You're not the first and you know you won't be the last.

The poll for the Rock Sound Reader's Poll 2009 has already begun and My Chemical Romance can be nominated to these categories: Best International Band, Best Video, Best Single, Best Live Band, Eye Candy of The Year and 2010 Is Going To Be All About This Band. People who voted and fill the personal data records are competing for a mobile phone Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and to 4 signatures of Rock Sound. The poll will be finished in the 11/27. To vote, click on the link below.
Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lDoRHzm7kB_2fk9VdS_2b4rKfw_3d_3d

As far as I seen, it looks like the actress Megan Fox was able to finally scape of comedy movies with Lindsay Lohan and of Michael Bay's robots from Transformers. She's now in a horror movie written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Juno) and directed by Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux, but we've got to tell), the movie tell us the history of a cheerleader (yeah!), possessed by a demon (yeeeaahhhh!!) who likes to go out and kill all the boys in her school (yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!).

Couldn't they had released this movie, like, yesterday? To check out Megan Fox's new work, click on the following link.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZKdevSPQg

Technology!

posted by Mikey on Oct 13, 2009 9:46pm

Like the elegant wing-ed Phoenix of legend, the My Chemical Romance website has indeed "leveled up". We can now all participate in the fun and rewarding experience known as blogging. I'm still getting used to the interface, so bear with me folks. Let the good times roll and keep it clean everybody. "no swings to the face, and no mom jokes!"
cheers!
Mikey

"Twilight", after being a huge success as a best-seller novel and sell millions in the cinema, the romantic history "a la Dracula" maybe will have its space in the videogame world.

The studio responsable for developing this online multiplayer game - with the name of Twilight MMO - would be Brainjunk. But something weird is going on the air.

Stephen Gately, from Boyzone, died last Saturday, 10th October, with 33 years old in the Spanish Island of Mallorca

Spanish police is investigating the dead of the irish singer Stephen Gately, from Boyzone, who died this Saturday in the Spanish island of Mallorca, in Spain, where he was spending his holidays.

Stephen Gately, with 33 years old, was part of the group Boyzone, which was a success in Great Britain and Ireland in the 90's. The family's spokesman said that there are no signs of suicide, homicide or drug use, and that the singer died because of "natural causes". Gately was spending his holidays in the Spanish city Port d'Antratx, on the Spanish Island, with his partner Andrew Cowle.
 
Top Of The Lists.

The other four band members got to Mallorca. In a note to the press, they said Gately "died in a tragic way".

And on the note they also said they don't have so many details.

The police was called to the singer's house on the Saturday afternoon. Autorities said that there are no signs of violence. An autopsy shall be made on Tuesday.

Boyzone got famous in the 90's at Great Britain. Six of their songs got the top of the list on the country, among them "All That I Need" and a remake of Bee Gees' "Words".

Gately got notorious on the group when he said he was homosexual when he was 23 years old - something unusual to the singer of the so called "boy bands", which main public is by girls.

Boyzone had come back to the stages in 2007 and he planed a record for next year. Singer Elton John, Gately's friend, said this Sunday he's in shock with the singer's death.

Stephen Gately, from Boyzone, died with 33 years old on the 10th of October, in the spanish island of Mallorca

London, 11th October (EFE).- Stephen Gately, member of the irish boyband Boyzone, who made success in the 90's, died last Saturday in the spanish island of Mallorca, where he was spending his holiday with his colleague, Andrew Cowles.

The website of the band, which splited in 2000 and got back eight years later, said that Gately, with 33 years old, "died in a tragic way" in the night of yesterday.

The announcement of the singer's dead caused comotion on the UK and Ireland. The other band members said that today they've gone to Spain to inquire themselves about what happened.

So far, the circunstamces of Gately's dead haven't been cleared. But according to Andratx Police's sources (Mallorca) said to the Efe agency that the artist died in his apartment in the touristic part of disseram Cala Llamp.

The editor of espectacles of the journal "News Of The World", Dan Wootton, said to to "BBC" that Gately got out with his husband on the Saturdya night and, after getting back and go to bed, he didn't woke up anymore.

Louis Walsh, band's manager, said he was shocked with the news, but he didn't had any details of what happened.

He said he was in shock and he had been with him a ceremony of awards and said they don't know too much about what happened, said Walsh, saying that Gately "was a great man".

Boyzone made a lot of success in Europe in the 90's, when they've sold more singles than Take That.

In June, 1999, one year before the group ends, Gately said he was homosexual and that he was dating Andrew Cowles, which he got married with in 2006, in a ceremony at London.

After the end of Boyzone, Gately got solo, getting three singles in the list of the 20 most sold singles. He also have been part of several success musicals in the brittish capital.

Singer Elton John talked about his colleague's dead, which he reffered as a "lovely and sweet" person. He said he and his husband, David Furnish, were lost with this tragedy and said they're sending their love and happiness to his friend Andy and to all his friends in the whole world.

