Well, here i am again, a bit too late, but here anyways.

I came here to write this blog to wish Gerard Way a happy birthday, though it was on April 9th, I couldn't say 'Happy Birthday'' to him properly. (I had school 'till late in the afternoon and i was also grounded xD)

So well, Gerard, Happy Birthday, I wish you had the best birthday ever with your family, friends and all your loved ones.

Husband, Father, Friend, musician, comic geek, idol, crazy, artist, saviour,in one word: HERO.

'cuz that's what you are Gerard, you are a Hero. Because a hero is not someone who wears a mask, a hero is someone who helps other people he doesn't even know, someone who can get through his problems, someone who really cares about people. You are a hero Gerard Way, and i'm proud to say that i admire you. Despite what some people may say about you, I know, i won't stop feeling this admiration, that in some kind of point it kind of turns into love...

You don't even know me, but I want to tell you that you are my hero, I really admire you, and not just because you are a rock star, just because you're a person who lived a lot of shit and went over it, and that's just amazing. Not much people can get over that stuff...

Well, i'll stop annoying you now :)

I hope you had the nicest birthday ever

Xo
Marius

Hello.

Hi, dear people who read this blog,

I just wanna tell you, that as you may know, Easter is arond the corner, tomorrow in fact, i want to wish you all a happy Easter, no matter where you are, if i know you or if I don't :D

Have a nice time with your Family, Friends or whoever you like! hang out, eat, drink give presents! do whatever makes you feel good!


Happy Easter y'all. And of you don't celebrate Easter, have a nice Sunday :)


xoxo
~Marius

Gerard Way Meets Iggy Pop

With his wild onstage antics and upcoming "sleazy Detroit rock" album, My Chemical Romance's frontman is a true disciple of The Stooges. "I didn't want the girls to want to f--k me, I wanted the straight guys to want to f--k me," Way says. "I got that from Iggy."

SPIN: Gerard, when did you first hear Iggy's music?

GERARD WAY: This is kind of a crazy story. There was a cartoon I saw as a child called Rock & Rule.

IGGY POP: Oh my God! Somebody saw it!

WAY: Yeah! It had a huge impact on me. It was set in the future and starred [the music of] Iggy, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, Cheap Trick, and Earth, Wind & Fire.

POP: I remember my song was called "Pain & Suffering." [Sings] "Red wine turns to blood / A cow floats upside down in a river of mud!"

WAY: It scared me, but I was drawn to it. I rediscovered it in middle school, right when [Iggy's pop hit] "Candy" came out. I'd been a metalhead, but then I got into punk and the Ramones, and through that I got into Iggy.

POP: They were good to me that way, the Ramones. I just saw a picture of a night at CBGB's in 1975 when they held a party for me. We all had that same bowl haircut! Five of us with a bowl. Mine was platinum and theirs were dark.

SPIN: The Ramones were from Queens; Iggy, you're from Michigan, and Gerard, you're from Jersey -- three of the most disrespected places in America. Do you feel a connection because of that?

POP: Yeah, real knucklehead places. Allen Ginsberg is from New Jersey, from Paterson, and it's a pretty ugly town as he paints it.

WAY: I'm from Newark, which is pretty much Paterson. Paterson is a fucked-up place.

POP: I always liked Newark because it was so embattled. I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

WAY: Definitely. We practiced in this factory there where there had been murders. It's in the deconstructed, destroyed cities where people will leave you alone so you can create yourself.

SPIN: Do you both carry your hometowns with you in the art you make?

POP: I certainly do. If I'm in Paris and the people get very French, I find my drawl thickening, like [adopts heavy Detroit accent] "You know what there, Froggy…"

WAY: I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here. L.A. people might hate me for saying this, but when [my wife] Lindsey and I moved, we thought, "Everyone here is so polite. If a bunch of people moved out from the East Coast, they could fucking run this place." Like the person I'm getting coffee from, he's definitely motherfucking me and is going to say something when I'm gone. Not like in New York, where they'll just motherfuck you to your face.

POP:"Heyyyy, man, great to see you! You're a beautiful cat!" But seriously, there's some highly capable assassins out there. So hats off to 'em.

