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Escape From New York director John Carpenter has told CVG that he gave his blessing to Hideo Kojima to use the movie's Snake Plissken as inspiration for Metal Gear Solid's Solid Snake.
Carpenter - who also directed Halloween, They Live, The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China - revealed that Kojima wrote to him to ask his permission before creating MGS.
Kurt Russell plays anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape From New York. A decorated war veteran, he later turns to a life of crime before becoming a fugitive.
The movie - based in the 'future' 1997 - focuses on his attempts to find the US President on Manhattan Island, which has been turned into a maximum security prison.
"[Hideo Kojima] has written me and asked me for my blessing on the game and I wrote him back [to say] how about it?" said Carpenter. "He's a very nice man."
Carpenter has more recently been hard at work creating the story for F.3.A.R - Warner Bros much-anticipated horror FPS.


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Film tradition continues with 'Dubious Achievements' 2013
We wrap up the film year with our annual "Dubious Achievements," from the best mustache to breakout performance.
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Long ago, my honored predecessor John Hartl began — and I've continued — a tradition of wrapping up the movie year with a list of "Dubious Achievements." Here we go, for 2013:
Best performance in a lost cause: Lily Tomlin in "Admission," Jim Carrey in "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," Bret McKenzie in "Austenland," Helena Bonham Carter in "The Lone Ranger," Melissa McCarthy in "Identity Thief," Owen Wilson in "The Internship," Pink (Alecia Moore) in "Thanks for Sharing."
Best vampire: Didn't it seem like an unusually snappy and sunny year, just because we didn't have to watch another "Twilight" movie? Nonetheless, Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan stylishly carried on the bloodsucking tradition in Neil Jordan's "Byzantium."
Best performance by an animal: That extremely calm orange tabby (or, rather the three cats that played him) in "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Best chemistry: Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley in "The Spectacular Now," Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in "Before Midnight," Idris Elba and Naomie Harris in "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold in "Still Mine," Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini in "Enough Said," Lake Bell and Demetri Martin in "In a World ...," Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson's voice in "Her."
Worst chemistry: Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews in "Diana," Justin Timberlake and Gemma Arterton in "Runner Runner," Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel in "Safe Haven."
Funniest chemistry: Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in "Philomena," Jennifer Lawrence and everyone she interacts with in "American Hustle," Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in "Saving Mr. Banks," Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in "The Heat."
Best breakthrough performance: Lupita Nyong'o in "12 Years a Slave," Will Forte in "Nebraska," Dane DeHaan in "Kill Your Darlings," Oscar Isaac in "Inside Llewyn Davis," Michael B. Jordan in "Fruitvale Station."
Best breakthrough performance, over-70 division: Robert Redford, who almost wordlessly reminded us of his great gifts as an actor in "All Is Lost."
Best mustache: There was just something endearing about Joaquin Phoenix's 'stache in "Her," wasn't there?
Best screen debut: Barkhad Abdi in "Captain Phillips."
Best kid performance: Kelyna Lecomte in "Nana," Onata Aprile in "What Maisie Knew."
Best popcorn movies: "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," "Gravity," "Captain Phillips," "The Heat," "Monsters University," "Star Trek: Into Darkness."
Best superhero: Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." I'd pit that icy gaze against Superman any day.
Best sequel: "Before Midnight."
Best villain: Benedict Cumberbatch in "Star Trek: Into Darkness," Ben Kingsley in "Iron Man 3," Michael Shannon in "The Iceman."
Most disappointing villain: Those Nazis in "The Book Thief" just seemed kind of cranky.
Best evidence that the romantic comedy isn't dead: "Enough Said," "In a World ...," "Her."
Most convincing evidence that the romantic comedy is, indeed, dead: "The To-Do List," "The Big Wedding."
Best stories you couldn't make up: In yet another year of great documentaries, applause for "Let the Fire Burn," "At Berkeley," "Blackfish," "56 Up," "Stories We Tell," "The Waiting Room," "A Place at the Table," "Good Ol' Freda" and so many more.
