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Remember the 250,000 jobs Scott Walker was going to give Wisconsin with his union busting anti-worker bills? Turns out he lost nearly 16,000 jobs instead. OOPS!

I'm sure it'll all trickle down soon!

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Musical Poetry of the Dark Unconscious: Scott Walker’s “Epizootics!”

“Epizootics!” is the new ten-minute short film/music video recently premiered by avant-garde musical mastermind Scott Walker, a track from his forthcoming album “Bish Bosch.” Walker has accomplished the near impossible, showcasing an album that’s more ambitious, experimental and surreal than anything he’s created before. This first taste from his upcoming album is filled with dramatic artistry and shows promise that “Bish Bosch” will be considered one of the most thought-provoking albums released in years.

For those not familiar with Scott Walker’s work, Walker has been described as one of the greatest living avant-garde artists, with hardly any other American musician having had greater influence upon rock music, while at the same time remaining almost completely unknown to his countrymen. Walker grew up in Texas, New York City and Southern California, but he became a celebrity in England during the mid-1960s as part of the Walker Brothers band. The Walker Brothers was a vocal trio, which wed soaring vocal harmonies, lush soundtrack arrangements and a patently somber worldview into a uniquely theatrical package.

Scott Walker’s voice has been described as perhaps the most beautiful male non-soul voice of that era, and an increasingly free-thinking “Beat” attitude was at the core of the group’s appeal. Although the Walker Brothers became huge in Europe, Scott Walker’s eccentricity cast a dark cloud over the band’s public image. Scott began to write increasingly complicated interlaced music, and its sense of bleakness was intensified by his mix of translated Jacques Brel tunes with distinctly arty and pained original numbers. By 1969, his works were failing to appear on music charts at all.

An increasingly elusive Scott Walker slowly withdrew from public view. His voice began to lose some of its former pop-music sense of majesty, a reflection of his new interest in the experimental synth-driven avant-garde, which he helped revolutionize to major critical success, but only minor public attention. Walker seemed to vanish, while artists as diverse as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Julian Cope, Bryan Ferry, Ultravox and Marc Almond became fiercely ardent supporters of his unique body of work, citing him as a primary influence on their careers. Gale Harold (the actor in “Queer as Folk”) served as an Associate Producer, along with David Bowie as Executive Producer, of the acclaimed 2006 documentary about the influential artistic vision of Walker’s experimental musical work, “Scott Walker: 30th Century Man.”

This piece includes a number of photographs, the short film/music video and the documentary, “Scott Walker: 30th Century Man.”

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Former Scott Walker aide pleads guilty to felony misconduct; could face prison

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Heroes and Zeroes: Judicial Oversight, Values Voters, and ‘In Mitt We Trust’

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Breaking -- Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union law struck down by Wisconsin judge

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Twenty-four hours of #RomneyRyan2012

By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
As a public service, we're happy to round up the first 24 hours of the Romney-Ryan media melee so you wouldn't have to.

Despite issuing his long-anticipated vice presidential announcement on a lazy Saturday morning, Mitt Romney managed to keep the media and political punditry terribly busy and agitated during the first 24 hours of game changing following the official declaration that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would be his No. 2.
Sen. John McCain offered high praise for Ryan on Fox News on Sunday morning.
"I am convinced that he will bring the kinds of ideas and thoughts that he's been pursuing in the House and a very important position that he's held," McCain said, calling Ryan a bold selection, not unsimilar to McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 election.
Let's maybe not talk about how that one turned out.
Robert Reich, professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, noted in his Huffington Post column that the Ryan pick is nothing like the Palin pick.
"Paul Ryan is the reverse of Sarah Palin," Reich wrote. "She was all right-wing flash without much substance. He's all right-wing substance without much flash."
But the Sunday morning talk shows had the pundits and campaign surrogates in a high-speed spin cycle.
Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning, Barack Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, agreed that Ryan was a big, bold move, in a different way.
"I definitely think he's a big, bold choice because it really does say something about Mitt Romney," Cutter told CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. "But I don't think that's the prescription the American people are looking for. We'd love to have a substantive debate. As of yesterday, Mitt Romney put some substance on the table. We'd love to talk about it."
Esquire columnist Charles Pierce exhorted in his Saturday column that Mitt may have been bullied into being bold.
"In his decision to make Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin, his running mate, Romney finally surrendered the tattered remnants of his soul not only to the extreme base of his party, but also to extremist economic policies and to an extremist view of the country he seeks to lead," Pierce wrote.
Two big Republican names from Ryan's home state of Wisconsin made their appearance on "Meet the Press" with David Gregory on Sunday morning.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus and Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker both attempted to defend the Ryan selection by ducking and weaving around questions about how Romney himself has tried to distance himself from Ryan's controversial, safety-net-destroying budget.
"I think that what it shows the American people is that Mitt Romney has the leadership and courage to present to the American people a real contrast and a real debate in this country," Priebus said, adding that, put together, the pair makes the ultimate comeback team. He neglected to explain exactly where they were coming back from.By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza As a public service, we're happy to round... more

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Campaign chairman defends Romney’s ‘wisdom’: ‘You need fewer teachers’

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America: From Liberal Revolution to Conservative Plutocracy

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The Final Word on Wisconsin: 57, 34, 1 and the Obama Omen

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Organized Money Beat Organized People

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Priced out of Democracy

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Scott Walker survives Wisconsin recall scare, Dems in big trouble in November

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Wisconsin: The Best Man Wins!

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Wisconsin, Where Money Talks and Truth Walks

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Live updates from the Wisconsin recall election

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PBS News Hour: Wisconsin Recall Election Watched for National Repurcussions

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Governor Scott Walker; Wisconsin's shame---Koch Bros. Puppet.

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On Eve of Recall, Scott Walker Confirmed as Target of Criminal Investigation

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True Blue Talk: Romney Lies, Lies and Lies Again, Walker Recall and Trump

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It all comes down to one day - Vote June 5th. Good luck Wisconsin.

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