SPIN: I wanted to talk to you both about influential concerts in your life. Iggy, you've spoken about seeing Jim Morrison and the Doors in 1967.

POP: It was the homecoming dance at the University of Michigan, and it was an intimate setting, sort of like the prom scene in Carrie. When the dude appeared, Morrison, he lurched onto the stage, and people probably thought he was drunk. But I knew that cat had had three or four hits of acid. His pupils were totally dilated, and he had on a sort of Hedy Lamarr–as-Delilah outfit, and when he opened his mouth, he sang only in falsetto baby talk. There was no applause. No approval. No comprehension. It was a visibly unsuccessful evening, and that's what I loved about it in retrospect. Afterwards, I was vibrating with this feeling that I have no excuse not to get our miserable, good-for-nothin' band out on the stage.

WAY: All of the performances that mattered to me were the shows I couldn't go to because they'd already happened and I was just a kid. In a lot of ways, my band has always been in response to stuff. Seeing bands like Thursday and At the Drive-In, they were plugged into what I like to call "Motor City motherfuckin' rock," channeling the Stooges, channeling the MC5. During this one performance, ATDI were wearing catsuits, crawling under the stage. It was sexy and challenged your sexuality. I guess all I added to that was eyeliner. I wanted to challenge gender, abuse the audience. I didn't want the girls to want to fuck me, I wanted the straight guys to want to fuck me. I think I got that from Iggy.

POP: Maybe you should give John Mayer a call. [Laughs] I think whatever it is you're doing, if you're gonna get up and do it in front of the public, it's going to blow unless you give free rein to your emotional truths. Otherwise you're going to look like you're pandering.

WAY: I've always loved Lust for Life—the whole record for me is perfect. You're not pandering at all. I started to feel on the last [My Chemical Romance] record like I was pandering, and that the money had put me in stasis. It's like a trap: Stasis is death, and I started to make safe decisions. But then on [2007's Projekt Revolution] tour, our last one for [The Black Parade], a journalist told me we were like the fucking Stooges up there. That's what we're trying to get back to on this new record, what we had on that one tour.

POP: A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you. Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

WAY: I never thought about that, being author and actor. We were going to these cities where there were hate crimes directed at the kids listening to us, the kids wearing all black. I retreated and stopped being on the crusade. I didn't want anyone to get hurt. The light at the end of the tunnel was a friend reminding me I didn't wear a Public Image Ltd. pin on my jacket in high school because I wanted to get spit on, I wore it because I wanted to wear it. Our kids are the same way: It's their fucking choice. I can't protect them. I need to give them what they want.

POP: If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. It's good to withdraw at certain times. A steady diet of it is rough on a person.

URL to video interview with Gerard Way:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1811456849?bctid=73670137001

Give It Up - Midtown

This silence kills the calm

Of the night

I force an anxious patience

Counting every beat and waiting for my turn to die

Give it up, Give it up

Don't fall for the same things

Give it up, Give it up

Don't fall for mistakes that I've made

Don't turn away

I understand your ways

Won't give it up

It's not me you're waiting for

Alright, stop waiting

It's not me you're waiting for

It's time to let go, time to let it go

And when

You become

All you've lost

Wandering the streets and searching for a place to die

Give it up, Give it up

Don't fall for the same things

Give it up, Give it up

Don't fall for mistakes that I've made

Don't turn away

I understand your ways

Won't give it up

It's not me you're waiting for

Alright, stop waiting

It's not me you're waiting for

This is where it ends

It's not me you're waiting for

It's time to let go, time to let it go

This is where it ends

And if you promise to forget

I'll try to find a way to make mistakes

Make mistakes

Give it up, Give it up

Try to find a way

[x4]

It's not me you're waiting for

It's not me you're waiting for

Alright, stop waiting

It's not me you're waiting for

Alright, stop waiting

It's not me you're waiting for

Give it up, Give it up

Don't fall for the same things (Alright, stop waiting)

Give it up, Give it up

Don't fall for mistakes that I've made (Alright, don't give it up)

Don't turn away

Give it up, Give it up

Don't fall for the same things

Give it up, Give it up

Don't turn away

OF UMBRELLAS AND KILLJOYS

RUSSELL: Of course, there's still some great stuff that comes out of left field every once in a while. "The Umbrella Academy" is a great example of that, I think.

