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Askheychris.livejournal.com is the personal journal of author Christopher Gutierrez dating back to January of 2004. For more information on Gutierrez's works click here.

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Tour Dates
March 21 - Enmore, Sydney (AUS)
March 22 - Adelaide (AUS)
March 23 - Melbourne (AUS)
March 25 - Brisbane (AUS)
March 26 - Chippendale, Sydney (AUS)
April 1 - Glasgow (UK)
April 2 - Edinburgh (UK)
April 3 - Newcastle (UK)
April 5 - Manchester (UK)
April 6 - Bristol (UK)
April 7 - Nottingham (UK)
April 8 - Birmingham (UK)
April 10 - London (UK)

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Trailer for Christopher's most current release, Notes From The Deep End: A Year in the Life of a Touring Author, available now in his official webstore.









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Filmed at The Fixx Cafe in Chicago, Illinois during the 'Make Your Mark' Tour in the fall of 2007. Available for purchase here.





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30th-Oct-2008 10:40 am
Leave home
Leave familiar
Leave the course you're on because you never wanted to be there in the first place.
Leave him
Leave her
Leave because they don't appreciate your love, now do do they really?

Leave working for someone else's dream
Leave the shitty scene
Leave your comfortable couch
Leave convention
Respectability
Responsibility
Obligation.

Leave the guilt
sorrow
abuse
violence
rape
Leave it in the past because fuck them for attempting to ruin your future.
Leave apprehension
Leave intimidation
Leave "what's right", because who are they to tell you anyway.

Leave glasgow
Leave new york
Leave miami
Leave chicago
Definitely leave LA, because there is an adventure
a plane
Bus
Train
School application
Job application
away.

Leave soul killing jobs
Leave negative people
Leave dead relationships

You are wasting your time
Your life
Your talent
Your love
Your opportunity

And with each passing day you slowly lose your shine
your glow
your spark
your fight
your heart.

You talk about it all the time.
Just fucking leave...

And find yourself.
  • Music:chicago.
Comments 
30th-Oct-2008 03:28 pm (UTC)
Anonymous
This is awesome and well written.
30th-Oct-2008 03:31 pm (UTC)
[info]mandlebars
"You talk about it all the time.
Just fucking leave... "

Yes.
30th-Oct-2008 03:31 pm (UTC)
[info]i_am_looby
<3
30th-Oct-2008 03:32 pm (UTC)
[info]fangs_up_harley
you couldn't have written this at a better time. thank you.
30th-Oct-2008 03:36 pm (UTC)
[info]wordsalone
I really needed this today.

Thank you.
30th-Oct-2008 03:41 pm (UTC)
[info]failboats
wow, this is what i kind of need right now.
30th-Oct-2008 03:41 pm (UTC)
[info]agent99
i wonder how many people read this and want to/wish they could actually do this...and how many people are sitting around looking at everything they own, wondering what they can sell for the money to leave as soon as possible.
30th-Oct-2008 03:45 pm (UTC)
[info]mandlebars
I've been looking at what I can sell for awhile now. One day I might actually do it.
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30th-Oct-2008 03:44 pm (UTC)
[info]leftcoastgirl
Thank you Chris. You always end up posting this sort of stuff at just the right times.
It's the kick in the ass I need just about every time.
30th-Oct-2008 03:53 pm (UTC)
[info]victorianghosts
This is amazing. Thank you.
30th-Oct-2008 03:57 pm (UTC)
[info]chimici
'Leave working for someone else's dream'

that line hit me hard.

but still, i wish it was that fucking easy.
30th-Oct-2008 04:04 pm (UTC)
[info]failboats
I wish it was that easy as well. le sigh
30th-Oct-2008 03:58 pm (UTC)
[info]broadwayyy
Maybe one day I'll have the balls to. Until then I'll just live in awe of the people who do and hope that one day I can join them.
30th-Oct-2008 04:14 pm (UTC)
Anonymous
I will do it.

