Now Playing: well, you know...it's a musical adventure...
Current Mood : Kinda weird
Current Image Notes : Production cel (complete with scratches) from Raggedy Ann and Andy : A Musica Adventure. I don't own this cel, but at least I own a copy of an image of it. :)
Was a bad girl today. Finally did the grocery shopping...and I picked up the Disney Princess wastebasket. Last one they had, too. I feel so silly for spending $6. on a trash can, but it's very pretty, and fits in that now-green drawer set perfectly ! I love it. I had a tin ‘space' one when I was a kid - this one's tin, too, and it kind of takes me back a bit.
Also got Dearest Son's Easter basket stuff. Mal-Wart had tin buckets with various kid-friendly graphics - Cars, Spiderman, Transformers, High School Musical, SpongeBob, Disney Princesses, and even Tinker Bell ! I thought about buying a DPrincess pail for lab trash, but it's really rather small. And if I'm gonna shell $4. for a pail I don't really like, I might as well spend the extra $2. to get what I want !
Dearest, of course, got the Cars one, with Lightning and Tow Mater on it. He has a chocolate rabbit, Bubble Tape, and eighteen spaceship-shaped filled eggs waiting for him Sunday morning. Not bad for $11. The pre-made ones at that price point (well, actually $15.) are pretty crappy. A super-cheap, essentially useless basket with a gaudy plastic toy and about 50c worth of small candies. It'd be fine if you bought it at a gas station and were in desperate need (of an Easter basket, for some reason), but otherwise, sooo not worth it. One year, his grandparents gave him so much candy, it filled a beach sand pail, and we were still eating it in August.
Got the next pattern scanned - Simplicity 7737 - and it took maybe an hour. It's amazing how many patterns that are thirty-plus years old and have never been cut out. I can't wait to try it out...but I have two other patterns and a pattern magazine to scan first.
I'm in kind of another memory-flood mood right now, though. Found that the full feature-length production of Raggedy Ann and Andy : A Musical Adventure is on Google Video. This is basically the movie that set off my whole obsession with animation. When I first saw it, at a children's matinee I more or less got dropped off at, I was twelve and thought it a bit too kiddy and bizarre for me, although some sequences were undeniably charming. Some of the rotating perspective shots still make me mildly ill, though. It was actually a ‘Making Of' short feature on cable or TV a year or so later, showing the computer-guided rudimentary animation, that really ignited my imagination. While watching the movie has stirred some memories, I'd pay to see that ‘Making of' again ! It made me really want to understand how animation worked, and, lacking any real art skills, try to figure out how I could be a part of it.
Well, not all dreams work out. There's no way I could be all I dreamt of as a kid - there just aren't that many calls out for roller-skating voice actresses and worked in radio (at least I got to do that !) over at Lucasfilm. The one person I knew in animation - a guy who translated anime, some sub, some dub - didn't think enough of my voice to even give me a business card. So I let that one die. Most of the ‘prequel' films killed the Lucasfilm one, and I'm still not sure if I can skate anymore. My body was fine with it, when I tried last year, but my mind was screaming in fear. I'm not really sure what I dream of anymore, or if we still have them when we're pushin' our 40s towards the top of the hill.
Sorry. Don't mean to be in such a weird mood. Just some things I have to work out. I'm sure I'll either get over it or will have forgotten it all tomorrow !
The movie, in its entirety : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6706642381871663196
