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Selling ads, complicit cinema and pop opportunism + this day in history w/the Guggenheim and our song of the day by the Flaming Lips on your Morning Monarchy for October 21, 2016.

Notes/Links:

#Portland’s @NutcaseHelmets #sellout to Transom Capital private equity; Don’t worry, they’ll still make ’em in China
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/789488091375415296

Cyber attack takes down East Coast Netflix, Spotify, Twitter
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/21/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter/92507806/

@GoldmanSachs trying to recruit millennials by running ads on @Spotify
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/789319151256899584

Police Arrest Five in Major Streaming Site Crackdown
https://twitter.com/benjaminseagram/status/788143876502458368

Jennifer Lopez set to produce NBC bio-terror drama #CRISPR
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/788861539272888320

‘Christine’ Official Trailer 1 (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0itmG80oLI

Biopics often come in pairs. Inevitably, one suffers from the comparison
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/788984889152462848

‘Kate Plays Christine’ Official Trailer 1 (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buzA1KREcwk

Actress Rebecca Hall talks about her movie portrayal of Christine Chubbuck on the CBC
https://twitter.com/DazAltTheory/status/787231036585414656

#MorningMonarchy: Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts Challenge Rebecca Hall in ‘Christine’ (Jan. 15, 2016)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2016/01/20160115morningmonarchy/

Jeff Bezos isn’t convinced that the @WashingtonPost can survive on paywalls, tiered subscriptions
https://twitter.com/benjaminseagram/status/789247569037668352

Americana outsold Country this week, signals growing influence
https://twitter.com/benjaminseagram/status/788482363311304705

Exclusive: Occult Symbolism in Bon Iver’s “8 (circle)” – Part I: Squaring the Circle
https://mediamonarchy.com/2016/10/bon-iver-8-circle-part-i/

Watch #LeTigre sellout everything they’ve ever stood for w/terrible new song “#ImWithHer”
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/788788870917689344

Eminem adds to market glut w/”Campaign Song”
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/788837828641775616

Chuck Berry, 90, announces first album in 38 years
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/788583535468810240

New album releases w/@killcrocodiles, @agnesobel, @theholidaycrowd, @jimmyeatworld, @americfootball
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/789520634292219904

#ThisDayInHistory: #October21 w/@LATimes bombed, ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ published, Vietnam protest, #Madonna Sex + #DizzyGillespie, @UrsulaLeGion, #LuxInterior, @CarrieFisher, @NickOliveri birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/789513595017056256

#PumpUpThaVolume: The Flaming Lips – “The Castle” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/789322832501018624