Wanted. America. Dead or Alive. Glen Rockney of Rare Candy and The Back Wall joins me for a dance to the haunting tunes and portents of Martin Scorcese's THE LAST WALTZ (1978), a documentary classic about the historic final concert where The Band and friends staged several of the greatest rock performances of all time. For the full 2.5 hour episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to get access to twice as many adventures and support this travel agency for the soul. In memory...
Dec 20, 2023•30 min
F. Scott Fitzgerald died a few steps below Sunset as a broken man and cautionary symbol of what Hollywood can do to your talent and soul. But how true is that fable? Matthew Specktor -- author of Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis & Los Angeles, California and founding editor of the L.A. Review of Books -- joins me on a journey from Fitzgerald's Hayward Ave. apartment to the Westmount Drive home of mercurial screenwriter Carol Eastman, in search of secrets to the shadow stars wh...
Dec 11, 2023•2 hr 4 min
Returning to the vaudeville theater on the boulevard of crime for the second half of Bob Dylan’s Rough n Rowdy Ways concert and album, the second act of his life, and the fateful question posed by his final American prophesy… For twice as many adventures, including an upcoming episode on The Last Waltz and Volume One of this episode, please support the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Come to LA for our next live adventure and festivity on January 6. FAA presents WHITE CHR...
Dec 02, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Jumping off the Colorado Street Bridge -- which curves majestically over the Arroyo Secco, one of the driest rivers known to man -- is not as easy as it once was. But don't panic. It's not dark yet. My guest Isaac Simpson has a right wing ad agency that can rebrand your troubles using the ancient power of negative thinking. An adventure of light, lies, and the psyop behind "calamari." If this free episode touches you, please subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for twice as many adventures, i...
Nov 10, 2023•2 hr 9 min
Reviewing Chuck Klosterman's recent book THE NINETIES, my guest and I reminisce about -- you guessed it -- The Nineties, until both of us arrive at a state of deep and all-consuming melancholy. The Nineties, that decade where history stopped, maybe to jerk off. How did we let that go? Where did we go so wrong? And most importantly: who can we point our fingers at?? Talkin' bout our generation... Full 3 hour ep for subscribers at patreon.com/filthyarmenian with Scott from St. Louis Follow us on X...
Oct 30, 2023•21 min
On International Jihad Day, we find ourselves hunting for answers to horror in the Middle East in the historic hauntfest version of Knott's Berry Farm -- an iconic California theme park with a very important political secret of its own. For the full 2.5 hour adventure -- and twice as many eps overall, including the most intimate and scandalous ones -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian and ensure the wheels keep turning. With Jocko Homo and DJ Boytoy Follow us on X/insta @filthy...
Oct 20, 2023•22 min
I crash the home of anti-woke sex symbol Richard Hanania, in many ways the MLK of our time, for a wide-ranging backyard conversation on his life, romances, his new book The Origins of Woke : Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics...and our aggressive off-white dream to make America fun again. To support the show and get access to twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 47 min
In honor of our first live show LOS ANGELES, unlocking a favorite bull session on Joan Didion's landmark SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM (and the odious Netflix documentary about her) with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist . For many more like this and access to twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones and our first live show recording, please subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian X/insta: @filthyarmenian...
Oct 06, 2023•2 hr 10 min
It is a dark, dark age. But there are figures in the landscape, filthy particles in the air, and a city that has long served as a map of the apocalypse. Also dolmas. Welcome to the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure. This is Act 1: Fire, Brimstone, & the Santa Ana Winds featuring Alec Mouhibian and Joan Didion's ghost. For the full magical evening and over 50 other patron-only episodes, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian When you subscribe: Act 2: The Nose Knows feat. Jack...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 15 min
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). If this free episode "touches" you please support the show by subscribing on patreon.com/filthyarmenian and get access to over twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones. Few tickets remain for the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure LOS...
Sep 21, 2023•2 hr 25 min
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. For the full episode, and access to over 50 other patron-only adventures, support the show by subscribing at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian If you'd like to attend the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure in LOS ANGELES on Septembe...
Sep 14, 2023•26 min
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. If you enjoy this free episode and want to see the show continue, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access to twice as many adventures for as little as $5 a month. Limited tickets are available for FAA presents LOS ANGELES, our first live show & party o...
