Russia seems to have a nigh inexhaustible supply of extremely nubile women.

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My Hsu ULS-15 is, in fact, in a corner.

One of my favourite things about the movie is its sense of specific time and place.

Definitely. I get the impression that America's attitude to music is more homophobic and sexist on the whole.

As neither British nor American, I find the reactions to The Smiths to be kind of interestingly national.

Japan's in the same Blu-ray region as the US, so you could buy this: http://www.yesasia.com/us/1…

The 30th anniversary DVD apparently has all the openings on it.

Being an English-speaker, I used to resent those Tuesdays and Thursdays full of dubbed imports (until simulcast saved us!), but in retrospect, the old SABC's dubbing may have been the best in the business. Seeing other countries' attempts at dubbing  made me realise how good ours was. Plus, I breezed through Afrikaans…

I used to live in South Africa, which was similar. You could order things online, but odds are the store refused to ship there or your stuff was pinched by postal sorters.

If video is your life, you owe it to yourself get a chipped Oppo.

It's mostly fine, but occasionally a little visibly patchwork where only lo-res footage was available.

I always really enjoyed Gummi Bears most of these Disney afternoon cartoons. You had the premise of the secret clan living in the forest, versus the gloomy land of Dreckmore full of monsters, and the continual sense of the bittersweet as all the ancient technology left by their ancestors was too good for the world and…

I remember finding the outright weirdness of Teddy Ruxpin pretty exciting as an older kid, but all I remember is the theme song.

It used to come on the radio every morning when my dad drove me to school.  was about 12, and wanted to die.

Honour the Silence by Death in June is a pretty unusual take on the topic. I mean, I think it's about a hookup.

Yep, late last year.

Asinus: I've spent occasional evenings recently with friends sampling my record collection, but inviting someone over specifically to listen to records almost never happens.

I just meant that nowadays on the internet when you want to patronisingly disparage anything perceived to be a specifically masculine idiocy, you trot out "dudes" instead of men, guys, chaps or fellows.

I think for Depeche Mode, I'd go for Music for the Masses' Never Let Me Down Again and The Things You Said. The bombastic scale of the first and introspection of the second are a little world in themselves.