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Anybody know of an RSS feed for Mainichi that will work in LJ?
They've got their feeds set up reader-specifically, and since I don't use any of those readers, I can't find the actual freaking feed address.

icayrus pulled it off. Cause he's smart and I'm dumb.

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You ever wonder if it's better to say that you support the soldiers, but not the war or the army? Or the army, but not the war and soldiers? What exactly are the exact semantics?

Watch this--and thank city_of_dis for bringing it up--and discuss. Stick with it for the completely superfluous moment at 1 min. 45 seconds. Now pretend that's your church. Your tiny little Methodist church. And that's what they're talking about. Your church. Or your house.

And don't give me any "these are isolated jackasses" comments. How many times do we need to hear that bullshit excuse? What are the odds that they needed to do that? What are the odds that we just HAPPENED to come across "isolated jackasses" in the sky and on the ground at the same time?

How many videos of this shit do we need to see?
How many videos of this shit do we NOT GET TO SEE?

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I fucking love this movie called All About Lily Chou-Chou.

Anyway, the best way to describe this film is...shit, I don't know. It's about a bunch of very sad kids and their weird hero worship of a singer named Lily Chou-Chou (whose music is performed by the incredible Japanese performer Salyu). There's emo. And horrible things. And kids. And beautiful music. And beautiful terrible things. And...it's just incredible.

I've known a lot of people who have watched it once and declared that they'll never watch it again, including Lovely Wife Sara. I encourage you to give it a go. And don't do it in the 17-part version on YouTube. This movie needs to be watched like you watch a movie, without flashing banner ads, and without having to move to the next part 16 times.

Here's the opening to the film:

And here's a video for possibly my favorite song from the movie:

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Sir! No Sir! is a documentary about the forgotten/intenionally ignored stories of Vietnam protests by soldiers in the war.

It's really good.

If only one could accidentally find a place where somebody had uploaded a torrent file for it on YouSendIt, that would be cool.

Oh well. If you actually do find some hypothetical place to download it, don't forget to support the filmmakers in some way, like buying a copy of the movie and donating it to your local library, or sending a copy to somebody you think really needs to see it.

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Apologies for any EXTRA tardiness in e-mail responses, the tmbg.org forwarding address seems to be a bit gummy today.