What the hell, is it 45 rpms?

I found her extremely readable and interestingly learned if sometimes full of shit, but after she said the existence of trans people meant the end of civilization (just like Rome!) she was dead to me.

The opening:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=USr-...

They set out for Europe to recover Aya's body and solve three cases, two murders and a jewel robbery. It's based on an ongoing series of novels (by Yugo Aosaki) so it doesn't conclude. The cast includes Sherlock Holmes, Carmilla (Le Fanu), the Phantom of the Opera, and real person Aleister Crowley.

Episode one, set in Japan, introduces Aya, an immortal who's body has been stolen so that she's just a talking head, carried around in a bird cage by Shizuku, her impassive maid (who, it emerges, is a deadly fighter) and a new ally, Tsugaru, who's half human and half oni (a Japanese folk monster).

Though I will say that the existence of black marketeers and collaborators in the conquered future Earth of the Dalek movie was a nice touch.

Neither was great. The Dr. Who movie was overtly kiddie fare in a way that, say, the George Pal Time Machine wasn't. But it was the better of the two; Vanilla Sky had the most obnoxious Tom Cruise performance I've seen. An ugly, choppy, pretentious movie with a very annoying playlist soundtrack.

I bought a Mars Volta t-shirt just because it was cool and like a decade later looked up their music on YouTube. Verdict: I approved of the revival of prog but was forced to reflect on how Rush had ruined the genre by injecting too much metal.

Whoa, I looked this up, and the stories are rare; there's not a single one I've read, which is unusual for anthologies of '50s sci-fi. Weirdness: all the stories were published by Robert A. W. Lowdes in various magazines he edited except one from New Worlds in England that Lowdes reprinted.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology should have an official rooster who determines when "morning" starts regardless of the time.

They should change the time every day so that sunset is always at 7:00 pm. We have the technology to do this.

I've only ever seen the first Matrix movie. In general, I miss a lot of movies I wanted to see, and that includes most by the Wachowski sisters. I especially want to see that TV series where a bunch of people are mentally linked. Fuck Netflix or whoever cancelled that. (I saw part of one episode.)

That's enough! Like the Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones. Though I don't know how Japanese the movie was supposed to be.

The only anime series I've seen that really gets into Shinto is Noragami.

There's a surprising amount of Christianity in anime.

The Japanese one is different, of course, but not as different as one would expect.

I just realized, that bit at the end where Speed leaps out of the Mach 5 and they freeze and rotate ninety degrees, is used many times in The Matrix.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTq...

I've never seen it. Are they using the anime theme song?