I'm Chelsea. I'm a 20-something, green-eyed girl with different coloured hair hailing from Battle Creek, MI. I currently reside in Lima, Ohio. I'm a store manager at Hot Topic. I'm a photographer that is trying to do big things from a little town.
In Media Res means in the middle of things. That's where my life is right now. I'm in the middle with no ending and no beginning.
I'm addicted to music, photography, driving, my cats, foxes, and from time to time I have purple hair. As stated first, music plays a HUGE part in my life, so:
Bands I've seen in concert:
->Saving Abel
->Papa Roach
->Avenged Sevenfold (x2)
->Buckcherry
->New Medicine
->Stone Sour
->Hollywood Undead
->Disturbed
->In This Moment
->Stillwell
->Sevendust
->Korn
->Bobaflex (x3)
->Pop Evil (x2)
->Frequency 54 (x3)
->Sore Eyes (x2)
->One Eyed Doll (x2)
->Destrophy
->Blackguard
->Sister Sin
->OTEP (x2)
->Evans Blue
->Echovalve
->Joan Red (RIP Anthony Basurto)
->HateBreed
->Rev Theory
->All That Remains
->Five Finger Death Punch
->Rob Zombie
->Marilyn Manson
->The Ataris (x2)
->Dan Vapid and the Cheats
->Yellowcard
->Bullet For My Valentine
->Stars In Stereo
->Black Veil Brides
->Throw The Fight
->Panic! At the Disco (x2)
->Switchfoot
->The Unlikely Candidates
->Strange Talk
->Walk The Moon
->Dinosaur Pile Up
->Brand New
->Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band
->Of Mice & Men
->NOFX
->frnkiero andthe cellabration
->The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die
->Say Anything
->Dashboard Confessional
->The Used
->Taking Back Sunday
->Chumped
->Bouncing Souls
->Silverstein
->La Dispute
->Tegan & Sara
->Dropkick Murpheys
Bands I want to see in concert
->Shiny Toy Guns
->HIM
->Black Keys
->My Chemical Romance (RIP3.22.2013)
->Dresden Dolls
->Foo Fighters
->Shinedown
->Paramore
->The Used
->Slipknot
->Rise Against
->Metallica
->Metric
->Say Anything
->Brand New
->Evanescence
->Green Day
->Incubus
->Mayday Parade
->Fall Out Boy
->The Airbo...
Southern Gothic: Abandoned Churches, cryptic gospel signs, don’t go near the marshes, elusive and overly religious people that are probably Up To Something but everyone is too afraid to ask what
Midwestern Gothic: Something Lives In The Corn, broken down trucks, gravel roads that lead nowhere, empty gas stations placed between tiny towns with only one attendant who makes too much eye contact but never speaks
Southwestern Gothic: Animal skulls hung from posts, shacks miles into the barren desert that still look lived in but nobody is ever seen around, They Watch From The Mountains, shapeshifting creatures hiding in the brush
People always gloss over how mentally damaging it can be to work in retail. I fucking hate that whenever I say “I could never work in retail again” someone has to reply “You snowflake millennials can’t take a starter job because you have to INTERACT with other people” No. Fuck you. I’ve worked as a planetarium host. I’ve worked as a public speaker. I’ve worked as a tutor and as a student teacher. I can work with people. I can work with crowds. Retail was fucking different. Retail was being treated as a subhuman. Retail was being treated so poorly that you have anxiety attacks before work. Having to work retail was a factor in my last suicide attempt. If I hear you say one fucking word about retail workers playing the victim I will personally break every bone in your body. Fuck You.
It’s 2:30 AM and I’m in the men’s bathroom and someone was in another stall and I starting blaring the Thomas The Tank Engine theme and I literally heard them stop peeing out of fear