Did any of you knew this band? If so, please, tell me.

Exactly today is the release birthday of Muse's first record: Showbiz.

The record that took the band to their amazing success career was recorded between 1998 and 1999. The songs got old tracks of Muse's setlist, dating it until 1996. The band had 50 songs which have been recorded before they went on studio, and, for the album, they chose the songs that they judge less progressive.

John Leckie, who produced the record, started to go to Muse's concert in the half of 1998. Leckie worked on Saw Mills studio, which owner, Dennis Smith, gave the band free time for the band record, which became Muse EP. John built a relation with the band during this time, and he said that he would like to work with them, if they had enough conditions to pay him. The recording were finished in the 15th of May of 1999.

In October 04th of 1999 it was the official release of the album. Right after the release, many critics were fast to deny that the album would make success because it had a sonority alike Radiohead's music, a comparison that many people still use. However, last month the record was added to the list of the 20 best british records of the last 20 years, by James Hurley, MSN Music editor, describing the album as:

Even after the obvious comparison with Radiohead, what even called Thom Yorke's attention, Muse introduced themselves splendid, if not totally original and talented with this record.

The record who gave origin to the first world tour, the first videoclip, the first awards, anyway... Better than words only the sound. The tip for this Sunday is to hear a record which was made 10 years ago and be proud to say that it's still very new, a modern sound, impressive, formidable, anyway... it's MUSE!

MUSE.MU'S PROMOTION

And to celebrate this great mark for the band's history, MUSE will be picking up 3 signed records! To have the chance to get one, just send an e-mail to showbizis10@muse.mu with your name, adress, and the answer to this question: "Back in 1999, Muse were signed in the US to Madonna's Maverick record label, but which rocker also tried to sign the band to his label a little later on in their career?"

Good luck for everyone!! AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR SHOWBIZ!!

Lady GaGa at the 2009 VMA live at Maddison Square Garden, New York.

Yesterday happened the most loved award from Mtv, the 2009 Mtv Video Music Awards live at Maddison Square Garden, em NY. The great favourite from the night was singer Beyonce, who won the award of best video of the year for "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)". New girl Taylor Swift opened the night with the award of best female video with "You Belong With Me". She was nominated with some "heavy" names, like Beyonce, Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, Pink e Kelly Clarkson. When she got to the stage to receive her award, Swift had your speech interrupted by the hip-hop singer Kanye West who said that he wanted the award to go to Beyonce. But she went to the stage again at the end of the ceremony, by Beyonce's request and finished her speech and said thanks for the award. Lady GaGa (like Beyonce) was leading the nominations of the night (which were 9) got on stage and said thanks for the award of revelation of the year. She got on the stage with a red clothe made of lace which was covering her face. In the speech, she said it was her first award and dedicated it to her fans and to the gay people all over the world.  Irreverent, Lady GaGa called everyone's attention too when she sang her new single "Paparazzi" with lots of the dancers. During the performance, she throwed a red liquid on her with clothe and simulated a hanging. She took other 2 awards for "Paparazzi" (art direction and special effects).

Tribute.

Katy Perry and Joe Perry, from Aerosmith, began the concerts of the award with a cover of "We Will Rock You", by Queen. Outside the main stage of the award, Muse, who had already released their 5º studio album, called "The Resistance", played "Uprising" live for the first time. Among the atractions of the stage, also performed Beyonce, Pink and Jay-Z with Alicia Keys.

Every step I gave near to destruction
Was another step you gave to save me
Every moment where I tried to scream
Was another moment where you made me sing
Every time I wanted to cry
Was another time where you made me laugh

Everything was everything with your company
Since smiles to tears, every single moment of my life was worthing with you
You gave me more than words when everything was just an illusion and I never said "Thank You" for being like this
You always made me live and what we had I'll keep with me, with us and only this will be enough to do not forget you.

I love you, I really do
You were the best thing that could ever happen to me

Each step I gave near to you
Was another step where I saw you walk away
Each time I tried to talk to you
Was another time where you pretend I didn't exist
Each moment where I tried to convice you that you were the only person that matters to me
Was another moment where you did not realize that I was by your side

I only stayed with you during all this time 'cause nothing in my was worthing
Only your company.

Hope you guys like it. :D

MCR Talks About Summer Sonic 2009

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSV76PJzFvM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmychemicalrevenge%2Ecom%2Ebr%2F&feature=player_embedded

Up here, a small video from My Chemical Romance saying congratulations about Summer Sonic and inviting the japanese fans for this year event.

I'll post the download link.

Download (Media Fire): http://www.mediafire.com/?oweyj2myz5j

Credit for news: http://www.mychemicalrevenge.com.br/ (brazilian website about My Chemical Romance)

By Twitter, the friend Levar Burton send a message to Mikey to congratulate the new mom and dad. Thanks to Twitter and for mychemicalrevenge.com.br for posting the news:

RT @ levarburton Congrats to my friends Gerard and Lindsey who are first time parents as of 2:57pm PST. Wekcome, Bandit Lee Way...! You are such a Blessing!!

