Modern Rubbish

Music by David Paha

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Death Proof

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0700

As promised at the end of the last episode, we're talking about Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof!

Barbarian & Weapons

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0700

We’re kicking off 2026 with this Zach Cregger double feature!

Notes:

Barbarian by Zach Cregger

Weapons by Zach Cregger

Music by David Paha

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Autechre

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We’ve been threatening this since the very first episode of the show, but we’ve finally done it: we’re talking about Autechre for 90 mins.

Notes:

Music by David Paha

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Zeiram

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

This week we get into sci-fi / tokusatsu / creature-feature Zeiram, by Keita Amemiya.

Notes:

Zeiram by Keita Amemiya

Music by David Paha

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Annihilation

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We discuss Alex Garland’s (very loose) adaptation of Jeff Vandermeer’s novel Annihilation (one of Wyatt’s favorites).

Notes:

Annihilation, by Alex Garland

Music by David Paha

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

This week we discuss unrelentingly bleak video game tie-in anime miniseries Cyberpunk: Edgerunners by Hiroyuki Imaishi!

Notes:

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners by Hiroyuki Imaishi

Music by David Paha

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28 Years Later (Part Two)

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Part two of our rave on 28 Years Later by Danny Boyle!

Notes:

28 Years Later by Danny Boyle

Music by David Paha

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28 Years Later (Part One)

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

At Dave’s urging, we went to the theatre and saw a proper new release, 28 Years Later by Danny Boyle! This is part one of two.

Notes:

28 Years Later by Danny Boyle

Music by David Paha

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The Monkey

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We cover a new release with our viewing of horror-comedy The Monkey by Osgood Perkins!

Notes:

The Monkey by Osgood Perkins

Music by David Paha

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The People Under the Stairs

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We finally get around to talking about a Wes Craven film, with this episode on urban fairytale The People Under the Stairs!

Notes:

The People Under the Stairs by Wes Craven

Music by David Paha

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Stalker

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We head into the zone with this episode on atmospheric sci-fi classic, Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky!

Notes:

Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky

Music by David Paha

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In the Mouth of Madness

Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We wrap up John Carpenter’s “apocalypse trilogy” with this episode on 1994’s In the Mouth of Madness.

Notes:

Revelations by Elaine Pagels

Music by David Paha

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Prince of Darkness

Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We follow up our earlier episode on The Thing with this second installment John Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy”, Price of Darkness.

Notes:

Prince of Darkness

Bart D. Ehrman

Henry Corbin

Annie Hall “the universe is expanding” clip

Kitaro Nishida

Joel Biroco

Providence by Alan Moore

Half-Life (game)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Music by David Paha

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The Stone Tape

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We return to the BBC’s Plays For Today with Nigel Kneale’s legendary The Stone Tape.

Notes:

The Stone Tape

Quatermass

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Doctor Who theme song

Venture Bros. Blackula hunter clip

Music by David Paha

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Dracula (in general)

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Many-time guest Sam Jones returns to the podcast to talk about Dracula and his varied appearances in cinema.

Notes:

Sam’s Venn diagram

Blood and Mistletoe by Ronald Hutton

Music by David Paha

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The Cell

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Dave’s still sick, but we’re still talkin’, this time about arch-millennial stylefest, The Cell.

Notes:

The Cell

NIN Closer video

Mark Romanek

The Knick (series)

Sehnsucht (Rammstein album)

The Thirteenth Floor

World on a Wire

Paprika (anime)

Paprika (novel)

Berserk (manga)

Paranoia Agent (anime)

Deep Forest

Pure Moods

Return to Innocence by Enigma

Dark Waters

Immaculate

Ghost (band)

Artistic Inspiration in The Cell, from The Horror Digest

The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney

KooKoo (Debbie Harry album)

Body Worlds

Gunther von Hagens

Jandek

Burke and Hare murders

Sleazy interview part one (relevant bit starts at 8:39)

Sleazy interview part two

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Viennese Actionism

Lebowski quote

Wolf Eyes on Instagram

Insomniac with Dave Attell

Music by David Paha

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Smile 2

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Dave was sick and had an existential panic while watching Smile 2, so Wyatt watched it too, and we talked it out.

Notes:

Smile 2

Kyle Gallner

Barbarian

A History of Violence

Aphex Twin’s smile

Modern Rubbish Episode Twenty-One: Possession

Saul Bass

Truth or Dare

They Look Like People

Footwork dance battle

Ima Dog by DJ Nate

Gantz Graf by Autechre

The Substance

Trap

The Watchers

Cuckoo

The Forbidden by Clive Barker

Music by David Paha

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Candyman

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700

If you heard we’re lookin’ for Candyman, you heard right. This week we get sweet with this 1992 Clive Barker adaptation. We also get into the regrettable 2021 legasequel...but don’t hold that against us.

Notes:

Candyman (1992)

The Midnight Meat Train

Ted Raimi

Bernard Rose

Clive Barker’s Books of Blood

Thirty Helens Agree

Guy Fawkes Night

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s sushi playlist

Funny Games

The Wicker Man

“Robo wants an oreo”

How they shot the bee scenes in Candyman

How Did This Get Made? (podcast)

Music by David Paha

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Jacob's Ladder

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700

This week, we discuss a thoroughly wonderful (and thoroughly horrifying) film, Adrian Lyne’s massively-influential Jacob’s Ladder

Notes:

Jacob’s Ladder

Rabbit In Your Headlights by U.N.K.L.E. feat. Thom Yorke

Magick (Book 4) by Aleister Crowley

Space Is The Place by Sun Ra

Psychopomp

The Nice Guys

Vatican Shadow

Music by David Paha

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Flatliners

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700

It’s a good day to die on this episode, as we come up with some stuff to say about Joel Schumacher’s 1990...film?...Flatliners.

Notes:

Flatliners

The Cell

What Dreams May Come

Hatoful Boyfriend

Candyman

Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher” from Betty Boop

Music by David Paha

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Altered States

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0700

This week, we trip balls along with Ken Russell’s psychedelic body horror touchstone, Altered States!

