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Day Three Hundred Six (Year Three)

Just realized that tonight's post is number 1,000 in the life of my blog.  Somehow I feel like that fact deserves more pomp and circumstance than I'm going to be able to give it tonight, but anyway...

Watched Sound City today, and it further proves my theory that everything Dave Grohl touches turns to gold.  It's a fabulous documentary about the history of a recording space, told by literally all of the people who made it what it was.  The first three quarters are about the ups and downs of the studio's existence, and the last quarter of the film is Dave getting all of the major players together to record new music on the studio's legendary Neve console after he bought it and moved it to 606 Studios, the recording studio owned by Dave and the Foo Fighters.

Played some today, too, but instead of taking a look at everything that has come before during the year, I stumbled onto the germ of something new, and spent a bit of time working on that.  Made a bit of progress, but not enough to be justifiably over the moon quite yet.  I'll hold out for tomorrow's progress before fully commenting on that.

Well, as much as I hate to cut it short tonight, we've got some wicked storms coming through tonight, and I probably shouldn't be online all that much right now.  Further updates tomorrow.  And a start on the 2nd thousand posts.

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