drunk in the snow with a gun

so a while back, when i borrowed money from a bunch of you (about which i have not, in fact, forgotten), i promised to assemble a CD as a thank you. today i started thinking about what songs to put on it and designed the front cover. here's what it looks like, sort of:



(the 'real' version has the text lined up better, but it was easier to mock up a fake than to scale the monster CMYK image down without the text getting ugly.)

i've been practicing about an hour a day, which is as long as my voice and my fledgling calluses hold out. it feels good. considering my historical patterns re: musical motivation, i'm not sure whether this means i'm doing better or worse, but at least i'm doing something.