Notes:

Altered States

Fleischer Studios

John C. Lilly

Gunbuster (anime)

Joel Biroco

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Epigenetics

Rupert Sheldrake

Sadness Sets Me Free by Gruff Rhys

Music by David Paha

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Don Hertzfeldt's Simpsons Couch Gag

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We return from our hiatus with this episode on Don Hertzfeldt’s couch gag for long-running animated series, The Simpsons!

Notes:

Don Hertzfeldt’s Simpsons couch gag

Smashing Pumpkins 1979 music video

Team America Everyone Has AIDS song

Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt

Homer’s Phobia (Simpsons episode)

The Cartridge Family (Simpsons episode)

City of Quartz by Mike Davis

The World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt

Ko Un (poet)

Music by David Paha

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Saw X (with Arden Stern & Casey Anderson)

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Wyatt joined Arden & Casey at their art space / venue, Trade School, in Altadena, California, for a screening of Saw X!

Notes:

Music by David Paha

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Jose Chung's From Outer Space

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0700

And on this, the last day of X-Mas, we discuss another Darin Morgan classic, the wonderfully absurd Jose Chung’s From Outer Space!

Notes:

Simpsons Australia coffee/beer bit

Music by Hoofwerk

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Tooms

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0700

For the fourth week of X-Mas, we give you our favourite cicadaman, Eugene Tooms!

This one begins with a long (but fun) preamble on other topics, so if you’re itching for X-Files content, skip to around 30 minutes in.

Notes:

Tooms

Squeeze

Dave’s painting

Félix Labisse (painter)

Wyatt hates OPN

The Lillywhite Sessions by Ryley Walker

It’s My Life by Talk Talk

Donal Logue (actor)

Dandadan (anime)

The Ghost Whisperer (series)

Paper wasp

Venture Bros. “ignore me” guy

Stasi (DDR secret police)

Conner Habib

Michelle Remembers by Lawrence Pazder & Michelle Smith

Music by Hoofwerk

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Die Hand Die Verletzt

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0700

X-Mas continues with this satanic panic classic.

Notes:

Die Hand Die Verletzt

Satan Wants You (documentary)

Pennyroyal (podcast)

Hellier (TV Series)

Heaven’s Gate

Pan’s Labyrinth (film)

Music by Hoofwerk

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Home (with Steven Warwick)

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Podcast patron saint Steven Warwick returns for a lovely chat about infamous X-Files episode Home. Merry X-Mas to us all!

Notes:

Home

Fear Indexing the X-Files by Nora Khan and Steven Warwick

Control (video game)

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Nan Goldin

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Chris Morris

Sutcliffe Jugend (band)

Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose

Music by Hoofwerk

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Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We’re kicking off “X-Mas”, our all-December-long celebration of all things X-Files! First up is legendary season 3 episode, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.

Notes:

Split (film)

The Exorcist (TV show)

Darin Morgan

Jerusalem by Alan Moore

Mama (film)

Whitest Kids U Know auto-erotic asphyxiation sketch

Arrested Development “and that’s why you always leave a note” bit

Music by Hoofwerk

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Audition (with Sam Jones)

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Five-time guest Sam Jones returns to the show to talk about infamous j-horror nightmare, Takashi Miike’s Audition.

Audio notes: Dave was sick, Sam’s cleaner was present, and Wyatt’s heater was (still is) broken, so he was huddled in a closet for the duration. Apologies for any auditory oddness.

Notes:

Audition by Takashi Miike

The Care and Keeping of the Male Slave (Kids in the Hall sketch)

Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes

Modern Rubbish Episode Five: Gozu

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans by Werner Herzog

Conny Plank

Steve Albini

The Weird, edited by Jeff & Ann van der Meer

Music by David Paha

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October Stories Debrief

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0700

All October, we released extra episodes wherein we narrated some of our favourite Weird stories, and now that it’s November, we thought we’d set aside some time to discuss those stories in greater detail.

Notes:

The Hitcher by Robert Harmon

Music by David Paha

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The Hitcher

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Join us for a somewhat disorienting and delirious chat about a disorienting and delirious movie, 1986’s thriller/killer/road movie, The Hitcher.

Notes:

Wolf Creek by Greg McLean

Roadgames by Richard Franklin

Joy Ride by John Dahl

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

C. Thomas Howell as the ‘Soul Man’ by Botch

Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore / Brian Bolland

Mark Isham

Windham Hill (record label)

Desert Solitaire by Steve Roach / Kevin Braheny / Michael Stearns

Near Dark by Kathryn Bigelow

A Field In England by Ben Wheatley

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Storytime: The Function of Dream Sleep by Harlan Ellison

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

All October long, we've been narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! For our final entry in this series, Wyatt reads Harlan Ellison's The Function of Dream Sleep. If, as we've said in an earlier episode, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse is a perfect depiction of depression, then this story is a similarly perfect depiction of grief. Enjoy!

Narrated by Wyatt Keusch, with music by David Paha.

A Field In England

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we discuss Ben Wheatley’s 2013 period psychedelic trip, A Field In England.

Notes:

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

The Mighty Boosh

The League of Gentlemen

Valhalla Rising by Nicolas Winding Refn

Britney Spears South Park episode

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Storytime: The Séance by Lynda E. Rucker

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

All October long, we're narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! This week's story is the brilliantly terrifying The Séance by Lynda E. Rucker.

Narrated by Wyatt Keusch, with music by David Paha.

Sampling, Fame & Our Dark Places

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

In this “mini” episode, we take a stroll through the legality of sampling, the inevitability of madness in the pursuit of fame, and end up at the darkness that dwells in all mankind. So, overall, a fun little chat.

Notes:

Earwig by Brian Catling

Jon Ronson

Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero

Music by David Paha

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Storytime: The Belonging Kind by William Gibson & John Shirley

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

All October long, we're narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! This week's story is a classic of the uncanny, The Belonging Kind, by William Gibson & John Shirley.

