Music for Everyone
For the last two months that I lived in Calgary, I worked in the coffee shop in the main library downtown. One day, on a break (from the hard job of doing the Times crossword with my co-worker and occasionally making a latte or two), I wandered into the basement and found a rack of books being sold for pennies. I bought this choir book. Then I took it home and ripped out all the pages, covered the inside with a neutral paper and made it into a CD case for Ryan.
Each sleeve is just taped inside, so it’s not the most sturdy thing.
A friend of mine back in high school really liked Brand New and this quote (from their song Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t) that I wrote in the spine has been swimming around in my head for years: “I hope this song starts a craze, the kind of song that ignites the airwaves, the kind of song that makes people glad to be where they are, with whoever they’re there with.”
Anyway, I forgot about this CD case until I saw Ex Libris Anonymous, a site that sells journals made from old book covers. Even the coil bindings look good. I want one.