Slyest scene-stealing: Alison Janney in "The Way, Way Back," Brian Cox in "Blood," George Clooney in "Gravity," Richard Cordery in "About Time," Morgan Freeman in "Last Vegas."
Best costumes: "The Great Gatsby," "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," "Beautiful Creatures," "Diana."
Best demonstration of the beauty of black-and-white cinematography: "Nebraska," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Frances Ha."
Most compelling reason to never, ever go down into the basement: "The Conjuring." Brrr.
Best singing: It wasn't much of a year for musicals, but Jennifer Hudson and the cast of "Black Nativity" raised the roof in song. And "20 Feet from Stardom" left a lot of us happily humming.
Busiest bees: The very productive Benedict Cumberbatch turned up this year in "Star Trek: Into Darkness," "The Fifth Estate," "12 Years a Slave," "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" and "August: Osage County" (opening in Seattle next week) — and squeezed in a new season of "Sherlock," too.
Most uncanny transformation: Matthew McConaughey, skinny as a cigarette in "Dallas Buyers Club" — and turning in one of the great performances of the year.
Saddest goodbye: James Gandolfini, leaving behind perhaps the sweetest performance of his career in "Enough Said."
Best reason to look forward to 2014: I could argue all day whether Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike were the best choices to play Nick and Amy in "Gone Girl" (my picks: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Charlize Theron) ... but I can't wait to be proved wrong.
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It has been talked about many, many times, so now it is naturally widely-known that any application, especially one that's in production, must be monitored. When monitoring, it is important not only to evaluate the current status of the application, but, even more importantly, to predict future potential error situations. It is already standard practice that application programs write log files. These usually contain various information from many different points in the application. Therefore it is very important to process the log files in a way that provides an understanding of what's going on when things go awry. Unfortunately, as might be expected, the files are usually far from ideally-designed and often contain too many details and too much noise. As a result, it is actually very difficult to glean much useful information from them. Faced with such a situation, you may often prefer just to select pieces of important information from your logs and see these in real time. In this article, the simple but effective solution for selective monitoring of your Java application logs, in real time, is presented.
You may ask – why Java? The answer is simple – because Java has a powerful log engine, called Log4J. Besides that, the Log4J engine has been ported to other popular programming languages (log4php, log4net, log4cxx, log4js, etc.), so perhaps this same approach can be used with those as well.
Log4j provides many extensions and one of these provides for creating custom appenders. Log4J also has a filtering facility that can be used in custom appenders. Thus, the idea is to create a custom appender with filtering which will selectively get information from your log file and send that information to Monitis. There, it can be shown in tabular and graphical form in order to notify the user if something is starting to go wrong.
We have created the generic custom appender with filtering which receives information from Log4J, filters it according to a user pattern (RegExp) and then sends it to Monitis using the Monitis Open API. The custom appender is wrapped in a Jar file and therefore you shouldn't make any changes in your application. You can use it as is, without any problem.
All that needs to be done is the following:
- include the log_mon.jar (generic custom appender) in your list of application libraries
- Using the settings shown below as an example, modify your Log4J configuration file to specify the settings for the Monitis Appender
<appender name="monitisAppender">
<param name="monitisApiKey" value="2PE0HVI4DHP34JACKCAE37IOD4" />
<param name="monitisSecretKey" value="7OI90FU3C3DA8ENLNJ0JGGOGO0" />
<param name="monitisMonitorName" value="Log_files_monitor" />
<param name="monitisMonitorTag" value="Custom_logger_monitor" />
<param name="monitisSendInterval" value="60000" />
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t]: %m%n" />
<param name="filterPattern" value="(Error|Fatal|Warn*|Attention)" />
<param name="minAllowedLevel" value="WARN" />
- monitisApiKey is user personal API key that can be obtained from Monitis user account
- monitisSecretKey is user personal secret key that can be obtained from Monitis user account
- monitisMonitorName is user monitor name (any unique name can be chosen)
- monitisMonitorTag is tag value for user monitors
- monitisSendInterval is time interval [ms] between sending monitored info to Monitis
- ConversationPattern is the pattern that will be used by MonitisAppender to format records
- filterPattern is a pattern-string for selection of log records that you want to monitor
This should be composed as a Java RegEx and correspond to Java Pattern.matches requirements.
