Don't Stop Until the Music Pops!
Here is a new entry that promises to be potentially random and bizarre, given the lack of sleep I've had over the past week; I have been getting up at 6 AM every day to go work in Tangent. Given before that, I'd been getting up not much earlier than 11 every day, that is a 5 hour shift. I am looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday. I don't know how late I will be able to sleep in, but it will be for as long as I can. The lack of sleep is starting to catch up to me...
The other night, I watched Pinochio. I don't know if I've ever seen it all the way through before, but I know that the last time I saw any of it was a long time ago. Apparently, it is regarded in some circles to be the second best animated movie ever, behind Snow White. Then Bambi after it. So, the first three Disney feature length animated movies. Interesting. I think maybe this is based purely on nostalgia that Pinochio at least is ranked so high.
Sure, it's fun, and cute, but for the first twenty minutes, Jiminy Cricket sneaks into Geppetto's workshop, Geppetto plays with his Pinochio puppet, Figaro and Cleo act anthropomorphic, and Jiminy interacts with Geppetto's toys as if he thinks they're alive. It just felt like they were stretching scenes really thin most of the time, saying, "Look at what we can do with animation! Isn't it amazing? Charming?" I suppose nearly 70 years from now, people might say the same about WALL-E... but then again, WALL-E had an interesting story, characters, and premise. It didn't just go "Here, have a fairy that turns a puppet into a boy! Have an anthropomorphic cricket (that doesn't look anything like one) an anthropomorphic fox and an anthropomorphic cat, which human beings talk to as if they are normal! (but a living puppet? Wow!) Here, have this place that turns boys into jackasses somehow! No real explanation needed."
Again, I liked the movie. I liked the fox character, J. Worthington "Honest John" Foulfellow (go figure.)
I also recently watched all of Evangelion. I watched many of the last episodes and the End of Evangelion before I went to bed this week... made for some interesting "drifting to sleep" moments. I extensively contemplated the last two episodes-the really abstract, "we have no money left" episodes-as I was going to sleep. I asked myself the question, "What terrible things have I done or thought that I hope no one else ever discovers? How would I do if instrumentality suddenly happened, and the people I loved suddenly knew them?" I couldn't think of anything really terrible, but I'm sure some of it would surface if that happened. God knows everything, anyway. He might remind me of those things in the end...
Furthermore, I wondered what I would do if I suddenly found out that the truth was the opposite of what I believed? What if I found out that there was no God? Would I still hold to the same ideals and morals that I do today? I would like to think that I would. I would like to think that that is a part of my identity, to be a good person regardless. To not be part of the problem. To not be one of those people that makes life harder for others, either because I'm selfish, or simply because I can.
I've also been listening to KBVR as I drive to work in the morning, mostly because their station comes in softer to my ears than my tapes do. There have been some interesting songs they've played. One particularly stuck in my head. The chorus was "Don't stop! Don't Stop! Don't stop until the music pops!" (repeat.) The verses sounded like they were being sung by a valley girl. It reminded me of Shirley the Loon from Tiny Toon Adventures (probably because I'd been watching that again recently, too.) Although I might've misheard it; maybe it was being sung by one of those weird male singers with the high, wavery voices that's become popular in indie music lately, for whatever reason (the chorus sounded like it was being sung by a guy.)
In other news, I'm moving back in with Joel and Alicia this weekend. And congratulations to Kat and Alex on their brand new baby girl (who I haven't seen yet; I went today, but they were "feeding" her for like an hour and a half, and I hadn't fed since 10:30 AM, so...) Anyhoo...
Wuv, Yer Mom
The other night, I watched Pinochio. I don't know if I've ever seen it all the way through before, but I know that the last time I saw any of it was a long time ago. Apparently, it is regarded in some circles to be the second best animated movie ever, behind Snow White. Then Bambi after it. So, the first three Disney feature length animated movies. Interesting. I think maybe this is based purely on nostalgia that Pinochio at least is ranked so high.
Sure, it's fun, and cute, but for the first twenty minutes, Jiminy Cricket sneaks into Geppetto's workshop, Geppetto plays with his Pinochio puppet, Figaro and Cleo act anthropomorphic, and Jiminy interacts with Geppetto's toys as if he thinks they're alive. It just felt like they were stretching scenes really thin most of the time, saying, "Look at what we can do with animation! Isn't it amazing? Charming?" I suppose nearly 70 years from now, people might say the same about WALL-E... but then again, WALL-E had an interesting story, characters, and premise. It didn't just go "Here, have a fairy that turns a puppet into a boy! Have an anthropomorphic cricket (that doesn't look anything like one) an anthropomorphic fox and an anthropomorphic cat, which human beings talk to as if they are normal! (but a living puppet? Wow!) Here, have this place that turns boys into jackasses somehow! No real explanation needed."
Again, I liked the movie. I liked the fox character, J. Worthington "Honest John" Foulfellow (go figure.)
I also recently watched all of Evangelion. I watched many of the last episodes and the End of Evangelion before I went to bed this week... made for some interesting "drifting to sleep" moments. I extensively contemplated the last two episodes-the really abstract, "we have no money left" episodes-as I was going to sleep. I asked myself the question, "What terrible things have I done or thought that I hope no one else ever discovers? How would I do if instrumentality suddenly happened, and the people I loved suddenly knew them?" I couldn't think of anything really terrible, but I'm sure some of it would surface if that happened. God knows everything, anyway. He might remind me of those things in the end...
Furthermore, I wondered what I would do if I suddenly found out that the truth was the opposite of what I believed? What if I found out that there was no God? Would I still hold to the same ideals and morals that I do today? I would like to think that I would. I would like to think that that is a part of my identity, to be a good person regardless. To not be part of the problem. To not be one of those people that makes life harder for others, either because I'm selfish, or simply because I can.
I've also been listening to KBVR as I drive to work in the morning, mostly because their station comes in softer to my ears than my tapes do. There have been some interesting songs they've played. One particularly stuck in my head. The chorus was "Don't stop! Don't Stop! Don't stop until the music pops!" (repeat.) The verses sounded like they were being sung by a valley girl. It reminded me of Shirley the Loon from Tiny Toon Adventures (probably because I'd been watching that again recently, too.) Although I might've misheard it; maybe it was being sung by one of those weird male singers with the high, wavery voices that's become popular in indie music lately, for whatever reason (the chorus sounded like it was being sung by a guy.)
In other news, I'm moving back in with Joel and Alicia this weekend. And congratulations to Kat and Alex on their brand new baby girl (who I haven't seen yet; I went today, but they were "feeding" her for like an hour and a half, and I hadn't fed since 10:30 AM, so...) Anyhoo...
Wuv, Yer Mom