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paperchase's Life List

  1. 1. brew my own beer
    621 people
  2. 2. learn morse code
    1 cheer
    252 people
  3. 3. get out of debt
    11,217 people
  4. 4. Move back to Austin
    17 people
  5. 5. own a house
    2,059 people
  6. 6. read every book I own
    1 cheer
    2,113 people
  7. 7. write a novel
    9,795 people
  8. 8. visit all the 50 states of the United States
    97 people
  9. 9. Learn to surf
    1 cheer
    7,446 people
  10. 10. run a marathon
    10,740 people
  11. 11. Start my own business
    8,701 people
  12. 12. learn to play poker
    438 people
  13. 13. learn to play and sing the entire blue album by weezer
    1 person
  14. 14. manage a band
    32 people
  15. 15. listen to all Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums
    10 people
  16. 16. have a garden
    1 cheer
    794 people
  17. 17. play drums
    306 people
  18. 18. Get my hammond organ repaired
    1 person
  19. 19. Do The Kerouac Trail
    2 people
  20. 20. be a best man
    10 people
  21. 21. get a real best friend
    9 people
  22. 22. Blog every day
    1 entry
    86 people
  23. 23. bike 1000+ miles
    4 people
  24. 24. learn to sew
    3,700 people
  25. 25. get my ohlerking painting framed and hung
    1 person
  26. 26. Buy and learn how to use a soldering iron
    1 person
  27. 27. do something nice for a stranger
    12 people
  28. 28. keep my room clean for one month
    2 entries
    2 people
  29. 29. run 3 times a week
    86 people
  30. 30. host an open mic
    2 people
  31. 31. complete a crossword
    5 people
  32. 32. run for public office
    215 people
  33. 33. visit israel
    281 people
  34. 34. go back to Scotland
    53 people
  35. 35. Save 1 million dollars
    7 people
  36. 36. Learn Spanish
    15,792 people
  37. 37. read entire bible
    24 people
  38. 38. write in my journal every day
    247 people
  39. 39. write letters every week
    2 people
  40. 40. master chess
    18 people

How I did it
How to get my stereo fixed.
It took me
3 years
It made me
feel like rocking.


How to grow weed
It took me
4 months
It made me
Meh.


How to record an album
It took me
3 years
It made me
Whatever


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Recent entries
Blog every day
www.criticalasshole.com 7 months ago

I’m a really big fan of tumblr.com. It seems to have a really stout network of bloggers and it has good tools to post.

Check it out:

www.criticalasshole.com

Where bad things truly suck, and the good things rule.



Record an album (read all 3 entries…)
Finally Done 9 months ago

I’ve decided that the album is done. It gets to a point where you just have to say “I could work on this forever if given the opportunity.” At some point, however, you just have to release it out into the world.

I’m releasing the album a an EP. I have more than enough songs recorded to fill an album, but there are so many problems with those other songs that I doubt I will be able to fix within in the next year. It’s time to move on.

That said, I think this will be my last album. I recorded two others and had big release parties and did all the hoopla associated with getting a CD printed and there hasn’t really been much of a return. I like the idea of doing just digital distribution. If I can get a group together soon, perhaps doing a printing will be something I should consider for the future to have something at shows. I just like the personal freedom associated with selling products with ZERO overhead.

Having dispensed with the business end of things, I believe this is a good record. Good sounds, good songwriting, good instrumentation—I think it is a good representation of “indie rock.”

I’m hoping to get a good initial rush of downloads when I first release. The release date is set for 05.08.2009. I set this date because besically anyone who would actually buy the album is in law school with me. 05.08.2009 is the last day of finals, so I figured it would be best to not try to sell something to people when they are stressed out and tired. We shall see.

For those following this post and my progress, please follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/holliswebb

To hear some tunes and read some other blog posts, go to my MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/holliswebb

And finally, on 05.08.2009, this is where the magic will happen: http://www.hollismusic.com/



keep my room clean for one month (read all 2 entries…)
So it begins 12 months ago

As of last night my room was clean. I feel better about life already. It was a pain in the ass to do it, but it’s done and it feels GREAT.



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