Prodigal
Altar Boy Blog
17
February 2012
TQ Update
Art
M. from Alexandria sent this update on TQ:
Good Morning, Cal
I spoke with T.Q. yesterday and he
said I caught him on the best day of his three months in the hospital. If I
heard him correctly -- his speech was slightly slurred -- he stood up for
the first time while there. He said he doesn't know what's next or when but
that he cannot return to his house at Ascension. His voice was lively and his
spirit seemed strong with a bit of that feisty quality so typical of him.
Another friend who had talked with him a day or two before said that T.Q. told
him they had removed two liters of fluid from his lungs, over what period of
time I don't know.
Thanks
Art. I’ve asked the Advisory Board to
keep TQ in their prayers.
Movie Work
Edit Work:
Made
subclips of TQ from the Donahue footage. Named those sublcips and put them in
the “Donahue” folder. Put all the clips end to end on the timeline
to find out how much total footage I would have to license from Universal. Turned out to be 16 minutes.
Licensing Work
Completed
the Universal footage licensing form for the Donahue footage using the times of
the subclips. Within five minutes of
submission, I got a call from Ronnie at Universal. Ronnie was helpful. She informed me that for the rights I was
asking for, the price was going to be $12,000 a minute. (Note to self, have defibrillator attached
and on before asking for licensing fees again!) Ronnie advised trimming down the amount of
footage I wanted to use, asking for a festival
license, which would goes for $2,400 per
minute. Ronnie also advised I would have
to get a release for anyone (besides TQ) who appeared in my clips. That’s right, even for Phil Donahue!
More Edit Work
Went
back into the Donahue clip bin and re-trimmed the trimmed clips. Since I didn’t plan on getting releases for
anyone else in the clips, I only went for footage where TQ was the only one in
the frame. Using that criteria, I pared
16 minutes down to 90 seconds.
More Licensing Work
Called
Ronnie back and gave her the new numbers, request for a festival license for a
year and not starting the license period until May 2012.
Story Consultant Work
Completed
questionnaire Karen Everett sends to all prospective story consultant
clients. We have a phone appointment in
the near future to talk about the film.
Music Work
Dies Irae
Knocked
this out about 25 times on the Annihilator.
It’s going better and the strap is helping me transition this to the
standing position.
Pat Metheny Etudes, Exercise #1, bars
1-8
More
work on this piece (25 times) on the MojoCaster after the usual warm-ups.
Granby Street
Broke
out the ’79 Strat to try this tune.
Gospel Skillz R&B chords with “The
More I Seek You”
Played
these pieces on the Wechter acoustic for a bit.
