You are welcome Kapunua. The casting for the movie is almost perfect and I am so looking forward to seeing it! As well as Mad Max when that is eventually released.
Jared Leto was number 2 7 on that kerrang 50 greatest living rockstars today list. I hope 30STM doesn't call it quits after this tour. I know they've been touring virtually non stop for over 2 years and they have to be so tired but their music and energy would be missed.
Not to mention the fact that they're still one of the sexiest rock bands out there and Jared Leto is the most photogentic frontman I've seen since the original king. Elvis.
So apparently the fans are unimpressed with the first night of the Honda Civic tour, to say the least.
Many are very vocally complaining about the fact that the band only played for an hour, and played just twelve songs which were basically most of the new album then a few singles from Revenge and TBP. Many are saying the tour has been deliberately mis-marketed to MCR fans, and they've been tricked into buying tickets with MCR billed as 'co-headliners' when in reality they're just a support act to Blink. Blink had amazing stage production with lazers and visual displays on multiple screens. MCR had some multi-colored spotlights and a few balloons filled with confetti.
It's pretty blatant that MCR are doing this tour to appeal to Blink's mainly male dudebro fanbase and try and shift some more units of their crappy concept/non-concept/high-concept album before they run out of money.
Did fans really think MCR would be co-headlining with Blink? Wow, are they vulnerable.
I saw Blink on their reunion tour with PATD and FOB opening for them. Nobody showed up for PATD and the amphitheatre was about half full for FOB. Any Blink fans there were not paying any attention to FOB at all. And does anyone think FOB or Panic attained any new male fans as a result of that tour? LMAO. It isn't going to happen for MCR either.
A co-headlining tour is nothing more than name appeasement for the 2nd band. Just like co-starring roles in movies.
Seasoned concert goers know this, but from comments made on MCR sites, fans thought each band would get equal time. Some even thought they would switch up playing order: Blink closing one night, MCR closing the next. I've never heard of such a thing, so I have no idea where they got that notion.
MCR were billed as 'co-headliners' but I think it was obvious to everyone that Blink would have the last slot of the night and the longest set. What's even more obvious is that this whole tour is just a label-arranged money-spinning jaunt for MCR in place of a tour which actually might enable them to connect with their fans and give them a great show. It's the same tired old act, and they look bored already and like they'd rather be at home with their wives/children/dogs. The fans want album tracks, old songs, B-sides, and audience engagement from the band, but all they're getting is the bare minimum the band could provide and get away with. They know it, and they're pissed.
http://mcr-unofficial.livejournal.com/126334.html
Guess they'll have to bring out some more rip-off 'killjoy' merch.
Personally I would pay to see a MCR headlining tour and a MO headlining tour before I would pay to see a Blink tour. I never did get their sound or their appeal.
Urgh, you can so tell she put loads of thought into that 'joke' beforehand from the way she says it, really measured and talking over Chantal and Jimmy. What a gross idiot.
I can usually take care of myself in mosh pits, but I got totally pwned in the pit with Blink fans (and I'm a Blink fan too). I don't envy the poor little girls going to the HCT to see MCR. They'll get eaten alive. Blink crowds are not the same as MCR crowds.
So check this out. I use Google analytics right, because sometimes I get outright hilarious searches that turn up my LJ. They are extremely amusing, most of the time. I use them in turn to try to help people find what they were looking for.
Today I saw that someone found my LJ by googling something about MCR. And look at what I found:
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@Yekith: @_nathy http://shonagonchan.livejournal.com/544850.html The first person who commented? I know her from the forum. Some weeks ago she asked me questions about things she'd read about Gerard and things he'd said. I answered with just...the facts and the reasons behind and that I honestly hadn't seen anything to call him sexist either on twitter or video. Then I kinda forgot about it, but later she posted on her journal like...sounding like THEM all disappointed and saying she was thinking about what to do with her MCR ticket (which she'd been so happy about weeks before). I couldn't even reply. Seriously...just...couldn't believe what i was reading and couldn't reply. Also because I know once they're brainwashed like that they're lost. Especially if they're on the ultrafeminist side. Lost.
Really? Now I'm "brainwashing" people into not liking MCR, because I am an "ultrafeminist" and that is somehow bad?
Also LOLling at "THEM." But maybe that's not so funny, is it? That "us vs. them" mentality. Over a band?
These fansheep, I swear. I almost feel sad for them. Actually, I do feel sad for them.
I know those girls. Rather, I used to back when I was part of the MCR fandom. They have no lives outside of MCR. None. They are adults yet they live at home with their parents and I don't think they even have jobs. They have nothing to do with their time all day but google MCR, write fanfic and stalk concerts. The highlight of their lives is reading tweets about MCR shows and guessing what the setlists will be.
I think one of those girls might be disabled or something. The one who stalks the shows. She's so obsessed with MCR it's scary. I don't think she does anything that isn't MCR related.
I don't know a damned thing about her, Strawman Argument. Except that she posted some random tweet abotu how I am "brainwashing" precious MCR fans with my "ultrafeminism." That is pretty goddamn sad.
Ew, I went to that girl's twitter and she was tweeting about Frerard fic. Something about Frank wearing scrubs with nothing underneath so he would be ready for sex with Gerard?
I went to that girl's twitter and she was tweeting about Frerard fic. Something about Frank wearing scrubs with nothing underneath so he would be ready for sex with Gerard?
And they have the nerve to call us "lost". *shakes head*
Ugh, christ. Don't know how they'd end up on my LJ. Though honestly, the most insane searches make my LJ turn up. "Interracial ovary rinse" is my favorite. I don't even know wtf that means.
These people think they own the copyright to the band, that no one should criticize them and that if you do you should in their words: get a life. Since they are also big MSI fans given the great honor of being followed by Mrs Way, they should be able to see the irony there.
Thats the thing that makes me tick the most. Half of the MCRMY hadn't heard of MSI before they got together, and the half who had weren't crazy about the relationship.
Now all these little girls go screaming about how great MSI is..
i get that they're looking for someone to look up to, but they're basing their opinion on who someone's married to. Not how talented, or their beliefs.
So many young women look up to the wrong people. Whether it's a rockstar's wife, a model or some stranger on a blog. They latch on to what they believe the ideal woman of today is. That is no different to what was done in the 50's.
There is no ideal woman or man. It's all a matter of personal tastes and beliefs. You look up to who you want to look up to and don't let anyone tell you you're wrong for doing that as long as you're not looking up to a convicted felon and striving to be a more famous serial killer,mass murderer, rapist or drug king pin than he or she is.
If Jesus Christ is your hero than good for you and don't take shit from anyone who puts your beliefs down.
If Ghandi, Allah, Buddha or the moon Goddess are your heros the same applies.
If Lyndsey Way or her husband are your heros than you go ahead and praise them all you want.
That is individualism. That is independence. That should be the ideal. Don't try to fit into someone else's mold. Be you. Believe in what is right for you. As long as you are not harming anyone else I don't see how that should be a problem for anyone.
I agree that people should live and let live. I don't care if the people in the MCRmy want to worship Gerard, Frank and Lindsey.
What I do care about, however, is that they don't want to allow me the same rights to abhor Gerard, Frank and Lindsey. If they want me to live and let live, they should do the same. I do not need to "get a life" and I am not "lost" due to the fact that I don't worship at the altar of MCR/MSI.
I don't go to their fansites and attack them, and they need to stop coming here to attack me and the other people who feel as we do.
If you don't care then why can't you respect those who do love MCR. Why can't you respect those of us who write and read fanfic. Do not expect us to respect you when you wont respect us.
These same people who are falling over themselves to get up Lindsey's ass are the same people who once sought Eliza's good graces and attention. Exactly the same people. People like fat stalker Kellie who is now making shitty fanart and posting it to their house in LA, after guilttripping them into accepting her offer of a 'birthday present' for Lindsey.
Didn't Mary (who Lindsey also invited into her studio) also write Waycest fanfic? I think I remember reading about her on Livejournal. She deleted all her stories when she started to get friendly with Lindsey...
That is individualism. That is independence. That should be the ideal. Don't try to fit into someone else's mold. Be you. Believe in what is right for you. As long as you are not harming anyone else I don't see how that should be a problem for anyone.
You know what I believe in? Calling out people who are racist, sexist morons.
I disagree. It's not "cool" or "ideal" to worship someone whose idea of entertainment is racial and gender based slurs. Yes, it's individualism. But no, it is not right.
Exactly. If your role model is someone who thinks thousands of people being drowned/crushed/buried alive by a tsunami is something to laugh about, you're probably fucked up and most likely an absolute numpty to boot.
Ugh. And she has over 8,000 followers who think she is some groundbreaking trendsetting hero? This says a lot about the fandom, and if people like this are "heroes" of the fanbase I am even more thankful that I got out when I did.
People like fat stalker Kellie who is now making shitty fanart and posting it to their house in LA, after guilttripping them into accepting her offer of a 'birthday present' for Lindsey.
August 7, 2011 8:35 AM
Why do you have to throw in "fat" there? When you are calling someone else out on their poor behavior or choices, insulting them like a child would somewhat invalidates your point, as you are behaving just as poorly. I don't understand how this is better behavior.
