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Day One Hundred Sixty Four (Year Six)

I talked to my brother tonight.  I had floated the idea of him coming down this coming weekend, while the Mrs. is gone for school, just to hang out and have a few days to talk music.  He followed up on the idea, and it turns out that it works.  Can't wait for that!

He also made mention of the fact that he has been following my thoughts here since the end of the year, and he really likes the list of things I have to (hopefully) finish this year.  In our discussions, it came up that "Classical Gas" really ought to be added to the list, so I'll have to do that.  Anyway, we talked briefly about my post from last night, and trying to spend the week focused on song ideas.  He went so far as to say that he'd be glad to help me sort through everything this weekend, do some listening, etc.

With that knowledge in my ear, I hit the studio tonight with the hopes of getting through at least some of the ideas that are out there.  I bypassed (for tonight) the previous idea notebooks, and went straight to the recording gear, where, with a blank sheet of paper in front of me, I proceeded to lay out what ended up being four lists.  They were:

1.  EP ideas (limited to my FAWM experience from 2014)
2.  Power Pop ideas
3.  Double Album ideas
4.  Other (things I like that, at least right now, don't seem to fit the other three categories)

Had there been a 5th list, it would be made up of old solo songs that probably shouldn't be considered for a current project.

Tomorrow I need to spend a bit more time with this part of the project, and try to get to some of my secondary goals for the week.

I've started a lot of cool things in the last few years.  It's time to start crossing them off the list.
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