#164: Brad Phillips

Brad Phillips drops in to tell us about House of Games (1987), Smiling For 60 Seconds Every Morning, SLOWLY Stop Taking Benzos, and much more.

Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked Brad Phillips to share some recommendations on Perfectly Imperfect.

Brad Phillips is a Canadian artist known for his writing and photorealistic painting style that tackles subjects such as vice, pop culture, sex, ego, addiction, and mental illness. His first book of short stories, Essays and Fictions, was published a few years ago and he’s now finishing up his second book and first novel, Death Of A Dipshit. He has an exhibition of works on paper at James Fuentes Gallery in New York in June of 2022 and an exhibition of regular paintings at Deboer Gallery in Los Angeles in November of 2022. Lucky for us, Brad is here to tell us what he’s been into.

Without further ado

Brad Phillips (instagram, twitter, website)

📽️ House of Games, 1987, directed by David Mamet

In an earlier draft I sent Tyler 87 different movies so this is my favourite of those 87 movies. House of Games is a perfect movie about confidence art, which really is the same as v…