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Day Two Hundred Seventy Four (Year Two)

Picked up The Complete Mermaid Sessions today.  Somehow, when they said "box set," I was expecting the classic long box with spaces for each disc and a bigger booklet, much like the 30th Anniversary Edition of Born To Run.  It's not like that, though.  Instead, it came in cardboard packaging with all 4 discs having their own little pocket.  More economical that way, I guess.  Listening to the first disc as I type tonight.  I go in late tomorrow, and some part of me is debating watching the documentary that comes with the set tonight before I go to bed.  We'll see if that actually happens or not.

I snagged one other thing tonight.  There was a book in the atrium at work for $3.98 called Evening's Empire. It's by a guy named Bill Flanagan, who works/worked in the entertainment industry for years, and has written novels on the side over the years, including a great read called A&R that came out in 2000.  I remember buying that book because it had blurbs from Adam Duritz and Tom Petty on the dust jacket.

Not that I need anything else to read under any circumstances, but that ought to be a fun one concerning music to get around to at some point soon-ish (maybe).

Also on the music-related reading pile for today, I've been trying to get through Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street lately.  It purports to be a music-based novel, and indeed, the main character is the lead singer of a rock band, but 80 pages into a 245 page novel, the book seems more of a meditative character study than a real music novel, so to speak.  I'm sure that the music will make an appearance at some point before the end of the book, but just how central a role it plays remains to be seen.  I like the book though, it's complex and interesting and a strange, fun read.

I did a little playing tonight, but not as much as I would have liked to.  I feel like the music got pushed to the side a bit this week, and that bugs me a lot.  I need to push it back to the forefront this next week, and get back to working my way through "Red House."  It was going well, and I need to get back on the wagon and capitalize on that confidence before it starts to slip away.

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