Recommendations: Whip It!
For those of you who like Ellen Page (Juno) as much as I do, this is a real treat. Whip It! is a film about doing what you want for yourself and learning that people will support you, even though it might not have been the plan they had for you. It's a film I think might not appeal to everyone out there, but it's still endearing enough to be liked by many. Oh, it's about rollerskating. The roller derby. I really enjoyed it!
My favorite animation in the history of Disney
This is my all-time favorite bit of animation by Disney. The whole of Fantasia is great, and while this is one of the more complex pieces of animation, most of Fantasia strips down to the core of imagination. Something I've always greatly admired! That said, this is also very very romantic, and funny.
Did you know, this is not the original cut of Fantasia? The original version showed a rather dumb looking black centaur, tending to the others. Realise this film was made in 1940. Disney later banned the original material, ashamed of their racist view. Can we really blame them for making it, back then, though? Times were different. It's not right, but that was the way it was, back then.
Another reason why this is my favorite animation of all time is that fact that it was animated to music. There's nothing more spontaneous than that.
Things I want to start but…
I am pretty sure will not lift off.
Do you ever get ideas in your head that you get excited about but you are pretty sure will not work? I do. Things I want to start but either don't know how to or that I am pretty sure will fail include:
- Book club. Pretty simple right? I want a group of people to read the same book with and then meet up and talk about it with and pick a new book with. Why will this not work? People don't read any more. Plus I read in English.
- Art club. Drawing together, designing together. Fun aye?
- A network for people who need rides, as well as people volunteering to drive them, for a fee of course.
Those are things I want to start but probably won't.
Och Aye! Planning a trip to Scotland
Just writing a blogpost because I am very excited. About planning a trip to Scotland. Yes that's right, planning it. I'm not even sure when and if I'm going yet, but the planning alone gets me all giddy.
I was last in Scotland in September 2009 to see Codeine Velvet Club play their début gig in their home town Glasgow. Not the first time I'd been to Glasgow either. Back in 2007, I made my first independent trip to the gritty yet bubbling city that is Glasgow to follow my then all-time obsession The Fratellis and watch them play the SECC. Glasgow introduced me to bars, loud music, the wrong side of the road and very treacherous pink drink that is Cider 'n Black. Black of course being blackcurrant. I didn't actually see much of the city itself, I came in to Glasgow from Aberdeen on the day of the Fratellis gig, went into the bar called Firewater, then went to the SECC, then back to Firewater and back to the hotel at three in the morning only to get on a plane back home several hours later. Same for last September, really.
But yes, I am anticipating the very exciting process of planning another trip to Glasgow! It's going to be in May, because I think I'll want some holiday by then, since work is fun, but one simply needs holidays and can't work all year. I think I'll book a Holiday Inn room because they have disabled access, and they are generally the cheapest good quality chain. Of course a picturesque B&B would be desirable, but it's usually not as accessible. I don't actually know what I want to see or do in Glasgow other than see Codeine Velvet Club. I think maybe visiting the university, if I can find a guide, might be nice and pretty, and of course I'll go see some film in 3D and visit Indie music shops and have tea with celebrities (yea right).
Does anyone else get as excited about planning a trip?
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