Fake Andy Warhol‘s 15 Minutes (in Theory)

Semiautobiographical stream-of-consciousness examination of He-Man and The Masters of the Universe franchise. Topics discussed and mentioned: Consumerism, commercials, television, Power of Grayskull documentary, The Toys That Made Us, franchise, kids TV, youth culture, action figures, consumer culture, toys, spoiled brat, collecting, comics, comic books, X-Men, fandom, fandoms, baseball cards, Nintendo, Transformers, GI Joe, Foucault, Nietzsche, Skeletor, psychoanalytic profile, memento mori, Paul Auster - The Music of Chance, bad guys, Hordak, antisocial tendencies, Mattel, merchandise, Homeric epics, Greek mythology, artificial culture, King Arthur, Conan the Barbarian, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert E. Howard, multiple or group or mass authorship, capitalism, Tarzan, mass market, mass media, mass production, folklore, real politik, might makes right, Action for Children's Television, advertising regulations, Reagan, Thundercats MOTU, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, cartoons, culture creation industry, Power Rangers, live-action, animation, educational programming, toy tie-ins, child psychology, literary sensibilities, mythological aptitude, genuine or authentic, Disney, genre fiction, violence, advertising, Warhol soup can, advertising as art, content, filler, moral busybodies, Moral Majority, Tipper Gore, SJWs, journalists, She-Ra, Modulok, playing pretend, imagination, no one ever really dies (N.E.R.D.), culture wars, The Force Is Female, Rey from Star Wars, Dragon Ball Z, repeats, Batman: The Animated Series, emasculation, Captain Marvel, "strong female character", femdom, gender norms, Barbie dolls, pop culture grievances, Frank Langella, Joseph Campbell, world mythologies, good and evil, academic scholarship, Sarah Lawrence College, Sam Seigle, Finnegans Wake, adult collectors, nostalgia, Mr. Bubble, children's brands marketed to adults, Batman 1989, Frank Miller - Dark Knight Returns, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny, Taz in the '90s wearing sunglasses, NWO 4-Life, vicarious mythology vs real culture, Star Wars: Andor, totalitarianism, Hollywood compromised, Weinstein, ethics, fanboy revolution, sports fans, politics invading entertainment, identity politics in male spaces, artificial civilization, pop culture, palette swaps, fetishism of commodities or commodity fetish, manspreading, masculinity, ersatz fake masculine male role models, psyop, conveyor belt of pop culture, laissez-faire capitalism, classical storytelling, lifestyle brands, voodoo dolls, totems, platonic ideals, celebrity popularity, "action figure poets", Tupac as Ulysses.

Topics and mentions: Hip-Hop, Rap, Elon Musk, Trump, Public Enemy, Jay-Z, Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot, Endgame), Nas, Clipse, Joe Budden, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Eric B. & Rakim - "Paid in Full", T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Nietzsche, Apollonian and Dionysian, Harold Bloom, Obama, Jacques Ellul (The Technological Society and "Morose Relish"), Rock music canon, Punk, Grunge, Jazz, Pusha T, Clipping - "Say the Name", Ice Cube, Donda album, Yeezus, George W. Bush, Jordans sneakers, consumerism, nostalgia, fashion industry, art industry, Fat Joe, N.O.R.E., Big Pun, pop culture, Kim Kardashian, transhumanism, World Economic Forum, Daft Punk, Can (Krautrock band), Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever, celebrity worship, magical thinking, Marilyn Monroe, Jesus Christ, Chris Chan, Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus), The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, Drake, mumble rap, Wu-Tang, Kool Moe Dee, Da Baby, Lil Baby, Future (musician), 2pac, Canibus, Eminem, Notorious B.I.G., Lauryn Hill, Melle Mel, KRS-ONE, Chuck D, literacy, ancient Greek epic poetry, rhapsodes, bards, Homer, Irish oral tradition, distraction, Drink Champs, social media, short attention spans, no real community anymore, self-sustaining, "Enlightened Interdependence" and William S. Burroughs, impossibility of consensus, AcclaimedMusic.net, James Brown, The Beatles, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Aldous Huxley (Brave New World Revisited), Lauryn Hill "The Mystery of Iniquity", 1984 by George Orwell, NPC, leather pants.

The worst episode yet, the worst on every level. Topics and mentions (not quite in this order): Billy Bragg, Proust, Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), Jorge Luis Borges, Our Democracy, old Rock 'n' Roll, The Beatles, Frank Miller's Daredevil, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Brian Michael Bendis, inconsistent characterizations, Goethe's Faust, Michael Jackson, abstraction, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, The Simpsons, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Suspiria, Tilda Swinton, Asia Argento, Kubrick.

3-hour discussion of Andy Warhol's sexuality and its urgent ramifications for you and your family. Also response/review to recent Netflix Andy Warhol Diaries documentary series. Includes: Gossip about other Warhol critics. Judgmental statements. Also namechecked: James Joyce, Walter Benjamin (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction), Roland Barthes (Mythologies), Einstein, Greta Garbo, Freud, Pop art, Popeye, Dick Tracy, waifus, R. Crumb, Furries, lycanthropes, vampirism, sadomasochism, voyeurism, Citizen Kane, Jorge Luis Borges, Basquiat, Ronald Reagan, AIDS.

YOU WILL NOT AGREE WITH this discussion of three NME Top 100 Albums of All-Time lists. And then a modest political tirade. Topics and soundbites include: Lou Reed on Warhol as "producer" of Velvet Underground & Nico, AcclaimedMusic.net, New Musical Express magazine, Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, Sgt Pepper by the Beatles, pop music as high art, Sex Pistols, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Nevermind by Nirvana, Stone Roses, London Calling by the Clash, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, Exile on Main St. by the Rolling Stones, It Takes a Nation of Millions and Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare, the Smiths, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Exit Planet Dust by the Chemical Brothers, global influence of boomer-era popular music vs. influence of other collective works, Thriller by Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, James Brown, David Bowie, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Prince, canon and hierarchy, Mirwais, Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow, Kanye West, Music and Words by Paul Morley, I Am Sitting in a Room by Alvin Lucier, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue, George W. Bush, terrorism, Iraq War, "completely unreliable assholes" from The Shining, Henry Kissinger, Dulles brothers, George H.W. Bush, collapse vs. singularity, mental illness of guardian class, everyone in academia constantly on verge of psychological breakdown, people unable to admit they were wrong about anything ever, anti-war protests, U.S. operation/occupation in Afghanistan, Obama, "weapons of mass destruction", John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, "Axis of Evil", McCain, Romney, "uniparty", RollingStone, Rudy Giuliani, "post-truth" world, interconnections supersede personal responsibility in technological society, drone strikes, Biden, Trump, hyperbolic hysterical media, George Costanza (Seinfeld) on lying, double-think, "The Cathedral" by Curtis "Moldbug" Yarvin, "deep state", public education and schooling, "dumbing down", false opposition, Tucker Carlson, Tragedy & Hope by Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton, "blow off steam" and "vote the rascals out", Nixon, JFK, Chuck Schumer on the intelligence community, Ted K Unabomber movie, "Am I Crazy?" by Prodigy (of Mobb Deep), Alan Watt on Vince White's book, "Sucks to Be You" by Prozzak, Joe Strummer on music and meaning.