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Day Sixty Two (Year Five)

It was a funny day today.

The one thing I was so excited to have the day free to do (give the new Tweedy record a solid listen) was one of the things that, somehow, didn't happen today.

And, while I didn't get to cross everything off of my list, I got to enough of it that I can safely consider the day at least somewhat of a win when it comes to the studio.

I spent a lot of my time with the acoustic, first working out of the Goldmine book, and then taking a break from that to wade into the old issues of Guitar World Acoustic in search of columns and lessons that looked like fun.  It dawned on me in so doing that one of the cool things about going through all of those old magazines will be reading all of the record reviews.  I'm sure there's some great stuff in those pages that I already own, but in all likelihood, there's more there that I have yet to discover.

I also got to the reading/studying side of the songwriting part.  I'm finally taking the time to go through a series of books on various aspects of songwriting (everything from riff writing to arranging to lyric writing) that I've been slowly collecting over the years.  It has been both informative and fun thus far.

Where I sort of dropped the ball today was the electric side of things, which is funny, because I always find myself looking forward to the house being empty on my days off, so I could crank up the amp.

The way I look at it, this gives me some aspects to focus in on a bit closer as I head toward the weekend.  The things I missed the boat on today will be the things I focus more closely on tomorrow and heading into the weekend.
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