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Top 20 comics Of The year (according to Randy Lander's blog )

Top 20 Comics of the Year:
1. Chew
2. Incognito/Criminal: The Sinners
3. The Umbrella Academy Dallas
4. BPRD Black Goddess
5. Hellboy The Wild Hunt
6. Beasts of Burden
7. Usagi Yojimbo
8. Incredible Hercules
9. Batman and Robin
10. The Unwritten
11. Sweet Tooth
12. The Muppet Show
13. GI Joe Cobra
14. BPRD 1947
15. The Unknown
16. Nova
17. Guardians of the Galaxy
18. Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye
19. Agents of Atlas
20. Marvel Adventures Spider-Man

Top 20 Graphic Novels of the Year:
1. Parker: The Hunter (IDW)
2. Rocketeer Deluxe Edition (IDW)
3. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 (IDW)
4. Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 1-5 (Viz)
5. Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 1-6 (Viz)
6. Amulet Book 2 (Scholastic)
7. Scott Pilgrim Vol 5 (Oni)
8. Johnny Hiro (Adhouse)
9. Mouse Guard Winter 1152 HC (Archaia)
10. The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (Dark Horse)
11. Hellboy Library Edition Volume 2-3 HC (Dark Horse)
12. Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus (Marvel)
13. Criminal Deluxe Edition (Marvel)
14. Starman Omnibus Vol 2-3 (DC)
15. Empowered, Vol. 5 (Dark Horse)
16. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon)
17. RASL Vol 1: The Drift (Cartoon Books)
18. Pixu: The Mark of Evil (Dark Horse)
19. TMNT Collected Book Vol. 1 (Mirage)
20. Tiny Titans Vol. 1-2 (DC)

Favorite New Comic Of The Year: Chew
At the moment, my "buzz book" is Andy Diggle's run on Daredevil, which at three full issues into its run, is looking like a further evolution of the good work done on the book by Brian Michael Bendis and Ed Brubaker. And while I've lost interest in the past few months, early on this year I was quite into Mike Carey's work on X-Men Legacy. In similar "not new number one but new creative team" books there's Marvel Adventures Spider-Man by Paul Tobin and several different artists, which synthesizes some of the best aspects of the Spectacular Spider-Man TV show, Ultimate Spider-Man and Tobin's own touches to become easily the best Spider-Man book on the shelves. Then there's the new Morrison Batman & Robin, which hasn't been perfect but has been damn good, and the Vertigo resurgence with the two must-read books, The Unwritten and Sweet Tooth. Those two in particular were real front-runners for this category. And Stumptown had a great debut, but with only two issues released in 2009, it's too early to call it the best new book of the year.

But the book with the most novel premise, not to mention providing a consistently excellent read with each issue, is Chew. John Layman's been toiling in the trenches for some time now, turning out quirky gems like Army of Darkness vs. Marvel Zombies and Puffed, but his new creator-owned Image series is far and away the best thing he's written. It's funny and strange on the surface, but there's plenty of world-building, plot detail and character development to go with it's "That is such a strange concept, I've got to read it" hook. And artist Rob Guillory has a fresh look that instantly grabs the eye, not to mention storytelling chops rarely seen in a debut. Together, these two put together the best new comic of the year.

Favorite Ongoing Series: Incredible Hercules
Pretty much everything in the ongoing series category is Marvel, with two exceptions. RASL, by Cartoon Books, is a notable exception. It ranks lowest on my list, however, not because of the quality but because of the frequency. Jeff Smith was putting out biggie-sized issues on a quarterly basis, and I was happy with that, it seemed to be a schedule he could meet. He announced this year that he was going to put out smaller issues, but bimonthly, and I knew that probably wasn't a great idea, and indeed, the flow of issues has pretty much stopped. This is a constant frustration for me as a fan and a retailer, as it makes it really hard to sell indie series, when so many of them disappear or become even more inconsistent in their scheduling, and it hurts the ability of new indies to sell as well. Folks fear getting burned again, and I can't really blame them.

Deep breath. That rant aside, the flipside of that is my other non-Marvel pick for ongoing series, Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai. Consistently on schedule, consistently excellent.

My other favorite series contenders are Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova and Agents of Atlas, and of course my winner, Incredible Hercules. None of them register very high on the Top 100, sadly.

Favorite Mini-Series: Incognito
1. Incognito
2. Criminal: The Sinners
3. The Umbrella Academy Dallas
4. BPRD Black Goddess
5. Hellboy The Wild Hunt
6. Beasts of Burden
7. The Muppet Show
8. GI Joe Cobra
9. BPRD 1947
10. The Unknown
11. Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye
12. New Avengers: Reunion (Marvel)
13. Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter (Marvel)
14. The Incredibles Family Matters (Boom!)
15. War of Kings (Marvel)
16. Atomic Robo Beyond the Shadow of Time (Red 5)

Dallas once again is in a list about Best Comics of 2009. This time the list from What Would Jesus Watch? is about the 10 Best Comics of 2009:

Let me start off by saying that I am not cool enough to read any indie comics. I love the mainstream. Sure it has its big events and gimmicks, but that doesn't detract from the quality. Especially these days. Now, I don't really expect many of you to have much context for names like Ed Brubaker, Brian Michael Bendis, or Geoff Johns, I would like to hope that my recommendation of and vouching for their writing would inspire you to go out and pick up their series. Or at least the ones that I point you in the direction of.
This thing is basically going to be a rundown of the story lines that have really grabbed and captivated me this year. Some of them may have started last year, but they had to have released issues in 2009 to qualify. The numberings are important, but largely inconsequential. That's mainly because some of these series are so good that it would be incredibly difficult to say that one is better than another.

Alright, enough rambling, let's get into it.

1. INVINCIBLE IRON MAN: "WORLD'S MOST WANTED" (#8-19) - This storyline helped kicked off the "Dark Reign" that shaped the direction of the Marvel Universe this year. Matt Fraction (writing) and Salvadore Larroca (art) continued their run with Iron Man in style. This story could have easily started to drag near the middle, but it only continued to pick up speed. The story dealt with Norman Osborne trying to track down Tony Stark to retrieve the database of registered superheroes (housed in Tony's brain thanks to EXTREMIS tech) while Tony raced to delete it. Yeah, he was trying to delete his own brain. This arc led directly to the current arc, and it has been one hell of a ride. The story is collected in 2 volumes, and should be fairly easy to find. If nothing else, this will help you get more in touch with Tony Stark before IRON MAN 2 comes out in May.

