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A Bloody Masterpiece

There Will Be Blood. And Misanthropy. And Greed. And Oil.

“I have a competition in me. I do not wish to see anyone else succeed,” confides Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) in a moment of rare candor. “I hate most people.” This is Plainview’s secret, which emerges slowly from his veneer of confident sophistication until it becomes a misanthropic force too large for any man to […]

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Get A Room!

When Hipster Immigrants Invade Portland, it Makes it Kinda Hard for Oregonians to Find a Room. Okay?

I stood in a drafty living room covered in beer cans, overflowing ashtrays, and suspicious stains. The most striking aspect was one wall: a slurred mess of paint and drawings created by a mind obviously working from a different dimension—a cracked-out dimension. But at the moment, this was my best bet; a party house wedged […]

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