Narration and music by David Paha.

Dawn of the Dead

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we fawn over what is unquestionably the greatest zombie movie of all time, George Romero’s 1978 masterpiece, Dawn of the Dead!

Notes:

Where Were U in ‘92? by Zomby

“Six million ways to die” sample

The Arts of Death in Albion by Wyatt Keusch

Vesica piscis

E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching

“Yangmaxxing”

The Joy of the Worm by Drew Daniel

“That’s a problem for future Homer. Boy, I don’t envy that guy.”

Occult (film) by Koji Shiraishi

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Storytime: The Specialist's Hat by Kelly Link

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

All October long, we're narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! This week's story is an ominous and dread-filled drift through childhood, The Specialist's Hat, by Kelly Link.

Narrated by Wyatt Keusch, with brand new music by David Paha.

Occult

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we get into another Koji Shiraishi found-footage / mockumentary experiment, 2009’s Occult.

Notes:

Dandadan (manga) by Yukinobu Tatsu

Occult word etymology

Notes on Evil by Steven Warwick

Heaven’s Gate (space death cult)

Eno hammocks

From Beyond (film) by Stuart Gordon

From Beyond (story) by H.P. Lovecraft

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Storytime: A Redress For Andromeda by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

All October long, we're narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! This week's story is the wonderfully eerie maritime tale, A Redress For Andromeda, by Caitlín R. Kiernan.

Narrated by Wyatt Keusch, with brand new music by David Paha.

The Thing

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we talk about Dave’s favorite horror movie, John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece of cosmic-polar horror, The Thing!

Notes:

The Thing by John Carpenter

The Thing From Another World by Christian Nyby

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Simpsons “Lenny’s brain coin” gag

Michel Foucault & AIDS

Kenneth Grant (occultist)

KAOS 14 (including Alan Moore’s Kenneth Grant article)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Thoughts on Grunge, Part Two

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Part two of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture.

Notes:

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

Music by David Paha

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Pulse (with Casey Anderson)

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Casey Anderson returns to the show to discuss Wyatt’s favorite movie, Pulse!

Notes:

Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Casey Anderson

Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

“J-Horror”

Conway’s Game of Life

Japanese economic miracle

Death Stranding (game)

“Siloing”

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Human Shadow Etched In Stone

Hibakusha

Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Butoh (dance)

Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky

a wave press

KAOS Network

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Thoughts on Grunge, Part One

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0700

The first part of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture.

Notes:

The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage

Music by David Paha

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A Dark Song

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700

A Dark Song is both a wonderfully effective horror film and also an uncommonly realistic representation of the actual occult experience.

It’s been a while since we’ve done an explicitly occult-oriented film, so we hope it’s understandable that we go a bit hard on the magick talk for this one.

Notes:

A Dark Song by Liam Gavin

The Magick of A Dark Song by Duncan Barford

The Abramelin Diaries by Ramsey Dukes

Ridley Scott’s Apple commercial

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Alien Covenant

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Although we generally try to stick to the high ground and only talk about things we love, our Alien episode brought up a lot of negative thoughts about 2017’s irredeemably bad series entry, Alien: Covenant, so we thought it would be fun to indulge those for a change.

Notes:

Alien Covenant

Black Rain (film)

Budweiser frogs commercial

Wassup commercial

Tootsie Pop commercial

Mark Trayle

Noel Gallagher’s Oasis DVD commentary

The Counselor (film)

Whitest Kids U Know Sex Robot sketch

Die Toteninsel by Arnold Böcklin

Episode Twenty-Eight: Basket Case

Our Robocop Remake

The most important scene from Our Robocop Remake

NASA facility with its own weather system

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Alien

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we tackle Ridley Scott’s 1979 “haunted house in space” masterpiece, Alien.

Notes:

Alien by Ridley Scott

Slit-scan photography

Handsome Squidward Prometheus aliens

Ripley cat lady meme

William Gibson’s Alien 3

Dark Star (film)

Galaxy of Terror (film)

Barry Schrader

Metroid (video game series)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Trust & Art

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700

One of our usual pre-topic warm-ups decided to take us on a journey, through which we discuss the importance of trust in art, via podcast favourites Alan Moore, Hideo Kojima, Thomas Ligotti & more!

Music by David Paha.

Hellraiser (with Steven Warwick)

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Steven Warwick returns! This time we talk Hellraiser, Nine Inch Nails & Carl Jung!

Notes:

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

Hellraiser by Clive Barker

Trent Reznor interview re: Sharon Tate’s sister

Challengers (film)

Time Will Crawl by David Bowie

Love Lies Bleeding (film)

Drive film

NON / Boyd Rice

Come To Daddy by Aphex Twin

DeForrest Brown Jr.

Mike Kelley

Birth (film)

Borg (Star Trek)

Star Trek: First Contact (film)

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung

Giant head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The Oregon Trail, Capitalist Realism & The Gnostic Demiurge

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We realized that, improbably, we’ve been doing this show for a year! In celebration, enjoy this classic ramble on culture, high, low and everything in between.

Notes:

The Oregon Trail (game)

Donner Party

Ravenous (film)

Wendigo

Achewood Oregon Trail comics

Gilles Deleuze

“Body without organs”

Grimdark

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (anime)

Racket (expression)

Fabergé egg

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

Reniform Puls by Autechre

Charli XCX

Ulrich Krieger On the Future of Music

Immaterial by SOPHIE

One Last Kiss by Hikaru Utada

Hikaru Utada interviews Hideaki Anno

Panopticon

Yaldabaoth

Inverted World by Christopher Priest

Jailwise by Lucius Shepherd

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Mark Fisher on Joy Division

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Wyatt reads an excerpt from Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, while Dave provides the drones.

P.T.

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We watched a playthrough of video game auteur Hideo Kojima’s lost vision, P.T., and used that as a jumping-off point for some impassioned rambling about the state of media.