Acording to Alicia Simmons (Mikey's wife) , it's a girl!

CONGRATULATIONS GERARD AND LINDSEY!! MAY THE NEW WAY BE REALLY HEALTHY AND ADORABLE AS YOUR ARE!!

Recently posted by Mikey Way on the official site:

Without getting too preachy, i would like to celebrate the re-adding of some videos to our site. It's no mystery to anybody, that countless record companies and youtube are caught in a gigantic pissing match. Unfortunately, the fans are the ones that are truly suffering from this ordeal. Like many artists on many labels, our videos were removed from youtube. We were 200 percent against this as..... A) we are huge youtube fans! b) we held two records for most viewed music videos. c) youtube is doing what most televised musical programming no longer does,...and thats play videos. If you look at the top of our site, there is a shiny new link for VIDEOS. simply click on it, and enjoy! We love you guys, expect some mammoth updates very very soon.

Movie Interrupted With Heath Ledger's Death Is Exhibited In Cannes

American Terry Gilliam, old member of the group Monty Python and director of movies like  "The Twelve Monkeys" and "Grimm Brothers", got one of these miracles that only cinema can do. He showed today in Cannes, out of the competition, the wonderful fantasy "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus".

Gilliam almost gave up of finish the movie after Heath Ledger's death, one of the main characters of the movie. He could finish the movie with the help of another actors, friends of Ledger - Johnny Depp, Jude Law e Colin Farrell -, which placed to be on the movie doing the missing scenes of Tony, the character of the Australian actor. The three worked without money - the money that was given to them has been donated to Mathilda, Ledger's daughter with Michelle Williams. By the end of the movie, it appears the credit "A movie made by Heath Ledger and his friends".

Like "Parnassus" it's a fantasy like the many other of Gilliam, and not a natural drama, Gilliam made some changes between an actor and another who would fit perfectly in the history - could be said that they were on the script since the very beginning. Ledger put on a theatre mask, but the one who takes it is Johnny Depp. The other characters were strange about the man's face, but Tony (Jude Law) said: "You don't believe in imagination? Then it's time to use it!" The film has only one huge irony: the first scene of Ledger on the movie shows Tony trying to kill himslef, hanged by a rope on a bridge.

Terry said 'thank you' to the 3 actors and said that it didn't have to change many things on the dialogues and that the actors were really kind doing the movie. And he also said that since Heath died one year ago, it wouldn't change many things between one actor and another.

The funny, random and generally bizarre things Gerard says.

Steven: Does Gerard sleep naked?
Frank: Yes he does.
Gerard: No I don't
Frank: You did when you slept with me.
Steven: Wow. My Chem exposed.
Frank: He said it had to be that way.
(On SURS while answering fan questions.)

"Oh you see good sir, I don't need that shoe, for I already have two, right here."
(After a fan threw a shoe on stage, Congress Theather, Chicago Illinois 4/18/08)

"I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude."

"Oh shit, that's never happened before... do we need that? Can that be put back on?"
(When a part of Bob's drums broke, April 8th 2008 at the Crystal Ballroom)

"It ain't bothering me, is it bothering you?!"
(When he noticed his fly was open at a show)

"Clean out your fucking ears!"
(April 4th 2008, Warfield San Francisco, After him and Mikey threw Q-Tips to the audience)

"... So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!"

"Fuck...fuck...oh...I thought...I thought I was gonna go blind."
(putting his hand in his pants during a show in Noblesville, Indiana)

"I have a therapist, we hang out, talk about Lord of the Rings... that's what happens actually..."

"Circa Survive have one up on My Chemical Romance- they can grow beards! I would love to grow one. I'd be very grateful if someone gave me their beard."
(Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide - 3rd December 2007)

(Whilst pretending to cry) "Aww fuck it!"
(Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide - 3rd December 2007)

"I... don't.. know.. why.. I'm.. crying.."
(Pretending to cry during 'Mama' - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 1st December 2007)

"You're all my treasures! You're all my sparkling diamonds and my red, red rubies and I wanna polish you up and put you in the pocket of my tight little jeans... and take you home!"
(Before 'You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison', 21/11/07, Metro Arena, Newcastle)

"Is it only in Scotland that you can get these?!"
(holding up an inflatable sheep - Aberdeen, Scotland 12/11/07. AECC)

"Oh man, look at that! You tied it up in a ball so that it could get to me and everything! Now that's initiative! But you know what...I could probably get arrested just for holding this..."
(After a fan threw a balled-up bra on-stage, Glasgow, Scotland 27/3/07. SECC)

"I didn't get much time to get my feet wet so I ended up diving right into the deep end so to speak...and there was a hot minute where I felt like I was just trying to stay afloat. Luckily my editor threw me a life preserver pretty quickly-and, yes, I realize I just used maybe one too many swimming-pool metaphors, but that's the best way to describe the situation."
(Interview about beginning his comic book, The Umbrella Academy, with DarkHorse)

