touring is awesome. but its not everything. its a bunch of kids running around eating dessert before our meals. and thats cool. but its not how you grow strong. its not how you change the world. its not how you shine and its not the best use of your potential, blood and personality. if you absolutely have to know what the sights and smells are, go get it. go find your place behind the table, on the...

When the news was passed on to me this morning, my first thought was "Okay. Umm, okay. I am not going to process this for now". My second thought was "OMG must switch computer on, ONTD's probably breaking the internetz" (they did. Of course.) Which just shows that the processing thing really wasn't happening. It took me about half an hour to start feeling ashamed of myself. I switched the computer...

I have not updated in quite a while and I will soon, maybe once I graduate haha but I found this when deleting my OLDDD mail and though it needed to be shared! I wrote this freshman year about identity construction. My thesis was how The Academy Is... constructed their own identity in the music scene. I love them to death, god knows, but I'm not so sure I'd write this same paper again, read for yourself...

Hailing from Chicago and first rising to noteriety as the inspiration for Fall Out Boy’s early hit “Grenade Jumper”, self-published author Christopher Gutierrez is set to wow British audiences for the third time. Dedicated long-time fans and hopefully some new listeners will experience a passionate delivery of stories from his four books. Enigmatic, challenging and often hilarious, Christopher’s...

I'm not sure if promoting is allowed in this community, but I wanted to find a way to advertise this event to people in the Birmingham area: askheychris is a livejournal user that blogs, rants, and writes. He is a self-published author, writing about his past, present and future. He also does spoken word tours in which he comes to coffee shops/tea rooms/wherever and talks about growing...

Hullo, LJ denizens! Hope you're enjoying your long weekend. Just wanted to get the word out about author and friend of mine Christopher Guiterrez, who will be doing a small speaking at the Starbucks on Center this Friday at 6 PM. Free to the public and guarenteed to make you laugh at least once, or your money back. (See what I did there?) Here's a mini flier, and you can find out more about him at...

ugh, semester exams CAN DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE WHILE SUCKING MY COCK. yeah, i said it. you guys, i will never get tired of mychem!dogs. LITTLE WINNNNNSTON ♥____♥ the band is pretty neat too, i hear! they are, in fact, neat enough for me to basically reread every fucking fic i have ever loved in my entire life, omg. please to be reading everything by normalhumanbein   and tacks  IMMEDIATELY...

HeyChris gets top fives for 2008 off a variety of people . I'm kind of in love with the entire Mikey entry: mikey way: the peanut butter to my jelly. owner of the best hotel in jersey, way manor. fellow gamer/toy collector/arcade enthusiast. bass player for the band my chemical romance. 1)Glasvegas 2) Its always sunny in Philadelphia 3) Weezer- red album 4) world of warcraft "wrath of the lich...

tom conrad: reluctant pop-punk heart-throb LOL

jibboom is pressuring me, so here goes my update about seeing askheychris last night. First of all I am awesome and went downtown early to go shopping since I finally found out where to get this particular kind of jeans I've seen everyone with. So I got 3 pairs at $25 each. Then I went to H&M and saw a pair I've been eyeing lately for 50% off, so I got those too - for $15. So after...