I don't like people who put a deliberate strain on the health system which *my* taxes pay into, thanks very much. And weight isn't a legally protected characteristic. Same goes for other unhealthy people who smoke too much and drink too much. You cannot smoke and be healthy, you cannot drink too much and be healthy, and you cannot be fat and be healthy, regardless of what that twit Jessicka 'I support men who threaten violence against women' Addams says.
On the other hand, anon, some people have conditions that make them unhealthy. Sure, people can choose to overeat (I do it all the time) and choose to try drugs. But no one makes a conscious choice to be obese or to be an addict. Once you see these as symptoms of a disease and not "Oh what a lazy / immoral person" it gives you perspective. It does not feel nice to be called names for how you look.
Call people out on the way they treat others, sure. But let's be realistic, anon, fat people aren't actually harming you. To claim that they are is quite a stretch.
If you don't care then why can't you respect those who do love MCR. Why can't you respect those of us who write and read fanfic. Do not expect us to respect you when you wont respect us.
I'm not going to respect any MCR fan that comes here and tries to force their opinions on anybody else. I'm also not going to respect anyone that writes extreme sexual fanfic about real people and posts in on the net. If you're still thinking you should be respected for those things you have rocks in your head.
Fans who write RPF fic, especially of a sexually explicit nature, show extreme disrespect to those about whom they write. Therefore, I see no reason why these fans are deserving of respect themselves.
I am not a huge fan of Wuthering Heights, but Tom Hardy's Heathcliff made me love that film. I actually felt some sympathy for Heathcliff, which I've never done before.
He has the rare ability to play unsavory characters and make them so compelling that you care about them, even when you know you shouldn't. Like Bronson and Shinzon. I imagine I'll care about Bane in TDKR as well.
He has so many films coming up. I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself. :D
I loooove the book, but it is so harsh. It always kind of irks me when people view it as a romance. Man, that book was about abuse plain and simple.
But yes, Tom Hardy made it possible to have actual feelings for Heathcliff. Even when he was horrible, you could feel his reasons. Not justification, just reasons. It's such a difficult role, you know. Catherine too.
I just can't wait to see the new films! TTSS looks so exciting.
I can't imagine anyone reading Wuthering Heights and thinking of it as a love story. If anything, it's about obsession. Neither Heathcliff nor Cathy were capable of love. They were too damaged.
Catherine even tells Heathcliff that she thinks his true love is revenge, and not her. Yet Cathy herself was also impulsive, cruel, and abusive. I think they loved each other, but very selfishly.
To me it's always been about the cycle of abuse, and how abused children are left with very little choice. I think that the end of the book finally breaks the cycle.
I have to say, I hated the way the movie ended. It totally deviated from Heathcliff's true death, and that really bothered me a lot.
Possibly; but she was also a woman frustrated by the restrictions of her time. It's like she honestly thought that she was growing up and doing the right thing by marrying into the Linton family.
But even before that, the one scene I'll never forget is her shaking Hindley's baby until it turned purple. O_O
Cathy did what she had to do the survive socially and submitted to cultural expectations even though in the end it made her feel trapped because she denied a true part of herself.
The London riots are appalling acts of mindless violence. The fact that there have been no casualties in one of the many buildings that have been burned is nothing short of a miracle.
Just found out Tom Hardy is going to make a movie with a script written by Nick Cave about depression era bootleggers called The Wettest Country In The World
One of the people arrested over the riots was an eleven year old boy. Eleven. Most of the people involved in the rioting are teenagers with nothing to do from socially disadvantaged areas with high unemployment.
World leaders need to put politics and their own greed aside and start listening to the people. People need jobs and stability. Right now the working class feels as though they've been forgotten. In many ways they have.
The London riots are the face of social turmoil. You cannot have a set of people protecting themselves with high wages and high standard of living while leaving another group disenfranchised. This is a glimpse of the capitalist system with with it's economic rationalism and bottom line thinking, imploding.
London, Greece, the US. Too many leaders forgot that nations are build by community and communities are built by the blue collar workers. Take away the blue collar jobs and treat those workers like they never mattered what's left for them to do? What's left for their children to do?
America has just received a downgrading on their credit rating. A country which the global markets rely on monetary stability has been downgraded. In Europe the third strongest market, Italy, nearly defaulted. There is a flow through effect through all of this. We are now living in economically precarious times.
Agree 6:19. And I don't think one of the countries you mentioned have the leadership to step up and do more that political posturing. The world economy is so entwined. What happens in Timbuktu affects things in NYC and all over the world. It's a global market and we need to find a global solution. We need to have an emergency world summit on job creation and the financial crisis.
When you're spending more than you're taking in each month, you cut your spending.
You do not borrow more or ask for more credit. That is bad economics. Those bills will come due and someone will eventually have to pay those bills. If you can't pay what you owe in your lifetime your debt will be passed on to your children.
When you're spending more than you're taking in each month, you cut your spending.
Or you figure out a way to take in more. In the US, that would mean eliminating tax breaks for the very wealthy.
Common people do not reap the benefits of these tax breaks, and we have seen by continued high unemployment that they have not created jobs.
People need equity, and when they do not receive it, they become angry and the seeds of discontent are sewn. Perhaps people need to go back and read about the French Revolution.
Very hard to do when they are the ones funding you politically.
This is why our system isn't working.
From the time politicians are elected, their prime concern becomes how do I get re-elected? This has got to change, otherwise we are all headed for disaster.
That's too simplistic: you have to look at the way things really work. For example the wealthy are routinely given lower interest rates by the banks on their borrowings compared with your average working person. The whole system is currently devised to help people of wealth grow and retain their wealth while everyone else slips backwards even with restrained spending. Essentially those with the power are protecting their own backsides.
And seeing how the 2008 global financial crisis domino commenced via lenders loaning out other people's money to fund Detroit car workers who were allowed to borrow far more then their homes were worth and couldn't sustain their mortgage payments because of the exorbitant interest rates they were charging, I don't see it changing anytime soon.
So, I purchased a ticket to see Blink 182/MCR on Sept 21. I only paid 20$ b/c I got them at Warped Tour. I don't know why anyone would pay more than that...
I love Blink 182, but I really got the tickets because I want to see MCR and I know they don't come to GA often. If they only play an hour, I'm totally fine with that considering I've never seen them in concert.
I'm not sure why some of you (although not all) think that My Chem fans are ONLY my Chem fans. Like we've never been to any other live shows -- so therefore we can't handle pits. I've seen Underoath (with Aaron and post Aaron) The Devil Wears Prada, Attack Attack, and A Day to Remember in concert twice, and I was front and center. I'm almost positive that the Blink 182 pits/mosh/crowd surfing will be nothing compared to the experience that I had at Warped and at the several other shows I've been to.
On another note, I don't think any of us really know the absolute reason why My Chem has chosen to tour with Blink. I can only guess that it's a chance for them to play to a different crowd, an our course being on tour keeps the money flowing. Either way, it's not fair to assume that they are "weary" of their fan base. They've never voiced that, (unlike The Devil Wears Prada has, but Warped Tour has proven that TDWP are complete asses... now that's a band worthy of extreme dislike imo.)
If you want to really get down to basics that's what it all comes down to. Too many people living off other people's money. Too many people wanting to live and living beyond their means and greedy lenders out for blood.
I think most of us realize that many MCR fans are concert veterans. However, I've been to shows before where many MCR fans have been very young and have had their parents in tow. I've even seen these parents getting into it with other fans because their "little darlings" were getting pushed around in the pit.
These kids often have to be lifted out of the pit, even at some of the more tame shows. Those are the ones who are not going to be able to handle Blink shows.
I've been going to concerts for twenty years, and I've been in all kinds of pits, including Warped. The worst pit I've ever been in, however, was at a TBS show where Angels and Airwaves was opening. Blink fans, overjoyed about seeing Tom DeLonge again made that show unbearable for everyone. I had bruises on my bruises the next day and could barely walk. I wound up leaving the barrier and retreating to the back of the pit--something I've never done before.
I've seen children -not teenagers- at every single Metallica concert I have been too, including roaming around in the various pits that open up in their venues. There is never one pit, there are many. I highly doubt Blink fans can outdue Met fans, especially since I have been to a Blink concert as well. The stadium and floor were half full and the crowd was dead. A vast letdown.
It sounds to me like the parents of these teens are the ones acting ridiculous and juvenile. If parents are willing to behave like that in front of many other adults, why is it so shocking to see their offspring behave just the same? MCR can't be held accountable for the way young people are raised. Children are the product of their upbringing, only after many years out on their own will they eventually see the error in their (and their parents) past behavior. Until then, a shred of slack for their inappropriate and totally common poor judgement wouldn't be too much to ask. Concerts are where people let loose. Hopefully they don't take that concept of social freedom with them everywhere they go.
I've also seen an amazing amount of grown men and women being dragged out of entire venues (not just the pits) for their atrocious behavior. In fact, I see that more often than not. It's just a given. MCR fans aren't the top ranking in that department.
