Monthly Archives: January 2017

Robert Stark interviews Musician En Esch

90's music, aesthetics, alienation, Animal Cruelty, animals, Culture, En Esch, Germany, Hellraiser, horror, horror films, humor, Industrial Music, Introversion, J.G. Michael, KMFDM, Laibach, Music, Pilleater, Rammstein, Spree Shootings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark, Pilleater and J.G Michaels interview EN ESCH. En Esch was an original member of the pioneering industrial band, KMFDM. He is also in his own band, Slick Idiot, and toured with Pigface. En Esch’s recently released a new album, Trash Chic.

Topics:

En Esch’s interest in music and beginnings in KMFDM, Slick Idiot
En Esch’s early influences, Goth and Queer culture, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
The politics of East and West Germany
“Xcess” in True Love, and “Ooh La La” in Hellraiser 3
The politically imagery used in KMFDM (the art of Aidan Hughes), Laibach, Dunkelwerk, Hanzel und Gretyl
Atari Teenage Riot, left-wing vs. right-wing imagery and sound, May Day
The Columbine Massacre, the controversy behind KMFDM’s song, “Waste,” YouTube comments about KMFDM’s association with school shootings
En Esch’s new album, Trash Chic
KMFDM’s influence over Rammstein
Modern Industrial musics vs. old style Industrial (Die Krupps)
How En Esch makes music, Nightcore vs. Vaporwave
Five letter codes, Covers, the funky infulence in En Esch’s music
En Esch’s advocation for animal rights, his vegetarian lifestyle
The origin behind Slick Idiot
The music market, downloading and streaming
The Raymond Watts / En Esch / Günter Schulz / Mona Mur KMFDM
Peter Murphy, Humor behind En Esch’s music
Introversion/Social Anxiety, and music as an outlet to express one’s self
Backing singers
En Esch’s future activities


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Robert Stark interviews John Kenneth Press

aesthetics, Alternative Right, American Culture, Architecture, Asia, Asian Culture, California, Christianity, Culture, Culturism, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Futurism, Gender, Globalization, History, Immigration, Islam, Japan, Japanese Culture, John Kenneth Press, Korea, Literature, Los Angeles, Morality, Multiculturalism, Music, Nationalism, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Religion, Sexuality, social capital, social status, The Tea Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Co-host Pilleater talk to Culturist John K. Press. John is a professor at Namseoul University in South Korea, and the author of the book Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future. John also runs the website Culturism and writes for Alternative Right.

Topics:

John’s background growing up in Santa Monica in the 70’s and 80’s, and how  Southern California has changed since then
John’s background in Punk music and his band the patriots
John’s Grab ’em by the Pu**y Song
John’s running of the Brooklyn Tea Party, protest against the Ground Zero Mosque, friction with the Manhattan Tea Party, and the conflict between economic interest and culturism
The debate between the Alt-Right Ethno-Nationalist and color blind Civil Nationalist, and how culturism can address those issues
The multi-culturalist concept that all cultures are equal
Mechanism and institution of culturism
The importance of having high levels of social cohesion for a society to function
Whether to much culturism can be oppressive, and the need for a balance between individualism and cohesion
John’s experience living in Korea as a College professor, and his observations on Korea which is a culturist society
Why John views himself as an academic refugee
The book The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves
John’s book Capsule: A Search for Identity in Modern Japan
Culturism, architecture, urbanism, and aesthetics, and why modism and futurism needs culturism
Regional identities
The socio sexual status of the dominant culture
The Brittish Poet Matthew Arnold who was the founder of culturalism
John’s book Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future, a fictional biography about Matthew Arnold
The importance of being involved in culture rather than such politics


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Robert Stark interviews Italian Eurobeat Artist Bratt Sinclaire

1990's, Asia, Asian Culture, Blade Runner, Bratt Sinclaire, Culture, Cyberpunk, Eurobeat, Italo Disco, Italy, Japan, Japanese Culture, Music, Pornography, Vaporwave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Pilleater interview Eurobeat producer Bratt Sinclaire. Sinclaire is one of the pioneers of the Italian-made, Japanese dance genre of music, Eurobeat. Some of his famous songs include, “Night of Fire,” “Boom Boom Fire,” and “Tora Tora Tora.” He operates his own label, SinclaireStyle.

