T-19 Days to Go 30 December 2012 Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown

T-19 Days to Go

30 December 2012

Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown

Goal:  2 hours per day working on the film

Details: 

·     Poster postage research

·     Fine Cut way forward

·     GR-55 patch soundtrack ideas

Total time:  2 hours

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

• Warm up on Roland-Ready Strat
• Grace City (two services)
• Fretboard Domination on Hendrix Black Beauty clone

Total time:  4 hours

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

Body Opus Week 16

Recovery

Re-Composition

No carbohydrates after 6:00PM

Goal:  30 Minutes “Tangential Endeavors”

“7 Secrets to Structuring a Compelling Documentary” – Karen Everett

Total time:  60 minutes

                                                                                  

                                        

“The Trouble With TQ” Donor Roll

Carrie J. Hughes

Toni Fesel

Minnie Thomas

Nancy Dixon

Mary Emmert

Bruce McKenna

Eugene Strelka

Fr. John Dorgan

William J. Griggs

John & Katie Zawacki

Eileen Kanzler

Hank and Claire Tessandori

Pete and Margie Langlands

HaveScripts.com

Richard Mooney

Rev. Francis J. Gargani

Hal & Sally Neher

William T. Prince

Tom and Mary McFeely

Linda and Garry Cooke

Ed and Maureen Marroni

Sal Vitale

Kathleen Waugh

Joseph McDonough

Jone Langlands

Young Ja Jun

Mary Minkowski

Rev. David Ungerleider

Jean and Bob Young

Sisters of Notre Dame

Bob and Adele DellaValle-Rauth

John Buford

Kathy Heatwole

Mrs. Jean Thompson

Mr. James Wilson Jr.

Eileen Lyver

Charlotte Pacheco

Rev. Louis Benoit

Kim Howell

Kathy Dowdy

Bridget Browne

Amber Medalla

Howard and Sarah Malloy

C. Douglas and J. Claudette Starrett

Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown T-82 Days to Go 28 October 2012

Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown

T-82 Days to Go

28 October 2012

Goal:  2 hours per day working on the film

Details: 

·     Met with Andrew Omotosho, web developer.  Discussed Web needs.

·     Reviewed mailing plan.

Total time:  2 hours

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

·     Warm-up on the Roland-ready Stratocaster

·     Grace City – Two services

Total time:  2 hours

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day Body Opus Week 10

No carbohydrates after 6:00 PM

Active rest and recovery.

Total time: 

Goal:  30 Minutes “Tangential Endeavors”

“Fretboard Domination” – George Christian

Total time:  1 hour

“Accept No Cheap Substitutes”

Richard Rohr writes:

The most common substitute for liminal space is known as liminoid space.  Events and occasions that occur in liminoid space look liminal but aren’t.   Nothing new can happen in liminoid space, only more of the same.  We as a culture have become expert at passing off counterfeit experiences for the real thing.  Entertainment serves as worship, loud music and big crowds substitute for depth or breadth, and spectacles substitute for any true catharsis.

Fr. Jim Clarke, an elder for the organization Rites of Passage, taught us the difference between ceremony and ritual.  Ceremony is meant to maintain the status quo, but ritual always reveals the shadow and is meant to change us or at least transition us.

True ritual like true drama, always creates a catharsis, or emotional cleansing.  We prefer ceremony to ritual because it asks so little of us; we merely have to show up physically and be entertained.  True ritual demands psychic and personal participation, maybe even a change of heart or mind, whereas the liminoid character of ceremony allows us to observe at a distance.

(From the book: On The Threshold of Transformation by Richard Rohr)

Rohr’s observations cut at the heart of TQ’s “Shock Liturgy.”  On the one hand, TQ leveraged expectations violation theory by behaving outside the “priest paradigm” of behavior and drawing people in to his message.  The other side of that is the attention his tactic attracted often overshadowed the message he was trying to get across.  I have said that often, and now realize the people hung up on the spectacle at the expense of the message probably were not that engaged in the first place.  TQ alluded to that in one interview, arguing that the majority of the people who objected to one of his controversial Lenten themes had not been paying attention to all of his communications and planning before the Lenten season.  I don’t know whether TQ would agree with Rohr on the liminal and the liminoid, but I do know TQ was a fountainhead of liminal opportunity.  He gave thousands of people the opportunity for catharsis through liturgy using the principle of adaptation.  Judging from the people I interviewed and the throngs at his funeral, many took advantage of those opportunities to change not only themselves, but also the world around them.   

Fly on, Blue Angel!

Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown T-85 Days to Go 25 October 2012

Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown

T-85 Days to Go

25 October 2012

Goal:  2 hours per day working on the film

Details: 

·     Additonal outreach  for web development

·     Re-edited St. Kateri video, posted to YouTube

·     Sent YouTube link to Advisory Board, Elaine Riley at St. Kateri

Total time:  4 hours

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

·     Warm-up on the Roland-ready Stratocaster

·     Warm up on Flying-V

·     Grace City Music work

·     TQ Leitmotif work with GR-55

·     Acid work on St. Kateri video

·     Flying V work on “Granby Street”

·     Flying V work on “Dies Irae”

Total time:  90 minutes

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day Body Opus Week 9

Active rest.  Prepare for Monster Dash 5k

Total time:  30 minutes

Goal:  30 Minutes “Tangential Endeavors”

Watched “Marley,” Kevin MacDonald’s documentary about Bob Marley

Total time:  145 minutes










TYRANNY OF CHOICES
 It felt good to get the St. Kateri video done.  I reconnected with the footage and found some real interview gems.  I'm conflicted whether naming Kateri a saint will make it into the fine cut.  Total running time (goal is 60 minutes) considerations means many stories won't be make it into the fine cut.  That said, the currency of the St. Kateri story, the connection to the movie and how it helps answer the question of whether TQ got what he was looking for in his quest are good arguments for trimming other sections (cut, cut, cut!) to fit this story into the film.  Thanks for tuning in.