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	<title>o t h e r t i m e</title>
	<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog</link>
	<description>music and thoughts by j.c. wilson</description>
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		<title>where&#8217;s my epiphany?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not dead, just hibernating.  Too much heat.  Too many hours of daylight.  Far too much whining.  Have I mentioned that my wife is a saint?
In any case, we&#8217;ve been enjoying the Ken Burns Jazz documentary.  Netflix On Demand is sometimes too awesome for words.  We&#8217;re up to disc [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=554</link>
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		<title>back to projects and the studio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back to the studio grind.  I find that I spend less time in the studio composing and more actually recording in the summer.  This is not intuitive as I can&#8217;t run the ceiling fan in there when I&#8217;m recording and as I may have mentioned before, the ceiling fans are the way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=550</link>
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		<title>keep moving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer isn&#8217;t really a great time for me in terms of creativity.  There&#8217;s too much daylight and way too much heat.  I don&#8217;t function well.  This is of course exacerbated in Texas.  It&#8217;s really hot down here for a long stretch.  The bad stuff is here and I will have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=547</link>
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		<title>guitar 002 complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend marked the completion of guitar 002.  It got its strings Sunday afternoon and a few minutes of playing before the reality of being a parent closed in on the fantasy of being a luthier.  That said, I did get a good deal of assistance from novice&#8217;s apprentice in history.  Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=543</link>
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		<title>five things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m big on the Five Things List.  There&#8217;s no way for me to know where I got the idea, but it was certainly from a blog and I know that I started doing it on 21 Dec 2009.  In the little notebook in my bag, the pages are filling up with five things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=541</link>
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		<title>starting and finishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the advice of my diminutive future Power of Attorney holder, I took a personal day on Friday to hang out with my family and work on my guitar a little more.  In the process of looking for something (ebony end pins! I KNEW they were in there!) in my closet, I discovered that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=540</link>
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		<title>plans and accountability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My brain is on fire with ideas, but the will to execute is running low.  This happens seasonally for me.  I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the academic calendar that was drilled into my head for who knows how many years or if it&#8217;s the added pressure of the summer in Texas that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=537</link>
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		<title>focus and flow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new guitar is getting a French polish.  Shellac and a wad of cotton wrapped up in a t-shirt scrap traveling over the surface of the wood in tiny figure eights.  With a little boy running around it can be difficult to focus, but this task seems to demand all of the attention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=536</link>
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		<title>something I wrote down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I scribbled something in my notebook a week or so ago about why we create things.  It was this:

Do you know why we build things?  Because at some point the BS of consuming and acquiring the work of others become so intolerable as to necessitate the creation of something truly unique and completely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=533</link>
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		<title>listening and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I do on my lunch hour is write in my journal.  There are piles of essays in there on every topic that trips my trigger.  Lately, I&#8217;m thinking seriously about my relationship with music and the guitar.  It&#8217;s hard to do that and keep a straight face sometimes. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=532</link>
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		<title>more guitar building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend wasn&#8217;t fantastic as my beloved wife was down with a flu or some other nasty crud.  She was pretty incapacitated and our son, who had recently conquered the same virus, was up and about and in need of activity while still recovering his energy.  This is generally not how a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=529</link>
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		<title>The Recording Devil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend we had the great pleasure of hosting my good buddy Astra.  She and I have been sending recordings back and forth for a while now and it seemed like a good idea to import her from her native land of Canada for a jam session and to hang out in general. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=525</link>
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		<title>making things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took last week off and spent it with my family.  We camped for two nights and that was fantastic!  We also made a trip to Austin to visit friends and family (they can be the same people, you know).  I spent the time when we weren&#8217;t traveling in the garage working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=522</link>
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		<title>writing and writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the funny things about creative work is that the idea in the head can often run counter to plans.  That&#8217;s why plans are so wonderful.  They provide a direction in the event that the next step isn&#8217;t clear.  But that doesn&#8217;t mean that a plan is The Plan.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=519</link>
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		<title>a little setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I finished building my guitar, I put my Martin on the guitar hanger and haven&#8217;t touched it since.  I love this new instrument.  It&#8217;s not pretty, but it sounds wonderful and feels great.  The neck is wider than most steel string guitars I&#8217;ve played and that allowed me to set it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=518</link>
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		<title>teaching myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When there&#8217;s a clean slate in the studio the first thing I do is pick up the nearest instrument and make some sound.  I&#8217;m never really sure where it will go, but it starts with a sound.  Sometimes, like last night, a curious thought will occur and I&#8217;ll follow it for a while. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=515</link>
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		<title>a place to resist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading has been a fundamental part of my life for as long as I can remember.  It&#8217;s something that has always been stressed as a noble and necessary activity for enlightenment and pleasure.  My family of origin is loaded with readers and as such book are a good common ground.  One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=513</link>
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		<title>patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing a lot of reading these days.  I should say that I&#8217;m a pretty big reader but adding the nook to my life has pushing things over the edge.  Where I was barely clearing a book every three weeks or so I&#8217;m now knocking out one a week while juggling three at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=510</link>
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		<title>pause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a timeout last night.  This week seems to be full of slowing down and catching my breath.  My next project isn&#8217;t particularly clear and as a result, I&#8217;m meandering a little bit.  Or a lot.  Masquerading as Kratos and tearing the wings off of some harpies has done me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=508</link>
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		<title>writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was wrong yesterday.  I didn&#8217;t recording anything.  I left the computer alone and did some writing.  With a pen a paper, that is.  When I was a student I often wrote things out before I picked up an instrument.  In fact, I had a very strict rule when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othertime.com/musicblog/?p=506</link>
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