"Aww shit, they say Detroit is one of the toughest cities in the world, but today, Detroit, the girls have been tougher than the boys. And I know that I'm pretty, but I ain't that fucking pretty. Boys, let me hear what you got. One more time, boys let me hear what the fuck you got! Alright, you a bunch of animals. Now It's time we start acting like animals. Boys, this song is just for you. But I want you to do one thing for me, I want you to take, your fucking shirts off, just the boys! Get your shirts off, and swing it over your fucking head! I don't care if you a size 32, or a size 48, or a size 64! Holy shit. Look at all those shirts. Look all- pull out, pull out with that bullshit cameras. Pull out! Look at all them fucking shirts! I think we about to turn this motherfucker around. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!"
(Detroit, MI 8/22/07. Projekt Revolution Tour, also brodcasted on MySpace.com)

"I wore my skull makeup today. But did no one else get the memo? I said, DID YOU NOT GET THE FUCKING MEMO?!"
(Toronto 8/21/07. Projekt Revolution @ Molson Amphitheater.)

"I feel very intimate with you guys. It's like we're taking a fucking bath together."
(Jones Beach, NY 8/15/07. Projekt Revolution @ Nikon Amphitheater)

"We are My Chemical Romance! We're a band from New Jersey, and usually, we shoot motherfuckers like you! But tonight...you get nothing but love from us. And Texas...has a lot...more...guns."
(San Antonio, Texas 8-03-07. Projeckt Revolution @ the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.)

"The bike! I thought the bicycle was for me. Is-Is it not for me? Because if it's not for me...I DON'T WANT IT!"
(San Bernardino 7-28-07. Projekt Revolution @ the Hyundai Pavilion.)

"(Singing) Everybody tie your shoe, I don't care about you. Everybody tie your shoe, clap clap! (Speaking) On three, cause I wanna get my shoes tied now, so I'm gonna tie my fucking shoes!...wait...okay, (Singing) Everybody tie your shoes, clap clap. Everybody tie your shoes, clap clap. (Speaking) That's possibly the fucking stupidest thing I've ever done up here."
(Birmingham NEC, UK - 22 March 07)

"What is that? Is that a boa? I sure do love boas, ya know just saying."
(Radio One Show at Koko - 02 April 07)

"The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!"
(Ft. Lauderdale, FL- 22 April 07)

"Everyone back the fuck up! I am not that pretty!"
(trying to get the crowd to stop pushing forwards, Houston, TX - April 14, 2007)

"That's what happens when you're all borderline psychotic and therein lies the beauty of this band - our duality. There's a duality to each band member too. There's a desire to have this constant conflict. If we write a write a song and it turns out really poppy, we have to make the lyrics really fucked up. There's psychosis to everything we do for sure. One day we're probably gonna write this number one pop tune that will be about a massacre!"

"When I was writing it, I was remembering how hard it was to be a 16-year-old in high school. I always wanted to be an artist, so I was this loner kid who just got drunk all the time. I only had one real friend. There was a girl I really liked, and she ended up taking really sleazy photographs with her boyfriend, and that really crushed me, I was just swimming in this pit of despair, jealousy and alcoholism."

"If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about."

"Surrounding myself with fans makes me feel like I'm not going through it alone."

"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."

"When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become."

"When you're touring and the minute you tell someone that you're from Jersey it's the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail."

"It takes me a while to tell stories. I think it's because I was drunk for three years."

"For me, [being onstage] is me being everything I always wanted to be. It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us."

"We have always had a desire to be a theatrical band, even when we were playing basements. Ya know, we were the most theatrical band in a basement you probably would ever see."

"Fuck yeah, I'm going to get some comfortable pants! Why stop there? Maybe a nice cable-knit sweater. Maybe I'll buy a house for my thirtieth birthday next year. I'm gonna get a Dodge Stratus. I'm gonna go to Blockbuster. I'm gonna get whatever shower curtain I want. Because I deserve it."

"None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness."
(When what the next country the US would save should be)

"I really hate physical violence, but there's this one where this kid is talking shit forever to this other kid, and the dude gets into this weird jujitsu pose and just knocks him out with one punch."
(when asked what the funniest YouTube video of 2006 was).

"What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random. The teenage daughter is my favorite, because I just had her go through this Goth phase. She's really kind of nerdy and she just became a concert violinist, which is pretty huge for the family. And she got into private school. But she started wearing black lipstick and she dyed her hair purple. It's pretty huge."

"People don't know if i'm gay, straight or an alien from outer space.. its funny"

"The only place I'm really scared of was the Tenderline. I walked out of the bus in my makeup and costume and some dude on the other side of the street in front of a crackhouse yelled 'Better stay on that side of the street motherfucker, I'll knock you out!'"

