Genius: there's no other word for it - Part XXXXIII

This reminds me so much of the 80s... YouTube's got a bunch of different versions of this song, including a Top of the Pops appearance, with Richard Butler and the chaps in massive hair and shoulder pads that one shouldn't attempt narrow doorways with! As an album, I think I prefer Book of Days to Talk, Talk, Talk, which this song is taken from... Anyway, here's to 80s bratpack movies:

Genius: there's no other word for it - Part XXXXII

I think this movie runs Blade Runner a very close second as my all-time favourite. I think it's because, however unlikely, it's still possible that Robert Porter really is Prot, from K-PAX, given the information that we're given. It's also unusually sympathetic (even insightful), as to what causes people to think the way that they do, and what changes their perspective (eg, Howie and the bluebird task).

It leaves an unanswered question, though: how is it that Prot/Robert Porter is able to change the lives of everybody around him for the better, but is apparently unable to do the same for himself? The answer, I think, as I realized last night, is that what he does relies on interaction, and nobody can do what he can do, or they decline to do what he does, at least. Anyway, Spacey and Bridges in top form:

Genius: there's no other word for it - Part XXXXI

More of Top of the Pops' crappy lip-synching! This song contains one of my all-time favourite lines, in the last verse. "We were no match for their untamed wit"! Fucking classic. If you're wondering what it's about, there was a Right to Work march, around 30 years ago, which happened to offend the cold-shower brigade of Eton's finest, apparently. Got a bit nasty. One doesn't like to generalize, but Dodgy Dave Cameron went to Eton...