Agitator

On this episode, Kelby and JDO talk a line of shit about Berserk volumes 27-30, Nazis on Substack, and Israel/Palestine. Full show notes: The importance of going to The Church of the Black Swordsman. Berserk is the Bible. In volume 27 we’re back into the Guts stuff. Donning the Berserk armor. Having that dog in you. How do sociopaths see the world? The War of the Midland Kingdoms. The lack of good...

We're talking Akira Kurosawa's Macbeth adaptation THRONE OF BLOOD + homoeroticism, edgy content vs edgy tone, copyrighting the sun, Nigeria, and much more with writer/host of Getting Lit , Matthew Sini . 

It's a kickback with the homies at Rare Candy Industries. We're talking Blake Butler's MOLLY, Jordan Castro's statement on the racist publishing industry, 1-star bombing your peers from sock puppet accounts, and Akira Kurosawa's YOJIMBO.   Listen to Rare Candy and subscribe to their premium feed: rarecandy.substack.com   Buy JDO's new cyberpunk novel War In Heaven: https://www.amazon.com/War-Heave...

The mystic juggalo weebs J. David Osborne and Kelby Losack are joined by screenwriter, author, and Mutual Aberration Society host Ryan Jackson to discuss 2023's Netflix anime ONIMUSHA, directed by godfather of the show, Takashi Miike and based on the Capcom series of video games. We discuss: the Agitator sound board, slur buttons, how Koreans say "I," Nick-r-Treat and '90s commercials, Programmed...

On this episode, JDO and Kelby discuss Danny Brown’s new 10/10 masterpiece Quaranta and JDO’s new GFNB novel, A War in Heaven. The guy from Salem takes naked selfies, why would anyone want to be a writer?, the Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz album is great, Pitchfork sucks, JDO reminisces about being 26 and hearing XXX for the first time, a trip to the DMV, AOC’s mixtape, the lamentational aspect of Quar...

This episode is dedicated to Grant Wamack . We're talking our favorite version of TMNT, plus some history of the franchise as a whole while Kelby's oldest son Rowan watches and provides live commentary on the 2012 Nickelodeon series. Also: ancestral memory of war symbols, history of darkness in Ninja Turtles, getting weird on a budget, making the case for fan fiction, David's Donatello novel annou...

Agitator is a freestyle audio novel, a modern retelling of the Rocky Balboa story starring two mystic juggalo weebs. In this chapter: we're talking Team Salvato's 2017 freeware visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! with author, game writer, and homie E Rathke. Is it as scary as people are saying? Does it live up to the hype? Who is the target audience for a twisted interactive horror novel/datin...

TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989) Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto with John Wayne Comunale We're talking Houston's most interesting bathrooms, pervasive erotic breathing and the frame-by-frame humanity within Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tsukamoto's obsessive production process, endlessly developing interpretations of the film, juvenile show-crashers, insurance policies ruining movies and movies ruining friendships, on-...

Eddy joins the podcast to talk about the Cyberpunk 2077 tie-in novel No Coincidence by Rafał Kosik. It's a heist novel with a huge cast of characters. Eddy and I talk about the response to the book (positive and negative), and discuss the job of crafting a tie-in novel, working in others' IP, "dummy theory," the importance of humor on a character's development, and the similarities between it and...

We have the homie Wren back to talk every Resident Evil CGI film: Degeneration, Damnation, Vendetta, Infinite Darkness, and Death Island. We're talking RE tropes, best fights, the benefits of these CG films over live-action, which ones we loved and which ones we hated, AND, we come up with a banger Resident Evil sequel plot of our own that nobody will be ballsy enough to make happen but if you do,...

On this episode, JDO talks to Jay Springett about Michael Marshall Smith's PKD-award-winning 1995 surreal cyberpunk novel Only Forward. This controversial book is notorious for making a hard left turn from hyperviolent mid-90s sci-fi into full-on dreamworld magical realism, and then making yet another hard turn into stark realism. It's an amazing book, a hilarious stream-of-consciousness packed wi...

David Simmons reading his story "Whole Time" at VOIDCON 2023. Shouts out to Jay Springett for the audio production. 