"I'm sick of seeing my face. But I'm allowed to be sick of seeing my face, 'cause it's my fuckin' face. Know what I'm sayin'?"

"This shit is easy peasy pumpkin peasy... pumpkin pie motherfucker!"

"If you ever see shitty ass rock dudes in shitty ass rock bands asking you to show them your tits for a backstage pass, I want you to spit right in their fucking face and yell FUCK YOU!!"

"It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect!"
(after opening a present from Frankie - a hamster wheel - at Christmas)

"What happened was, I went right off the side walk and into the bushes, and I was all like WOAHHHH! And I killed like so many plants..."

Gerard: "I like Starbucks. I know people are going to hate me for saying it-"
Frank: "No, you can't-"
Gerard: "-but...it's so damn good!"

Cameraman: "Let's have a day in the life of Gerard."
Gerard: "'Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be."

"The song was called 'I Don't Want To Grow Up' and the lyrics are like...'I don't wanna grow up [high pitched voice] I don't wanna grow up'...'Not a penny will I pinch, I will never wear a mustache' - no, sorry, 'I will never grow a mustache or a fraction of an inch'. And it's just this song..."
Frank: "It sounds kinda like a Descendents song."
Gerard: "Yeah, it kinda does! And...she made me this outfit...it was like, green tights. Everything I had built, I had destroyed. You know, I'd always wanted to skate in my old school, so of course it's a great idea to play fuckin' Peter Pan in your first year at a new school."

(Talking about his grandmother making him a costume for his lead role in Peter Pan)

Frank: "You really have to love someone to...smell them at their worst."
Gerard: "Yeah...I get pretty gruesome, too."

"So many people are gonna treat you like you're a kid. So, you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."

"Just to know that it's okay to be messed up, 'cause there's five dudes that are just as messed as you are."

"I wake up in the morning and I drink a lot of fucking coffee all day and I smoke a lot of fucking cigarettes and it sucks."

"It's this kickball game, this is the most fun I've had. It was biblical, amazing, and dramatic and I fucked up a little but I was shh - I was good."

[Whilst drunk playing kickball during the Warped Tour]

Ray: "Did you kick him in the balls?"
Frank:"Yeah..."
Gerard: "It just hurt but I didn't care but I was wondering, I was wondering what he was doing over there in the first place and I was like, "Woah he's playing over here" and then he kicked me and I was just like..."What did I do?"

Jeff Watson has posted on MCR's official page about Summer Sonic and confirmed thar MCR will be on the Japanese festival on the 7th and 8th of August. On the 7th, the band will play in Tokyo and on the 8th, the performance will be in Osaka. For more information, click on the link below.

Link: http://www.summersonic.com/

Eliza Cuts: The Truth Behind the Scissors

Story by Jade Sperry



Eliza

Chicago. November 2008. Barak Obama is taking North America by storm, and I'm in the midst of positive energy and optimism. I'm here to work with Eliza Cuts for 3 days, and the timing could not be better. She has just launched her new band, The Trouble (www.myspace.com/thetrouble), has played a show in October, had a CD release party and is busy as a bee. And then I arrived on the scene. But, before I begin this interview, I'd like to start by saying that many people claim they know Eliza, or know about her. One thing that I know is that she was the target of some of the worst Internet bullying and gossiping I've personally ever witnessed, and so I would like you to join me as I find out who Eliza Cuts is in her own words.

Eliza was born and raised in the Quad cities in the Midwestern United States along with her older sister. She comes from a hard working, very morale, religious and active family. When Eliza and her sister were born, her mother made a conscious decision to stay at home with them during their super-formative years. When her sister was about 3, she became very ill with Spinal Meningitis which left her with Epilepsy. Her father was a student back then, studying in Seminary school, so Eliza's mother then took on some odd jobs to help the family financially. She house sat and baby sat other children, as well as home schooling all of them. She also did other odd jobs here and there. Her father was also doing a Christian radio show at this time. Eliza enjoyed being home schooled as it seemed to fit her personality better. The few times that she was in the "school system" were not memorable except that she was more drawn to the Arts. In the end, she and her sister asked to be home schooled. Eliza's parents are both very smart and well educated people who were very capable of home schooling their children. Her parents believed more in teaching by example and by going to different places which meant that the family ended up traveling a lot; going to castles, museums and on field trips. They also taught them to respect and appreciate different cultures, people and experiences.

Eliza has lived in many places and traveled quite extensively in her 27 years. She is also a very talented hair stylist. And her latest project is her band, The Trouble, which was also the name of a hardcore band from the 1990's. Her friends describe her as intense, obsessed with hair, talkative and emotional. One of her friends, Miss E, says that Eliza's theme song should be the Batman theme song. The reason is because the song is awesome just like Eliza. And interestingly, on the photo shoot we did, she is wearing a Batman pendant. Brian, who is in Eliza's current band, has described her esoterically, saying she is luminous, precocious and perspicacious. All of these words and phrases describe her well and are accurate. I found Eliza to have a lot of energy and personal drive with a healthy dose of confidence. And there is nothing wrong with that. Many famous actors and performers were, and are, "driven" to perform: to act, to sing, to dance, to write, to paint or to draw. She always tries hard to be a good friend and she has a very warm personality.

