I love EMP

On a lighter note, I attended the first class of my third semester of EMP/UW's song-writing certificate program. This semester is being taught by Jon Auer of Posies fame. He introduced the sylabus and walked us through his vision for the semester. We are going to produce and record a song that will serve as our final project. We are also going to have a final show, probably at the Science Fiction Museum stage. As with our other two instructors, Sean Nelson and Carrie Akre, Jon was very personable and down to earth. He had each of us play a song we had written for him. I played "Dream-line Alligator Revisited," and he gave me an idea how I could accentuate one of the songs hooks. The fact that Jon Auer thinks there is a hook in one of my songs makes me smile. As has been the case with both of the previous classes, I am having more fun than a republican at a book burning party.