Filthy Armenian Adventures

There is daytime socialism. And there is nighttime socialism. George Orwell narrates a long summer night in Barcelona where a friend and I pursue a very different, but not entirely different, dream than the one that falls to pieces in HOMAGE TO CATALONIA.   For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and over twice as many adventures as well as exclusive daily "smoke break" mini eps -- subscribe to the show...

Addressing the "curse" of Alec Baldwin Derangement Syndrome.   For twice as many adventures plus regular bite-size "smoke breaks" and heads up on next live event, subscribe to the.show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insga @filthyarmenian   Take moment to review and rate the show wherever you listen, it helps.

The Mormon has gone clean, but his newfound inner peace meets a challenge in our return to L.A.'s oldest purveyor of soup...   To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for over twice as many episodes.   Please rate and review the show wherever you listen, and follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

On January 6, in front of packed house at the Adventurer's Club Los Angeles (est. 1921), we perform a surrogate rebirth of the spirit of Christmas.   With Richard Hanania , Jack Mason ( The Perfume Nationalist ), Ben Braddock , DJ Gum Arabic, and Santa Claus.   For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures overall, plus regular bite size "smoke break" eps -- subscribe to the show a...

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/filthyarm...

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 Westm...

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/fi...

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 fr...

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......

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/filthya...

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, inclu...

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 s...

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, su...

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...

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 @fi...

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...

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 ticke...

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/filthyarmen...

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...

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 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 P...

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/fil...

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 instag...

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 ce...

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 exampl...