Fan Mail

Fan Mail from Sean Christensen on Vimeo.

This video reminds me of my weird habit of saying that I'm gonna write people fan letters, and then I never do. I don't think I ever have... OH WAIT. I wrote Michael Phelps a fan letter. I wish I photocopied that shit, its probably pretty funny. And just to clear things up, I've been a HUGE Michael Phelps fan since his debut in the 2004 Summer Olympics. I was 14 at the time, and I got on a swim team right away in hopes of becoming an Olympic swimmer and meeting him (or something). Anyways I did NOT write this letter when I was 14 and I no longer swim on a team or anything, I did the team thing for a year or so. Anyways, right before the 2008 Summer Olympics my feelings about swimming and Michael Phelps came swarming back. I decided I needed to write him a letter before the Olympics started. So I did, this means I was 18. HAHA. I'm sure this letter was cheesy, and I was thinking about the same things Sean Christensen brings up in his film. Oh well. I asked for a signature at the end of my letter, and I waited, and waited for a long time. Then one day, last Fall (2009) I got a text from my mom telling me a got a letter in the mail from Michael Phelps. I was beyond stoked, I was at some dinner with my friends and I got so excited I almost cried (I'm such a weirdo). Anyways eventually when I made it home, I opened the letter and I received a generic letter and a post card size photo with a printed signature. Sad. I still love Michael Phelps, but I was kind of disappointed.

One of the fan letters I said I was going to send but never did was going to be to Hal Fishman from KTLA news. I seriously said this FOR YEARS. Every time my parents watched the 10pm news I would tell my parents I was going to send him a fan letter. I was going to write to him to inform of how intelligent I thought he was and how he should run for president because he seemed to know everything, and had a legit solution to the world's biggest problems. Sadly, I never got the opportunity to send this letter because he died in 2007. Which is why I decided to send Michael Phelps my fan mail in 2008. And seriously, I would nominate Hal Fishman to be president of the world. He was so great.