(default is no pattern – so all records will be sent to Log Monitor)
- minAllowedLevel is the log4j records level (ERROR, WARN, DEBUG, etc.) that you want to monitor (default value is WARN)
- the Log4J configuration should be prepared in XML format because Log4J filter supports XML only
- this approach doesn't affect your application performance because Log4J appenders work in separate threads asynchronously
- it can take more memory to run your application because an additional custom appender works in the same JVM bounds
- in comparison to other approaches this approach seems much simpler and doesn't require additional tools. It's very close to The Cure for Monitoring Java Logs technique, and simplifies it
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4. Why does Susan feel the way that she does about the idea of Paul being away from his parents and learning self-reliance?
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Oh so lets appoint someone who was once the chief of staff at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. A department in Massachusetts that is known to have the rudest public employees in the Commonwealth. Because certainly part of the problem is that the current social workers that are employed by DCF have not been sufficiently train in how to be effectively rude and boorish to the general public. The proof of this is in this one little fact.
Have you ever made a complaint about being treated rudely one of the people at the DMV? Ever make a complaint about that person giving you misinformation intentionally? Causing you to lose two days of work instead of one? NO? Why not? Well because you know that the process to make a complain takes forever. And if you ever get through to someone to talk to they will just tell you to put it in writing and send it to such and such address. You do that and then follow up on it and find that your complaint was never received! So you again send it out and this goes on and on until the DMV person you are making the complaint about retires or you just get sick and tired of spending so much money on stamps sending a complaint that you finally realize is never going to get any further then the trash can of the mailroom at the DMV address you are sending it too!!!
So………. If this new director of DCF can teach the Social Workers to be effectively rude like the DMV workers. Well, we will no longer hear about all the REALLY BAD things going on in that department. We won't be told, as the Taxpayers who support that department, that the individuals who work in DCF NEVER follow any of the written policies. They all do whatever they want to.
It has been that way for well over 50 years. I know because I grew up and survived for 4+ very long years in what was known as one of the 10 worst foster homes in the State of Massachusetts back in 1972 - 73. (that is when my brothers and sister and I were finally rescued, but that nightmare home wasn't shut down until 1974 when the monster sexually assaulted a non foster child) And the things that went on back then that allowed this Monster to run this horrible place continue to go on to this day. As an adult I have testified on Beacon hill about the Problems within FFC/DSS/DCF and NOTHING HAS EVER CHANGE! Except for the name of the department. And I continue to call and tell those that state they want to change DCF. And I have told them where the problems are in their policies and practices. But yet NOTHING CHANGES!!!! just the name!!!
Pity all the children that are left in or kidnapped by this department! Pity all the families that are traumatized by this department unnecessarily, when you hear in the news there is a baby that has died because DCF didn't protect that child like they SHOULD have!!! That they didn't give that family the services they should have, perhaps because they were too busy kidnapping someone's child that didn't need to be stolen from their home. And maybe that child didn't need to be taken from their home, but that DCF social worker happens to have a friend who in not only in need of some financial assistance but OMG they just happen to be an available temporary foster home. And hey they can kill two birds with one stone with the emergency removal and placement of this child. SO lets traumatize this child and family, don't worry, you will get to appear in court within 72 hours or on Monday whichever comes first. But watch your mouth and your actions because the very last thing you want to do is appear to be upset and emotional over the fact that your child has been stolen and hidden from you for over 72 hours. The DCF social worker will tell the judge that you are obviously mentally unfit to be parenting a child. ( Think this isn't the way it goes? Look at the Connecticut case? That Social worker has been hell bent on keeping that girl away from her parents, simply because those parents let that worker know exactly how they felt about DCF interfering in any parenting decisions regarding their sick daughter. They asserted what they thought were their rights as parents!!! Boy were they wrong!!! Big mistake pissing off a DCF social worker!!! THis social worker tells the DCF lawyer what to tell the Judge and the Judge does exactly what the DCF social worker recommends! END OF STORY!!! ) And that is the reality of the situation.
