When I am feeling very down or sad I have to write about it. Writing is therapeutic and it helps me cope and feel better. I thought that this would help me a great deal. And what is making me feel really bad right now is the death of Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan.

The day you slipped away

I wrote a bigger entry in my journal. But I just found this and I really like it so I want to make sure you all see it as well.

Dear God, I pray James "The Rev" Sullivan is in a Little Piece of Heaven in the Afterlife, making the angels Scream. He Seized the Day in Bat Country and then Burned it Down, his Unholy Confessions Trashed and Scattered. We gave him Strength of the World, and he gave us a Second Heartbeat. A Synyster man who will leave his Shadows behind and strike with a Vengeance, fearing no Christ for he is the Plague.

Video found here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajleekwzO0


Love you forever Jimmy.

I'm not gonna post pictures. I don't really have too much to say for all this because its all pretty much been said. I don't really think anything I would say would do any of this justice. For that, I'm not posting pictures. Most of my friends got to see them live. My birthday's coming up and I was looking for shows with them coming soon. I'm not s much disappointed about that as the fact that someone I was nicknamed after in middle school, someone who inspired me to want to be a drummer. Someone who showed me its okay to be completely fucking batshit insane not because you want to be cool but because that's who you are.

I've been looking at my flist. The fact that almost every post on there is by someone missing him is proof enough of how we all felt.

My little farewell. I will never forget this man. Ever. Above all else, we must remember…


(one of my old drawings of Jimmy <3)

….Today was an awful day for a lot of people. The world lost the man, the legend and the (possibly) clinically insane: Jimmy Sullivan. ….(CLICK TO READ MORE)


PS. Scrapbook = YES.

RIP JIMMY "THE REV" SULLIVAN
You will always be in our hearts, you crazy bastard.

My thoughts, as I'm sure all of ours do, go out to his family, Leana and the boys.


At this point, I would just like to say, while not strictly legal, the posts being made referring to this tragedy are acceptable as I'm sure we all agree these are extreme circumstances. All I ask is that you put longer posts behind the cut please.

I also wholeheartedly endorse cadenox's scrapbook idea and I encourage you all to take part.

Jimmy Fucking Sullivan you will always be in our hearts and souls. I can't believe this is happening. It feels like I'm in a bad dream and It's all just a cruel joke we're all not over yet. I found 9 hours after it happened last night and now more and more people are waking up to find what a cruel fucked up world this is. You were always my idol when it came to drums. I always got so frusrated when it came to playing drums cause you were 45836863584 times better than me. If you're there please watch over Avenged god knows they need you right now. And stay with us when we listen to your beautiful drumming and help me get as good as you so I can express how I feel in my playing. I love you Jimmy so so so much and I still can't beileve this is happening. RIP baby

You know, I never knew the man personally.

I never met The Rev, or the rest of the band.

I never even saw Avenged Sevenfold play live.

Still, as silly and smacking of obsessive fangirl it can sound, this man and this band changed my life. They introduced me to metal, to a world where people sang and screamed songs about kicking ass and taking names, being a fucking master of your instrument, putting on a live show to end all live shows.

Their songs moved me in a way I hadn't before, before A7X I'd never truly cried or felt like kicking something to pieces after hearing a song. I'd never had a crush on a band member before(It wasn't on Jimmy, it was on Syn.). Before seeing "A I never knew that metal bands from the 1980's were still together and admiring the generation of headbangers and bands that they helped create.

My mom said I could use this experience as a sociological perspective, to compare to all those people who mourned when MIchael Jackson died.
Jimmy won't get the whole world to mourn his passing publicly, or have his funeral service broadcast on network TV, or have countless TV specials and books published examining a life that might have been so much more.

Still, he will get his own personal memorial service all over the world today and in the coming days, in the hearts and minds of all teenagers like me, who might not have ever seen them outside the LCD screen of a laptop or TV, but who were still affected and entranced by the tall, slim man thrashing away behind the colossal drumkit of their favorite band.

