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[godream]

I really, really should start packing.

Instead, I'm watching all the kiddie movies that I'll feel too embarrassed to see once I'm a college student. (This summer doesn't count yet, right?) Went to see The Princess Diaries 2 with rainbwfairie yesterday -- it was really nice to see her and *sigh* reminds me of all the people I swore I'd get together with this summer, before this whole scattering for college thing happened, before I start getting swamped with classes and everything, and just didn't. The movie was adorable and lighthearted and okay, the musical number was maybe a little strange, but whatshisface the prince was cute and there was a happy ending, and really, what more can a girl ask for, right? Okay, plot, there was some plot -- predictable, especially if you've seen the ads -- and it was of course utterly devoid of deeper meaning beyond something suspiciously like "girls should always put love before careers", but one does not go to see movies with titles like "The Princess Diaries 2" if one is looking for deeper meaning. As a cute summer afternoon kind of movie, it was pretty good.

Then I grabbed the 2003 Peter Pan while reshelving at the library this morning, and it was even better. There were a couple of moments requiring industrial-strength suspension of disbelief -- but, well, I'm too cynical for my own good sometimes, plus I was watching it with four goofy siblings, so comments of "the planets are too close together" and "flying in a nightgown isn't such a good idea, is it?" probably were to be expected. But the movie was beautiful -- all the scenery and the costumes and just the whole look and feel were unbelievable, fairy-taley and lovely and if it weren't past midnight I'd be really, really tempted to stick the DVD in my computer and watch it again. Jeremy Sumpter, the kid who plays Peter Pan, was way cuter than any kid younger than my little brother has a right to be. And awwwww, thimbles. :D

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[itallwillfall.livejournal.com]

ahhhh so i DID hear you when i was at the library yesterday! jameson and i went in to look for kiddie movies, as a matter of fact! and i heard something to the effect of "bla bla kiddie movies bla bla" and i thought "that sounds like alison; i should say hi on my way out!" but we couldn't find the movie we were looking for, and i couldn't find you. so it was a failed mission, but i think the moral of the story is that kiddie movies are the "in" thing right now.

[godream.livejournal.com]

Yup, that was me just as I was heading out the door -- you'd think after working there for perilously near to two years maybe I'd have learned not to talk so loud I'm heard all the way across the children's room. :P What movie were you looking for?

[itallwillfall.livejournal.com]

i really wanted to see the three cabelleros; it had been one of my favorites when i was little. we checked the library and both video stores in town with no luck. so today, i hit up bn.com and ordered it. turns out it was originally intended as WWII propaganda to improve relations between the US and Latin America(!) which is kind of silly, because as i remember it, it's mostly a bunch of singing ducks.

[godream.livejournal.com]

My instinctive reflex is to remind you (even though it's too late) that you can request it from another library from the MLN website (http://library.minlib.net/search/tthree+caballeros/tthree+caballeros/1%2C3%2C8%2CB/frameset&FF=tthree+caballeros&4%2C%2C6) or at the library, which is definitely a sign I've been working there too long. :P Singing ducks, huh? Sounds entertaining. ;)

[itallwillfall.livejournal.com]

well . . . i might suggest that YOU request it!! when do you leave for school?

[godream.livejournal.com]

I leave on the 29th, and I have THIS much stuff left to do (*holds hands as far apart as possible*) so I think I'll resist the temptation for now. :P

[merulina.livejournal.com]

I like kiddie movies. But I guess not all people do.

[godream.livejournal.com]

Me too. But I want to get it temporarily out of my system so that I can try to pretend to be grown-up and responsible for a couple weeks while I'm starting to meet new college type people. :P