Topics: Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905-1926) + Vittorio Giardino's Little Ego (1984) Guest: Tepelathy Darty (@tepelathydarty) PART ONE of a mammoth TWO PART EPISODE- for PART TWO, subscribe to BISTRO CALIFORNIUM on PATREON at https://www.patreon.com/BistroCalifornium yeerk is joined by John aka Tepelathy Darty for a guided tour through one of the great achievements of American fantasia, Winsor McCay's extraordinary LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND, in this unusually dreamy episode of Bistro Californium "Little Nemo had just fallen asleep when an Oomp appeared who said 'You are reque ..read more

Topics: Better Call Saul (2015 - 2022) + a bit of Breaking Bad (2008 - 2013) Guest: Adam Lehrer (@SafetyPropagan1) Adam Lehrer, the man behind Safety Propaganda (but whose name, importantly, is Adam, not 'Safety') joins yeerk to discuss the Vince Gilligan show Better Call Saul- and a little bit about Breaking Bad also Buy Adam's books: Safety Propaganda: Conceptual Manifesto for Psychological Warfare Communions Safety Popaganda on Substack (https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/) Subscribe to System of Systems on patreon (https://www.patreon.com/systemofsystems) Hear Adam discuss Breaking Bad ..read more

Topics: Irwin Chusid's Songs in the Key of Z (2000) + Daniel Johnston, The Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, R. Stevie Moore, 1/2 Japanese, Jack Mudurian, B. J. Snowden, Lucia Pamela, Luie Luie, Wesley Willis Guest: D. E. (aka lifeinratutopia) Old skool posting legend D. E. joins yeerk for a journey into the 'incredibly strange' world of OUTSIDER MUSIC via the carnival barker showmanship of 'ideologue with a hustle' Irwin Chusid and his landmark book SONGS IN THE KEY OF Z They ponder the ethics of outsider art, the paradoxical connections between con ..read more

Topic: John Fahey Guest: Lisa (@lisatomic) Long-term friend Lisa joins yeerk to discuss American primitivist and volk guitar virtuoso John Fahey in this most hodological episode of BISTRO CALIFORNIUM, in which the combined Fahey discography + liner notes is revealed as a John Crowleyian narrative achievment of American surrealist mythmaking. N.B. This episode introduces the term 'hodology', taken from Fahey's para-academic liner notes. It refers to 'the study of pathways', whether they be two roads diverged in a yellow wood, or the many thousands of roads one may find along the fretted neck of ..read more

Topics: Peep Show (2003 - 2015) + Keeping Up Appearances (1990 - 1995) Guest: Anna Khachiyan yeerk is joined by one of his all-time culture heroes, Anna Khachiyan of Red Scare podcast infamy, for a discussion of one of the great English comic novels that happens to be a tv sitcom + Anna introduces yeerk to the eternal Firbankian heroine/ social striver Hyacinth Bucket. "So what if I don't really love her. Charles didn't really love Diana and they were alright. Sort of." "This is a private, slimline white telephone with no connection to any business or trade." Listen to Red Scare Follow Anna on ..read more

Topics: The Spyro the Dragon trilogy + John Keats' 1819 Odes Guests: Matt (@afieldoflight) & Will (@_Will_Samson_) BISTRO CALIFORNIUM episode 7 takes us on a Pspyrogeographical Odyssey through the Romantic geometric landscapes of Keats' 1819 Odes in the imaginative vehicle of a "purple dragon lost in time". The classic early Spyro games are reimagined as a 4D Grecian Urn, a cold pastoral taking us from the Young Marble Giants Country of the Artisans homeworld, through countless portals, and onwards to the very top of Midnight Mountain.  Our most ambitious (and possibly indulgent episo ..read more

Topics: Max Fleischer + Raymond Scott Guest: Faustina yeerk is joined by dear friend Faustina to discuss two titans of American technological vision, Max Fleischer and Raymond Scott. The conversation ranges from the origins of Betty Boop, the hidden links between ANimation and ANimism, Fleischer's Superman as the spirit of American invention, jazz as a form of industrial music, and Raymond Scott's status as the prophet of MIDI. A bustling Art Deco Metropolis of the Imagination arises around them, while in the infernal subterranean caverns beneath, demons of dice and liquor prowl on ribbon-like ..read more

Topics: Thee Oh Sees + Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977) + Gerald Potterton's Heavy Metal (1981) Guest: petty bourgeois protestant yeerk is joined by one of the most pleasant posters in the world, the ever-affable petty bourgeois protestant, to discuss the dungeons and dragons of John Dwyer's musical slimefactory Thee Oh Sees/Oh Sees/Osees. yeerk advances his theory that the project exists at least partially as a means of viral tinnitus transmission.  Subsequently, they discuss two classics of ANIMATED VIOLENCE, Ralph Bakshi's WIZARDS and Gerald Potterton's HEAVY METAL, two of the scuzziest ..read more

Topic: Louis Malle's My Dinner with Andre (1981) Guest: Owen Briggs yeerk is joined by infamous austrological Astralian (and old friend) Owen Briggs (of Apis Astrology), who puts his extraordinary powers of planetary perception to the task of interpreting Louis Malle's 1981 cult movie MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn. Two friends discuss a movie about a discussion between two friends, covering everything from the Andre/ Wally dialectic to the limitations of free-form magickal theater, and why exactly Andre asks the waiter to get rid of that little flower when they ..read more

Topic: The Roches + Eminem Guest: Grace yeerk is joined by fellow Haribo Enthusiast and Roches Fan, Grace, to explore one of his great musical loves, followed by a meditation on Eminem as the forgotten demon-child of the American Carnival. Along the way they touch on the nature of sisterhood, emotional distances, politics in music, LiMiNaL SpAcEs and Standrogyny "We are are Maggie and Terre and Suzzie" "Hi kids! Do you like violence?" Grace's Substack Intro theme by Laz Harding (The Upest Fukist ..read more