Vicious Circle

thank you all for listening, going now to make things that are real and not based on some bullshit economy of insecurity,  much love.

Emma Stern is an artist + painter whose work feels like you're pouring hot wax down the front of your brain. we recorded this in person just before the new year

A chaotic three way in two parts this is part one: talking over each each other, nonsensical good hang where we discuss presenting as escorts, copper wire, Prada sandwiches, in service of helpless but kind men, being a banana girl, caloric deficiencies, contemporary funeral homes, living your life on-call to pick up dead bodies, ambulance chasing, items of comfort, the feeling of being ready to see a dead body, dead blood in the sewer, being reluctantly popular, cheerleaders, long game courting (list making), de-celebritizing, juul trash pods, and the clinic.

LIL is an artist / presence, we talk about what makes us, plot hunting / plot manipulation, the roof, the analogy of like, as like Instagram, for example, left and right, up and down, poisoning your brain with images, flowchart and rulebooks, art practices in the face of dying digitals, the ability to play with those like, multitudes, and a sense of representation online, and their beautiful output that's hard to define or understand. Intro performance + songs by Salomé 

we talk drop-ins, talent, brands vs concepts, made in italy, the hat, the newsletter, manipulation tactics, freaking people out, not soliciting feedback or notes, strictly business, martini waves, soph's never ending creativity,  the lettucetini, making it bottomless, a new frame for thinking, night life as the tv show and the stage, making people money off garbage, blood oaths, looking for patterns, quitting NYFW, the brandy melville content farm, circular cult building, the death of IRL retail, the uniform of a strong man, our dinner at lucien, fandoms and all conspiracies being intentional strat. learn more about these two and follow asap right here

Chris and Blair came by The Red School (what im calling the loft now) to talk tendrils, connecting fibers, the ugly and the meaningful, the simple image, a hatred of the lived experience, seeing the beauty, wearing a cowboy hat, shooting guns, motorcycles, tarot cards, gooning, compulsive loops, porn, libraries, sucking your phone, media induced autism in a cain like nation. we broke this pod into two one hour parts, if you wanna hear part two head to the MIA podcast. sorry I've been away so long, been busy with my create mode account and waiting for my daughter to be born

The second pod recorded live in the loft. of all things discussed, we slip into media training, drinking draino, oaxacan purple xanax, profits and lofts, gathering spaces that aren't disgusting, shell companies for throwing parties, myles zavelo, group chat weight loss, living in zine world, printing shit out, asher penn and sex, cooking with tao lin, dating a mid tier meme lord, functioning scenes, selling indulgences, urbit bikini's, political incomprehensibility, being described in public, podcasts as a way of dealing with your own subjectivity, Belle Delphine's bath water, the smell of a new baby, a fictionalized relationships to money, kratom tobacco pancakes, oozing privilege, why anyone can have a magazine if they just decide to just print one out, and just offering simple intimacy.follow the girls here and support the mag here 

Selfie music and centering your personality in songs, minimalism in production, maximalism in expression, collaboration, the “you” as the thing that can never be replicated by anyone else, showing face online, robert zimmerman, modulating into characters,  blood orange, soft stepping, frost children, the billie and ye and drake, the broad museum, lonely stoners, positive cringe, uniqlo, comedy music trends, father john misty, dojo cat, the microphones, I'm on a boat, v*be shift artists, autofiction artists , hyper-post sleaze artists, sitcom and his extended nyc music family and actually plays live music on this pod fr,Listen to Blake on all the platforms, you're welcome. follow him asap too. 

recorded live from a closed  + rained out Whole Foods parking lot - we talk getting kicked out of Los Angeles, scabies, living as a fat white man, adult diapers, being perceived and perceiving people all the time, personal dissonance, vibe shafting, online regretting, autism stickers, pink duck tape, useless education, reconnecting with real poverty, driving for Doordash, traumatic truth, feeling nervous, misgendering people on purpose, retard posting, diaper posting and lucid posting, wheezing and foaming, hard R Rabies, esoteric health twitter, Da Baby land, g-d silence, asylum baths and painting over the gum on your walls.  follow her here and here you're welcome 

VC 34 with #TL2M! meeting people like this is why I started making these, available on everywhere

Morgan Krantz is a filmmaker and all around good, nice guy. we talk smoking with children, mothers (Rest In Peace), burning hair, living and working inside a long running TV series, acting as compared to living on an Oil Rig, directing, isolation, growing up in Los Angeles, Jon Lindsey's Body High, The Master Of Cum, Betsey Brown, Actorcellectuals and all the actor memes, exposing oneself, putting your guts and dick on the table, the impulse to relate to each other as artists, being employed by a corporation, artists and brands and dirty words, John Giorno, giving Warhol head with shaking fingers, pissing off your parents with your movies, deep exposure, the hot pot, the cold eye, sense memory and dealing with your past and a lot of other pulverizingly personal shit - available now on everything (thank you to the ion pack for reminding me about mario paint, which scores this sode)if you have 5 bucks you can support the pod on patreon here 

this episode is off the cuff, just sort of drunk and turned into a baby announcement but also just a jam of songs and good feels, love you happy new year 

