I had breakfast with a friend last week, and we spent half the conversation talking about the profundity of Spirited Away. Whether or not it’s a perfect film, I remain convinced that Joe Hisaishi’s soundtrack is at least 30% responsible for how perfect the whole thing is.
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Sometime you just get steamrolled. Every team has those nights, as the Maple Leafs can surely tell you. But this season has been the furthest thing from “one of those nights,” because there really haven’t been any incidents in isolation. Everything’s been part of some bigger streak, and that means every game portends doom, or divine intervention.