They don't call it a pit for nothing. If you don't think you can handle it then stay out of it. That goes triple for parents worried about their young children. Don't bring children in the pit. Don't allow your children to go into the pit. They could get hurt. It shouldn't take a master's degree in human anatomy to figure that out. This a rock tour not a Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus concert.
most venues on the HCT tour are seated amphitheaters, the things most resembling a pit being the lawns at the back of some places. And people will just sit around rather than mosh, since it's so ridiculously far from the stage.
And MCR aren't even playing for very long. The worst that can happen is the teenies getting offended the drunk Blink fans treat MCR like the overpriced opening act they are.
Yeah, it will be like it was when FOB toured with Blink. Most of the Blink fans were just eyerolling and side-eyeing the whole time, with some heckling of FOB from the drunkest of the dudebros. MCR fans will be much offended.
I don't think that has happened too much yet because the recent shows have been on MCR's home turf so to speak, but it's going to happen when the shows move out of the NY/NJ area.
The first fatality of the London riots. A man who was shot in a car during riots in London died in hospital Tuesday from his injuries, police said, becoming the first fatality from three days of unrest in the capital.
I'm a chick, 2:06. But thanks for the insult. I have a right to share my opinion and my experiences in converstation here, just like everyone else who posts on this blog. Disagree or dislike what I have to say all you want, but grow up while you're doing it.
That is horrific, 2:03. Too much like the images from 9/11. I hope they realize asap that they are only hurting themselves. Something has to be done for the people (and their businesses) caught in that mess. The police don't seem to be enough.
If you care so much about what's going on the world, then surf blogs that relate to worldly things and comment on those... I mean what do you expect? This is a blog dedicated to ridiculing everything MCR, MSI, and their fans ;-)
If you can't handle it, move a long. But this blog reminds me so much of fbrtrash it's not even funny.
@ "The worst that can happen is the teenies getting offended the drunk Blink fans treat MCR like the overpriced opening act they are."
They are certainly not over-priced since tix to the show are being sold at discounted prices at various venues/places. Like I said, I purchased my ticket for $20. I've paid much more than that to see Underoath. And a lot of teens like Blink 182 as well, so how about you stop assuming that Blink fans are "grown folk" MCR fans are "little kids" because I am certainly not a little kid, with a fucking BFA and heading for a Masters, bitch please -___-
But seriously, I think how the non-MCR fans react depend on where they perform. Atlanta tends to have a very laid back music scene. My prediction is that MCR and Blink fans will blend fairly well. Most of my friends are fans of both though.
I was at the Atlanta PR -- front row VIP tickets, and the guys sitting next to me heckled and booed Geetard the whole time. Gerard looked like it really threw him for a loop too.
Nobody said MCR fans were all little kids and that Blink fans were grownups. In fact, someone pointed out that some MCR fans were seasoned concert goers, while others were younger.
And since when were 'dudebros' considered grownups?
"Geetard" has been acceptable (right along with Nigel and twinkies jokes) with fans since MCR's inception. So I don't know why any fan would have an issue with us using it here.
If you care so much about what's going on the world, then surf blogs that relate to worldly things and comment on those... I mean what do you expect? This is a blog dedicated to ridiculing everything MCR, MSI, and their fans ;-)If you can't handle it, move a long. But this blog reminds me so much of fbrtrash it's not even funny.
Just because some people make fun of your clown prince and his tacky wife and band on this blog doesn't mean I am restricted from commenting about world events, which effect everyone and you of all people, completing your master's, (heh) should be interested.
I happen to care about world events, the riots in London, the current and worst ever financial crisis and the catastrophic drought and famine in Africa. I also like MCR. Mock at will.
^ I won't be voting to re-elect Obama. I guess that makes me a racist too. It can't have anything to do with his epic political fail or his false promises and lies.
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same.
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same
If anything, it highlighted how rockstars could be just as cynical and corrupt as some politicians in selling a package of lies to get ahead.
Three men were run over and killed last night in Birmingham in a hit and run incident. I think the UK has gone mad. First burning buildings, now murder?
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same
That is a purely ridiculous statement. It's tantamount to going onto a political blog and accusing people commenting on political issues of being too soft on movie stars.
^ I won't be voting to re-elect Obama. I guess that makes me a racist too. It can't have anything to do with his epic political fail or his false promises and lies.
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same.
August 10, 2011 2:12 AM
Yeah? WHo are you gonna vote for? Sarah Palin? Some other Republican? Someone who is going to take rights away from women and minorities?
I'm not happy with a lot of what's going on either. I do like a lot of the changes he made within his first year (that most people don't even know about,) but I highly doubt that there's going to be someone better, at this point. If someone better comes along, he or she will get my vote. But currently, Obama is the only one protecting my rights.
You can justify MCRMSI as much as you want with your "OH BUT OBAMA IS JUST AS BAD." You're ridiculous if that's what you're getting at. Yes, he's sold out a lot of his values, and my values. I don't feel as protected as I want to. I was hoping he would reform health care (entirely) and start taxing billion dollar corporations.
But Obama is still not going around calling people n*gga and f*ggot, calling women whores and bitches and c*nts, telling them to f*ck themselves for him and threatening them with violence.
It's frightening how a few very vocal people are holding the Republican party hostage right now. People like Michele Bachmann who want less government for big corporations and to limit access for birth control to poor women, yet they have no problem whatsoever telling people what they can/can't do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. These people have a religious agenda, and if they have their way, they'll be teaching Bible verses and Creationism to every American school child, and telling them that homosexuality is deviant behavior that can be "prayed away".
The Tea Party people are damn scary, and Faux News is jumping in bed with them in order to promote their own crazy right wing agenda. Fair and balanced, my ass.
Doesn't Lindsey have real friends? Why doesn't she go hang out with Chantal and them? Take your baby to Paris it's filled with art ! Italy is even better. Make new friends. Don't always take to twitter as soon as Mr. Man is gone. Then as soon as he returns, you delete every message you've ever put up there.
Or, You could always get a day job...Final thoughts, this Lindsey woman seems a little codependent.
Mocking someone for their loneliness is vicious. That's something Jimmy Urine has done repeatedly and very vocally enjoyed. Lindsey has said some crappass things before, but usually people who do that sort of thing are either ignorant or miserable themselves. Neither of which should be found amusing to anyone with better understanding.
I doubt that Lindsey is lonely. I'm sure she has plenty of friends to hang out with, and she's probably glad to have Gerard out from under foot for a while. Something tells me he's not the easiest person to live with.
That said, I don't know why people who don't like her read her tweets. I'm not really interested in what she has to say.
Same goes. I don't read any of their crappy tweets. Once in a while one of them will say something particularly ignorant and repellent, and I'll hear about it in a roundabout way.
she's probably glad to have Gerard out from under foot for a while. Something tells me he's not the easiest person to live with
I'm certain the money and the lifestyle she has through him more than compensates for his difficult personality traits. For all you know she might not be the nicest person to live with. I've seen many people treat their friends better than they treat their spouse.
Yesh. Get some. Seriously. Call out the people who command the real world stage on their actions, lies and bullshitery. Leave the rockstars to the fanzines and gossip rags.
People like Michele Bachmann who want less government for big corporations and to limit access for birth control to poor women,
Because that's so much worse than killing an entire class of people. The working class. The class that has historically paid for your social services including birth control, social security, and medicare. Stop with the party posturing. It's far beyond the rhetoric and fear tactics of both major parties now. See what's happening on the streets of London if you need more proof of that.
If you don't think the bi-partisan bullshit that has the governments' hands completely tied in Washington D.C. is a problem, 1:37, you are a fool.
Go back to watching your Faux News and pretend that Obama and all of the Democrats are demons. After all, the Rapture is nigh anyway, right? It doesn't matter if things go to hell here because you and all of your Tea Party cronies are expecting to be with Jesus in Heaven.
Your right 5:11. I will be in Heaven while you, Obama and all the rest of his liberal Muslim and atheist supporters are burning in hell. I hope you like it hot.
I do like it hot, actually. And if this fictional "hell" you keep banging on about isn't going to have you, or people like you in it, then sign me up, damn.
Yeah. That going to solve all the world's problems. Each side telling the other side to shut up and not listening to each other. It's working so well so far.
Yeah. That going to solve all the world's problems. Each side telling the other side to shut up and not listening to each other. It's working so well so far.
Do you really think calling the POTUS a 'demon' is going to solve anything? Please.
When you come around and start making actual points, or maybe even offering solutions instead of finger-pointing and namecalling, people might listen. Until then, I think putting a sock in it is the best course of action.
Hipster Racism sounds like it sums up MCRMSI pretty well.
Hipster racism involves making derogatory comments with a racial basis in an attempt to seem witty and above it all. Specifically, the idea is to sound ironic, as in “I’m allowed to say this because of course I’m not racist, so it’s funny.”
...
While people may ardently claim that they are not racist, the people who engage in hipster racism are overwhelmingly white and middle class, and they clearly have some unaddressed racial issues which are being subverted in their attempts to be edgy. Sometimes, they are actually explicitly racist, and they are using hipster racism as a way of presenting their racism in a way which will be acceptable within their social groups.
