Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown T-95 Days to Go 15 October 2012

Prodigal Altar Boy 100 Day Countdown

T-95 Days to Go

15 October 2012

Goal:  2 hours per day working on the film

Details: 

• Advisory Board discussion (email) on best use for the mailing list
• Convert list to label-friendly format
• List ideas to polish fundraising letter

Total time:  2 hours

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

• Warm-up on the Roland Ready Strat
• “Dies Irae” – 50X
• TQ “Leitmotif” work
• Granby Street

Total time:  30 minutes

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

• Escalating Density Training (15 minutes)
• Exercise A1 – Flat Bench Press 135 lbs         72 reps
• Exercise A2 – Seated Row 90 lbs                  72 reps
• 30/30 treadmill intervals
• 30 seconds at 7 mph
• 30 seconds at 4 mph
• 15 sets – 15:47/1.53 miles

 Total time:  32:49

Goal:  30 Minutes   “Tangential Endeavors”

Morrie Warshawski – “Shaking the Money Tree”

Total time:  30 minutes

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Documentary Work:

Selected readings:

Shaking the Money Tree – Morrie Warshawski

Directing the Documentary – Michael Rabiger

Started charging batteries for funeral shoot

Preliminary shoot kit assembly:

• XL1s Camera
• 14X Manual lens
• 3X wide angle lens
• LCD monitor kit
• Lithium “AA” batteries X 8 (for Zoom Q3)
• 16GB memory card (for Zoom Q3)

Music Practice:

Stratocaster Warm-Ups

“So What”

Inversion Excursion work

Body Work:

Active Rest

TQ Project Updates

The Inner Circle starts tomorrow and I am excited about that.  I am equally excited about the funeral shoot on Friday.  There is a rumor going around that due to the expected turnout, the funeral may move from Holy Family to the Virginia Beach Convention Center.  I should probably call Monsignor Pitt to check the veracity of that and how that affects our agreement that I can shoot the funeral.  I will weigh that decision over the next 24 hours. 

Jesse Wieman is working on two more paintings from the Virginian-Pilot photos.  He started these before TQ’s passing and I look forward to seeing how they turn out.  Working the paintings into the film will be interesting.  While my original idea of dissolving from photo to painting will still work, I think the paintings can convey their own visual story apart from the photographs they are based on. 

Working in Sony ACID with loop idea for the score.  After the funeral, I want to start working with the BOSS Slicer pedal and eventually put together a “soundtrack” pedal board specifically to be set up to generate and capture soundtrack ideas. 

From TQ"s expanded obituary in the 29 April 2012 Virginian Pilot:

"...according to his wishes, TQ will be cremated, and his ashes poured into a jumbo "Chock-Full-O-Nuts" coffee can, which will be placed in the columbarium of St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish, Poquoson, following an Evening Prayer service, on Wednesday, May 9, at 7 p.m. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel is handling arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.hdoliver.com."

You can't make this up...stay tuned!