It isn't what is in the best interest of the child, it never has been! It is what does the DCF Social worker want to do! The Judges never go out and look at the situation themselves, They don't hire private workers to go and check out the situation to see if they are being told the truth! They just believe the Social Worker. After all in Juvenile court when it's a parent's word against a DCF Social Worker it is a known fact that all Parents are liars and are never to be believed no matter what proof or evidence is offered! Those are the rules in the juvenile court as dictated by DCF!!! .
Every single parent in this state should be scare to hell that we support a department that has the ability to walk into your home with a Police Officer and remove your children based on possible hearsay!!! Which could be something the Social Worker made up themselves!!! Oh don't worry you can get your kid back in 72 hours!!! But for those 72 hours you will have no idea where or who has your child. You won't know what is being said or done to your child. And isn't that just too bad!!! Tell it to the judge when you get there. And after your child is traumatized by DCF they will walk away like nothing ever happened. You will pay the bills for all the years of therapy your child will need due to this unnecessary trauma caused by some DCF social worker that you unfortunately pissed off or perhaps is best friends with someone that has decided to use this system to seek revenge against you and your family. Think it doesn't happen? It does everyday.
You have workers saying they are overworked and underpaid. But there is a very good chance some of those workers have caused problems for themselves. Where they have over reacted in a vicious manner against an individual that they have taken a personal dislike to. And have allowed a case that truly is in need of Emergency Services to slip through and fall into that big black hole of DCF lost cases.
So I give EVERY SINGLE PARENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS FAIR WARNING!!!! NEVER, EVER PISS OFF A DCF SOCIAL WORKER IF YOU LOVE AND CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN. IF YOU DO YOU MOST CERTAINLY WILL LOSE YOUR CHILDREN. AND YOU WILL BE IN FOR THE FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE TO GET THEM BACK!!!! AND NEVER FORGET THIS FACT: DCF SOCIAL WORKERS DO LIE!!! ALL THE TIME! That is why they are NEVER WRONG or HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!


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And all of us are strong
When the worst becomes the least
And the least becomes a song
Dear John, you have portrayed the essence of life in a straight, simple and effective manner. I very much liked the poem. (Report) Reply
John Garth Raubenheimer
A Song For The Night
Well the night is only night
And a star is just a star
And near is only near
And far is only far
And your life is just a life
And a flame is just a flame
And the wind is only wind
And a name is just a name
And all of us are brave
And all of us are strong
When the worst becomes the least
And the least becomes a song
For God is always God
In the waters running clear
And all pain is only pain
The word forever just a tear
And my song is just a song
And I sing it soft and clear
Baby let it ease the hurt
Let it wash away your fear
All the horrors we have fought
Were just our shadows on the wall
Past the spectre of your guilt
Any fall is just a fall
And all of us are brave
And all of us are strong
When the worst becomes the least
And the least becomes a song
Well my song is just a song
And I sing it soft and clear
Baby let it ease the hurt
Let it wash away your fear
Because the night is only night
And a star is just a star
And near is only near
And far is only far
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Ravi A (4/21/2013 5:02:00 AM)
And all of us are brave
Martin O'Neill (2/11/2012 4:10:00 AM)
John, I feel a deep sense of reaching out to a loved one in this piece and a pragmatic realisation that physical occurrences are just that - occurrences, happenings, things. That they don't of themselves, matter. What matters is our response, reaction and the meaning we impart to them. What matters is people and how we feel about them.
