Things I remember about Christmas:
My grandma sending shortbread in a coffee tin
The Charlie Brown Christmas Special
The Sears catalog
Being extra good
Nat King Cole’s Christmas album
Trains around the tree
Stockings
Stay with it
MARCH 17, 2009
Today's coaching session:
"Bring yourself back to the pain, and really give it all your focus... Stay with it until you can't bear it... Now smother it with love! Just love it unconditionally..."
Now I have a very bad headache.
There you go
a photo
and some words
there you go
have a nice day
Barbie and Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase
Years ago a friend of mine was working for Mattel, and connected me with their in-house production department that made direct-to-video movies starring Mattel’s most iconic toy: Barbie. I was trying to get my first composing credit for a feature length project, and, even if it was a Barbie film, it was experience, and the budgets weren’t bad.
The connection never developed into anything, and eventually I got hired to score a documentary film. It would have made a good story though, if ‘Barbie and Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase’ was the first movie I worked on.
Seized
New York, East Village, 1992 - I remember walking past a club that I had a gig coming up at, and seeing a big poster pasted on the door: “Property Seized By US Marshal”. I had to call everyone I sent a flier to and tell them the show was canceled. It was my favorite place to play.