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Day Three Hundred Eighteen (Year Two)

Considering that it's Brandi Carlile week here in blog-land, I'll start off by mentioning that NPR posted a live set from her today, in honor of the new record.  I checked it out tonight, and it's wonderful.  I'm now pondering whether or not I can find a way to download the performance onto my ipod.  In case you're interested, here's the link for that:

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/24/153602668/brandi-carlile-in-concert

I downloaded the file that B. sent me tonight.  Just listening to about 30 seconds of it has me excited to finish off this project.  I've got to get in touch with her tomorrow night and get the ball rolling again.

Picked up the new record by The Mynabirds today.  There first album, What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood, was an in-store play last year, and I really loved it (and subsequently got to take it home).  The new album has gotten amazing reviews.  I've listened to a bit of it so far, and it's got a bit of a different feel to it than the first, which is good and bad at the same time for me.  I'm hoping I like it as much as I enjoyed the first one.

I've got decisions to make tomorrow in regards to the end of employee discount days at work.  There's some Tom Waits and some Todd Snider on hold.  I'm still debating.  I'm positive there will be an update tomorrow on what I decide.

I still need to check out the new Beach Boys record.

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