ALLIE: Thanks. I love that book, because there's a quality to it that has nothing to do with the fact that the guy sings in a band, you know? That definitely helped us find an audience for it, but yeah -- that comic really, really works.

RUSSELL: What's the next "Umbrella Academy" miniseries?

ALLIE: "Hotel Oblivion." What's next for Gerard is that we've got to get "Killjoys" written. "Killjoys" is this non-"Umbrella" miniseries that we're doing; Becky Cloonan's the artist. Shaun Simon's the co-writer on it. And we've got to get working on that. Gerard's been very busy with his record -- his day job...

RUSSELL: His rock-star day job....

ALLIE: His hugely successful rock-band day job. Yeah. They're still recording this darn album that's going on and on. It's been a while that they've been focused on that. He had a kid last year. He's just been really busy, and so we haven't made any headway on "Killjoys," and "Killjoys" is in line in front of "Hotel Oblivion" -- "Hotel Oblivion" being "Umbrella Academy" Series 3. I'm going down there at the end of March to kick-start the "Killjoys" process. Hopefully we'll be getting that rolling fast enough that we can get on to "Umbrella."

I spoke to Gabriel Ba the other day. He's super-busy, really overbooked, but always wishing that "Umbrella" would happen faster. Ba's career has exploded since "Umbrella Academy" started -- and he's such a remarkable creative force, he really needs to be doing his own thing. Have you seen "Daytripper"?

RUSSELL: No, I haven't.

ALLIE: It's one of the best comics ever. Gabriel writes it and his brother draws it. One of the best comics in the world. [Scott shows me a copy he has lying around the house. It's gorgeous.] These twins are the most inspiring people to work with. So he really needs to be doing more of his own stuff -- but he really wants to get back to "Umbrella."

RUSSELL: Can you tell me anything about the stories for the new Gerard Way stuff?

ALLIE: "Killjoys" is like a post-punk psychedelic road-trip comic. Reality is the MacGuffin of "Killjoys."

RUSSELL: That sounds sort of in keeping with the "Umbrella Academy" vibe. Nothing in that comic is at it seems. Ever.

ALLIE: That's true -- but in "Killjoys" that's so much more the case, without giving away too much. You can't even compare the two. With "Umbrella," Gerard wanted to do a comic, so he made up a superhero team that just happens to be unlike any other superhero team -- but it's a superhero team through his filter. "Killjoys" is just him through his filter. So rather than taking a genre that's external to him and doing it his way, "Killjoys" is more like the raw, unadulterated Gerard Way. And it might be the comic-book experience his fans would have wanted in the first place, so to speak.... It's got a real plastic feel to it, it's got a bit of a '70s vibe and a '90s-rock vibe, to some degree. But I can't give away too much.

RUSSELL: Is Gerard Way a character in this? Is this the "Hard Day's Night" of comics?

ALLIE: No, no. It's not about a rock band at all. It's about a group of anarchist heroes, in a way. It's personal, not autobiographical. It's a personal story unfiltered by genre.

RUSSELL: Will the next "Umbrella" be in keeping with the all-bets-off vibe of the previous books? Gerard Way seems like he could kill or fatten up anybody in those books at any time.

ALLIE: [laughs] Yeah, man. He'll fatten up anybody. "Umbrella"'s so weird. The next one will reveal a bit more about the secrets that we've been keeping, the backgrounds of the characters. It'll be unraveling characters in the ways we've been unraveling characters thus far -- changing who they are and taking apart preconceptions about them.

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ACIN interviews Scott Allie, The Umbrella Academy and Killjoys Editor

Oh, My hapiness can't be bigger... ♥

I am proud to announce the addition of two new members to the MCR extended family. Recently, my wife and I found out we will be having twins later on this summer. I cannot express in words how happy this makes us, it seems everything's turning up Milhouse. I just can't wait to meet the little ones, and may God have mercy on the world now that there will be 2 more Ieros wreaking havoc on the earth.

Beware People in the Neighbourhood, the Ieros Will invade us! xD

Teenagers Remix