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Like so many other trends, this one started with Star Wars: back in 1997 George Lucas and Co. had the bright idea of posting little video postcards online from the set of Episode I. No spoilers, of course, just a few tidbits to chum the waters for hungry fans. Flash forward to the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, when Peter Jackson became friendly with a group of fans who ran a website called theonering.net When Jackson wrapped Rings and started King Kong, the gang from theonering.net launched kongisking.net and Jackson began sending them video-blog entries every...
...classes last Thursday, the Yard was a sea of green—green sweatshirts, green scarves, green shoulder bags. It suggested a sort of ragged solidarity, like that of a low-budget revolutionary army. It was pleasant to think of people wearing green all over America, a huge organic flash mob; it was pleasant to think of millions of people waking up and rifling through their closets to find something green to wear...
...three men stepped out of an alley and fired rocket-propelled grenades, splitting apart the vehicle. In the brief moment he was conscious, he saw the blinding flash of the explosion and the dead body of his gunner sprawled across the back seat. Days later, doctors in Iraq e-mailed surgeons at Walter Reed to say that Jurgersen had flatlined twice in the field hospital in Balad, before being flown to Landstuhl. Like many other soldiers who've landed here during past two years, it was not Jurgersen's first evacuation. Last June, he survived a bullet that pierced...
...patrol that had been ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, and fell into a ferocious firefight. "It was like the entire city was shooting at us," Batchelor says, pacing around the room. "I saw the guy shooting at me. He was on a rooftop, and I saw the muzzle flash. It sounds weird, but I saw the bullet. Then it hit me in the head and snapped my head back. It made me really mad." A specialist machine gunner, Batchelor shot back and watched his would-be assassin topple to his death before crumpling to the ground himself. The bullet that...
...Flash forward to 2003: M.I.A., now living in London, releases “Galang” as a single, kicking off a dizzying succession of critical plaudits. Her sound defied easy description from the start, echoing out like a siren’s song on that first single: often incomprehensible but always irresistible, all staticky bounce and half-nonsensical singalongs, with dial-tones spiraling downward over nimble bass stabs. And “Galang” sounds like almost nothing else on the final album...