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Day Fifty Four (Year Two)

Hodgepodge of things today.  Might be better served as a list.

1)  Listening to "Tear Stained Letter" by Johnny Cash, off of American IV: The Man Comes Around.
2)  Picked up my timer today.  Target.  It's digital, and it very unintentionally matches everything else in my studio.

3)  The other musical purchase at Target tonight was the new Bush record, The Sea Of Memories.  They had the deluxe edition for $9.99.  I'll admit that the purchase was more out of curiosity than anything else.  Their early singles were fun, because they still had a bit of the grunge era in them.  I guess I'm just curious what someone who used to be a huge rockstar does when he "puts the band back together" after a decade.  I'm not expecting on it to live up to "Comedown" or "Swallowed," but if it does, I won't complain. 

Oddly enough, the version of their biggest hit ("Glycerine") that I like best is the one by Melissa Ferrick.  Here's the link to that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLz7-mJlHk&list=FLzVUC1VDNYMF7F4BxmIy6zQ&index=65 

Her version was on a record called Goodbye Youth that a friend introduced me to at a moment a few years back when I really needed a bit of good music.

Puttered around with a bit of band stuff tonight too.  Played through a lot of the recent progressions.  I'm really liking the new stuff, and I hope it fits together as well with the older tunes as I think it will.  All the new stuff still needs lyrics, though.  It'll get there.

Got to get in touch with B. this weekend.  If I'm lucky, I'll have a few tracks to send her.  I'd like to get up early enough tomorrow to record a bit before I've got to go to work at 2.

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