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hi! i gotta admit, the new cheetos commercials are awesome. the cat tells people to perform terrible pranks, like stuffing cheetos in a dude's nose cause he's snoring on a plane. kinda awesome. cheetos, in and of themselves...evil. commercial...crucial. i haven't emailed in like a week, cause i've been hanging on the east coast with my old buddies from high school. we had our ten year high school reunion this past saturday in princeton, new jersey. it was so much fun. it's neat how things feel just like they did the day we graduated, even though some of us haven't seen each other since that day in 1998. i was thinking back on that day and remembering how ambivalent we all felt. happy to move on, sad to say goodbye. bryan newman was there. i love that man. i feel blessed to have been brought up in the same location, where we could bond and connect about feeling ostracized at school and find solace in the punk scene around us. growing up in new jersey was awesome. i can't help feeling like some of that was the wonderful friends and schoolmates i grew up with. new jersey is just like any other state, some of it's awesome and full of action, and some of it howls in the passing wind. i remembered bryan and i being so excited at graduation, knowing that two weeks later we would go on our first national tour. what lucky 18 year olds, huh. so wonderful. i really just feel so lucky for this beautiful life. and you guys are more than icing on that ass. that ass is a layered cake. three tiers of icing. so thank you. tanky tanky. and you know what? i think i am actually in love with barrack obama. it's the strangest thing, i spontaneously come to tears every time he gives one of those "we can pull together and make this work" speeches. he is truly inspiring to me. this world is at odds. but we're all neighbors. there is no one apart from us on this planet. just us. if there were some other semi-human species here, trying to kick our asses, we would easily band together and feel the love and protect ourselves...together. hey, i know i'm a hippy. i don't like granola, but i like you. and you. and you. all a ya. we will fade under the spinning stars and then we're gone. we're gone! and for now, things feel like they're looking up. perhaps we have a nice sunrise in our future. THE SUN ALSO RISES, is what i like to say to my pessimistic cohorts. when the world seems so cold and there's nowhere to turn, i still look up at the stars and the gorgeous bone-white full moon, and i feel such love. such joy. i know we are together. i know i sound funky at times. but i really don't care. i grew up with such promise and so many highly engaged individuals, that my optimism abounds. it reaches out. it wants to grab you and hold you. i will lift you up and hug you so hard it cracks a rib...and hopefully barrack is in office at that point and we all have health care (hehe). so shit man. i just wanted to say hi. i'm sitting in the hotel in philly. waiting to fly out tomorrow morning. i wanted to say hi cause i miss you and i hope you are feeling fine and hopeful. sometimes it's hard, huh! love ya. miss ya. feel ya. need ya. bye!
chris
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- Comment by: fanny ford
- Date: June 20, 2008
we dont get cheetos in england anymore they got banned. we also dont get saves the day, but we should. come to england :)
- Comment by: Bruno Pereira Coutinho
- Date: June 13, 2008
Hello, Chris. As you could see, my name is Bruno. I've been suporting you guys since 2002, when " throught being cool" got into my, now r.i.p, discman for the first time. Since then, i've been listening and following you guys ups and downs, as well as the changes on the records your guy released. Well, right now I am living in Jackson, NJ. I came here to work for while. As soon as I got here you guys made a concert in Philly on 1st of may and I, unfortunately, couldn't go there to see you guys, because i as working my ass off. I am coming back home in Setember and I will be very disapoited if I don't see you guys playing live or maybe take some time to chat about life or even cheetos comercials while I am here. By the way, here's my e-mail adress. I'd be glad to meet you guys someday before my departing. Hugs and best wises, from you guys greatest fan in Brazil. Bruno.
- Comment by: vanessa
- Date: June 13, 2008
Chris, I miss you! & want you to know that YOU inspire ME. You don't know how much your albums [specifically Stay What You Are] used to/& still help me get through my day and put me to sleep at night(thats a good thing! haha). I really hope to see you in August at the Chain Reaction<3
- Comment by: Kate Norris
- Date: June 12, 2008
When are you guys coming to England? I swear I saw a notification of you guys playing the academy in Birmingham on monday in the Metro (English free paper) but theres nothing on the website? Love your music, its helps me through all the shit xx
- Comment by: Marcelo A. Santucci
- Date: June 11, 2008
yeah cris. i'm from brazil, and i'm a great fan of saves the day since i know myself. and hey, who are we without friends? without love? we need each other. yeah keep rocking love you guys
- Comment by: Laura Klein
- Date: June 7, 2008
Sometimes when I miss a person, I gaze at the moon and imagine it to be a giant mirror so that I can check up on them. Oh, wouldn't that be nice if it were so. Take care Chris, I'm glad you had/are having fun back home.
- Comment by: Andrew D. Tran
- Date: May 30, 2008
Chris, How's it hangin' man? You seem to be enjoying yourself and that makes me happy. I haven't been 'round the boards in a while. Just wanted to say I feel ya. Pale Blue Dot and all that shit, ya?! fuck ya! haha I don't tend to curse but I found it appropriate. Here's to the earth community, of which we are a part. Daybreak is going to be awesome.
- Comment by: Jess Ray
- Date: May 25, 2008
I'm glad that you know and understand you grew up with promise. We all do. I'm growing up with that promise right now, but sometimes I fail to see it in myself because others constantly try to shut it out. The world needs more people like you.
- Comment by: Kristin Lamarre
- Date: May 22, 2008
The sun also rises. Had a shitty day today until now. Tell your optimisim I say thanks for the rib crushing hug I recieved just about five minutes ago. I needed it.
I vote Chris Conley for president. Then maybe we would start seeing some must needed change. You are truly magnificent.