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20/04/2011

Want to Be a Rockstar? Wear Your Sunglasses In the Toilet Cubicle.

I’m currently on MSN with Isobel, and she told me I have no email because I’m simply not cool, because I don’t wear Primark Ray Bans into toilets, like she does (this makes her a rockstar). I was going to reply, “I am a rockstar, I’m watching the TV with the sound turned down!” But… Continue reading

April 2011, Colour, Funny, Internet, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Photogenius, Pure Insanity, TV

Heaven Help Us, I Have Been All Things Unholy, MSN, My Chemical Romance, Planetary, Planetary (GO!), rockstars, Staring Through the Demons, Television, video
22/03/2011

This One Isn’t a Five Minute Job, I Promise. There’s Links.

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(All Hail) Creation, Art, Colour, Food, Funny, Internet, March 2011, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Paywall, Photogenius, Pure Insanity, Videos

Berlin, biscuits, cooking, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, Indifferent Ignorance, Jaffa Cakes, Jimmy Urine, Kitty, Lent, LynZ, marmalade, MCRmy, Mikey Way, Mindless Self Indulgence, MSI, Music, My Chemical Romance, Oreo, Planetary (GO!), Planetary video, Ray Toro, Steve Righ, stove, Tight, Tighter, Twix, video
24/02/2011

Never Let It Be Said That I Don’t Start What I Finish…

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(All Hail) Creation, Art, February 2011, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Paywall, TV

Austria, award ceremonies, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, Indifferent Ignorance, Italy, Mikey Way, My Chemical Romance, Na Na Na, NME Awards, Ray Toro, song name paragraphs, video

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Francesca Astraea here.

When I began this blog in 2009, I was a teenager. That’s why you’ll find some posts have been hidden behind a paywall. I was an incredibly different, less eloquent person when I was a teen, so if you want to read the thoughts of that teenager, you can join the No. 1 Readers’ Club for access.

What will you find here now?

This blog continues to evolve with me. My favourite topics are books and reading, travel adventures, the extensive works of up and coming rock band My Chemical Romance and the occasional update about my life and work as an author and scriptwriter. I’m also interested in digital minimalism, how we can solve environmental issues and why it’s probably a better idea to make a cup of tea than it is to shout at people you disagree with.

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Want to Be a Rockstar? Wear Your Sunglasses In the Toilet Cubicle.

This One Isn’t a Five Minute Job, I Promise. There’s Links.

Never Let It Be Said That I Don’t Start What I Finish…