273: The College Experience is Surreal, But Not in the Ways You Would Expect...
I forgot to mention: over this Thanksgiving weekend I managed to catch "A Goofy Movie" on cable. You can imagine my reaction to viewing it, as a veritable Child of the 90's (TM). Lots of laughing, and chorusing of (in my mind) legendary lines, guffawing of "ohmigod! I'd fogotten about that!"
In this spirit, I am also rewatching the DuckTales movie on YouTube, thankful to more devoted worshippers of Disney nostalgia who post, not only whole movies, but whole series as well (in this case, DuckTales).
The interesting thing is, "A Goofy Movie" has withstood, not only the test of time, but the test of quality. It's more well-animated than I expected it (my memory not always being faithful); and there is a certain level of genuine pathos in the father-son rift and 90's-culture quirkiness that makes it worth watching a decade later.
It seems that ever since I got here (or in the past six months even), I've seen again so many old movie of my childhood. That is, before all the shit really hit the fan in 3rd grade. The pure, golden afternoons of Disney animated cartoons and aced spelling tests and all the fruit-rollups (TM) I never had.
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Oh, and last night I had a real reading-revival. I got all these books from the library here, and am actually *reading* them. Something that has been sadly sporadic in my life for the past few years. My current bedside reading list (literal, as they're strew over the bare matress next to mine):
1. "The Poisonwood Bible," Barbara Kingsolver
2. "Sula," Toni Morrison
3. "The Collected Works of Flannerly O'Connor"
4. "Feminist Fairy Tales"
5. "Gravity's Rainbow," Thomas Pyrchon (can't spell his last name)
6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Garbriel Garcia Marquez
7. "Collected Lyrics and Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay"
and 8. The Complete Poems of Elizabeth Bishop.
Oh, Eve would be proud...
P.S. Official word: "Superior Saturday" comes out this summer! Yikes! Penultimate! Secrets! New cover!