like i've said, i was never really a fan of them, i liked them after hearing 'ohio is for lovers' and then that was it, i lost interest. but i do remember when they came to town a couple years ago and i they did a signing at the house of guitars.
i watched the mtvu interview with hh and casey's wife yesterday. looking at the poster now, casey's autographed looks exactly the way his bandmates described it in the interview.
three hardest parts of the interview were definitely when eron talked about how he found casey on the bus. he described how he shook him to try and wake him and he was hard and cold. i can't imagine what he went through. the second being when they said how he is irreplaceable, and they will never bring in someone else to replace casey. and then when his wife talked about how she got casey's jacket and she could still smell him on it, and she'll never be able to smell that smell again, it won't last on the jacket forever. it was so hard to watch, im not ashamed to admit that i cried.
i ordered the twloha casey shirt yesterday. i feel like i dont have a right to own and wear it because until now i haven't thought or cared about hh or casey. but the money from all the shirts goes to casey's family to help pay funeral costs among other things, which i suppose is a big reason why i bought the shirt. but, i think no matter who the shirt was for i'd wear it because from what i remember when i met casey he was a very friendly person and his memory should live on...also because it is a reminder that death is impartial, death doesn not only take the old man who has lived his life or the murderer who unjustly took the lives of others; sometimes death takes the young man in the prime of his life, the young man who is not ready to die.
i wish the best to the surviving members of hawthorne heights and to casey's wife and the rest of his family.