Hipster racism often hides under the unassailable guise of satire. People who suggest that something is racist, and not actually funny, are told that they obviously just don’t get it, and that the whole point of humour is to push boundaries. They are told that the racism is so obvious and overstated that it’s meant to be laughed at, and that people are laughing at the racism and the racists, not supporting the ideas which are supposedly being mocked. But, oddly enough, a lot of racist satire doesn’t read that way, and it ends up just being racist, full stop...
And for the other half of the problem with these douchebags, Liberal Sexism.
Many liberals seem to believe that a voter registration card with a D stamp is like a get out of jail free card, that acts which appear to be sexist in nature aren’t really sexist when you’re liberal, because it’s physically impossible to be sexist when you’re liberal.
Looks like Bin Laden isn't getting to spend eternity in paradise with 15 virgins and Allah any more than the tea party cronies will get to spend eternity with Jesus in Heaven.
If you're going to be disrespectful towards people's beliefs then be disrespectful in a fair and balanced way. Mock all organized religion. Not just one. It makes you look like an ignorant bigot when you single out one religion, race, political party, etc.
If anyone wants proof that MSI are racist scum you need look no further than Lindsey's 'joke' about the people of Japan being killed in their thousands.
"Nobody is doing nothing for us — not the politicians, not the cops, no one," a 19-year-old who lives near Tottenham, the blighted London neighborhood where the riots started. He only gave his nickname, "Freddy," because he took part in the looting and was scared of facing prosecution; he was not among the youths in court.
Britain has one of the highest violent crime rates in the EU. Roughly 18 percent of youths between 16 and 24 are jobless and nearly half of all black youths are out of work.
As the government battles colossal government debt with harsh welfare cuts that promise to make the futures of these youths even bleaker, some experts say it's narrow-minded to believe the riots have only been a random outburst of violence unrelated to the current economic crisis.
No one's doing anything for me, either; I can't even get a Dr. to check me out. But I would never throw a brick through anyone's window. Sorry, no sympathy for the looters.
I love how that one girl is posting quotes Gerard supposedly made years ago. Does she not understand that Gerard's 180 is the main reason people like us are so mad at him?
I wouldn't be surprised, actually. ALl these people trying to deny that Frank used the N word by saying "I don't see a screen of it, so it didn't happen!" Where's the proof that Gerard said any of that "positive" stuff anyway?
I don't think there is any proof of that "Girls, you are beautiful" statement. I've seen that quote around the internet forever, but I've never seen a video clip, nor have I seen it linked to a reliable article in a magazine.
some of those quotes are actually on videos of their old shows, at least one shows up in LOTMS.
The articles where Geetard claims he now drinks recreationally and started working out because he was 'uncomfortable' in his own body (one wonders why...) are just as easy to find.
But of course the fangirls prefer to stay in denial and celebrate his '7th yeah sober'.
I've never seen that comment where he tells girls to exercise and be healthy, blah, blah. It doesn't sound like him at all. Does anyone have a link to that source?
So did the fangirl who posted all the quotes in response to Kapunua's tumblr post delete her reblogs?
I can't believe she didn't see Frank's N-word tweet or the coat hanger one. I thought the whole fandom knew about those. They even talked about them on lj. Did Frank delete them? Did anybody get screencaps.
One of the dudes from Fall Out Boy said that he recenly went out drinking with both the Way's so...I don't know what the fangirls are celebrating. Or why they even celebrate for that matter.
It was bad enough when fans were on about how Gerard wasn't drinking at PR (Martinelli Sparkling Cider my ass), but to say he's sober when he finally even admitted to drinking in an interview? I suppose they would yell "Screencaps or it didn't happen" about that too.
They really are naive if they're responding and reblogging what she said. They're giving her exactly what she wants. Attention, tumblr traffic and the satisfaction of feeling superior to 13-16 year olds.
I hope that the world never robs that passion from those kids and I hope that when they're in their 30's and 40's they remember the innocent naivete of their youth and don't treat kids like they've been treated just for liking a band or any other artist.
Yeah, let's never "rob them of their passion" for bands that degrade and oppress women. That would be bad.
The cool thing is that, for as much hate mail and threats as I've gotten, I've had an equal amount of "wow, you're right" posts. And a few from people who didn't know about this, or hadn't given it much thought, and are saying, "I feel disappointed." I'm sorry they're disappointed because that is a crappy feeling. But I am always 100% against "ignorance is bliss." It's not. Ignorance is ignorance.
I think it's interesting that Variety compared Tom to Brando. I can see the comparison, especially in a film like Warrior, but I think Tom has more depth. I've seen him play such varied characters, and he nails every one of them. To me, he's like a classically trained, English DeNiro. He becomes the character he's playing.
I'm excited about all the projects he has going, but more than anything else, I'm excited about his career. I think it's going to be a very long and interesting one.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1001 – 1200 of 2887 Newer› Newest»You are welcome Kapunua. The casting for the movie is almost perfect and I am so looking forward to seeing it! As well as Mad Max when that is eventually released.
Oh man, me too. I always mourn the end of summer so much, but there are so many good things coming in September, I can't be too sad. ^_^
nice arms
Jared Leto was number 2 7 on that kerrang 50 greatest living rockstars today list. I hope 30STM doesn't call it quits after this tour. I know they've been touring virtually non stop for over 2 years and they have to be so tired but their music and energy would be missed.
Not to mention the fact that they're still one of the sexiest rock bands out there and Jared Leto is the most photogentic frontman I've seen since the original king. Elvis.
Too bulky 4:56.
So apparently the fans are unimpressed with the first night of the Honda Civic tour, to say the least.
Many are very vocally complaining about the fact that the band only played for an hour, and played just twelve songs which were basically most of the new album then a few singles from Revenge and TBP. Many are saying the tour has been deliberately mis-marketed to MCR fans, and they've been tricked into buying tickets with MCR billed as 'co-headliners' when in reality they're just a support act to Blink. Blink had amazing stage production with lazers and visual displays on multiple screens. MCR had some multi-colored spotlights and a few balloons filled with confetti.
It's pretty blatant that MCR are doing this tour to appeal to Blink's mainly male dudebro fanbase and try and shift some more units of their crappy concept/non-concept/high-concept album before they run out of money.
Did fans really think MCR would be co-headlining with Blink? Wow, are they vulnerable.
I saw Blink on their reunion tour with PATD and FOB opening for them. Nobody showed up for PATD and the amphitheatre was about half full for FOB. Any Blink fans there were not paying any attention to FOB at all. And does anyone think FOB or Panic attained any new male fans as a result of that tour? LMAO. It isn't going to happen for MCR either.
A co-headlining tour is nothing more than name appeasement for the 2nd band. Just like co-starring roles in movies.
Blink fans have made it pretty clear on their fansites that they have no love for MCR.
I almost feel bad for the MCR fans who spent so much money on tix when MCR is just a glorified opener on this tour.
A co-headlining tour is nothing more than name appeasement for the 2nd band. Just like co-starring roles in movies.
Seasoned concert goers know this, but from comments made on MCR sites, fans thought each band would get equal time. Some even thought they would switch up playing order: Blink closing one night, MCR closing the next. I've never heard of such a thing, so I have no idea where they got that notion.
MCR were billed as 'co-headliners' but I think it was obvious to everyone that Blink would have the last slot of the night and the longest set. What's even more obvious is that this whole tour is just a label-arranged money-spinning jaunt for MCR in place of a tour which actually might enable them to connect with their fans and give them a great show. It's the same tired old act, and they look bored already and like they'd rather be at home with their wives/children/dogs. The fans want album tracks, old songs, B-sides, and audience engagement from the band, but all they're getting is the bare minimum the band could provide and get away with. They know it, and they're pissed.
http://mcr-unofficial.livejournal.com/126334.html
Guess they'll have to bring out some more rip-off 'killjoy' merch.
Can you imagine the furor and uproar that would if MCR closed for Blink-182?
*would ensue
I think it was obvious to everyone that Blink would have the last slot of the night and the longest set.
You'd think that, right? But not to MCR fans, who must be some of the most naive people on the planet.
Personally I would pay to see a MCR headlining tour and a MO headlining tour before I would pay to see a Blink tour. I never did get their sound or their appeal.
Blink closing one night, MCR closing the next. I've never heard of such a thing, so I have no idea where they got that notion.
Sounds like more young and naive fanfic.
By like, the 3rd song, gerard was already losing his voice.
GREAT news considering this is the first night of the tour!
Blink is amazing live. Travis Barker's drumming is worth the price of a ticket alone!
I've seen Blink live and I wasn't very impressed. Mediocre at best. I would say in comparison MCR has at least put out more effort creatively.
old news, but for sharing's sake, lyn-z's tsunami faux pas is on youtube
http://youtu.be/pUFrHxCCd4A
Urgh, you can so tell she put loads of thought into that 'joke' beforehand from the way she says it, really measured and talking over Chantal and Jimmy. What a gross idiot.
I can usually take care of myself in mosh pits, but I got totally pwned in the pit with Blink fans (and I'm a Blink fan too). I don't envy the poor little girls going to the HCT to see MCR. They'll get eaten alive. Blink crowds are not the same as MCR crowds.
