9/11
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The Ten O’Clock News: Celebrating D Day (and by D Day I don’t mean the one where they stormed a beach)
If I’m being totally honest, I’m at a point in my life where the first thing I think of when someone mentions World War II – specifically D Day – is this gem of a music video. Then I think of Saving Private Ryan and then I think of my grandmother, who remembers seeing troops Continue reading
‘Missing Old Man Turns Up In France, ‘Saving Private Ryan’, ‘The Ghost of You’, 9/11, D Day, Doggles, East Pakistan, for D-Day Anniversary’, Gawker.com, genocide, Indifferent Ignorance, MCR, National Donut Day, priorities, racism, The Ten O’Clock News, USA, victims of terrorism, West Pakistan, With Medals -
A Word on Today and Some Other Days
The ‘start’ of My Chemical Romance has always been 11th September 2001. Unless you think it though, anyway, and then it’s more “sometime between 9/11 and 23rd July 2002 when their first album came out” (9/11 was the catalyst but I kind of think that it took five people making noise to properly get it going, Continue reading
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10 Years, 10 Days: Old People Are Allowed to Get a Little Off Topic and Reminiscent.
It’s my birthday today, so I thought I’d take a moment and talk about myself. Well, more specifically, how I came to know My Chem. Since you all, obviously, really want to know. I was eleven, and studying for entrance exams for the school I’m at now. I’m not quite sure how it happened, but Continue reading
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10 Years, 10 Days: Well Let’s Go Back to the Middle of the Day that Starts It All
Everyone knows the story of how My Chem formed. We can’t not, with every article alluding to ‘the Jersey rockers’ East Coast beginnings, when vocalist Gerard Way formed the band after witnessing the Twin Towers fall at 9/11′. So most people call today the unofficial birthday of the band, although they say everything really started to come Continue reading
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