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