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Monday, November 21, 2005 Film and Rediscovering Lost Songs Today was a productive (and fairly artistic) day. I had rehearsal for a student film that I'm acting in, which was a riot--the cast is hilarious. We spent all of our time doing improvisations, and most of that time was also spent laughing even though we weren't intentionally trying to be funny. The characters we're playing--roles we were allowed to create in their entirety--interact in rather amusing ways; for example, the quirkiest character is the first recipient of a successful brain transplant. You can imagine the places that goes. (And a particularly funny point that one of the guys brought up: if he were to get a woman pregnant, he wouldn't actually be fathering his own child.) After rehearsal I spent three hours with a piano working on some Christmas music. This morning, I was excited to find an old recording of "Noel" on MD; I thought I might have lost the song forever. I wrote it two years ago when Tom, then pastor of my church, asked me to play for a Christmas service and had a specific theme in mind--rather than look for appropriate music, I surprised him and wrote a song (what better way to ensure that it fits?). But since it's a Christmas song, it doesn't get played often, and last year when I wanted to pull it out I realized that I only had a somewhat vague recollection of the melody, and definitely not the chords or the piano part, for that matter. This year I decided to start working on Christmas material earlier, and I was hoping that I'd made a rough recording of "Noel" when I wrote it--otherwise the likelihood of it ever being played again was slim to none. But happily I found the MD and learned the song from the recording (which, interestingly enough, I have some difficulty doing with other people's music). If you come to a concert in December, you'll be sure to hear it. (Enticed yet?) ^ Top | 10:49 PM | | | 
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