You guys sound so fucking badass. Great to know there’s a real magazine, with real people out there, but how to get a fucking hold of you guys? I’m down in FL and would love to see what you guys are really all about. Let me know where your site is or how to get a hold of your mag.

Yes, I too have contemplated suicide. It might not have been what people saw as suicide, but I knew what I was doing. I was going for a discreet way to die - a way that people wouldn’t realize until I had actually accomplished it.

I became anorexic long before I knew what the hell the word meant. Bulimia was no stranger either. Back then, I didn’t realize how sick I had become. I wanted to die and literally waste away, because that’s how I percieved myself. I felt I was someone who could slowly die away, and no one would notice.

It didn’t help that many of my friends were in the same boat, but in different situations. One friend swallowed an entire bottle of tylenol and bottle after bottle of alchohol as chasers. Another did the same as I, but I wasn’t aware of it. Someone in highschool actually hung himself.

What saved one friend, though, was me. I wasn’t aware that I was saving her life; I was just being a friend. The same girl who swallowed the pills actually attempted it again after the first time failed. She was prepared this time, though; she made sure she had enough pills to make the hospital jealous.

She didn’t take her pills that night, because the only thing that went through her mind as she set the pills out, was the image of her friend walking through the door of her apartment and seeing her dead body lying on the floor. She couldn’t do it because she knew that the ones who loved her would be a greater loss to her than the people who didn’t love her anymore.

Fucking crazy world. We were born to live, not die.

[You guys are doing] an amazing thing. I truly hope you can distinguish those of us out here that play music for the love of it... not for a reason like popularity. You’re doing a great thing by giving the real musicians the shot that they deserve. Thanks.

It made me giggle. I like the random bit about the underwear... not on purpose hahahaha.

Hey, good interview! But why is Tom the only one ever interviewed though? Just curious. I also stumbled across the Take Action Tour Writing Contest winning entires on the site - great concept for a contest, and all 3 stories were really touching. One of them actually made me cry; I'm such a sap.

Aww, I liked this part a lot: