day 109 no mcr. it has been far too long since dearest raymond and gerard sent word of their good health, though micheal has done so recently and franklin has not stopped sending letters since the summer began. the children grow sadder and hungrier by the day without fresh food, but i am trying to stay strong. earlier today i saw a photograph from a year ago (oh how i miss those golden days), of gerard’s thigh through torn stockings, and i must confess i nearly fainted from the shock. times are getting desperate. i fear i am beginning to lose hope, but i will not let the waiting get to me- nothing is for certain yet, and they shall hopefully turn up any day now.
I feel like in the hubbub of the outfits and the tour ending and Missing Gerard and all some of the discussion of the actual music parts of the AUS/Japan/NZ shows maybe fell to the wayside…for myself included. But I recently went back and watched some of those performances and uh…they’re maybe some of the BEST of the tour. Some of MCR’s total best performances period. My mind was blown listening to some of them. The energy was way more intense than I’d realized it was because I was blinded by a skirt and kitten heels…but I feel like the skirt and kitten heels were producing some kind of serious power in Gerard to do things like sing ALL the high notes in Famous Last Words which he rarely does live
“A kid watching Thursday is going, ‘They are empowering because that could be me up there—Geoff is singing what I want to be singing,‘” says Gerard. “With us, it’s like, ‘These guys are so fucking crazy I need them in my life.'” Or, to put it bluntly, introverts inspire others to form bands; extroverts sell records.
“I told them after their first record they were gonna be much bigger than Thursday,” says Rickly. “We’re flipping sides of a coin. He deals in the surreal and make-believe and is able to project a confidence that I can’t. He has this other place where he can hide and control things. Gerard’s always telling me that he’s my villain. But I think he’s an antihero.”
Gerard Way on Thursday and Geoff Rickly on My Chemical Romance,Spin June 2005
i love mikeygirls cause seeing one on the dash always feels like a deer bolting out in front of your car on a dark road and seeing them say shit like “i want to wear his skin like a scuba suit” or “i would turn him into a haunted doll and put him in so many situations” is like having that deer go straight through your windshield
for folks asking why frank is in layers for this summer tour, frank has said on twitter that the layers in addition to a heater onstage and compression helps with the pain of his wrist and shoulder injuries and makes it so he can play a little easier!
it’s one of those things where it seems bonkers but he does what he can to work with his chronic pain.
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