So to the left you can see the cover for My Chemical Romance’s forthcoming CD/DVD release, The Black Parade Is Dead!. A little cultural lesson for you: that is a traditional setup in Mexico to honor the deceased on a Mexican holiday called “Day of the Dead”, or “El Día de los Muertos” in Spanish. Beautiful, beautiful, if I might say so myself. Click on that photo on the left for a huge, unresized photo. It’s 1602 pixels by 1431 pixels and 322kb. I’ve forgotten who uploaded that original image, but to whoever you are, thank you!

Photos: Check out these photos from The Joint in Las Vegas on 3/31/2008. Also, our beloved friend Shell has uploaded some really awesome HQ photos of one of the recent shows. Really awesome pictures of San Fran were taken by a lovely lady named Alicia which you can find at her photography website here.

We cordially invite you to stop by our Portland Store on Tuesday April, 8th from 4-6 P.M. to get your comic book signed, take a picture or just chat with one of the coolest dudes you’ll ever meet.
Portland Store Contact Info: here
Directions to our portland store Location: here

If you want to download scans of The Big Cheese magazine scans (interview with Ray), click here (Mediafire). I’ll get them unzipped and see if I have permission to add them to the gallery. Thanks to LJ’s ebonylox

Gerard got a little bit of a sarcastic mention at Rolling Stone. Check the first single featuring Patrick Stump. Sorry, but I don’t get the joke. I do, however, get that Rolling Stone doesn’t take My Chemical Romance very seriously (c’mon…the fake cover? seriously…)

Here’s a review and photos of My Chemical Romance in Tempe on Friday. The picture of Gerard in the top right is fairly adorable, too (see right).

The energy didn’t quit, and the band immediately threw out This Is How I Disappear. Guitarist Ray Toro scorched in his corner throughout the show, looking like a mix of Slash and Claudio Sanchez with his blanket of curly hair.

And some press from the Las Vegas Sun in regards to the My Chemical Romance gig at The Joint. However, the picture they use of the band is so four years ago. No, I’m not kidding. Ya know, if you can actually see the thing because it’s so small.

The movie Punk’s Not Dead which came out last summer including interviews with Green Day, My Chemical Romance (Frank), Story of the Year, Social Distortion, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Anti-Flag, Alkaline Trio, The Ramones, The Offspring, blah, blah, blah, and about a million other bands will be out on DVD on April 14th. View a 17 second clip of Frank here.

“The Umbrella Academy” is being released as a series with a bonus sketchbook. Click here to preorder. Otherwise, it comes out in July.

The Wave Magazine interviews Gerard. It’s an absolutely phenomenal interview, so please read.
…if you’ve never been to the edge and stared into it, you’re never gonna become a better human being, I don’t think. And it’s facing that stuff that makes you a good person to other people – it makes you good to yourself, it makes you smarter, it makes you faster, it makes you better. Out of all these tragedies, you’re born as something better, so I think that staring into the abyss is one of the things that the band does really well.

Arizona Republic interviews Ray.
Of course we have thought about [the new record not living up to people's expectations] many times, like most bands do after they have a successful record, but we are going to keep doing what we do and making music that feels right.

Frank’s side project (one of million) Skeleton Crew has launched a new website and online store. Rumor has it that Leathermouth will be taking preorders for their debut CD soon.

A sort of degrading yet pretty funny look into My Chemical Romance’s future. Apparently they will break up in 2014 and reunite in 2024. Oh, and Bob and Ray fight over which one of them is Frank’s biological father. No, I’m not kidding. Go read that article. Oh, the fan fiction…ya know, even if Toro and Bob would have been, ya know, toddlers…

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Totally hope that update was worth the wait. Cheers to Celyn for getting the site up in time for Gerard’s 31st birthday. Hope the hole in his pants continues to grow and that face forever immortal (I mean, for the love of cats, that man is aging backwards, I swear it!). And, I’ve had entirely too much caffeine (Kathleen would be ashamed of me!) and will be up quite some time longer. Updates might get a little weird. My classes for college are from 5pm-9pm and labs 9pm-1am. So expect weirdness in the updates due to too much caffeine.

P.S. My school is the third largest vendor of Mountain Dew in the state of Florida. Does that tell you anything?

Recap – Very Long! was written by johnnie on April 9th, 2008.
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