Finding Nemo

'A father-son underwater adventure 

featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, 

stolen from his coral reef home. His 

timid father must then travel to 

Sydney and search Sydney Harbour

to find Nemo.' - IMDb.com

One of my very favourite movies.


Mainly because it's just so calm and seriously relieves stress.


For those who have not yet seen 'Finding Nemo' (seriously wtf are you doing with your life?!)



I must have watched this film literally about a thousand times in the past 8 years.


I just love the picture. It's incredibly well done, Thanks Pixar for teaming up with Disney began loosing their touch around 2000, since then their greatest achievements have definitely been thanks to Pixar!!

I actually have the cuddly toy version
of Squirt here. It talks and everything!!

I recently bought the soundtrack to the movie and love it. It's composed by Thomas Newman - turns he's also done about 87 movie soundtracks, including Wall-E (a lot of similarities in the music in that and Finding Nemo), Little Women, Erin Brockovich, Green Mile, Pay It Forward, and The Shawshank Redemption - All of which are favourites of mine.


Though Wiki tells me that Thomas Newman lost many awards for his films because something that had a better soundtrack happened to be out at the same time - For example Hans Zimmer's 'The Lion King', or Howard Shore's 'The Lord of the Rings'.

"He can call me Flower if he wants to..."

At this moment in time I am watching Disney's 1942 classic, Bambi. It may be almost 70 years old but it is clearly a timeless classic. Not a single line seems to be unquotable, and for animation from the 40's, although simple, it really is brilliant.

Fun facts about the film 'Bambi'
1. Bambi was released in 1942 despite the War
2. Thumper was voiced by Peter Behn, who was just 4 at the time
3. It was re-released in Cinemas 8 times.
4. Bambi was only Disney's fifth full length animated feature film

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5. Disney shipped in real animals from zoos to help them correctly draw and animate the animals.
6. Disney changed the species of deer from Roe deer (like in the original Austrian book by Felix Salten) to White-tailed deer which are more commonly known by Americans.

It's All Greek

As previously stated in my 'about me' section, I get random obsessions with topics of learning and research it endlessly until I get bored and move on to the next thing - I kind of miss primary school for this reason as it was the time of 'Victorian Week' and 'Farming Week' and 'Roald Dahl Week'. I often find short projects much more preferable due to my somewhat short attention span and fluctuating motivation levels.


This week I have had a bit of an obsession with Greek mythology. No wonder really, the Greeks are pretty interesting running around naked (literally, google 'greek olympics') and getting with every man, woman and family member possible. This educational googling madness all started when trying to decide what to name this blog, wanting something witty yet descriptive, but also with deeper meaning.


I was considering something to do with the 'nymphs'. For those of you who do not know, nymphs were basically gods of particular nature groups, for example oak trees, fountains or clouds. Always young, female and beautiful they are protective of their designated location or landform and consistently appear as sexual predators or victims throughout greek mythology (see this link for the story of Hylas and the Nymphs).


You only have to open Urban Dictionary to see all the modern sexual connotations of 'nymphs'- from the more innocent 'sexually desirable young woman', to more explicit 'horny female', 'girl that craves sexual satisfaction constantly'.


Ultimately, in life I probably am what some would call 'a bit of a nymph', and where as I would like to say I am merely a 'sexually desirable young women' I'm sure a fair few would disagree and say the connotations extend much further than this. No doubt as I open up to the 'blogosphere' and followers get to know me they will get to know just what I mean!


Currently my account photo is also of Disney's depiction of 'Megara' from Hercules (also related to this Greek Mythology melarkey!)
I must admit I do love her just a bit. She's got a lot going for her really - her history of selling her soul to Hades in exchange for the release of her lover from Hell (turns out to be Adonis, favourite mortal of Aphrodite - God of Love, Beauty and Sexuality), all in all proof she's a romantic. She's also got strong independance and ability to trick a demi-god in order to get what she wants from Hades - her freedom. Ultimately though, she is a total damsel in distress needing to be saved at least twice in the Disney film (and more but other times she'd set it up herself). Also for a cartoon character she's pretty damn attractive what with her slim waist and lovely thick curly hair - and an awesome dress! She also sings what is definitely up there in the top 5 best Disney songs of all time! (See below)