Idea IS the format

And, if that’s not enough Alan for you…

“You think this can last. There’s a storm coming Mr Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches. Because when it hits you’re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.”

So speaks Selina Kyle, AKA Catwoman, in this week’s trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, with a prescience promising a resolution of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy uncannily zeroed in on the Zeitgeist.

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“From November 1969 to June 1971 a coalition of American Indian students and urban Indians, calling themselves ‘Indians of All Tribes’, occupied Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco as a call to resistance against US domination of native peoples and land. The coalition publicized the occupation through a widely distributed newsletter and a radio show broadcast in multiple cities. This action sparked years of Native resistance, including the 1972 takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Headquarters in Washington D.C. and the re-occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973.”

(From Josh Macphee’s ‘The Occupation of Alcatraz’ print (above), part of the Celebrate People’s History series.)

Released in 1988, John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE finds honest, hard-working Americans – personified in this case by the muscle-bound mullet that is ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper – on skid row, under the thumb of a kleptocracy of aliens masquerading as decent, clean-living human beings in cahoots with a power elite of Reagan-era Republicans doing much the same thing.

Los Angeles offers the perfect backdrop to THEY LIVE. Wall Street might be America’s financial capital, but LA is its epicentre of conspicuous consumption, the natural point of origin for the TV signal being used by these intergalactic free-enterprisers to addle and exploit the collective human consciousness.

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Apparently this dates back to 1912, one year before the creation of the Federal Reserve:

I’m calling it the ‘Occupus’. If I get to the point of placard-making, I’ll be printing it up in A1 and getting Lola and Ruby to colour it in. It certainly puts Paul the Octopus’ prophetic powers in perspective.

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Having spent much of the last forty-eight hours on the cold, hard steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, I’m sat in Glass Eye’s little Shoreditch office eating a respectfully parsimonious fare of oatcakes and tomatoes, contemplating how best to make sense of my weekend – structured, concise sense, if I can muster it – in what little now remains of it.

Truth is I’m hoping I can do it with time to spare, so that I can pop back down there before I head on home. It’s an infectious spirit in the camp at the moment, twinned with the engrossing spectacle of a nascent community frantically negotiating the terms of its own survival: with the church, with the authorities and, critically, with itself.

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Fox News:

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TheOther99Percent:

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FOX NEWS:

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In which the author: co-opts the passing of Steve Jobs as an excuse to score some cheap points about #OccupyWallStreet; borrows heavily from those more distinguished than he (including Steve Jobs); realises that he doesn’t know whether he’s talking about economics or politics; reminds the esteemed reader that if the two have become indistinguishable that’s not his fault. Nor that of Steve Jobs.

For those who haven’t heard, Steve Jobs has sadly passed away, aged just 56.

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