2. DARK AVENGERS: "ASSEMBLE" (#1-6) - The other major storyline that started "Dark Reign" focused on the first mission of a new team of Avengers in the Marvel U. (That would bring the total to 4, plus the Initiative.) The series is written by Brian Michael Bendis, with art by Mike Deodato. Having been painted as the savior of humanity in the end of the Skrull Invasion, Norman Osborne disbanded SHIELD, and founded HAMMER. The first issue humorously deals with the fact that HAMMER means nothing. It is just another way for Osborne to intimidate those who won't play by his rules. Keeping in line with this mentality, he puts together his own team of Avengers, that includes both heroes and villains alike. But mostly villains. Some faces are more familiar than others, but they make up an interesting team, to say the least.

3. UMBRELLA ACADEMY: "DALLAS" (#1-6) - This fantastic series comes from Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance. This story follows the events of "Apocalypse Suite", the first arc in this series. Certainly a better story, it delves more into what makes these characters tick, and how broken they are. Also it features time travel, the Vietnam War, and the assassination of JFK (both preventing and ensuring it happen). The story has many twists and turns, but it all really boils down to the characters, as all great stories do. This series is one big reason why I believe that comic books should be seen as literary works.

4. SECRET WARRIORS: "NICK FURY: AGENT OF NOTHING" (#1-6) - This was one of the first series that i picked up, and continued to read regularly. Back in March, I was trying to find some series I could get in to, and this had a first issue recently out, so I decided to give it a try. I have not looked back since. Jonathan Hickman writes an extremely exciting series that follows a, you guessed it, secret team put together by Nick Fury, the bad ass to end all bad asses. Even having little to no clue who many of the characters were in the beginning, I was still able to get both excited and worried about the entrances of characters into the story. It is absolutely worth your reading, and is an extremely fun read.

5. INCOGNITO (#1-6) - Imagine the hero of your story was a horrible, horrible person, and it was not done in the charming and funny way that DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG. Imagine you were rooting for a mass murderer, who didn't have a past of just killing bad guys, the way that Dexter Morgan does. This is the general idea of INCOGNITO, ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' super-"hero" story, from Marvel's Icon imprint. This story was so entertaining and captivating that it really cemented Ed Brubaker as one of my favorite comic writers. Basically, the story follows Zack Overkill, a former super villain, who was placed in witness protection when his twin brother was killed by their former employer. The series is a fun ride, that certainly highlights Brubaker's skill as a crime fiction writer. It is especially fun to see the emergence of a hero beccause the protagonist was just bored, and it wouldn't draw as much attention to him as villainy.

6. CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN (CAPTAIN AMERICA #600, CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #1-6, WHO WILL WIELD THE SHIELD? #1) - If you are kind of person that can get around the scheduling snafus and the way that Marvel just full on spoiled the ending to this great story, then you can really enjoy the story presented by Ed Brubaker, firmly ending his "Death of Captain America" story. I'm the kind of person that can. The final issue of Reborn still hasn't come out, but "Who Will Wield the Shield?" has, but it don't matter. Once again, I love Ed Brubaker and what he is doing at Marvel. Captain America is the biggest title for the company that he is doing, and he definitely has a handle for the characters. The story began over the summer with Captain America # 600, one of the landmark issues that Marvel has been putting out this year, which have returned many series to their original numbering. It has been quite the ride, and I am excited to see how it turned out, or at least what allowed it to turn out the way it did.

7. BLACKEST NIGHT (BLACKEST NIGHT #1-8, GREEN LANTERN #43-51, GREEN LANTERN CORPS #38-45) - The big event running over at DC wass advertised with the tagline "The Dead Will Rise." And rise they did. This even got me to start reading Green Lantern, one of DC's most promising series. Geoff Johns is now 49 issues into his run on Green Lantern, and it is not even coming close to running out of steam. The core Blackest Night title only benefits from the stories told in Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps. If nothing else, this could serve as a great jumping on point for getting to know Hal Jordan, to prepare for summer 2011's film starring Ryan Reynolds.

8. BATMAN & ROBIN: "BATMAN REBORN" (#1-3) - Apparently Grant Morrison wanted shorter, punchier arcs to run through his Batman & Robin series. This first arc, following in the wake of "Batman RIP" and "Battle for the Cowl" which ultimately resulted in Dick Grayson taking up the mantle of the Dark Knight, and Bruce Wayne's son Damien becoming the new Robin. This first arc is extremely weird, but extremely entertaining. I had heard all sorts of bad things about what DC has been doing recently, but this series has given me the faith to start giving at least 3 bucks a month to the publisher. The dark and violent story perfectly sets up what is to come for Batman, and is essential reading, even over the solo Batman title.

9. SECRET WARRIORS: "GOD OF FEAR, GOD OF WAR" (#7-10) - Continuing from his promising initial arc, Jonathan Hickman continues chronicling Nick Fury's secret team, this time giving focus to God of Fear, Phobos, and the reaction of his God of War father, Ares, when he discovers that Fury has essentially kidnapped Phobos. The story goes more into the Dark Reign territory, making it less accessible than the former arc, but still an entertaining read. If nothing else, the reveal in issue 8 makes it well worth being on this list. It made me exclaim in surprise in a crowded area, which takes some doing.

10. FANTASTIC FOUR: "SOLVE EVERYTHING" (#570-572) - Oh look, another Jonathan Hickman arc. Fantastic 4 was another series I had some strong feelings against before starting. The premise could easily be seen as getting pretty lame, and covering the same ground over and over again. But somehow, Hickman made this series aa must read. In this first arc, he takes Reed Richards to a place where he has a decision to make between trying to solve all the world's problems, or losing his family. Richards is the smartest man on earth, or at least one of them, and this choice is difficult to make, but his decision will certainly resonate through the course of Hickman's run.

RIP The Rev

Today I woke up and entered to Twitter to recieve the news that The Rev was gone.

I'm not an Avenge Sevenfold fan, but I got friends who are, and I could feel their pain...


I know they won't read this, but all my condolences to Rev's family and friends....



Don't know what to say...


Rest In Peace Rev! WE'll miss you...


xo

Lips Like Morphine Acoustic

Gerard Way Interview...

My Chemical Romance lead singer Gerard Way has divulged to Spinner and to Spin online that the upcoming My Chem release has inspirational roots in everything from the movie Blade Runner to his Trans Am: things that he says stand for much more than what they are, and it all goes back to the original theme the band had announced: making their "love letter to Rock'n'Roll."

"It's working class rock versus Chanel fucking handbags and red carpets and all that bullshit," Way told Spin, going along with what he had recently said about the album's fighting fame-seeking musicians.

He revealed to Spinner that the song "Trans Am," in particular, was inspired by Judas Priest (and also by The Killers, who Way says were the inspiration for a female character named "Jenny" in the song).

"Judas Priest is considered metal, but it's great rock 'n' roll. It's having nothing to do with that era of metal, the hair rock, but then having everything to do with like the birth of power-anthem metal." Way said of the genre-rebellious influence.

MCR are no strangers to fighting a musical norm and label. Because of the time in which MCR rose as a band, they were lumped into the dreaded "emo" category, a classification they have fought for years.

Perhaps this album and the risks it takes will help set MCR farther apart from the crowd.

The fact there's a song now tentatively titled 'Trans Am' is a bold thing for this band to do as opposed to our previous material," he tells Spinner of one of the tracks on the band's eagerly anticipated 2010 album. "There's something in that phrase that's obviously more than the car. But to bring something like old '70s muscle car culture into the music, that's kind of different move."

In addition to the idea of the car's time being an influence on the album, Way also cites the movie Blade Runner and notes to Spin that there's a feeling of the 1980s and a captured time and place on the record.

"...[A]esthetically or fictionally, the album has these feelings of being like a 15-year-old kid at the Jersey Shore, trying to win a Motley Crue mirror or an Iron Maiden hat, from that era when heavy metal was yet to become hair rock," Way said.

What sort of themes can listeners expect these influences to bring about?

Way told Spin, "The album has many themes. That a band and an audience can be immortal through rock'n'roll, even if just for one night. The power of believing in something. Being a survivor, running away in a positive way, leaving home in order to come back."

My Chemical Romance explain how Blade Runner, Judas Priest and a car inspired new album

Group have channelled 1980s for their next record

My Chemical Romance have revealed more details about their forthcoming fourth album.

Frontman Gerard Way said the follow-up to their 2006 concept album 'The Black Parade' has been influenced by muscle cars, the film Blade Runner and Judas Priest.

"The fact there's a song now tentatively titled 'Trans-Am' is a bold thing for this band to do as opposed to our previous material," Gerard Way told SpinnerMusic.co.uk. "There's something in that phrase that's obviously more than the car. But to bring something like old '70s muscle car culture into the music, that's kind of a different move."

Earlier in the year Way used Twitter to purchase a Trans Am car explaining that it was research for the album.

As previously reported, My Chemical Romance had revealed that the record was being influenced by MC5 and The Stooges, but Way explained how the 1980s have also influenced the album.

Talking about one of their new songs, 'Death Before Disco', Way admitted that the music of Judas Priest had shaped the album.

"That song actually reminded me in an odd way of all the best stuff of '80s what is called cock rock, but not all of it was," Way explained. "Judas Priest is considered metal, but it's great rock'n'roll. It's having nothing to do with that era of metal, the hair rock, but then having everything to do with like the birth of power-anthem metal. After 'Trans Am' that started to really bleed into the record."

As well as music and wheels, the frontman added that the 1982 film Blade Runner had played a part in the recording sessions.

"I watched a lot of Blade Runner and I watched a lot of the Making Of Blade Runner, [director] Ridley Scott was really inspiring too, just kind of his unwillingness to put the camera down and really capture something special," he said. "People were upset by that, but he was very strong in his vision and I think the band was very strong in its vision this time. That's why the record took - instead of a month and a half to do - four months to track because our barometer for great was very high."

Their fourth LP, which was recorded in Los Angeles with Bruce Springsteen producer Brendan O'Brien, is due in spring 2010.

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Another comic adaptation!

According to Variety, Universal Studios has begun work on the big screen adaptation of Umbrella Academy. The comic, created by Gerard Way (front man of My Chemical Romance), revolves around seven superheroes that reunite when their adoptive father dies. They then carry out his plans to save the world.

Universal has hired Mark Bomback (Race to Witch Mountain and Live Free and Die Hard) to write the script. No director has been selected yet.

interview between Gabriel Bá and Gerard Way

Gabriel Bá has posted on his blog a video which he talks with Gerard about Daytripper, the new Bá and Moon's comic book.

video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz4DeyTrfSM

Entrevista Exclusiva con My Chemical Romance (revista AP) 4 parte

"Básicamente, hemos estado de viaje por siete años; se sintió como si toda nuestra vida adulta la hubiéramos pasado en un autobús yendo de un lugar a otro. Se sintió genial que el tour haya terminado, pero también fue triste. No puedes evitar reflexionar cuando el ciclo de un álbum acaba. Hubo dos o tres meses en donde me quedé en mi casa, sin salir a ninguna parte. Estábamos tan abatidos que parecíamos parte del Programa de Protección de Testigos. The Black Parade fue como un monstruo que recorrió el camino con nosotros", él comienza a reírse. "¡y luego la ciudad rebotó! ¿Qué haces después eso?".

"No sabíamos qué iría a suceder con la banda, porque tampoco sabíamos a dónde queríamos ir", revela Mikey, moviendo su cabeza mientras recuerda la incertidumbre. "Nosotros no habíamos hablado sobre eso; sobre lo que haríamos luego. Estamos fuera del camino; no pertenecemos más al Desfile Negro – somos My Chemical Romance otra vez. Y eso asusta porque, de todos modos, ¿qué es ahora My Chem? ¿Quiénes somos?".

A MCR la respuesta le vino en forma de una invitación para que participaran en la banda sonora de la adaptación fílmica del respetado cómic de Alan Moore, The Watchmen. Mikey afirma que la serie tuvo una enorme influencia sobre su hermano, actuando como una entrada al descubrimiento tanto de artistas gráficos como a nivel musical. "Para nosotros, ese cómic fue tan importante como lo fue Thriller, Nevermind o Siamese Dream". La banda se reunió en los Estudios Electric Lady, ubicados en la ciudad de New York, para grabar su versión cargada de sustancia química de Bob Dylan, titulada 'Desolation Row'; una opción apropiada para el trama de la película.

