In Which Mark Fails to Compose Anything

Have spend the last 2.5 hours in Lang, failing spectacularly to compose anything for my meeting with Jerry tomorrow. I've got a few snippets and scraps that maybe can be expanded on the train tomorrow, we'll see. About the only nifty thing I was able to do was figure out how to play a deck of cards. Yes, a deck of cards. Clubs = 1 beat, Diamonds 2, Hearts 3, Spades 4. Choose a slow tempo. Aces are rests. 2 corresponds to middle C, chromatically ascending through the ranks to King at B above middle C. Jack is A440. I've gotten to the point where I can pretty much do this in real time - flip the cards with my left hand, play with the right. Whee!

Hmm...I've not been sleeping well of late. Should remember to sleep more. (If I had been sleeping more, I'd probably have remembered to write this the first time I made this post)

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Jess Klein : Ireland
Tom Waits : Ol’ 55
Dry Branch Fire Squad : Down South in New Orleans
Dolly Parton : I Get a Kick out of You
Old 97s : Victoria
Martin Sexton : Diner
Eddie from Ohio : Tom Burleigh’s Dead
The Freight Hoppers : Cotton Eyed Joe
Mark Knopfler : Silvertown Blues
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones : The Sinister Minister
Doc Watson : Banks of the Ohio
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice : Little Sadie
Si Kahn : Dancing with the Johnson
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer : Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover
Earl Scruggs : Hey Porter
Fred Small : Sergei In the Milky Way
The Jayhawks : One Man’s Problem
The Paperboys : Mary
Lester Flatt : Flint Hill Special
Guy Clark : Watermelon Dream
Lucinda Williams : Can’t Let Go
Woody Guthrie : The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
Lynn Morris : Mama’s Hand
Voices on the Verge : Long Island Sound
The Dillards : Douglas and I Used to Sit Around and Play
The Dillards : Old Joe Clark
Amy Correia : Daydream Car
Mark Erelli : Almost Home