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...that in fact “we’re all basically alone?” “Apocrypha” closes with the instrumental “Yawny at the Apocalypse,” which fades out to the tune of chirping birds. In the end, the disc proves to be something precious, almost as delicate as an “egg.” Each of Birds’ albums is different, deliciously so, and Bird ultimately provides beauty in so many different ways that it’s hard to feel disappointed for long. Still, some...
...particularly captivating tableau, until, finally, a SWAT team surrounds and infiltrates the building and an unidentifiable someone is dragged away. The video feels like it could be part of a longer movie: perhaps Reznor is further populating the fictional dystopian world of his upcoming disc, “Year Zero.” As the mastermind behind Nine Inch Nails, he’s responsible for every note you hear on every album, and for cultivating the band’s iconically dark image. His latest publicity stunt is a viral advertising campaign of impressive scope meant to establish...
...tougher," Li Haihua tells me as he peddles DVDs of new Hollywood films for 60? apiece on Shanghai's Huaihai Street, just blocks from a big antipiracy billboard. "There are more [sellers] than ever before, and the price has come down." Zhou says he earns less than 13? per disc. "It's definitely a volume business," he adds wearily...
...more and more people have piled into the business, their margins have come down. After paying his "middleman" for a new supply of DVDs about once every two weeks - he has about 1000 titles for sale at any one time - Zhou says he earns less than one RMB per disc sold. "It's definitely a volume business," he says wearily. When I press him on where his middleman gets his product - that is, who's actually making these pirated DVDs - Zhou smiles and plays dumb. He knows I'm a journalist and there are things he's not going...
...Granted, quality is sometimes an issue (though the pirated 24 disc was perfect.) A lot of the DVDs available are so-called "coat movies," the kind of low-rent pirating famously (and hilariously) depicted in an episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer agrees to smuggle a hand-held camera into a theater in order to illegally tape a movie. In a coat movie you can literally hear people coughing and half the time someone will stand up right in front of the camera. And sometimes language is an issue. I had to buy three copies of Casino Royale until...