Very special episode of Agitator today! We have Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Wren Collier on to talk about 1998's Serial Experiments: Lain.
We talk: theme songs, prescient art, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Persona 2 vs Lain, is Lain the e-girl prototype?, Amelie syndrome, suicide galaxy brain, is Lain real?, sinister video games, Roswell aliens, Michael Jackson as God, MJ-12, Lain = The Invisibles?, Mysterious Skin, Whitley Strieber, Greg Araki, Cronenberg is the moment, theater walkouts, late-90s anti-Christian religiosity, killing god through paradox, who is God?, favorite Lain outfit, Lain’s forelock, Lain as a dream machine, Mobile Suit Gundam, social terror, masks are fake, masturbation and porn, being a cryptolib, anti-anonymity, not being raped by Jack, archetypes of the future, Digimon Tamers, and S. Craig Zahler movies.
140 - Kendrick Sucks
139 - FALLOUT SUCKS
138 - As the Gods Will
137 - Directing Anime with Shannon Reed
136 - When You Bleed to Death (ft. Jeremy Bronaugh)
135 - Fat Kratos, or: Dinosaur Mythbusting
Michael Tichy LIVE: Ghoulish Fest / The Winnowing Draw / A Record of Sweet Murder
134 - Whatchu Gon DUNE About It: Is Villeneuve's DUNE the Best or Worst Adaptation?
132 - Ghostbuster Training Day
131 - Ronin Trash
130 - Shatter the Matrix
SPKU: Reviewing Kanye West's VULTURES 1 (ft. Adam Lehrer)
128 - Freeman's Bars (ft. Kenney Dorcely)
127 - Golden Calf
126 - Dust Bowl Sarcophagi
124 - A Very Berserk New Year (FULL EPISODE)
121 - Akira Kurosawa’s RAN (ft. E Rathke)
120 - Onimusha & The Agitator Manifesto (ft. Ryan Jackson)
119 - QUARANTA - Danny Brown / WAR IN HEAVEN - J David Osborne
118 - The Best TMNT Show (ft. Rowan Hendrix)
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