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Day Two Hundred Sixty Five (Year Four)

I didn't have that much on my list for tonight, only three things, in fact.

1) I wanted to finish getting the Guitar World Acoustic issues squared away and organized.

I did that, in the process finding that I was only missing one issue from the middle of the run when I was buying them.  Unfortunately for me, it was one of the issues on acoustic Led Zeppelin!  Knowing me, I'll go on some quest to find not only a list of all the issues they ever released, but also (hopefully) a copy of each one.

On a related note, finishing that off tonight involved paging through the magazines a bit more, and there were so many artists they hyped that I know really well now (that I glossed over at the time).  Can't wait to go through all of the old record reviews next.

2) I wanted to get the new music from last weekend imported.

I got that done, too, importing the new Manchester Orchestra and the Cloud Nothings record I picked up at Exclusive.  I have yet to import the new Nickel Creek and the latest Cloud Nothings disc (and also the new Dan Wilson solo effort that I'm still waiting to have delivered).  I figure by the end of the week, everything will be here, and will be in the iTunes.

I got most everything from the trip up north put away again, as well, and played a bit of electric in the process.

3) The one part of the list that I didn't get to was anything extensive in regards to the acoustic side of my playing.  That will need to start up tomorrow, for sure, because with all the new/old lessons and transcriptions in the studio now, I'm definitely itching to get started on all of it.
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