That Most Bittersweet of Treasures...

... which is Old Hope.

I just watched Aladdin.

Dang it, I want to be a Disney animator.

So bad.

Man, those guys were good. I mean, so... sigh. So much to learn from them. The motion, the expression, the fluidity, the character, the storytelling... I had thought that my burning desire to emulate them had been dampened by the years of school and work in the industry rubbing the glamour off, but now I realise it was just that I'd been starving the fire of its original fuel.

Eric Goldberg, I am not fit to lace your sandals! (or however the line goes)

[sigh]