I was going somewhere else with this. Hm.

I just saw "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds" again. My god, now that's what a movie should be. On the way out, someone was saying that every time they see it, it gets better. Yeah, I'll buy that.

I saw it in the theater of the Pacific Film Archive. They're doing a Studio Ghibli film festival. I'll be getting to see handfuls of Miyazaki films I've never seen before, on a big screen... It's awesome, all you Bay Area folks should come.

The previous time I saw Nausicaa, it was a bootleg copy out of Malaysia or something, on a projector at motleypolitico's house. The subtitles there, while with a bit of Engrish, were actually better than the Disney-distributed subtitles I saw this evening. For one, the bootleg used the term "Ohmu", which is far better than "Ohm", and fits what I hear. Most importantly, though, the bootleg used the term "God soldiers". "Giant soldiers"? The hell you say.

I cried pretty much all through the movie, and thinking about it still. I grew up on cold war science fiction. The threat of the destruction of the world is something I feel deeply. Got an echo of it off badger's post today. Naming photos I took Christmas, I remember looking at the huge piles of shiny wrapped presents and thinking, Such abundance, even in a recession... And what if this is the best it is? What if we look back and wish we were in this time again?

In Pictures

Anyway, the bounty of Google is beautiful. This is a fun meme:

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
2. Go to http://images.google.com/ and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
4. Put this in your own blog so that I can do the same.