Category Archives: Sam Kevorkian

Robert Stark interviews Frank Sanitate about a Public Bank for Santa Barbara County

Banking, Economics, Ellen Brown, Frank Sanitate, Public Banking, Sam Kevorkian, Santa Barbara

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host San Kevorkian talk to Frank Sanitate about his proposal for a Public Bank in Santa Barbara County.

Topics:

Frank’s op ed published in the Santa Barbara News Press Banking On Our County
Public Banking as a solution to the County’s budget shortfall
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Joan Hartmann’s interest in the Public Bank
The political process in implementing a County Public Bank
Ellen Brown and the Public Banking Institute
How Public Banking works
Using Public Banking to fund infrastructure projects
The successful implementation of Public Banking in North Dakota
A Public Bank – Investing in New Jersey Not Wall Street | Gubernatorial Candidate  Phil Murphy
Nationalizing the Federal Reserve
Frank’s book Money – Vital Unasked Questions and the Critical Answers Everyone Needs to Know

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Robert Stark talks to Director Michael Medaglia about his Film Deep Dark

Art, Bizarro Fiction, Blue Velvet, Cinema, comedy, Culture, David Lynch, Deep Dark, Film, horror, horror films, humor, Literature, Michael Medaglia, Portland, Sam Kevorkian, Santa Barbara, Sexuality, Surrealism, Twin Peaks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Sam Kevorkian talk to Director Michael Medaglia about his Film Deep Dark. You can get a signed DVD as well as the screenplay on the Deep Dark Website.

Topics:

The struggling artist Hermann played by Sean McGrath who discovers a mysterious hole 
How the film is classified as horror for marketing purposes but Michael considers it to be “weird fiction”
Weird fiction writers including Kelly Link and Jeremy Robert Johnson
How the hole works
The symbolism of the hole, the Faustian Myth, and comparisons to “Little Shop of Horrors”
Giving the hole humanity
Keeping a sense of mystery for the audience by not revealing everything
Horror cliches such as holes as gateways to hell
The theme of a struggling artist and how artist can relate to the film
The absurd and comedic elements of the film
The production and cinematography of the film
Voice actress Denise Poirier who did the voice for the hole
Michael’s short films “The Ratsnitch Angel” and Kitty Kitty

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Robert Stark interviews Yan Pagh about the Alt Center

Academia, Alt Center, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, Anarchism, capitalism, censorship, Conservatives, counterculture, Culture, Denmark, Economics, education, Europe, European Nationalism, Freedom of Speech, Front National, Gamergate, Gender, Immigration, Islam, Leftism, Marine Le Pen, Marxism, Occupy Wall Street, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Sam Kevorkian, Social Justice Warriors, Yan Pagh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Sam Kevorkian talk to Yan Pagh. Yan is based in Denmark and runs the Alt-Center Facebook Group

Topics:

The basic definition of the Alt-Center as rejecting the far left, the far right, and the establishment
The Alt-Center as non-aligned; a new movement that is flexible and evolving
How the left and the right have become merely reactions to one another
The importance of debate and an open exchange of ideas
How political polarization has lead to a rise in censorship
How the Alt-Right and Alt-Left emerged
Top Hats and Champaign: The original alt-centrism
Yan’s observation that the Hippie Culture he grew up with was much more free than today’s left
The immigration debate, the left’s suppression of debate, and the right’s monopoly on the opposition
European immigration restriction parties adopting left and center positions
Naser Khader and his book “Honor and Shame”
Danish Culture

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Robert Stark talks to Brandon Adamson about the Film Cherry 2000

1980's, aesthetics, Brandon Adamson, Cherry 2000, Cinema, Cities, comedy, Culture, Dystopia, Environment, Erotica, Feminism, Film, Futurism, Immigration, Las Vegas, Love, Mad Max, Overpopulation, Pamela Gidley, Phoenix, Pilleater, Pornography, relationships, Sam Kevorkian, Science, Science Fiction, Sex Robots, Sexuality, Stepford Wives, Suburbia, technology, Transhumanism, Travel, Trip, Twin Peaks, Urbanism, Wilderness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark, new Co-host Sam Kevorkian, and retiring co-host Pilleater talk to Brandon Adamson about the Film Cherry 2000(1987). Brandon blogs at AltLeft.com, is the author of Beatnik Fascism, and has a new youtube channel Self Checkout

Topics:

Brandon’s review Cherry 2015 – If Loving A Fembot Is Artificial, I Don’t Want To Be Genuine
The main character Sam Treadwell who is a romantic guy who still longs for a traditional loving relationship and finds courtship with a female android
The depiction of sexual encounters and relationships with real women as complicated legal transactions requiring lawyers, reduced to merely emotionless business arrangements
Contrasting the film with the “Stepford Wives” where the men kill their loving yet sassy wives in exchange for robot sex slaves
How the issue of sex robots has become relevant again and it’s implications for the future
The ending of the film where Sam falls for the tracker, “Edith”(Melanie Griffith) whom he hires to help locate the robot
The theme of a journey and the popularity of road trip films in the 80’s and 90’s(ex. Chevy Chase in “Vegas Vacation”)
Pamela Gidley as Cherry 2000 and her role in the Twin Peaks prequel “Fire Walk With Me”
The 80’s aesthetic of the film
The dystopian theme where cities are deserted and overrun with criminals; comparisons to “Mad Max”
Locales depicted in the film including Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam, and the Citadel Outlet Mall
Self Checkout – Becoming a New Suburbanist

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