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Day Seventeen (Year Three)

First off, R. sent me the new Mumford & Sons single today.  I haven't yet had a moment of peace to sit down and focus on listening to it yet, but that will happen before I sleep tonight.

Babel feels like the big summer album release that we haven't really gotten this year, and the record doesn't come out until September 24th.

I'm starting to stress out about everything that's happening with my move.  What I really need is a good chunk of time to just sit down and play some guitar.  Whether I'm actually going to get a big chunk of time, or whether it will have to come in smaller bits spread out over the course of the week, I'm not sure, but either way, it's got to happen, otherwise I'm going to flip out a bit by the end of next week.

I really want to find some time to work on theory stuff this week.  And I want to do it in the context of the Beatles Scores.  I found a list online tonight of all Beatles songs in chronological order (based on the British releases).  I'd love to study their songwriting evolution from the beginning to the end.  See where they learned things, how the writing evolved.  And when you think that none of the four could read music, at least when they started... it just drives home how incredible and inventive that band was.

That's really all I've got today.  I go in late tomorrow, so hopefully it'll be productive.

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