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Category: phone books

Songwriting Club: Phone Book Song

Today is the inaugural Songwriting Club song unveiling. As you may recall, the theme this time around was phone books. As promised, I’m putting myself at the mercy of the masses by sharing my lyrics with you. And though I’d love to say that “I wrote it in like fifteen minutes… and… I wasn’t planning [...]

Songwriting Club

Not long after I started playing guitar a decade ago, a desire was birthed in me to not only become able at guitar playing, but also to write original songs to ably play on that guitar. I’ve only successfully (used very loosely) written one song in those ten years, and I did so because I [...]

done and done.

The date was October 27th, the time 2:00am. I met my goal of tearing a phone book in half. The two halves of a phonebook you see pictured above are the remnants of the very phone book which I tore. Note the Bryan/College Station edition, and the green carpet, which could only be found in [...]

nine days in…

As you may recall, my goal for October, the only month of my life for which I’ve set a goal, is to tear a phone book in half. As of today, the 9th, this is how far I’ve been able to get.
That doesn’t mean that I’ve been working on the same phone book all month. [...]

my goal for October

The past few weeks I’ve had plenty of free time on my hands, lots of time to think about what skill I’d like to pick up before REI hires me. Well I’ve figured it out: I want to tear a phonebook in half. What screams, “I’m a man” like accomplishing such a feat? Well lots [...]