After over 10 years of waking up with strange melodies in their heads, the lion kingdom finally had the recording setup to capture one directly from the piano, right after waking up.  Previously, it was a tedious process of writing by paw on staff paper.  It wasn't as easy to capture timing as playing it.



It's not as much the melody as the arrangement, the instruments, the lyrics, & most of all, the fake record scratches, which make the difference.  The latest melody was more motivation to create a direct instrument to notation system.  Existing software only reads a MIDI file, requires a full windows installation or costs $600.




The lion kingdom uses its music display all the time.  The annotation feature managed to get heavily used, despite not having a real keyboard + mouse.  A pawheld trackpad with 2 buttons has a lot of potential.  






Like most animals, the lion kingdom watched Howl's moving castle because of the song Cave of Mind.  Sadly, none of it made any sense.  It was never clear if the old lady's curse was broken because she oscillated between young & old several times in what lions thought was a symbolic rendition of her state of mind.  Kiwipedia says the curse was literally broken in the scenes where she young again.

Kiwipedia does little else except to explain it was an anti war allegory like most other movies of 2004.  There was definitely a trend between Star Wars III & this one to have a bunch of random subplots surrounding a war.


Another movie too bad to remember was Robocop II.












A belief that heroine cop had a bigger role was the only reason this movie got on the hard drive, but she did not age well.  No-one had a bigger role or much of role in anything, in this movie.  






The invincible robocop depending in the mortal heroine cop for survival was the original's only redeeming factor.  Of course robo cop always stayed faithful to his original wife.






It had its high points of mane spray & shoulder pads.  They still look like that, in the midwest.





A side by side comparison of scenes from Starblazers 2199 & Starblazers 1974 would make a mighty fine video, but the copyright algorithm didn't allow it.  It wasn't clear how so many other clips got through the algorithm.  It might have been the length but it wasn't the blurry background.



























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