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Day Two Hundred Thirty Five (Year Two)

Know what's awesome?  Re-discovering an album that someone burned for you a year and a half ago, and realizing how excellent it is.  It's probably the new Fun. record that has me going back and listening to Nate Ruess's other band, but still.  A co-worker hyped The Format's Interventions and Lullabies to me a couple of summers ago, and gave me that at the same time she gave me Bastards of the Beat by the Damnwells.  At the time, Bastards of the Beat won out, but now that time has passed, I'm really enjoying Interventions and Lullabies.  I previewed their second record, Dog Problems, at work tonight too, and liked that enough to order it.  At only $11 before my discount, I feel like that was a pretty wise decision.

I played a bit of electric today before work, diving into "I'm Tore Down" a little bit.  I spent some time trying to get the licks underneath my fingers again.  I know I've been here before, though.  What needs to happen now is that I've really got to stay on myself and keep working on it every day, even if it's only for a little bit of time each day.  I'm going to try and be aggressive in my hopes for learning that song.  I'd like to have it solved within a week or so. 

In that spirit, tomorrow afternoon is relegated to laundry after work, and something tells me that laundry time and music time will coincide well.  I know that if I sit down and really concentrate on this for an afternoon, I can make some serious progress.

That said, I go in early tomorrow, so while there's more to discuss, I will hold off on that until tomorrow.

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