De repente, todo pareció aclararse. Aunque MCR llegó a la escena contemporánea punk (pop-punk, emo, screamo, etc.), ellos serán los primeros en decirte que nunca, por lo menos no conscientemente, tocaron por esos asientos (Gerard: "Tiempos sabios, estábamos conectados con todas esas cosas. Pero no estábamos espiritualmente conectados con toda esa mierda – estábamos conectados con las cosas de nuestra niñez").

Olvídense de los uniformes de banda de desfile, del cabello arreglado, busquen sus audífonos y escuchen la basura de los programas de radio – pero MCR será una banda de rock directa y sin pretensiones.

A principios de año, la banda volvió a reunirse en Mates Inc., un lugar de ensayos en Los Ángeles para averiguar la siguiente dirección. "Gerard hizo una mezcla de las canciones que él sintió que tenían la esencia que queríamos capturar", dice Iero. "The Stooges, MC5, Neat by the Damned. Y yo estaba como 'Wow, esa es la clase de cosas que estoy escribiendo'". Estaba claro que la carrera de MCR marcó algo que Gerard Way no estaba interesado en hacer otra vez. En lo que él está interesado es en la noción romántica del rock & roll, encarnada en la actitud, la pasión, la dedicación y la sinceridad – entregando en porciones iguales arrogancia y una equidad sudorosa.

"El proto-punk surge porque estábamos tratando de canalizar lo que sentimos por el Project Revolution", dice él. "'¿Sería el ultimo concierto que haríamos?'. Creo que ese es el objetivo: expulsar todo tan lejos dentro del sol que las gomas de los neumáticos se despedazaran, el motor se queme y todos – nuestros fans, nuestros amigos, y nosotros mismos – deberíamos sentir como si no fuéramos a hacer otro disco. Quiero que cada álbum se sienta como el último. Porque no sabemos cuando no sucederá".[/b]

MIENTRAS TANTO, RAY TORO -- EL MAESTRO DESFIBRADOR del punk estruendoso de Iero -- está en su casa de New Jersey con su esposa Christa, cuidando a su amado Yorkshire Terrier, Bauer. El perro estuvo en la casa de la mejor amiga de Christa mientras Toro cruzaba el planeta durante los dos últimos años; y tristemente, ha desarrollado una falla en uno de sus riñones. El guitarrista terminó de grabar su parte al finalizar el verano, para luego volver a casa con Christa y su leal mascota. Él encuentra muy irónica su situación: durante todo el transcurso del tour de The Black Parade, Toro esquivó todos sus temas personales que aparentemente bloqueaban a sus compañeros de banda. A pesar de que el bienestar de Christa y Bauer nunca sale de su mente, está significativamente emocionado con la actual evolución de MCR.

"Esta es la primera vez que me alejo de la banda mientras ellos están trabajando", dice por teléfono desde su casa rural en New Jersey. "Pero al parecer está funcionando bien. No escucho las canciones ni las mezclas, como lo hacen los chicos. Me pasan un archivo de sonido, me meto a mi auto y lo escucho. Quiero que la gente compita en la autopista y escuche la música, con el pedal en el metal. El éxito es hacer que tu álbum corra a 85 millas por hora".

Entrevista Exclusiva con My Chemical Romance (revista AP) tercera parte

Pero el error más grande de la gira de The Black Parade fue la definición de la palabra 'implacable'. Todos en la banda admiten fácilmente que, en vez de terminar en un nivel superior como lo hicieron con el Projekt Revolution (el cual tuvo tantos admiradores como críticos que están de acuerdo con que MCR se adueñó de la gira), su defecto fatal fue la campaña teatral que siguió en lo alto de 2008. Cuando los miembros miran hacia atrás durante aquel tiempo, ellos se sintieron más bien compañeros de trinchera que un grupo de rock.

"Una vez durante ese tour, Frank me miró y dijo: 'No te estás divirtiendo ¿cierto?'", Gerard lo recuerda todo demasiado bien. "Y le dije: 'No, no me estoy divirtiendo. Pero gracias por preguntar'". Él estalla en risas. "No tuvo nada que ver con los fans o las canciones. Para entonces, sentí que me había distanciado del concepto de muchas de las canciones de The Black Parade. La belleza de las canciones de Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge consistió en que cuando las tocábamos y nuestras vidas eran distintas a lo que son ahora, ellas comenzaron a significar cosas diferentes. Cerca de 16 conciertos después del Projekt Revolution, mi voz comenzó a agrietarse y me sentí desconectado de todo. Me entumeció el hecho de que The Black Parade comenzara a sentirse como la vida real".

El 9 de mayo de 2008, la banda encabezó el Madison Square Garden durante la última noche del ciclo turístico de The Black Parade. Los hombres de My Chemical Romance tuvieron sentimientos simultáneos de alegría, tristeza, agotamiento, y bendijeron el alivio. Gerard tiene recuerdos afectuosos de esa noche, a pesar de haber sido informado por sus managers inmediatamente luego del concierto, de que debía volver a su habitación de hotel y aprobar la edición final de la banda para el DVD en vivo The Black Parade Is Dead.

"Fue como, 'Mierda, he estado viviendo esto durante dos años'", recuerda rodando sus ojos por el mismo recuerdo. "¿Ahora tengo que ir a verlo?".

"Quisimos ser sensacionales con nuestra música", dice el cantante, poniendo sus pies sobre el sofá. "Nunca hemos tenido una especie de agenda ocupada, tampoco deseamos gustarles a otras personas. Estoy bien con eso".

CON EL DESFILE ABANDONANDO LA CIUDAD, los miembros de la banda alistaron sus planes personales, incluyendo, pero no limitándose en la felicidad doméstica (los hermanos Way), aventurándose en las grabar en sus casas (como el grupo de hardcore-punk de Iero, Leathermouth), planeando sus casamientos (Toro) y sometiéndose a una cirugía (Bryar). El grupo jura que a diferencia de la mayor parte de las bandas, las cuales tienen que mirarse las mismas caras todos los días durante 28 meses, la agotadora experiencia en los viajes nunca se convirtió en algo detestable. Ellos se mantuvieron en contacto por medio de los mensajes y correos electrónicos, y volvieron a reunirse en la boda de Toro que se realizó en agosto de 2008. Sin embargo, nadie pudo negar al 'elefante enorme' que estaba en el cuarto – la posibilidad de que MCR ya no tuviera una dirección válida, ni tampoco algo más para decirle a sus fans.

