Your Promises, They Look Like Lies

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I made this little memorial on beliefnet earlier. Feel free to comment and whatever.

RIP Casey
xoxo

I am in a state of absolute shock. When I read the title 'Casey Calvert, guitarist for Hawthorne Heights, dies in sleep', I had to re-read it several times before it sank in.
This is the official statement from the band, posted on the Hawthorne Heights website:

Today is probably the worst day ever. Its with our deepest regrets that we have to write this. Casey Calvert passed away in his sleep last night. We found out this afternoon before sound-check. We've spent the entire day trying to come to grips with this and figure out as much as possible. At this time we're not sure what exactly happened. Just last night he was joking around with everyone before he went to bed. We can say with absolute certainty that he was not doing anything illegal. Please, out of respect to Casey and his family, don't contribute or succumb to any gossip you may hear. We don't want his memory to be tainted in the least. Casey was our best friend. He was quirky and awesome and there will truly be no others like him! His loss is unexplainable. As soon as we know more we will let you know.

Sincerely,

Hawthorne Heights

Eron, JT, Micah and Matt

Kerrang!: Calvert was found  mere hours before the band was due to perform at the 9:30 Club on Saturday night.Althought an official cause of death is still to be determined, early reports suggest that Calvert died from an allergic reaction to the combination of sleeping pills and anti-depressants he was taking.

R.I.P Casey Calvert. He was only 26 years old, and far too young, by any standards, to die. Here are some of the comments made on both the Kerrang website and here on Buzznet:

Truely gutted at hearing this news! I was a fan of the band for many years and so glad i got to see them do there thing live! RIP Casey, gone but not forgotten!x - Chris, kerrang.com

R.I.P you were a ledgend[sic] xxxxxx - Jason, kerrang.com

OMG! That is such a shock. RIP Casey. It is always sad to hear that someone you respect has died, but this seems so wrong. He was so young and had loads to give still. It is a sad loss of a great talent. - Sarah, kerrang.com

:( Rest In Peace, Casey. You will be missed. - Crash13, buzznet.com

This the worst news I have heard in a long time... Casey was an incredible person and amazingly talented musician, may the memories of him and his music live on forever.... R.I.P Casey Calvert - Ryan Weber, buzznet.com

Go onto the Hawthorne Heights forum.

People have been writing about times when they met HH, and Casey in particular, and have left some very moving comments.

So as y'all might have heard already from Breesay's blog, Kanye West's mother, Dr Donda West, passed away...allegedly from complications from the surgery she'd had the day before.



Now, the surgeon was a certain Jan Adams...and he seems to be quite the pr*ck. Allow me to explain: He is in trouble with the Medical Board of California over several DUI cases AND has had judgments against him in at least two malpractice cases.
ALSO

•  multiple convictions for alcohol-related offenses
• charges of unprofessional conduct and abuse of alcohol
• Adams has settled at least two malpractice suits, one for $250,000 and another for $217,000!!

source


   seriously...would you trust a guy that looks like this?


OKAY! Onto Pete Doherty, our favourite junkie!
So at the time of the MTV European Music Awards, ol' Petey-boy was supposed to be squeaky clean and sober.

Yeah right.

A video sprung up of, allegedly,  Pete shooting up heroin backstage. C'mon...did you really think he'd get clean this easily?? source
But I was listening to Radio 1 this morning - Chris Moyles show with Russell Brand as a guest - and they seemed to make a point. "If Pete and Donny [Tourette] were hanging off a ledge, and I could only save one-" "-well, Pete of course-" "-Exactly"

They also called Pete a "bright and talented young man". And to be honest, I have to a agree. He's the world's favourite car-crash. He might not have the best voice in the world, but he's acheived fame and cult and star status. His music is brilliant. And his performances sure-as-hell are charged! Just don't ask with what! And I'm not trying to blaspheme here, but perhaps he is rather like the modern day Kurt Cobain.
HALT
This is where all you kids start going "OMG how DARE she compare Pete to our beloved Kurt???". Puh-lease. I'm a huge Kurt and Nirvana fan. Have been for years. But I'm just making an observation. I don't mean it to the fullest extent, but you must admit...there are similarities!!


anyway, that's all for now! Keep on truckin' folks!

Cetrimide xoxo

Been uploading pics, and updating what groups they go into. All the time. 24/7.
Yes, I have no life.

I just read this and it made me feel sick. Click on the links. I'm currently looking at the MassResistance's so-called successes. It's disgusting:

• Successfully pressured Gov. Romney to veto funding of homosexual programs in schools put in FY 2007 state budget, through national grassroots action. (July 2006)

• Exposed "Youth Pride" and BAGLY "trans" Prom, and Boston Pride events including children, partly funded with taxpayer money. (2005, 2006)

how the F*CK can you call these successes??
No I am not gay, I'm bisexual, and I have friends who are gay. So this hits home. And strikes a bloody nerve.

