Colleen Kennedy

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Jim’s been looking at me kind of a lot all week. I would be creeped out by it, but it’s nothing compared to the way Michael looks at me.

2x14, “The Carpet”

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This makes me giggle. :)

I have had this idea nagging the back of my mind for a month or two now, and now that it seems like there is a way for me to actually follow through on this idea, I want to share it.

As most of you know, I work with an organization called the Brad Schoener Music Marathon/5k. If you don’t know what I am talking about, check out the site (www.udmusicmarathon.org), but in a quick summary, every year we have a day long concert at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center, now with a 5k run in the morning, and the idea is to raise money for a fund in Brad Schoener’s name. Brad Schoener was an AMAZING music teacher from UDSD who changed many lives, and he lost his battle with cancer last March. This cause has changed my entire outlook on life, much like this man has as well. I spend a lot of time in my free minutes just brainstorming ideas and imagining how this cause can grow to help more people.

That’s when I got my idea.

I wanted to make a documentary of sorts, about the many ways that music changes lives. People will commonly think of music as something in classrooms, concert halls, and on Ipods, but it is SO much more than that. 

Music therapy can help people with developmental delay to excel. A music therapist created a bottle for premature infants that teaches the baby to suckle. (Premature babies are at a much higher risk for mortality since in those early months they are too weak to get nourishment.) The bottle plays soothing music that makes the baby feel safe, but only when the baby sucks on the bottle. Music can take those with mental illness, and give them the ability to function within their environment…something we take for granted everyday. Nathaniel Ayers’ story was told just recently in a film, including the likes of Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. The field of music therapy may sound like a “new age” field, but it was actually created in the World War I era, as American troops came home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as well as many other obstacles. As our country is currently involved in two wars, as well as occupying unstable nations all over the globe, this is an entity whose value we must appreciate.

From the standpoint of music education…in an era of NCLB, we all know the consequences of music and arts programs being cut. Music students get better grades and score higher on standardized testing. It’s a statistical fact. A clear majority of Fortune 500 CEOs are practicing musicians in their adult life. Jack Stamp, the Dean of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has analyzed that music is both a foreign language and a math system that students learn avidly because it is just an enjoyable experience in general.

Music and arts programs have been a vital part of urban development in places like Newark, where Mayor Booker is leading the nation in crime prevention.: Murders have dropped 36%, shooting incidents have decreased 41%, rapes have lessened by 30%, and auto thefts are down 26% since his 2006 inauguration. Don’t get me wrong….a strong police force had a great deal to do with these accomplishments, but the community involvement that Newark has shown has definitely been the key to their success.

Finally, we have people like Brad Schoener. People whose love for music gave them strength until their last breath, and whose courage and strength have changed lives of all ages, and of all nationalities.

The way I am going to get these messages across is by applying to a program in Philadelphia called Scribe. Their Community Visions unit chooses four organizations to mentor through a short film project that will get out their message. I won’t be able to tell all these stories in a short film, but during the year long process, I, and my group, will have opportunities to take free and reduced cost film seminars, on things such as documentary research, film editing, light, sound, and script writing.

I need your help. I need people who are going to be as passionate about this as me, and who want to help make this happen. If you are interested in being in my group, and benefiting in these ways, then please contact me.

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Norah: Are you sad that we missed it?
Nick: We didn’t miss it. This is it.

I love this movie! And not just because someone is named Caroline in it.

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Your daily dose of Hugh Laurie in drag. Enjoy!

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I HAVE THE BIGGEST CRUSH.

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Dr. Chase: So, what actually happened last night?
Jordan: We were with our friends trying to get into the Pharmacide party at the Addams. Then I found out that Jeffrey Keener is gonna be there. I follow his tweets.
[Dr. Chase and Dr. Cameron look confused]
Jordan: It’s tragic that I have to explain this.

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acciorehma:

but it’s 607 songs. it seems longer!

mine can last me like 2 weeks. it’s amazing.

holy hell! that’s awesome :o

the few albums i put back on my computer so i could have music while sergio was getting repaired, can last me for 8 days. it’s only half of what I have though. I don’t have enough space on this computer anymore for everything lmfao. :(

omg aw that sucks ): i know people who have multiple iPods cause they can’t fit it all onto one

that does suck :O like all of my music could fit on Sergio 1 cos he was a 80GB iPod and everything will fit on Sergio 2 cos he’s a 160GB iPod but my computer is only 80GBS and I have to share it with Photoshop (CS2 + CS4) + all those Adobe programs + all of my football stuff so :( lmfao I have like hardly any space for my music. I cannot wait to get a new computers o I’ll have more hard drive space.

My music can last two years. Take that.

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