Topics:

Sinclaire’s interest in music and his early influences
His original preference for Rock and Metal and how he got into Dance Music
His first band Layout, his work with Bulldozer, Alberto Contini and Dave Rogers
Virginelle’s “Tango Tango,” “King and Queen” by King and Queen
The history of Italo-Disco and the evolution of Eurobeat, the similar production styles
Ken Laszlo, Brian Ice, Aleph.
The making of Eurobeat music, the controversy behind publishing “Burning Love”
The Japanese term “Eurobeat,” and success of Eurobeat in Japan, the trend of it
Sinclaire’s music appearing in the anime, Initial D
P.E.P.E’s Shilday, Sam Hyde’s Twitter account, “Night of Fire,” “Running in the 90s,” appearing on the site YTMND.com
Butch Battlexe, Sinclaire’s Hypertechno, Metal Minded Maniac’s, “F.A.Y.”
Sinclaire’s recent live show in Japan with singer Dejo
The demographics that listen to Eurobeat, Ganguro/Gyaru culture
Pilleater’s Asian girlfriends who were into Eurobeat
The significance of Dejo’s sining and Sinclaire’s music, Clara Moroni, Elena Gobbi
Eurobeat song lyrics, Japanese vs. European visual aesthetics
Eurobeat American fans: Initial P, Diskowarp records, Odyssey Eurobeat
The authentic Asian club scene vs. The American anime/cosplay scene
The Akihabara District in Tokyo, which tranformed from a music to manga district, comparison to the movie Blade Runner
The Super Eurobeat series, the creation of the Sinclaire Style label, and how Sinclaire makes Eurobeat
Music Soundtrack for Porn Films

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Robert Stark interviews Italian Artist Shinja

aesthetics, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, animation, Anime, Art, Art Nouveau, Asia, Asian Aryanism, Asian Culture, Casa Pound, Culture, Ezra Pound, Immigration, Italo Disco, Italy, Japan, Japanese Culture, Kaze to Ki no Uta, Pepe the Frog, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Shinja, Trevor Brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Pilleater talk to Italian artist Shinja. Shinja is influenced by anime and is interested in the alt-right and alt-left. She has a Youtube, and you can find her work at deviantart.

Topics:

Shinja’s interest in art and anime
Her art contribution to Youtube blogger Prince of Queens
Rumiko Takahashi, Ramma 1/2, The Roses of Versailles, Patalliro, Vagabond, Takehiko Inoue
Shinja inspiration from Japan in contrast with Japanese artist inpired by Art Nouveau
Shinha’s favorite paintiner Caravaggio
Shojo manga and Hentai,
Pop Italian art, Art of Italo-Disco / Eurobeat records.
The art of Trevor Brown, Brown’s i-Nazi, Francis Bacon
Fred Schodt’s “Manga! Manga!” Candy Candy, Ai Shite Knight,
P.E.P.E’s Shilday esoteric kek power breaks down Robert’s computer.
Italian Politics, the Five Star Movement, and Forza Nuova
CasaPound and their interest in Captain Harlock, anime fascism
The alt-right vs. alt-left
Life and culture in Italy
Northern vs. Southern Italy
The European Migrant Crisis
The Chinese in Italy, The Postmodern Wax Museum
Pilleater’s Asian Aryanism vs Asian Colonization of the West


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Robert Stark talks to Pilleater about Kaze to Ki no Uta, Avant Garde Art, & Philosophy

1970's, 1980's, aesthetics, alienation, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, Anime, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Art Nouveau, Asia, Asian Aryanism, Asian Culture, Aspergers Syndrome, censorship, Cinema, conformity, counterculture, Culture, David Hamilton, Erotica, Europe, Fascism, Film, France, Gender, Homosexuality, Japan, Japanese Culture, Jock Sturges, Kaze to Ki no Uta, Lasse Nielsen, Love, Marquis de Sade, Mineo Maya, Morality, Normies, Patalliro!, Peter Sotos, Philosophy, Photography, Pilleater, Pornography, Psychology, Sexuality, Surrealism, Utopia, Will McBride, Yukio Mishima

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Pilleater talk about the manga and anime, Kaze to Ki no Uta (The Poem of the Wind and the Trees) and themes of sexuality compared to other works of experimental art.