I will finish my degree first
but not for anyone else
but ME.



And then...
then, I'm leaving.
30th-Oct-2008 04:25 pm (UTC)
[info]brokenclndstn
As soon as I have enough money saved






(i love love love this)

31st-Oct-2008 12:36 am (UTC)
[info]typo_13
just wondering, what is "enough"?
i'm not judging, but if you have to live off ramen for a week, just to make rent, but it will make you happier in the end, why not leave now?
30th-Oct-2008 04:27 pm (UTC)
[info]etheritcher
its harder than it sounds. the most i can do is leave school to go home and then leave home for school. i will study abroad though. i have to.
30th-Oct-2008 06:04 pm (UTC)
[info]nymmiekins
I was so close to missing my chance to study abroad. Luckily I realized just in time that if I dont do it by next semester I will never get the chance. Within a week or two I'll find out if I get to spend next semester in Australia :) I'm happy I stopped waiting just in time. You should stop waiting too. Those college years fly by and before you know it, it'll be too late.


This poem is my exact philosophy on life, and I follow it pretty well <3 I would never want to live any other way.
30th-Oct-2008 04:41 pm (UTC)
[info]loosecannonlw
I totally back this post.

"Leave it in the past because fuck them for attempting to ruin your future. "

Righteous.
30th-Oct-2008 04:57 pm (UTC)
[info]leprekon4
amen to that
30th-Oct-2008 04:48 pm (UTC)
Anonymous
i've been contemplating suicide a lot recently for the past few days and this might just inspire me to hang in there. it means more than you know. really. i just hope i can be s strong.
30th-Oct-2008 04:55 pm (UTC)
[info]colourlesshero
I promise you from the other side of where you are right now, that things get better. No emotion is the final one. If you need to talk to a stranger, feel free to message me.
and good luck :)
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30th-Oct-2008 04:50 pm (UTC)
[info]nmhrbrtsn
i want to leave and do what i want.
but i am terrified of doing it.
30th-Oct-2008 04:53 pm (UTC)
[info]brighttomorrow
How the hell you manage to say exactly what I need to hear, is beyond me. This just fits with everything.

I'd say I don't know what I'd do without you,
But you'd probably just tell me that I'm stronger than that.
So, thank you. So much.
30th-Oct-2008 04:53 pm (UTC)
[info]colourlesshero
I feel like maybe i should stop waiting for my life to start and make it happen myself.
30th-Oct-2008 05:00 pm (UTC)
[info]msd_x
Who doesn't?
I also feel life is something that is happening to me, not something I am directly influencing.
30th-Oct-2008 05:07 pm (UTC)
[info]crazyinsanejo
I need to do this. and i need to send this to many of my friends so they also can strive to do this.
thank u christopher.
30th-Oct-2008 05:41 pm (UTC)
[info]pennypan
I did this, and thank God I did.
I can't wait to get out of this town again tomorrow.
30th-Oct-2008 05:44 pm (UTC)
[info]supersandoz
i really needed that. thank you.
30th-Oct-2008 05:47 pm (UTC)
[info]world_youlove
i needed this today.
thank you.
30th-Oct-2008 05:47 pm (UTC)
[info]golden_cockerel
I've never read one of your books, I'd never even heard of you up until a few weeks ago. I was reading a girl's blog on xanga and she had written about meeting you one night, so I looked you up and found this livejournal. I'm not one to comment people unless I feel I really need to communicate my thoughts. I just wanted to say, that everything fell apart today, and I spent the walk home choking on air and clutching my chest, and these are exactly the words I needed to hear. So, thank you.
30th-Oct-2008 06:03 pm (UTC)
[info]indie_wonka
I left and have never regretted it for a single second. I just wish I'd done it sooner.
30th-Oct-2008 06:09 pm (UTC)
[info]kijakazi
sometimes you have to be at the right point in your life to leave though

otherwise it just makes things worse for a while
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