that awkward moment when disney had to be accurate

dear walt,

congratulations on making mickey mouse famous. your business is quite impressive. i rather enjoy your films. my personal favorite is the lion king. it makes me cry...but not really because i've only cried during one movie. we don't talk about it.

all of your movies are quite touching and most of them have happy endings. i say most, because of one tiny detail in one insignificant, usually forgotten disney movie...pocahontas.  why on earth did you have to make a sequel that was accurate? the first movie itself is already completely inaccurate. no lovin between pocahontas and john smith actually went on because she was...like 13. so, couldn't we just keep the inaccurate love story rollin in the second movie too? all true pocahontas fans know 3 things:

1) john smith is much dreamier, manlier and all around a better guy than john rolfe.
2) john smith and pocahontas had a better love story.
3) john smith says the most romantic line ever to come out of a disney movie.

so, why? why suddenly be accurate?

other than that, i have no complaints.

sincerely,
a forever disney fan

p.s. walt, your company owns abc family, it shouldn't because abc family is the farthest thing from family...

il mondo

over the weekend i fell in love. again...with the same three italian men. piero, ignazio and gianluca. As adorable as the british boy band sensation, "one direction" is, i will say that my true loyalty lies with il volo. they sing like angels and they are so beautifully italian. don't worry, i won't actually try anything with them, they are five years too young for me...

this is ignazio...he's like a big teddy bear...i just want to pinch his tenor cheeks

this is piero...look at his cute hipster-ness. he sings like a galloping antelope riding on the back of a whale...

this is gianluca...he is dreamy looking...and his voice is...well, just listen. (plus he has elvis hair)

watch...you will be changed. you will never listen to justin biebs again...

you say it best when...

as a linguistics major, i find communication most fascinating. english is particularly interesting due to the vast number of words we use. but, i find that words can be surface-y and sometimes dull. words cannot always express the true meaning. words are a cover, a facade we use. words hide our emotions. people talk to me. they say things they are supposed to say. "hi, how are you?" "what's your name?" "where are you from?" "what do you like to do?" "nice to meet you." but, honestly, was it really nice to meet me? do they really care how i am?

i have spent a lot of time thinking about the unspoken language of music. music has an amazing power to touch deeper into our souls. i believe that music speaks to our hearts. it surpasses our minds completely and hits us in powerful and emotional ways. call me crazy, but i think that music is a more open and honest way of expression. people don't lie in music. it is the truth. through music, people feel safe in expressing their very thoughts, feelings and ideas that otherwise would have been hidden beneath a surface layer of words.

music is everywhere for that very reason. it inspires, lifts and comforts. imagine life without music. boring? dull? UN-expressive? i think yes. now, you may argue that music has words. lyrics. true, true, true, but i believe that lyrics without music are simply words. without the underlying melody, the lyrics lose the very message they were written to share. without melodies, lyrics are rhyming words and nothing more.

here's an experiment. watch harry potter or star wars with no sound. no darth vadar theme song or hogwarts castle music. suddenly, something is very wrong. i can almost guarantee that it will not ignite the same feelings and emotions.

here are some songs that really touch me or just make me happy:

ignore the fact that this one is from glee...

and this one is just hilarious...

chchcheck it out

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