Leave it to the ever restless minds of the Japanese culture, in their unending quest for perfection, to invent a better way to fold a shirt.
In all seriousness, I've been really getting into the films of Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki. Turner Classic Movies has been playing his films every Thursday night this week. Savannah and I absolutely fell in love with "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" and "My Neighbor Totoro." "Castle in the Sky" is vastly superior to the Disney film inspired by it, "Atlantis."
I'm looking forward to watching a couple more Studio Ghibli films I Tivo'd, especially "Pom Poko," about a group of shape-shifting raccoons trying to save their forest home.
Especially encouraging is that the Miyazaki films were introduced by Pixar founder John Lasseter. Miyazaki-san is Lasseter's good friend and mentor. With Lasseter taking over as Chief Creative Director for all of Disney Animation following the Pixar-Disney merger, Disney is due for a renaissance of the highest magnitude. Lasseter could be the new Walt Disney.
