Oh Captain, My Captain
Monday, June 29, 2009
Ever since Michael Jackson died last week, I have been feeling kind of weird. I have felt like a complete freak for letting this bother me as much as it has and have been wondering why I feel so weird about it.
I thought about how much I loved MJ as a kid growing up. To this day, I still have all my MJ buttons, stickers and pictures I collected as a kid/teenager. I grew up watching MJ’s Thriller video on MTV every hour on the hour till I could recite Vincent Price’s narration in my sleep. I think of all the MJ songs that I loved so much over the years from “Rock With You” to “You Are Not Alone” and it makes me kind of sad to hear those songs now.
But, I still haven’t been able to pinpoint why Michael Jackson’s death has bothered me so much.
Finally today though, I figured out what has me so totally weirded out. Anyone that knows me, knows that one of my very favorite things in the world is Disneyland - especially the Disneyland of the 1970’s and 1980’s when I was growing up. That is when the realization hit me out of nowhere this afternoon. CAPTAIN EO!!
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Oh how I love Captain Eo - Disneyland’s most awesome 3D movie ever! I must have seen that movie a hundred times when it was playing in Tomorrowland’s Magic Eye Theater. I just loved MJ as Captain Eo as well as Hooter and the rest of the ragtag, misfit gang. How sad it is that Captain Eo is dead!?! That was a tough pill for me to swallow.
I searched online today to see if I could find Captain Eo in it’s entirety and I am happy to report that I found it and here it is! Of course, it’s not in 3D. I totally wish it was because I still have my lavender 3D glasses that I pinched from Disneyland way back in the day after watching Captain Eo.
As much as I love this wonderful movie, I have to admit it was hard for me to watch it again without tearing up. It is just kind of different for me now. Even so, I love hearing songs like “Another Part of Me” and “We Are Here to Change the World” again. They are as much a part of my childhood as Michael Jackson.
