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Day Five (Year Six)

Today was a hodgepodge sort of day, but it was a positive hodgepodge, in that it was the first day of the new blogging year that  felt anything like I hope the year is going to.  I:

1) Finally got the song list finished.  After the left turn of the iTunes issues, I was starting to wonder if I would ever see that project get to an "end point" (because there are always going to be more songs to learn).  It wound up being 674 songs, which seems completely crazy to me.

2) I sat down tonight and worked on learning something off of said list, Jason Isbell's "Different Days."  The guitar part for that song has fascinated me ever since the first time I heard it, and in playing around with it for half an hour, I started to get a decent handle on it.

3) Another finally.  I finally had time to at least set up my step-dad's old iMac that he sent down for me to use... GarageBand, anyone?  I didn't exactly start monkeying around with it yet, but it felt good to at least get it out of the box, and find it a temporary home in the studio.

4) I did a bit of reading in Torment Saint, a biography of Elliot Smith that I picked up recently.  It was good to get back to a music bio, which is a good thing, because I have a good number of them on my pile of things to get to.

Things I didn't get to today include:

1) "Red House"
2) Importing some of the new music
3) Much in the way of listening

Still, today felt like the first solid step into what (unbelievably) is year six of the blog.
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