Notes:

P.T. (game)

Hideo Kojima

P.T. conspiracy video

Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar

Milhouse’s dad getting fired

Old Boy (film)

The Pick-Axe Murders by Cannibal Corpse

Kitsune

Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga

Death Stranding (game)

AOS tarot deck

Thoth deck Death card

Marseille deck Death card

Doki Doki Literature Club! (game)

Dust Bowl

Old man yells at cloud

Slitterhead (game)

Music by Çhåkrå Pånōptįkōn

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Robot Carnival (with Justin Sevakis)

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

To close out our month of anime, we’re joined by Justin Sevakis to discuss 1987 anthology film Robot Carnival!

Notes:

Robot Carnival

Anime News Network

A-Ha Take On Me music video

Seiko Matsuda

NFB animation

Heavy Metal (film)

Streets of Fire (film)

The Power Station (band)

South Park “Major Boobage” episode

Yukihiro Takahashi

Katamari Damacy (game)

The Adventures of Naughty Monkey

Mezzo Forte (film)

Fantasia Czernobog sequence

Fist of the North Star (film)

Memories (film)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Akira

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 dystopian sci-fi / body horror extravaganza, is rightly regarded as one of (if not the) best anime films of all time. With that in mind, how much more do we really think there is to say about it? Two hours more!

Notes:

Akira (anime) by Katsuhiro Otomo

Akira (manga) by Katsuhiro Otomo

Kaneda bike slide compilation

Brought to Light by Alan Moore

Paprika by Satoshi Kon

known(1) by Autechre

The Incal by Moebius & Jodorowsky

Luxor hotel elevator

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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OPN. CCRU. STFU. GTFO.

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

An addendum to our Ghost in the Shell episode, wherein Wyatt extolls the healing powers of Kenji Kawai’s score.

Notes:

M01 Chant One - Making of Cyborg by Kenji Kawai

Age Of by Oneohtrix Point Never

The Ghost of a Flea by William Blake

Nick Land

Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

Paul Erdos

Meltdown by Nick Land (video by Orphan Drift)

No Maps For These Territories (William Gibson documentary)

Music by Hoofwerk

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Ghost in the Shell

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We begin our protracted anime reverie with stone-cold classic Ghost in the Shell.

Notes:

Ghost in the Shell (anime) by Mamoru Oshii

Ghost in the Shell (manga) by Shirow Masamune

Rationalizing Brutality: The Cultural Legacy of the Headshot by Jacob Geller

Banana extinction

Clear by Cybotron

Kowloon Walled City

Suffering, Misery, Death by Hoofwerk

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Story time again! Wyatt reads William Gibson’s Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), once more over Dave’s darkest drones.

Notes:

Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) by William Gibson

Agrippa gallery

Music by David Paha

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Basket Case (with Sam Jones)

Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Four-time guest Sam Jones returns to the podcast to discuss Frank Henenlotter’s 1982 exploitation masterpiece, Basket Case!

Notes:

Basket Case (film)

Sam Jones

Hotel Broslin site

The photo Sam is describing

Simpsons evil twin episode

Tony Harrison (Mighty Boosh character)

Eagleman commercial

Mia Goth screaming clip

Xasthur - Prison of Mirrors

Sunn O))) - It Took the Night to Believe

Belial

Vampire’s Kiss Nic Cage scene

Deep-voiced cat video

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The 'Saw' Series (with Arden Stern and Casey Anderson)

Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week, Wyatt gets the rundown (in-person) on the ‘Saw’ series from guests Arden Stern and Casey Anderson.

Notes:

Saw (film series)

Arden Stern

Casey Anderson

The whiteboard picture

British Saw podcast?

Buffalo Gals song

NIN Broken movie

Cube (film)

“Death panel”

Retro: The Culture of Revival by Elizabeth Guffey

Kode9 on “deconstructed club” music

The Beast (film)

ogrish.com (this is a wiki link for information, visiting the actual site is not recommended)

a wave press

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Hellier Season One

Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we turn our gaze to the first season of paranormal documentary series, Hellier.

Notes:

Hellier by Karl Pfeiffer

Episode Eight: Something in the Dirt

Supplement Eleven: “Best” of 2023

The Unbinding by Karl Pfeiffer

Ghost Adventures (series)

Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson

Heaven by Talking Heads

Hunt for the Skinwalker by Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp

The Game by David Fincher

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Noosphere

Asclepius

The Shape of Dams to Come by The Jack Parsons Quartet

Crazy Gideon

The Charlatan and the Magus by Ramsey Dukes

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Thomas Ligotti's The Consolations of Horror

Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Wyatt reads Thomas Ligotti's "The Consolations of Horror" over suitably ominous music by Dave.

Music by David Paha

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Personal Shopper

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

2016’s Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas.

Notes:

Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas

Spiritualism

Theosophy

How To See Fairies by Ramsey Dukes

Jandek

Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Bart Simpson has no soul clip

Hilma Af Klint

Hilma Af Klint: Occult Painter and Abstract Pioneer by Åke Fant

Psychometry

Seinfeld “golden boy” shirt clip

Enochian Vision Magick by Lon Milo DuQuette

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The VVitch (with Annelise Baer)

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we’re joined by archaeologist and TV producer Annelise Baer! We discuss 2015’s runaway hit The VVitch from our usual occultist's angle, with the welcome addition of “an actual archaeologist” to the conversation!

Notes:

The VVitch by Robert Eggers

Annelise Baer

Are You A Big Jazz Boy Or A Little Jazz Boy?

Leeches in modern medicine

The Great Gazoo

Metaphor by Hoofwerk

Noncomprehending meme

“Squid guy” meme

Octopodes are “aliens”

Annelise’s drawing of wrong-Cthulhu

Black Phillip actor photo

Hagazussa by Lukas Feigelfeld

Witch trials in Russia

Spirit Box podcast

Song of the Dark Man by Darragh Mason

Michael Aquino / Temple of Set

Anton LaVey

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

The Birth of Satan by T.J. Wray and Gregory Mobley

Henry Corbin

Goya’s Black Paintings

Butoh dance

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The Work of Lynda E. Rucker

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

It’s a Wyatt solo ramble about his current favourite author, Lynda E. Rucker!

