Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@socketwench - Akira really comes across as ground breaking animation and hugely influential in the US, but like you said, had a so-so reaction in Japan.

Japan had had cinematic animation for a while by the time Akira came out. The Macross and Dirty Pair movies are lovely to watch (And a few of the Urusei Yatsura movies, while not as detailed, had been out a half decade before all these). So when Akira released, for them "it was Tuesday."

For us, though...Streamline took a chance releasing Akira theatrically, and while it was critically panned, it at least showed the US audience that "animation for adults is a thing, and it can be great looking if you you put money into it."

I know those of us in the C/FO were celebrating Streamline's release in the US. Sadly, I think it was the failure of Akira in the US Box Office that kept Troma's (absolutely straight) dubs of the Studio Ghibli movies from being released outside of a few test runs in Austin. We had an almost ten year way before Disney would pick up that thread.

@pandora_parrot - I had a moment like this with Monopoly of all things. My mother and I were massive monopoly players. She still plays a video game version every night. But at one point, there's came a lightbulb realization of "Oh, wait, the cutthorat rent collection and bankruptcies...THAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING." And it really hit home after it started happening to me.

Can't play the game anymore - it's too dark for a family home fun game.

[Thoughts Before Bed]

Suddenly thinking about the early 2000s, driving around a very quiet Hyde Park in Austin at 3AM.

Those were good times, with good people, and good vibes. And I miss that very much.

@pandora_parrot - THIS. People forget this.

I've started a rewatch of a show with an amazing premise, but I forgot that two of the supporting characters (who are supposed to be "good guys") are amazingly terrible jerks.

Even when they turn and are less terrible jerks, they're still terrible jerks.

@Tekk - Finally, it's not me!

@Tekk - Apparently someone in the Duvall area bought one. I've been seeing it more and more on the roads out here recently.

I saw a Cybertruck parked along side a pickup yesterday, and it's really wierd to see how BIG those are. The pictures make them look like the size of a car.

@pandora_parrot - I'm much the same way. I want to see anyone else but Biden in office, but I'm voting for him regardless. On top of that, I DON'T want him to drop out, despite me wanting someone else in office.

This is a conversation we should have been having a year ago. Not four months from an election.

Shelly Duvall
1949-2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWswHtQUkc