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Chris Johnston

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About Me

You used to give me shit about smoking cigarettes, I saved my lungs and lips for you.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/31/2004
Band Website:
Influences: Circa Survive. Coheed and Cambria. Blood Brothers. AFI. Jude. The Killing Moon. Snack Truck. Another Breath. Wow Owls! Dave Matthews Band. Jack Johnson. The White Octave. Ever We Fall. Balze Foley. Godspeed. Azure Ray. Brandston. Clair de Lune. John Mayer. Radiohead. Rage Against The Machine. Nirvana. Tool. Sweetheart. Verse. My Chemical Romance. Taking Back Sunday. Brand New. Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Kinison. John Butler Trio. Saosin. Thursday. Armor for Sleep. Fall Out Boy. Thrice. Atreyu. The Fall of Troy. Sparta. Strata. Ryan Adams. Josh Adams. The Used. Ours. The Jayhawks. Q-Tip. The Streets. Ben Harper. Muse. Denali. Billy Talent. Hot Hot Heat. Under Oath. The Hurt Process. Bloc Party. Kids in the Way. Coldplay. The Appleseed Cast. Settlefish. Death Cab. The Catalyst. The Banner. Portugal, the Man. Bright Eyes. ZAO. Sounds Like Violence. Recieveing End Of Sirens. Motion City Soundtrack. Rocky Votalato. Rayla. Pedro the Lion. Tilly and the Wall. Alexisonfire. Seu Jorge. One Dead Three Wounded. From First to Last. The Sound of Animals Fighting. Like Giraffes. The Good Life. Cursive. Drive Till Morning. Elliot Smith. Fightstar. The Honorary Title. Jessie and the Bandit Queen. The Libertines. Moneen. Norma Jean. Planes Mistaken For Cars. Race Car Riot. Sigur Rios. War Of Ages. New Electric. Daniel Johnston. Mass Movement Of The Moth. Within. Inked In Blood.
Sounds Like: John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Jeff Buckley
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

read me

since awakeand every moment in betweenbefore full up and aliveand still in the dreamyou find me not a morning personmore like a sunrise zombiestumbling through the hazeof breakfast and coffeeyou still...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:24:00 PST

my floor is really hard wood

it feels like foreverand everholding onto somethingas tangible as waterand just as slipperythe mess will fall from my hands, break my heartand spend the night on the cold floor right nowi find myselfo...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:03:00 PST

La Flaca

i lie in my bedtechnology allows me to vent in comfortno, this is not a vent, or a ventingor even a ventii listen to a song that i was first introduced to by my brotherLa Flaca by Jarabe De Pauloits r...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:59:00 PST

The conflist

I always want to include the closest in my moments of stillness... 2100 miles, you're here with me, my half eaten sandwich and the pain in my chest. i bet i could do this alone who am i kidding, i can...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:06:00 PST

ramble... gotta get comfortable

if possesions define me i am almost invisible... i come back to staunton where i will be living for the next six months before the next tour hits me in the gut and reminds me that home is 2100 mi...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:51:00 PST

stop talking about it and sing sucka

Sitting in a coffee shop, listening to a young singer/songwriter cover an old Patsy Cline tune, and trying to calm down. That's where i'm at right now.  trying to calm down Don't know what it is ...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:09:00 PST

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I am a romantic and sometimes unrealistic.  As always there's more i could share and never enough time to get it out.  Your perfect smile I can't seem to get out, like a boxing bout, each ro...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:35:00 PST

Jessie and the Bandit Queen

My post work evening. Relax an rest the feet. Reclining on my used early Golden Rod '70's couch refusing the urge to turn on my televison infront of me.  For those who don't really know a th...
Posted by Chris Johnston on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:37:00 PST