EMMA!

jane austen novels. ^ it's easy to get so caught up in them once you start. it's like floating in your own dream world of tattered up pages (if you like to reread your old books). now when the mini movies start airing every sunday in 3 parts, it's hard not to fall in love with the novels and characters all over again. enough to make you want to dig up your old jane austen books, only to re-read emma, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility, northanger abbey and all...

(mr. knightley and emma, played by jonny lee miller and romola garai)

just recently, pbs aired jane austen's classic, emma. masterpiece classic's emma has been THE best one i've seen in comparison to another version i've watched in the past. michael gambon (wives and daughters, harry potter), jonny lee miller (sighhhhh, though i still prefer colin firth's mr. darcy) and romola garai made jane austen's novel come to life. everything about their characters were portrayed excellently and so believable too. it was heaven to watch and i cannot wait to own the dvd!

images of pbs' emma above and below from this realllly cool website: CLICK HERE!

(mr. woodhouse in background played by michael gambon - headmaster albus dumbledore in harry potter!)

*happy thoughts*

this post is inspired by and dedicated to this post: "sometimes sad, sometimes glad"

tokidoki's messenger style bag reminded me of all the 80's cartoons i used to watch. sigh. i miss those simple, worry free days.

"The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea..."

-This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. -- Nona Vero

she-ra, princess of power's horse has an alter ego too: spirit (horse)/ swiftwind (unicorn)!!

rainbow brite's flying horse, starlite!

*happy thoughts!!*

Stronger.

Taken from an interview, from October 1979.

Q: Are you happy with your life?

Natalie Wood: Yes, I'm happy with my life. I'm amazed sometimes that I'm as happy as I am. There was a time in my twenties when I never thought I would have a life like I'm living now. In a crisis, the thing that has always pulled me through is laughter. Seeing the absurd side of things. Seeing the funny side of things.

why disney?

history has a funny way about things. usually, when people hear walt disney's name thrown around, they instantly think mickey mouse, and therefore think it's only for kids, babies or in the case of my dad, "cartoons". and sadly tunes out..

i just finished reading a character biography on walt disney, and my favorite quote in that book is, "i have one foot in the past & one foot in the future."

i guess you have to have an appreciation for disneyland resort and history to understand what walt disney meant by that. basically, it's about how he came upon the idea to build the different themes inside of disney park. fantasyland inside the magic kingdom (disneyland) was based on his own childhood days. snow white & the 7 dwarfs was a classic book walt disney had read as a child and it was his favorite story, so he turned it into the first disney cartoon (without mickey) around dec. 21, 1937. it is why as you enter fantasyland, you enter through sleeping beauty's castle, and the architecture of fantasyland looks like the snow white & 7 dwarfs movie comes to life.

tomorrowland, inside disneyland, is constantly being updated based on the future and the present is always catching up to the future, so tomorrowland seems to never be completed. it's just interesting. his ideas, inspiration, his morals tied in with his dreams.

i wanted to read walt disney's biography because i was hoping to find the answer to why i still lOve disneyland-even as an adult! it's one of the things i guess that keeps me mentally aged forever 9.
anyway, now there's closure. i know now. it's in the book. it's the history, an era frozen in time...a place of nostalgia.

pinocchio sketch & cell

snow white sketches & movie cell

sleeping beauty