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Tonight was fantastic :D
Tom, Charlie, Becky and I headed to Disney’s corporate office in London, although I use the term ‘corporate office’ very loosely. There was a giant silver Mickey statue in the main lobby and the banisters had Mickey head emblems on them.
The waiting area to see the film was also lovely, filled with memorabilia, a bust of Walt Disney, sketch artwork, production stills, a giant WALL·E … I asked the woman who’d invited us, Grace, if she could show us around any other areas of the building, and officially I am not allowed to tell you that we got to see the Disney/Pixar meeting room. It didn’t happen. (The lifts played the High School Musical soundtrack :D)
The women’s loo had an EVE print on it, and the men’s (I’m told) used to have a matching WALL·E print <3 WALL·E is my favourite film of all time, so that was nice.
We also snuck through a door into ‘Café Disney’, the canteen area, which was filled with more Disney charm and a massive mural containing every Disney-owned property in one huge wall-size picture. I took the following small picture containing a key to the image, showing what everything is – if anyone can find the full-size one online, link me and I’ll amend this post:
I really hope someone finds it, cos I wanna showcase the full thing.
The film itself was brilliant. It took me a little while to get into, but it had everything that the old Disney classics had – music, theatrics, warmth, skinny villains, anthropomorphic comedy relief, princes and princesses, a musical acid sequence, a crazy wise person who hits the protagonist with a stick, THE LOT. The third act in particular was masterful; everything tied itself together beautifully.
I got to meet Mia Rose, by which I mean I watched Mia Rose walk up to Charlie and not look at/acknowledge the rest of us in any way while she spoke to him, until right at the end when she shook our hands briefly out of politeness and vanished into the music industry. (Charlie said jokingly, “I just overtook you in subscribers!” and she replied a little condescendingly, “oh, I don’t pay attention to any of that stuff. But I’m so happy for you!”)
I also saw Bryony, who actually cared enough to say hello and engage me in conversation, so that’s nice. If you’re thinking of subscribing to Mia, don’t worry about it; go sub to Bryony instead :)
That’s about all. My typing is keeping Becky awake, so I shall sign off. Tomorrow’s gonna be busy on account of me PACKING FOR NEW YORK OH YES.
(If you wanna see The Princess And The Frog – and I definitely recommend that you do – it’s out on general release from December 11th in the US, February 5th in the UK, and other times in other countries that I don’t care enough to mention here.)
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“a crazy wise person who hits the protagonist with a stick”
OMG MUST SEE.
I'm glad you got to see it early, but I'm honestly a little jealous ;)
Should I know who Mia Rose is? I feel like I should but… I don't. And I'm too busy studying for finals to Google her so there :O
I wish I could see you in New York! Have fun doing the dreaded packing, haha.
lol that was a bit mean ” if you wanna subscribe to Mia, don't! Go sub Bryony instead because she was nicer to me”
by the way. Is Becky your GIRLFRIEND?
So, I think I would rather subscribe to Bryony than Mia, since Mia sounds like a…
*ahem* Well, she sounds kinda rude.
Unfortunately, I've never seen WALL·E, but The Princess And The Frog sounds like it'll be great. :]
And I've noticed that you update the blog practically everyday – and for that I would like to say thanks. It's something to look forward to every day.
oh I didn't know Mia Rose was like that! I was kind of proud of her because she's portuguese like me. Not any more, she sounds quite rude.
And wwooopp New York :D
That sounds rather awesome and fun :D Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself. I shall see this movie as soon as I can. ^_^
By the way Alex, I've noticed you don't have a personal email for your fans to email you at. [or at least I can't find it] My friends and I were about to email you this weekend but couldn't find an email to reach you at that wasn't all business-y.
Anyways, I love reading your blog. I wish I could go to the Disney… Epic-Multi-Level-Place. Yeah. :D Come to California someday please! =]
Oh wow I forgot it was coming out friday! You're so lucky to see the movie early, I can't wait to see it! Now I know it was good XD I don't know who Mia Rose is…perhaps I should find out?
it's disappointing to find out that mia wasn't very nice…why was she so interested in charlie though? does she know him already or something?
Ah, I miss going to Disneyland all the time! I used to have a pass, but no longer :(
How long will you be in New York?! I just checked out the place you're playing today and it's the perfect size! I can't wait :)
Are you dating becky again? sorry to ask, but I feel the need to know these things o.O Have fun in New York!!! <3 x
Yeah, they've met once before at a Google event.
Glad to hear how much you liked this. Lots of folks had written off the traditional hand-drawn 2D animation feature in a world of 3D computer graphics. Disney has had a string of 2D flops.
