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February 28, 2006

Let's get ready to rumble.

So, Vince Chao has challenged me, or us, or whatever, to DMs Songwriting March Madness. He wants to write a bunch of songs, eventually culling them down to the final four best songs, in the month of March.

I am very worried about it. I really, really like challenges and normally perform best under pressure, but I am nervous -- because I seem to have lost my touch. The brilliance just ain't coming to me like it did before. I am going through all sorts of gyrations in my car every day, singing weird sequences and trying out new ideas, but I miss those experiences where some turn of phrase would occur to me and I would just sit down and write a whole song about it. I doesn't help that I have been on a music-buying spree lately and keep listening to the all this stuff over and over again thinking: "I wish I wrote that."

Onward and upward, though. I have to do it.

Posted by The DMs at 03:03 PM