exams put me in a kill-clutter mood. have FINALLY sorted out my old CDs (though many are still missing from the cases) and i have TONS (meaning like maybe 100 or slightly less) of them to sell and get rid of. i'm hanging on to the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys for old time's sake (i still like some of their songs, i admit) but getting rid of lots of others. i can't see anyone actually wanting to buy them - people my age and up would cringe and people of my brothers ages and below don't even know who the Spice Girls are. i don't even really want money for them (am willing to give away for free) i just want to get rid of them because it hurts to have so much clutter. and also i'm getting rather tired of people thinking i'm stuck in a 'bad '90s pop music' bubble - as does everyone who comes into my room, initially. i felt rather old today, while trying to convince my brother to take some off me - 'who's 911? the spice girls - who? steps?' frankly, i'm quite the nutcase when it comes to CDs and music. if i were more indulgent in spending on CDs and there was no such thing as downloading (and if i had some self control with regards to breaking the law) i would probably be cluttered with few hundreds more CDs that reflect my current taste in music. but clearly, my priorities lie with clothes (especially jewellery!) and books and they take up more space than anything.

i also have a big cardboard box (yes, the type the movers pack stuff in) sitting at the side of my room which i haven't cleared since i moved house about four years ago. yes, i am a pathetic slob. it's not my fault that i don't have enough shelves for books. actually, the big box consists of all the manga i accumulated while i was going through the whole anime thing and i don't quite feel for it anymore, so if anyone would like to buy? they're in good condition and i'm willing to sell for cheap/reasonable (i have many, many different series, mainly Shoujo, i guess). but i'll probably find loads of buyers if i sell them on the net or to Sonny (Sunny?) at far east - after all, they're not trash like my CDs. people STILL like Cardcaptor Sakura and other CLAMP comics, right?

i've been burning copies of old disney movies (yes, i'm a bad person) for my sister (cos we couldn't find the old video tapes even though i swear i just watched the Beauty and the Beast one sometime earlier this year). i've discovered that my younger siblings (three of them from 12 years old and younger) are very deprived. they haven't had the REAL Disney experience of movies like The Little Mermaid. which i really think is a travesty! they don't make Disney movies like they used to. no wonder people are growing increasingly cynical.

anyway, the movies really don't seem to interest my sister much. the things that young kids watch nowadays are really weird and sad programmes. she hardly watched any of The Little Mermaid when i showed it to her last night and today her interest in Beauty and the Beast was quite marginal. i, on the other hand, was just lapping it all up. Beauty and the Beast is STILL my favourite Disney of all time. something about it just appeals to me and makes it far more .. 'real' than the other Disneys (i hate Snow White with a vengeance and Cinderella is quite annoying). plus Belle is a bookworm. being offered a huge library as a gift? how awesome and romantic. it's better than Aladdin and The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas (which i didn't like either) because it's about loving someone despite their faults and weird appearances, i guess. and also about how love changes people for the better. as opposed to aladdin where jasmine loved aladdin because she thought he was a charming prince and so on and so forth. and eric loved ariel because she sang well and was pretty. belle and the beast just seem to offer something deeper and less superficial than the rest. their love is really self-sacrificing and without boundaries.

i don't know why, that movie just really gets me. i got lumps in my throat at quite a few points in the movie. it really makes you think that YES, LOVE CONQUERS ALL! really gives me a lot of hope and generally big time warm fuzzies.

LOVE CONQUERS ALL!

+ posted by M @ 10:13 PM