Modern Rubbish

We cover a lot of ground in this discussion of Takashi Miike’s 2003 film Gozu , from “is Gozu a horror movie” to “who played Robocop?”, with stops at “John Waters loves his freaks” and “what you saw was the planet Venus” along the way! Apologies for the quality of Wyatt’s audio in this one. He’s doing his penance with the Minotaur now. Notes: Gozu by Takashi Miike Folk horror Nagoya, Japan Ichi th...

A quick list of 6 examples of short-form horror Wyatt would suggest checking out. Notes: The Thing on the Fourble Board (episode of Quiet Please , 1948) The Town Manager by Thomas Ligotti (from Teatro Grottesco , 2003) The Weird (short-story anthology, 2011) Box by Takashi Miike (from 3 Extremes collection, 2004) The Moons at Your Door EP by Current 93 (2015) The Moons at Your Door (short-story co...

Musings on accepting your own bad taste, rejecting irony and the cultural darkness that was the hipster era. Notes: Frank Zappa Weird Al Flight of the Conchords Mike Patton John Zorn Captain Ahab “The Cobrasnake” Dov Charney Creepy American Apparel ads The CIA (nightclub) Luther Burbank Blue Monday (original by New Order) Blue Monday (cover by Orgy) “Presence by Led Zeppelin is an underrated album...

We initially meant for this to be a mini episode on 12 minute YouTube short My House Walkthrough , but as seems to happen with us, it blossomed into a full-length episode. Lots of tangents and metaphysical speculation in this one, though we do eventually get around to the film itself, right around around the 13 minute mark. Notes: My House Walkthrough by nana825763 My House. WAD game playthrough H...

A few thoughts that didn’t quite fit into our discussion of Lake Mungo . Notes: Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur Da’ath Music by Wyatt Keusch Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

Episode three uses Roman Polanski’s 1999 thriller The Ninth Gate as a jumping-off point for our most explicitly magick-oriented discussion yet. We’re very sorry for the lack of Autechre. We’ll try to do better. We hope you can forgive us. Notes: The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte The Cardinal & The Corpse by Iain Sinclair & Chris Petit Satanist Sketcher...

It’s like Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose , but the rose is a podcast. Notes: Re-Engineering by Heatsick Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur “Would that it were so simple” Ari Aster doesn't make horror films A24 Music by David Paha Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi !

Episode number two concerns Australian independent supernatural mockumentary Lake Mungo . We go further into the occulty / woo-woo / disreputable area of our shared interests in this one, but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of anecdotal rambling, references to the LA noise scene and, of course, Autechre. Lake Mungo by Joel Anderson Parked Out By the Lake by Dean Summerwind The unfortunate / inac...

In this, our inaugural episode, we discuss David Robert Mitchell’s 2015 curse film It Follows. Is it ‘just an STD allegory’? Does the soundtrack hold up in a post-synthwave world? Is Lars (von) Trier just a Gen-X edgelord? How much do we talk about Autechre? You’ll just have to listen and find out! Notes: It Follows by David Robert Mitchell Autechre Hyper Light Drifter William Blake vs the World b...