Notes:

Lynda E. Rucker

John Coulthart

Swan River Press

Music by David Paha

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The Exorcist III (with Malissa White)

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we were graced by Malissa White’s presence for an incredibly fun conversation about The Exorcist III! This is a very silly episode about a movie that’s only moderately silly, while still being thoroughly creepy and frequently sorrowful.

Notes:

Malissa White

The Exorcist III by William Peter Blatty

Tom of Finland (artist)

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor

Skinwalker Ranch

Zak Bagans

Kinderman & Dyer kissing w/Mike Tyson

Dave’s favourite meme

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Inland Empire (with Sam Jones)

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Returning guest Sam Jones makes his third appearance in The Rubbish Bin™ for this semi-in-person discussion of David Lynch’s 2006 film Inland Empire!

Notes:

Inland Empire by David Lynch

Room To Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna

Fairplex in Pomona

Dredd (film)

Enter the Void (film)

Bardo

A Family Finds Entertainment by Ryan Trecartin

The Guitar Circle by Robert Fripp

Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch

Witold Lutosławski

Nidana

Valis by Philip K. Dick

Venture Bros. Bowie clip

William S. Burroughs Western Lands quote

William S. Burroughs’ last written words

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Possession

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week’s episode is a long one, but we had a lot to say about Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 classic Possession.

Notes:

Possession by Andrzej Żuławski

Video Cat Vancouver

Hive Mind

Trainspotting withdrawal scene

The Astronaut’s Wife (film)

Hellraiser (film)

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

The Stendhal Syndrome (film)

Standhal syndrome

Jerusalem syndrome

Capgras syndrome

Jason Brown’s Paranoid Machines

Dark City (film)

On the Silver Globe (film)

Tiny Fuppets Party Pals

Ralph Waldo Emerson by Luther Burbank

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Steven Warwick's Commentary on Penda's Fen

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Steven Warwick was kind enough to record some live commentary while watching Penda’s Fen, which we’re passing along to you.

Notes:

Carnival of Souls by Herk Harvey

The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli

Pinhead’s appearance clip

Music by David Paha

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Penda's Fen (with Steven Warwick)

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Part two of our chat with musician/author/artist Steven Warwick. We get into Alan Clarke’s 1974 film Penda’s Fen, but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of riffing.

Notes:

Penda’s Fen by Alan Clarke

Of Mud and Flame: A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook

The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer

Big Brother (series)

2000AD (comic imprint)

Play For Today (series)

Red Shift by Alan Garner

Robin Redbreast

Play For Today by The Cure

Derek Jarman (filmmaker)

Sapphire & Steel (series)

Hellraiser (film)

IIIrd Gatekeeper by Skullflower

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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A Chat with Steven Warwick

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week, we sit down for a chat with musician/author/artist Steven Warwick who also has the (perhaps dubious) honour of being the origin of this podcast's name!

This is the first installment of our conversation with Steven, where we talk about his latest book, Notes On Evil, get into the idea of weirdness in art and slowly drift towards Alan Clarke’s 1974 film Penda’s Fen. Be sure to stay tuned for the second part, where we get more into Penda, and lots of other stuff besides!

Notes:

Penda’s Fen by Alan Clarke

Notes On Evil purchase link

The Ice House

Tim Buckley album cover

Glow: the Autobiography of Rick James

Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger

William Burroughs’ Nike ad (directed by Sleazy from Coil)

Pearls Before Swine (the Boyd Rice movie)

Blood Harvest (film)

Birth by Jonathan Glazer

Nathan Barley (series)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Night of the Hunter

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0700

This week we tackle a stone-cold classic, a massively influential and Important™ film that (somehow) neither of us had ever seen before: it’s Night of the Hunter!

Notes:

Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton

Night of the Hunter (novel) by Davis Grubb

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed by David Lynch

David Grubbs

Harry Powers (serial killer)

Bort / Bart

Carnivàle (series)

Bart D. Ehrman

The Best of Youth by Marco Tullio Giordana

Phill Niblock

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Fashion & Progress

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Some thoughts cut from last week's episode on Censor. Riffing on changing tastes, fashion, the question of progress and what being "ahead of the curve" really gets you.

Music by Sam Jones & Wyatt Keusch

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Censor

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0700

2021’s Censor is set in the world of British film censorship and the video nasty era, which was covered in last week’s episode. This week, we get into the perils of single vision while talking our way through the film.

Notes:

Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Arthur Machen quote on evil

William Blake vs. the World by John Higgs

Prano-Bailey Bond BFI interview

Podcast: The Ride

Michael Taylor

Unexplained podcast episode 6: Demons In Suburbia

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Video Nasties

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Our episode on Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond brought up the “video nasties” list, which was part of a particularly absurd media censorship situation in the United Kingdom, starting in the 1980s. This week, we dig into what the “video nasties” were, and why they’re relevant to the type of thing we like to talk about here on our show. This also serves as an intro to next week’s episode, on 2021’s Censor, a Welsh film dealing directly with the “video nasties” era.

Notes:

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY)

England’s Hidden Reverse by David Keenan

Who Killed Mr. Moonlight? by David J

Repelish by Mogwai

That John Balance light/dark quote

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Patreon Preview

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0700

As a preview of the kind of thing happening over on our Patreon, here's an excerpt from our recent discussion on the oft-maligned musical genre, nu-metal! Become a patron on Patreon to hear the full two-hour episode.

The Beyond

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Following on from last week’s supplement, it’s our full discussion of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond!

Notes:

The Beyond by Lucio Fulci

In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

Stupid Fuck by Sonny Sharrock

“This is fine” meme

“Won’t somebody please think of the cildren?!”

