Book - The Soviet Navy Today (1975) [-] Captain John E Moore, RN (ret) served on the Defense Intelligence Staff studying the Soviets and at the time of writing the book he was an editor of Jane's Fighting Ships. In this book he covers: a history of the Soviet Navy, current organization and structure, and mostly a discussion of each ship type and the constituent classes with ship class stat blocks. I found the writing kind of superficial and the stat blocks really pad the book without being all that informative though I guess back then not as much public info on Soviet ships.

Anime - Last Hope #1.1/#1.2 (2018) [-] I watched two episodes a couple of months ago and don't remember anything, that's how uninterested I was. Anyway, after a disaster turns all animals into human-eating animal-mecha civilized humanity is confined to one fortified city. Humans fight back with their own gunships and mecha. The scientist who inadvertently caused the disaster five years ago returns with what he thinks is a new weapon to subdue the animal-mecha but can he be trusted?

Movie - Flashdance (1983) [/] Back in the day this was a meme movie and I never bothered to watch it. Alex (Jennifer Beals) is a welder by day and dancer by night (exotic dancing might have been the term back then but without nudity implications) who dreams of attending a prestigious performing arts school. Meanwhile she catches the eye of steel mill owner Nick (Michael Nouri) who romantically pursues her (yeah, romantic in the 80's, a bit stalker-ish and inappropriate when the boss makes advances on one of his employees) and they start dating. I guess a slice of life film, Alex becoming confident enough to actually apply to the school, and some good song and dance numbers. With an 80's mindset it's a perfectly fine romance/drama film.