I’m making no progress on anything. Of course, I’m not actually working on anything to result in progress …
But ideas about everything have been floating around in my head. It would probably be good to jot them down.

  • I think I have the fourth track of 「風の歌を聴け」. I’m giving it the working title “Initializations”. The bass line consists of two famous musical initials — “D-S-C-H” from Dmitri Shostakovich, and “B-A-C-H” from Johann Sebastian Bach. And for contrast, I’m throwing in my initials, “G-E-B”, which I could consider something of a Duran Duran quote. (“The Chauffeur”, anyone?) It just might fit with the general harmonic complexity of the rest of the songs.
  • I’ve chipping away at the first Crux novel. I added a couple of more pages to Chapter 5. I’m not reading anything into that progress.
  • There’s a short story I’m picturing for Gary Huang and Mitch Warren. Gary’s abusive ex-, Sam, returns to New York City for a business trip and runs into Gary. Sam, now sober, seeks Gary’s forgiveness, but Gary is having none of it. Thing is, Gary suspects Mitch is having an affair. It turns out Mitch, at various times, has hooked up with Kevin, the man Mitch slept while his late-partner was gravely ill. Gary finds out and seeks Sam out, and he and Sam spend the night together. Gary still very much desires Sam physically, considering him the best man he’s ever had sex with. Kevin serves the same role for Mitch, especially since Mitch and Kevin have little else in common. It’s an interesting story, but I don’t want to use it if I’m going to have Mitch and Gary fall into becoming a family with an orphaned nephew later.
  • I’m getting a better sense of who Adam Fulton is. Adam Fulton is a drug dealer who dates Crash for a while. Adam is found murdered, and his death spurs Crash to dust off his legal training to find the killer. Adam is, by nature, a bright guy, a survivor with sharp mind and a desire to rise above the criminal world he finds himself in. He never uses any of the product he sells, and his modest living allows him to save up for tuition. But after having first sold his body on the street, then dealing ecstacy in clubs, Adam’s sense of vengence and bitterness also became honed. He was thrown out of his home in a small town after his parents find him having sex with a male classmate, and he ran straight to New York City. He’s drawn to Crash because Crash obviously had a good education and strong work ethic but defies other people’s expectations by choosing to live a somewhat bohemian lifestyle. They could have fallen in love, but they didn’t.
  • I want to resurrect the Shoyu Bunnies. I think it’s because I’ve been listening to too much TLC and Kylie Minogue.
  • I really ought to get back to reading The Elegant Universe.
  • I unearthed a bunch of old paper journals I kept between 1992 and 1997. There are some song lyrics in those journals that I’d like to try to set to music.