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Day Three Hundred Fifty Six (Year Six)

So, today was fun.  To explain my day the right way involves two quick stories; the first of which happened two days ago, and the second of which happened five months ago, right before life started to get really crazy.

Two days ago, I wrote in this space about how things finally felt like they were moving forward.  I had sorted through tracks for an EP that I desperately need to finish by the end of the year, and I had mentioned the idea that, at some point this week, I'd like to go through the songs/ideas for the power pop record I've been harboring for far too long.

It's the power pop record that takes me back to February, when I attempted (and somewhat successfully completed) the February Album Writing Month project.  Basically, you write an albums worth of songs in 28 or 29 days, because why the hell not?  I had told myself that this was going to be the time that I finally put down the ideas that had been amassing in my head for that record.  And, at least somewhat, I did.  I finished some of the songs, others were half finished, and a couple were roughly sketched out.  They all had titles, but they weren't all the way written.  That's why, along with the EP, the "Power Pop Record" remained on my list of things to finish in 2016.

Tonight was, I decided, the night to go back and do the listening, the looking at my notes, etc.  I was fully prepared to cringe at what was there, shake my head, and scrap the whole lot of it.  Instead, I was surprised to find that I really liked what I heard.  The playing is rough around the edges, because I was more concerned with getting the ideas recorded than getting them perfect, and there are places where tempos lag that should be faster, but the ideas, the bones of it, are there, and they are good.  It seems that there's a record  there after all, I just have to finish it.

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