And now we are all about the berbils.
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eve_primeThe Nightmare Before Christmas – D. and I watched it today; neither of us had ever seen it, though we were familiar with the theme music and main characters from his Kingdom Hearts games. I was surprised that it was so thin on plot, and the sung soliloquies (there must be a more precise term for that?) were so boring. D. was likewise not very interested by it, for about the same reasons, though he did notice more than I did about the music and liked several aspects of it. I guess it would work fine if approached just as a “visual event” rather than a story, but I was expecting a story.
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He spent much of the day listening to some “Cotton-Eyed Joe” song repeatedly, a country/folk song with a dance mix. It is still there, in my brain. Possibly everyone knows it but me.
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Aww! Berbils! Adorable! Tonight’s episode of the new Thundercats introduced the berbils, a race of cuddly, affectionate robot teddy bears, with loving family lives and extraordinary engineering skills. When they want to get somewhere quickly, they roll themselves up into speedy rolling balls. D. and I were squealing like stereotypical Japanese fangirls. Now that I look at Google Images, I can see that they were in the original series (though I don't remember them), and there are lots of berbil toys as well. And this:
And here’s a clip:
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He spent much of the day listening to some “Cotton-Eyed Joe” song repeatedly, a country/folk song with a dance mix. It is still there, in my brain. Possibly everyone knows it but me.
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Aww! Berbils! Adorable! Tonight’s episode of the new Thundercats introduced the berbils, a race of cuddly, affectionate robot teddy bears, with loving family lives and extraordinary engineering skills. When they want to get somewhere quickly, they roll themselves up into speedy rolling balls. D. and I were squealing like stereotypical Japanese fangirls. Now that I look at Google Images, I can see that they were in the original series (though I don't remember them), and there are lots of berbil toys as well. And this:
And here’s a clip:
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