Topics:

Pilleater’s The Poem of The Wind and Trees Documentary
The setting of Kaze to Ki no Uta at a boarding school in Provence, France in the late 19th century
The aesthetic of the film, the Art Nouveau influence, and the Japanese interpretation of the 19th Century European Aesthetic
The art of Mineo Maya, and Patalliro’s “queer” Asian Aryan Aesthetic in contrast with Kaze to Ki nu Uta’s artistocratic one
Sexuality in Anime, the Yaoi and Shōnen-ai genres of manga, it’s controversial themes of crossdressing, homosexuality, and youth, and the large female fan base of the genre
Youth and Sexuality, capturing innocence in art, and adults longing for eternal youth
Japanese vs. Western attitudes toward sexuality and art
Other controversial yaoi’s, Okane Ga Nai (No Money) and Henshin Dekinai
Fascist themes in Manga
Japanese erotic art, Hajime Sorayama‘s robot erotica, Namio Harukawa‘s dominatrix, and controversial photographer Garo Aida
The Debate about what is Art and what is Erotica, degenerate art vs. ethically pleasing innocent art, photographer David Hamilton
Yukio Mishima’s Madame de Sade and Confessions of a Mask
The Amazing Panda Adventure, an Asian Aryan Love Story
Lasse Nielsen’s films You Are Not Alone, and Could We Maybe, as a European version of the Yaoi genre
Peter Sotos’ Selfish, Little, and photographer Will McBride
Why the 70’s and 80’s were a unique era in producing Avant Garde Art
The Left Wing of the Alt-Right
The Männerbund
Art and Aesthetics as a way to create a vision for a utopian society
Aristocratic Individualism, and how being a product of post modernism can allow one the freedom to start over from scratch, and come up with ones own utopian vision
How institutions such schools, corporations, and the media manipulate psychosocial values, and the pressure to conform to “normie” values

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Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about his return to Russia and Predictions for 2017

aesthetics, Alexander Dugin, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, Anatoly Karlin, Architecture, Banking, Bashar Assad, Cities, Culture, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, England, Europe, FIRE Economy, Free Trade, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Islamization, Israel, Lebanon, London, Mass Transit, Michael Hudson, Middle East, Moscow, Nassim Taleb, National Bolshevism, Nationalism, Neoconservatism, Politics, Roger Devlin, Russia, San Francisco, Sexuality, Skyscrapers, Syria, Transhumanism, Travel, Usury, Vladimir Putin, War, Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater talk to Anatoly Karlin. He blogs at The Unz Review

Topics:

Anatoly’s Predictions for 2017
Anatoly’s 2016 Prediction Calibration Results
Anatoly’s return to Russia, and his article Go Back to Russia about his detractors who accused him of defending a totalitarian regime while living in the comfort of the West
How Anatoly’s objective is to provide a balanced and accurate portrayal of Russia
Anatoly’s observations on how Moscow and Russia have changed since he was last there a decade ago
Anatoly’s observation that Moscow has become more civil, but also more diverse, despite still be around 90% Russian
Russia’s Demographics, a rise in the Russian birth rate, and Russia’s Muslim population
Anatoly’s interview with Zvezda TV about Trump and the relationship between the US and Russia
How Russians have a more positive view of the US than of the EU(latest Levada poll at: 60%), and generally hold a more positive view of Trump than the rest of the world
Anatoly’s prediction that the Alt Right acrimoniously splits into Trumpists and anti-Trumpists, a prediction that dates back to to May 2016
The fascinating Putin/Trump parallel, how Putin’s Solovyev/Starikov are Trump’s Milo/Cernovich, while the ethnats have at best a “mixed” relationship with them
Anatoly’s point that an American Nationalist can get a long better with Russia than an American Globalist, and how the main battle in the future will be between Nationalism and Globalism
How Trump has divided the Neocons
Anatoly’s prediction a year ago that Assad will stay in power in Syria, and his predictions about wars in the future
The short term decline in migrant arrivals by sea into Europe, Islamisation, and the long term effects of migration, including a European exodus out of Europe
Anatoly’s London Impressions, the Minority status of the British in London, the recent building boom, and 60’s futurist architecture including Centre Point and the BT Tower
The Transit systems of Moscow’s Metro and London’s Underground
The FIRE economy, the effects of the financial sector on the economy, and how the FIRE sector takes away cognitive capital from more productive endeavours
Dating patterns, the K/R Selection theory, and Pilleater’s comment on Roger Devlin’s speech on Sexual Competition


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Robert Stark interviews Comic Writer Woody Arnold

aesthetics, animation, Anime, Blade Runner, Cities, Comic Books, Cyber Symbiosis, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Futurism, Science Fiction, Seattle, Space Travel, Woody Arnold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater interview comic writer Woody Arnold. Woody’s current project is the online cyberpunk comic, Cybersymbiosis. He also operates Minature Dragon Comics and has written Countermay: War of the God King, The Gamers: Alterations, and The Thunderfrogs.

Topics:

Woody’s background in comics, Transformers, Battletech, Space Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock
RPG Games, Traveller, The Cyberpunk genre, William Gibson, Blade Runner, Johnny Mnemonic, Shadowrun
Akira, Ghost in the Shell, X-men
Eric Vargas, Woody’s comic artist.
Woody’s latest and ongoing cyberpunk comic, Cyber-Symbiosis. The city of Seattle
The architect of cyberpunk cities, underground malls, cyberpunk socio-economics
China vs. Japan ruling the world, Eastern influences in Cyberpunk, Vaporwave, 80’s tech, Mars colonization
Utopian vs. Dystopians societies, Internet cultures, unpredictable futures, progressive technology, storytelling with cyberpunk
The characters in Cyber-Symbiosis, Games and storytelling, influences
Woody’s comic The Thunderfrogs, Usagi Yojimbo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Archie’s Sonic The Hedgehog
Video games, upcoming movies
Retrowave music, film soundtracks, ABBA
Thunderfrog Studios, Miniature Dragons
Hamlet’s Hit points, Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Woody’s interested in Heroclix and Mage Knight figures


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Robert Stark chatters with actor Nicholas Vince

Art, censorship, Cinema, Clive Barker, Film, Hellraiser, horror, horror films, J.G. Michael, Literature, Nicholas Vince, Pilleater, Psychology, sadomasochism, War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait of Nicholas Vince (photo by Adam Turner) montage by Andrew Tong

Robert Stark, co-host Pilleater, and J.G. Michael talk to Nicholas Vince. Nicholas Vince played The Chatterer Cenobite in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser & Hellbound: Hellraiser II) and Kinski in Barker’s Nightbreed. He is Patron of the London Horror Festival 2016 and was awarded the London Horror Society Award at the Unrestricted View Horror Festival 2016 for Outstanding Contribution to UK Independent Horror. He wrote and directed The  The Night Whispered, and wrote What Monsters Do and Other People’s Darkness.He hosts the popular YouTube show Chattering With Nicholas Vince where he interviews independent film makers, writers and artists

Topics:

Intro Song: Opening to the Night Whispered by Patrick E. Fagan
How Nicholas Vince met Clive Barker, his role as Chatterer
The 30th anniversary of Hellraiser
The film set of Hellraiser, The Chatterer costume, the dreaded fish-hook scene
Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, Horror movies, the budget of Hellraiser
The The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
The villains of Hellraiser, Hellraiser as a love story, Whether the cenobites are evil or “just doing their jobs”
Piercing Fans International Quarterly, John Norman and Gor, Terry Pratchett
The effectiveness of psychological torture in horror
The Wire Twins in Hellraiser: Inferno, which Robert Stark found the most disturbing
Hostel, Human Centipede, the creativity of horror films compared to “gore porn”
Nightbreed, the monsters as good guys, and Hellbound,
What Monsters Do, Vince Nicholas Vince as a comic writer, Fear magazine
Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, Sam Keith, Simon Bisley, Brendan McCarthy, Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins
Whether the cenobites will make a cameo in Robert Stark’s upcoming novel, “Bad artist imitate, Great artist steal!”
The therapeutic power of writing
Illustrator John Bolton, who Nicholas Vince has worked with, and Robert Stark’s paintings of Vintage Piccadilly Circus, Raymond Revuebar and Madame Jojo’s in London’s Soho where Nicholas Vince used to work
The English science-fiction and comic scene, 2000AD, Brian Aldiss
Tales of the Crypt: The Vault of Horror comic series
Horror short stories, M.R. James
Tank Girl
The impact of WWI and II on Europe, and the influence of war on the arts
Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, and Clive Barker on Open to Question in 1987, where he addressed moral concerns over Hellraiser


