Filthy Armenian Adventures

Some thoughts on the worst movie ever made, by Paul Thomas Anderson. This is a regular feature exclusive to subscribers of the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian -- enjoy this free sample, and subscribe for regular heart-to-heart messages on topics of the day, in addition to double the full-length episodes.  Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Eureka! Literary treasure has been found. It is called My Search for Warren Harding , and it's about one man's zany scheming quest for literary treasure (the love letters of "the shallowest president in history") in early 1980s Hollywood. It is the funniest thing I have read in a long time, and perhaps the most enjoyable novel ever written about L.A. Robert Plunket joins me to reflect on how he ca...

The rage, the pride, more lessons, and how not to be depressed by the predictable aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.   For the full 2 hour episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Guest starring Amanda Milius , director of The Plot Against The President. Related: FAA 9. Amanda Milius on Sunset Strip   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Naming names, unamerican activities, and the many subtle lies being deployed to distract you from the meaning of the murder of Charlie Kirk. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist   To support this show and get access to twice as many full episodes, plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian    Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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A tribute to the David Lynch of broadcasting -- the voice of baseball, the voice of summer, the voice of the long Los Angeles afternoon -- the narrator of 67 years of American boyhood, the great Vin Scully.   For twice the full adventures plus regular "smoke breaks" on topics of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Glen Rockney is the co-host of Rare Candy and The Back Wa...

Juicy nuggets from a deep dive into the letters of Raymond Chandler -- on Hammett, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hitchcock, Hollywood Jews, Catholics, Communists, the model for Ellsworth Toohey, the writer's life and the craft of writing, and more -- plus the only surviving evidence of his literal voice, from a 1959 interview with Ian Fleming six months before Chandler died.   For double the adventures (...

Snooping around the House of Pies and the home of Raymond Chandler in Los Feliz, in search of the secrets behind Philip Marlowe. Guest starring Steve Sailer .   For the full 2.5 hour episode, plus double adventures and regular exclusive "smoke break" mini eps, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   With reference to: The Big Sleep - Farewell, My Lovely - The High Window - The Lady i...

Masculinity on screen, immortality hobbies, and a vigorous debate between homo and hetero ideology are inspired as Matthew Wilder and I wrap our heads around Robert Altman's dreamy 1977 masterpiece 3 WOMEN at Cafe Les Ogres in Paris, France.   For the full 2 hour episode + double the feature adventures + plus exclusive "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day subscribe to the show at patreon.co...

Hop aboard the Brolita Express! Find a seat between Orwell and Borges. We're stopping in Austin and London on our way to Hive, a mysterious Greek island run entirely by women, ruled by a masked queen, where only the manliest men are sometimes invited. Jack Mason ( The Perfume Nationalist ) and Yeerk ( Bistro Californium ) are on the list. And so of course is my old friend Garin Hovannisian , illus...

A show about a mystery about the loss of love and magic from our lives -- and how to get it back. Guest starring Garin Hovannisan , author of the new novel HIVE .   Part 1: Hollywood Edition. Recorded live on Hollywood Boulevard, a few steps from Grauman's Chinese, on June 14.   For double the adventures plus exclusive "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day, and excess to future live events,...

The life love and man magic of Tennessee Williams, poet laureate of American summer. The study begins with his first three: the timeless Glass Menagerie, the deathless Streetcar Named Desire, and the underrated Summer & Smoke, a parable of frigidity most relevant to our times. With Zach Langley of I'm So Popular and Josh of The Dionysian Dream   For the full 2+ hour episode, plus many more pre...

As helicopters descend on the city it's time to cruise down to Johnie's Broiler the magical diner in Downey where Tom Waits abandons his tuna melt in SHORT CUTS (1993). What better place to enter Robert Altman's masterpiece mosaic of "untapped Los Angeles" and the Raymond Carver stories within, and what better guest to go with than the extraordinary Matthew Wilder, last seen with us at Bob's Big B...

Let's try to save the blues from SINNERS. After reviewing Ry Coogler's latest up against the much more profound BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2006) and more liberated CROSSROADS (1986), I take Glen Rockney and Crypto Psi of Rare Candy on a personal-historical tour of the music that made me the man (and woman) I am today.    For the full 3+hour jukebox fish fry subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmeni...

Some thoughts on the bad news about Scott Adams, and an appreciation.   For the full Filthy Armenian Adventures experience, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian

A celebration of Erich Auerbach's masterpiece Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, in light of the last decade's institutional conspiracy to shrink reality in Western media, which hits a grotesque low in Netflix's Adolescence. Guest starring Yeerk of the Bistro Californium podcast   For double the adventures, plus regular smoke breaks and access to our next live event HIVE...

Joan's secret love, Eve's secret letters, and the art of gossip with Lili Anolik, author of Didion and Babitz and Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.   For the full 2+hr episode, plus double the adventures and regular hear-to-heart "smoke break" mini eps and access to our next live event this June, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on x/insta @filt...

Some thoughts on the passing of a warrior. See FAA 18 Mortal Combat with David Horowitz and the Secret Chapter: Death is the Mother of Beauty

In this smoke break mini ep, I review the new album Pretty in Scorn by Cara Cunningham   For regular mini-eps like this, plus double the feature eps, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian  

Art, drugs, or religion? Reviewing the Playstation classic Alan Wake 2, Adam Lehrer and I speculate on the nature, potential, and business of video games. Adam Lehrer is deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of System of Systems   For twice as many adventures, plus regular smoke break mini-eps on topics of the day and access to our live events, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmeni...

Mike White as our Molière, what normies and bossy bottoms miss about The White Lotus, and the astonishing Christian conclusion to season three that nobody is talking about.   For the full 2 hour episode, plus 170 more patrons-only adventures and "smoke break" mini-eps, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Guest starring Cara Cunningham  and Adam Lehrer  (deputy editor of Tablet Ma...

Between a terrified Russian at a gay bar in La Marais and a crafty general at Père-Lachaise, the queer quest for God in Paris culminates with a mystery at the gates of Sacré-Cœur.   For the full tale, and 170+ premium episodes, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

A quest for the secret third thing in Paris begins, as usual, in the surprisingly gay right wing underground of Rue Princess...   Guest starring Enaygee   For double the adventures, and the sequels to this one, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian -- over 150 patron-only episodes   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian   Rate, review wherever you listen  

Borges called CITIZEN KANE a "labyrinth with no center" but it was the center of the labyrinth that was Orson Welles, and our final destination in the second half of this tour of the magician's career, after we pass through TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRIAL (1962), THE IMMORTAL STORY (1968), F FOR FAKE (1975), and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (2018)... and realize that in his flaws, if not his greatne...

Zoomer Orson Welles protege joins me for a Citizen Kane-like adventure through the entire career of the man who believed in magic perhaps too much -- or, perhaps, too little. We look at almost every film he made, we lean in for his radio, we applaud his theater, we gasp at his tricks and read his biography ("Rosebud" by David Thomson). Maybe we can find out what this giant boy was missing... With...