Pofessor is right on this one. Monsanto's copyrighting of seeds and then forcing them on developing nations, effectively preventing any autonomous grass-roots agriculture is pre evil. The other part not mentioned is that Monsanto's second main income is creating pesticides to control the 'superweeds' and…

Bonkers yes but our MacDonalds has been doing this kind of thing forever with the 'Shaka-Shaka Potato'. Seriously, order fries and you get various flavours of powder (cheese and spicy chili are two as I recall) and a convenient bag for shaking it up in. Not nearly as awesome as one would think.

Funny, 'not bad' is exactly what I was thinking. I still can't decide whether to kick myself or not for not seeing them last Friday.

Thanks Atama, the burakumin issue is in the news again for sure, especially here in Kansai. However, I get the feeling that the whole issue has been exaggerated by the media, which has pretty much become the role of the media in Japan; to turn every event into a moral panic. I have a friend here who is a funeral…

Well Alpine, your last name isn't See (I'm going out on a limb here). So, you…uh…*see* the Chinese have a thing called 'guanxi' which would translate to something like 'relationships', meaning that if you have a Chinese last name then you are in fact, no matter how far removed, Chinese.

Seriously, don't bother.

Koreeda
I'm looking forward to seeing this as Koreeda is probably my favourite director working in Japan right now. Aruitemo aruitemo was great but I'm a little skeptical of Air Doll. Koreeda works best when he let's his images and subtle dialogue tell the story. All of his films tackle some aspect of Japanese…

I had a similar experience. I picked up Goo in first year high school mainly because of "Kool Thing" (I was a massive hip-hop fan at the time and if Chuck D thought they were cool…) and could't get into it. It was't till Dirty came out and the video for "100%" (with Jason Lee!!-I was and still am an avid skater)…

Suicidal Tendancies' "Waking the Dead" would fit as well.

The correct answer is "Avalanche".

China's clit???…Hong Kong??

Drew Barrymore!!
Why? Because when Firestarter was released in 1984 I had kind of intense issues surrounding the movie poster with her hair flyin' all around with the flames in the background. A little girl…same age as me…she's so pretty…but DANGEROUS!!

Couldn't agree more, Tampopo is brilliant and definitely has a cult following I think. Being a former member of 'the Asian studies crowd' I can attest to lexi's claim: I watched this film no less than 4 times in various classes in university. What's even more interesting is the drama that went on in Itami's personal…

Lucky Lager. The PBR of Canada.

The Power Hour and Teresa Roncon were the best thing on Much Music back in the day hands down.

You beat me to it AtB. However for me it was the original Creepshow that scarred my early years. Most of my early trauma came at the hands of my aunt, who being 11 years younger than my mom was in her teens when I was born. I became her go-to guy to watch movies with no matter how inappropriate for children.

Harmony Korine on Letterman promoting Kids is a classic as well. Good example of how to be non-cooperative in an entertaining way, unlike BBT who seems to get off on being a dick for the sake of being a dick.

All Natural
Am I the only one who thought Pepsi had broken into the tampon market? That's some packaging.

@White T. Good call on both of those. I didn't actually cry in Nobody Knows but the whole movie is just heartbreaking. On the other hand Grave of the Fireflies will have me in tears within the first 5 minutes.

Denim n' Leather
Rob Halford's gonna be mighty pissed when he finds his jacket missing.