2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
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Days to Go
17
November 2011
Occupy Baltimore:
I like 'em!
A friend (thanks Les) sent me this cartoon. It’s cute and Les sent it to me on a day when
a co-worker asked me about my feelings about the Occupy Movement. I think I surprised that co-worker by saying
I really liked the movement and thought the intense anti-Occupy media out there
is testament to their effectiveness.
What I like even more is their apparent lack of the power they
wield.
Their lack of a narrowed set of demands and the
amorphous nature of the movement confounds description and
characterization. While the media would
have you believe this is a bad thing, that is a projection of their frustration
in trying to cover the movement. It is
hard to evoke a 15-second sound bite out of the Occupy folks because they are
not focused on one central issue. That means
journalists have to work to get the story right.
The decentralized nature of the movement and lack of
concrete demands also offers protection from co-option. Because they are not demanding any one thing,
there is no opportunity for someone to come in and promise that one thing to
make them go away. That is brilliant and
speaks to my assertion the young people of Occupy learned a lot from their
grandparents and parents. If there is
one lesson from the protests of the Sixties it’s that if you promise to
___________________________(fill in the blank, Stop The War, End Racism,
Promote Equality, etc.), you set the stage for the rest of the public to ask,
“Hey, you got what you wanted, why are you still protesting?”
(Up next, what else I like about Occupy
Baltimore)
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Additional
research on archival photos from The Cathoic Virginian
Watched
Karen Everett Module #4 “Assembling the Three-Act Structure into a Cohesive
Narrative Arc”
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm-up
on the MojoCaster
Pat
Metheny – warm up exercise #1 bars 1-4
Talkin’
Loud and Sayin’ Nothing – Living Colour version
It’s
Your Thing – Isley Brothers
Root
4 chord work
Total time: 30 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Air
Squats super set with Perfect Push-Ups
10
sets of 10
5 sets of 5
Total time: 17 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
Details:
A
Dorian riff work
A
min – D7 chord work to go with A Dorian rif
Rhythm
work on the E – B/D# - C#m – A progression
Rhythm
work on the R&B chord progression
“Dies
Irae” – 20X
Total Time: 30 minutes