Hay una cosa que Frank Iero ama más que a la libertad del punk rock: su familia. Cuando él se sube las mangas de su buzo de la banda Marduk, sus antebrazos muestran los retratos tatuados de sus dos abuelas (hechos por la artista aclamada Kat Von D), fuertes figuras matriarcales que fallecieron con sólo unos meses de diferencia entre una y otra; una imagen de su abuelo adorna su hombro. El guitarrista apreció el descanso que se tomaron como banda, pero estuvo muy preocupado por la posibilidad de alejarse permanentemente de sus hermanos en el rock.

"Después de dos semanas en casa, todo lo que quería era tocar", admite Iero. "Francamente, me sentía muy deprimido porque temía que Gerard me llamara para decirme que no íbamos a hacerlo más. Luego del tercer día, quise llamarlos a todos y decirles: 'Hey, sólo quiero que sepan que esto es realmente especial y que no deberíamos darle la espalda'". Él se ríe como si estuviera escuchando a un tipo herido tratando de conquistar nuevamente a su ex novia. "Siempre dijimos que nos marcharíamos cuando ya no fuera divertido. Y comenzó a no ser divertido para nosotros". Tiempo después, Iero saciaría su lujuria viajando con Leathermouth, así como convertirse en un miembro más de la banda Reggie And The Full Effect, el vehículo de los solos para MCR fue tenerlo en sus conciertos como tecladista a James Dewees.

"Cuando llegamos a casa, todos nosotros estábamos completamente conmocionados", dice Mikey Way, cuyos recuerdos oscuros del año pasado se debilitan por la felicidad que siente al trabajar nuevamente en el estudio.

Entrevista Exclusiva con My Chemical Romance (revista AP) segunda parte

Cuando Iero entra en el estudio, Gerard lo saluda con una gran sonrisa y se dan la mano como si no se hubieran visto durante años. Considerando todas las vibraciones positivas que los rodean hoy, es completamente difícil entender que hace aproximadamente 16 meses atrás, My Chemical Romance estaba a un paso de desintegrarse. Dos semanas antes de que este escritor llegara a Los Ángeles, él reveló el trabajo a un miembro de la prominente banda de New York / New Jersey. "Espera", el tipo de la banda respondió sinceramente pero sorprendido. "¿Ahora están haciendo un álbum nuevo?".

La campaña turística de The Black Parade tuvo a la banda viajando por todo el mundo durante dos años y medio. La experiencia los dejó sintiendo como si a las 3 am estuvieran cenando un filete en una cena que dura toda la noche: un filete quemado alrededor de sus bordes y con un camino demasiado blando hacia el interior. Concedido, no todo en el viaje fue malo: Los 3.000 fanáticos que se reunieron en un aeropuerto de Sudamérica dieron un momento de genuina Beatlemanía a MCR. Después de la primera pierna del tour, Mikey pidió permiso para relajarse en algún aspecto de la vida doméstica con su esposa Alicia, dejando al guitarrista técnico Matt Cortez para que lo cubriera en sus deberes de bajista en la intensamente brillante producción de Linkin Park, el Projekt Revolution Tour. Durante el Projekt Revolution Gerard contrajo matrimonio con su compañera de alma (Lindsey, la bajista de Mindless Self Indulgence) y publicó su primer cómic ovacionado (titulado: The Umbrella Academy) con Dark Horse.

Otros miembros de la banda no fueron tan afortunados: Aunque Iero se casó en marzo de 2008 con su novia Jamia, tuvo que retirarse de la gira por la Costa del Pacífico, porque mientras la banda se dirigía en un avión a Japón, él comenzó a sangrar mucho por su nariz y boca. Semanas antes del viaje, al guitarrista le removieron sus muelas de juicio, pero el cirujano dañó la capa inferior de sus senos maxilares, causando una infección masiva. "¡Olía como a pavo podrido!", recuerda riéndose de la experiencia. Más tarde, fue diagnosticado con una dolencia de estómago que requirió que tomara un regimiento de esteroides y antibióticos que, en sus palabras, "me hicieron sentir gordo y horrible".

Pero si necesitas que un chico de cartel transmita su sufrimiento a su arte, que no te quepa la menor duda de que se trata de Bob Bryar. Él fue el tripulante psíquico de la primera carroza del Desfile, que comenzó en marzo, de My Chem, luego de que una quemadura en su pierna producida en la grabación de un video clip formara un absceso en su cerebro. Pero también, fue sólo el principio: A tres cuartos del camino en los conciertos de un club de New Jersey que le daría vida al DVD 'The Black Parade Is Dead!', el tendón de su dedo anular se rompió y se enrolló en su codo. "Es como si una cuerda explotara", dice enrollando la manga derecha de su buzo de Dark Funeral para mostrarnos el corte en donde su nuevo tendón fue instalado. Pete Parade de The Offspring fue elegido para cubrir a la banda en sus compromisos europeos, pero cuando Bryar se sintió lo suficientemente seguro para reincorporarse a la banda, el destino le jugó en contra.

"Fui de Chicago O'Hare a Los Ángeles para volar con los chicos a Australia", recuerda. "Levanté una lata de soda en el aeropuerto y al hacerlo, sufrí una sacudida tan fuerte en mi brazo que dejé caer la lata. En ese momento, me dije: 'No puedo hacer esto'".
Inesperadamente, la banda reclutó al sonidista Tucker Rule de Thrusday para sus fanáticos de Down Under. Tarde o temprano, Bryar se reincorporó a la banda para la gira del Projekt Revolution por los Estados Unidos, sosteniendo sus baquetas entre sus dos primeros dedos, sólo para afrontar más tarde las frías posibilidades de tener que someterse a una cirugía. "Justo antes de que te volteen el tendón, te dicen que hay una posibilidad de que tengas que aprender a hacerlo todo de nuevo y aprender a hacerlo bien, o de que nunca vuelvas a tocar. Pero, de todos modos, no podía tocar así que decidí arriesgarme".

