This is the second in my tributes to Los Angeles musicians.

One of my pet peeves with modernity and the generation it has spawned is that they have taken inconsequential paths because there is no danger in their lives. The Millennial Generation, lives without danger; they will never know the danger of losing your First Love because you got the Draft Letter sending you off to fight rotten wars in rotted jungles, of the woman you love dying in childbirth of child bed fever, (which meant that every time you knocked up your wife, the odds were 50-50 it was a Death Sentence), of going back to school in the autumn, and seeing two desks empty because your BFFs had died over the summer from Polio. The cars did not even have seat belts.

It was a world with danger, and because of that danger, life was appreciated, and courtesy was abundant. Danger breeds courtesy. In a world of danger, manners are very important.

The Millennials live in a world without danger; so they have manufactured artificial thrills, microwaved recklessness.  In a world of cheap thrills,they have strangled courtesy, and replaced it with cloned vulgarity.

I lost my daughter in an absurdly reckless event manufactured by a callous and callow young man who has since prospered.

My father was an Union Organizer, on the streets of New York, my brother made his bones doing uncivil things for the US Government; between my father’s associates, and my brother’s friends, I am just a phone call away from mustering Avenging Angels. But I don’t, my sister sits like a two ton rock on my vengeance. So I do nothing, and the callow young man prospers.

But I believe this, in a particular juncture of time,  the accounts of the universe, and the accounts of people who dwell within that universe will be squared, if not to my satisfaction, then to Someone’s satisfaction.

There is a film in current release, Henry Jaglom’s IRENE IN TIME. I saw it in Santa Monica. It is a keen, honorable and sympathetic crafting of a sad piece of the Millennial mosaic. It is a wonderful work.

In the film’s score, there is Harriet Schock and Ron Troutman’s song, DANCING WITH MY FATHER. I know they did not intend to give me this song as a gift, because we did not know each other. She and her co writer gave the gift to the film, but it is a larger gift than that; it is a gift to all the wounded fathers and all the lost daughters in every dimension, in every world.

Her song is my AMAZING GRACE; for it is because of that song, I know I will see my daughter again, at the time when the accounts of the universe are squared. I will see her and we will dance; how do I know that? I know that because I KNOW what music we will be dancing to, DANCING WITH MY FATHER.

We will dancing to, Harriet Schock - Songwriter/Recording Artist

HARRIET SCHOCK,     www.harrietschock.com

Grammy Nomination - Gold Record (RIAA)
“Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady”

Platinum Record (RIAA) - “Helen Reddy’s Greatest Hits”

Cashbox Award - Best New Female Artist

L.A. Women In Music 2007 Award for Career Achievement and Industry Contribution

DANCING WITH MY FATHER(Schock and Troutman) is featured on the album AMERICAN ROMANCE

SONGS

Helen Reddy (“Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady”, “Mama”)

Letta Mbulu   (”Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady”)…….

Vikki Carr (Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady”)….

Mireille Mathieu (“Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady”)…

Johnny Mathis (”Ooh, What We Do”)….

Manfred Mann(”Hollywood Town”)….

Lee Greenwood….( “Winds of Change”)……

Roberta Flack (”Happiness”)…

Jeannie Kendall( “Worn Around the Edges”, “You Just Don’t Get Me, Do Ya?”)….

TheLittle Mermaid  (Jodi Benson)( “Dreaming”)…..

Partridge Family(”That’s The Way It Is With You”)…..

Nancy Wilson(“First Time On A Ferris Wheel”)….

Gloria Loring/Carl Anderson( “First Time On A Ferris Wheel”)….

Smokey Robinson(“First Time On A Ferris Wheel”)….

Rebecca Paris(“First Time On A Ferris Wheel”)….

Supremes(”First Time On A Ferris Wheel”)…

Lisa Jason(Ok, You Win, I Give Up, You’re Right, I’m Gone”)…

Jannel Rap(“Ok, You Win, I Give Up, You’re Right, I’m Gone”)…

E.L.K.(“Search”)..

David Pomeranz(  “Oh, Stephanie”)

Theme Songs for Organizations

Yad B’ Yad - “Hand in Hand”

The National Foundation for Women Legislators - “In It For Good”

Songs for Feature Films and Television

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking(Columbia)….

The Secret Garden (ABC)……

Phantom of the Opera(21st Century)…….

The Last Dragon (Tri-Star)….

Delta Force II (Pathe Films)…..

Geniuses II(Paramount)…. 

State Fair (CBS)….

Baby Makes Five (ABC)…..

NBC Saturday Morning Preview (NBC)…

Unsettled Land (Hemdale)…..

Crossing the Mob (NBC)….

Matters of the Heart (Universal)…..

Cave Kids (Hanna Barbera)….

Sing Me A Story with Belle (Disney)……

Fun with Spanish (Disney)….

Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Universal)…..

The GhostClub(Hemisphere Entertainment)…

Loving Alan (Road Kill Productions)……

 The Adventures of Piggley Winks   (PBS–Theme Song)…

Baby Geniuses II – Superbabies (Columbia)….

