Modern Rubbish

This week, we discuss a thoroughly wonderful (and thoroughly horrifying) film, Adrian Lyne’s massively-influential Jacob’s Ladder Notes: Jacob’s Ladder How Did This Get Made? (podcast) Rabbit In Your Headlights by U.N.K.L.E. feat. Thom Yorke Meister Eckhart Emanuel Swedenborg 13 Assassins Yukio Mishima Ovid Magick (Book 4) by Aleister Crowley Space Is The Place by Sun Ra Psychopomp The Nice Guys V...

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 Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by David Paha Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

This week, we trip balls along with Ken Russell’s psychedelic body horror touchstone, Altered States ! Notes: Altered States Fleischer Studios Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher” from Betty Boop John C. Lilly Gunbuster (anime) Joel Biroco Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Epigenetics Rupert Sheldrake Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by David Paha Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

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 Sadness Sets Me Free by Gruff Rhys 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 Davi...

Wyatt joined Arden & Casey at their art space / venue, Trade School, in Altadena, California, for a screening of Saw X! Notes: Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by David Paha Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

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: Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by Hoofwerk Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

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) Simpsons Australia coffee/beer bit Wyatt hates OPN The Lillywhite Sessions by Ryley Walker It’s My Life by Talk Talk Donal...

X-Mas continues with this satanic panic classic. Notes: Die Hand Die Verletzt Satanic panic Illuminatus! Rain of animals Bart vs. Australia Michelle Remembers by Lawrence Pazder & Michelle Smith Satan Wants You (documentary) Pennyroyal (podcast) Hellier (TV Series) Heaven’s Gate Pan’s Labyrinth (film) Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by Hoofwerk Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

Podcast patron saint Steven Warwick returns for a lovely chat about infamous X-Files episode Home . Merry X-Mas to us all! Notes: Home Steven Warwick 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) Modern Rubbish on D...

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: Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose Split (film) The Exorcist (TV show) Darin Morgan Jerusalem by Alan Moore Mama (film) Whitest Kids U Know auto-erotic asphyxiation sketch Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by Hoofwerk Support us on Patreon or...

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

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 Weird, edited by Jeff & Ann van der Meer Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by David Paha Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

Join us for a somewhat disorienting and delirious chat about a disorienting and delirious movie, 1986’s thriller/killer/road movie, The Hitcher . Notes: The Hitcher by Robert Harmon 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 Is...

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 Ke...

This week we discuss Ben Wheatley’s 2013 period psychedelic trip, A Field In England . Notes: A Field In England by Ben Wheatley Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace The Mighty Boosh The League of Gentlemen Valhalla Rising by Nicolas Winding Refn Modern Rubbish on Discord! Intro & outro by Annelise Baer Music by David Paha Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

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.

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: John Oswald The Hub Negativland - U2 Burroughs Nike ad Britney Spears South Park episode Earwig by Brian Catling Jon Ronson Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by David Paha Support...

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.

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: Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero 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...

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.

This week we get into another Koji Shiraishi found-footage / mockumentary experiment, 2009’s Occult . Notes: Occult (film) by Koji Shiraishi 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 Modern Rubbish on Discord! Intro & outro by An...

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.

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 Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell 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 M...

Part two of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture. Notes: Modern Rubbish on Discord! Music by David Paha Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

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 Future Shock by Alvin Toffler 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 We...