Thanks, an open invitation to boost! I just generally recommend some Osamu Tezuka lately: I loved Apollo's Song (thanks AV Club), loved Ode to Kirohito, liked M-W. Those Vertical Press editions are very nice too (translated sound effects!). If you want long, there's the eight-volume Buddha, but it lacks the nutty,…

I didn't know that. Yep, makes total sense. Also, I like that movie a lot. Another quirky thing was Gene Hackman's dog. I wonder if he was involved in that.

Works for new books for me
Here's something I say all the time, but I don't think has been pointed out here. Since I got mine I've been much more inclined to read new books. Maybe I'm especially annoyed at buying the physical versions— $25 or $30 for a hardcover, which I'll probably read only once, and when I'd…

I do get afraid of losing mine, but it hasn't happened yet. That's a disadvantage. As for dropping— they just sent me a new one two days after I called when I had a display problem, no questions asked. So under warranty at least, you're fine.

I was very excited when The Milky Way came out on Region 1 (from Criterion) last year. Seeing that on the original commercial-free version of Bravo when I was a (Catholic) teen was formative for me (in terms of the ideas, and the surreal-yet-restrained aesthetic). And I saw this one in a film class later, and it…

E-ink! E-ink!
The references to the iPhone and some of the comments spur me to make this clear: E-ink stands for electronic ink and the Kindle has an electronic ink display. That's why it's not color and what sets it apart from the glowing type of screens you'll find on every other device in existence (except for…

But did they seed the universe with continents shaped just like those of Earth? Thank goodness for those precursors, they really helped keep the budget down.

Well I guess it all blurs together as just "ancient" history to them, if its not their fancy outer-space era. It's a pet peeve of mine that they call 20th-century culture ancient. It's like if we called the 18th century "ancient." And as a non-outer-space-era person, I always felt a little insulted, especially as…

It's cited quite a bit in "Pictures from a Revolution". In fact Ashby's mentioned a lot and it's a very appealing portrait of a cool sort of hippie; a hard-working heavy stoner wearing love beads and a turtleneck (anything but a tux was unprecedented I think) when he accepted his Oscar for editing "In the Heat of the…

I missed the alamo and alabama questions too. If you only missed three, you win so far. I bet you get a call— good luck!

True. I bought that terrible Repulsion DVD off Amazon unawares. I think it's actually a VCD. It's that bad.

Polanski of old: Cul-de-Sac
I only skimmed this because it's one of the gaps in the Polanski I've seen. But he has made some of my favorites, so I'm pointing one out that probably few have seen (it's not on region 1 DVD, dammit!).

Central time, right? There's still tomorrow at 8 pacific… is 10pm out of the question?

… bound to happen when you're trying to come off smart…

… bound to happen when you're trying to come off smart…

Ah, Blake! I was nowhere near it then…

Ah, Blake! I was nowhere near it then…

Also, um, the enter key works instead of clicking submit. And I figured out after a couple that you can just type "pass" (it autofilled it in) instead of clicking "Skip Question".

i did okay!
- D'oh, it was Wordsworth with the "tyger, tyger" wasn't it? I said Byron.

I don't think Mudd is more interesting than Kirk or Spock. But I certainly agree regarding TNG (which may have been your first Trek?). Bunch of bloodless bureaucrats, that crew. I think I read this in a Ron Moore interview (he was a TNG/DS9 writer): that with TNG Roddenberry was pushing his paradisical,…