I wish you the world.
in Loved Ones, MP3, video
as angle, chorus line, dear friends, face, gig, Jess, life, melody, recording, show, song, toronto, voila, way, while
So, this song.
I wrote it for some dear friends in A Chorus Line.
My life went through such an about face right when I got off tour, though, that I completely forgot about it for a while.
Until I suddenly remembered. At least that it happened, I mean.
“Remember that song I wrote for you (and some others), John?” I asked my friend one day while we were hanging out.
“Yeah, Jess–I love that song.”
“Well, I completely forget it–the words, the melody, the chords–everything.”
“Thanks a lot,” he said, sarcastically.
But, slowly, the chorus found its way back to me. And then I stumbled upon a recording of a gig I did in Toronto, and the song was on it, and voila! here it is. Remembered.
And it still applies to my friends from A Chorus Line.
And it applies to some friends I’ve met since then, too. And even some friends I’ve known for a nice, long while.
I just love and appreciate so much how we can learn from each other; I am grateful, truly grateful, that my friends are different from me. That they challenge me. Show me life from a unique angle that I’d never have seen, had it not been for them.
to do list.
in Performance
as audition, figure, four hymns, Learn, Mee-nah-mee-nah-mee, melody, music, nevermind, Oops, order, rehearsal, spellcheck, taping, three minutes, vocal exercises, warmup, youtube
Things I need to do in the realm of SOON!:
- learn four hymns to sing at a memorial on Sunday.
Hymns? I think, No problem–I’ll just listen to them on youtube. Except they aren’t on youtube. Which means I have to actually, like, read the notes. Painstakingly. And figure out which note is the melody. Which is usually the top note, but, tricky tricky, sometimes it’s not.
- memorize thirty minutes of physical and vocal exercises (it just took me about three minutes to figure out how to spell the word excercises, promise. Oops, And there I go, spelling it wrong again, spellcheck is alerting me. I kept trying to stick a ‘z’ in it. Another case of Too fancy, too fancy, I guess), by a rehearsal on Tuesday for an upcoming taping of a project called The Broadway Warmup.
Do you realize how difficult it is to memorize the order of different vocalizes such as Mee-nah-mee-nah-mee and Ya-ah-ah and Vo-No-Vo-No-Vo? Trust me on this: it’s tough.
- Learn some music and memorize some sides for an audition on Wednesday.
Which I haven’t even printed out yet. That is not till Wednesday, y’all. Come on, we got some time, here!
- Play a show tonight.
Oh wait, I just did that; nevermind. And it was super fun, too. Score.
It’s kind of cool to have all these things to do, actually. Every last one of these things are connected to something about which I am passionate. I feel lucky to have a plate full of fulfilling responsibility. Now that’s a hideous sentence, if you ever did see one, but I think you know what I mean.
this beginning.
in MP3, Performance, Thoughts and Feelings
as beautiful beginning, blog, brother josh, everything, flat on my back, freedom, heartache, home, kid, life, melody, rabbit, root, root beer, shimmering light, story, watching tv, way, writing songs
Lately I’ve been pouring a lot of myself into something other than this blog. And I’ve felt like every part of me is all used up, telling that particular story. And that there hasn’t been much left for writing songs or sometimes even writing on here. But then tonight I sat down and it happened. Suddenly everything came [...]
