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I went up to the buffalo farm again this weekend, this time armed with my camera. Tatonka seemed to be doing quite nicely. This time, the owner was there so she was following him like a little puppy the entire time. She came trotting up after realizing that the owner had already left to greet us. It was quite cute, watching her. Tatonka didn’t seem to really care about the rest of us, though she did rub her head on my leg (something about her horns are growing in and they itch, so she wants to rub her head against things) before going straight to the owner. She kept licking his knee, which isn’t as grand as it would seem because buffalo tongues are a bit like sandpaper. They don’t have upper teeth (in the front) and thus, they use their tongues to pull the grass out from the ground.

Besides running off to see Tatonka, I managed to get my hands on a VHS copy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I’m surprised that I’ve never owned this movie - I remember seeing it ages ago but I don’t really remember much about it. The music is so powerful, something Alan Menken is amazing with. But what I was surprised to note was the “forbidden” theme of desire in the church that seemed to creep out within the movie. That’s something a 7/8 yr. old doesn’t see when they first watch it. The movie also touches on genocide. I think out of all the Disney animated movies I’ve seen, this could be the most adult oriented movie yet, though they did put so many antics in it that children would love it as well. However, I want to think that this movie is the only movie that’s strongly based on a novel; Oliver and Company is more or less a parody of Oliver Twist and the rest of the movies are based off of fairy tales, so I don’t really count those.  Hunchback is a movie that isn’t as widely known, but I think a lot of people would definitely enjoy it.