firstly, my commercial is playing now, mostly during big ten basketball games. tonight illinois plays ohio state on espn. it will prolly air @ halftime. its in black-and-white. i'm the and-white ( Read more... )

it's good to be back chicago! i missed my shorty. it's really hard to get engaged and then be away. i was so sad when i left her place for the last time before slam nats. i woke up bummed every morning in austin. i can't wait share a place w/my ginger snap. we're looking in lincoln square right now. we're gonna go see "butch and sundance" in ( Read more... )

beth got me a ticket for lollapalooza today cuz i love DAFT PUNK. i almost started crying when i wrote her about how excited i am to see them. they are the stuff of legend y'alls. i've never seen robots making music live. my mind is set to explode ( Read more... )

i'm engaged to the most perfect woman for me. it's incredible! i haven't posted for a while and apologize to close friends who haven't been told by my mouth.

now i can relax and... shit, the slam is next week.

gotta teach now. run tell dat.

so my song is up on the kiss fm 103.5 page as a finalist for the "kiss da bears" contest. go to this spot to check it ( Read more... )

i finally dusted off the ole login button and made my way to LJ. so here's the scoop. i wrote a song that got played on espn radio 1000 and now will be in a contest on-line. it's a sequel to the super bowl shuffle called "The Super Bowl Rumble". Its on my myspace page under either joel chmara or Sackaford BeHaves. it will be up on www.kiss1035 ( Read more... )

went to the normal slam last night. it was peaches and cream and all about saving pluto. i've now been to normal twice in the past 5 days. last year i visited once. i love what annie and rob have done w/the show. the crowd is really supportive. when i ran the show, there were a lot of my students there for extra credit and speech birds. now ( Read more... )

thank you to everyone who called and posted their thoughts about my god daughter. i haven't been able to respond individually yet cuz i've been so busy w/everything. the wake and funeral went well. so many people came and shared their emotions and got to deal w/what happened together ( Read more... )

its official. my god daughter just passed away less than an hour ago, just before i left school. she had been in pain lately and they let her go home 2 weeks ago as there was nothing more they could do ( Read more... )

i want to thank the people who sent there best wishes and prayers out to my god daughter. when i was going through tough stuff, i got great response and support and appreciated it to no end. unfortunately, things have gotten really bad. my buddy steve behl broke the news that sammi is probably going to pass away in the next couple of months. i ( Read more... )