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Yet another post about Will’s new album, In Flight!

Last post I talked about the design of the booklet and such. After that, however, came an even more annoying problem: printing them. We didn’t need hundreds of copies, but we still didn’t want to use our home printer ink (for obvious reasons). So I went to Staples and got some estimates on how much printing 50 booklets would cost (that’s 150 pages front and back, fyi). If we had used their paper, it would have been over $200. Thankfully, Mel got some high-quality “great for CD booklet” paper. Using her paper it was something like $145, which is a lot, but not since Will is selling the booklet editions anyways.

So a few nights ago we went and got them all printed at Staples. Too bad they got them ALL WRONG. The woman who “helped” us, while nice, was rather incompetent about anything relating to printing, and printed nearly every every page off-center. Some of the pages were even diagonal on one side! I mean, seriously, how does that even happen!? Since we couldn’t use any of it, we went back the next morning (when we knew there would be a new shift of people at the printing station), and the woman there kindly reprinted all 150 for free. She even let us keep the original batch.

We spent the rest of the day stapling, cutting, smooshing, and inserting the booklets into the jewel cases. And they turned out GREAT. In fact, I think they look awesome. So if you can get one from Will, get it. Of course, I guess you could also get it for the music on it… heh heh.

In other quick news, I’m helping out with our church’s Vacation Bible School this Summer, which starts today. I’m doing drama, playing the part of a homesick, classic english butler in Egypt. It’s gonna be epic.

OH, and I’m seeing Arcade Fire tonight in Philadelphia. So expect some news from that!

Happy Trails,
Sam.

This Tuesday I posted a survey asking readers two questions.

1. Of all the concerts you’ve been to, which band played your favorite?

and

2. Where was the concert?

The survey is closed and the 29 responses have been plotted to a map on Google Earth. Check em out below:

As you can see, the responses ranged all across the United States, though mostly centralized to the east coast and especially to concerts located in Washington, D.C.

The favorite bands also varied greatly, with music from many different genres. The most popular bands answered were: Relient K (3), Jack’s Mannequin (2), Blink 182 (2), Animal Collective (2), and Switchfoot (2). Someone, I can only hope jokingly, put down Nickelback as their favorite band. Haha you are funny, whoever you are! Apparently someone has seen “Never been to one” up in Wisconsin, which is crazy, cause I didn’t know that they were still touring! Also I don’t know if Snoop Dogg performs in Alaska much, but it was an interesting response Thanks everyone for helping out!

Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.