In coming to Chicago and meeting Eliza for the first time in person, I had no idea what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only is Eliza a nice person, she has found people much like herself to hang with. Some are musicians, some are aspiring managers, others are rappers, some go to school, and a few are just ordinary people who work 9-5 jobs. Eliza can interact with a total stranger just as easily as with some of her closest friends. This is a rare quality that not many can claim to have, and I personally know only one other person who is like that. Over the course of 3 days we talked, went shopping, drank Americanos, talked some more, ate deep dish pizza, went to McDonald's, Angels and Kings, talked again, became ill and did 2 photo shoots - one with her band, The Trouble, and just her. She is an articulate woman who takes the time to think before answering every question put to her. In beginning this journey, I'm going to take you back in time before anyone knew who Eliza was.....

Los Angeles. 2000. Eliza is 19 at this time. In retrospect, she admits that she was very young, and that she wasn't fully comfortable in her own skin. Finances were also an issue at this point in time. She was still trying to figure her life out and didn't quite know how to relate to people very well. She says that she was having a lot of addiction problems, and that her addictions were more important than eating food. Eliza admits that she does have an addictive personality. She obsessively controlled her food intake and worked out compulsively every day. It started to be a ½ hour a day session, then to 1 hour a day, and then at the height of it, up to 2-3 hours a day. She didn't notice that she had an eating disorder until it became a serious problem. By then, she had conditioned herself so completely that it was hard for her to be pulled out of it. She remembers being a size 0 at 5' 8 1/2" tall. When I asked if this one episode in her life changed the person she is now, she responded that it did change her - both physically and mentally. In Eliza's case, losing weight became her addiction. When she was going through the healing process, it was a physical, mental and to some extent an emotional recovery.

It was shortly after this that she found her calling in life. When I asked about her hairstyling, Eliza lit up like a 5000 watt bulb. To see this excitement over hair cutting is quite enthralling. The beginning of her hair saga runs like a bad info-commercial: she was broke and walked in to a Cost Cutters. She stopped the hairstylist half way through a bad hair cut, didn't pay her, and said "I can do a better job if I finished it myself" and she left. She then headed to Walgreens, bought a cheap pair of shears, went home and finished the haircut with no knowledge of how to cut hair. It wasn't that bad and she liked the way it looked. Soon after that, she went to the library and took out a book about hair styling. She absorbed the entire book, learned how to cut and color hair, and when she went to Cosmetology school 2 years later, it was that very same book that was used in her class. And so she followed her true passion in life - cutting hair. She realized that she really liked it and that she was good at it. She learned how to cut hair her own way, thus developing her own style. By the age of 22, she had enrolled in Cosmetology School full time, was cutting hair for bands and was also leaving a very horrible relationship.

When I asked Eliza about the first bands she cut hair for, she remembers that she started doing hair for bands at Gabe's Oasis in Iowa City. She always had crazy looking hair, makeup and clothes. The first bands that Eliza styled were her own bands, but the very first band was Hopes Fall. She remembers that it was under a street lamp, outside a tour bus at midnight with no comb and their hair was dry. And it was from there that when bands came through town they would come to her for cuts. They used to call her "Eliza from Iowa", which is funny because she has never lived in Iowa. She would cut a deal with the bands that if they hooked her and her friends and sister up with merchandise and maybe to get them in the show, then she would cut their hair. So it was a trade off. To Eliza and her friends, it was saving them money because gas and eating food add up. Eliza would do hair for the kids at the show, too, and it was all very "gorilla style". The kids liked the cuts, the bands loved them, everyone had a good time, and nothing sketchy ever happened. It was strictly hair cutting and that's it. The bands were not "big" and so they often shared a hotel room or stayed on the tour bus. And from there, the word spread about Eliza and her haircutting skills.

Eliza tells me that it was around this time that she felt some kind of calling that went beyond hair styling. She was 22, a full time student who was very sassy, had a chip on her shoulder, thought that she knew everything and had a bratty punk attitude. She didn't deal well with the authority at school. She was going to a lot of concerts and she had a lot of ideas of what she wanted to do. Her goals and dreams in relation to hair styling were so ludicrous that to get anyone to agree that it was a good idea was so hard. The authority at school just didn't get where she was coming from or her ideas at all. She was in her own world and flying solo. She remembers that she would leave to do really big jobs in the industry (Warped Tour, TRL, etc.) and it wasn't recognized by the school she was in. She never got credit for it and they did not support her in any way. She was so passionate about doing hair at this time that the other students in her class just didn't get it because they didn't have that kind of "drive". They just wanted to work in a small salon and go out drinking with their friends on the weekends. They didn't have the same goals that Eliza envisioned for herself. All the same, at hair shows, Eliza always did really well. She connected with the top stylists and they always felt that she pushed it. Eliza questioned everything, and in the long run, she figured it out and found her way through it. I wanted to know that if she had the opportunity to go back in time and do it again, would she do anything differently. She paused, thought for a moment, and responded, "I would tell myself to sit down, shut up, take the cotton out of my ears and put it in my mouth. (another pause) And quit bleaching your hair."

