So while I was in NYC I saw some things printed on signs on walls. I got a shot of a real DAN SMITH WILL TEACH YOU GUITAR flyer in front of a candy store on Broadway and 78th St. These things are everywhere, and there's something really powerful about them. You know what's powerful about them? Dan Smith is what's powerful about them. He seems friendly enough at first glance, but after you see a second poster on the same late-night walk to the train, and then a third, and a fifth, and a ninth; something in his face starts to creep under you, under your pants and under your skin, and the lump in your throat swells, and you see his face again and again and again and his confidence, his inhuman confidence turns your blood to ice and drops you to your knees; and you realize just as you black out, cell phone in hand, thumb dialing furiously; that "Guitar" is just the beginning of what Dan Smith will teach you.
My friend Will Disney wrote a short story about Dan Smith here. Mr. Smith is also online at dansmithwillteachyouguitar.com. I will not be watching that video.
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Mmmm yes. For some reason I always remembered him.
Still, there's something to it–subconsciously becoming a fixture to a city of over 8 million. I bet years from now you'll be walking down the same street and see a faded, torn up flyer of "DAN SMITH WILL TEACH YOU SEWING". You'll get a nostalgic tear in your eye, and all those warm, fuzzy feelings of walking down New York City streets at 3am will come flooding back to you.
You'll have Dan Smith to thank for that, dude.
I watched the video. His eyebrows move like a muppet's.
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