Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I know the holidays are rough for some people due to bad memories or bad family situations. My hope and prayer is that everyone finds strength and peace at this time of year.
Just a little "Date Info." Trevdiesel.com goes live officially on December 15th and the official album release date is Saturday, January 15th. There will be a cd listening party on that evening at a TBD location.
Well, I saw it. Amy and I went to the late showing on Thanksgiving night to see RENT, and though I'm mostly impressed, I'm still not entirely sure what I think about it.
Putting the final touches on trevdiesel.com. Should be ready within a week or so - however, we'll be in South Carolina for the holidays from Wednesday to Sunday, so that may delay things a bit. Stay tuned!
Tonight, Kalli was wildly dancing and clapping in the living room to the music of her electric piano. I then began cracking up hysterically when I realized that she was dancing just like Navin Johnson at the beginning of "The Jerk."
Hil - arious.
Maybe I need to find her some "whitey" smooth jazz and she'll start clapping right on the beat?
I'm like a kid that looks in his parents' closet for his Christmas gifts.
I read a spoiler-filled review of the RENT movie today. I think most people will be happy with it, however die-hard "rentheads" (myself included) will certainly find some fault. There seems to be much from the original production that is left out (but of course, it IS an adaptation). Of all that is lacking, this part (which seems to be one of the main points of the story) may be the most missed:
"One of the heavy hitters for the musical was the feeling that... WOW, a year has gone by...just like that...look at these people...look at what happened...look at LIFE... wow. Didn't get that from the movie." (Amy Hu's review)
Nevertheless, I'm quite certain it will be a great film. I highly recommend it on premise alone.
But of course, if you REALLY want to get the full effect, go see an actual production of it. You won't be disappointed.
I asked my friend Fritz if he would like to sing a 3rd harmony part on a couple of the lines in my album, so he was in the studio with me while I was recording background vocals last night. At one point he made a comment about how it sounded great with my melody and high harmony and himself doing the 3rd of the chord in the middle. To which I replied:
"Yeah, Fritz is like the meat in a Diesel sandwich."
TREVDIESEL.COM has gone live! The site should be fully functional in the next few weeks and will be the official home for trevdiesel music and the soon-to-be-released album: "The Parachute EP."
Thanks for your support everybody!
"The reader will recall the story of Prometheus who met with a cruel fate for stealing fire from the gods for the human race. Prometheus stole the fire of the gods and gave it as a gift to the humans who so needed fire to create civilization. When he did this, Zeus was outraged and condemned Prometheus to be lashed to a rock where a vulture would feed each morning on his liver. But his liver grew back again each night.
"Psychologist Rollo May interprets the Prometheus story to mean that the artist becomes utterly "beat" after a day's work and is exhausted at night. But during the night, his energy (his liver) grows back again for his work the next day.
"I would go further in examining the archetype of the liver. The liver cleanses and recycles. The artist, too, cleanses and recycles the toxins in a culture. Artists turn pain into insight and struggle into triumpth and darkness into light and ugliness into beauty and forgetfulness into remembering and grief into rejoicing. Artists add awe to awe and beauty to beauty and wonder to wonder. When the liver is healthy, the person is healthy. The artist is to the community or body politic what the liver is to the human body: a cleanser and recycler of waste and toxins."
[from the book "Creativity" by Matthew Fox]
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