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**Which Band would you like to see at Avalanche Student Conference 2009:

Hawk Nelson


Needtobreathe


Family Force 5


Toby Mac


David Crowder Band



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Until Next Time.

Contagious Laughers

So tonight I realized that I absolutely love to laugh. If I don't laugh somethings really wrong. I feel better when I smile and laugh, I feel healthier. If only we had more contagious laughers in the world. Whats the meaning of Laughing you may wonder, well it's an Adjective and it means; laughing - showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; I hope to find more of this laughter in my feature.

Don’t Be A Butt Flicker

So as we (chasen band) we're traveling through Memphis our road manager Will Carter ask if I am a tree hugger. Well the answer is yes to a degree, my family's from Oregon. So I read this statistic and it drove me crazy so this where the tree hugger comes out.

Don’t be a butt flicker. The average smoker smokes 10,000 cigarettes a year, making it the most commonly littered item. More than 100 billion cigarette butts–weighing 100 million pounds–ends up as litter each year. And ... are you ready for this? “Annual cigarette butt litter, end on end, measures more than 2 million miles. That’s 337 roundtrips from Los Angeles to New York.”
The solution for this is quite simple:
• If you smoke, be mindful to dispose of the butt properly. Remind friends to do so as well. When more than 25,000 fires are caused by cigarettes annually, it makes sense that we be a little more responsible in disposing of them.

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Hello Friends wanted to let everyone know I've posted some new live photos in the live photo album. Hope everyone is doing well and getting ready for the love month coming up in a few days. We get ready to head out on the road again starting Feb. 5th keep on checking back for more up dates. Thanks for all the support and we will see you soon.

CHASEN C.


**There has been talk of a west cost tour so keep your eyes open for those dates**

"The Orphanage"

So me and the boys from the band went to a late night showing of "The Orphanage" after the show in Hueytown AL. What a great movie. Heres how I feel about the film.
"Horror movie" is too strong a term for "The Orphanage," This is a haunted-house ghost story that derives its unsettling effect from a skillfully built atmosphere of mounting dread, reaching back beyond the pop-slaughterhouse sensibilities of most current fright flicks to older films like "The Innocents" and "The Uninvited" — pictures in which a sense of the uncanny was summoned not with hacksaws and cleavers, but with a simple creak in the night.
A woman named Laura (Belén Rueda) has moved into an abandoned orphanage with her doctor husband, Carlos (Fernando Cayo), and their 7-year-old son, Simón (Roger Príncep). The property is located on a bleak stretch of Spanish coastline that's unlikely ever to feature in tourist brochures. Back when it was an operating orphanage, Laura spent part of her childhood here, before being adopted; now she and Carlos are fixing the place up as a school for handicapped children. At the moment, there are no other kids for Simón to play with ... apart from an invisible friend he calls Tomás. (The movie also echoes "The Shining" in some ways.) Then, just as Laura is wondering what ever became of the orphanage playmates of her own youth, the boy announces that Tomás has been joined by a whole group of invisible kiddies, and that they want to play a strange game with him. Before Simón can explain exactly what it is, though, he suddenly disappears. Months pass, and eventually everyone decides that Simón must have come to some sort of harm and been killed. Everyone except Laura.
"The Orphanage" is an unassuming picture, but it's considerably more than just a rote genre exercise — it gets under your skin. The script, by Sergio G. Sánchez (another Spanish director), concludes with a gratifying twist, and the movie leaves you feeling not simply wrung-out by shock and carnage, but genuinely spooked.

Until next time
CC

Where R The Blogs?

Ok so I've been blog lazy and I know thats not the cool thing to do. There's been a lot of crazy things going on, from my music to me and Casey getting ready to have our little boy (Emerson). I have to say that I am tired but I don't know why. I was off this Sunday so I got to sleep in. Not only that but I went to bed at 9:30 10:00pm last night. That means I slept for 12 hours I woke up as if I've been hit by a 18 wheeler. Don't know what that means for tonights sleep. The Band and I have been hard at work working on some new tour stuff. Cant wait to play some of the songs for our fans. There will be more blogs coming up so keep on reading. Don't give up on the Chasen blogs. Until Next Time.