They're finally making a movie about Fraggle Rock!
http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1547428/12062006/story.jhtml
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WHOA!!!! I resented Jess for like 2 months when she was born, partially because I was prior to that the baby but, honestly, moreover because we lived in the Miramichi at the time and it was February and we had to leave in a snow storm to go to the hospital and miss (here's where it gets relevant) .... FRAGGLE ROCK. I'm sooo switching my cell phone ringer back to my fraggle rock tone now.
Pursuant to my previous comment read the beginning from this wikipedia entry:
"The vision of Fraggle Rock articulated by Jim Henson was to depict a colorful and fun world, but also a world with a relatively complex system of symbiotic relationships between different "races" of creatures, an allegory to the human world, where each group was somewhat unaware of how interconnected and important they were to one another. Creating this allegorical world allowed the program to entertain and amuse while seriously exploring complex issues of prejudice, spirituality, personal identity, environment, and social conflict. Fraggle Rock generally refused to over-simplify any individual issue, instead simply illustrating the consequences and inherent difficulties of different actions and relationships. Though the Fraggles do learn important lessons, they rarely are aware that they are learning them. The ideals of friendship, being true to yourself, and learning to love those who are incredibly different, were the cornerstone of Jim Henson's work throughout his 40 year career, and he considered Fraggle Rock to be one of the purest and most successful expressions of that vision"
Wow. Seriously? I haven't watched it since 1987 maybe I should look into it. I hear a cultural studies PhD idea.....
I saw an episode at Jordan and Tina's house, and Tina was telling me about what Jim Henson wanted the show to represent, and I'm pretty sure my heart melted.
Also, hearing you talking about childhood things make me happy, since in my head you always seemed like an 80 year old in a 4 year old's body.
~Lill
In other news, while it's fairly evident the first two "anonymous" comments were me. Thought I was signed in...
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