EDIT ADD, September, 2010:

This page shows up at the top of the site list when someone googles “Daniel Semsen”, so I just wanted to post a couple of links here to help you get in touch with me, if you happen to be looking to do so!

my website (www.danielsemsen.com)
Here you can find samples of my music, a contact page, bio, credits, and so on…check it out!

my facebook page, just in case you’d like to be friends!

my twitter, in case you tweet.

 

 

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EDIT ADD: Look at this comment I found on a friend’s blog-

Jacob is definitely Terry O’Quinn. My compadres on the GL web team did hi-def screen shots, and the forehead says it all. I’m going with the Jacob = twin scenario.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooo…

 

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Hey

Here’s a bulletin I posted on myspace this morning. I just thought I’d pass it along. I’m also including a link to the college website, and a link to the map page. FYI

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Hey Friends:

Next Friday, May 18 at 8PM I will be conducting a Broadway revue-type show for which I arranged and orchestrated all the music. It’s about 45 minutes long, and this one night is the FREE dress rehearsal.

You are all invited!

This is undoubtedly the biggest amount of music I’ve written for any single venture, and will be pretty awesome. I’m conducting an orchestra containing rhythm, strings & brass. There is also 15 singers/dancers that will be singing selections from Broadway musicals that were turned into movies, including the following:

Oklahoma
The Music Man
Annie
The King & I
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
Phantom of the Opera
Evita
Rent
The Producers
and about two dozen more…

The show is at 8PM on Friday May 18 at Concordia University, Irvine.  It will be held in the Gymnasium. You should park in one of the lots marked visitor parking.

Let me know if you’d like to come and I’ll send additional details.

Thanks!
Daniel Semsen

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SPOILER ALERT (from last night’s episode)

It goes without saying that last night’s episode of LOST was absolutley amazing. Lost is on a roll again, and viewers are getting back on board–thank God!

Props to whoever captured this from last night’s episode of LOST. Turns out we DID see Jacob…for exactly one frame of film. (FYI–there are 30 frames per second, in case you didn’t know).

Who is this dude??

Here’s a link to a tantalizing blog and thread of comments from my friends over at Addison Road. It is their post that made my own possible…

The Blue Lagoon is GONE.

Earlier today it was towed away forever…I’m pretty sure it will eventually be crushed into a million smitherenes.
If Dwight were here, we could have a funeral and he could play his recorder…

Thanks Mom & Dad for letting us have it for the past year or so. It was a blessing!

Please pray that the Lord provides for us another car.
I think we’ll be OK for a week or two…

Sixty seconds to blog. Ready….GO!

The Blue Lagoon exploded on the I-10 East today between Via Verde and Kellogg sometime around 12:30PM. Christy and I were driving separately because tonight I have a rehearsal in Irvine from 10pm-Midnight, and she was going to drop me off on the way home from San Diego. She would continue on in the gray car, and I would take the aforementioned previously-parked-at-Concorida-University vehicle home after my rehearsal ended. At least, that WAS the plan.

Sadly, though, the fate of The Blue Lagoon is in question. Is this the last time this car will die? For a car that seems to have 9 lives, is this the end of the ninth? Will I ride in this dusty sweat-bin gift-of-love from my parents once more? Or will this be…(gasp) THE END?

I’m still waiting for a call from the mechanic with the diagnosis.

Thank God for the $2.95/month roadside assistance add-on plan that is attached to my Cingular cell phone. It’s just like Triple-A, but cheaper. And I bought it on a whim (one of those Daniel-can’t-say-no things).

Alright. Enough hyphenated phrases.

On a side note: the Gala is coming together. I’m very excited for next week (the final week!). Please let me know if you’d like to come to the show, May 18th. This is the largest amount of material I’ve ever written for a single event before.

EDIT ADD : There’s a new student worker in my office that looks exactly like Gillian Anderson from the X-Files.
For those of you that do not know me very well, I have all 9 Seasons of
The X-Files on DVD. I bought them back in the day when these babies
were $100 bucks a pop. Those and the Star Trek DVD series were
ridiculously over-priced. I think now you can get the slim packs of
each season for about 30 bucks…which completely destroys Christys
plan to sell ours to make some money.

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For the love, let’s not have that picture of the non-ice-cream
substance come up whenever I click to my page. And although I usually
post more often, I now feel compelled to post
 just so I can get rid of that ugly picture…

PS.
I did go back and get some more…I know…but it’s not as good the
second time around. Now that I KNOW it’s not ice cream, it’s much
grosser. So you should just stay away…

I’ve been crazy busy.
This is why I haven’t posted in forever or answered your phone calls. I
just can’t right now. The GALA is in two weeks and I’m spending every
spare minute finishing it and rehearsing it. We had our first orchestra
rehearsal today and it rocked. I love conducting a pro-level
orchestra–it’s absolutely wonderful. It’s also quite amazing to hear
music you’ve written played by the pros. They did quite well, and I was
so pleased. I’m really looking forward to this show. And BY THE
WAY–you’re invited. If you feel like hearing 40 minutes of
vocal/orchestral music I’ve arranged, then stop on by. May 18th at
Concordia University (8PM). I’ll give you more details if you want them.

Although
I am quite busy, I did see Spider Man 3 today. I liked it. I’m pretty
sure it’s my favorite of the three. Great movie with some redeeming
values and fun humor. It is a great start to this jam-packed summer
movie season.

Back to work!