El magnífico golpe de ironía de The Black Parade consiste en que la construcción novelesca que la banda creó se manifestó en la realidad. Cuando la banda aterrizó en el Reino Unido, la prensa sensacionalista británica 'The Daily Mail', catalogó a MCR como "un culto a la muerte", dejando a la trama del álbum como evidencia. En Australia, Gerard estaba visiblemente conmovido al enterarse de que muchos de los fanáticos de la banda fueron el blanco de la violencia por brabucones, una situación similar a la que sufrió México un año atrás, en una "limpieza del emo" por parte de subculturas del rock.

Entrevista Exclusiva con My Chemical Romance (revista AP)

Noviembre de 2009.

PARA SU CUARTO ÁLBUM, los MCR podrían haber hecho un disco para mostrar cuán "punk" son ellos, o un disco aburrido, seguro que el disco pondría celoso a Nickelback. En cambio, la banda decidió patear los traseros de todos – incluyendo los suyos.

¡VIVA EL ABANDONO!
Hace ya una década atrás, My Chemical Romance pasó sus vidas en los sótanos siendo unos pobres niños golpeados, muchachos de cartel reacios a esa generación deformada y a las personas que reavivan los métodos viejos del rock clásico, salvando a jóvenes privados del derecho al voto en todo el mundo. Como aún están terminando su cuarto álbum, están haciendo algo aún más atrevido: Convirtiéndose en una banda de rock.

SITUADO EN EL CORAZÓN DE HOLLYWOOD
Sunset Sound es una prisión auténtica del rock & roll. El estudio ha promovido algunos de los discos más importantes y apasionantes en la historia del sonido registrado; desde discos como 'Exile on main street to the doors' de los Rolling Stones a 'Woman to Led Zeppelin II'. Aún a pesar de su historia y de la tecnología-del-Estado-del arte, la cosa simple es (al menos para el primer visitante) un dolor real en el trasero. La serie de vestíbulos de madera artesonados conduce a estudios contiguos y áreas comunes con múltiples salidas, así que si no prestas mucha atención podrías terminar en la suite incorrecta, en un cuarto de almacenamiento, debajo de un aro de baloncesto o en el aparcamiento. Debes aguardar en una de las puertas al final de estos vestíbulos para ir a un estudio de sonido en Daisy of Love, o, al menos, un Baja Fresh tripulado por tipos rockeros de décadas anteriores (Alguien que le diga a uno de esos tontos de Night Ranger que el puesto de salsa caliente necesita rellenarse).

En un aviso teórico, el plan de Sunset es la metáfora perfecta para describir la trayectoria artística de My Chemical Romance. Piénsenlo: Cuando alguien esperó que la banda entrara en una dirección concreta, ellos rebotaron hacia algo más. MCR – vocalista Gerard Way, guitarristas Frank Iero y Ray Toro y baterista Bob Bryar – fueron las víctimas sin nombre empujándolo hacia el exterior en sus conciertos en sótanos y clubs húmedos para estrellas, que luego se unieron a un sello discográfico principal por dos años, eclipsando a muchos de sus colegas y mentores. Después de la victoriosa Generación Warped, ellos cortaron sus ambiciones tontas cambiándolas por un concepto alto, un espectáculo de rock clásico de The Black Parade, reinventándose de nuevo como el Sargento Pepper del equipo de Adderall, mientras picaban la atención de ambos críticos y una legión de los fanáticos más viejos de la música estaban dispuestos a quitar sus garras artríticas de los recuerdos musicales de su juventud para comprender que sí, tal vez allí había alguna de las bandas nuevas para chequear.

En 2009, My Chemical Romance escribió y grabó cerca del valor de los dos álbumes de material con el productor Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine) en el timón. Pero a diferencia de un escritor cargado por un sentido minúsculo de dirección – o una banda menor de músicos dispuestos a ceder el control y la visión para asegurar su presunta economía – MCR saben exactamente a dónde quieren ir. No nos sorprende que, hoy en día, los climas hostiles de los artistas de la cultura de las descargas y el valor disminuido de la música hayan hecho que la banda sea aún más apasionada hacia su arte.

"Pienso que nuestra público es nuestro público", dice Gerard Way, sentándose al final de un sofá de cuero negro en una de las serie de habitaciones de mezcla de Sunset. "No he notado una carencia de devoción a nuestra banda. Lo que realmente he notado es que hay un nivel de entusiasmo por My Chemical Romance que nunca esperé. Desde encuentros básicos que tuve – como por ejemplo, reunirme con personas a tomar café o incluso encuentros casuales con personas en las conferencias de cómics – hay una anticipación loca por el nuevo álbum de My Chemical Romance. Siento como si no estuviéramos haciendo música, como si algo faltara. No sé cuánto pesa sobre nosotros la cultura actual".

Él hace una pausa para encender un cigarrillo. "Pienso subconscientemente que...", comienza a hablar exhalando un poco de humo, "somos tan hostiles como antes".

EL HUMOR EN EL ESTUDIO es en partes iguales entusiásticas y productivas. Como la banda escucha a algunas mezclas ásperas que O'Brien hizo para ellos unos días antes, el maquinista ovacionado, Rich Costey, está en una de las otras suites preparando las versiones finales. Los miembros de la banda (menos el guitarrista Ray Toro: ya les hablaré un poco sobre esto) comparten risas con algunos ayudantes del estudio y pasan cerca para verificar los menús, preparándose para una larga tarde.

My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way says becoming a father has made him write songs for his daughter's future. [tourdates.co.uk interview.]

Gerard Way's new album is being written for his daughter's teenage years.

The My Chemical Romance singer became a father for the first time when wife Lindsey gave birth to Bandit Lee earlier this year and says parenthood had an impact on his songwriting.

He explained: "It influenced me in an unconventional way. I wasn't really writing a record about becoming a dad.

"I was writing music for somebody when they grew up. It's like a time capsule for when this person turns 15 or 20."

The 32-year-old 'Teenagers' hitmaker also admitted he was glad the group hadn't decided to write about their own lives.

He added: "I'm glad it's not a bunch of guys searching for something that would make them cool again. That's a hollow pursuit that makes for horrible music."