Elephant (1989) by Alan Clarke

Clark Ashton Smith

Zdzisław Beksiński (painter)

Kur (ancient Mesopotamian underworld)

Grandpa Simpson tattoo

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Stephen Thrower On Violence

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Wyatt reads an excerpt from Stephen Thrower’s book, Beyond Terror: the Films of Lucio Fulci, in advance of next week’s episode on Fulci’s The Beyond.

Notes:

Beyond Terror: the Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower

“Video nasty”

Music by David Paha

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Cure (with Casey Anderson)

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Casey Anderson returns for our first episode of 2024! We discuss Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 classic Cure.

Notes:

Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tokyo subway sarin attack

Underground by Haruki Murakami

Thomas Ligotti’s Crampton part one and two

Seven by David Fincher

Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky

Franz Mesmer

Edward Bernays

James Ellroy

Closure by Wyatt Keusch

Birthday Boys “Baby Hitler” sketch

Peter Watts

Embassytown by China Mieville

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Burial (musician)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Suspiria [2018] (with Michael Keusch)

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Wyatt was visiting his dad in Berlin, so we conscripted him into this discussion of 2018’s Suspiria remake!

Notes:

Suspiria (2018) by Luca Guadagnino

Psychometry

William Friedkin curse

Baader-Meinhof Group (Red Army Faction)

“Deutscher Herbst”

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind

Night Man (TV series)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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"Best" of 2023 (with Annelise Baer)

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Annelise Baer joins Wyatt for a quick roundup of some films he watched in 2023, that weren’t featured in episodes of the show.

Notes:

Talk to Me by Danny & Michael Philippou

Glorious by Rebekah McKendry

The Menu by Mark Mylod

Cobweb by Samuel Bodin

The Unbinding by Karl Pfeiffer

Foamy the Squirrel, “Amityville Toaster”

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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Unearthing

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0700

This week, we cover Alan Moore’s multimedia work Unearthing.

Notes:

Unearthing by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins

Unearthing by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins (photo book)

Unearthing by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins (album)

London: City of Disappearances, edited by Iain Sinclair

Dave McKean (artist)

Doseone (musician)

Anticon (record label)

Dead Dogs Two by cLOUDDEAD

Seven Souls by Material & William S. Burroughs

Mud & Starlight by Pádraig Ó Méalóid

Enochian magic

The Mindscape of Alan Moore

Footwork (genre)

The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, by Mötley Crüe & Neil Strauss (Wyatt mistakenly called this "The Filth", which is, in fact, a stupid comic by stupid Grant Morrison. It's so easy to confuse one stupid thing for another - apologies.)

I am the Cosmos by Chris Bell

“Really in this bitch” meme

Unicepter IV

Somnium by Steve Moore

Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose (X-Files episode)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The Canal

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0700

This week we use 2014’s The Canal as a launchpad for a discussion of what the reality of ghosts might look like, with our usual melange of tangents along the way!

Notes:

The Canal by Ivan Kavanagh

Videotape by Radiohead

Not Yet Remembered by Harold Budd & Brian Eno

“In flagrante delicto”

Charlie Day connections wall meme

Ecology of Souls by Joshua Cutchin

The Stone Tape BBC film

Magick / Liber ABA / Book 4 by Aleister Crowley

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Dave Miscalculates His Dosage

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Dave talks about his recent trip to a LaMonte Young concert, and the inward “Trip” that followed.

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Notes:

MOCA Geffen Contemporary

Ecstasy: In and About Altered States

Ecology of Souls by Joshua Cutchin

Hipgnosis

Magic & Mystery in Tibet, by Alexandra David-Néel

Venture Bros. “Hot Dolphin!” clip

Music by David Paha

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Society (with Sam Jones and Ang Wilson)

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Wyatt was in Los Angeles, and was able to record our first in-person episode with Ang Wilson and returning guest Sam Jones! We watched Society by Brian Yuzna, and had a lot of fun discussing it afterwards.

Notes:

Society by Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna interview Part 1

Brian Yuzna interview Part 2

Oral history of Society

Audition by Takashi Miike

Warm Bodies (the Nicholas Hoult zombie movie)

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Providence by Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows

Lists of Note by Shaun Usher

Wilbur, the Cat

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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More Crampton

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0700

The second half of our discussion on/about/around/adjacent to Crampton by Thomas Ligotti & Brandon Trenz.

Notes:

Millennium (TV series)

The Lone Gunmen (TV series)

Global Consciousness Project

Ulam spiral

Time Loops by Eric Wargo

Michael Richards (sculptor)

David Mandell

Joe Preston

Haunted Universe by Steven Norquist

The Universe is a Haunted House by Coil

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram

Jacob’s Ladder by Adrian Lyne

Rabbit in Your Headlights by UNKLE (feat. Thom Yorke)

Meister Eckhart

Music by David Paha.

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Noroi - The Curse (with Casey Anderson)

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Our good friend Casey Anderson stops by for a chat about the best found footage film of all time, 2005’s Noroi: The Curse!

Notes:

Casey Anderson

Noroi: The Curse by Kōji Shiraishi

From Beyond by H.P. Lovecraft

Kami (Shinto)

Spirit of place

The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

Occult by Kōji Shiraishi

Grave Encounters by The Vicious Brothers

Unfriended: Dark Web by Stephen Susco

Paranormal Activity by Oren Peli

Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

As Above, So Below by John Erick Dowdle

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

A&W Canada

Unsane by Steven Soderbergh

Tangerine by Sean Baker

The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

The Russian text we refer to says “звезда”, which can be transliterated as “zvezda”, and is the Russian word for “star”. Thanks to our friend Raphael for the translation.

Drag Me to Hell by Sam Raimi

Venetian Snares

IDM

Ungirls (Japanese comedy duo)

Alternate reality game

The Universe Is A Haunted House by Coil

Silent Hill 3

South Park: Randy is so startled

a wave press (Casey’s record label)

Experimental Music Yearbook

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

Thomas Ligotti's Crampton

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Our first episode with a content warning! This week’s episode uses the unproduced X-Files script Crampton by Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz as an entry point for a discussion on some very dark themes. Nothing too harsh, but we do feel it’s worth mentioning that if you’re not in a great headspace, maybe avoid Ligotti and our discussion of his work and ideas.