Going Shopping—All theMusic (Jagtoria Film Company, Inc.) ….

Hollywood Dreams - Underscore (Rainbow Film Company)…..

The Mirror - End Title Song (Big Screen Entertainment)….

Irene In Time - Songs w. band on camera (Rainbow Film Company)
oing showGenAB

Stage

Missouri Waltz — 5 songs                                          (A Play by Karen Black)

Harriet Schock’s Recordings as an Artist

Hollywood Town ( 20th Century Records);She’s Low Clouds( 20th Century Records);   

You Don’t Know What You’re In For  ( 20th Century Records);

American Romance  (Godsdog Records)     

Rosebud (Evening*Star Music Group)

Harriet Schock Live, From Fairfax to Pasadena  ( Thunder Digital)

BOOK

BECOMING REMARKABLE, For Songwriters And Those Who Love Songs

Published by Blue Dolphin Publishing  and available in bookstores nationwide

HER LINKS

http://www.allmusic.com\
http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/harriet+schock
www.myrecordlabel.com/harrietschock 
http://www.cdbaby.com
http://www.myspace.com/harrietschock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_t2DCYlF6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzYwxrHoJBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr5stC_16ko
http://www.youtube.com/user/sirpaopao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGJF_H-Lpc

An impressive Curriculum Vitae, and all I can add is my small and humble thanks for her DANCING WITH MY FATHER, which brings me peace.

The JEOPARDY Question for the Day.

Who is a classically trained flutist? (trained at North Texas State, and Bren, Czech Republic), film maker ( her short THE SILENCE AFTER is a film festival film about the dilemma of women married to venal men)? and actor(the film IRENE IN TIME, with her co-starring,  is currently in theatrical release, her film, in which she stars, SLICES, just came out on DVD, and she just wrapped a starring role in the film noir thriller, THE CONFESSION)?

answer

KELLY DeSARLA

I first met Kelly as a screenwriter, she had written a very funny yet poignant comedy-thriller about four American women who, while on vacation in Spain, get caught up in the end of the world, 2012.

I liked the screenplay a lot, it has New Age mythology, Mayan myths, an a lot of scenes with women in bikinis.

I have also heard her play the flute, and she is better than MARTIN PRINCE, (the only other flutist I know).

I have seen her act on stage in Henry Jaglom’s ALWAYS BUT NOT FOREVER.

As someone who sees a lot of actors, on a lot of days, I can asure you we are in an age of  diminishing choices, REALITY Tv has over whelmed the art. So many modern actors always act as if they are always on camera, there is NO INTIMACY outside of their love affair with the camera, either real or imagined.

They think themselves interesting,not the characters they protray.

Kelly DeSarla is a throwback, to the birth of modern acting, Ingmar Bergman.

“In Henry Jaglom’s Bergmanesque marital comedy, ‘Always - But Not Forever’” Kelly DeSarla gives a “sweet and affecting turn” as “Dinah’s rigid best pal, Lucy”

- Paul Birchall, LA Weekly

The key word in that quote is BERGMANESQUE, which is dead on accurate. Mr. Jaglom is the leading exponent of Bergmanesque among our current crop of film makers/playwrights. And Kelly has delivered, exposing the sweet kernel of modern women, overwhelmed by the unrelenting demands of modern womanhood. Fresh and unscripted.

Kelly DeSarla is “sobering” as Lucy, Dinah’s married friend who is “so bonded to her baby that she is indifferent to her husband’s needs. . . The acting feels fresh and unscripted, full of amusing behavioral tics and nuances.

- Jay Reiner, The Hollywood Reporter

Fresh and unscripted… what a compliment to an actor, so many actors now are unscripted in the REALITY TV mode, always playing to the camera, even when there is no camera. Kelly has stepped back to a Golden Age of acting, where the actors interacted with the script and made the scripted scene, unscripted.

Reality TV acting has made the unscripted, scripted.

Henry Jaglom is a great American artist, working the Henry James/Ingmar Bergman vein of humanistic discovery. His film, IRENE IN TIME, is currently in theaters. It is a devastating look at the back stories of all those inane REALITY TV contestants. He has caught their pulse.

In it, Kelly gives a seasoned, and ripe performance as the lesbian who has a great deal of issues with her reprobate recovering, not so recovering, drug addict of a father, played by David Proval of THE SOPRANOS.

 . Kelly and David Proval from IRENE IN TIME, ,

What is it about Kelly DeSarla? Is it the way she holds a moment in her unpredictable way or the way one can trust her never to betray her own truth? Maybe it’s all that fresh beauty or her unusual gaze. Whatever it is, you’ll find it hard to turn your head away from the screen.” ..Karen Black,Academy Award Nominee, Golden Globe Winner.

Ms. Black cut her acting chops working with Jack Nicholson, Burgess Meredith, Lee Remick, James Coburn, Gene Hackman, she knows that Kelly could maintain herself with the best.

So I recommend actors watch her work, and the public enjoy her films.

 HENRY JAGLOM’S IRENE IN TIME