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Day Three Hundred Twenty Nine

So, I spent about an hour this morning before work sitting with the acoustic working on the song B. and I were talking about last night, worked with her friends lyrics, and was making some solid progress when B. texted to say that we wouldn't be able to use the words. I'm torn here. Bummed because there were some cool ideas there, lyrically, but happy at the same time because I'd selfishly like the whole record to come from she and I. Besides, the more I play around with the progression we were thinking of using, the more I feel it isn't quite ready for the big time yet.

So, I'm thinking the next piece of news is official enough that I can mention it... as opposed to yesterday's co-writing news. But anyway... I'm going to see Alkaline Trio in July!!!! R. found out about the show when she went to see Mumford & Sons. Apparently it's at a small (500ish people) club in Omaha. The gig will be two days before the release of their new record (Damnesia, due on July 12th). I saw the tracklisting today. It looks like there will be three new songs mixed in with the re-imaginings of a bunch of their back catalog. The album art shows an acoustic guitar's soundhole. I'm already excited for this record, but if it ends up being their "unplugged" record, considering the songlist I saw today, I'm even more excited to hear it!

Skyped a little bit with J. tonight after I got home from work. We discussed the possibility of me ending up with ProTools, a concept I would have laughed at not five minutes before we had that conversation. What's more, it sounds like I could get it and a recording interface for about the same price as the interface the guy at Guitar Center was hyping yesterday. We'll see what happens here, but it could be awesome.

Tomorrow night after work/Sunday morning before work needs to be spent working on the record, because Monday & Tuesday won't offer as much time as I had originally hoped. It'll be fun regardless, because family is going to be in town, but those days have now switched from being able to get a lot done to fitting in music in the evenings and hoping I can make progress in a more condensed time. No worries!

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