Notes:

Crampton by Thomas Ligotti & Brandon Trenz

The Clown Puppet by Thomas Ligotti

Matt Cardin

The Thomas Ligotti Reader, edited by Darrell Schweitzer

1-900 line commercials

Gabbo

Hive by Earl Sweatshirt

Protect Ya Neck by Wu-Tang Clan

Alan Watts god-play thing

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti

The Arising & Passing Away

Arthur Schopenhauer

David Benatar

Benatar / Sam Harris podcast episode

Ligotti’s music

South Park “can’t go back to Playboy”

Pentti Linkola’s Dumbo ears

Jack of all trades full quote

Secret Chiefs

The Unnameable by H.P. Lovecraft

Music by David Paha.

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Something in the Dirt

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Following directly on from our mad ravings on art and prophecy in the Radiohead episode, this week we get deeper into the weeds with Justin Benson’s and Aaron Moorhead’s schizoid mockumentary Something in the Dirt.

Notes:

Something in the Dirt by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

The Endless by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

Henry Kaiser

Hellier

Creating Christ by James S. Valliant & Warren Fahy

Blood and Mistletoe by Ronald Hutton

Randy Quaid conspiracy

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

Radiohead & Prophecy

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700

A freewheeling ride through the LA noise music scene, hot takes on beloved Scottish comics writers, the utter failure of Google Glass and the weight of prophecy.

Notes:

Weatherhouse by Philip Selway

In Limbo by Radiohead

Kid A Mnesia book

Humour by Stanley Donwood

Grant Morrison

Hypersigil

Binah

Simpsons Monkey’s Paw

Joel Biroco

Kenneth Grant

The Red Book by C.G. Jung

Humans can fail the Turing Test

Your Body Does Not Want To Be An Interface by John Pavlus, review of Google Glass in MIT Technology Review

Homunculus

Senses Working Overtime by XTC

Dude who drinks his son’s blood?

The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky

“And Then The Tree Cums”

After Many A Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley

William Randolph Hearst

Death to Everyone by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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Night of the Comet

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Due to some technical difficulties, the episode scheduled for this week isn’t ready - while we’re sorting that out, please enjoy this unreleased conversation which was originally intended to be our second episode. We’re surprised that we didn’t feel our discussion of 1984’s Night of the Comet was worth releasing at the time of recording, but here we are.

Notes:

Night of the Comet (1984) by Thom Eberhardt

“If you have to ask, you’ll never know”

Burbank, California

Comet Hale-Bopp

Halley’s Comet

Captain Ron (1992) by Thom Eberhardt

Video Cat

A note about the budget: the film grossed $14,418,922 total in the US against a $700,000 budget.

El Rey theatre

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (song)

Neal Stephenson is tired of dystopias

Limmy’s Show

Black Mirror sucks

The Cheepnis by Frank Zappa

Victoria Nelson (author)

Digital vs. Analog photograhpy video

The Haunting (1963) by Robert Wise

Ringu (1998) by Hideo Nakata

Annihilation (2018) by Alex Garland

Drum Machines Have No Soul stickers

Zuckerzeit by Cluster

Death Piggy - Boner (song)

A Boy and His Dog (1975) by L.Q. Jones

Call Me Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles

Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch

Daniel Lanois

Ridley Scott doesn’t understand his own work

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Formative Horror Experiences

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700

The farce continues! It’s another “mini” episode that’s over an hour long!

In this one, we discuss some of our formative experiences with horror media and list our biggest early influences.

Notes:

Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone

City of the Living Dead by Lucio Fulci

Tetsuo: the Iron Man by Shinya Tsukamoto

Ulver (band)

Terrestrials by Sunn O))) & Ulver

Scary Muzak by Ulver

Poltergeist II: The Other Side by Brian Gibson (with effects by H.R. Giger!)

Phantasm by Don Coscarelli

Spectrophobia

Tales from the Crypt (TV series)

EC Comics - Tales from the Crypt was an EC series, so a “duh” moment for Wyatt’s commentary.

Creepshow by George A. Romero

Bordello of Blood by Gilbert Adler

Cannibal Corpse (band)

Metalocalypse (TV series)

Beetlejuice (TV series)

Germelshausen by Friedrich Gerstäcker, possible source of the Brigadoon story.

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Thomas Ligotti

Super Mario Bros. 2 (video game)

The Gate (film trailer)

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley

The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade

William Blake

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Robert Anton Wilson

Counterculture

Thomas Metzinger

The Imp of the Perverse

Modular synthesizer

Intrusive thoughts

China Miéville

Miéville talking about octopus intelligence

The Secret Tradition of the Soul by Patrick Harpur

The Osiris myth

Vacation Vinyl

Harrassor (band)

The Thing by John Carpenter

Escape from New York by John Carpenter

American Movie by Chris Smith

The Ring (2002) by Gore Verbinski

Hurt (Johnny Cash version)

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails version)

Venture Bros. henchmen clip

JG Thirlwell

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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eXistenZ (with Sam Jones)

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Our first episode with a guest! We welcome our friend Sam Jones to the Rubbish Bin™, and together we discuss David Cronenberg’s 1999 oft-overlooked techno-thriller/body-horror gem, eXistenZ.

Notes:

Louis Cole

Podcast The Ride

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Einstürzende Neubauten

My Life With the Spirits by Lon Milo DuQuette

Night hag

Simpsons Naked Lunch joke

Yorgos Lanthimos

Room To Dream by David Lynch

Superhot (VR game)

Tech-gnostic

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

ReBoot (TV series)

From Beyond (story by H.P Lovecraft)

From Beyond (film by Stuart Gordon)

Society (film by Brian Yuzna)

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

CanCon (“Canadian Content”)

Dean Ween will kill you

James Woods Simpsons joke

Christopher Priest

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Categories & Classifications

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Another supplemental episode that’s almost as long as a proper episode! This time it’s an extended riff on categories / classifications of horror and their uses / abuses.