That woman really is a nasty piece of work.
So check this out. I use Google analytics right, because sometimes I get outright hilarious searches that turn up my LJ. They are extremely amusing, most of the time. I use them in turn to try to help people find what they were looking for.
Today I saw that someone found my LJ by googling something about MCR. And look at what I found:
http://trunc.it/h8p4h
@Yekith: @_nathy http://shonagonchan.livejournal.com/544850.html The first person who commented? I know her from the forum. Some weeks ago she asked me questions about things she'd read about Gerard and things he'd said. I answered with just...the facts and the reasons behind and that I honestly hadn't seen anything to call him sexist either on twitter or video. Then I kinda forgot about it, but later she posted on her journal like...sounding like THEM all disappointed and saying she was thinking about what to do with her MCR ticket (which she'd been so happy about weeks before). I couldn't even reply. Seriously...just...couldn't believe what i was reading and couldn't reply. Also because I know once they're brainwashed like that they're lost. Especially if they're on the ultrafeminist side. Lost.
Really? Now I'm "brainwashing" people into not liking MCR, because I am an "ultrafeminist" and that is somehow bad?
Also LOLling at "THEM." But maybe that's not so funny, is it? That "us vs. them" mentality. Over a band?
These fansheep, I swear. I almost feel sad for them. Actually, I do feel sad for them.
I know those girls. Rather, I used to back when I was part of the MCR fandom. They have no lives outside of MCR. None. They are adults yet they live at home with their parents and I don't think they even have jobs. They have nothing to do with their time all day but google MCR, write fanfic and stalk concerts. The highlight of their lives is reading tweets about MCR shows and guessing what the setlists will be.
I feel sorry for them too.
I think one of those girls might be disabled or something. The one who stalks the shows. She's so obsessed with MCR it's scary. I don't think she does anything that isn't MCR related.
So what you guys are attacking disabled people now?
I don't know a damned thing about her, Strawman Argument. Except that she posted some random tweet abotu how I am "brainwashing" precious MCR fans with my "ultrafeminism." That is pretty goddamn sad.
One is them is being followed by none other than Lindsey Way. You can see why she thinks the way she does.
I wonder if its the one who wrote the slash fic and gave it to Lindsey
Also LOLling at "THEM." But maybe that's not so funny, is it? That "us vs. them" mentality. Over a band?
Isn't that their lord and master drummed into them with all his 'elitist' talk. The band made their fans look like a clique.
Ew, I went to that girl's twitter and she was tweeting about Frerard fic. Something about Frank wearing scrubs with nothing underneath so he would be ready for sex with Gerard?
Brain bleach please.
Note to self: Stay off deranged fans' twitters.
I went to that girl's twitter and she was tweeting about Frerard fic. Something about Frank wearing scrubs with nothing underneath so he would be ready for sex with Gerard?
And they have the nerve to call us "lost". *shakes head*
UGH, the whole thing. Gross.
Yekith and nathy troll here. They heard about this place from Deb. You know,the lady that cusses out teens in line waiting to see MCR.
I have no idea who those people are. One of them just found my LJ by, I guess, searching for something? I actually don't know how she found it.
One of them just found my LJ by, I guess, searching for something?
They were probably searching for fanfic between frank and one of his dogs or some shit:)
Ugh, christ. Don't know how they'd end up on my LJ. Though honestly, the most insane searches make my LJ turn up. "Interracial ovary rinse" is my favorite. I don't even know wtf that means.
These people think they own the copyright to the band, that no one should criticize them and that if you do you should in their words: get a life. Since they are also big MSI fans given the great honor of being followed by Mrs Way, they should be able to see the irony there.
Thats the thing that makes me tick the most. Half of the MCRMY hadn't heard of MSI before they got together, and the half who had weren't crazy about the relationship.
Now all these little girls go screaming about how great MSI is..
They just want someone to believe in.
i get that they're looking for someone to look up to, but they're basing their opinion on who someone's married to. Not how talented, or their beliefs.
If the man he idolize couldn't shut up about how great they are, what else are they going to think?
*they
So many young women look up to the wrong people. Whether it's a rockstar's wife, a model or some stranger on a blog. They latch on to what they believe the ideal woman of today is. That is no different to what was done in the 50's.
There is no ideal woman or man. It's all a matter of personal tastes and beliefs. You look up to who you want to look up to and don't let anyone tell you you're wrong for doing that as long as you're not looking up to a convicted felon and striving to be a more famous serial killer,mass murderer, rapist or drug king pin than he or she is.
If Jesus Christ is your hero than good for you and don't take shit from anyone who puts your beliefs down.
If Ghandi, Allah, Buddha or the moon Goddess are your heros the same applies.
If Lyndsey Way or her husband are your heros than you go ahead and praise them all you want.
That is individualism. That is independence. That should be the ideal. Don't try to fit into someone else's mold. Be you. Believe in what is right for you.
As long as you are not harming anyone else I don't see how that should be a problem for anyone.
Live and let live with respect.
*rolls eyes*
If anyone wants to hero worship twit-Z and her hubby no one's trying to stop them so you're missing the point.
very nice ^_^
I agree that people should live and let live. I don't care if the people in the MCRmy want to worship Gerard, Frank and Lindsey.
What I do care about, however, is that they don't want to allow me the same rights to abhor Gerard, Frank and Lindsey. If they want me to live and let live, they should do the same. I do not need to "get a life" and I am not "lost" due to the fact that I don't worship at the altar of MCR/MSI.
I don't go to their fansites and attack them, and they need to stop coming here to attack me and the other people who feel as we do.
If you don't care then why can't you respect those who do love MCR. Why can't you respect those of us who write and read fanfic. Do not expect us to respect you when you wont respect us.
These same people who are falling over themselves to get up Lindsey's ass are the same people who once sought Eliza's good graces and attention. Exactly the same people. People like fat stalker Kellie who is now making shitty fanart and posting it to their house in LA, after guilttripping them into accepting her offer of a 'birthday present' for Lindsey.
We'll never respect the MCR fans who try and justify their gross words and behavior. The rest, I don't give a shit about, quite frankly.
Didn't Mary (who Lindsey also invited into her studio) also write Waycest fanfic? I think I remember reading about her on Livejournal. She deleted all her stories when she started to get friendly with Lindsey...
That is individualism. That is independence. That should be the ideal. Don't try to fit into someone else's mold. Be you. Believe in what is right for you.
As long as you are not harming anyone else I don't see how that should be a problem for anyone.
You know what I believe in? Calling out people who are racist, sexist morons.
I disagree. It's not "cool" or "ideal" to worship someone whose idea of entertainment is racial and gender based slurs. Yes, it's individualism. But no, it is not right.
Exactly. If your role model is someone who thinks thousands of people being drowned/crushed/buried alive by a tsunami is something to laugh about, you're probably fucked up and most likely an absolute numpty to boot.
http://isaysexualthingsaboutgerard.tumblr.com/
Ugh. And she has over 8,000 followers who think she is some groundbreaking trendsetting hero? This says a lot about the fandom, and if people like this are "heroes" of the fanbase I am even more thankful that I got out when I did.
People like fat stalker Kellie who is now making shitty fanart and posting it to their house in LA, after guilttripping them into accepting her offer of a 'birthday present' for Lindsey.
August 7, 2011 8:35 AM
Why do you have to throw in "fat" there? When you are calling someone else out on their poor behavior or choices, insulting them like a child would somewhat invalidates your point, as you are behaving just as poorly. I don't understand how this is better behavior.
I didn't think Lindsey liked fat people. I thought she called them 'crisp eaters' who spent all day online.
I don't like people who put a deliberate strain on the health system which *my* taxes pay into, thanks very much. And weight isn't a legally protected characteristic. Same goes for other unhealthy people who smoke too much and drink too much. You cannot smoke and be healthy, you cannot drink too much and be healthy, and you cannot be fat and be healthy, regardless of what that twit Jessicka 'I support men who threaten violence against women' Addams says.
On the other hand, anon, some people have conditions that make them unhealthy. Sure, people can choose to overeat (I do it all the time) and choose to try drugs. But no one makes a conscious choice to be obese or to be an addict. Once you see these as symptoms of a disease and not "Oh what a lazy / immoral person" it gives you perspective. It does not feel nice to be called names for how you look.
Call people out on the way they treat others, sure. But let's be realistic, anon, fat people aren't actually harming you. To claim that they are is quite a stretch.
Okay, it was harsh and uncalled for to tag on the 'fat'. I'm sorry. But she's still a stalker freak.
Well, yeah, stalker freaks do suck. :)
If you don't care then why can't you respect those who do love MCR. Why can't you respect those of us who write and read fanfic. Do not expect us to respect you when you wont respect us.
I'm not going to respect any MCR fan that comes here and tries to force their opinions on anybody else. I'm also not going to respect anyone that writes extreme sexual fanfic about real people and posts in on the net. If you're still thinking you should be respected for those things you have rocks in your head.
Fans who write RPF fic, especially of a sexually explicit nature, show extreme disrespect to those about whom they write. Therefore, I see no reason why these fans are deserving of respect themselves.
a great Heathcliff
^ The large version of that used to be my desktop. I love that movie. ^_^
Tom Hardy in Wuthering Heights.....Drool.
