did you know there are 2 fuckyeahjoelbirch blogs now. it just occured to me cause i am following both of them. it looks like the other one was abandoned though cause it hasn;t been updated in a year so you guys are doing much better http://fuckyeahjoelbirch.tumblr.com/
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you-savemefromsinking asked: The picture of Joel holding a cat, and the next page it says, "Joel Birch, Best of both worlds", do you know what book its from? I would love to get that book if I knew the title.
The magazine was Acclaim :)
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xlifelostx asked: what was that book with the article of joel in it?
It was in the magaize “Acclaim”
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It’s a really fucked thing to put your friends through, doing something like that. It’s really, really fucked and extremely selfish. On the flip side, when you’re going through it, it feels like the best option
Joel Birch- Blunt magazine
speaking of his attempted suicide
(via m0istt)
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The first song on the record, and probably the heaviest for me to deal with; I feel really uncomfortable writing about it actually, as it was such a heavy, and really negative experience that I wrote this song about. Just over a year ago I was admitted to hospital after an attempted suicide, I’d been going through some really heavy emotional times, I wasn’t handling my life very well, I was drinking just about every day to the point where I couldn’t remember not being hungover, and along with that the nagging depression that I’ve had for as long as I can remember seemed to be getting increasingly unbearable. I put my friends through some really traumatic times, I overloaded them emotionally and felt like I was losing my grip on everything around me, including my relationship with my now ex-wife and my friendships with just about everyone. It’s really hard to explain how overwhelming seemingly insignificant occurrences became. I thought all my friends hated me, I was getting really behind in my work and letting a lot of people down on a regular basis both work-wise and, as I stated before, relationship wise. I drank myself into an emotional coma, and one night it all came to a head and I ended up in hospital, sedated and really, really alone. So I wrote this not long before we finished doing our demos as a release of sorts I suppose. It’s a really fucked thing to put your friends through, doing something like that… It’s really, really fucked, and extremely selfish; on the flip side though when you’re going through it, it feels like it’s the best option. For me it took something that bad for me to turn my way of thinking around and seek help, and to really step back and take a look at everything that was going on and try to turn it into something positive.
Joel Birch on ‘I Hate Hartley’ (via heavensgates
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(Source: wearyrose)
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