Notes:

A History of Heavy Metal by Andrew O’Neill

"Get a hobby"

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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Gozu

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0700

We cover a lot of ground in this discussion of Takashi Miike’s 2003 film Gozu, from “is Gozu a horror movie” to “who played Robocop?”, with stops at “John Waters loves his freaks” and “what you saw was the planet Venus” along the way!

Apologies for the quality of Wyatt’s audio in this one. He’s doing his penance with the Minotaur now.

Notes:

Gozu by Takashi Miike

Folk horror

Nagoya, Japan

Ichi the Killer by Takashi Miike

Audition by Takashi Miike

William S. Burroughs

Slow Chocolate Autopsy by Iain Sinclair

Renji Ishibashi vs. Iain Sinclair

Visitor Q by Takashi Miike

John Waters loves his freaks

Soylent Green (film)

Naked Lunch (film)

Robocop was played by Peter Weller

Burroughs’ Word Virus concept

Barbarous words

The Golem (film)

Jose Chung’s From Outer Space Trebek/Ventura clip

Darin Morgan

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Ito / Kojima picture

MPD Psycho (TV series) by Taskashi Miike

Indiewire interview with Miike

Burning Chrome by William Gibson

The Dr. Hibbert laugh

The Ray Liotta Goodfellas laugh

Courtly love

South Park “there was a spooky ghost - this is ectoplasm!” clip

Dave (TV series)

Chiaroscuro

David Lynch short film - Premonitions Following An Evil Deed

Krzysztof Penderecki

Waterphone (instrument)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Short-Form Horror Recommendations

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0700

A quick list of 6 examples of short-form horror Wyatt would suggest checking out.

Notes:

The Thing on the Fourble Board (episode of Quiet Please, 1948)

The Town Manager by Thomas Ligotti (from Teatro Grottesco, 2003)

The Weird (short-story anthology, 2011)

Box by Takashi Miike (from 3 Extremes collection, 2004)

The Moons at Your Door EP by Current 93 (2015)

The Moons at Your Door (short-story collection 2016)

Inside (video game, 2016)

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito (appendix to Gyo, 2002)

Music by David Paha

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The End of Irony

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Musings on accepting your own bad taste, rejecting irony and the cultural darkness that was the hipster era.

Notes:

Frank Zappa

Weird Al

Flight of the Conchords

Creepy American Apparel ads

The CIA (nightclub)

Luther Burbank

Blue Monday (original by New Order)

Blue Monday (cover by Orgy)

“Presence by Led Zeppelin is an underrated album”

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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My House Walkthrough

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0700

We initially meant for this to be a mini episode on 12 minute YouTube short My House Walkthrough, but as seems to happen with us, it blossomed into a full-length episode.

Lots of tangents and metaphysical speculation in this one, though we do eventually get around to the film itself, right around around the 13 minute mark.

Notes:

My House Walkthrough by nana825763

My House.WAD game playthrough

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Ergodic literature

Octet by David Foster Wallace

Naraka (Buddhist “Hell”)

Calvinist predestination

Maranasati (death meditation)

The Aghori

Accelerationism

P.T. (“Playable teaser” for Silent Hills)

Feedback

Heaven by Talking Heads

Duncan Barford

Space Is The Place by Sun Ra

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The Indeterminacy of Cryptids

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0700

A few thoughts that didn’t quite fit into our discussion of Lake Mungo.

Notes:

Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur

Da’ath

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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The Ninth Gate

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:15:00 -0700

Episode three uses Roman Polanski’s 1999 thriller The Ninth Gate as a jumping-off point for our most explicitly magick-oriented discussion yet. We’re very sorry for the lack of Autechre. We’ll try to do better. We hope you can forgive us.

Notes:

The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The Cardinal & The Corpse by Iain Sinclair & Chris Petit

Satanist Sketchers

The Unknown God by Martin P. Starr

The Pepsi-Cola Addict by June-Alison Gibbons

Grimoires

Garth Brooks & the devil SNL sketch

Peter Dreher, who painted the same glass every day (though he sadly passed away in 2020 - Dave's mistake)

Circuit bending

Ol’ Dirty Bastard “yeah, the pussy was good”

Betalevel

Jason Brown’s Paranoid Machines talk

Babalon

Ergot poisoning

Brought to Light by Alan Moore

Stellas Daemonum by David Crowhurst

Jason Miller

The Typhonian magickal current

The Alan Moore interview (not with Stewart Lee - Wyatt's mistake). The relevant bit begins around the 56 minute mark, but the whole thing (as well as part one) is well worth a listen.

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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The Name of the Podcast

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0700

It’s like Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, but the rose is a podcast.

Notes:

Re-Engineering by Heatsick

Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur

“Would that it were so simple”

Ari Aster doesn't make horror films

A24

Music by David Paha

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Lake Mungo

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Episode number two concerns Australian independent supernatural mockumentary Lake Mungo. We go further into the occulty / woo-woo / disreputable area of our shared interests in this one, but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of anecdotal rambling, references to the LA noise scene and, of course, Autechre.

Lake Mungo by Joel Anderson

Parked Out By the Lake by Dean Summerwind

The unfortunate / inaccurate release poster

The Goetia

An Accidental Christ by Lon Milo DuQuette

From Hell by Alan Moore

The Charlatan and the Magus by Ramsey Dukes

Victor Neuburg camel story

Dave’s favourite meme

Time Loops by Eric Wargo

DNA helix dream

Freedom Is A Two Edged Sword by Jack Parsons

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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It Follows

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0700

In this, our inaugural episode, we discuss David Robert Mitchell’s 2015 curse film It Follows. Is it ‘just an STD allegory’? Does the soundtrack hold up in a post-synthwave world? Is Lars (von) Trier just a Gen-X edgelord? How much do we talk about Autechre? You’ll just have to listen and find out!

Notes:

It Follows by David Robert Mitchell