In the mood for retro synth pop? Try downloading tracks by Ladytron and Adult. (with a period at the end of the name). You'll swear it was 1981 all over again.
Didn't get around to mentioning this before, but on Sunday I went to go see Spirited Away, the Japanese anime film currently enjoying a long anticipated North American release. Supposedly this was the most popular movie ever released in Japan and the couple of reviews I read/heard beforehand were glowing.
I'm sorry, but it really didn't do much for me. Yeah, there was a lot of magical stuff, and of course it had a happy ending, but I found myself irritated by the constant implausible plot twists. Good storytelling does not mean you throw in every single idea you come up with and leave it in, regardless of fit. As far as the visuals were concerned, I enjoyed the eye-candy in Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis a lot more. Oh well.
(And, can I say that I get really irritated when websites like the one for Spirited Away will automatically send you to their Flash version of the site if they detect that you've got the Flash plug-in installed. Just because I've got it, doesn't mean I automatically want to use it -- I'm bloody well on dialup, fer cryin' out loud. Let me decide if I want plain vanilla HTML or the badass bloated Flash version.)