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Day Thirty Two (Year Two)

Heard from B. today.  She wanted me to send her the bridge lyrics I had.  Apparently, there are two versions of this song that she wants to try.  We only texted back and forth, so I'm not sure of all the details on that one yet, but it promises to be interesting when I do hear about it (hopefully tomorrow).  Here's hoping we can do some exchanging of lyrics tomorrow too.  I haven't done too much with the band on a conscious level the last couple of days, and it would be nice to get back to it.

The rest of Fountains of Wayne's music (Traffic & Weather and Out of State Plates) actually came in today.  I got close enough that I figured I ought to just have their entire discography.  I had ordered those two almost 2 weeks ago, though, and wasn't really expecting them to come in... so that was a pleasant surprise.

Also, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before that we've had a couple of things for the band that B. has sworn up and down that she'll never be able to sing over.  She likes them, mind you, but doesn't think she can find melody.  I know she's wrong, but she has never believed me, and so she's tried to alter things just slightly enough, adding an extra progression here and there, or restricting the stranger chords to the intros.  At least for one of them, I think I've found an answer that might work.  At the very least, it makes me happier, so we'll see if I can implement that successfully.  Think I'll just drop it into the recording and see what happens.

That's all for today.  I go in early tomorrow, and then I'm off for 2 straight.  Lots of music, here I come!

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