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[phosfate]

Anesthetising self with anime, which seems to work well. Watched the end of Revolutionary Girl Utena. O, trauma! The last volume has (subtitled) commentary with Chiho Saito and the Director Whose Name I Cannot Remember, which is pretty funny. Next: the Utena movie.

Also got The Great Race (now $9.99!) in the mail yesterday, and spent a half-hour with that.

Theatrical trailer (included) advertises it as, among other things, "THE GAYEST!" Though it's no Lawrence of Arabia, I'm not about to argue. Cheesy 60s making-of documentary pointed out that some of the movie was filmed in Salzburg. This made me feel better, since bits of the town had given me massive deja vu back in 1980, and now I know why. (And it wasn't from no goddamned Sound of Music, Mr. Tour Guide.) Comes with French language track ("Un parachute!" "Un parachute!"), so I can learn how to say "GET OFF MY HOOD!" in French.

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[telesilla.livejournal.com]

I so less than three The Great Race! I haven't thought of that movie in years.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

One of my fave raves. CBS used to show it like 20 times a year, and I never saw it in color until the 1990s. It's taken me forever to get it, and I don't know why.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

so I can learn how to say "GET OFF MY HOOD!" in French.

::nods sagely:: Always a useful skill.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Vraiment, baby.

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

"Push the button, Max!"

And Ross Martin--such a good bad guy.

(And it wasn't from no goddamned Sound of Music, Mr. Tour Guide.)

Yet oddly enough, Blake Edwards who directed The Great Race is (was?) married to Julie Andrews...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Still is.

Fucking tour guide tried to make 40 surly American teenagers on a bus sing "Edelweiss" or however you spell it. 26 years later, I still hate him.

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

Oh, anime is indeed a great anesthetic. I've been mainlining it so much recently that my hair may return to blue of it's own accord. Thanks to Samurai Champloo I now desperately want a Japanese flying squirrel.

I remember seeing The Great Race as a kid, and also Deathrace 2000 which have become inextricably combined in my memory somehow, along with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, to rather surreal effect.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

That would totally improve both Deathrace 2000 and Mad World.