Modern Rubbish

Wyatt joined Arden & Casey at their art space / venue, Trade School, in Altadena, California, for a screening of Saw X!Notes:Modern Rubbish on Discord!Music by David PahaSupport us on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

And on this, the last day of X-Mas, we discuss another Darin Morgan classic, the wonderfully absurd Jose Chung’s From Outer Space!Notes:Modern Rubbish on Discord!Music by HoofwerkSupport us on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

For the fourth week of X-Mas, we give you our favourite cicadaman, Eugene Tooms!This one begins with a long (but fun) preamble on other topics, so if you’re itching for X-Files content, skip to around 30 minutes in.Notes:ToomsSqueezeDave’s paintingFélix Labisse (painter)Simpsons Australia coffee/beer bitWyatt hates OPNThe Lillywhite Sessions by Ryley WalkerIt’s My Life by Ta

X-Mas continues with this satanic panic classic.Notes:Die Hand Die VerletztSatanic panicIlluminatus!Rain of animalsBart vs. AustraliaMichelle Remembers by Lawrence Pazder & Michelle SmithSatan Wants You (documentary)Pennyroyal (podcast)Hellier (TV Series)Heaven’s GatePan’s Labyrinth (film)Modern Rubbish on Discord!Music by HoofwerkSupport us on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

Podcast patron saint Steven Warwick returns for a lovely chat about infamous X-Files episode Home. Merry X-Mas to us all!Notes:HomeSteven WarwickFear Indexing the X-Files by Nora Khan and Steven WarwickControl (video game)Child of God by Cormac McCarthyAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Nan GoldinA Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwiftChris MorrisSutcliffe Jugend (band)Modern Rubbish

We’re kicking off “X-Mas”, our all-December-long celebration of all things X-Files! First up is legendary season 3 episode, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.Notes:Clyde Bruckman’s Final ReposeSplit (film)The Exorcist (TV show)Darin MorganJerusalem by Alan MooreMama (film)Whitest Kids U Know auto-erotic asphyxiation sketchModern Rubbish on Discord!Music by HoofwerkSupport us

Five-time guest Sam Jones returns to the show to talk about infamous j-horror nightmare, Takashi Miike’s Audition.Audio notes: Dave was sick, Sam’s cleaner was present, and Wyatt’s heater was (still is) broken, so he was huddled in a closet for the duration. Apologies for any auditory oddness.Notes:Audition by Takashi MiikeArrested Development “and that’s why you always l

All October, we released extra episodes wherein we narrated some of our favourite Weird stories, and now that it’s November, we thought we’d set aside some time to discuss those stories in greater detail.Notes:The Weird, edited by Jeff & Ann van der MeerModern Rubbish on Discord!Music by David PahaSupport us on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

Join us for a somewhat disorienting and delirious chat about a disorienting and delirious movie, 1986’s thriller/killer/road movie, The Hitcher.Notes:The Hitcher by Robert HarmonWolf Creek by Greg McLeanRoadgames by Richard FranklinJoy Ride by John DahlBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyC. Thomas Howell as the ‘Soul Man’ by BotchBatman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore / Bri

All October long, we've been narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! For our final entry in this series, Wyatt reads Harlan Ellison's The Function of Dream Sleep. If, as we've said in an earlier episode, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse is a perfect depiction of depression, then this story is a similarly perfect depiction of grief. Enjoy!Narra