Today we have Robert Dean, incredible writer and longtime homie, to discuss Kensuke Sonomura's 2022 film Bad City as well as Bobby's essay collection Existential Thirst Trap .    Also discussed: faceless fame, writers whose advice is better than their books, Arnold Schwarzenegger, "what would Miike have done?," energy flow dance fighting, adventures in gay porn and speaking sex toy gigs, Brian Kee...

On this episode, special guest and author of the Ghosts of Baltimore duology David Simmons' comes on to talk with JDO about their book of the year: Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. We talk about research, smacking your children, and whether or not Kraus is based on covid (he's not). We also talk a lot about the book, which fucking rules.

On this episode: The current state of the film Mass State Lottery Endlessly tinkering with creative projects The origins of LowRes and Hans and what happened to their political podcast Impressions of our exclusive look at the Omega Fish Corp. script  + insight into how differently it translated to film How AI is good for independent artists Aftermath of the WGA strike and our honest opinions on th...

We're talking MD Geist and MD Geist II: Death Force with Wren Collier. Mostly, though, it's a music episode. We know you love those. So do we. We wish death upon irony and get real genuine in this conversation about keeping it cool, 80s action movie aesthetics, our HOT TAKES on AI art and writing, and - dawg, there's so much in here.

Best beat producer tags, Cyberpunk DLC, where we're each at with our next books (both late), Rhyd Wildermuth's Here Be Monsters and why Marxists rub Kelby wrong, the return of magic in a godless world, intersectionality and the dilemma of wokeism, Samurai Champloo, Pirates of the Carribean, The Bear , A Knight's Tale , boat life, modern day Conservative Christians, David trips about time, remember...

Talking DELIVER ME, transgressive fiction, the threshold of compromise, Miike, and more with author Elle Nash. Follow Elle:   IG : https://www.instagram.com/saderotica / X : https://twitter.com/saderotica Buy DELIVER ME: https://www.unnamedpress.com/books/book?title=Deliver+Me Subscribe to Elle's Patreon for exclusive blog posts, book club access, personal tarot readings, and because she's dope: h...

Today we have Matt Fresta of Coward Punch Records and Rango Tango Magazine on to talk about 1995's Blade Runner 2. This begins the tie-in series for Ghost in the Tome. JDO is fascinated by tie-in novels and authors who are tasked with expanding pre-existing IP. We talk: Reading books using print, ebook, and audio, making books in different color pages, The Righteous Mind, the Voight-Kampf test, wh...

Talking workplace injuries, mortality, ghosts in laser lights, teaching Lil Wayne in English class, Brian's new novel Bad Foundations , navigating places where you have outstanding warrants, rhythm vs readability, marketing, and much more. This episode is hilarious as expected, just the homies chopping it up. Buy Bad Foundations by Brian Allen Carr: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/brian-...

On this second episode of the Agitator Book Club, JDO had Glen from Rare Candy on to talk about Tim Powers' 600-page 1992 paranormal gambling noir story Last Call. This is like if James Ellroy wrote American Tabloid's secret history with Pixar-style magical realism. People play poker for their souls with Tarot cards, the ghost of Bugsy Siegel haunts a Twin Peaks style red room, and a reincarnation...

Today we have Alex Kazemi on to talk about his new book, New Millennium Boyz. Ten years in the making, NMB is a dark, funny look at turn-of-the-century young men and the emergence of hyper celebrity worship and the lust for internet fame. In this conversation, we learn about Alex's process for writing the book, the amount of research that went into every reference, and the book's reception by earl...

We're talking the Hulu Original, Chris Estrada-led cholo comedy THIS FOOL. This is a major writing craft episode, inspired by how incredibly written this show is. We talk sitcom frameworks, rejecting brilliance, working while writing, and more.

Evan Dean Shelton is a writer, publisher, podcaster, occult practitioner, and all-around chill motherfucker. We had him on to discuss VOIDCON--what is it, why's it happening, and who will be there? We also discuss making art for offensive purposes, edgelords, posers, and the desire to feel bad sometimes. Then, mostly on the Patreon half, we're discussing some essential listening in the realm of Ja...

Today on the show we have multimedia artist, author, and jacked rockstar Adam Lehrer chopping it up about Japanese noise and psychedelic rock. We talk bodybuilding, the distinction between noise and noise rock, the entry point of noise, meditation, Osaka as Bohemian Japan, and the mysteries and histories of all these avant-garde power groups. Track list to follow who we're talking about: Merzbow -...