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Day Two Hundred Seventeen (Year Two)

So, I spent the afternoon sorting out where I stand with the record that I have four days to finish.  The rules say that you've got to get either 10 songs or 35 minutes of music during February.  At this point, I'm thinking I'll fall short of the 10 songs, but the 35 minutes seems completely attainable.

I've got 6 songs partially finished.  Yes, I realize that I would have to have the average song length be somewhere around five and a half minutes for this collection of ideas to be enough to meet the criteria.  There will be at least one more song added to the mix, however, that I know for sure.  I'm pretty sure that even with this addition, I can still finish off the music between now and Wednesday.  It's the words (as always) that have me concerned.

It's not that there's a lack of lyrical material to pick from by any stretch, the last 4 years has given me plenty of grist for that mill, it's more a question of getting the words in shape enough that I'm satisfied with them.

The other thing I'm noticing of late is that there seems to be a lot of listening piling up.  Sure, I'm almost all the way through the Fun. record, but I forgot completely about the Noel Gallagher album from the other day.  Also, I never made it all the way through the Buddy Holly stuff from the beginning of the month, and I'm sure there's more that needs to be gone through.  Add to that my sudden urge to sort back through all the random live Counting Crows that I came into thanks to SL, and the Crows stuff that I've had burned for almost 10 years now, and it leaves quite the pile of music.  Plus, we just got new in-store plays in at work, so I'm hoping for a closing shift ahead of an open, so I can sift through some of that as well.

There's really no time (or space) for it, but my organizational system for my music could really stand to have a few more decent sized CD racks added to it.  If only I could find the same ones I've already got, I'd be thrilled.

Wish me luck these next 4 days... updates will follow.

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