Sep 08, 2023•2 hr 20 min
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... Enjoy this free episode and become a patron at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to access over twice as many, including last week's intimate secret ep The Book Buyer's Bedroom and a forthcoming dispatch from the Munch Museum. To request tickets for FAA presents LOS ANGELES, our first live event on September 23, a night of magic mirth fire and b...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 29 min
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. Enjoy this free episode and access double the adventures (including last week's "Oscar Wilde at Heart") by subscribing at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to help US keep the lights on and take the show to ever deeper and wilder dimensions. Follow us on...
Aug 04, 2023•1 hr 57 min
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 ). This is a preview -- for the full twisted adventure, and double the episodes in past and future, subscribe at patreon.com/filthy...
Jul 26, 2023•27 min
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. The full, intimate episode is available only to subscribers. Become one now at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to follow the full, twisted adventure, with access to twice as ...
Jul 14, 2023•21 min
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 . This is Part 1. For the forthcoming Part 2, and dozens of other subscriber-only episodes, become a patron at patr...
Jul 05, 2023•2 hr 11 min
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). This is a preview of the monologue only. For the full 2+ hour show, become a subscriber at patreon.com/filthyarmenian and get access to twice as many twisted adventures for as little as $5 a month, or less fo...
Jun 20, 2023•10 min
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. For the upcoming Volume 2 and dozens of other subscriber-only episodes, join the rug merchants, cigar singers, and oligarchs of the night who support the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for as little as $5 a month. Follow us on twitter and instagram @filthyarmenian Please leave a rating and review wherever you listen, and spread the word if this to...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 31 min
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 h...
Jun 07, 2023•2 hr 29 min
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 . Plu...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 6 min
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. For the full 2 hour episode and many more, follow the complete twisted adv...
May 18, 2023•56 min
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. Enjoy this free episode. For part 1 and the upcoming part 3 of the Coachella trilogy, plus dozens more subscriber-only episodes, support the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian and follow the full twisted adventure for as little as $5 a month. Follow ...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 39 min
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. Follow us on twitter and instagram @filthyarmenian
May 04, 2023•21 min
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 ...
Apr 22, 2023•2 hr 26 min
To some, it is paradise. To me, it is the deepest darkest pit of childhood fear and boyhood loathing, Longhouse HQ, symbol sight & sound of chthonian meandering maternal schemes. Can the circle be unbroken? Two of my favorite boys in the world take me to THE DOMAIN of the trauma beast (after a pit stop at diner heaven) on this Linklatery Texas-forever Smelly Sue torture sojourn to the DEPARTMENT STORE. Can I sniff my way to appreciate the pastime of my mother? Can we learn to enjoy the thing...
Mar 22, 2023•45 min
I have a few words to say about Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, getting canceled at last for a kamikaze strike on the Church of Racism. To hear them all, subscribe for the full episode at patreon.com/filthyarmenian. There are now 40 episodes available exclusively to my "rug merchant" patrons, and at least two new ones each month. See us on twitter and instagram @filthyarmenian
Mar 14, 2023•15 min
There's no such thing as black and white, says the clever Scottish salesman. We're all just doing our best on the gray scale. Should you find yourself surfing that scale, serving customers at a fancy restaurant, here are some tips on how to make them order the special -- and convince them they enjoyed it. We hope YOU enjoy this seven course debate between two differing political views, served rare, with no anger, snobbery, or hard feelings of any kind. Appetizer supplied by our new sponsor, One ...
Mar 09, 2023•2 hr
I hit the Vegas tables with roulette mystic Glenn Greenwald to make some bets, spot cheaters, lay it on the line and try to decipher his highly successful system for beating the House. FULL EPISODE NOW UNLOCKED, in honor of our mutual birthday. For 40 other premium episodes and secret chapters, including twice as many each month, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to support the show. Glenn Greenwald is the co-founder of The Intercept, host of the Rumble show System Update, and author most ...
Mar 06, 2023•2 hr 17 min
Of Bowling, Of Alcoholism, Of Shame, Of ADHD, Of The Glory of Autism, Of The Touchstones of Camille Paglia and Ayn Rand, Of Susan Sontag, Of Philip Roth, Of The Painting That Hangs In The Bathroom at Madonna's House, Of Shepherd's Pie, Of Magic Mic...and Of That Sinister Word PARASOCIAL. You've got a friend in me. Full episode only for subscribers. To support the show and follow the complete twisted narrative with twice as many episodes, plus bull sessions and secret chapters, become a patron at...
Feb 28, 2023•21 min