He is sooo beautiful as Heathcliff!
I love the book Kapunua.
gorgeous
I am not a huge fan of Wuthering Heights, but Tom Hardy's Heathcliff made me love that film. I actually felt some sympathy for Heathcliff, which I've never done before.
He has the rare ability to play unsavory characters and make them so compelling that you care about them, even when you know you shouldn't. Like Bronson and Shinzon. I imagine I'll care about Bane in TDKR as well.
He has so many films coming up. I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself. :D
I loooove the book, but it is so harsh. It always kind of irks me when people view it as a romance. Man, that book was about abuse plain and simple.
But yes, Tom Hardy made it possible to have actual feelings for Heathcliff. Even when he was horrible, you could feel his reasons. Not justification, just reasons. It's such a difficult role, you know. Catherine too.
I just can't wait to see the new films! TTSS looks so exciting.
It's a common fallacy that Wuthering Heights is about romance when in fact it's central theme is revenge.
I can't imagine anyone reading Wuthering Heights and thinking of it as a love story. If anything, it's about obsession. Neither Heathcliff nor Cathy were capable of love. They were too damaged.
It's not that they were incapable of love, it's that they loved each other so much they merged emotionally and couldn't separate.
Right: 'Nelly, I AM Heathcliff!'
Catherine even tells Heathcliff that she thinks his true love is revenge, and not her. Yet Cathy herself was also impulsive, cruel, and abusive. I think they loved each other, but very selfishly.
To me it's always been about the cycle of abuse, and how abused children are left with very little choice. I think that the end of the book finally breaks the cycle.
I have to say, I hated the way the movie ended. It totally deviated from Heathcliff's true death, and that really bothered me a lot.
But the rest of it was awesome.
I think the intensity of love she felt for Heathcliff frightened Cathy and her cruelty was her way of controlling the emotion that controlled her.
Possibly; but she was also a woman frustrated by the restrictions of her time. It's like she honestly thought that she was growing up and doing the right thing by marrying into the Linton family.
But even before that, the one scene I'll never forget is her shaking Hindley's baby until it turned purple. O_O
This book was so much about child abuse.
Cathy did what she had to do the survive socially and submitted to cultural expectations even though in the end it made her feel trapped because she denied a true part of herself.
Then you must speak
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well
^ to survive
The London riots are appalling acts of mindless violence. The fact that there have been no casualties in one of the many buildings that have been burned is nothing short of a miracle.
Just found out Tom Hardy is going to make a movie with a script written by Nick Cave about depression era bootleggers called The Wettest Country In The World
Fallon
Riots accomplish nothing but destruction. I just hope the riots in London can be stopped before someone is killed or seriously injured.
One of the people arrested over the riots was an eleven year old boy. Eleven. Most of the people involved in the rioting are teenagers with nothing to do from socially disadvantaged areas with high unemployment.
World leaders need to put politics and their own greed aside and start listening to the people. People need jobs and stability. Right now the working class feels as though they've been forgotten. In many ways they have.
The London riots are the face of social turmoil. You cannot have a set of people protecting themselves with high wages and high standard of living while leaving another group disenfranchised. This is a glimpse of the capitalist system with with it's economic rationalism and bottom line thinking, imploding.
is it really surprising that under-educated, jobless youths go on the rampage, faced with the inconceivable gap between the rich and the poor and their sense of utter hopelessness and disenfranchisement?
Nope. It's not surprising and it's going to get worse and spread.
London, Greece, the US. Too many leaders forgot that nations are build by community and communities are built by the blue collar workers. Take away the blue collar jobs and treat those workers like they never mattered what's left for them to do? What's left for their children to do?
America has just received a downgrading on their credit rating. A country which the global markets rely on monetary stability has been downgraded. In Europe the third strongest market, Italy, nearly defaulted. There is a flow through effect through all of this. We are now living in economically precarious times.
Ireland was bailed out recently by the Euro bankers and their interest bill will be paid by many generations to come.
Agree 6:19. And I don't think one of the countries you mentioned have the leadership to step up and do more that political posturing. The world economy is so entwined. What happens in Timbuktu affects things in NYC and all over the world. It's a global market and we need to find a global solution. We need to have an emergency world summit on job creation and the financial crisis.
Budgeting 101
When you're spending more than you're taking in each month, you cut your spending.
You do not borrow more or ask for more credit. That is bad economics. Those bills will come due and someone will eventually have to pay those bills. If you can't pay what you owe in your lifetime your debt will be passed on to your children.
When you're spending more than you're taking in each month, you cut your spending.
Or you figure out a way to take in more. In the US, that would mean eliminating tax breaks for the very wealthy.
Common people do not reap the benefits of these tax breaks, and we have seen by continued high unemployment that they have not created jobs.
People need equity, and when they do not receive it, they become angry and the seeds of discontent are sewn. Perhaps people need to go back and read about the French Revolution.
Or you figure out a way to take in more. In the US, that would mean eliminating tax breaks for the very wealthy
Very hard to do when they are the ones funding you politically.
Politics is big business.
The problem is that very wealthy individuals are never asked to pay higher taxes and too many people don't care enough about wasteful spending.
Very hard to do when they are the ones funding you politically.
This is why our system isn't working.
From the time politicians are elected, their prime concern becomes how do I get re-elected? This has got to change, otherwise we are all headed for disaster.
That's too simplistic: you have to look at the way things really work. For example the wealthy are routinely given lower interest rates by the banks on their borrowings compared with your average working person. The whole system is currently devised to help people of wealth grow and retain their wealth while everyone else slips backwards even with restrained spending. Essentially those with the power are protecting their own backsides.
And seeing how the 2008 global financial crisis domino commenced via lenders loaning out other people's money to fund Detroit car workers who were allowed to borrow far more then their homes were worth and couldn't sustain their mortgage payments because of the exorbitant interest rates they were charging, I don't see it changing anytime soon.
So, I purchased a ticket to see Blink 182/MCR on Sept 21. I only paid 20$ b/c I got them at Warped Tour. I don't know why anyone would pay more than that...
I love Blink 182, but I really got the tickets because I want to see MCR and I know they don't come to GA often. If they only play an hour, I'm totally fine with that considering I've never seen them in concert.
I'm not sure why some of you (although not all) think that My Chem fans are ONLY my Chem fans. Like we've never been to any other live shows -- so therefore we can't handle pits. I've seen Underoath (with Aaron and post Aaron) The Devil Wears Prada, Attack Attack, and A Day to Remember in concert twice, and I was front and center. I'm almost positive that the Blink 182 pits/mosh/crowd surfing will be nothing compared to the experience that I had at Warped and at the several other shows I've been to.
On another note, I don't think any of us really know the absolute reason why My Chem has chosen to tour with Blink. I can only guess that it's a chance for them to play to a different crowd, an our course being on tour keeps the money flowing. Either way, it's not fair to assume that they are "weary" of their fan base. They've never voiced that, (unlike The Devil Wears Prada has, but Warped Tour has proven that TDWP are complete asses... now that's a band worthy of extreme dislike imo.)
*of course*
loaning out other people's money
If you want to really get down to basics that's what it all comes down to. Too many people living off other people's money. Too many people wanting to live and living beyond their means and greedy lenders out for blood.
I think most of us realize that many MCR fans are concert veterans. However, I've been to shows before where many MCR fans have been very young and have had their parents in tow. I've even seen these parents getting into it with other fans because their "little darlings" were getting pushed around in the pit.
These kids often have to be lifted out of the pit, even at some of the more tame shows. Those are the ones who are not going to be able to handle Blink shows.
I've been going to concerts for twenty years, and I've been in all kinds of pits, including Warped. The worst pit I've ever been in, however, was at a TBS show where Angels and Airwaves was opening. Blink fans, overjoyed about seeing Tom DeLonge again made that show unbearable for everyone. I had bruises on my bruises the next day and could barely walk. I wound up leaving the barrier and retreating to the back of the pit--something I've never done before.
I've seen children -not teenagers- at every single Metallica concert I have been too, including roaming around in the various pits that open up in their venues. There is never one pit, there are many. I highly doubt Blink fans can outdue Met fans, especially since I have been to a Blink concert as well. The stadium and floor were half full and the crowd was dead. A vast letdown.
It sounds to me like the parents of these teens are the ones acting ridiculous and juvenile. If parents are willing to behave like that in front of many other adults, why is it so shocking to see their offspring behave just the same? MCR can't be held accountable for the way young people are raised. Children are the product of their upbringing, only after many years out on their own will they eventually see the error in their (and their parents) past behavior. Until then, a shred of slack for their inappropriate and totally common poor judgement wouldn't be too much to ask. Concerts are where people let loose. Hopefully they don't take that concept of social freedom with them everywhere they go.
I've also seen an amazing amount of grown men and women being dragged out of entire venues (not just the pits) for their atrocious behavior. In fact, I see that more often than not. It's just a given. MCR fans aren't the top ranking in that department.
