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Day One Hundred Twelve (Year Two)

It must be Beatles month for some of the big publications.  I'm not sure whether it has to do with the 10th Anniversary of George Harrison's death being this year, or what the story is, but I stumbled across the last copy of a magazine that Rolling Stone put out today, on The Beatles, album by album.  In my head, it will go hand in hand with the Guitar World article that I mentioned yesterday.

I've been listening to the new Florence + The Machine record in the car going back and forth to work for the last couple of days.  It's really good.  It makes me want to dig for the burned copy of the deluxe edition that JP from work hooked me up with earlier this year.  I'd like to give that a fair listen again, if only to see if the new record is as much of a leap forward as I think it is.

I'm off tomorrow.  I know on the surface that it's just one of my two days off this week, but the fact that it's a Sunday makes it feel like I will get more done.  I know for sure that B. is going to be off, so hopefully I'll touch base with her at some time tomorrow.  Also on the list are:

1) Catch up on some of the new music-related reading that has showed up this week.
2) Take a serious look at the Berklee thing, and sketch out a plan for making better progress.

Going in late on Monday will mean that I can devote the whole day to music and not feel badly.

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