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Archive for December, 2007

Happy New Year to all my readers!

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This is a post to wish all of you a Happy New Year! I hope that you will have a great year ahead!

You can recycle books

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Any book you have can easily be recycled.  It doesn’t even take a lot of effort.  You have a few choices in how you can do this.

  • You can actually recycle the book, by removing the binder and recycling the pages with your other paper to be recycled.
  • You can sell the book to a bookstore or even try selling it online.
  • You can donate a book to your local library or a local school.

All three methods are pretty simple.  Inside of just chucking it into the garbage you can actually see that it goes on to be used again – either in its original state or throw a recycled product.

Find Inspiration for Killer Songwriting

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Writer’s block is fairly common, especially among beginners who wants to try it.  There are as many different sources of inspiration for writing a great song as there are snowflakes or fingerprints.  All it takes is a little practice and those creative juices will be flowing once again.

Here are some ways:

Watch TV.  Is global warming burning you up?  Or maybe human trafficking is giving you road rage?  John Lennon is best known for “Imagine,” which was in itself a protest against the Vietnam War. Whatever the idea, some of the best songwriting, like that of Bob Dylan and newer bands like Rage Against the Machine, is politically charged. 

Read your old diaries.  Love, and all the positive and negative aspects of it, are a good place to start.  Just thinking back among your past relationships can give you a year’s worth of material.

Look at your life.  Just take a look around at your present circumstances.  “I’ve Seen Better Days” is a song that parodies the singer’s daily life.  The music isn’t memorable, but the lyrics ring true to many people of that age group.

Music first, lyrics later.  Another method taken from the hip hop world is to come up with the music before writing the lyrics.  Many develop their beats, or the track that will loop under the rhymes, before writing a single word.  They then freestyle without having anything written down to develop the lyrics.

Freewrite.  Grab a pen and paper, and spend 10 minutes writing whatever comes to mind.  Don’t worry about spelling and grammar or if it makes sense, just keep writing.  After your 10 minutes are up, look it over and see if you have some ideas you can expand upon to make a song out of.

Biodiesel Fuel

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Biodiesel fuel is an alternative fuel that comes from 100% renewable resources.  It burnly cleanly and is often considered the fuel of the future. Biodiesel does not contain petroleum, but can be mixed with petroleum to produce a biodiesel blend that can be used in many different types of vehicles. Biodiesel Fuel is biodegradable and non-toxic, making it safer then common table salt.:)

I think that Biodiesel is an innovative and important fuel that is rapidly becoming more available to the general public.  Right now it can be found around the country.  Although it costs a little more than traditional fuels but rest assured that demand will grow. The public will realize the benefits of a biodegradable fuel source which will ultimately bring down the price.  Right now, though, the cheapest way to get biodiesel fuel is to make it at home yourself.