http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6469&msg_id=6471 Yeep. Pulls no punches. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Cognitive Surplus Tue, 27 May 2014 17:05:57 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6469&msg_id=6471 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6469&msg_id=6470 Grave of the Fireflies is still one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Cognitive Surplus Tue, 27 May 2014 16:27:29 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6469&msg_id=6470 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6469&msg_id=6469 SPDCA: Studio Ghibli Films Written between flights and travel over the last two weeks. ---- Sunday nights are the worst nights to watch Ghibli films. Sundays, for me, are the days that are filled with the least. The days where I'm least likely to leave the house, least likely to clean, least likely to be productive in some way. Not that the preceding Saturday or Friday work out any better, but the tangible passage of time is felt on a Sunday. On a Sunday evening is when it catches up. When the paralysis of choice had led you accomplish nothing but refresh the feed aggregator aggregator and feel weird. 8pm rolls around and you wonder where your day has gone since you woke up at 9:30 that morning. That's just me, anyway. I think a lot of people just watch Game of Thrones. Or Mad Men? Or spend time with their family? Anyway. Sunday nights are when an empty house feels alone. But watching a Studio Ghibli film does a great job at delaying the inevitable. Until, say, 10pm or so. Then you just lay awake wondering about what it was you just spent the last two hours watching, and how it somehow managed to get under your skin. Studio Ghibli, if you haven't heard of them, is a Japanese animation studio, whose filmography contains some of the most popular, stylistic, and influential animated films since the 1980's. Their attention to artistic detail, strong but effective narrative messages, and whimsical characters have made them the Pixar to the Disney of Japan's animation industry. Curiously, Studio Ghibli films are distributed by Disney in the US, and have John Lasseter and other Pixar alumni in charge of the American versions of the script and voice-overs. So, much like my machete-through-jungle hack-and-slash expeditions through a subset of Star Treks, Babylon 5's, or any other show I've picked up in the last few years, I started in on Studio Ghibli and its related films without realizing it. The earliest Studio kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Cognitive Surplus Tue, 27 May 2014 14:43:18 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6469&msg_id=6469