I didn't feel like working today. Instead, I wanted to stay home and spend the day plotting my record label that I've wanted to start for years now... if I'm not mistaken, I've made mention of this fact in this space before. Using my better judgment (and ignoring my feelings), I went to work anyway. It was by no means a terrible day. I found out that I got my Saturday efore off on the 16th for the Brandi Carlile concert in Cedar Falls, and I worked with good people. As usual, there were some good people who came in, and some not so good. About halfway through my shift, it dawns on me that I keep getting ahead of myself. As of right now, I have no other band's music to release on this hypothetical label of mine other than my own... aside, perhaps, from a random project one of my co-workers keeps talking about doing. Anyway, considering that my stuff is nowhere near done, I ought to get that squared away before worrying about the label. Helps to have something to release before finding someplace to release it, right? So, as exhausted as I am tonight (and as early as I need to be up in the morning), I need to square away some of my own music before I pass out. I don't need to finish anything, but I do need to get a solid handle on where it is I sit at the moment.
Today was the first official day of the second half of my "album-in-a-month" challenge. As for today's goals, I wanted to see what I could get done in regards to track order, and get at least a little bit of a start on the lyric writing process. I spent more time working on the track order question than I did on the lyrics today, but as a result of that, I ended up with something that I think will work in terms of order. I did sit with the notebook for a few minutes at the very end of the day, and got a solid starting line of lyric and some other ideas that I hope will be jumping off points for lyrics. What I'm thinking I might do, however, is switch my focus from the lyric writing part of the process directly to the recording part of the process. That way, if I can get the music recorded and burned onto a CD, I can take the music with me in the car, and listen and try to see what images and thoughts the music brings up. It's a tactic that has worked for...
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