It's nearly time to start the next ALBum, and this will be "R", so I've opted for "Recorded" as the title.
It's the last of the 26x26 Albums. Every other letter has been accounted for, so once this one's done, we'll have a lovely set of 676 ALChoons, each with two-word titles, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet.
Good grief!!
So, 26 choons to go.
And yesterday I started by creating "Recorded Like" which will be the little outro on all the videos for this ALBum.
Turned out nicely, and I got a little video clip created for it, too.
Oddly, when I tried to expand the ditty into a song, I found it morphing back into the "Like and subscribe, that's the way you should be" melody of Zinc Like, so .. It's kinda ended up phasing back into that again.
Bit weird, but I guess my head couldn't quite escape that original melody.
*shrugs*
Now I only need to write 26 songs to go with that, and we'll be sorted!
This should take me right up until New Year. I wonder what next year's plan will be?
Should I continue with the Two-Word ALBums, or do I take things in a new and original direction?
.. I'll probably just stick to what I'm doing. Seems to be working ok, right?!
Let me know if you'd like to hear me attempt anything weird during the next part of this MusicAL journey.
Meanwhile...
24 years ago, I started a weird little thing called Codas. A little short sitcom script every single day, which lasted a few months before I got bored with it all and abandoned it.
The sitcom starred a bizarre caricature of Dave who I met at college, who lived in a home for Retired Coders (RCHomes), and ended up being a neighbour to our old A-Level Computing teacher.. .. Who you may or may not know as Greenie.
Other residents of RCHomes included Matt Smith creator of Manic Miner as the owner of the place, and Bill Gates, because.. Hey, why not!?!
Yesterday (or maybe it was the day before, not sure!) Claude.AI unveiled their newest model, and for some bizarre reason, the thought entered my head to try feeding it some old Codas scripts and seeing what it could do with it.
[Scene One]
Int. Dave and Green's Apartment - Living Room
[Dave is sprawled on the couch, flipping through channels. Green bursts in, excited.]
Green: Dave! Dave! You won't believe what I just found out!
Dave: [Not looking up] That they've finally invented a way to turn Coke into pure energy?
Green: What? No. It's even better! Remember that sitcom we used to watch as kids? "The Wacky Neighbors"?
Dave: [Sitting up] The one with the guy who always grabbed Coke from weird places?
Green: That's the one! It's been exactly 24 years since it went off the air. I think we should bring it back!
Dave: [Skeptical] And how exactly do you plan on doing that?
Green: We'll remake it ourselves! We've got a camera, we've got... well, us. What more do we need?
Dave: Uh, talent? A script? Legal rights?
Green: Details, details. Come on, it'll be fun!
[Scene Two]
Int. Dave and Green's Apartment - Kitchen
[Green is frantically scribbling on a notepad while Dave rummages through the fridge.]
Green: Okay, so in this scene, the wacky neighbor comes in through the window...
Dave: [Grabbing a Coke] Why the window?
Green: Because it's wacky! Keep up, Dave!
Dave: Right, silly me. And then what?
Green: Then he... uh... [Thinks hard] He does something hilarious with a lampshade!
Dave: [Sipping his Coke] Riveting stuff. Really groundbreaking television here, Greenie.
Green: You'll see. This is going to be huge!
[Scene Three]
Int. Dave and Green's Apartment - Living Room
[The room is a mess. Green is wearing a ridiculous wig and Dave is reluctantly holding a camera.]
Green: [In an exaggerated voice] Oh no! I've lost my pet iguana in the neighbor's apartment!
Dave: [From behind the camera] We don't have an iguana.
Green: Use your imagination, Dave! Now, I'm going to climb through this window...
[Green attempts to climb through the window but gets stuck halfway.]
Green: Uh, Dave? A little help here?
Dave: [Sighing] Cut! Let me grab you a Coke. You're going to need it.
[As Dave goes to get the Coke, there's a knock at the door. He opens it to find a man in a suit.]
Suit: Hello, I'm from the TV network. We heard about your... remake attempt.
Green: [Still stuck in the window] We're going to be famous!
Suit: Not quite. We're here to serve you a cease and desist order. "The Wacky Neighbors" is copyrighted material.
Dave: [To Green] Told you we needed legal rights.
Green: [Deflated] But... but... it's been 24 years!
Suit: And it'll be another 24 before the copyright expires. Good day, gentlemen.
[The suit leaves. Dave helps Green out of the window.]
Dave: Well, that was a bust. Want to just watch reruns instead?
Green: [Sighing] Yeah, okay. Pass me a Coke, will you?
[Dave grabs two Cokes from seemingly nowhere, handing one to Green.]
Green: You know, maybe we should write our own original sitcom instead.
Dave: [Pausing] Let's not and say we did.
[They clink their Coke cans and settle on the couch as the scene fades out.]
I got it to generate about 3 or 4 episodes, yesterday, and they amused me enough that I'm tempted to add an episode to the little A.I. Section of the daily blog..
Might get a bit repetitive, though.
*shrugs*