The Trouble

While still in school in 2002, Eliza met someone who would dominate her life for the next 4-5 years. In her own words, "It started hard and it ended hard." She met Gerard Way at one of My Chemical Romance's first shows. They began to met up at different shows and venues and eventually became friends. The very first time they met, Eliza was at the merchandise table, looking over the t-shirts, and Gerard came up to her and was talking about the designs on the shirts because she thought that he might have designed some of them. He was drinking back then, was pretty intoxicated and really needed some deodorant and a shower. At the time, Eliza says she didn't have much use for him - he was kind of funny and it was like if he wasn't a hot drunken sweaty mess he might have been almost okay. They usually saw each other because she was working and doing his hair, but Eliza did so many other bands' hair on different tours that its now a blur to remember it with absolute clarity. She was living in the Quad cities at this time, and even though it sounds easy, it was challenging because to get anywhere was hard. She was a full time student, didn't have a lot of money and wasn't making a lot of money. She found that the bands liked having her around. In her own words, "They could have gone to a salon or stylist and booked an appointment that suited them, but instead, they chose to have me stay with them to do their hair cuts and colors. I would make sure it was right, and that can take time."

Eliza wrote a story called "Commit Me Already", which she wrote for one reason only - she needed to get it out of herself so that she could move on with her life. She posted it to her My Space page in the first half of 2008. When I asked her about the negative side to the Internet in terms of gossip about her and Gerard, she doesn't know why people said and wrote such nasty things about her. Why people were so angry that they would write those vicious threads and posts about her she still doesn't know. She tells me that what people don't know is that in writing those things, it not only hurt her, it also took a toll on Gerard as well. Internet gossip goes a long way especially if its trashy and/or negative. Eliza does admit that in looking back there are some things that she could have done differently, but overall and given the circumstances, she feels confident that she did the best she could. She doesn't speak negatively about Gerard, and in fact, this is the first time she has spoken publicly about her former fiancée. Eliza says that for over a year his name never came up in any conversations she had with the people who were around her at the time. They would speak as if that period of her life didn't exist. It's only been recently that she and her friends can talk about that period of time.

Eliza says that their relationship was very tumultuous. She felt that there were 2 different people inside her, and that the girl Gerard knew in the beginning just became smaller and smaller until one day she just disappeared. Her own persona because less and less. She was there for him, but wasn't fully there. She had no hopes and no dreams of her own and didn't want to live. Eliza found that in trying to protect things that are now so insignificant, she lost herself completely to that situation. Ultimately, the end came hard and fast. Eliza says that she had just gotten out of the hospital in late June 2007, and Gerard was finishing a tour in the UK. She tells me that she never saw it coming, and that even today, she still has that shock factor when she looks back on it all. When all is said and done, she is grateful it did happen. It was both fortunate and unfortunate. Eliza did learn a lesson from this, and more importantly, she found herself again. When she reflects on it now, she isn't sure who Gerard did the bigger favor for. What she does know is that she wouldn't be alive today had he not cut ties because when Gerard made that decision, it was the only thing that kept her alive. And in many ways, they both knew that. There are so many things about this relationship that people just don't know. One thing that stood out for me was when she described herself as "living her life for another person". It began to consume her totally. She was living another person's life, living their dreams, their hopes, their goals, their wants and helping them to get there. And when that was finally removed, all she had left was herself. One day, she woke up and realized that she was Eliza again.

When Gerard and her split up, she left LA and tried to find a place where she wasn't as likely to bump into any of people that she had known. She actively searched for an urban commune and did service work. She got herself up and out of the fog that had consumed her for years. She also wanted to stop making poor decisions. In working at this commune, she saw for the first time how gritty and grim life really can be on the streets. Eliza admits that she had never seen this side of life. No one in this commune knew who Gerard Way or My Chemical Romance was. They didn't care about the scene that she had come from. They were just trying to give people a warm place to sleep, food in their bellies and to help the elderly. She eventually got herself through this, and in the process, she realized how good she really does have it. She is very grateful and humble now because she is in a good place. One final note to this that I find interesting is that Eliza has had high profile relationships with men before and after Gerard, but it is that one relationship that people remember her by.

In moving on from this period of her life, I ask Eliza about her current projects. She mentions that her radio show has ended, but why that is so still remains a mystery. I had listened to Eliza on her show, and found that she has talent in talk show radio. In doing this interview, when she mentioned that her father had studied and been on the radio, I then knew where she got it from. Eliza says that she comes from a family of "talkers", so its all in the genes.

