| "this spring i will be putting out a deadxstop 'reader'. aka: a compilation book of non-fiction short stories. i have asked many of my friends and writers that i think have interesting and unique takes on lifes moments to write for this. i really think this will be an awesome way to showcase some talent you may not have read. some people you probably havent heard of, some you have. either way, their job is to give me an entertaining story. so where do you come in? well, truthfully i do not have the time nor the energy to read hundreds of long ass stories, so what i need you to do is send 2 short example paragraphs of the story and a separate paragraph for the theme of your story to: dxs006@hotmail.com things to keep in mind: - i will not be the only person judging your writing. there will be 2 other judges that you will have to impress. so if you think writing about american nightmare and cat shit will garner you points, it wont. - the stories can be anything from funny to introspective to disgusting to downright crushing. all that i ask is that it be a UNIQUE and entertaining perspective. - please do not send me a story about feeling lost or your grandmother dying or your broken heart. sure, i have written about these things, we all have, but i think thats better left to blogs. what im looking for is a fresh perspective on something. hell, if you can make eating cookies sound amazing, do it. if you work at a sewage plant and want can have me on the edge of my seat telling me about processing shit, make it happen. DO NOT COME BORING. - that being said, do not over-paint this picture. leave the victorian prose to the experts. the overuse of adjectives and adverbs will not over up your inability to express yourself. - just because i have left open 5 spots, does not mean they will be necessarily filled. if no one sends in anything we find unique or entertaining, we might only fill 3 spots or 1 spot. - just because i slept on your floor one time in 2005 doesnt mean you will be given preference points. if you are reading this and you are my friend, show friend, family or ex-girlfriend, this does not mean you have an 'in'. - this contest is open to EVERYONE. mom and dad, little brothers who have never heard of me and hateful kids on message boards, hey, heres your chance to get published. - if you are chosen, your story will be expected to be between 1000-6000 words. - if you would like to remain anonymous, i can respect that. i will be willing to use your pen name. - last submission date will be january 4th. winners will be announced the next week." Good luck to everyone who enters! |
Dec 22, 2008 | Posted by Admin
| Due to the weather and other circumstances, Christopher was forced to postpone the first two dates (Milwaukee and Minneapolis) of his winter tour. The first official date of the tour will be this Tuesday, December 23 in Chicago at The Fixx Cafe (3053 N. Sheffield Avenue). Please check back as the new information for the postponed dates will be posted as soon as it is available. |
Dec 21, 2008 | Posted by Admin
| The tour dates for the upcoming Winter US tour have been updated with the latest info. We are still waiting on a few more cities (Philadelphia, Boston, & Brooklyn) to be confirmed so keep checking back. Also, Brits & Australians, Christopher is coming this spring! Australian dates are tentatively scheduled March 17th - 24th and UK dates April 2nd - 12th. All information regarding these dates will be posted as soon as it is available. |
Dec 15, 2008 | Posted by Admin
| i remember coming up with a "retrospective" book idea years ago. i even had my friend stephanie collate every journal entry as far back as jan 2004. i put it off and put it off until basically this fall. honestly, because i figured it would be easy, just throw my favorite journal entries in a book and off it goes to the printer... see, this is where i fuck up every time. its like warped tour, it comes around so infrequently that it leaves you with juuuust enough time to forget how fucking bad it sucks. well, i put out a book, roughly, once a year... juuuuust long enough to forget that writing the goddamn thing is only 25% of the effort it takes to go from 'idea' to 'book in paw'. so many little things you will probably never even notice: are the margins set correctly? did you offset the ditch of the book? will the text transfer over from a word.doc to a pdf? all pictures must be on the right hand side, if you add that page you forgot, will it throw off the picture pages? why is there a break in the middle of this paragraph? wait, why is part of the text missing? why are there weirdo symbols now in place of quotation marks? is there enough bleed for the cover? what are the specs for a barcode box? do you still have your ISBN numbers? oh fuck, i forgot to edit that sentence, can i remake another pdf? 60 pound paper is too flimsy, can i do 70 pound on such a large book? i need a 12 point cover on a book this big? how much extra is that? will this dude ever finish the foreword he said he would write last month? is clandan going to kill me if i ask for just one more pdf edit? wait, paper prices went up how much? i used to look at cds and think, "what a ripoff, $14 for a cd... i know that shit only cost them like $1 to make that shit." thats like looking at a painting and judging its value based upon the price of the canvas and paints. i get this now. i see that its not about the production, manufacturing and shipping of a product... but the time, energy, passion, enthusiasm, heart and soul one pours into their art. yet in the end, inevitably have their party pissed upon by some bratty teen who thinks having to drop the five extra bucks is "selling-out". sigh. ive been so stressed out lately that my neck and shoulders feel like worn out rubberbands. my deodorant refuses to work. ive ditched out on so many people to sit in a starbucks and "work" that i doubt i have any friends left. i havent gone running since ive been back from europe. and im literally taking every last dime i have to pay for the production of this simple coffee table book. but... i met the deadline i set for myself. if you get the impression you have read this book, you're wrong. this is the beginning, the heart, the reason why, and the man behind the curtain of every meaningful entry i have ever written. it is a beginners guide to who, what, when, where and why i am who i am now. it is every entry you've printed out... and why it was written. it has a brief history written by me looking back five years later and a foreword written by someone who is directly responsible for you reading these words at this very moment. to me this book is worth far more than $30. it is priceless. it is the most important book i have ever released, because it makes all of this, me, make sense. without it, there wouldnt have been any of my other books, dvds, cds, radio shows, tours or speakings. this book is my scrapbook. it is my history. limited to 250. available december 1st - 8th only at askheychris.livejournal.com  |
Nov 30, 2008 | Posted by Admin
| Christopher's new book, Collected Works 2004 - 2008, will go on sale. Only 250 copies of this book will be sold! The sale begins tonight at MIDNIGHT (CST) and ends until sold out or December 8th, whichever comes first. This limited edition book is an 11x8.5" coffee table book and includes a foreward written by that dude in that one band. At MIDNIGHT (CST) TONIGHT, check Christopher's LiveJournal (link is to your left!) and the purchase information will be there. |
Nov 30, 2008 | Posted by Admin
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