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You're Making Me Fall

Burning With the Stars is the Best I Ever Felt

About Me

Hey! Welcome! I am Chris Hermus. I'm a member of WSIA, College of Staten Island's radio station. You can listen to it on 88.9FM or go to www.wsia.fm I am the assistant music director and the metal director. I DJ Wednesday nights from 7-10. I tend to over analyze things and can be pretty cynical, though I think I'm an optimistic person. I love how people look in glasses. I don't mind doing stuff alone. I enjoy flicking the cherry off of cigarettes. I hold my breath and make wishes under overpasses and tunnels. I have an A Wilhelm Scream (Smackin' Isaiah) tattoo on my right arm. I'm half white and half asian; specifically, I am Vietnamese, German, Italian, and Polish. Go check out my blogs to read poems and stories that I have written! I am an English major and Communications minor in college.

My Interests

"Next time, I won't just speak if I'm spoken to. But it's hard to really want you, when everybody wants you, everybody wants you. It makes me want to fail, makes me ignore you. It makes me want to want you anyway." -A Wilhelm Scream/Smackin' Isaiah from "Catharsis for Dummies"

Music:

AFI, Against Me!, Alexisonfire, Alkaline Trio, Anthony Green, Armor For Sleep, A WILHELM SCREAM, Ben Lee, Blind Luck Music, Blink 182, Boys Night Out, Brand New, Cassino, Chiodos, Circa Survive, Circle Takes The Square, Coheed and Cambria, Comeback Kid, Crime in Stereo, Cursive, Daryl Palumbo, Deftones, Every Time I Die, Fairweather, Fear Before the March of Flames, Folly, From Autumn To Ashes, Further Seems Forever, Gallows, Glassjaw, Head Automatica, Hot Cross, Hot Rod Circuit, I am the Avalanche, Jimmy Eat World, Lifetime, Matchbook Romance, mewithoutYou, Midtown, Millencolin, Modest Mouse, Moneen, My Chemical Romance, A New Found Glory, Northstar, On the Might of Princes, Paramore, Pencey Prep, Phinius Gage, Poison The Well, Quantice Never Crashed, Recover, Reggie and the Full Effect, Rufio, Saetia, Saosin, Saves the Day, Say Anything Senses Fail, Set Your Goals, Sleeper Horse, Smackin' Isaiah, Sparta, Straylight Run, Stray76, Strung Out, Taking Back Sunday, Tegan and Sara, Texas is the Reason, The Ataris, The Beautiful Mistake, The Blackout Pact, The Bled, The Blood Brothers, The Commercials, The Early November, The Escape Engine, The Get Up Kids, The Lawrence Arms, The Movielife, The Program, The Receiving End of Sirens, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Starting Line, Third Eye Blind, Thrice, Thursday, Under0ath, Weezer, With Resistance

Movies:

Amelie, American Beauty, American History-X, An American in Paris, Angus, Battle Royale, Beautiful Girls, Big Fish, Clerks, Die Hard, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorands, Elf, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Garden State, Ghostbusters, Hook, Igby Goes Down, I 3 Huckabees, Kill Bill, Kissing a Fool, Leon: The Professional, Little Miss Sunshine, Mallrats, MirrorMask, Notting Hill, Pan's Labyrinth, Rent, Rushmore, Saved!, Saw, Se7en, Sin City, SLC Punk!, Spider-Man, Spirited Away, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Departed, The Jacket, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Lord of the Rings, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Rules of Attraction, Twelve Monkeys, V For Vendetta, X-Men

Books:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious, A Separate Peace, Battle Royale, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, Choke, Fight Club, Neverwhere, On the Road, Peter Pan, Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, The Once and Future King, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Stranger, Strangers in Paradise, Green Lantern, Preacher, Teen Titans, The Boys, Transmetropolitan

My Blog

Warped Tour 07

so today I went to Warped Tour and actually had a lot of fun. Went with Jackie, her friend Jenn from college, and Julie. They didn't lose me for long hours at a time while I'd run away to venture on m...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:44:00 PST

see you soon

Refraining Goodbye I'm getting teary eyedbecause I can't bare to say goodbyegoodbye is absolute.why can't we just say we'll see each other soon?even if you could wipe my eyesit won't stop themfrom pou...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:44:00 PST

Shroud, my film treatment

Shroud written by Chris Hermus Cast:Oliver (Ollie) Reilly- The protagonist. After witnessing his best friend die, he keeps to himself. When he discovers that the person who he always knew to be his fa...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:37:00 PST

Pedestals, an Ode

PedestalsI- AudienceArms crossed across my chest,this is how I'll lay in my casket.If I died on your floor waiting,would you bury me?There are crumbs and tangled hairshibernating in your carpet.Do you...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:52:00 PST

Staten Island in pantoum form

The Borough Of Forest FiresWithin two years,the across the street trees transformedinto two-family semi-attached homes.In front of each stands a solitary treePunished like a child in a cornerI type on...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:47:00 PST

There is always something unperceived

Grudges Cause Illusions Carnivorous! We're born carnivorous!Hungry eyes handed to a mother's breastRavenous appetites forced fed with spoonsIdeals shoved down the throats of unknowingStomachs reg...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:42:00 PST

Carnival

Deteriorating at the CarnivalYou left me at the carnival to rot.Now I'm teeth tempted by candy apple whoresThis mouth is not watering for their cotton candy twatsI'll smear paint on my face to pretend...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:40:00 PST

sestina based on Tennessee Williams

Suddenly That Summer, Out of the ClosetNow a premiere of a once-lost work, "The Parade, or Approaching the end of a Summer," provides more evidence that [Tennessee] Williams wrote freely about his sex...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:37:00 PST

Valentine (I love this one)

Valentine (A Last Stand) 2-18-04 She was a girl out of a slow motion entranceHe was just a lonely boy fading in the backgroundIt was Valentine's Day.He knew that this was his day to show her how much ...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:21:00 PST

I wonder what it must be like to be you

Dear world,you'll do fine on your ownwithout me, without meI just want to disappear.I've felt sorry for myself long enoughAnd what have I done besides gone backwards?I fall behind, you're so far ahead...
Posted by You're Making Me Fall on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:37:00 PST