This is an accomplished piece of work. (Report) Reply
Joe Garson (11/11/2011 2:38:00 PM)
I take it that this is also a song complete with melody, right John? ...it stands by
itself as a poem-quite well written...seems to be sort of a lullabye to a small
child who has perhaps fallen and got cuts and bruises...very evocative imagery... (Report) Reply
Kristen Brown (11/5/2011 4:49:00 PM)
This is deep.
I know I've always had a wonder for the universe. Looking for what could be and not readily accepting what is.
I know everyone says we have a purpose in life, but what if our purpose is to change the course, the nature of world and people around us? For they are who they are before we get here, and yet they change into who they become after our arrival and after we're gone.
What if there is no purpose? What if everything 'just is'.
A flame is only a flame and a star only a star.
This requires introspection.
Great write.10+ (Report) Reply
Sally Plumb Plumb (11/3/2011 6:32:00 AM)
Ruth Walters (2/1/2010 4:10:00 PM)
somehow this soothes me as I read it and has a melody hidden in it's words like a lullaby that soothes a child who has nightmares and cries for its mother for fear the big bad wolf is coming, but I sense some apathy with life in your thoughts too and perhaps a little grief.....am I right?
Ruth (Report) Reply
Naseer Ahmed Nasir (7/13/2009 5:41:00 PM)
But this poem is not just a poem, Its beautiful. Simple yet meaningful. (Report) Reply
Sonya Florentino (4/21/2009 3:33:00 PM)
Lee Crowell (3/8/2009 7:46:00 PM)
a good song from the heart, John
most of what I post here I consider poetry, but there is one song you might like 'barefoot charm' (Report) Reply
Michelle Melody (1/10/2009 5:46:00 AM)
But I do not hear it as a blues rythm, more a sweet little melody. (Report) Reply
Michelle Melody (1/9/2009 8:21:00 PM)
My thoughts exactly! I love the rythm of this poem... it is meant to be sung. Love it! (Report) Reply
Jemarie Ragudo (11/14/2007 2:38:00 AM)
If you can get someone to put a melody to this poem, it could become a beautiful song in the blues. Rhythm is great! (Report) Reply
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PHOENIX - He stood 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 245. He was kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip. And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John.
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OMAHA, Neb. - Arizona State's 22nd and final appearance at Rosenblatt Stadium will go down as its worst.
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TEMPE - Arizona State won the College World Series when it last played Clemson in its first game at the event. For that historical precedent alone, No. 1-ranked ASU welcomes the Tigers as its opening opponent at 4 p.m. Sunday in Omaha, Neb.
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GLENDALE - Remember that Thursday before Labor Day when college football couldn't start soon enough?
With loss, Devils clinch losing season
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ASU true freshman Osweiler gets start at QB against Ducks
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Previously stellar run defense collapses at Stanford
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What a rush: Top-five back vs. No. 2 run defense in vital game
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Oh Danny boy, will the pipes be calling for new quarterback?
Does Danny Sullivan have a chance tonight?
Sun Devils are heavily favored, but Palouse trips can fool you
PULLMAN, Wash. – On its way to a share of the 2007 Pac-10 football championship, Arizona State survived a trip to the Palouse, 23-20, with Washington State missing a field goal to force overtime.
Sullivan remains starter despite crowd's opinion
TEMPE — The home fans vociferously turned on Danny Sullivan in a 28-17 loss Saturday night to Oregon State, and can be expected to do so again with little provocation.
ASU to rely on defense against Oregon State
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Block, late FG lift Dawgs over Devils
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Devils go down to Georgia looking for a victory to steal
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Sun Devils remember UNLV, want badly to avoid a repeat
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One month into the Occupy Wall Street protests, many are asking if this new movement is just a "left-wing Tea Party."
Definitely not. This is not a party, like the Tea Party, that seeks to directly shape the policy and electoral process. Because it is explicitly leaderless, it is difficult to imagine a Michele Bachmann or Eric Cantor emerging as a standard bearer of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Given their reliance on Wall Street money, as well as radical demands from many protesters, the Democrats will find it almost impossible to channel "the 99%" into an electoral tidal wave next year, the way the Republicans rode the Tea Party to victory in 2010.
But that does not mean comparisons to the Tea Party should be dismissed. There are striking parallels between the two movements when viewed through the lenses of politics, society and history.
Some similarities are obvious. The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street both oppose the bailouts of the banks orchestrated by the two parties in Washington. The two movements are thick with people who feel they have little say in the political process. And supporters on each side think the middle-class "American dream" is nearly extinct.
As social forces, the resemblance deepens. I have interviewed protesters at Zuccotti Park and Tea Party members who discuss their involvement in comparable terms. They speak of a personal "awakening," of finding inspiration in a gathering of kindred spirits, and of not having been political before. In fact, both movements thrive on bringing new people into politics. Each creates a new notion of "the people."
The Tea Party's rallying cries include "we the people" and "take America back." Its vision of the people is of self-reliant, industrious and frugal Americans who through moral example and political force would return this country to the greatness pioneered by the Founding Fathers. The Occupy Wall Street movement is inchoate, but already chants of "the 99%" offer another version of the people: those whose dreams and aspirations have been squashed by the greedy and power-hungry, but who can revive fairness and justice as national ideals.
For both, the legitimate people is complemented by the illegitimate other. For the Tea Party, the other is embodied by liberals, unions, illegal immigrants, Muslims, welfare recipients and Obama. For the Occupy Wall Street movement, the others are the 1 percent, the catch-all for bankers, corporate executives, the super-rich and their political allies who have an iron grip on the economy and politics.
Another similarity is that the success of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is owed to their vagueness, at least initially. Each has united disparate coalitions under their respective banners. The Tea Party's historic references appeal to people who feel that social and political changes in the last few decades have made their country unrecognizable. It unites those who oppose unions and immigration, favor small government (apart from the sprawling military-security apparatus), want a return to the gold standard, cuts in social spending, unlimited gun rights and less regulation of business and markets. The common theme is that parasitical and selfish groups have sapped America's wealth and power.
Likewise, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been criticized for a lack of demands, but when you speak to supporters they have no lack of ideas: better-paying jobs, government-funded jobs, single-payer healthcare, debt forgiveness, a moratorium on home foreclosures, cutting defense spending, saving Social Security and Medicare, strengthening unions. One secret of its success, analogous to the Tea Party's obsession with the undeserving, is that it allows many groups and individuals to see their demands as equivalent to everyone else's because the opponent is the same: Wall Street.
Most Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street partisans feel something has gone fundamentally wrong in America, and they are united in envisioning a different type of society. It's a mistake to reduce either movement to politics or policy. Each is motivated by values and idealized ways of relating to one another. But this is where the differences become stark.
The Tea Party embraces heroic, rugged individualism where freedom and liberty are best secured through the free market. In reality, though, the Tea Party ideology often evokes an exurban nostalgia for white supremacy. Tea Party members rage against deficits run up by an African-American president with an anger never directed at his deficit-prone predecessor. Their disdain for government subsidies rarely extends to the interest deduction for homeowners, funding for the interstate highway system, crop support payments and other state supports for a suburban or rural lifestyle.
On the other hand, Occupy Wall Street believes in a more collective economy and decision-making process, as seen in the General Assembly and free exchange of goods in Zuccotti Park and other occupation sites. Activists think increasing access to public goods — starting with the public squares themselves — is the way to achieve social harmony.
These radically divergent worldviews are matched by distinct demographics. The average member of the Tea Party is in his or her 50s, whereas the typical Wall Street occupier looks to be a recent college graduate. This probably explains why the two also have different relations to history. The Tea Party romanticizes the American Revolution, while Occupy Wall Street is inspired by more contemporary uprisings in Europe and the Arab world in which youth say they are trying to reclaim the future.
