{"id":441,"date":"2012-03-09T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=441"},"modified":"2012-03-09T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:32:56","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e8-can-we-talk-about-driving-with-john-rabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E8: Can We Talk About Driving? with John Rabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Colin Marshall sits down in the Los Angeles Central Library’s courtyard with John Rabe, host of Off-Ramp<\/em><\/a>, KPCC’s weekend pointillist portrait of Southern California. They discuss the merits of recording in a library courtyard and in Cheech Marin’s house in Malibu; picking a road in Los Angeles and following it wherever it goes; the troubled history of Cypress Park and the truth about the Isabel Street shooting; the Los Angeles “churn” and the effect of constant neighborhood change on the historical consciousness; the historical bounty to be found in the Los Angeles Public Library’s photo collection<\/a>; the city’s rising optimism and falling crime (and its lack of a mob); the McMartin preschool trial<\/a>; his desire to live in a place with the word “gardens” in its name; his tendency to look ahead, not back, and to move randomly, not in patterns, and how that shapes Off-Ramp<\/em>‘s character; his anger at drivers who slow down on the freeway with their brakes; his plan to banish citizens who break the social contract and institute a Waste and Fraud Corruption Lottery to give money to the rest; the lessons of Carmageddon; what makes radio documentaries sustain; and how, if you want to create radio, you should just break out your iPhone (or whatever you have) and record something.<\/p>\n

Download the interview from Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed here<\/a> or on iTunes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Photo: Karl Rabe)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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