They don't call it a pit for nothing. If you don't think you can handle it then stay out of it. That goes triple for parents worried about their young children. Don't bring children in the pit. Don't allow your children to go into the pit. They could get hurt. It shouldn't take a master's degree in human anatomy to figure that out. This a rock tour not a Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus concert.
most venues on the HCT tour are seated amphitheaters, the things most resembling a pit being the lawns at the back of some places. And people will just sit around rather than mosh, since it's so ridiculously far from the stage.
And MCR aren't even playing for very long. The worst that can happen is the teenies getting offended the drunk Blink fans treat MCR like the overpriced opening act they are.
Yeah, it will be like it was when FOB toured with Blink. Most of the Blink fans were just eyerolling and side-eyeing the whole time, with some heckling of FOB from the drunkest of the dudebros. MCR fans will be much offended.
I don't think that has happened too much yet because the recent shows have been on MCR's home turf so to speak, but it's going to happen when the shows move out of the NY/NJ area.
Hell
They have to be wondering how it came to this.
11:38,
Tallicadude, is that you?!!
Another change has got to come.
The first fatality of the London riots.
A man who was shot in a car during riots in London died in hospital Tuesday from his injuries, police said, becoming the first fatality from three days of unrest in the capital.
So many good points about the economy on this blog today.
I'm a chick, 2:06. But thanks for the insult. I have a right to share my opinion and my experiences in converstation here, just like everyone else who posts on this blog. Disagree or dislike what I have to say all you want, but grow up while you're doing it.
That is horrific, 2:03. Too much like the images from 9/11. I hope they realize asap that they are only hurting themselves. Something has to be done for the people (and their businesses) caught in that mess. The police don't seem to be enough.
Who cares about a stupid idiotic band when the world is experiencing a perfect storm situation?
@2:59 "Who cares about a stupid idiotic band..."
If you care so much about what's going on the world, then surf blogs that relate to worldly things and comment on those... I mean what do you expect? This is a blog dedicated to ridiculing everything MCR, MSI, and their fans ;-)
If you can't handle it, move a long. But this blog reminds me so much of fbrtrash it's not even funny.
@ "The worst that can happen is the teenies getting offended the drunk Blink fans treat MCR like the overpriced opening act they are."
They are certainly not over-priced since tix to the show are being sold at discounted prices at various venues/places. Like I said, I purchased my ticket for $20. I've paid much more than that to see Underoath. And a lot of teens like Blink 182 as well, so how about you stop assuming that Blink fans are "grown folk" MCR fans are "little kids" because I am certainly not a little kid, with a fucking BFA and heading for a Masters, bitch please -___-
But seriously, I think how the non-MCR fans react depend on where they perform. Atlanta tends to have a very laid back music scene. My prediction is that MCR and Blink fans will blend fairly well. Most of my friends are fans of both though.
I was at the Atlanta PR -- front row VIP tickets, and the guys sitting next to me heckled and booed Geetard the whole time. Gerard looked like it really threw him for a loop too.
Nobody said MCR fans were all little kids and that Blink fans were grownups. In fact, someone pointed out that some MCR fans were seasoned concert goers, while others were younger.
And since when were 'dudebros' considered grownups?
You sound butthurt, akwnc.
'Geetard' is acceptable, but 'dudebros' isn't? This blog has its own unique deffinition of logic.
We're the ones saying 'dudebros'. Duh.
"Geetard" has been acceptable (right along with Nigel and twinkies jokes) with fans since MCR's inception. So I don't know why any fan would have an issue with us using it here.
I've always wondered how the fuck GWay managed to get rid of Nigel for good.
If you care so much about what's going on the world, then surf blogs that relate to worldly things and comment on those... I mean what do you expect? This is a blog dedicated to ridiculing everything MCR, MSI, and their fans ;-)If you can't handle it, move a long. But this blog reminds me so much of fbrtrash it's not even funny.
Just because some people make fun of your clown prince and his tacky wife and band on this blog doesn't mean I am restricted from commenting about world events, which effect everyone and you of all people, completing your master's, (heh) should be interested.
Don't mock people trying to educate themselves, even if you are pissed at them. That's just low.
I happen to care about world events, the riots in London, the current and worst ever financial crisis and the catastrophic drought and famine in Africa. I also like MCR. Mock at will.
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I won't be voting to re-elect Obama. I guess that makes me a racist too. It can't have anything to do with his epic political fail or his false promises and lies.
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same.
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same
If anything, it highlighted how rockstars could be just as cynical and corrupt as some politicians in selling a package of lies to get ahead.
this is ground control to major Tom, you've really made the grade
He is just...wow.
Three men were run over and killed last night in Birmingham in a hit and run incident. I think the UK has gone mad. First burning buildings, now murder?
Those poor men. How tragic.
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same
That is a purely ridiculous statement. It's tantamount to going onto a political blog and accusing people commenting on political issues of being too soft on movie stars.
Maybe you were too soft on movie stars as some of them ended up in government.
Next it will be a rockstar ^_~
Nice picture of Tom Hardy. :)
When I see that pic of Tom it brings to mind that song by ZZ Top about a sharp dressed man.
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I won't be voting to re-elect Obama. I guess that makes me a racist too. It can't have anything to do with his epic political fail or his false promises and lies.
Why do so many of you hold rockstars to higher standards than you do our world leaders? You'll call out rockstars on lies and changing stories and attitudes but you say nothing when the people who have real power and global influence do the same.
August 10, 2011 2:12 AM
Yeah? WHo are you gonna vote for? Sarah Palin? Some other Republican? Someone who is going to take rights away from women and minorities?
I'm not happy with a lot of what's going on either. I do like a lot of the changes he made within his first year (that most people don't even know about,) but I highly doubt that there's going to be someone better, at this point. If someone better comes along, he or she will get my vote. But currently, Obama is the only one protecting my rights.
You can justify MCRMSI as much as you want with your "OH BUT OBAMA IS JUST AS BAD." You're ridiculous if that's what you're getting at. Yes, he's sold out a lot of his values, and my values. I don't feel as protected as I want to. I was hoping he would reform health care (entirely) and start taxing billion dollar corporations.
But Obama is still not going around calling people n*gga and f*ggot, calling women whores and bitches and c*nts, telling them to f*ck themselves for him and threatening them with violence.
Perspective? Get some.
Perspective? Get some.
Exactly.
It's frightening how a few very vocal people are holding the Republican party hostage right now. People like Michele Bachmann who want less government for big corporations and to limit access for birth control to poor women, yet they have no problem whatsoever telling people what they can/can't do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. These people have a religious agenda, and if they have their way, they'll be teaching Bible verses and Creationism to every American school child, and telling them that homosexuality is deviant behavior that can be "prayed away".
The Tea Party people are damn scary, and Faux News is jumping in bed with them in order to promote their own crazy right wing agenda. Fair and balanced, my ass.
Is there any other young actor out there with as many amazing projects coming up in the next few months as Tom Hardy? If so, I don't know who it would be.
I'm very happy for him. :D
Honestly, I feelt that Obama has been trying his hardest. Its Congress and The Senate fucking everything up
I see now the husband is away playing on tour, the racist wife takes to her twitter once more to attention whore for her young fans. How tragic.
Weren't she and Bandit supposed to be being dragged around the country on a 'fleet' of family buses?
Maybe MCR got told they need to sell some more albums first before they can bring an entourage with them again...
Eliza would do exactly the same thing. Compensating for the attention Gerard wasn't showing her.
Doesn't Lindsey have real friends? Why doesn't she go hang out with Chantal and them? Take your baby to Paris it's filled with art ! Italy is even better. Make new friends.
Don't always take to twitter as soon as Mr. Man is gone. Then as soon as he returns, you delete every message you've ever put up there.
Or, You could always get a day job...Final thoughts, this Lindsey woman seems a little codependent.
And yet what would you do with your time, if she didn't use her twitter to social network like it was meant to be used? Would you get a life too?
Seriously why would anyone care what that dingbat tweets apart from her fans?
Mocking someone for their loneliness is vicious. That's something Jimmy Urine has done repeatedly and very vocally enjoyed. Lindsey has said some crappass things before, but usually people who do that sort of thing are either ignorant or miserable themselves. Neither of which should be found amusing to anyone with better understanding.
I doubt that Lindsey is lonely. I'm sure she has plenty of friends to hang out with, and she's probably glad to have Gerard out from under foot for a while. Something tells me he's not the easiest person to live with.
That said, I don't know why people who don't like her read her tweets. I'm not really interested in what she has to say.
Same goes. I don't read any of their crappy tweets. Once in a while one of them will say something particularly ignorant and repellent, and I'll hear about it in a roundabout way.
she's probably glad to have Gerard out from under foot for a while. Something tells me he's not the easiest person to live with
I'm certain the money and the lifestyle she has through him more than compensates for his difficult personality traits. For all you know she might not be the nicest person to live with. I've seen many people treat their friends better than they treat their spouse.
Perspective? Get some.
Yesh. Get some. Seriously. Call out the people who command the real world stage on their actions, lies and bullshitery. Leave the rockstars to the fanzines and gossip rags.
WHo are you gonna vote for? Sarah Palin?