I've signed the MillionForMarriage petition. I'm part of iSupport. I'm off to Gay Pride next year. I've been raised a Catholic, but I still am the way I am. I've yelled at my parents many times for making gay jibes and comments which I find unacceptable. And I think next on my list is to get rid of MassResistance.

As part of my A2 Photography personal study, I had to get some first-hand research. So I interviewed artist and photographer Rob Dobi, who has worked freelance, and also with bands such as Atreyu, Coheed & Cambria and Fall Out Boy.

Rob Dobi began drawing as a hobby at the age of four, and at age sixteen, in his sophomore year  he started to work in digital mediums, before attending the Rhode Island School of Design between 1999 and 2003, where he gained a Bachelor’s Degree in illustration. Using Photoshop and Illustrator as his tools of the graphic world, Dobi has worked with various musicians such as Atreyu, Fall Out Boy, Less Than Jake and Coheed & Cambria. He designed clothing, stage backdrops, CD artwork and tour posters. “I hate working with musicians and bands nowadays, I really don't do it anymore.” Dobi said, to my surprise. “I would much rather be out exploring old buildings and piecing together history.” I try to push the matter further. Working with bands can’t be that bad, right? Is there any chance of you working with musicians again? “Rright now i only do work with bands if a) I really enjoy the band or if they've been kind to me in the past or b) if the money is good!” Well I guess that settles that, then. But then again, judging by his latest work, I should have figured that out. However, although he might not be making clothing for bands, he has been creating his own line of t-shirts called ‘Fullbleed’. His work is easily recognisable; each image focuses around a person doing something very odd. ‘In Full Swing’, for example, shows three people swinging on clouds. His work is iconic, but he has “plenty of influences: Norman Rockwell, Guy Billout, Arthur Adams [and] Mike Mignola”

Yes that list is full of artists, not photographers, another non-surprise then, that he is an “illustrator who just happens to dabble in other stuff like graphic design and photography”.

 

Just look at his work entitled ‘New England Ruins’ and I think you’ll be in for a shock. Dobi must be extremely modest to say that he ‘dabbles’ in photography. Without hesitation I can easily say that his work is not that of an amateur and not of someone who simply dabbles. The photographers he admires are “just a few friends” who remain unnamed, but I’ll work on that later, and he tells me that when it comes down to photography “I don’t really have any influences…I don’t really study the subject”

 

Dobi has a strange childish curiosity in him, which he has never outgrown. In seventh grade, on summer camp, he would always break away from his group in order to go exploring. Today, he wanders around trying to find abandoned buildings in which to take photographs, often getting him into rather tight spots. So…any trouble with security or the police? “I’ve had a few run-ins with security, gotten a few trespassing fines, but nothing bad considering how much I’ve been doing this stuff!” He says, somewhere between modesty and that feeling you get when you’ve successfully outwitted someone. Okay, but what about injuries? “I’ve stepped on a few rusty nails…aggravated a torn ACL-” that’s an Anterior Cruciate Ligament, by the way, a major ligament in the knee. And how did he manage it? - “That happened while jumping off a roof.”

 

So here’s what I’ve managed to decipher about the man that is Rob Dobi: He is an illustrator. Who dabbles in graphic design. And photography. Dabbles. He’s nearly killed himself a couple of times because the staircases he climbed, well, weren’t up to the challenge. He loves to cruise around in search of another building to explore, the more decayed the better, and seems to have a morbid curiosity for abandoned buildings, apparently with hospitals and institutions as his site of choice. But his thoughts can’t be going un-influenced, can they? You admire your friends’ work…just give me a name? “Justin Oliver. He takes fantastic photographs.” I checked out his website, and I smacked myself on the head. Their work is scarily similar. And it’s a definite case of ‘the chicken or the egg’ with these two.

And despite the close calls with security guards, and even death, it seems that hunting down abandoned prisons and hospitals to showcase their hidden beauty is his true passion. So although his main income is from his art, if he could survive on photography alone, then he would. And his final comment proves this. Commissions: anything you’d love to be asked to do? “Not really. I kinda do this for myself, not for anyone else.”

hello everyone :]

Went to the fireworks display yesterday with mum and gran, which was awesome :] I'll get the pics and vids up when I can...seriously, we get the best show around here XD

Me and my father are not on the best of terms. Last Monday we had a bit of let's say an argument and didn't talk for a week. He seems to think that I want to talk to him now. F*CK OFF thankyouverymuch.

Watching My So Called Life for the second time XD Can't get enough of it!! Also, been watching Ben 10 and Yu-Gi-Oh GX because I am that damn hardcore biatch :P

College today...skipping first though :P cba. Gotta go talk to my tutor though, so I'll be leaving...at some point XD LOL

My Skeleton Crew t shirt arrived on saturday!!1 It's the 'I am a monster' one and I LOVE IT!!!! I'm wearing it right now, and it makes me smile :P

So yea, stay safe with fireworks and sparklers, kids :]

xoxo