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i've been spitting out songs like a baseball player in left field with a mouthful of that "black gum". i'm not saying that they're all great, but i actually laughed at myself over the whole matter as i found myself with 18 windows open in microsoft word yesterday and writing parts of lines to each one and then jumping back with another part line... and they somehow they seemed to make sense. i can honestly say that this is the first instance in my life where multitasking was even mildly successful. anyways, they're not finished, but a long two days of writing was summarized yesterday by writing a tune between 11:30pm and 12:30am, lyrics, melody and changes. it was weird. i actually did some sketches of a guitar solo, but thought it a little tasteless to mention until i remembered that i had this picture



anyways, the reason i'm telling you all of this is not to impress you, the reason i'm telling you all of this is so that i can offer some good reasons for why this might happen.

1. i've been listening to nick cave, chris isaak, bob dylan and the cure non-stop*
2. i wrote a song** asking someone to be my muse, and i think they took the job
3. i've been working out in the gym lifting weights for 3 days straight and found it to be a fountain of inspiration.
4. dianne warren challenged me to a write-off***
5. dale commented on my blog. the flood of great memories washed over me like the red sea over the egyptians, but in a good way - not a death way.

*while i do love chris isaac he hardly belongs in this list.
** title of the track is would you mind - pardon the self promotion... but maybe get used to it?
***not a tax season reference