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Day Three Hundred Forty Five (Year Five)

It wasn't as musically productive of a day as I had hoped it might be last night, but I still feel like I made a bit of progress, so I'll take it.

I got into the studio on the later side tonight, and getting in there and taking a look at all of the things I had at least glanced at in the past week that had gotten spread out all over the floor made things seem cluttered.  It brought me back around to only focusing on a few things, but doing so intently.  With that in mind, I took a quick look at the Hendrix before doing a bit of listening.

After that, with my energy waning a bit, I decided to wrap up my night in the studio by watching the DVD that came along with the new James Taylor record (I picked that up today, along with the new Stones re-issue and the new Walk The Moon album).  It goes through the making of the record, and I'm always a sucker for those sorts of things.  They always get me thinking (again) about my own half-finished projects.

I need tomorrow to be a more productive day.  I need to get some extended work in on the Hendrix, I need to keep plugging away at the iTunes project, and I need to take a good look at where I'm sitting with the EP.
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