This sounds a lot like my Freshman year. What I did was this, I opened up the course catalog and I took the kookiest sounding courses I could that would fulfill some requirement: Russian Music 347, Salem Witchcraft, Mind and Knowledge, Oceanography. I took some things that were just for me, like Drawing and Painting. I stopped trying to do what I perceived to be "right," or which would advance some vague future career and started exploring stuff without any real purpose. It turns out, this is legal in college!

I met interesting people in the weird classes, eventually I got out of the boring and popular English department into the top-notch and cool Philosophy department (that Mind and Knowledge class I took on a whim got me on my way). Having a Philosophy degree instead of an English degreen has not hurt my writing career one iota. And the friends I made were so much more ME.

Drift a little. Let yourself dive into the things that interest you, excite you.

I nominate The Thief and the Cobbler for its stunning animation, though it is a botched project. It was so ambitious, though, what it was trying to achieve and where it does succeed it is so vivid and dreamy.

My stepdaughter and daughter both really liked The Last Unicorn which I haven't watched it myself, but it was special enough to my stepdaughter that she bought herself a copy when she was a teenager.

Also, my daughter loves the entire Marilyn Monroe oeuvre. I'll nominate How to Marry a Millionaire because I dig the contrast of Lauren Bacall's deadpan sensibility with Marilyn Monroe's ditziness. However, for full on glamor, the dance number to "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend" in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes rocks.

I keep coming up with these, I'm like obsessed now.

Jumanji. It has surprising staying power. I don't like it that much but kids like it. And the special effects hold up pretty well.

Anastasia is a non-Disney animated film worth catching. I believe the effect they used for the sparkly diamonds was developed for the movie.

The Way Things Go is like a real Rube Goldberg machine using chemical reactions as well as mechanical ones. The pace is slow, but it's still fun.