Disney rhymes with fizz knee. Bizarre.

Watching Disney songs being performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra last night made me realise how much I love old Disney films.

They have this magical ability to transport you to faraway places and times, and make you feel as though you're actually there. Similar, in a way, to Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and Ranger's Apprentice. The world's that they create, even in their book form, are astoundingly immersive and real.

Also, the humour. Most of the sophisticated humour is beyond the target audience of Disney flims (hence the use of sophisticated as the adjective here). Well, I know I didn't get/wouldn't have gotten 90% of the humour found in Disney films at the age of 6 or 7. And it's great. It's actually genuinely funny most of the time.

One of my biggest regrets (for want of a better word) is not being able to see (or, at least, not remembering having seen) any of these old Disney films in cinemas. You know, like Lion King, Aladdin, etc.

I also realised that my favourite one is The Lion King. The score and the songs match the film and its setting like tailor-made suits fit...the person that they were intended for. Yeah. Good analogy. But truly, it's great. The music with a Western twist, mainly through the lyrics. Actually, now that I think about it, the only part of the music that's really non-African is the lyrics. Oh, and Can You Feel the Love Tonight. Very well done.

They just don't make them like that anymore. No more singing, minimal emphasis on music. Good stuff - music, films, games, art, people - don't happen as frequently as they used to, probably because most of it's been done before. It's just harder to come up with something original now.

Here. Reminisce. A toast to the good old days.



Word of the Day: Disney

Check dem colourz

I seem to get my best ideas just before I sleep, and I end up furiously writing them down on a sticky note before I forget.

Take, for example, the following.

Since I've been abandoned by many of my friends, and my boredom-o-metre is creeping up in exponential increments, I decided, last night, just before I slept, to turn to one of the passions in my life which I have neglected recently. Photography.

I love photography. See, apparently I have an eye for framing things. And I can't really draw anything that goes beyond the complexity level of basic geometric shapes and random patterns. And my painting skills can be best described as shambolic.

Photography is awesome. You can either make a picture literal, take it how you see it, or you can manipulate it to look different.

I loved black and white photography in Year 9. That was one of the best subjects I ever took.

Anyway. The present. I am going to start an album on Facebook called 'Check dem colourz.' Creative, eh?

In this album shall be - get ready for it - colourful things. Just a riot of colours, from everyday and not-so-everyday situations. We'll see where it takes me.

Word of the Day: Photography