But now John Lasseter of Pixar is in charge of all Disney animation and he has a real love and reverence for the Disney tradition. He backed doing this film as a 2D drawn animation, but he's smart enough to know that the most important thing is not the number of Ds,–it's getting the story right and the characters. Pixar learned a lot from old Disney. Now Lasseter is in a position to put some of that back into the Disney animation world.
Sounds like y'all had a fine old time. :D
To be fair to Mia, it was a bit of an odd thing to say as apposed to the normal “how have you been?” stuff that you're meant to say when you spot someone you haven't seen in a while, which is what she was probably expecting. But I got nervous.
She is a lovely lady, but just someone who treats her YouTube success more like a business, where as we just like to make friends and have fun times.
I can't wait to see The Princess & The Frog. :D
I can't wait to see The Princess & The Frog. :D
Have fun in New York City, guys! I love New York.
And, I have never heard of that movie before. It'll probably take a while for it to be released in the Netherlands, so maybe that's why. But I am glad you had fun. And Mia Rose seems a bit bitchy but I'm sure she didn't mean to be rude.
It sounds like you went to visit a dream world. Except maybe a bit cooler, and with less accidental public nudity (or is that just my dreams?).
I am SO jealous. So jealous that I needed to capitalise 'so'. That's how jealous I am.
I split disney history into 3 time periods; Cartoon disney, Walt disney & apple disney. Either way I'm JEALOUS. I noticed you had another gig coming up & was like oh yes i shall pop by & see the alex person, but it was the one in new york. Either play in the uk soon or we'll go eat food in a establishment or some other such social outing. Enjoy new york & text me when your back on soggy, british, grey soil xxx
i love you :)
Everyone in alabama loves you. Especially the ones that wear shoes. just kidding… yeah.
yes julie durr, it is true. i live in alabama…and wear shoes…..and I love alex day….
I've hated the 3D Disney. Was very much looking forward to a return to form and found it astounding that it took them this long to get it done.
omg that sounds amaaazing. I am so jealous!
Wall-E is the greatest, Monsters Inc. is awesome as well, loving the blogs and music :P
This will sound (most likely) as a rather stalker-ish question, but I am wondering how early you would be at the coffee shop you have your gig in, or somewhere I could meet you, because I am a huge fan and I would very much like to meet you before hand. I would just hang around after the gig, but I am leaving NY an hour before you start to play.
Thank you very much in advance for answering my question. :D
p.s. I am not a creep or anything. Just saying. lol :)
p.p.s. That last p.s. probably did not help. lol. :)
I can't wait to meet you in New York!! Only three more days!! Are you going to play at all? I'm going to have to leave early to catch my train. I hope I don't miss it :D
I mean you playing, not my train lol
hiiii =)
just wondering if you'll be selling your cd at the gig on saturday night?
cause then i'd rather just buy it then as opposed to waiting for it to come in the mail.
hiiii =)
just wondering if you'll be selling your cd at the gig on saturday night?
cause then i'd rather just buy it then as opposed to waiting for it to come in the mail.
Will you be playing more than once in New York or Connecticut or somewhere close by?
Unfortunately I can't make it saturday but I hope to go to another!
I absolutely adore Paperlilies.
I absolutely adore Paperlilies.
Sounds awesome :)
enjoy NY :D
LOL :P
I hope he reads this before leaving for NYC/before the gig.
I really like reading Alex's blog, call me a blog reading addict DX
But you know what would also be fun? If Charlie blogged. Hmm! I mean you hardly do any actual 'vlogs' as of late *sadfaise* although I do love your songs don't get me wrong, but a blog would be a nice balance.
You don't already have one I don't know about do you? I'm usually out of the loop when it comes to these things…eh @_@
haha I do too :)
keeping Becky awake?! are you and Becky back together? that would be wonderful! if not, that's also wonderful.
wow! SO not my business! sorry!
i find it funny that i have no clue who Mia Rose or Byrony are, but i know who you, Charlie, Tom and Becky are. but then, i seem, almost exclusively, only to care about Nerdfighters anymore. so, that could be me in my microcosm.
microcosm. such a good word! :)
“a musical acid sequence” Yay it's not complete without this. I just saw the preview in the cinemas today it reminded me of aladdin I also remember there being singing birds in the preview so it's got everything.
She wasn't, like, RUDE to us, just overly professional. To a weird extent. Like YouTube was her job.
Bryony was ace though :D
Make friends? This is awkward… see, I was planning on ditching you if I didn't get a shoutout soon.
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