A heavy metal musical titled War

Every so often, I’ll indulge in a bit of fantasy, proclaiming how I’m going to work on this project or that project, write this album or that EP. And at the time, I didn’t think I could actually come within striking distance of achieving that kind of focus.
Well, I’ve been revisiting this idea I had since high school — writing a musical.
I’m not sure how fond I am of that idea because I haven’t really been building the compositional chops for a theatrical work. But a concept album or song cycle? That would be a good step.
Long ago and far away, I kept threatening to write a musical called War. I didn’t know which war or what kind of war, but I wanted to write a heavy metal musical called War. I am not going to follow through on this idea. In these times, it’s distasteful.
Thing is, I’ve already been organizing the songs I have and the songs I’ve been working on into loose projects, and throwing a song cycle on top of that growing list? I’m afraid of overextending myself.
Then I realized — it’s been a while since I’ve actually reviewed all the half-assed brainstorming and concrete ideas I’ve been collecting. So I’m combing the archives and consulting the lists to make an inventory, much like this one.
Here goes:

「風の歌を聴け」: I’m calling this my Wayne Horvitz rip-off EP. Three-fifths of it is already done, and I’ve got a good idea of the fourth song. The fifth is a complete blank. But I feel I’m close.
A Ghost in My Shadow: The original project. Problem, though — I’ve been cannibalizing it. Four songs from it have already been reassigned to Imprint, and another two form the basis of 「風の歌を聴け」. So really, I’m not sure whether this project will exist by this time next year.
Revulsion (formerly, Stylish Number Girl): I haven’t done much with this one, but then again, I haven’t been writing with a guitar. And that will be my gimmick for this project — to write with an instrument I’m not skilled at playing. I do have about six sketches, which is a lot by comparrison.
Shift Your Paradigm: Seven sketches for this project have been sitting around, so I would like to try to finish it. It’ll be more introspective than Imprint but not as bugfuck crazy as 「風の歌を聴け」.
8.0s: Ha! I keep thinking I’m joking about writing a full-on new wave project, but I’ve got a narrow window of opportunity here — the 80s are fashionable again, what with the Killers and Franz Ferdinand and the like. And honestly? I actually have songs written in the style, more closer to Duran Duran than anything. So this may still happen yet. But probably not in time for the Killers and Franz Ferdinand to go out of style.
Chronology Protection Conjecture: This idea so didn’t stick, I didn’t realize I had it till I read my archive. But one of my other hair-brained ideas was writing a song cycle about string theory. You know — The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene … Maybe.
Voodoo: This was a working title of what eventually became Imprint.
[Untitled covers album of Japanese rock songs]: This entry mentioned covers I wouldn’t mine doing, but I don’t have enough material to perform the kind of transformations I want to do. An album of Japanese cover songs, though, has a lot more potential — I’d be hard-pressed to narrow it down. I already know I want to try some Quruli, Supercar, Shiina Ringo, maybe Number Girl and perhaps “Count Down” by Cocco … Oh, and I’m going to use the moniker Deathcake Yumi.
Secular: I never think of this project till Christmas comes around. And maybe this year with my studio built, I may finally tackle it. The idea was to make a Christmas album entirely of sacred songs. Calling it Secular is sarcastic on my part.
Stigmata and Chess: I just like the idea of using these as titles. But now that I think of it, I could probably rename 8.0s to Chess and give the untitled Japanese cover record the code name Stigmata.