flexing the musical muscle

I'm sure most of you know, I've been working on a new music project.

The point of this project is so that Mark can maybe pitch some of my songs for some kind of publishing deal. I was supposed to begin working on it a year ago January, but because of school and other stuff, I only got around to it at the end of this October.

My original thought was that I'd go from October to Christmas, and have 3 songs done.
But no dice. School went longer than I expected, and I didn't get started til almost November.
No problem, right? It'll just push out into January. That was fine, as there was no time to get together with Mark to mix until after Christmas, anyway.

Well, a few more things happened. Dan & I can't seem to get the drumming scheduled.. I accidently wrote a fourth song.. and, most importantly, I kind of stink right now. : [

"Stink!?" You say..? Yes. Stink.

I mean, I can still write a song and all, but what i've discovered, sadly, is that I let the musical muscles atrophy. I left my artistic crayons out in the sun too long, and now all I've got is a big brown puddle.

So.. if anyone is waiting or wondering.. "when is John gonna get something done, anyway?"... I'm working on it. But I've decided that it's more important to do it right than to do it fast. I'm going to re-evaluate my deadline, and come up with something that takes into account the rehabilitation of my writing and playing chops, inactive lo these many, many months.

I'm gonna get 'em in the gym.. work the heavy bag a bit. Maybe some eliptical training.. i dunno.. whatever gets the trick done.

Play write and sing day and night. Eat it, live it, and sleep it a little bit. Get back to being able to rock some face off. And *then* i'm going to be flexing the musical muscle a bit.

And yes, I know that sounds kinda bad.

Perverts.