I will never be able to watch "Live in the LBC" or the end part of "All Excess" without tearing up.


RIP James, Jimmy, Jimbo, Rathead, Rev, all of your names. The music world is all the poorer for your loss. 

I love James Owen Sullivan with all of my heart and I had an idea that just might be a good way for us all to show our appreciation, love, and dedication.

I want to create a book but I'm going to need your help. Its going to be a scrapbook of sorts. I want a written letters, poems, drawings, stories (non-fiction please), magazine clippings, meet and greet pictures, ANYTHING in memory of our sweet Jimmy. Combine YOUR page in an 8' by 11' format complete with your name, any dates of concerts you went to, and anything else distinguishing yourself. I'll collaborate with my best friend and we will find a way to get it to the other guys. Please send ALL pieces to the email listed below. If you want to physically put your own page together than please shoot me an email and I'll give you my address so you can send me the pages. EVERYTHING must be in by January 30th so we can get it together and send it off to the boys for Jimmy's birthday. I want to show them our support with more than just a few tears and messages on Myspace.

Examples of things that would be awesome:
-Reasons that you loved Jimmy
-Ways they changed your life
-Pictures of tattoos with explanations behind them Avenged related
-Funny stories went you met Jimmy
-How dedicated you were to him

I love you guys with all of my heart and we'll ALL get through this.

Caden

The email is: our.dearest.st.jimmy@gmail.com

(Admin... please don't delete this post)

P.S. Please state your full name or desired alias in the subject so it doesn't get all confusing. <3 



UPDATED!!! Please help me spread the world. Just copy and paste this message and post it EVERYWHERE you thing Avenged Fans will see it. I love you guys...



---- Youtube Channel is now up! http://www.youtube.com/DearestStJimmy ----

I haven't posted or read anything in a long, long time, and coming back I find that oc_ca_slash is gone but a7X_slashness still stands and I miss the slash and the funny moments. I know this might be illegal on the community, but given the circumstances I think it can be overloooked:

It's strange to think how band members can become your friends, but with their music they go through everything you go through and so when one of them passes away, it's like losing a close friend. When I found out from my friend that Jimmy had passed away I felt a pang of sadness like I haven't in a long time. He was one of the best drummers the world had ever seen and Avenged Sevenfold will never be the same without him, he was one of the founding members and he has been more than just a drummer for them; he's been a childhod friend and a brother. For anyone who bought the Avenged Sevenfold MVI, we all know the story of how he lived in a laundromatt for a while and kicked people out so he could watch cartoons and how he liked to terrorize people at school before leaving, it might sound off track, but that's who Jimmy was, and now all we'll have left are the pictures, DVD's and the music, but for everyone who knew him intimately they will have fond memories and the fortune of having been friends with such a person.


We are all lucky to have known of him and heard his music and to have partaken in a part of his life, the largest part, because as Avenged Sevenfold fans, we are all part of their lives just as much as they are to us, even if they don't know us individually.


May you rest in peace, Jimmy.

-Mz.Take-

He was my constant. My everything. He was my idol and my role model. I aspired to be like him, to make myself something great from nothing. He owned my heart and I loved him unconditionally. Through everything, he was there. Through music and speech and writing, he was in my life. No matter what, I could look to him to be there. Mine.

Some of you know how much he meant to me. Some of you don't. I've been out of the fandom for a while, but I like to think that in some way, he knew how much I cared for him. I love all the boys, but he was my number one. My shining star. I made him gifts. Ones that never got delivered to him. Through everything, I defended him. And I will forever be grateful to him for saving my life over and over again.

Mr. James Sullivan, I love you.
And I miss you already.
You better be have one hell of a party waiting for me when I join you.

I know I dont post here, but I've been reading the stories posted here  for almost 2 years.

I just found out that Jimmy died yesterday (12-28) and I am bawling my eyes out.
 
Here's the link to the article: http://www.ocregister.com/news/sullivan-226142-beach-drummer.html

This was so unexpected, and I thought you all should know. sorry if this isnt legal.

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