We're kicking asess! xD

In the 'Rock Stars Of The Decade' in NME magazine we've voted and put Gerard Way in first place with 9.04 of rating!

We left Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong in a second place when he was wining Gerard for about two points!

we MCR fans rule... =D

don't we? xD

Gerard Way and Rolling Stone Magazine

"We definitely want the album to come out next year so I think we are nearly done," he told us recently. "But there will have to be a point where we make the conscious decision to stop. One of my addictive things is that I always think there is another song around the corner, there is always one more song. After we get that song then I think there is one more after that, and another after that, I think if I ever stopped feeling that way we would be in trouble. I’m always chasing that next great song." - Gerard Way.

My Chemical Romance Slam Fame-Hungry Musicians on New Album

After going the concept route -- or at least making a linear work on 'The Black Parade' -- My Chemical Romance are going in another direction on their forthcoming album, due early next year. Spinner visited the group in their L.A. studio to get an early preview and we were left suitably blown away by the nine very disparate songs we got to hear. The tracks ranged from the atmospheric 'Light Before Your Eyes,' a song frontman Gerard Way describes as Pink Floyd-ish, to the '80s-flavored 'Trans Am' and the punk/dance party tune, 'Death Before Disco,' which starts off with a Judas Priest 'Living After Midnight' vibe and turns into a lyrical salute to the Stooges, Velvet Underground and MC5.

Way tells Spinner the as-yet-untitled album is a definite answer to 'The Black Parade.' "Every single record we make is a response to the last," he says. "But sometimes it's not only a response to the last record -- it's a response to the opinion of that record or a response to the world at the time of that record."

What he sees and documents on the new album is a lot of rockers who are in music for the wrong reason. "There's a definite undercurrent of fame versus working class, people having stuff handed to them with zero talent versus working class kids that start a band," he says. "Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends -- rock 'n' roll is dangerous and rock 'n' roll should piss people off. Right now, there's not a lot of that happening. What it is is a lot of people trying to be famous. That seems to be the goal."

In Way's opinion, that desire to be famous is messing up the sanctity of rock ''n roll. "It's bled into rock. It came from other places, but it's bled into rock 'n' roll and kind of tainted it a bit," Way says. "This record is really a response to that as well."

MCR certainly have the resources and notoriety to bask in that fame as well, so how do they resist that temptation? "Instead of us panicking and trying to see where we can grab the money or grab the opportunity, we just wrote music instead," Way says. "We tried to write a great record; that was our response to things. I think that writing a great record will sell records these days, as opposed to doing every other f---ing thing that people seem to be doing to sell a record."

My Chemical Romance talk Stooges and MC5-influenced new album

My Chemical Romance have unveiled further details about their forthcoming fourth album – and admitted the band almost split up last year.

Singer Gerard Way said the follow-up to their 2006 concept album 'The Black Parade' has been influenced by The Stooges and MC5.

"We wanted to harness everything that's great about this band into shorter songs, almost protopunk, like The Stooges or the MC5," he told Rolling Stone.

The singer also revealed a new track 'Trans Am', which is likely to feature on the new record, containing the lyrics: "These pigs are after me, after you".

He admitted the band nearly split after touring their last album in May 2008, saying: "I thought the band was going to break up," although he did not elaborate on the comment.

Their fourth LP, which is being recorded in Los Angeles with Bruce Springsteen producer Brendan O'Brien, is due in spring 2010.

THE DAY MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE'S FRANK IERO MET THE MEN IN BLACK

HOMELAND INSECURITY: THE DAY MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE'S FRANK IERO MET THE MEN IN BLACK

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE are putting the final touches to their follow-up of 2007's majestic The Black Parade. During a break in the studio, guitarist FRANK IERO recalls some of the great highs and lows he experienced during their break. Some of those experiences--good and bad--revolved around writing, recording and touring with his side-project, LEATHERMOUTH, whose debut album XO, appeared on Epitaph earlier this year. The good was that he honed his home-recording skills, did a lot of writing (which has helped inform MCR's next disc) and became a maniac frontman while Leathermouth were on tour with REGGIE AND THE FULL EFFECT during the summer of 2008.

The bad? Well, as the guitarist has made clear in interviews, Leathermouth are his vehicle for unfiltered ranting (i.e. "Sunsets Are For Muggings," "Your Friends Are Full Of Shit"). But it was track No. 4 on XO, "I Am Going To Kill The President Of The United States Of America" (about George W. Bush), which earned Iero a visit from the Secret Service. Wondering what happens next?

"The government comes to your house, searches everything and talks to your wife for hours," says Iero, adjusting the sleeves on his hoodie. "Then you have to get a real expensive attorney to keep you out of prison for five years. I had a long talk with the gentlemen of the Secret Service. [It was the] straight-up dark suits, sunglasses, Men In Black-vibe--I thought they were going to do the mind-erase thing [like in the movie].

"They said, 'Why did you write the song?' And I told them the truth. I was on tour [overseas] with My Chem at the time, and every time I turned around, there were Anti-American rallies. I wrote a song from the standpoint of the rest of the world. It wasn't from my personal point of view--it was just from someone who sees warmongering going on. I wrote the song, and the title is as blatant as humanly possible, because I wanted it to be that way. The Secret Service asked, 'Do you think someone is going to hear this song and kill the president?' And I said if they're going to kill the president, they're going to do it without listening to this song. That's like saying everyone who reads Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is going to eat a baby. They didn't think that was too intelligent, so they said, 'Well, if you re-release the record with the song on it or perform the song live ever again, you'll be arrested."

What's really perplexing about the whole incident is how the agency even learned about the song in the first place. Iero says he's not sure who it was, but opines that it was a British writer who contacted the Office of Homeland Security looking for a comment. Clearly, Iero could've turned the whole thing into a massively public freedom-of-speech argument; now, he's just happy the whole thing is behind him. "I'm married and I want to have kids," he resigns. "I don't want to go to jail for five years." --Jason Pettigrew

My Chemical Romance give up the emo woe

NO MORE angst. No more whingeing. No more playing the victim. When My Chemical Romance re-emerge in early 2010 with their fourth album, any trace of "woe is me and it's all your fault" will be replaced by such self-aware and self-sufficient themes as "strength" and "self-preservation".

