October 2011
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WatchGrouper & Lawrence English - “Wake”
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OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS →
“O.W.S. has “changed the conversation.” But talk, however necessary, is cheap. Ultimately, inevitably, the route to real change has to run through politics—the politics of America’s broken, god-awful, immutably two-party electoral system, the only one we have. The Tea Partiers know that. Do the Occupiers?”
- Hendrick Hertzberg
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WatchThe Soft Moon - “Total Decay” (Music Video)
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Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's Cheating →
“Cain seems like a nice enough guy, but I nearly blew my stack when I heard this. When you take into consideration all the theft and fraud and market manipulation and other evil shit Wall Street bankers have been guilty of in the last ten-fifteen years, you have to have balls like church bells to trot out a propaganda line that says the protesters are just jealous of their hard-earned...
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WatchJesse Ruins - “A Bookshelf Sinks Into Sand”
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WatchPete Swanson - “Remote View” (Music Video)
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Moving Beyond the Car Will Be a Natural... →
““The distance driven by Americans per capita each year flatlined at the turn of the century and has been dropping for six years. By last spring, Americans were driving the same distance as they had in 1998…
If you’re a typical North American, at the end of a long, stressful day at work, you’re not saying, ‘I can’t wait to get in my car. I would just love to go for a drive.’ It’s much...
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You Say You Want a Revolution: Andrew Sullivan on... →
“There is simply a limit beyond which economic inequality threatens democratic life, when the majority suspect that a tiny minority has fixed the system beyond repair through the existing institutions, and when the powerful minority begins to think of its own interests as distinct from the interests of its compatriots. That moment is one of real danger, especially when those elites can move...
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Bass Drum Of Death - “I Dunno” (Demo)
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Indie Grown-Ups: Are Wilco and Feist our adult... →
“If I were to claim that records like Metals and The Whole Love—or recent albums by Neko Case, Bon Iver, Stephen Malkmus, perhaps even Radiohead—represented some kind of norm or mainstream in American music, you might wrinkle your nose a bit. These acts don’t sell nearly the number of records that Beyoncé or Taylor Swift or Coldplay do, and we have the habit of thinking of them as...
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How Occupy Wall Street Is a Rational Response to a... →
“The fact of the matter is that the American economy isn’t working for average Americans, and hasn’t been for some time. Meanwhile, the corporate executive class has gotten quite adept at standing in solidarity against effective regulation of the financial system, against solutions to our environmental problems, and against progressive taxes. The time is right for people who aren’t happy...
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Stones Throw's Anika, more than just a 'weird... →
“Beyond the artists you covered, what other musicians had a sizable impact on your music tastes growing up?
When I was younger, I’d listen to very different types of music. I had a brother who was into hip-hop, drum and bass, and dubstep. My mom was into Janis Joplin. She was a bit of an old-school biker, hippie. I guess my favorites were Billie Holiday, Joplin and PJ Harvey —...
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FOREIGN CAMPAIGNS →
“If a Republican had been responsible for the foreign-policy markers of the past three years, the Party would be commissioning statues. In Tripoli, Benghazi, and Surt, last week, Obama won words of praise; on Republican debate platforms, there was only mindless posturing. In an election year, the world is too little with us.”
- David Remnick
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WatchWillamette Week’s 2011 Restaurant of the Year Runner Up: Natural Selection
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WatchWillamette Week’s 2011 Restaurant of the Year: Podnah’s Pit
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Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs.... →
“…beware of provocateurs on both sides of the aisle. This movement is going to attract many Breitbarts, of both the left and right variety. They’re going to try to identify fake leaders, draw phony battle lines, and then herd everybody back into the same left-right cage matches of old. Whenever that happens, we just have to remember not to fall for the trap. When someone says...
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WatchM83 - “Midnight City”
Love this new video. Happy to see someone big doing something other than a bunch of smoke bombs, half-naked women, crystals, triangles and empty narratives. El Guincho did that the best last year. Time for everyone else to step it up and push things forward.
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Memory Tapes - “Slaughtered” (Mix)
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