2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-10
Days and Counting
21
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Watched
“Cry Baby – The Pedal That rocked The World”
Great
pre-holiday diversion. The film used
many techniques Karen Everett talks about, to include the use of archival
footage, “checkerboarding” characters and the use of graphics. I really liked how they divided the screen
and ran graphics in those boxes during interviews. It really took the “talking head” shot to a
new level. They also benefited from a
ton of archival material to include business letters and trade publication
graphics
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm
up on the MojoCaster
Pat
Metheny Etudes, exercise #1 bars 1-4 30X
Grace City Christmas Service Songs
Mary, Did You Know
Emmanuel
We Three Kings
The First Noel
You Are The Living Word
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Viking
Warrior Conditioning
15:15
Protocol
7
reps per set – 16kg kettlebell
42
sets
Total time: 21:05
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
“Dies
Irae” – 30X run-throughs of the whole piece
“Dies
Irae” – focus work on solo, dyads and octave climbs
“Granby
Street” on the MojoCaster (focus: vocals, ending, and performance)
“It’s
Your Thing” – Isley Brothers
Total Time: 30 minutes
Ten Days – It’s
the Final Countdown
My Top Ten
Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days
The continued “spoiled brat” attitude of
consumer electronics retailers
Consumer
electronics (CE) trade magazine TWICE
(This Week In Consumer Electronics), relatively flat comp sales[i]
disappointed many retailers, even though there was a record surge in Black Friday
sales. The article placed the blame at
the feet of “price-customers, armed with the latest online and mobile shopping
tools,” who “ravaged bottom lines,” and forced retailers to “walk a tightrope
between sales and profits.”
Wow! So what you’re telling me is that in the
middle of a recession, high unemployment rates and a devastated housing market,
when a public that can ill afford to buy racks up record purchases for the
season, retailers STILL aren’t
satisfied? What will it take to satisfy
retailers? Will having unemployed people dip deeper into savings or go further
in debt satisfy CE retailers? Perhaps
those with jobs should spend more, even though many are worried about keeping
their jobs.
This
level of greed is in the top ten because I think it is something the public
should know. Behind all the flashy,
clever ads wooing the public, thanking them for their patronage we see how they
really feel about the buying public in the pages of their trade magazines.
[i] Refers
to a retail firm's comparable same-store sales. Comps compare the degree of
revenue growth/decline that a firm's stores achieve relative to their
sales in previous years.
