new music!

I've written less music then I'd have liked to have in the last couple years. But I've been making more attempts recently and I came up with one today. I literally wrote it in the last 20 minutes, it's very very incomplete and rough, but I recorded it so I don't forget it. That's my biggest issue most often- that I come up with a cool jam or words or something, but don't write it down or record it and the idea is lost. I am going to make more of an effort to sit and write songs, as well as to record some version of them for future work.
I was kind of inspired to write today by a band I stumbled across: I saw them twice in Chicago in 2007, once at an acoustic open mic (which I played as well) and again at a coffee-shop/restaurant setting with a full band. I'm happy for their success- but at the same time it makes me think I really ought to write more songs and crash the Chicago open mic circuit next year. Who knows what could happen?
Here's the song I recorded today: again, rough, but enjoy anyway-



Also, high speed rail in the United States? 8 billion is headed toward building its infrastructure in the stimulus plan.