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Day Two Hundred Thirty Eight

I know I said there would be more last night, and then there wasn't. I felt admittedly guilty about that, so I'm posting early in the day. I can't help it, I feel like I've been away FOREVER, and there is much to discuss (or so it seems right now).

Before things went so haywire there in the middle of February, I had been attempting to do the whole "album in a month" thing through RPM. Didn't quite get there, at least not on my own. The stated goal had been to go back home in March with a finished EP that just needed vocals, pass it off to B. and just tell her to sing over it. What ended up happening was that I took my notebooks and my guitar home, did a little work there, and finally (on the last night I was home) got a chance to see B. We went out for pizza, as we always do, and eventually the talk turned to music, as it always does. She's not doing all that much musically right now, and is missing it dearly, so I said, "we can change that, if you want..." and we ended up going through all of the old stuff. She was digging on the progressions I had found in the time I had been working again, and I was thrilled that she still has the old notebooks with all the lyrics and ideas. Between the old stuff and the new ideas, there is DEFINITELY enough music for an entire record, now it just needs to be worked on and finished.

And speaking of finished... just before I left on vacation, I heard from J. for the first time in forever. It seems we've both been missing the music lately. He wants to keep going on the stuff we were working on last year. "Wait til I get back online," I told him... and now I am, so hopefully THAT can pick up again too. And then maybe I can talk him into producing the stuff that B. and I are working on, and...

And I really need to start working up some covers hardcore, so I can get out there and play some acoustic shows or open mike's or something. And if B. and I are going to be finishing these songs, I've got to get back to working on my scales, so my solos won't be so meandering.

New stuff I've picked up or been given, CD-wise includes

1) "High Violet" by The National
2) The Kids Are All Right Soundtrack
3) "Lights" by Ellie Goulding
4) "Collapse Into Now" by R.E.M.

there was also a bunch of stuff from my trip home, and its two requisite stops: Half Price Books, and the now annual (formerly weekly) pilgrimmage to Exclusive Company... the astoundingly cool indie record store in my hometown.

Still trying to figure out if I can get all my music from my iPod to the new computer, but hopefully that will be sorted out in the next few days. Oh, and I've had "Birds Sing" by The Refreshments stuck in my head, it's the 10th song on their record called "The Bottle & Fresh Horses." That's all for now.

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