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Jigsaw Puzzles

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

When The Song Of The Day was done, I took a few days off of everything (music, work, email, phone) to recover, rest, catch up on sleep and some movies and TV that I missed over the past two years. One of the things I did during those days off was starting to assemble a […]

A Spontaneous Song

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I was at Randy’s place Monday night and spotted the guitar he keeps in his living room which reminded me of the night Ted Blegen and I wrote the song Ants.

Randy was hosting a games night in early 2006. His games nights are all about playing board games and enjoying Chicken Pad Thai from […]

What is Honest Love?

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

One of the more amusing things about running TheSongOfTheDay.com is to see the search terms that end up dropping people onto our site. While some arrive there after searching for our band name (usually something like “the beatnick turtles”) a lot of them show up because they wrote a phrase from song lyrics, or […]

Fighting Time

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Now that we’ve successfully completed our 365 song project, I’ve been reflecting on my experience of the past two years. One of the things that stands out for me doing a project where constant creation has a deadline, is how it became a fight against time.
We started 2007 with songs mostly complete through May - […]

Open Mic Night

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

The open mic at Cullen’s last night was really mellow, probably due to New Years and very cold weather. It was a 5 song night which is alway fun, though. I managed to play That’s What She Said, Two Twenty-Nine, I Don’t Want To Work Today, Mason Rocket, and thanks to Simon (open mic regular) […]

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