2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-5
Days and Counting
26
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Read
the Karen Everett blog “Protagonist’s Statement of Desire”, posts and other articles.
Total time: 30 minutes
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm
up on the MojoCaster
Pat
Metheny Etudes – exercise #1 bars 1-4 25X
“It’s
Your Thing” – Isley Brothers
“Talkin’
Loud and Sayin’ Nothing” – Living Colour
Total time: 30 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Active
rest
Total time:
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
“You
Are the Living Word” Chord progression working in the “Guitar Tricks” Amin
chord
“Granby
Street” on the MojoCaster – focus: vocals, ending and lyrics
“Dies
Irae” – 25X on the MojoCaster
“Dies
Irae” Focus work on octave climbs and dyads
A
Dorian Riff work
A
Dorian riff chord progression
Gospel
Skillz R&B chord work
E
– B/D# - C#min – A chord work
Total time: 30 minutes
Five Days – It’s
The Final Countdown
My Top Ten Favorite
Things of the Last 100 Days
#5 – Shannon
Corbeil
Today
is Boxing Day. This was in my email box
this morning:
Happy Boxing Day. Tradition says (at least what I read
on that internet) that in jolly old England this is the day when the
landowner would bestow gifts to "the help," usually in the form of a
pair 16 oz. Everlasts (bright red for the holiday). Once the servants
were all laced up, any and everyone was fair game for a sucker punch
tagging.
Maybe
I dreamt that.
I
am NOT dreaming that we are down to five days left in this 100-day experiment. Number
five in my Top Ten is Shannon Corbeil. She
is a fantastic artist actor who did one of the first paintings for the TQ
Project. I met Shannon when I bought a
work she did called “Desire,” which I gave my wife for out tenth wedding anniversary.
I
liked what she did and commissioned a painting based on a Virginian-Pilot photograph
of TQ that I licensed. The photograph
captures the loneliness TQ must have felt on his quest. Last week, a co-worker told me about a quote
she liked. The thrust of the quote was
when you are doing something completely different; you have to expect to be
alone:
Shannon
took that loneliness and captured it on canvas:
