Still bored, so here we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It did occur to me earlier that perhaps Disney still felt a debt to Mae Questel, and that this is why they named the protagonist of How to Build a Better Boy<\/em> Mae, you know, in honor of. I was wondering about that during the time of watching it. I was like… this name has<\/em> to have some significance. And in light of my recent brainstorm… perhaps I found it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But to continue my earlier thoughts to their logical conclusions, I basically hit the nail directly on the head, didn’t I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I must’ve. Literally nothing else makes sense, unbelievably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So to follow this stuff to it’s ultimate, baffling and head-spinning finale, I\/we are now forced to figure out The Great Mystery Behind All of This, specifically, who\/what is “The Valley”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alright, some background info: The Valley<\/em> is a song in the middle (natch) of Laura’s album, a music video, and, interestingly, a re-occurring scene in Saving Zo\u00eb<\/em>. WTF is “The Valley”, actually?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I posit that it is an actual place. If you pause the music video about halfway through (in “The Valley” of the video) you see a book on the floor titled California<\/em>, which is… kind of an obvious clue, lol. The Valley is a place in California, and mostly likely in Los Angeles, owing to the angel symbolism found in the music video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To skip to the end here, I think “The Valley” is Laurel Canyon, birthplace of the Fanning sisters, the hippie movement, Scientology, Lookout Mountain Studios, and who the fuck knows what else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura Valley, Laurel Canyon. Hmmn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And am I correct in thinking that the music video for The Valley<\/em> is filled with symbolic references to Lookout Mountain Studios? The ivy, the lockers, the graphs, the paper airplane? And the lyrics? “Come back, come back to the valley?” That’s a callback, correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, and how could I forget? The baseball symbolism! Obvious is obvious, no? The first one third of the video occurs on a baseball diamond! Is this a reference to Mae Questel herself, whose last role was in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation<\/em> and whose last words put on film were “Play Ball!”? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wouldn’t THAT be something? Holy Macaroni! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jeebus Christ! <\/p>\n\n\n\n IDK, I could be wrong about these things, but man, what a group of amazing… speculations! Holy moly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And you know, if these ideas are right, it would logically explain many many things, at least from my point of view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Very interesting indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Still bored, so here we go. It did occur to me earlier that perhaps Disney still felt a debt to Mae Questel, and that this is why they named the protagonist of How to Build a Better Boy Mae, you know, in honor of. I was wondering about that during the time of watching it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}