Spring Break - Trip to Jacksonville

Okay, so this is a bit of an unexpected opening review post! You know how I said I'd probably start with either Snow White or Steamboat Willie? Well, thanks to my brother, that's not happening. This trip was supposed to be low-key. See, the thing is, every time I go to Jacksonville, it has to be this great huge THING, an EVENT! There's a push to squeeze in as much big-ass fun as humanly possible. It gets grating, expensive, and kinda old. Never any time to just hang out.

So this time, I decided to bring some musicals that Jareth had never seen before. Put your hands together for 1776 and My Fair Lady! We got through 1776 - not detailing the rest of that night, because every single solitary lyric WILL get stuck in everybody's head for forever. But then we decided to watch Repo! The Genetic Opera instead of My Fair Lady. Honestly, I think Elf probably would've shot himself in the foot if we'd made him sit through My Fair Lady. Poop...

Anyway, next day, we get back from HaxSpace (really cool crafting space in Jacksonville!) and decide to watch some movies. We made it through Anastasia... but as Alton Brown says, that's another show! Anastasia is, in fact, a Don Bluth film, same as All Dogs Go To Heaven, the original Land Before Time, and Thumbelina. Not Disney, so no review. If you're sad, I'm sorry, but this is a Disney blog and I kinda-sorta thought I'd made a big FLOWERY point about that.

Moving right along (sing along if you know the Muppets!), we come to Bedknobs and Broomsticks! Now, a touch of back-story. I got a bunch of my movies as a kid because my lovely, wonderful Grandma was a little obsessive with the VCR! Yeah, this was back when Disney actually ran COMMERCIAL-FREE movies on Disney Channel! Can I get some props from my lovelies who remember those days? *peers about* Anyone?

Well, anyway... Apparently my Bedknobs and Broomsticks had been altered by Disney for time. The version I watched last night had a whole bunch of stuff I hadn't seen before! I mean, the one Grandma taped for me wasn't bad - still got it, by the way. All the main stuff was there. But the version on Jareth's computer had some dialogue I hadn't heard and a whole song I'd never even heard of! It was kind of blah anyway, so it doesn't matter that they cut it. It was just Miss Price going on about Professor Browne leaving. It was sort of irritating.

I guess this really isn't much of a review. Then again, I'm pretty damn wiped out after driving back from Jacksonville. The only mention I really had was the footage I hadn't seen before.

On a non-Disney note, I'm super-psyched for the new episode of Criminal Minds tonight!

NEW obligatory intro post!

Okay, so the "sweetheart" is now out of the picture and a Disney blog is not the place to go into breakup drama and bull-hockey, don't you agree? Right? Right. Moving on!

Well, I'm 24 now, as I'm sure some of you are aware. So, instead of it being a year in Disney movies... Let's be honest here - as a full-time college student, particularly a MUSIC student and a VOCAL student at that, I did not have the time to be watching a movie a week. Every hour-plus spent watching a Disney movie is an hour-plus not spent in a practice room. Which is baaaaaaaad.

So, in case you've gotten this far and not figured it out, I am a rampaging Disney fan with a few life issues. But we're going to talk about the former and leave the latter out of it, except on special occasions. This is one of them: I failed Music Theory I my first time taking it - that was last semester. Since Georgia Southern University (Go Eagles!) does things a bit retardedly (no offense!), I can't take it again until this coming Fall Semester. This is the music-college equivalent of being held back in first grade.

But I'm not going to worry about that right now. Gotta keep it positive! POSITIVE! And part of keeping positive is re-vamping this blog. (As previous visitors have noticed, the old posts have been wiped clean because I don't want to look at them.) Instead of one year, with a Disney movie a week, I'll be keeping y'all (Yes, I'm still Southern, so I use "y'all") informed of my collegiate goings-on. To keep in the Disney life theme, I'll be posting nostalgia at semi-regular intervals.

So to recap - whenever I have the time, I'll watch a Disney movie. I'll be going in chronological order, from Snow White on forward. After watching this Disney movie, I shall post a nostalgic review. I'll tell you at what age I first saw the movie, my favorite song, how I saw it then, how I see it now... You know, stuff like that. Maybe I'll stick some stuff in that you could have just as easily found on Wikipedia, but I like trivia, so sue me! Every so often, I might throw in a Mickey Mouse cartoon. And I won't be sticking JUST with the animated flicks - Mary Poppins is just too good!

Oh, and here's one more thing - this is STILL a countdown blog. Since I am no longer going to Walt Disney World this summer, I've got it planned as a graduation trip. That way, it'll be bigger, better, and guess what? I plan on taking my best friend/sister and mom with me! We're even thinking of making it a package deal - one of those X-number of days on land, X-days at sea Disney Cruise thingies! Over the next four years, the films of the Walt Disney Studios will keep me going.

Wish me luck!

~ Marigold