Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

birds are chirping. makes it hard to go to fall asleep.


stupid birds

There is a mouse that has kept me up at night.

*sits with baseball bat*

Too small to even bother.

Hey do you remember my super-cool Rattata? It's like my Rattata is in the top percentage of Rattata do you know what I'm saying?

I'm not sure why the hell someone would want to shoot, of all people, Christina Grimmie.

Same reason that Japanese singer/permformer got stabbed a bunch of times by a crazy fan. At least that's what I'd guess happened here.

Some individuals are deranged, and there's usually no way to prevent it. Then again I haven't read the specifics of this, just the headlines, so I may be wrong, and it could have potentially been entirely avoidable.

(inb4 somebody makes this into an argument).

She was signing autographs and this fan shot her twice in the head before killing himself too.

This is what gets me, why would a fan do that to someone? I wouldn't shoot a celebrity that I hate, let alone one that I like.

I guess that's where insanity comes in; ***that normal people can't wrap their head around.

Grimmie wasn't a celebrity death I expected from 2016, I didn't know much about her, didn't follow her and don't watch The Voice but this year needs to end.

Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director of the Studio Ghibli film When Marnie Was There, and Yoshiaki Nishimura, Marnie's producer, gave an interview to the British newspaper The Guardian to promote their film's release in the United Kingdom this weekend. The two discussed Anna's appeal for a Japanese audience and Ghibli's financial troubles, but their comments on gender earned the most attention online.

[Yonebayashi] describes Anna as “an androgynous character, in the transition between child to adulthood, a very sensitive age” but offers up an intriguing reason for choosing another female-led story: “I'm male myself, and if I had a central character who was male, I'd probably put too much emotion into it, and that would lead to difficulty in telling the story.”

Will Ghibli ever employ a female director? Nishimura fields this question. “It depends on what kind of a film it would be. Unlike live action, with animation we have to simplify the real world. Women tend to be more realistic and manage day-to-day lives very well. Men on the other hand tend to be more idealistic – and fantasy films need that idealistic approach. I don't think it's a coincidence men are picked.”


Twitter reaction to Nishimura's statements was fierce. ”Gonna have to punch my Totoro doll for a while," wrote @ThatRebecca. @Fergtron "was looking forward to rewatching Princess Mononoke next week but reading stuff like this is sort of a mega downer." Several media sources also joined in the criticism: The Independent's Jess Denham wrote, "Perhaps it's time that Miyazaki's successors, including Nishimura and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, had similar faith in women working in film." Bryan Bishop, writing for The Verge, called it "profoundly offensive" and "***." Isha Aran at Fusion found it "disappointing," "pretty absurd and sexist" and provided a list of six female anime directors to counter Nishimura, including Sayo Yamamoto (Michiko & Hatchin) and Ai Yoshimura (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU).

In a statement to BuzzFeed Japan, Ghibli emphasized that Nishimura is no longer associated with the studio and his comments should be taken as personal opinion.

Ghibli has released five films based on fantasy novels written by women (Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, Tales from Earthsea, The Secret World of Arrietty, When Marnie Was There) as well as two films based on manga drawn by women (Only Yesterday and Whisper of the Heart).

I've been forbidden to buy a rubber duck and name him Barry. (Quack)

thou shalt go buy a rubber duck and call him barry.

Your not missing any kind of reference. I just really want a rubber duck called Barry.

I shall find Barry and he shall join my multitude of other streaming buddies.

I need to just setup a shelf behind me with all of them.