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Day One Hundred Ninety Six (Year Two)

So, last night I promised more on "American Pie."  I've scoured the internet in year's past for an explanation of the many details present in that song, who the characters are, etc.  Here's a link to a site I found tonight that does a pretty decent job of covering the basics, at the very least.  The link is amazingly original too, don't you think?: understandingamericanpie.com

Stopped at Half Price Books tonight.  Mom's been in town, and it's a ritual.  Cool thing was that I found the first 2 books of Berklee's Guitar Method (the first of which contains a DVD-Rom that has 14 HOURS of lessons on it!  How amazing is that?  Considering that the be-all, end-all goal of this blog is to get me to the point musically where I can audition and be accepted to Berklee School of Music in Boston, I figured that having the first two books of their guitar method can only be a good thing.

Now that I'm 5 days into February, I'm thinking that I'm going to try and do the RPM Challenge thing.  I'm not going to officially register with their website or anything, I'm just going to try and do it on my own.  I figure, if I can at least get the songs written, that would be a victory.  That would mean finishing one song every 2.4 days.  That's not too bad, if I work on it every day.  SL challenged me to write one song by the end of the month, and I know I can pull that off.  She didn't say whether it also needs to be recorded by the end of the month as well, but I kind of figure that the recording of it was in her thought process, so we shall see.  If I end up somewhere in between those two extremes, that'd be all right too, as the other criteria for the challenge is 35 minutes of music.

All told, I was pleased that I was able to fit at least something musical into my day.  Still haven't cracked open the Ritchie Valens record or the Buddy Holly rarities collection, but that can happen tomorrow.

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