This Monday, I like... "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" from the soundtrack to Disney's Hercules.

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I was skeptical when I heard Disney were going to make a movie about Hercules. How were they going to get around the whole illegitimate-son-of-a-god thing? Or Hera's vendetta? The twelve labours being punishment for Hercules going insane and murdering ( Read more... )

In addendum to the previous I Like Monday, this Monday, I like... Yzma's flea speech from Disney's The Emperor's New Groove.

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Seriously, the number of times my sisters and I quote this speech at each other - especially "I'LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!!!!" XDDDDD One of the silliest parts in a very silly movie. Genius, I say!

This Monday, I like... Edouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, the 5th movement:

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Audio recording uploaded to YouTube here by UltimateViolin - this performance by Leonid Kogan (violinist), Kirill Kondrashin (conductor) and the London Philharmonia Orchestra, February 1959.Otherwise known (to me, at least) as "The Happy Secretary Song", because the ( Read more... )

This Monday, I like... chocolate cake.


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This makes me laugh each time I see it.

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Also, we have discovered the location of Care-a-lot. (Well, what else does a rainbow-coloured cloud mean?)

[Edit to add]: Also, in issue 16 of IDW's My Little Pony Friendship is Magic comic, our heros get chased by zombie-ponies... who, upon being returned to normal, are revealed as the original six G1 ( Read more... )

Since Mondays are reserved for Nice Things Only, I decided to keep this particular Story Teller memory for today. This seriously scared me as a kid. I couldn't bear to listen to it, or even look at the picture. Thankfully it came right at the end so I just had to turn the tape off quickly once the penultimate story had ended. It still freaks me ( Read more... )

This Monday, I like... "Eleven Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Andersen.

Or, to be more precise, I like this version of it:

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Once upon a time in the eighties, there was published by Marshall Cavendish a fortnightly, magazine-sized anthology of stories and poetry for children with a read-along cassette, which was purchased by a mother desperate to ( Read more... )

Ok, this is the sweetest advert on UK tv at the moment (although can I just say, I think he's cuter as the ogre?).

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And a quiz to finish things off:

You Are Hot Chocolate


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A few things to give you a little squee this morning :)

First, the sweetest ad on British TV at the moment:

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(My favourite parts are when they go swimming with the koi carp, and the octopus and the sheep ^.^)

Secondly, remember how I said my sister Amy was knitting a Minion from Despicable Me?


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