Gerard Way & My Chemical Romance

pMy thought process led me to wonder what would the future hold for Lucky Charms./p
pSure, some of these ideas may seem taboo, but in an increasingly violent and progressive world I don’t think these ideas are that far-flung.br /
I believe swimmers at the turn of the century were expected to wear full outfits, whereas today we have the thong bikini, as brought to mainstream attention by Sisqo, in his 1999 hit, Thong Song./p
pI think a Monkey’s Paw would make an excellent addition to Lucky Charms as it is in fact, a lucky charm from days of yore./p
pMost likely illegal now./p
pG/p

pHaving my morning cereal, I pondered a question, as one often does, while staring blankly at the morning sun–/p
pCan you count your age by the marshmallows in a bowl of Lucky Charms? Like the rings of a great oak tree?/p
pI remember, as a child, the addition of Purple Horseshoes and eventually Red Balloons. I now notice there are Yellow Hourglasses.br /
How many new magical totems of sugar will be in the bowl when I reach the age of 65?/p
pG/p

pIt’s no secret that I’m bad at video games. In fact, I’m not very good at games in general- I’m more of a strong starter who’s score rapidly descends. Like with bowling… if I go bowling I’m great for the first few frames, I might even score a strike right away. But then I’m just for shit.br /
Ray, Mikey, and Bob are al great at games, but I still play them for fun.br /
But when a game stops being fun I usually end up quitting.br /
Let’s talk about Star Wars: The Force Unleashed-br /
I really tried with this one and put in the hours. I found it occasionally very difficult and discovered moments where I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. I toughed it out- Until I got to the level where you have to take down a giant Star Destroyer by sheer power of your force alone. The concept is crazy and should be very fun- it is the opposite of that. I can’t recall a time where I was put in such a frustrating situation with a game. I shouldn’t even explain it- you should probably just youtube some gameplay footage if you’re interested and watch the insanity. /p
pThe funny part is, this isn’t the moment where I quit the game. After around 30 attempts, I searched the interweb for hints on how to do this. There weren’t many hints- just a lot of vocal internet anger. But I eventually did it, quitting shortly after at the last stage, where you get to the Death Star and are in a room with around 200 bad guys for no reason at all, I mean I think they even created new bad guys just for this room, there was probably a Tiberian Shuttle dropping off bad-guys from previous stages who I hadn’t seen in days. It was just shit blowing up, me dying, total nonsense, and at this point the damage had already been done during the Star Destroyer fiasco- I had simply stopped caring, so that’s where I quit./p
pI will talk more later about other games I quit. There are a lot of them.br /
G/p

pI’m three boxes deep into a case of Frankenberry and I’m still not sick of it. I eat a bowl every night after practice. I think I actually like it more than I did as a child…it’s far more mild than I remember. Calming./p

pFranken-awesome.br /
Thanks, Xavier…/p

pWithout fail, and for the duration of the recording process.br /
Hope you guys have umbrellas!br /
G/p

pAndy Dick finally showed up in VH1’s Sober House, which I wasn’t exactly into for the first few episodes.br /
I found the show generally uninteresting and felt that none of them in the house had a shot in hell at staying clean due to the nature of the situation, with the exception of Rodney King. That dude is holding it down.br /
I also don’t know how I feel about the cliffhanger involving Shifty Shelshock’s (sp?) webcam?/suicide?/cryforhelp?…. what the hell is going on there and are we going to have to wait three weeks to find out?br /
I’m only hoping there’s more Andy…/p

I actually wish I had more pictures. I know Devin, who oversees all of our videos at Warner has a ton of great photos he took so I’m going to hit him up. I definitely thought I had way more than I do.

I took this photo the last night of shooting, when we had finished earlier in the evening and the rest of the band had airplanes to catch home in time for Christmas. So I hopped out of my costume and back into my civilian clothes and just hung around the set, watching.

Zack was shooting the exterior action of some punks assaulting a police officer, squad cars rolling up, patrons in a panic and scattering, really intense stuff. The whole while we were on this big empty avenue downtown, and it was completely shut down so we felt like the last people on Earth, kind of like driving really late at night.

I think this marquee is still up actually.

pRay and some knot tops…./p