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Day One Hundred Eighty Seven

I had every intention of plugging in and being loud today, and yet somehow, the way the day broke down, it never quite happened. Relative loudness aside, however, I did do some playing. Again, it wasn't successful in terms of the hard rock stuff, but I played nonetheless.

As long as I'm making a list of things I wanted to get done today, I'd like it known that I also intended to sit with a notebook and try to process some stuff lyrically. That didn't happen either.

Here's the funny part of the whole thing. Despite listening to stuff on and off all day, and picking up the guitar repeatedly today, nothing really seemed to click... until I sat down to type tonight. As I usually do, I cranked up iTunes to keep my ears entertained while my fingers were busy typing, and all of a sudden, the music hit me full force. Everything from Fastball ("All I Was Looking For Was You") to the Damnwells ("Kiss Catastrophe," "Closer Than We Are") to Fun. ("All The Pretty Girls") had that electricity to it that we crave from our music.

What does it mean? That I'll probably be up for a while tonight, rocking out, and hopefully writing.

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