Filthy Armenian Adventures

Hippie sermons in the desert. Zoomers cancel Blink182. The hipster devolves from rock n roll to useless lib nag. Not Star Wars, but Spiderman explains the end of things. Pirates aren't what they used to be, but one old man still Claptons for freedom. See something, say something. Those who do/do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.    My neck.    My back.   With one or two magic moments,...

One week and one year later, the holograms have taken over. I return to Coachella to fill in for Frank Ocean, remember Ruth Brown, reminisce to Calvin Harris, and seek the one weapon in this world that can thwart the K-POP invasion. Weekend 2, 2023.   Enjoy this free episode. For part 1 and the upcoming part 3 of the Coachella trilogy, plus dozens more subscriber-only episodes, support the show at...

Water communism, bathroom feminism, FOMO and other dyslexic prophesies from a popular desert festival that was lost and found in deuces wild. Plus a news update on the state of bisexual affairs. For the full episode, and many more exclusive delights, subscribe to Filthy Armenian Adventures at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for as little as $5 a month.    Follow us on twitter and instagram @filthyarmen...

Amid our long cultural intermission, the greatest ever critic and historian of ROCK & ROLL welcomes me into his home for an afternoon reverie on some of our favorite music artists and their covers of the American Dream.   Greil Marcus was the very first records editor of Rolling Stone and the author of critical masterpieces Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces , as well as several other books includi...

To some, it is paradise. To me, it is the deepest darkest pit of childhood fear and boyhood loathing, Longhouse HQ, symbol sight & sound of chthonian meandering maternal schemes. Can the circle be unbroken? Two of my favorite boys in the world take me to THE DOMAIN of the trauma beast (after a pit stop at diner heaven) on this Linklatery Texas-forever Smelly Sue torture sojourn to the DEPARTMENT S...

I have a few words to say about Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, getting canceled at last for a kamikaze strike on the Church of Racism. To hear them all, subscribe for the full episode at patreon.com/filthyarmenian.   There are now 40 episodes available exclusively to my "rug merchant" patrons, and at least two new ones each month.    See us on twitter and instagram @filthyarmenian

There's no such thing as black and white, says the clever Scottish salesman. We're all just doing our best on the gray scale. Should you find yourself surfing that scale, serving customers at a fancy restaurant, here are some tips on how to make them order the special -- and convince them they enjoyed it. We hope YOU enjoy this seven course debate between two differing political views, served rare...

I hit the Vegas tables with roulette mystic Glenn Greenwald to make some bets, spot cheaters, lay it on the line and try to decipher his highly successful system for beating the House. FULL EPISODE NOW UNLOCKED, in honor of our mutual birthday. For 40 other premium episodes and secret chapters, including twice as many each month, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to support the show.   Glenn...

Of Bowling, Of Alcoholism, Of Shame, Of ADHD, Of The Glory of Autism, Of The Touchstones of Camille Paglia and Ayn Rand, Of Susan Sontag, Of Philip Roth, Of The Painting That Hangs In The Bathroom at Madonna's House, Of Shepherd's Pie, Of Magic Mic...and Of That Sinister Word PARASOCIAL. You've got a friend in me.   Full episode only for subscribers. To support the show and follow the complete twi...

Abject lowlifes at the University of Edinburgh canceled its most important alumnus, its one intellectual giant, the enlightenment philosopher who put the city on the map. His name is off the big tower. His statue sits defaced. David Hume's crime: a racist footnote in 1756. Let's sneak over the cobblestones of essays moral political and literary in the middle of the night, while everyone in town's...

Two infidels meet in Liverpool. Sir n' TERH is on the menu, "gay mosques" are fathomed, closets spaces compared, brawny fire wardens appreciated, roid horrors told, yer blues dispensed, fatwas doubtlessly incurred.    Guest starring "Greek Cypriot Libertarian and perfumed poofter" Teddy de Chypre   For the full 4 hour night, and nearly 40 other exclusive episodes, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyar...

Feeling severed from the world? Trapped inside your own hundred acre wood? Tie your shoes. On this tour, we go in circles around a city where nothing is lost that can't be found, where nothing is erased without imprint. We wander story-laden streets, peek down literary alleys, poke our heads into sing-song pubs. We navigate inconvenient sympathies. We recognize a tune. To signal traffic in the nar...