It's not really ghosting when everyone's a ghost - returning from time off from making a record, I really appreciate everyone who listened to this project in 2021. This really isn't a podcast, since I don't use an IPod to make it. Thanks to everyone supporting at the patreon, I don't know what this project is, I just know I like making shit - I sat down to record a sode last night but I recorded this instead. love you!

As we hit critical levels of clout fuckery, obsession, pile-climbing and boredom I asked the man, the mirror, the artist formally known as Kanye (now, Ye) to spend some on the pod. Please forgive the audio quality, I did not have a long time with him and the room was noisy

Andrew is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He fronts the band Miike Snow along with an endlessly diverse list of projects + collaborations spanning the past 10+ years. We talk working with Liam Gallagher, Caroline Polachek, not trying, organic boundaries, corporate spaces, fourth rate goop aesthetics, pre-recorded trip sitters, problematic spiritual leaders, Keith Raniere, listening loudly, moral relativism in the face of a flamethrower,  talent and vision vs winner-takes-all, “most people”, the accelerationists, Fukuyama, liberal capitalism, living with the broken heart of a potential future, peace and love, black pills and clear pills, the Disneyfication of the world, Jacolby Satterwhite, the crazed fantasy of the self, dressing like an anime demon, The La's, constructing the world, taking rubber bullets, ambient surveillance, dreaming dreams, William Bennett and Whitehouse, Yamantaka Eye and Hanatarash, and taking a long hard sleep before getting back to the important work.

Solo mode: as a break from conversation this is a music heavy sode. Just Matthew and a random playlist happening song to song, no planning. Things have been feeling more chaotic than usual, so sit back + enjoy an hour or so of laying assed out on a couch listening or however you want to get into it

Blending your art with your personality, the strangest tools, Neptune, working with Brandy, creeping cultural traumas, drinking in the bathtub every night, fucking with temporality, hype.m, owning what you put into the world, The Green Knight, the death of content in the face of good films, our ever present algorithm, Yorgos Lanthimos, following your own rules of physics as an artist, the things that shape us first, the end of the overexposure era, anon as a possible future for pop stars, and liberation from everything.*************************sub the patreon for extras, vibes and more full episodes

sub + support at the patreon for the full on thing ***********heir to a hundred thousand screenshots, the illusive memetic floridian we know simply as, tom tuna. we discuss simon rex, suitcase pimps, A24, feral bitch fall, bret easton ellis, todd the millennial, black pilling boyfriends, cocaine cowboys, memetic news, tracking trends, taste bombs, complacency posting, hardware gore subreddits, prozac, jon rafman, the lost week with azealia banks, self-imposed exile, channeling manic energy through posting, michael pitt as the “SINK PISSER”, rainbow coalition, interpol puppets, urinal soap selfies, james dean death cult summer, gay tucker carlson to true religion fashion pipeline, dennis hopper, disposable art forms, cellectual summer 2021, commiting social suicide, passionate nerd posting, faceless anon celebrity, being true to yourself and never apologizing for anything, and jailbreaking your life.

on the eve of the full moon, I thought I was recording a solo pod - but thankfully that didn't happen. Alisha and I speak about the moon, guns, glock training, aiming for ankles, god on the timeline, making the internet beautiful, BDSM, friendster, shaped and sharpened words, writing slowly, fugue states, wasting material on the timeline, speculative fiction, the pleasure of smoking anything, fixations, elliot smith, seppuku, death takes, aging, growing up in las vegas, smoking indoors, paradise, mall kids, xanga, snowbirds, forfeiting your shitty corporate job, personal lives and capitalist labor, and chris brown. ******sub the patreon for a really good time https://www.patreon.com/viciouscircle

we discuss what it means to do polarizing work, the fear of being misunderstood, peter “petra” vack, warning labels on artwork, her film ACTORS, the cult of children and babies, cashing in on the sacred, living anonymously in the abyss, ASSHOLES, fetishism of trans aesthetics in a culture of fear, the master of cum, finding your voice, attachment to the struggle, The Scary Of Sixty-First, Dasha Nekrasova, being exposed vs being demonized, dealing with the messy to balance the calm, the idea of ourselves as the prison, NPC oblivion, overcoming a creative paralysis by breaking the paralysis of identity, and love.Betsey Brown is an actor, director and sister who is in the final throws of finishing her film ACTORS, which she sent me before we recorded this sode. It's not available to watch just yet, but the answer to “why” sort of lives in this podcast.Warning: this episode contains certain “triggers” but we want you to feel them, that's the point.

