HeyJaredThe Fireproof Hotel
Essays, revelations, and recommendations. Everything I couldn’t fit in a verse and chorus.
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For My Father (opens the original)
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My father died 2 weeks ago today.This will be the first of my 90+ posts in my two years of writing and sharing here that he will not read. I will not receive that text within the 24-hour window of posting, the one that rivals my post itself in length, where he shares how he empathizes with my words and is proud that I’ve shared them. I won’t get the phone call that would come when the post was a little too dark for his taste, and so he’d have to couple his pride and empathy with a small dose of
Get Yourself A New God (opens the original)
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Right Back To It (opens the original)
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You have three options when you find yourself obsessed with a song.The first route to take is to surrender fully to the feeling and fall victim to the temptation to bottle its magic. In the moment, it will seem like a great idea, and the chase may be fun, and you may learn something along the way, but the result will always be lukewarm. I’ve never left a session that started with, “Let’s write a song like ———,” and felt it was a day well spent. The one exception is when it’s used as a matchstick
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