Saw it when I was seven years old, and to this day it's the only movie that's ever given me nightmares. Nowadays stuff like Despicable Me gets rated PG for "mild crude humor" (i.e. fart jokes) and "adventure peril", but a little girl almost getting brain damaged via electroshock therapy at a creepy sanatorium and a…

I don't get it. Is that from one of the newer episodes?

From the Neil Young biography Shakey by Jimmy Mcdonough (with my additional explanation for clarification in parentheses):

Trans would probably fall just outside of my personal Neil Young Top Ten Albums list, but I do like it a lot. It really is an underrated album that is long overdue for a critical reevaluation.

Trans is so underrated. I think a lot of people who haven't actually heard it write it off because they are amused by the idea of "folkie/rocker" Neil Young making a "techno" album. It is a flawed album, but there are a lot of good songs on there. Try listening to it with an open mind and without expecting it to sound…

This is kind of cheating because I've honesty consumed very little 2014 pop culture (and the little I've consumed so far hasn't been remarkable enough for me to want to foist it upon anyone*), but the box set that came out last month with three of Captain Beefheart's previously hard-to-find albums: Lick My Decals Off,…

That was beautiful, thank you! And SY, Pixies and Pavement are three of my favorite bands from the late 80's/early 90's, so I think I'll have to check out more Deerhunter, too.

In Japan it is still the symbol used on maps to indicate the locations of Buddhist temples.

Superfly!

Ran to the fridge, pulled out an egg

You got it dude!

"Nightime", definitely. And not exactly holiday related, but "For You" also has a strong autumn-changes-to-winter vibe that I've always loved. Nice one, Jody Stephens!

I got Third/Sister Lovers by Big Star as a gift one Xmas and played it for the first time that same morning, so whenever I listen to that album and the track "Jesus Christ" in particular, I always associate it with Xmas - even though it has fuck all to do with Santa or reindeer.

I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY didn't you believe me?

I really do think The Next Day is his best album since Scary Monsters. That said, every album he's released since Black Tie, White Noise has also been heralded as "his best album since Scary Monsters", and given the choice between listening to The Next Day for the third or fourth time and listening to Station to…

Fair enough, "snotty" wasn't the best choice of adjective, but to me in the English dub Kiki comes across like one of the kids from those annoying Disney sitcoms aimed at pre-teens. I'm probably also biased because I saw it with the original dialogue at least a dozen times before giving the English dub a try (and I…

Maybe I'm biased because I first became familiar with the Ghibli films in their original versions; we've got about a dozen kicking around the house on VHS and DVD, and the kids watch them all the time. Much as I like those films though, the kids have watched them so many times that I insist they watch them in English…

Yep. In the English dub he did the voice of Jiji the cat, if you can imagine that. And you're absolutely right about the English dubs ruining the tone of everything - the English script for this one is absolutely tone deaf. Jiji is sarcastic (and male, obviously), Kiki comes across as a snotty American kid and worst…

Excellent. Now watch this:

"Yer Nite Before Christmas" by Charlie Farquharson: