Are you Serious?!

If you don't know already, I work a design firm. Well my bosses came to me and said it would be smart for me to get my own domain name just so I can learn the back end of wordpress, since we use wordpress for some of our clients websites. So that day I went and bought my domain name. timchisham.me.

It's only been 6 months...maybe less, but I'm retiring my blogger and posting everything on my website. It has my blogs along with pages of my photography.


Lets take a moment of silence for this....

Now, go check out my website if you'd like.

www.timchisham.me

This is it for now. I'll ad more soon.

The Patient Ferris Wheel

So last Thursday I got off work a little early, I asked Jenn if she wanted to go to Santa Monica, which she did. So we headed down there and stopped at The Coffee Bean in Encino to see our friend Hannah and get some coffee. After leaving Coffee Bean we headed down to Santa Monica, we walk up to American Apparel so I can get a new beanie, which I didn't get by the way, and then we stroll down to Urban Outfitters and I found some books I wanted to get.

The Poo Log

Mr. T vs. Chuck Norris
(400 Facts About the Baddest Dudes in the History of EVER)

South Park - Guide to Life
Forwarded by Brian Boitano

Because thats what Brian Boitano would do!

After leaving Urban Outfitters bookless we walked back to my car so I could get my camera. We headed down to the pier so I could get the pictures I wanted to get and a few more after that. The pictures I wanted to take came out better than I had imagined but since I'm still figuring out ISO's and F/stops I know I can do better.





And of course I snapped some cute ones of my beautiful girlfriend.

She really is extremely beautiful.

We left Santa Monica and headed back up to Encino for The Soapbox Sessions at The Coffee Bean. We saw a not so funny comedian, a even less talented Lady Gaga rip off and a "true soul" singer and this guy America who does spoken word poetry and he was actually really really good. It was a little boring but actually really cool. It gave a corporate coffee shop a nice indie coffee feel. I love indie coffee shops.

It was a good day. I loved being able to get out of the Valley with Jenn and just have some time with just me and her.

The next day I had to go down to SCOI in Valencia to get a check up because my collar bone isn't healing right.

Six weeks after the initial break.

Next check up is in mid February.

Crush'd

My girlfriend is freaking cute.

But for real. The nicest way I can put this is I've dated a lot of shitty girls, like A LOT. Jenn is really a blessing.

"I'm really glad this is happening."

Jamie All Over

So this past week I went to Las Vegas on a business trip with work. We left mid day Wednesday and got out there around 9. We went to dinner after checking in and got sat next to a table of loud teenage girls. That wasn't too bad until one of the girl broke into song like she was trying out for American Idol, by the way she wouldn't have made it. After dinner we hit the strip and I took some pictures before heading back to the hotel where I started gambling since it was my first time in Vegas when I could gamble.

So I'm sitting there playing Wheel of Fortune when I get my eyes covered and a kiss on my cheek. In my mind I'm like "who's this chick kissing me on the cheek" and I turn and I see Jenn, Steven and Diego. Jenn drove out there to surprise me. After that we hung out for about 2 hours before I had to go to bed because we had a meeting with a future client, but I'll keep his name to my self.

After breakfast we head over to CES and start looking around, checking out a clients booth and then JVC, Kodak, some lighting company that I don't remember the name. After that I went and checked out the Nikon booth then left to go hang out with Jenn and everyone.

We walked around the strip for a while before heading back to the hotel for dinner. On the way back the shuttle bus driver put on Al Green and like a scene from a movie, the entire bus started singing along.

After getting back to the hotel we get some food and Jenn and I gamble a little bit and head back to the hotel room and watch the end of the Rose Bowl...Alabama won...Roll Tide. We get some food and play Quelf and about 1230 we went out and played a game of bowling where I won, it was a close game between Steven and I.


But back to the whole Jenn coming out to Vegas and surprising me. I was genuinely surprised, I didn't expect it at all. I've always been the kind of guy that does the cute surprises, big and little, but I've never had it done to me. I loved it, I love her.


Favorite Pictures from the trip.

Still Searching....

Was 2009 anything that I expected? Hell no! Lets just go through the twists and turns of my year; the good and the bad choices.

January -I began my year in the great state of Alabama. I started talking to Haley, who had a crazy military boyfriend. He threatened to "beat the shit out of me" and I replied with questioning his manhood...this escalated to him threatening to kill me...I still question his manhood and even told him to do it. Good choice. My nephew sean was in the hospital for a few days, it was the single most depressing thing I had ever seen.
February - I started talking to a good friend Alli and blew that after going to dinner with my X and thinking I had a chance. Bad choice. My sister had her second child, Nolan, he was HUGE. My parents drove out from California to see the new grandchild. Good choice. I got my iPhone. Good choice. I went to see For Today/MyChildren MyBride/ The Ghost Inside in MCMB's home town. Good Choice.
March - I started talking to Stephanie. Good choice at the time...I was wrong.

April - I start my sleeve, a rising sun to show overcoming depression. Good Choice. I go tubing with Brett and Travis, leave with bruised heals and butts. I go tubing with Brett and Travis again, Brett and I fall off a huge waterfall into a deep pool, good choice, we float down the river further and Brett and I fall off a smaller waterfall and land on rocks and almost drown. Bad Choice. I go to RFKC training in Madison and go see Saints Never Surrender/ Venia/ Ambush! that same night, all on 3 hours of sleep. Good choice.
May - I turn 21. Travis moves back in with his parents and thats the end of the snake pit. I get my chest tattooed. I get more work on my arm done. Good choice. Travis and I shave birthday mustache's cause I was born on Cinco De Mayo. Good Choice.
June - I move back to California. Stephanie becomes my girlfreind. I get offered my job at Coffee House Ideas. I do the video for RFKC. I go to Oxnard with Stephanie and her cousin and his wife, Stephanie and I go to Warped Tour. I got to see my best friend Nicole for the first time in 6 months. Good choice.

July - Filming on location in the mountains, my parents go out to Alabama for 2 weeks for my oldest nephews birthday. Started fighting with Stephanie a lot. Bad choice. I bought a camera and started doing photography. Good Choice.
August - Filmed a show for a client. Went to Vegas with Stephanie for 5 days, pierced my nose, skated with her cousin Ernie everyday. Realized that on a skateboard, for me at least, everything is perfect. Good Choice. Still fought with Stephanie a lot.

September - Fought with Stephanie a lot. Added a lot more to my arm. Broke up with Stephanie. Got my life back. Great choice. I became a vegetarian again.


October - Added color to my arm. My mom had heart surgery again...it got fixed this time. I started going to Lifeline and Pulse every week. Spent Halloween working at the church. Good choice.



November - I went to lunch with Jennifer. I started blogging a lot. I started dating Jenn. I started doing more photography for bands just for fun. I go snowboarding with Jenn and Steven and break my collar bone. Jenn went to Texas for Thanksgiving, which started bittersweet December. I had Thanksgiving with my bosses family. Jenn became my girlfriend officially. Great choice.



December - I go visit Alabama for 9 days. Good choice. A day and a half after I get back Jenn leaves for Massachusetts for 12 days. I film 24 episodes of a show for a client, I work 41 hours in 3 days. Bad choice. I go down to Pico Rivera and Santa Monica with Hannah and we run out of gas on the way home, while waiting for my cousin and uncle to come rescue us we actually finish the entire 99 bottles of beer song. Hilarious choice. Jenn comes home and we exchange Christmas presents, she got me this cute bracelet with our initials engraved on it.
All in all it was a good year. Those are just some of the notable incidents of my year. It was a good year, I never expected to move home, I never expected to start dating Jenn. I never thought I'd enjoy seeing people from high school again. Man how we grow.

Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear

So here is my list of top listens of 2009. Some of these werent released in 2009. Keep your eyes out for the CD's that don't fit, there are a few.

Anarbor - Free Your Mind
AFI - Crash Love
AFI - Sing The Sorrow
AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
Against Me! - New Wave
The All- American Rejects - When The World Comes Down
As Cities Burn - Come. Now. Sleep.
As Tall As Lions - As Tall As Lions
The Audition - Self-Titled Album
Betrayal - The Peoples Fallacy
Blood for Blood - Outlaw Anthems
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me.
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
Carridale - Attack of the Bro-Bots(Redux)
City and Colour - Sometimes
City and Colour - Live
City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
Confide - Shout The Truth
Crime in Stereo - Explosive and the Will to Use Them
Crime in Stereo - Is Dead
The Cure - Disintegration
Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness
Danger Radio - Punch Your Lights Out
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Dave Melillo - Talk is Cheap
A Day to Remember - Homesick
Dear and the Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times
Deez Nuts - Stay True
Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001
Endwell - Consequences
Evergreen Terrace - Sincerity Is An Easy Disguise in This Business
Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker
Evergreen Terrace - Almost Home
Eye Alaska - Genesis Underground
Fight Fair! -Settle The Score
Finch - What it is to Burn
Fireworks - All I Have to Offer is my Own Confusion
Foo Fighters - One By One
For The Fallen Dreams - Relentless
For Today - Portraits
Four Year Strong - Rise or Die Trying
Gallows - Grey Britain
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
The Ghost Inside - Fury and the Fallen
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
The Glorious Unseen - Tonight the Stars Speak
The Great Commission - Every Knee Shall Bow
Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel as School Children
Gym Class Heroes - The Quilt
H2O - Nothing to Prove
The Higher - On Fire
Honey Honey - First Rodeo
I Am Terrified - I Am Terrified
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
Impending Doom - The Serpent Servant
In Irons - Heartbeat of the Times
John Legend - Evolver
Johnny Craig - A Dream is a Question You Can't Answer
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
K'naan - Troubadour
Ligeia - Bad News
A Loss For Words - The Kids Can't Lose
Love Is Red - The Hardest Fight
Lydia - Illuminate
Lydia - This December...It's One More and I'm Free
Mayday Parade - A Lesson in Romantic's
Mayday Parade - Anywhere But Here
Means - Sending You Strength
Means - To Keep Me From Sinking
Misery Signals - Controller
MxPx - Secret Weapon
MyChildren, MyBride - Unbreakable
NeverShoutNever! - Me and My Uke
NeverShoutNever! - The Summer EP
NeverShoutNever! - The Yippee EP
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Oceana - Birth Eater
The Offspring - Americana
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Owl City - Ocean Eyes
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
The Red Baron - My First Love
Relient K - Mmhmm
Relient K - The Birds and The Bee Sides
Ruiner - Hell is Empty
Ruiner - I Heard These Dudes Were Assholes
Ruiner - Prepare to be Let Down
Saints Never Surrender - Brutus
Senses Fail - Still Searching
Senses Fail - Life is Not A Waiting Room
Set Your Goals - Mutiny!
Set Your Goals - This Will Be the Death of Us
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
Sleeping Giant - Dread Champions of the Last Days
Sleeping Giant - Sons of Thunder
The Starting Line - Directions
Stick To Your Guns - Comes From The Heart
T.I. - Paper Trail
Take It Back! - Cant Fight Robots
Teddy Gieger - Underage Thinking
This Will Destroy You - Young Mountains
Trenches - The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole
UnderOath - Lost in The Sound of Separation
Villette - Looks Like You Missed Out EP
xDeathstarx - We Are The Threat


The bold titles are cd's that meant more to me than just music and melodies. It helped me through rough times, helped me enjoy fun times and things like down. This year was full of ups and downs and it shows it in my music.

Sweet Home, Alabama

A few weeks ago I finally got to go out and visit Alabama. It was my first time visiting since I moved home in June. We left early on a Saturday morning to get to the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. We flew from Burbank to Phoenix then from Phoenix to Birmingham followed by a 2 hour drive up to Florence.


Once we got to my sisters house in Florence my good friends Travis and Courtney came and picked me up. It was my "Siamese twin that was separated at birth" Ashley's birthday and I was her surprise present. I walked into her apartment and she was so happy to see me. I got to see a lot of my old friends that night. I woke up the next morning to head to my old church and it caught so many people off guard that I was there, I miss that church family so so much. I spent the rest of the day with my family, just hanging out and playing with my nephews Sean Sean and Nolan.

Monday, as a family, we headed up to Nashville because The Pioneer Woman was doing a book signing and my mom and sister wanted to go. We stopped in Franklin to get some lunch with one of my sisters friends. It was pouring rain the entire day and we didn't get to leave Nashville until pretty late but it was nice to spend that time with the family.

Tuesday and Wednesday nothing epic really happened, just relaxing with the family and what not. Hung out with my old roommate and some friends after church on Wednesday.

Thursday my family did Christmas, I got an Alabama Snuggie, its pretty ridiculous, but hey, it keeps you warm....and its Alabama. That night I stayed at Trav's in the room above the garage and it had to have been the coldest room I ever slept in.

Friday one of my best friends out there played an acoustic show at the local coffee shop. That was the first time I ever sat through his entire set. That night I stayed at Ashley's again and just hung out with them the next day before heading over to Tomlins house and having the epic awkward off with his sister-in-law Hanna.

Sunday I went to church again and my good friend Allie came down from Tennessee and brought her friend Kristen and we all hung out after church and went to lunch at Olive Garden so we could get some good food and I could say hi to my old co workers. I took them to train-bridge to take some pictures because its on of my favorite places in the shoals to go, my ex took me when we first started dating and ever since then I loved it. Its the old train bridge that went across the Tennessee River and when they stopped using it they only destroyed the half that would get lifted for the barges. It only goes out to Patton Island but it just stops and doesn't allow you to get on the island.

The entire week it was freezing cold and mostly raining. I miss that weather so much. When I moved home I told everyone I'd move back eventually. I thought eventually was sooner rather than later but after going back I cant see myself out there any time soon.