{"id":4484,"date":"2017-05-04T04:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2017-06-08T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T17:06:59","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-jack-ravenwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Jack Ravenwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4485 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood-.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood--300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood--768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood--1024x806.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stark and\u00a0co-host\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCZM4HLJJ75VhYvtRnq5dA9w\">Pilleater<\/a>\u00a0talk to Jack Ravenwood. He is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/littleapepress.com\/2017\/01\/18\/paradise-theater-introduction\/\">Paradise Theater<\/a>, a collection of short stories centered around the theme of the post-industrial American small city. He is also the main writer at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meanstreetcinema.com\/author\/meanstreetcinema\/\">Mean Street Cinema<\/a>, a website dedicated to films from New York City in the 70&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s, as well as the co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/littleapepress.com\/\">little ape press<\/a>. He blogs at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignerthoughts.wordpress.com\/\">Foreigner Thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topics:<\/p>\n<p>The setting of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/littleapepress.com\/2017\/01\/18\/paradise-theater-introduction\/\">Paradise Theater<\/a>\u00a0in Jack&#8217;s home town\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Allis,_Wisconsin\">West Allis, Wisconsin<\/a>\u00a0in the 1980&#8217;s and early 90&#8217;s<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cinematreasures.org\/theaters\/2927\">Paradise Theatre<\/a>\u00a0movie house which the book was named for and featured on the cover<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/littleapepress.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/08.jpg?w=840&amp;h=630\">The Fairview Motors<\/a>\u00a0Sign which is featured on the back of the book; Mid-Century Road Signage<br \/>\nThe cultural, political, and economic themes in the book<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allis-Chalmers\">Allis-Chalmers<\/a>\u00a0closing in West Allis and the de-industrialization of the Midwest<br \/>\nRoss Perot&#8217;s campaign in 1992 against NAFTA, and Trump campaigning on trade issues<br \/>\nJack&#8217;s Unz Review article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/trump-jfk-and-the-deep-state\/\">Trump, JFK, and the Deep State<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/03\/12\/national-review-writer-working-class-communities-deserve-to-die\/\">National Review Writer: Working-Class Communities &#8216;Deserve To Die <\/a><br \/>\nHow the best case scenario for the US would be to carve out a niche in high end manufacturing that caters to China&#8217;s growing middle class<br \/>\nJack&#8217;s new home\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shenzhen\">Shenzhen<\/a>, China which is a manufacturing power house, and new mega city built from scratch<br \/>\nJack&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meanstreetcinema.com\/author\/meanstreetcinema\/\">Mean Street Cinema<\/a>\u00a0site, his interest in Vintage New York City, and Robert Stark&#8217;s interviews with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2228\">Thomas Rinaldi about New York Neon<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=3583\">Robert Brenner about his Time Square Tours<\/a><br \/>\nJack&#8217;s observations about Hong Kong Neon and how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/14\/world\/asia\/hong-kong-neon-sign-maker.html\">Hong Kong Is Slowly Dimming Its Neon Glow<\/a><br \/>\nJack&#8217;s future plan to document Neon in Hong Kong in either a book or blog<br \/>\nThe culture of Hong Kong as a bridge between the east and west and it&#8217;s &#8220;relative autonomy&#8221;<br \/>\nVertical living and how it is the norm for urban China\u00a0for all classes<br \/>\nHigh density living isn&#8217;t\u00a0inherently bad but it is necessary to have a high quality of culture to sustain it<br \/>\nJack Kerouac&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Town_and_the_City\">The Town and the City<\/a><br \/>\nConformity in Asian culture; authentic Asian culture vs. SWPL larping<br \/>\nChinese Philosophy; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tao_Te_Ching\">Tao Te Ching<\/a><br \/>\nThe evolution of Western Philosophy;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deconstruction\">Deconstruction<\/a>\u00a0and selective deconstruction<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Baudrillard\">Jean Baudrillard<\/a>\u00a0and the simulation<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4484-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood.mp3\">https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jack-Ravenwood.mp3\">Click Here<\/a> to download!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Artrstark\/\"><span style=\"color: #1a0dab;\">This show is brought to you by Robert Stark&#8217;s Paintings!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"75RF3EG8CMWVE\" \/><br \/>\n<input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Stark and&nbsp;co-host&nbsp;Pilleater&nbsp;talk to Jack Ravenwood. He is the author of&nbsp;Paradise Theater, a collection of short stories centered around the theme of the post-industrial American small city. He is also the main writer at&nbsp;Mean Street Cinema, a website dedicated to films from New York &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Stark interviews Jack Ravenwood<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572,819,542,746,623,457,669,922,685,203,198,429,554,382,119,470,117,583,459,795,976,484,12,651,428,502,931,404,276,932,3,787,972,322,323,978,448,116,348,624,66,600,411,977,169,737,803,973,975,627,304,652,804,441,676,974],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-1990s","category-aesthetics","category-anime","category-architecture","category-art","category-asia","category-asian-aryanism","category-beatniks","category-capitalism","category-china","category-cinema","category-cities","category-class","category-college","category-conformity","category-conservatives","category-consumerism","category-culture","category-cyberpunk","category-deconstruction","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-education","category-film","category-free-trade","category-ghost-in-a-shell","category-globalization","category-history","category-hong-kong","category-immigration","category-jack-kerouac","category-jack-ravenwood","category-japan","category-japanese-culture","category-jean-baudrillard","category-las-vegas","category-literature","category-martin-heidegger","category-mid-century-modern","category-neoliberalism","category-neon","category-new-york","category-paradise-theater","category-philosophy","category-pilleater","category-robert-brenner","category-ross-perot","category-shenzhen","category-skyscrapers","category-swpl","category-thomas-rinaldi","category-time-square","category-trans-pacific-partnership","category-urbanism","category-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}