System of Systems (by SP)
Damen Corrado is a Chicago-based writer and actor with old school links to Adam Parfrey and the broader American underground. In 2019, the late Parfrey's Feral House publishing imprint published a book co-written by Damen and James "Jinx" O'Connor. Entitled Compliments of Chicagohoodz: "A rare, private collection of photos, calling cards, and ephemera serves that analyzes the unique visual language and graphics of Chicago’s gangs, drawing upon decades of interviews, documentation, and collecting of memorabilia, and featuring commentary from gang members and Chicago artists." Here we...
info_outline PREVIEW Roll the Black Dice (w/ Bjorn Copeland)System of Systems (by SP)
Bjorn Copeland is a mixed media artist, sculptor, and musician perhaps best known as a founding member of the long-lived and ever shapeshifting experimental rock group Black Dice. Soundtrack: Black Dice Black Dice Wolf Eyes " Aaliyah " Masonna "Untitled" Burning Spear Black Dice OUTRO: Britney Spears LINKS:
info_outline Safety Propaganda 101System of Systems (by SP)
At the end of 2023, Adam took to the podium to explain the Safety Propaganda ideology and the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde to a small but captivated audience. This event was sponsored by
info_outline Weebed OutSystem of Systems (by SP)
Adam is back from Japan: tales of shopping, noise, fem-boys, etc OST Merging Moon Prurient and Linkekraft Beherit "Sadomatic Rights" LLoyd Banks Blancmange LINKS:
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Shortly before Adam's journey to Japan, he and Matthew discuss two trashy arthouse thrillers from the past and present: Ingmar Bergman's 1980 made for TV movie From the Life of the Marionettes and Rose Glass' 2024 bodybuilding lesbian romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding. From the Life of the Marionettes is a disturbing slow burn of a masterpiece – restrained and haunting in equal measure. Love Lies Bleeding, however, takes a good narrative conceit and then destroys it with every Tumblr millennial girl trapping: shallow Lynch wannabe surrealism, style suffocating substance, and an obnoxious...
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Dune: Part 2, Denis Villeneuve's second half of his adaptation of Frank Herbet's sci-fi masterpiece Dune, is out. It's huge. Everyone has an opinion. So do we. Dr. Benjamin Braddock and Mommy Milkers join the show to discuss the film. SOUNDTRACK: Herbie Hancock Reverend Bizarre John Frusciante UGK Hans Zimmer LINKS: Ben at X: Monica at X:
info_outline The Avatar is a Pornographer (w/ Emma Stern)System of Systems (by SP)
A week before the opening of her exhibition the Pond Society in Shanghai, artist Emma Stern discusses her work, porn, ABBA and the creation of avatars. Matthew Denicola is the new producer and co-host of SOS by SP. We thank Will Samson for his two years of work Soundtrack Y$ Controlled Bleeding Blue Cheer Omni Trio Abba LINKS:
info_outline PREVIEW Welcome to Helltown (W/ Edward Giles and Max Julian Eastman)System of Systems (by SP)
Conceptual artist, musician, and founding member of iconic NYC power electronics group Final Solution, Edward Giles, joins the Safety Propaganda network. The primary topic is the reissue of Edward's industrial project Helltown Inc on former guest Max Julian Eastman's label. The release not only comes with hours of music, art inserts and otherwise, but a memoir of sorts in which Edward recounts the underground culture of New York of the '80s. Edward and Max discuss the release of Helltown Inc and Edward discusses his history in art, losing his friends and bandmates from Final Solution, and his...
info_outline PREVIEW Barney Does it All (W/ Bjarne Melgaard)System of Systems (by SP)
Regularly referred to as "The most famous Nordic Artist since Edvard Munch," painter, sculptor, filmmaker and installation artist Bjarne Megaard joins the audiocast to dish on decades in the art world. Topics covered: Bjarne's new film Barney Does it All based on his time as a whore in Sydney, his interview with porno actress Rae Lil Black in the new issue of Richardson Mag, the perpetual antagonism between him at the art world and the cowardice of curators, his former financial backers who fucked him out of millions, drug addiction, ketamine therapy, fashion, anabolic steroids and being...
info_outline Poor Greek (W/Zane)System of Systems (by SP)
Yorgos Lanthimos has not been a preferred filmmaker of the Safety Propaganda universe. Too self-consciously "weird". Too Letterboxd. His new film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone in a virtuosic performance as a young woman with the brain of an infant, is a comic masterpiece. Based on a story by surrealist Scottish author Alsadair Gray, 'Poor Things' is an absolute delight to watch. Riotously funny. A must-see. Joining us to discuss this massive leap in Lanthimos' artistry, as well as other new films (The Iron Claw, The Zone of Interest etc,) is our friend Zane. A true HEAD if there ever was...
info_outlineSystem of Systems, at long last, is back. First things first, Ben AKA the Perpetual Self Optimizer is no longer the producer/co-host, and we want to thank him for all the great work done on this program.
Replacing him is none other than former guest Will Samson, who takes over production duties and second mic. Welcome him!
In our first episode back, we have Ellroy Boys co-host and Apocalypse Confidential editor Blauergeist! specifically to take on the colossal disaster that is The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. Somehow, as bad as this film could be (cheesy as fuck casting, thin plot, aesthetically flat and gross) it's somehow so, so, so much worse. It's the kind of spinoff film that complicates the entire legacy of its source material. The great work of American pop art reduced to a shitty, faux edgy dirtbag leftist meme.
SOUNDTRACK:
Alabama 3 "Woke Up This Morning": https://music.apple.com/us/album/woke-up-this-morning-the-sopranos-mix/667102458?i=667102844
Mystifier "The Witch Resides Our Goat": https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-witch-voisin-recites-our-gloat-osculum-obscenum/299352750?i=299352756
Fusitsusha "Magic IV: https://youtu.be/Oy0njwl-AHc
Souls of Mischief "A Name I Call Myself": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888
Black Humor "Undancing in the Dirt": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888
LINKS:
Will Samson's Twitter: @_Will_Samson_ https://twitter.com/_Will_Samson_
Blauergeist at Twitter: @blauer_geist https://twitter.com/blauer_geist
Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/
Ellroy Boys podcast: https://soundcloud.com/ellroyboys
Adam on Many Saints of Newart: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/based-safetty-vs-cringe-propaganda