I hate making a title for my posts.

I finally got around to chopping up my radio appearance from a few weeks ago, so that one can listen to one song at a time. The setlist is available here.

My brain is convinced that time is going backwards. Or that it has stopped. It's a little bit confused, because there isn't any snow. I am aware of the date, but there's a part of my brain that is in some serious denial. I was in a store the other day, and saw a Christmas tree. My initial thought was that it was way too early to see Christmas trees. But then I recalled that it is, in fact, a month until Christmas. My brain just doesn't know how to handle it all yet.

This past week I tried out two very new songs. I actually don't know the words very well, so there were pauses while I had to consult my lyrics sheet. And the best part was that I was totally fine with the mistakes that I made. Mistakes used to get me all flustered, and everything would fall apart. I'm getting much more comfortable with the reality of live music. It's not that I want to make mistakes, but when they happen, they happen, and you need to move on and keep playing. Open mic opportunities are good for that, because most of the people in the room are musicians as well, and know what it's like. In that kind of crowd, you are almost expected to step up and try something that might go horribly wrong, because it shows that you're not holding back. I choose to embrace mistakes as a part of the learning process.