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Robert Stark interviews Robert Brenner about his Gritty Old Time Square Tours

1970's, aesthetics, Architecture, Art Deco, Blade Runner, Cities, Crime, Film, Film Noire, Futurism, gentrification, Historic Preservation, History, Jamie Gillis, John C. Portman Jr, Midnight Cowboy, Neon, New York, Peter Sotos, Pilleater, Pornography, Prostitution, Robert Brenner, San Francisco, Skyscrapers, Taxi Driver, The Porn Industry, Thomas Rinaldi, Time Square, Travel, Urbanism, Zoning

Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater interview Robert Brenner. Robert is a writer, critic, satirist, futurist, urbanist, and porkatarian. His work has appeared in the Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Salon, the Barnes & Noble Review, Medium, Different Truths, Antiserious, and Theory In Action. He is a graduate of the Writers’ Institute at CUNY.

Topics:

Robert Brenner’s Gritty Old Times Square tours, which are offered on Saturday’s once a Month, hosted by Untapped Cities
Adult Entertainment is the focus of the tours, but they also cover the general history of Time Square
The remnants of seedy Time Square, including The Playpen, and the Show World Center on Eighth Avenue
Robert Brenner’s experience in Time Square as a youth in the 70’s
That era of Time Square portrayed in the Films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy
The gentrification of Time Square in the 90’s, and how the area went from an interesting but dangerous area to a safe and boring one
The Deuce on 42nd Street, which was the center of adult entertainment in the 70’s
The Porn Industry in Time Square, and premier of 70’s porn films such as Behind the Green Door and Deep Throat that paved the way for the future of the pornographic industry, spawning many different adult sites, live cam sites, and even the Babestation blog.
Robert Brenner’s point that every city needs a Red Light District
Peter Sotos’s Pure Filth about the pornographer Jamie Gillis
San Francisco’s Tenderloin, where Robert Brenner lived in the early 80’s, and Robert Stark’s observations from his trip to the San Francisco Bay Area
The decline of neon signage in favor of LED, Robert Stark’s interview with Thomas Rinaldi of New York Neon, and the company LET THERE BE NEON! which restores old signs
The history of the Broadway Theater District, the New Amsterdam Theatre, and the defunct Paramount Theatre
The closing of Carnegie Deli and Maxie’s Delicatessen
The Bond Clothing Store Signs in Times Square
The John Portman designed Marriott Marquis in Time Square
The Tour of the Remnants of Penn Station, and plans for Moynihan Station inspired by the old Penn Station
New York Skyscrapers


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Robert Stark interviews Game Designer Andy Looney

1960's, 1980's, aesthetics, Andy Looney, Art, Board Games, Drugs, Futurism, Literature, Retro Futurism, Science Fiction, Video Games

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater interview Andy Looney. Looney is a game designer, computer programmer, and writer. He operates Looney Labs and has designed Fluxx The Card Game. His latest game is Pyramid Arcade.

Topics:

Looney’s interest in games, the card game Nuclear War
Looney’s games Fluxx The Card Game and Icehouse
Icebreaker for 3DO
Looney’s work for NASA
The origins behind Icehouse, Looney’s short story “Icehouse.”
The history behind Cosmic Wimpout, The Grateful Dead
Cosmic Encounter, Killer Bunnies and The Quest for The Magic Carrot
Looney’s advocation for marijuana legalization.
Pyramid Arcade: 22 games with pyramids! Homeworlds. Stonehenge
Looney’s novel, The Empty City
The art of Aquarius, Peter Max, Looney’s cartoons
The influence of drugs upon game design
Tabletop board game culture vs. Hippy culture
Looney’s card game Chrononauts, Back to the Future, The Butterfly Effect
Games designing as fine art. Players becoming apart of the art piece, Art games
Retro Futurism, Andy’s favorite genre which is the 1930’s Deco Machine Age, Metropolis, James Turrell
Meta-games, Virtual Reality, Conventions
The debut of LooneyCon
Richard Garfield’s Characteristics of Games


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