Still dark, still wet, still cloudy. The tarot on America reads ambivalent. A "reconstructed being" named Carlos seeks to find my Why? outside The Eagle Bar  in Silverlake at 2 AM. Exorcisms can be heard. The wheels of a BMW are screeching. A psychic break is coming, a tarot bishop says.    All Carlos can do is hug.   But can he connect?    Is Al Green really there??   To listen to the full organi...

Nathan Fielder hits a new level of REALITY in his must-watch HBO show The Rehearsal, and this time, his comic contraptions can offer no escape. Is it a joke? Is it art? Is it...okay? Zach Langley from I'm So Popular joins me to dissect the artistic controversies around the show, the horrific man-woman-Alex Jones revelations from it that nobody has discussed yet, its predecessor Nathan for You, our...

Midnight approaches in the city that never ends. Someone says it's raining like cats and dogs. The most monogamous man in West Hollywood tries to watch a college football game as a bartender from his past serves Vertigo. Kim Novak is dead, but another fine dame recognizes the casting agent who placed her in a movie neither can remember. On Broadway, a Filthy Armenian seeks the kindness of stranger...

Windows on the World 9/11 Ground Zero Oriana Fallaci Edward Hopper's New York. A tale of silence and fury, signifying something.    Guest starring Matt Denicola, host of The Salt Box   Locations: Zaza Diner, Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial, The Mall, The Whitney Museum - New York, NY   If you like what you hear, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian to follow the full twisted adventure, with 30+ exclu...

Old-school Hollywood psychologist — and author of "The Young Man's Guide to Demystifying the 21st Century Female" (unpublished) — delivers my first full horoscope reading and teaches me how to dominate the fairer sex.   Intro by Filthy Santa.   Location: North Hollywood, California   For the full twisted adventure, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian for 30+ exclusive episodes.   Follow us on...

In a day or two Filthy Santa will return to deliver his annual address as the intro to our next adventure, but here is last year's address (an early listener fave from Episode 4: Hollywood and the Middle East) for those who might have missed it.    To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for 30+ exclusive episodes.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @filthya...

Everything you need to know about Elon Musk's Twitter war, Kanye's Christian swastika, White Lotus season 2, straights vs gays and hopeful insanity vs eternal cope in the final state of 2022. Plus my own personal White Lotus near-murder in NYC. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist   Free first hour of a 3 hour bull session. For the full episode (and 30 other secret chapters), become a subscr...

A plot-twist about the previous night's magical evening of erotic adventure leads to a brutal autopsy of sexual rejection, bicuriosity, and other stupid bullsh*t of the heart. Part 2 of a nonfiction mystery drama. To access Part 1 (and 30 other premium episodes), subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Location: Hamburg, Germany If you like what you hear, please rate, review, and spread the word!

A casual date at a bar in Hamburg takes a tantalizing turn when it’s interrupted by a Dutch blonde masc bro lawyer, hoping to make the most of his last night in town... A nonfiction mystery drama in two acts. This is the opening monologue. To listen to the full adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Location: Hamburg, Germany  

I have a dream. A hot, steamy, sultry summer dream. In it there are lots of naked Germans, Leonard Cohen and Diana Ross. Also my friend Christian , and the seeds of a sexual revolution.   Location: Munich, Germany.    To follow the full twisted adventure through our cultural apocalypse, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for over two dozen extra-intimate subscriber-only episodes.   Follow us...

Freethinking lesbian writer Norah Vincent quit the punditry game to go undercover and investigate what it's really like to be a man in America. What she discovered eventually killed her. But her bombshell book, Self-Made Man (2006), though promptly memoryholed as its ominous warnings about the gender wars came to pass, survives as a prescient model of honest journalism and feminism for men. Jack M...

Harry Tafoya and I were first-responders to the cultural terrorist attack launched on our nation in the form of the 2022 Whitney Biennale. Will we suffocate in the rubble? Or can we carve a way out of the apocalypse hole and back to a place where art and life matter again?   Then can we do it all over again because footage of the original journey disappeared...   For the magical finale of this FAA...

A lived experience review of the Halloween franchise becomes a strawberry blonde-haunted road into the origins of the horror fetish, aided by the footprints at Grauman's Chinese, the drunks at The Roosevelt Hotel, Liz Taylor's secret and Ru Paul's Hollywood star. For the full (3.5 hour) episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Locations: Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, Th...