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[austin_dern]

Disney Channel aired Jungle Book II: The Wrath of Khan so I actually caught it. I was pleasantly surprised; it's got several catchy musical numbers, and John Goodman's a passable Phil Harris. There's those pesky stretches between musical numbers where they flail at some sort of plot, but I suppose you could say the same about the 1967 original.

It's a pity there's no market for short cartoons, because they'd probably do better making only musical numbers. The computer-generated backgrounds were only distracting when the camera moved too close to the ground and the perspective stood out. Even then, a long dwindling line of dancing mongooses make a good spectacle. But they do need a musical conclusion other than The Animals Get Into A Huge Pile, and the Lead Characters Fall Off, though; it's been done.

On a much more irritating note -- I need to ask all my friends; by any chance has anyone saved the various pictures to which I've linked here, ideally with the paths the files were in? (iCab at least saves the original URL in the Information window.) What was supposed to be a change in hosting deleted all my spindizzy.org/austin files. I haven't got the originals in an organized archive and I want to do things besides track all this down. Any help would be appreciated. And I have new pictures too, like ...

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Comments

[logan-pendan.livejournal.com]

Isn't it funny how something ALWAYS vanishes during a move?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh, something, sure. Everything is a different matter.

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

Was there genuinely a long line of dancing mongooses? I doubt you'd bluff about that. If so, let me know where int he movie; I may have to rent.

--Chairoscuro

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I don't make up stuff like this; it's easier to use what's really there. It's during the ``W-I-L-D'' sequence, which is probably the best spectacle of the movie, a big dance at King Louie's old place, and there's a lyric mentioning the mongoose (who, if I recall correctly -- I don't see a lyric listing online to check -- were on the loose) and it's matched by a marvelous long line of mongoose dancers. Other lyrics mention other animals who do their Busby Berkeley thing in turn.

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

Okay. Will check at Sarge's next visit... BTW, I enjoyed 'Good Advice'.

--Chiaroscuro

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Good luck, then, and ooh, thank you. I'm kind of surprised I didn't hear ``Good Advice'' more growing up, considering the sort of fun it is.

iCab wonderfulness

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*purr* yes, another great thing to love about it :>
Admittedly I think some versions of IE also do that, but since it crashes so much, I rarely go back to it.

I do keep some pics... but...

I haven't filed them in a specific coati folder
and my records would probably be no better than looking through the records of your LJ postings.

However...

if you could reference which postings had pictures, I could try a search for those and see if I have pictures from those.

Also,
I might have removed some from my HD already too... so if need be, I could try looking in backup disks in case it's possible I have a file from any of your referenced postings.

*warble* :9

Re: iCab wonderfulness

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Thanks ... I don't have any kind of organized list of what links I have, though, just going back through days and seeing what I might have linked to, and searching my hard drive for those files. That'll get old really fast, particularly once we're past the point where Livejournal stops giving 20 days in one view. This project begs for a scripted solution, and I'm not sure where to find it.