T-61 Days to Go 18 November 2012 Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown

T-61 Days to Go

18 November 2012

Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown

Goal:  2 hours per day working on the film

Details: 

·     Reviewed movie poster

·     Fernanda Rossi – Trailer Mechanics 2^nd edition

·   Total time:  2 hours

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

·     Warm up – Roland Ready Stratocaster

·     All Things Possible – Roland Ready Stratocaster

·     Hosanna

·     God is Faithful

·     Revelation Song

·     Mighty to Save

·     Patch selection

·     Two services – Grace City

Total time:  5 hours

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

Body Opus Week 13

Active Rest/Recomposition

Stopped carbohydrate intake at 6:00 PM

Total time:

Goal:  30 Minutes  “Tangential Endeavors”

“Bigger, Faster, Stronger” – DVD

Total time:  60 minutes

  

TQ Fan Mail (excerpt):

Calvin,

Fascinating and compelling work. I hated for it to end. I cannot wait to see more. I'd be delighted to contribute as one that joined St. Kateri while it still met in the HS Auditorium while I was still on active duty with the Army. We left after two years for France and returned two years later. My wife and daughter were fine with TQ the first time around, but when we returned the benign experience of two years in Paris with the Scottish and Irish priests and traditional French priests made them recoil at TQ's style. It took them about a month to get back in the frame of mind to appreciate his theology. My daughter would go on to request TQ to concelebrate her marriage with my cousin, another Tom and progressive priest.

I found TQ to be such an extraordinarily human man who, for all his failings, had a gospel inspired love of God and honest people. You are capturing that in an intriguing manner that makes one long for the rest of the story.

TQ invited me to be on the Adult Education committee. We'd meet at his townhouse and decide what videos to use for the House Church and between the masses adult education. One year we made our own video to kick off the program. It was crude compared to your work, but it captured the enthusiasm we had, inspired by TQ, for the program. I loved his classes though he challenged all of us with his multiple digressions and tangential references. He was the most brilliant theologian I'd ever encountered. His homilies were equally challenging forcing us to think differently and go back to scripture or the many other reference books he bought and passed out to the parishioners.

TQ asked me to bring communion to the sick and homebound at one point in time. I didn't realize it, but he did all the visiting himself most of the time. I think he had a conflict that Sunday. I eventually became the only visitor after he departed until I recruited and trained other Eucharistic ministers. We have a thriving program in place now, an enriching sacramentaly sharing. I can really appreciate the value of TQ's visits mentioned in the clip. He gave his whole to those in need.

When he left our parish I led an effort to bring our new pastor on board with the covenant and the house church program in the hopes of keeping this non-traditional form of governance alive. We had limited success. I also attempted to stay engaged in the adult education effort until some overbearing people on the committee turned me and the other original member away. Not much later our new pastor, Father Larry Mullaney, invited me to be his RCIA Coordinator, a position I've held for 12 years. I credit TQ with inspiring my theological curiosity. 

Terry L. Johnson 

                                                                                                                          

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2 December 2011 - TQ vs. Chief Justice Scalia [YEAH!]

Excerpt from Chief Justice Antonin Scalia's Book, "American Original" (Margin notes by TQ)

2011 – Last 100 Days

Prodigal Altar Boy Countdown

T-29 Days to Go

2 December 2011

Goal:  1 hour per day working on the film

Details: 

Listened to Karen Everett’s interview with Cynthia Kane of the Sundance Channel

Watched Karen Everett's  "Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary" Week 3 video

• Doc Plot Map
• Cinematic style
• Protagonist's statements of desire and transformation
• Inciting incident

Total time:  1 Hour

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

MojoCaster warm-up

Pat Metheny – Etude #1 bars 1-4 25X 

“So What” - Miles Davis

Grace City songs

“Say The Name”

“Trading My Sorrows”

“God of Second Chances”

“You Are Here”

Total time:  30 Minutes

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

Elliptical Interval Training level 5

30 Seconds >140 RPM

60 Seconds >170 RPM

20 sets

Total time:  30 minutes

Goal:  15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie

Details:

“Dies Irae” – 25X in groups of five, allowing me to focus on execution

“Granby Street” –2X played on the MojoCaster and slowed the tempo

R&B riff work from Gospel Skillz DVD

E – B/D# - C#min – A  R&B chordal riff work.  Focus on smooth transitions and tone.

