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Day Two Hundred Twelve (Year Two)

Another day with some work done in the morning (before company arrived from the UK).  I found another chord progression that I know will work for the record.

This thing is building slowly, but it is building, and that is what's making all the difference for me.  The ideas are coming easier than they did at the beginning of the month, which is, I suppose, a product of actually sitting down and trying to write something every day.  Nothing bad can possibly come of that.

Other news on a musical front includes three things today:

1) I got a bunch of classical music from my brother in the last couple of days.  Haven't yet sorted through it all and put it into iTunes, but it's there waiting for me nonetheless.  This is awesome, as I've needed more classical in my life for quite some time.  It was, after all, one of my listed blind spots from that NPR article a few weeks back.

2) I went out looking for a paper shredder at Best Buy today and came home with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith for $7.99.  I've got to admit: I enjoy those games.  And I especially enjoy them at that price point.  Do they actually teach you how to play?  Not really, but they are a fun diversion from time to time that manages to include music.  And hey, if they make a kid pick up a real guitar... or introduce him or her to good music they otherwise would have missed, then it's worth it to me.

3) And finally, also as a result of my Best Buy excursion, I finally snagged Noel Gallagher's record with the High Flying Birds.  His was the one I was more curious about anyway, as Noel was Oasis' primary songwriter for most (if not all) of their vitally important records.  So, that should be a fun listen.  I've only just made it through the first track, but I liked what I heard from that admittedly small sample size.

More record stuff tomorrow, I'm sure.

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