About once a week, I like browsing the Miyazaki Mailing List on Nausicaa.net, the definitive English-language resource about the films of Hayao Miyazaki and the other Studio Ghibli directors.
However, I tried browsing the archives today, only to find out that I now need to be an actual member of the MML in order to read the messages. So, I joined.
In the event anyone from the MML reads this blog on a regular basis and noticed that I'm now a member, please be aware that I only joined so I could continue lurking the messages; I have no plans on posting anything anytime soon. And rest assured that, if I did post, I don't think I would talk about how I think Miyazaki's two most famous films, relatively speaking, in North America, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, are quite overrated compared to the earlier Ghibli films, especially Kiki's Delivery Service which usually gets short shrift. Now that Spirited Away has been released and reviewed pretty much everywhere in the English-speaking world, I'm not anticipating writing any more installments of THE "SPIRITED AWAY IS OVERRATED" WORLD REPORT, unless Mark Morford writes something else as nutty and drug-induced as his infamous column on Spirited Away which turned, somehow, into an attack on Bush and the sort of middle Americans that vote Republican... okay, every Morford column is nutty and drug-induced, but, fortunately, only one thus far was about Spirited Away. (Damn, even if my reaction to that film was relatively lukewarm, still, as an anime fan, that column was embarassing to me in that I could be associated with that guy in any way, even if it's just because we both like cartoons from Japan.)
posted by Steve Brandon @ 8:32 PM
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