Total Time:  30 minutes

Notes:  Twenty-nine days and counting.  Let’s keep this list of “Lessons Learned” going: 

Lessons Learned for today:

Be open to possibilities.  Goals are just the start.  Yes, you construct mini-goals to help you reach the larger goals, but do not let your pursuit of those goals blind you to other possibilities.  If an unexpected opportunity pops up while pursuing your goals, do not pass it by.  Find a way t take advantage of that opportunity and work it into the pursuit of your goals.

Program in some slack time.  When I wrote up my daily goals for this 100-day countdown, I purposely was conservative with the daily numbers.  I set the minimums low for the tasks so that when I am pressed for time, there are things I can do to hit those minimum numbers and be done with the daily tasks.  Conversely, when I have a lot of time, I can devote more time to tasks.  My original plan was to stay close to the minimums during the week, then put in a lot of hours on Saturday and Sunday.  After the first few weeks, I was able to hit the minimums during the week and put in a lot of time on Saturday.  Sundays were another story.  I never seemed to be able to pack in the same hours I had done on Saturday.  I realized that I have to have some down time, so I allowed myself to slack on Sunday and aim for the minimums.  Using Sunday as a programmed rest day ensures I am fresh on Monday and ready to hit the ground running.

Use the Seinfeld trick.  I read somewhere that Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to cranking out the scripts for season after season of “Seinfeld” was a simple set of tools, a large calendar and a red marker.  He vowed to write something for the show every day and every day that he wrote something, he would put a big red “X” on that date on the calendar.  He said that he became hooked on the satisfaction of seeing entire weeks, months, and eventually years completely marked out, and the result was a continual flow of material.  For me, this blog is my calendar and marker, but I also have a Franklin Covey fold out calendar and I shade in each day I work on the film with an orange highlighter.  January looks a little sparse, but by March, I hit the groove and have shaded in every day.

Today is Palm Sunday

Today is Palm Sunday

 It is also a great day to talk about TQ. When you read (and the Advisory Board will do a LOT of reading) about Father Quinlan, descriptors of TQ directly or indirectly characterize him as rebellious, unorthodox, radical, etc. Digging deeper into accounts of TQ’s “escapades” at different parishes, notice how Christmas, Easter, and the days leading to those holy days (Advent, Lent) are the backdrop for TQ’s “adventures in liturgy.”



Here is an excerpt from Chief Justice Antonin Scalia’s biography describing the young lawyer’s search for a family church in Northern Virginia: (click on the article)

To give further hints about the identity of the priest, I present an excerpt from the Senior Times, describing the same event, and putting a little context to what our Chief Justice found “experimental:” (click on the article)

TQ’s margin inscription of Scalia’s biography, “That’s me! Palm Sunday 1972,” confirm he made an impression (for good or ill) on the head of our highest court:

This week’s Advisory Board reading assignment is the 21 October 1974 Time Magazine article “Closing a Clerical Show.” While there is a lot of print (actually, print, video, and radio audio) on TQ, this piece from Time Magazine, is a good starting point for you all to get a sense of TQ. In addition, this is a good place for you to start looking for themes as well as how to condense 50 years of ministry into 90 to 120 minutes.


I like GoogleDocs for editing documents, but for open-ended discussion, I think this blog will facilitate communication between us all. It serves as a central place to see what everyone else has to say. Be sure to bookmark the blog, and leave comments by clicking on “comments” at the bottom. You can subscribe to the blog as well, but I will be pushing out emails to alert you to new blog posts. I look forward to your comments.

Thanks for your time.


Cal
p.s.:  Be sure to post comments, look at the previous posts, and ask questions. - CT