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Day Three Hundred Four (Year Two)

A few things to touch on today.  First, and perhaps most important, I'M GOING TO SEE COUNTING CROWS IN JULY!!!!!  Okay, so technically it's me, and SL, and possibly R. and a bunch of other people (we got 8 tickets).  The show is at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City on the last day of July, and I'm ridiculously, unbelievably excited about it.

Secondly, I had a wonderfully long chat with SL tonight about why it is we struggle so much to accomplish the things we dream of accomplishing, and whether or not we spend so much time figuring out different aspects of these things that we wind up spending even less time actually working toward the goals themselves.  This all came up because, somehow, we got onto the topic of the hard rock band, and the feeling that I have about it meaning more to me than it does to B.

SL thinks that I should give myself the summer, and then whatever isn't done by the end of August just remains unfinished.  I think she's probably right.  I've spent so much energy trying to keep tis thing alive for so long that it has started to sap my energy for whatever else I'm meant to do musically.

That said, tonight's conversation was such a positive one that it gives me hope that something will get done this summer.  I had started talking about spending the whole day tomorrow figuring out what the next steps need to be, and SL got me to step back from that and commit a smaller length of time (say, an hour) to just that, and see what that gets me before I decide whether or not I want to spend more time working on it.  She gently pointed out that I've been talking about picking tracks and finding tempos for more than a month.  I just need to sit down and do stuff.  If B. doesn't want to do anything but sing, then so be it, I'll do the rest on my own.

I think I'll email her tomorrow.  Find out whether she'd be able to take a whole day (or two) off to focus on getting some stuff recorded.  If she says yes, I'll pick a few days, and bring my whole recording setup to WI for a few days.  We'd start with tempo, and work through the rest of it from there.  If nothing else, I'm going to email her regarding chord progressions tomorrow, because if I can get those, I can start to find bass lines, and from there, J. and I can put together rhythm tracks.  Even if it's 3 songs, it needs to happen for my sanity and my ability to move forward.

I didn't want to do it alone, but if that's what needs to happen, then that's what needs to happen.

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