Sarah Palin announced her candidacy? When? The last time I checked she wasn't in the running.
People like Michele Bachmann who want less government for big corporations and to limit access for birth control to poor women,
Because that's so much worse than killing an entire class of people. The working class. The class that has historically paid for your social services including birth control, social security, and medicare.
Stop with the party posturing. It's far beyond the rhetoric and fear tactics of both major parties now.
See what's happening on the streets of London if you need more proof of that.
I would rather be told the truth from a demon than force fed lies from a false prophet. :)
Put a sock in it 1:45.
If you don't think the bi-partisan bullshit that has the governments' hands completely tied in Washington D.C. is a problem, 1:37, you are a fool.
Go back to watching your Faux News and pretend that Obama and all of the Democrats are demons. After all, the Rapture is nigh anyway, right? It doesn't matter if things go to hell here because you and all of your Tea Party cronies are expecting to be with Jesus in Heaven.
*government's
hot
sizzling
Your right 5:11. I will be in Heaven while you, Obama and all the rest of his liberal Muslim and atheist supporters are burning in hell. I hope you like it hot.
If I were you I would not be so confident 6:50
I do like it hot, actually. And if this fictional "hell" you keep banging on about isn't going to have you, or people like you in it, then sign me up, damn.
Also, Tom Hardy anon: DAMN. So delish.
A bit of Tom Hardy a day
Keeps the doctor away
Put a sock in it 1:45.
Yeah. That going to solve all the world's problems. Each side telling the other side to shut up and not listening to each other. It's working so well so far.
Britian's thinking about telling social media to put a sock in it. Shut the people up and take more away from them. That'll stop the riots for sure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-weighs-personal-freedoms-against-need-to-keep-order/2011/08/11/gIQAMTOS8I_story.html?hpid=z3
Yeah. That going to solve all the world's problems. Each side telling the other side to shut up and not listening to each other. It's working so well so far.
Do you really think calling the POTUS a 'demon' is going to solve anything? Please.
When you come around and start making actual points, or maybe even offering solutions instead of finger-pointing and namecalling, people might listen. Until then, I think putting a sock in it is the best course of action.
Hipster Racism sounds like it sums up MCRMSI pretty well.
Hipster racism involves making derogatory comments with a racial basis in an attempt to seem witty and above it all. Specifically, the idea is to sound ironic, as in “I’m allowed to say this because of course I’m not racist, so it’s funny.”
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While people may ardently claim that they are not racist, the people who engage in hipster racism are overwhelmingly white and middle class, and they clearly have some unaddressed racial issues which are being subverted in their attempts to be edgy. Sometimes, they are actually explicitly racist, and they are using hipster racism as a way of presenting their racism in a way which will be acceptable within their social groups.
Hipster racism often hides under the unassailable guise of satire. People who suggest that something is racist, and not actually funny, are told that they obviously just don’t get it, and that the whole point of humour is to push boundaries. They are told that the racism is so obvious and overstated that it’s meant to be laughed at, and that people are laughing at the racism and the racists, not supporting the ideas which are supposedly being mocked. But, oddly enough, a lot of racist satire doesn’t read that way, and it ends up just being racist, full stop...
And for the other half of the problem with these douchebags, Liberal Sexism.
Many liberals seem to believe that a voter registration card with a D stamp is like a get out of jail free card, that acts which appear to be sexist in nature aren’t really sexist when you’re liberal, because it’s physically impossible to be sexist when you’re liberal.
I don't think the POTUS was called a demon. Sarah Palin, Michelle B. and the tea party were. The POTUS can't be a demon. He's a democrat.
/ sarcasm
Anyone who watches Letterman knows that there's a hell. He's always showing video clips of Bin Laden burning in hell. Duh.
Hell is for the false prophets: the Bin Ladens, the Mohammeds, the Barrack Obamas. It's also where all you liberals are going to spend eternity.
Regardless of who got called what, namecalling is not solving anything. So I reiterate:
Until you offer solutions or make a valid point that does not involve namecalling and fingerpointing, put a sock in it.
Looks like Bin Laden isn't getting to spend eternity in paradise with 15 virgins and Allah any more than the tea party cronies will get to spend eternity with Jesus in Heaven.
If you're going to be disrespectful towards people's beliefs then be disrespectful in a fair and balanced way. Mock all organized religion. Not just one. It makes you look like an ignorant bigot when you single out one religion, race, political party, etc.
Right, so I made another TUmblr post calling out MCRMSI and their fans. I'm prepared ahead of tiem for the influx of hate mail and death threats.
If anyone wants to reblog it, feel free. But also be prepared for the same reception. :/
If anyone wants proof that MSI are racist scum you need look no further than Lindsey's 'joke' about the people of Japan being killed in their thousands.
So sad.
"Nobody is doing nothing for us — not the politicians, not the cops, no one," a 19-year-old who lives near Tottenham, the blighted London neighborhood where the riots started. He only gave his nickname, "Freddy," because he took part in the looting and was scared of facing prosecution; he was not among the youths in court.
Britain has one of the highest violent crime rates in the EU. Roughly 18 percent of youths between 16 and 24 are jobless and nearly half of all black youths are out of work.
As the government battles colossal government debt with harsh welfare cuts that promise to make the futures of these youths even bleaker, some experts say it's narrow-minded to believe the riots have only been a random outburst of violence unrelated to the current economic crisis.
No one's doing anything for me, either; I can't even get a Dr. to check me out. But I would never throw a brick through anyone's window. Sorry, no sympathy for the looters.
Aaaaand here we go with the hate mail and angry reblogs. I knew it was coming, but dang. They really are delusional.
I love how that one girl is posting quotes Gerard supposedly made years ago. Does she not understand that Gerard's 180 is the main reason people like us are so mad at him?
I think that "girls you are beautiful" quote is a fabrication, much like the "It gets better" statement that was written by some random 13 year old.
I wouldn't be surprised, actually. ALl these people trying to deny that Frank used the N word by saying "I don't see a screen of it, so it didn't happen!" Where's the proof that Gerard said any of that "positive" stuff anyway?
I don't think there is any proof of that "Girls, you are beautiful" statement. I've seen that quote around the internet forever, but I've never seen a video clip, nor have I seen it linked to a reliable article in a magazine.
I think it's urban legend.
some of those quotes are actually on videos of their old shows, at least one shows up in LOTMS.
The articles where Geetard claims he now drinks recreationally and started working out because he was 'uncomfortable' in his own body (one wonders why...) are just as easy to find.
But of course the fangirls prefer to stay in denial and celebrate his '7th yeah sober'.
Aaaaand here we go with the hate mail and angry reblogs. I knew it was coming, but dang. They really are delusional.
And deeply stupid.
I've never seen that comment where he tells girls to exercise and be healthy, blah, blah. It doesn't sound like him at all. Does anyone have a link to that source?
So did the fangirl who posted all the quotes in response to Kapunua's tumblr post delete her reblogs?
I can't believe she didn't see Frank's N-word tweet or the coat hanger one. I thought the whole fandom knew about those. They even talked about them on lj. Did Frank delete them? Did anybody get screencaps.
One of the dudes from Fall Out Boy said that he recenly went out drinking with both the Way's so...I don't know what the fangirls are celebrating. Or why they even celebrate for that matter.
It was bad enough when fans were on about how Gerard wasn't drinking at PR (Martinelli Sparkling Cider my ass), but to say he's sober when he finally even admitted to drinking in an interview? I suppose they would yell "Screencaps or it didn't happen" about that too.
Occasionally recalling the bruised and brooding virility of a young Marlon Brando, Hardy is arrestingly intense as Tommy, by turns implosive and explosive as he alternates between guilt and rage, savagery and self-loathing.
From Variety's review of Warrior. :D
They really are naive if they're responding and reblogging what she said. They're giving her exactly what she wants. Attention, tumblr traffic and the satisfaction of feeling superior to 13-16 year olds.
I hope that the world never robs that passion from those kids and I hope that when they're in their 30's and 40's they remember the innocent naivete of their youth and don't treat kids like they've been treated just for liking a band or any other artist.
Yeah, let's never "rob them of their passion" for bands that degrade and oppress women. That would be bad.
The cool thing is that, for as much hate mail and threats as I've gotten, I've had an equal amount of "wow, you're right" posts. And a few from people who didn't know about this, or hadn't given it much thought, and are saying, "I feel disappointed." I'm sorry they're disappointed because that is a crappy feeling. But I am always 100% against "ignorance is bliss." It's not. Ignorance is ignorance.
P.S. I can't wait to see Warrior! But I think I might be more excited about TTSS. :)
I have to agree TTSS is the one I really want to see, though anything with Thomas Hardy boy would make it worth watching.
pretty
I think it's interesting that Variety compared Tom to Brando. I can see the comparison, especially in a film like Warrior, but I think Tom has more depth. I've seen him play such varied characters, and he nails every one of them. To me, he's like a classically trained, English DeNiro. He becomes the character he's playing.
I'm excited about all the projects he has going, but more than anything else, I'm excited about his career. I think it's going to be a very long and interesting one.
What 6:12 said and not to mention he is VERY easy on the eyes.
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