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This may honestly be the most incredible piece of TV, ever!

Despite all the critical acclaim surrounding him, I’ve never listened to Elliot Smith before today.

I hate it when that happens, you hear about an artist, you know they’re supposed to be great, but for some reason you never get around to listening to them. Then finally, when you do, you get angry for having previously denied yourself the joy of listening. Then of course, you have to pretend to everyone that you’ve always listened to said artist so that nobody ever realises you could have been so ignorant as to miss out for so long. Alas, I’ll admit it: I have never listened to Elliot Smith before today. When I went home a couple of weeks ago my brother, James, gave me a couple of his albums. I stuck one on this morning and damn, its so very, very good. His song-writing, his performance, his vocal delivery, his lyrics… its all so beautiful…

…but hey, I’ve always been a fan of Elliot Smith…

I’m a genius! A genius, I tell ya!

Well okay, maybe not. However, as you can see, I have managed to get the Last.fm plugin running at the top of my posts now… and in English!

Huzzah!

EDIT: OH FOR FUCKS SAKE! WHERE THE HELL HAS IT GONE NOW?!

“A Chain of Short Stories about their Distance.”

Watched this in Blu-Ray last night. Its quite possibly the most beautiful film (visuals and script-wise) I’ve ever seen.

Oh man, wasn’t sure it could be possible but the sequal movie to Ghost in the Shell was incredible.

As I understand it, its one of the first things to blend Cell Shading with CGI. The results are breathtaking:

Seriously. Watch it.