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Day One Hundred Ten (Year Three)

Another semi-frustrating day music-wise.

I started in on the organizing of the rest of the music stuff, only to abandon it part of the way through in search of a better way through than a giant list.  After spending the rest of the day thinking it over, I think the list is still the way to go, but there needs to be some organizing done before the list is made (magazines by title and year, etc.).

Did a little bit of playing this afternoon, but again, nothing for a long enough period of time to be considered noteworthy.

I did, however, stumble across an interesting article on NPR again today.  This time it was about artists who are overdue for a new record.  On the list: Damien Rice.  I couldn't agree more.  I loved both of his records, although according to a link in the NPR article, he wasn't too fond of the second one.  Haven't gotten a chance to follow that link and read the article yet, but that is definitely happening tomorrow.

The other cool thing about today?  S. needed to get to church early this morning, so I got to spend some quality time with my ipod for the first time in a few weeks.  This was awesome (and very much needed).

I teach tomorrow at 5:30, but hopefully I'll get more music stuff done than just that.  Tomorrow needs a to-do list of rock & roll awesomeness.

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