System of Systems

Adam and Matt discuss the massive runaway successes of the low budget horror films Obsession and Backrooms , try and identify what people have responded two in them, and discuss whether they're actually any good or not. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/systemofsystems/posts/obsessive-163264182?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator...

Artist Faina Brodsky illuminates on the difficulty (or not) of being beautiful in the art world and her and Adam wade into performance enhancing drugs and looksmaxxing. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/systemofsystems/posts/made-you-loox-w-161879111?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link OST: UV Pop "Slee...

We recorded this two weeks ago, when it looked like Spencer Pratt would still have a statistical shot at taking second place and advancing in the Los Angeles mayoral race. New records by Ye, Drake, JPEG Mafia and Bladee discussed Sorry for the hiatus, Adam was busy writing this for Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/god-of-euphoria-sam-levinson

Ari Aster's 'Eddington' is awful SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/posts/joaquin-mumbles-136432946?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link OST: Opener: Artificial Intelligence 'Foul Play'  https://music.apple.com/us/album/artificial-intelligence/80761425?i=80761269 Blutkult 'Sinister Runes...

We're joined by author and Terror House Press editor-in-chief Matt Forney for a free-wheeling conversation about upstate New York, immigration, literature and video games FULL EPISODE : https://www.patreon.com/posts/it-was-not-w-134641634?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link OST Mark Broom "Lemon"  https://musi...

Adam's friend and Tablet Mag colleague, the European politics writer and Ukraine expert Vlad Davidzon, joins the show to discuss the state of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Vlad is a politics and war writer but also something of a bon vivant. He keeps notebooks of drawings and collages that are quite good. Vlad phoned in from the Unsafe House, the art collective (of sorts) of none other t...

Apologies about our slow pace, work and life priorities have distanced us from our cause, which we are now here to reclaim once more. Beginning with this conversation with UK writer and musician Kieran Saint Leonard centered around Kieran's new novel Muse, a semi-autobiographical glimpse into the dangers of alluring women and Los Angeles occultism. LINKS: Buy Kieran's book at Hyperidean Pr...

New York artist Noah Stalgia discusses embracing art and leaving furniture design behind FULL EPISODE at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jack-off-of-all-130732691?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link LINKS: Noah website https://www.noahstalgia.com/artworks

The boys discuss Ye nuking the overton window and how genuine or disingenuous leftists' complaints about the Trump admin are SOUNDTRACK Plagal Grind "Receivership live" Air Conditioning "Unravel your Navel" Offenders "Face Down in the Dirt" Victim Kennel "In Case of Aggression" SUBSCRIBE to our podcast's Patreon

Writer Omar King, as well as publisher Evan Papadakis, join the show to discuss his new short story collection An Odyssey of Dingbats, published on friends and former guests Dan Baltic's and Matt Pegas' new imprint New Ritual Press, to talk about his book, porn, Los Angeles, egirl writing, "friendfiction", Hubert Selby, Jr, autism and more SOUNDTRACK The Hospitals "Hairdryer...

Malcom Tent is an under appreciated legend of underground rock n' roll. From entering into the punk fold in South Florida in the 1980s with his hardcore band Broken Talent, to forming the sub-underground noise rock collective Bunny Brains, to playing in one of the most important lineups of American black metal group Profanatica, to collaborating with none other than GG ALLIN, to owning the ico...

A very special episode here, featuring none other than Dutch artist and director of the infamous KIRAC film series Stefan Ruitenbeek and his benefactor, the Dutch art collector Philip Van Den Hurk. We attempt to understand just why Philip would allow himself to become a character in the KIRAC universe, which Philip explains brings him a kind of limit experience. Stefan explains the erotic dynamics...

Artist and MAGA OG Shay Semple joins once more to discuss the radical first month of the Trump presidency OST Kraftwerk "Computer Love" ESG "Shinin and Grindin"  M8 "Sword Shards"  Kim Fowley "Bubblegum"  Peste Noire "La dernier putsch" The Bomber Jackets "Legends Never Die"

Artist Zach Brown joins the show to discuss one of the stranger and more era specific art works of the 1990s, Darren Starr's adult nighttime soap series Melrose Place OST Dead Girl's Party "I'm a Tick Tock Bomb" Hunger! "Workshop" Diapsiquir "Aprés"

The life, the legacy, and the art of David Lynch, with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist SOUNDTRACK Julee Cruise "Rockin' Back Inside my Heart" Brother JT "This is the Life" Felt "Primitive Painters" Roy Orbison "In Dreams" LINKS TPN The Films of David Lynch Part One  and Part Two  

Artist Kat Chamberlin discusses her political discontent and Dean Kissick's recent panel with Anna and Dasha SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL EPISODE  Soundtrack: Mortuary Drape "Larve" Datblygu "Hollol, Hollol, Hollol" Das Kabinette "Something's On Your Mind" Mirrors "Shirley" LINKS: Kat Chamberlin website

Memorable art, music, film and memes of 2024 OST Red Lorry Yellow Lorry "Pushing On" Horsepower Electronics "Gorgon Sound"  Thergothon "Elemental"   NOFX "Vanilla Sex" 

Author and filmmaker Christopher Zeischegg discusses his semi autofictional 2020 novel The Magician, a new film based on that text, and a little bit about his previous life in pornography OST: Cabaret Voltaire "A Touch of Evil" The Obsessed "Tombstone Highway" Metal Urbain "Ultra Violence" The Diplomats "Who I Am"   Miss Kittin and the Hacker "Homme a la Mode"   LINKS Christopher Zeischegg website...

Sensitive young man and friend of the show Med Gold joins to discuss too good and decent men wildly condemned and deliberately misunderstood by the media SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL EPISODE LINKS: Read Med's essay on The Sopranos

Adam discusses Ali Abbasi's Trump biopic, Sebastian Stan's incredible performance, and portraiture in general, and finds in the film a surprisingly and perhaps accidentally positive portrait of the President Elect READ THE ESSAY HERE and HERE

Multi-hyphenate artist, musician and writer Chino Amobi calls in from Houston to talk about his masterful new album Eroica  and the state of the whole goddamn world LINKS: Chino Amobi at Bandcamp Chino's Eroica Flora Chino At Instagram: @chinoamobi

Philly based musician and artist Morgan Garrett's excellent recent album Purity has been compared to bands as unrelated as Korn and the Shadow Ring by midwit rock writers. Nevertheless, there is something interesting about the references, and Adam found himself shocked by how fascinated he was by this strange, disorienting and highly original music. Morgan joins the show to discuss the album as we...

With Jack Mason of the Perfume Nationalist  and Ryan Simón   American Vulgaria Magazine OST: Raffertie "The Substance"  Butthole Surfers "Dum Dum"   Endor "Pump it Up"  JJ Band "Live I Kungston"  CLOSER Raffertie "French Cuisine"  LINKS: Adam on The Substance

Matt and Adam discuss Ryan Murphy's second season of Monsters on the Menendez Brothers, the Gary Indiana novel Resentment also about the case, and other goings on OST MIlli Vanilli "Girl You Know It's True" Batrider "Tara"   Skinny Puppy "Bites"   Associates "Party Fears Two"  The Lox "Money Power Respect" 

Inspired by Alex Gibney's recent documentary on David Chase, Adam finally tries to communicate what 'The Sopranos" means to him SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON LINKS: Adam's essay on The Sopranos