What they're saying.

• 08:00 Dreamt I was getting cozy with Ioan Gruffudd. Is it 2004 again already? We were "catching up like old times" too. LOL my brain.
• 08:02 Puppy woke us up at 7:30 by barking his fool head off for an hour till we let him out of his pen. Don't know what to do about this.
• 12:51 Goddammit, Dogtown! I've been openly weeping for an hour. Ajdksbskjals.
• 14:29 Eggnog frappuccino. Try it.
• 16:48 Puppy couldn't be less fazed by being in a car. He's happily chewing on his rawhide in my lap, oblivious. On our way to the inlaws!
• 17:12 Bandit meets Sassy! twitpic.com/pjfzr
• 23:25 Girlfriend just called Kris Allen "a generous and efficient lover". She's so hyped up on cold meds, hahaha.
• 23:54 National Geographic Channel has been having a "Big, Bigger, Biggest" marathon all day. This is my structural engineering boner, right here.

Help!!!

I'm looking for MCR audio fics! Any good fics that have been recorded to MP3 files =] I know aceles had a whole list of them..but I can't seem to find the list!!

Can anyone help?!

• 01:34 I want chinese takeout so badly. Why does nowhere stay open 24 hours? D: #
• 01:34 Ah, well. Pasta it is. #
• 01:35 Btw, The Men Who Stare At Goats. Verdict: WEIRD AS HELL. #
• 13:46 You may be feeling a bit agitated about an idea that seems jus... More for Aries bit.ly/wE0V7 #

• 00:09 Puppy knows "sit"! And he is very eager to show us. I'm like a proud mama who's proud.
• 11:17 Someone at work was convinced I was 20 or 21. \o/ Hoping this trend continues my whole life.
• 12:33 MY MOTHER JUST GOT FACEBOOK AAAAAAH.
• 14:54 for the list of water-soluable bears is nearly infinite. bit.ly/zieWO
• 18:07 True story: I gave him that domain name. Hahaha? RT @jianghomeshi: After a long long LONG reconstruction... www.jian.ca is live!
• 21:05 How still so nerdy sexy, Keira? Rawr. yfrog.com/041duj
• 23:00 Quiet night in while girlfriend is off at a cast party and roommate is closing. Me and Percy are chillin'.

• 13:07 You are being pulled in two opposite directions now. On one ha... More for Aries bit.ly/wE0V7 #
• 13:50 @apiphile Lies lies lies. #
• 15:19 wnt out for milkshakes and came backwith purple hairdye. :D #
• 17:02 @inkandchaos i definitely think so. :) #
• 17:16 @emiliekitten IIiiiiiii am. :) #
• 17:55 twitpic.com/pda3e - Heyyyyy guys. I'm dying my hair. RIBENA HAIR HERE I COME? #
• 18:56 I HAVE PURPLE HAIR. #
• 19:36 twitpic.com/pdope - i am so happy with my ribena hair. #
• 20:56 @bambi_the_first thank youuuu! aw, bb, you should dye it again! :D #
• 21:47 @inkandchaos thank you! :) #
• 21:48 @Masterface thank you darling :) #
• 21:48 @alana2x1 aw, thanks! :D this is only semi-permanent stuff, so i shouldn't get bad roots. :) #

http://www.mychemicalromance.com/blog/jeff-watson/official-mcr-twitter-account

For those of you that use Twitter, you can now follow @MCRofficial for all of your My Chemical Romance news and updates. The account will provide news from the band, official announcements, and much more. Follow @MCRofficial here.

Early in the recording of My Chemical Romance's fourth album, the band gave mixer Rich Costey a preview. "Everything he heard was just noise and spitting," remembers singer Gerard Way.

Taken aback, Costey asked, "What are these songs?"

"They're protest songs," Way told him. "It's the sound of 'no.'" Only later did Way realized exactly what he was protesting: "I was protesting us."

After a grueling tour behind 2006's The Black Parade, MCR were worn out and fed up. "I thought the band was going to break up," says guitarist Frank Iero. "I was expecting a call from Gerard saying, 'We can't do it anymore.'" Instead, they took a year off and changed managers. This past February, they went into the old A&M studios in L.A. with Pearl Jam producer Brendan O'Brien.

"The plan was to knock it out and not to overthink it," says drummer Bob Bryar. They expected to be done by April, but the record ended up taking all year. The goal, Way says, was to drpo the theatricality of The Black Parade -- which had lots of Floyd-ian pomp an da Liza Minnelli cameo -- and "to harness everything that's great about this band into shorter songs. Almost protopunk, like the Stooges or the MC5."

The song that pushed them in the right direction was "Trans Am." It begins with the lyric "I got a bulletproof heart" and then stomps through four minutes of fist-pumping rock.

With that new direction -- impassioned but melodic -- MCR put aside the noisier material they had been working on and wrote a new batch of songs; the fast-and-dirty "Still Alice," the anthemic "The Only Hope for Me Is You" and the super-catchy "Death Before Disco" (featuring the chorus "Everybody pay attention to me"). "We simply embraced rock n' roll and where we're from," Way says. "We learned how to be an American rock band instead of a British rock band."

On an October afternoon in L.A., MCR are polishing the album. There's only a month or two of work left to do: some mixing, some overdubs, and sequencing. Today, Way is working on that pivotal cut, "Trans Am" -- which he thinks would be enhanced by "1.2 seconds of Queen."

So he warms up his vocal cords, slips on some headphones, and asks, "Can I get a little bit of reverb? Yeah, it's a crutch." then he sings, "These pigs are after me, after you" a dozen times, creating a "Bohemian Rhapsody" harmony. His performance is stylized, almost like a yodel. With a grin, he announced, "When I start sounding teenage-girlish, that's the sweet stuff."

Way's in a good mood, and not just because he's almost done with the record. In 2007, he married Lyn-Z (bassist for the band Mindless Self Indulgence); this May, they had a baby girl, Bandit. Way took two weeks off and then came back to work "like a zombie, long hair and unshaven." But fatherhood gave him a new perspective on his lyrics, which focused on despair and death. "I wasn't writing a record about becoming a dad, I wasn't writing a record for my baby girl, but I was writing a record for the person that she would turn into when she was 15, if anything ever happened to me."

[Source: Rolling Stone Magazine (RS 1092)]
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• 03:32 @xenopuff I went and bought the song on itunes lol :) #
• 09:03 so. so. sleepy. ): #
• 09:29 @intothenightx ia, bb. ;) ia. #
• 09:30 COME ON NOW JUST GET DRESSED AND GO TO TUTORIAL. DD: #
• 09:30 ;~; i really just want to sleep, though. #
• 09:30 also! had an email from my building manager. room inspections! soon!! D: SCARY. #
• 13:25 You may truly want to please everyone today, but you may end u... More for Aries bit.ly/wE0V7 #
• 17:26 twitpic.com/p8soz - WE HAS BIRDS. and I have a new moustache. You guys dig? :D #
• 18:01 @pandagore ;D #
• 18:02 @holliehell to check we've not broken anything/set anything on fire/used anything to keep drugs #
• 18:02 @Stevie_Boo <3333 love you too sweetie. #
• 21:18 back from TGI Friday food time with girl :) Is it sad that it was raining so hard that we just decided to come home instead of the cinema? #
• 23:39 @ihavecake I WANT ONE. MAYBE TWO. PERHAPS A HORDE OF THEM. #
• 23:41 gonna go and make popcorn, brb. :) #