It would be tempting to define the divide between those who support an unfettered free market because government has too much power versus those who want a robust social welfare state (or even socialism) because corporations have too much power. But that is just part of it. The fact that genuinely popular movements could blossom so quickly at both political poles indicates how hollow the political center has become.
The Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements may have diametrically opposed visions of society and power relations, but they both appeal to growing ranks of people who believe the system no longer works for them. Whatever their differences they present a similar challenge that will not disappear because of some policy reforms or reshuffling of the cast in Washington.
Arun Gupta, a New York writer and co-founder of Occupy the Wall Street Journal, covers the Occupy movement for Salon.More Arun Gupta.
Elliott and the friends with whom he recorded in middle school in Texas (photo courtesy of Dan Pickering)
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Climb Sugar Mountain When Holy Ghost People Arrives on DVD this April
After a strong premiere at last year's SXSW Film Festival and currently available on VOD/iTunes, The Butcher Brothers' Holy Ghost People (review here) is arriving on DVD from XLrator Media next month, April 8th to be exact.
The Holy Ghost People Are Preaching Their Maniacal Gospel in This Image Gallery
XLrator Media's latest film from The Butcher Brothers, entitled Holy Ghost People (review), is now in limited theatrical release; and we have an entire image gallery full of their weird beliefs right here for you, free of any threats which may come via snakebite.
Exclusive Holy Ghost Clip Takes You Into the Snake Shed!
The good folks over at XLrator Media have provided Dread Central with an exclusive first clip from the latest film from The Butcher Brothers, entitled Holy Ghost People (review). If you have a fear of snakes, which we're sure some of you do (we're looking at YOU, Mr. Jones), you may wanna skip it. If you're brave, check it out right now!
Exclusive Artwork Premiere - Holy Ghost People
The good folks over at XLrator Media have provided Dread Central with an exclusive first look at the latest film from The Butcher Brothers, entitled Holy Ghost People (review). Then they asked if we could post it instead of just admiring it, and we figured what the heck? Check it out right now!
XLrator Media Lays Hands on the Holy Ghost People
Good news has come in for those of you excited to check out the latest flick from the Butcher Brothers, Holy Ghost People (review)! The flick has scored distro, and we have the early details for you right here. Check it out!
Exclusive Interview: Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores Discuss Holy Ghost People, Raised by Wolves and More
Just a few weeks ago, Mitchell Altieri's (one half of The Butcher Brothers) Holy Ghost People (review) celebrated its world premiere at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.
Indie Horror Month Exclusive: Co-Writer/Director Andrew Weiner Talks The Frankenstein Theory
This week Image Entertainment released first-time director Andrew Weiner's docu-style indie thriller The Frankenstein Theory, which resurrects one of the genre's most beloved giants as a 300-year-old experiment gone awry in the Arctic Circle, on DVD and VOD.
Frankenstein Theory, The (2013)
SXSW 2013: The Butcher Brothers Take on The Holy Ghost People
Another flick playing at this year's South by Southwest event (March 8th-17th in Austin, Texas) is the new flick from The Butcher Brothers, The Holy Ghost People, and we've got the first still and even a trailer for you. Dig it!
Explore The Frankenstein Theory in Theatres and on VOD
On March 1st, Image Entertainment unleashes The Frankenstein Theory on VOD and across the country in exclusive theatrical engagements. Will your city be among those getting it on the big screen? Read on to find out!
The Frankenstein Theory Explained at Home
Image Entertainment has just provided us with the cover art and DVD information for its upcoming release of The Frankenstein Theory, and we can't wait to stitch this one into our own home video collection!
Exclusive: Image Unveils its Frankenstein Theory
Let's kick off the news day with an exclusive! Ready, set, GO! Image Entertainment has just provided us the cover art for the upcoming flick The Frankenstein Theory, and we like! We really like! Check it out!