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Day Three Hundred Thirty Seven

I sat with the acoustic again this morning. And I found some old photos buried in the pages of a novel I evidently hadn't looked at in two years. That's the kind of thing that leads to a bunch of old memories. Those memories burn less now than they used to, but they will still be good fodder for the music.

Again today, I played around with the idea of these guide tracks J. wants. In the process, I figured out a different way to play the progression I really need to be recording. It'd be an electric part if anything, and I'm not sure that we really need electric in that spot. It was cool anyway.

I'm wishing I was off tomorrow, so I could lock myself in the back bedroom with a notebook, a pen, and my acoustic. I could really use an entire day to myself to just try and write. It seems like my days off lately (aside from the ones where people have been in from out of state, of course) have been spent doing things for others. Maybe that sounds selfish. Maybe it is. But, then again, maybe I just want a day to focus on the music where I'm not interrupted. Is that so wrong? Somehow I don't think it is. Either Tuesday or Thursday this week, it's happening. With my luck I'll have to wait 'til Thursday.

The ideas have just been bouncing around lately, but it seems like I'm not in the same place for long enough to have them coalesce into anything solid, so I'm getting a few lyric lines here, a chord progression there. It's starting to get to me... can you tell?

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