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, as well as several other books including The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs and most recently Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in 7 Songs. His famous long-running column now appears on Substack. 
 
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Episode set list: Etta vs Beyoncé, Hitchens, Paglia, Madonna, Howlin Wolf and Jimmie Rodgers, John Hammond, Robert Johnson, Altemont, Rolling Stones, Lebron James, Rihanna, B.B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Leon Russell, Harry Smith’s Anthology of Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone Magazine (early days), Teaching, Joni Mitchell, Melrose Place
 
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