In 'Collectin' Scalps with 'Stock', a System of Systems side project, Adam takes second mic handing over creative direction to none other than based swaggot, artist, and former guest Alex Bienstock. In this series, the boys go undercover in the scourges of the New York art world, interviewing friends and foes alike to get to the bottom of the transgressively creative id that drives us to do this shit. In the first episode, we interview artist, puppeteer and sex worker Alice Aster to talk about h...
Oct 27, 2021•16 min
We're celebrating Halloween, fear, terror and disquiet for this two part episode folks! Announcing herself as a new reoccurring guest host, fan favorite Bimbo Ubermensch joins Adam and Will to discuss our favorite horror-tinged novels and films. Tune in next week for part 2, where we will discuss our favorite scary records and visual art works. Favorite Horror Films: Adam: Juraj Herz The Cremator Will: Psychic TV First Transmission , Mr. Bungle "Quote Unquote" video Sandra: Pawel Pawlikowski Ida...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 40 min
PREVIEW (Full Episode on Patreon): Electronic music producer, sound artist, and Diagonal Records head honcho Oscar Powell joins the show to discuss imminent fatherhood, his evolution from a burgeoning global DJ to a muted and surreal sound artist, his new album 'Piano Studies', working alongside the late Editions Mego head and experimental music god Peter Rehberg, drugs/psychedelic limit experiences, and mass media. Full Episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/piano-studies-w-57589350?...
Oct 19, 2021•16 min
System of Systems, at long last, is back. First things first, Ben AKA the Perpetual Self Optimizer is no longer the producer/co-host, and we want to thank him for all the great work done on this program. Replacing him is none other than former guest Will Samson , who takes over production duties and second mic. Welcome him! In our first episode back, we have Ellroy Boys co-host and Apocalypse Confidential editor Blauergeist! specifically to take on the colossal disaster that is The Sopranos preq...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 24 min
In this episode, Adam is joined by Bimbo Ubermensch aka SANDRA and host of the Pleasure Helmet podcast Ilydivna aka Dana to talk about two recent pop culture spectacles equally flawed and fascinating. We are talking about Kanye West's 'DONDA' and the release parties that Kanye threw to celebrate its publication, as well as Leos Carax's new English language Sparks-soundtracked, Adam Driver-starring avant-musical film 'Annette'. While both art works are wildly imperfect, there is something about t...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 47 min
Writer Will Samson hangs with Adam to discuss Public Enemy, Throbbing Gristle, industrial and rap music more broadly, and his recent article for Apocalypse Confidential. SOUNDTRACK Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (live) https://music.apple.com/us/album/discipline-reprise-live/1412909636?i=1412909785 Throbbing Gristle - Dead Souls Live https://music.apple.com/us/album/dead-souls-live/1412909636?i=1412909776 Captain Beefheart - Dachau Blues https://music.apple.com/us/album/dachau-blues/1579587935?i...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Alex Bienstock is an artist from Brooklyn, a PARTY BOY, a domestically violent sociopath who hates women, a based swaggot, a tender hearted lover of women, a racist, a homophobe, a homo, a hypochondriac who cant get sick, das ubermensch, a jew, an anti semite, the first person to do art ever. THE STOCK! Bienstock is an IRL friend and his new book of writing and illustrations 'Da Bitch Gave Me Jew Balls' is the FIRST PUBLICATION EVER BY ADAM's NEW PUBLISHING IMPRINT SAFETY PROPAGANDA BOOKS. We ar...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 39 min
Adam and Ben kick it old school. No guests, all killer, no filler. Topics of discussion include the removal of Ben's wisdom teeth, Benjamin Bratton's Covid totalitarianism advocacy, the rise of a new medical authoritarianism, and the passing of the great musicians Joey Jordison (Slipknot drummer) drummer and Peter Rehberg (electronic music producer PITA). SOUNDTRACK: PITA "Acid Udon": https://music.apple.com/us/album/acid-udon/262236237?i=262236373 Slipknot "Disasterpiece": https://music.apple.c...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 28 min
In this exclusive interview, Adam talks to California-based artist Marc Horowitz (husband to previous guest Petra Cortright, a kind of full circle) to talk about his career and his life. Marc grew up "poor as fuck" in Middle America before moving to California to get a degree in business. One thing leading to the next, Marc eventually transitioned to being an artist after taking a painting class during his senior year. The first half of his career saw Marc staging elaborate conceptual projects t...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 36 min
Friend of the show and co-host of the Rare Candy podcast Glen Rockney joins the boys to discuss the career of who we think is the best American filmmaker to emerge in the 2010s, S. Craig Zahler. Discussing all three of his films — Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete — the trio pinpoints the artistically interesting formal qualities that have separated Zahler from his contemporaries as one of the emerging film artists to celebrate: extreme length, genre subversion, ...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 48 min
The boys are joined by friend, artist, writer and co-host of the Break the Rules Podcast Gio Pennacchietti to discuss PAINTING. Painting, so much and so little to say. Its history, its dreary present. The tendency towards what Dean Kissick calls "zombie figuration" and what separates the brilliance of Matthew Barney from the average new media artist. But mostly, we discuss four artists to emerge out of postmodernism or later that we believe are upholding some nobler archetype of the painter hist...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 46 min
Our old pal Geoff Shullenberger, writer and critic extraordinaire, is back on System of Systems to discuss his new piece for American Greatness – 'How We Forgot Foucault.' In it, Geoff describes the irony in Foucault's recent dip in citations and his abandonment as a "hero of the modern left," given that during the pandemic so much of Foucault's theories on biopolitics and biopower have proven to be utterly true. We discuss the aspects of Foucault's ideas that have emerged as inconvenient to a l...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 36 min
A long sought-after guest joins System of Systems to discuss a number of artistic, philosophical, and political topics. Adam and the writer, critic and philosopher DC Miller became internet-linked after Adam demonstrated public interest in DC's writing. The result was that Adam was fired from The Quietus, where he wrote a regular column on the noise music underground and critical theory, and lost a number of other writing contracts. How did DC become such a controversial figure? Well, it mostly ...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 59 min
Walter Pearce revolutionized casting in the New York fashion industry as the casting director for the early Hood by Air shows before co-founding the Midland Agency. Recently, however, Walter has gotten hella BASED! Off opiates, he felt serious discontent with the liberalism of the fashion industry. He has now been posting memes, throwing bombs, quoting Adam and Benedict Cryptofash, and brings a refreshing perspective to the System of Systems oeuvre. Also, we should mention that this is the begin...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 41 min
After a host of media hacks are deployed to fear monger the specter of the post-left, Angie Speaks of the Low Society podcast joins the boys to discuss the histrionics of the pseudo-dissidents, lies, smears, cruelty, the kayfabe, and internet censorious fervor. The temporal loop continues spinning. There is also discussion on religion, spirituality, the occult, christianity, paganism, and David Lynch. We also talk about the divinely kooky Nikole-Hannah Jones' denial of tenure, and the media libs...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Two of our favorite of gal pals, the beautiful Jana Surkova (of the Hate Fiction podcast) and the lovely Zach Langley Chi Chi (of the I'm so Popular podcast) join System of Systems to discuss the flattening of sexuality in cinema and, by extension, the collapse of eroticism in our society. The crew discusses Tumblr aesthetics (Adam comes out of the closet as a once Tumblr user), and their favorite sex scenes in cinema. Films discussed include: Blue is the Warmest Color, Showgirls, Crash, Crimes ...
May 11, 2021•2 hr 4 min