Yup, emo is dead. Long live My Chemical Romance.

"I didn't want to set kids who like to wear black back 20 years, that wasn't the point. Because it's taken us so long to be able to wear black every day."

Gerard Way lets out a laugh. The singer is standing outside Sunset Sound Studios in LA, where his band is in the final stages of mixing the new, as-yet-untitled album with producer Brendan O'Brien.

"But I guess if you're gonna dress like you listen to The Cure all the time, you're gonna get s... for it."

Way wasn't happy with reports that black-clad kids were getting beat up when the band played at Big Day Out in 2007. And he describes hate crimes aimed at emo kids with asymmetrical fringes that swept across Mexico in early 2008 as "a human rights issue".

"It literally didn't make any sense to me," Way says. "It all boils down to macho versus emotional at the end of the day. It comes down to gutteral, violent tendencies versus talking about your problems."

But mostly, Way wasn't happy when he thought ahead to what his daughter, Bandit Lee, born in May this year, might think when she picked up My Chemical Romance's previous album, The Black Parade, and gave it a spin as a teen. Would she see her dad and his bandmates as moaning victims?

"I didn't feel that we were," Way clarifies.

"I always felt there was a great deal of black humour with anything we were doing. But I did feel it was misperceived and misinterpreted, and in really strange ways. That's the thing though, when you put a song out there, it's no longer yours, it's somebody else's, and it's theirs to interpret however they want.

"But I knew the power the band had was whatever we put out next, so we could dictate what we were saying, we could dictate how it's perceived to a point."

My Chem 4.0, he swears, will be "very explicitly saying that we're all not victims".

Way, his bassist brother Mikey, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero and drummer Bob Bryar began pre-production on the new album in February.

"We started from absolutely zero, we didn't bring any road songs into the room," Way says.

Time is a luxury the band have never afforded themselves before, and Way says the all-the-time-we-need edict will carry over to artwork and everything else that must be done for the album.

Songs so far (though the titles may change) include Still Alive, Trans Am, Death Before Disco, The Only Hope For Me Is You, Black Dragon Fighting Society, Kiss The Ring, Boy Division and the marvellously named Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back.

Way says every track is a "first-listen song"; something that will grab you from the get-go.

"That was why it took so long, because if something wasn't making you feel that feeling, then it went away and it had to be replaced with something that did make you feel special," he says.

Australia will be first to hear the new songs when My Chemical Romance tour in February for the Soundwave festival, though the album won't be released until March.

Another thing you won't find on the new album is the conceptual pomp and the striking costumery that helped send The Black Parade to platinum status in Australia, Britain and the US.

"Let's swap the word theatrical for cinematic this time," he says. "If Black Parade was a big rock show that was full of theatricality, then this is more of a movie moment. I don't think this band will ever lose any kind of aesthetic or art to it - that always has to be there. It just means that we're not doing what we've always done; it doesn't mean there won't be anything exciting attached to this record."

Though musically shorter and sharper, Way is cautious of using the term "stripped back".

"If anything is stripped back, it's bells and whistles and marching bands and things like that. Songs are now under four minutes or maybe even shorter. That, to me, is stripping it back, trimming the fat, trimming any kind of indulgence out of the music."

Gerard Way Talks New Comic "Fabulous Killjoys," Next My Chemical Romance Album

"I like the titles from The Umbrella Academy issues better than my song titles now," Gerard Way announced at his Saturday afternoon panel at Comic-Con International. "They've leveled up. There's nothing better than titling an issue of Umbrella Academy." The frontman of My Chemical Romance, Way is also a longtime comics fan — he mentioned that he'd freaked out about seeing Jeff (Bone) Smith the night before, and rhapsodized over Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead ("After The Walking Dead, I don't know that you can touch zombies. It'll be a good five or 10 years before somebody else can do a zombie comic").

Of course, Way has also become an award-winning comics writer himself in the last few years. At the overflowing panel that's now an annual Comic-Con tradition, he announced two new comic books he's working on: the third Umbrella Academy miniseries, subtitled Hotel Oblivion and drawn by the Brazilian artist Gabriel Bá, and a new series called The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, drawn by Becky Cloonan (Demo). Way talked to Rolling Stone about the new comics, as well as the MCR record that's in progress right now.

What's the story with The Fabulous Killjoys?
It's written by myself and my co-creator Shaun Simon. He was the keyboard player in Frank [Iero]'s first band, he's our good friend, he was our merch guy. I think a lot of ideas we came up with back then in the band are what ended up in Killjoys.

Like what?
Like the notion of driving by a children's playground off to the side of the desert and realizing that it's a cemetery because it's where childhood dies — stuff that we'd say to each other, driving around. But it's from the perspective of a gang, because that's basically what a young band is. You stop being a gang at a certain point, but you always chase that feeling. You want to get that feeling back.

How has it been working with Becky Cloonan?
She's awesome. When I first talked to her about it, she sent me a sketch of Rachel, one of the characters, and I knew right away she had to be the artist for the book. The great thing about her is that she comes from that world. She went to SVA, and she got her start doing show fliers for CBGBs — she saw the bands and went to the shows. She's very punk rock in that way, and her art has that energy that a punk show has.

You've talked about your master plan for The Umbrella Academy; where does Hotel Oblivion fit into the big picture?
It's pulling further away from what people think a superhero comic, or even a comic, can be. It's going to trigger a major event that needs to happen in the comic. I'm very excited for it.

What's happening with the next My Chemical Romance album?
I'd say we're right in the middle of it. Brendan [O'Brien] is the kind of producer who really likes a lot of things going on at once, so we're tracking and he's going right across the hall and mixing. It's a process that always keeps everyone involved the whole time. The songs are all wildly different, but the one I'm really excited about is called "Death Before Disco." It's a completely different sound for the band — it's like an anti-party song that you can party to. I can't wait for people to hear it. It brings back, lyrically, some of that wonderful fiction from the first album. I think we wrote our "Born to Run," and I'm so amped about that. To me, it's the greatest song we've ever written — it's my favorite MCR song.

Holidays!

ok...like i've got nothing to do, so I just stay all day long in my computer....

writing a fanfic and making a video of I'm Yours Tonight by The Academy Is...



then if i can uploade it to Youtube i'll ost it here...