Super special paywall sode - The Ion Pack (Ion1 + Ion2) came to hang in the void for a few hours, it was a beautiful anonymous three-way. https://www.patreon.com/viciouscircle for the full experience of this one

poetic logic in chaos, killing your image and status, creating anonymously, over-standing vs understanding, pseudo arrogance, getting between everything, neologisms, the nu-based theory as applied in your daily life, breaking conceptual art education with a retarded galaxy brain, omni-cringe, being fine with any and all affects, born again based, layers of opposites, every slut could be a star, finding shame again, trespassing cruise ships, transcending logic and reason, becoming an orifice for the angels, memetic communities, sublimation, living constantly and forever in a ritual, larping as cool, genre as a constructive limit on your work to render new ideas, finance punk in a nutshell, crypto lib and all impossible things.

Sophia Vanderbilt, who are you? - over the course of our time in the void, we discuss the wrist flex, JonBenét Ramsey 9/11 deepfake, katy perry, pre-trump buzzfeed millennial feminism, teenage girls on tiktok, femcels, cruel intentions, nepotism babies, american identity, the vibe shifts, not giving away your best things online in quick spurts, angels vs audience, internet as upstream, living in the poast positing world, apple mouse trap emoji and metamodernity

Peter Vack, The Master Of Cum and I discuss Summer Camp, Death Camps, Wet Brain, Admins, Meme Practitioners, Chinese Muscles, Spacemen With No Face, Deaf Witnesses, First Wave Goths, Banal Tiktok, The Third Vibe Shift Cellectual Wave, Tao Lin, Speaking Through Strangers Names, Honor Levy, Sister,  Actor, Writer And Director Betsey Brown, Video Experts, Writers Life Tips, Contain, Dean Kissick, Zans, Gutes, Micro Scenes, Roof top Readings, French Woods, Jon Lindsey And Allie Rowbottom, Hecklers, And Childhood. All A Day In The Void

Laszlo Horvath is an NYC based artist + songwriter who fronts the band with the same name as this episode. we talk across the great vibe shift of june 1-5th, pride, post irony, wearing your own face, house shows, bags of piss, new york city, and the great beyond the beyond. 

Sarah Cristina was an internet mole, first discovered in 1982 by Sigmund Appleton. They were married in a small hole in the ground, and have not been heard from since. One of my favorite chats since starting the show.

Johnny Depp finally clears the table, sets the stage, and open his ribs 

sublimation is the best jerk off

You'll need to be laying down for this one, headphones are encouraged but not supplied due to infrastructure over-demand 

Midnight in Los Angeles, early morning in Dubai. I'm glad I slid into Dana The Pleasure Helmet's dms on twitter and invited her on, because she said yes - isn't the internet great. Listen to The Pleasure Helmet here https://soundcloud.com/pleasure-helmet - and thank you Dana for stealing time with me.

I'm just gonna read to you and play you some songs, if you want the news there are plenty of pods for that. I'd just like to relax today.

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A Wednesday into a Friday, the Bernie meme, growing old online, and Nashville. All this and more from your favorite local radio show, Vicious Circle.

I destroyed my alter ego Gambles - then recorded this pod which obsessively tracks my memories of love as they attach to songs I'll never let go of. Happy New year to you and yours, thanks for listening this year.

musings on the impeding lockdown, black uhuru, dean kissick, with a strange guest feature by several people in the park via time travel

Recorded while driving in headphones and holding a mic on the 10 East towards San Bernardino, musings on escape,GIRLS and freedom in late October 2020

No guest this time, It's just Matthew. It's just this. I have a question for you, but Its buried In this recording and I do not remember It.

Bishop Briggs (aka Sarah Grace McLaughlin) is a rare breed of artist, growing between the cracks of pop culture where everything is mainstream and everything is alternative at the same time. She's her own country. We spoke on the tail of an opened or closed covid confused time we all seem to be locked in together.

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Natasha and I met years ago in NYC, but time and the internet blur everything. Premium episodes will always live on https://www.patreon.com/viciouscircle support the older youth of America.

Midnight in Los Angeles, 8am in London. Ed and I discuss heads coming out of bodies and fuck with soundscapes.

Matt smoked six cigarettes, peed in two different places, and ate a box of jelly filled crackers while speaking to me from his rooftop in NYC.

Slutty Taylor Swift AKA Dinah Rankin and I get drunk and let it all just happen.