Besides her now defunct radio show, we talk about an idea that Eliza formed called The White Flags. Eliza gets very excited about this. She could do this full time and just drop everything else. In some ways, she could be a spokeswoman for an entire scene of goth/punk kids because of her personal experience with Internet Bullying. We all know about sexual predators lurking on the Internet and how to avoid them, but bullying is not as well known because 96% of the victims are kids who DON'T talk about it. But in saying that, there are groups of White Flags who support each other, and I myself am a member. The most popular ones are on the major sites: MySpace, Buzznet and Facebook. They all have White Flag groups with hundreds and in some cases, thousands of members.

In thinking of this idea, Eliza related a time to me when she was a normal woman in her mid 20's and had never done anything wrong. She has never been arrested and she doesn't drink or take drugs. She is a hardworking hairdresser who toured with rock bands. Eliza kept her actions above reproach and her personal life was publicly slaughtered to such an extent that for her to just go online to search for a new pair of shoes or jeans became terrifying. The White Flags is her idea of "if you can't beat them, join them". Eliza states that she was lucky to have come out of that alive. Once again, some of the things that Eliza told me she has never made public until now. She tells me that there were times it was very scary and spooky because she was being stalked for real and not just on the Internet. It became life-threatening at some point as well. She also talks about if she had had children, and in 10 years time, they went to Google and typed in her name, the kind of things they would find would be horrific, untrue and nasty. How do you explain that to your own kids? I think that is a very good point to make. The White Flag movement is so much at the forefront of Eliza's mind. She believes that it's the best idea she has ever had. When it catches on it will be the raddest thing ever. I agree with this because even though I have never been bullied on the Internet, many younger people have, and still are. A big part of the White Flag ethic is about living your life and that we are not perfect. No one is perfect. Eliza would like the movement to take on its own life, and to find its own persona. She would like to just be in the background; the woman who had the IDEA. The White Flag movement puts out a positive message because, as we all know, there are many negative things out there. Not much of it is positive. In time, maybe it will have people donating money so that it can do things for people that matter. Eliza states that there is a book in publication at this time, and that all the groups on networking sites make it real to and for her. One of the problems for Eliza personally is that its hard to put a muzzle on Freedom of Speech because it's a right. She really wishes that she could get an Internet Restraining Order because if you visit her My Space page for example, you are visiting her in her home so to speak. You are going to her, she isn't coming to you. Maybe at some distant point in time, this could become a reality. I personally find that in talking trash and typing it on the Internet is easy because you are anonymous to everyone but yourself. Ultimately, you have to live with your own conscious.

Her other passion besides hair cutting and the White Flags is her new band, The Trouble. Started late in the fall months of 2008, she met her band members through some people who know and work with her best friend, Jenna. Brian and Aaron are the men behind her. Each are unique in their own ways. Aaron is not a talker but more of an observer who is quiet, shy and a bit withdrawn, while Brian is more outgoing and can be quite funny. Each of them brings something different to the table as far as Eliza is concerned. The band's latest song is called "Option", which is a haunting melody reminiscent of Cabaret styled music with strong vocals from Eliza. Another song, "Lock 'em Up", which has a catchy guitar riff in the background, has stong and unusual vocals in the sense that Eliza's voice goes from major notes to minor ones. She has a good vocal range.

I was surprised to find that Eliza can sing and can sing well. I am also a musician and a singer so it was nice to hear her powerful voice on Wednesday night at Angels and Kings, which is the bar that Pete Wentz owns. They have Karaokee on Wednesdays with a live band to back you up. I was also pleasantly surprised to see that she is very comfortable being up front and center. I can only imagine what it would have been like to see her perform back in October 2008 at Reggie's Rock Club in Chicago. She gave a good rendition of Alanis Morissettes' "You Oughta Know". This was cool because I am Canadian. I also got a good feel of her public life in Chicago, and met some of the people who are closest to her in that sense. Later in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday, we went to a '50's style diner to reflect upon the evening.

In her band The Trouble, Brian generally does the guitars, and Aaron is the keyboardist, as well as helping Eliza with the lyrics. The mixing of the tunes is done mainly by Brian, but they all have a say in it. The lyrics are written mostly by Eliza, and they are good. They are filled with pain and sorrow as well as joy and happiness. She does have an extreme personality, and so I can see why there are extremes in her lyrics. At the time of this writing, they are searching for a drummer and a bass player to join the band. Having those additions would definitely give the band a "fuller" sound.

Chicago definitely left an impression on me in more ways than one. I had never been to Chicago before this and I enjoyed the trip. I will and am going back there one day soon. I met some really cool and interesting people who may end up being on tour soon because nothing is impossible in their world. I was also inspired by this trip to be creative in other areas here in Canada. Love her or hate her, I think it is possible that Eliza Cuts is someone to watch in the up coming year

This song is called "You're All I Have" and I really liked this one. I did this one I guess for Mikey. This may sound poser for many of you, but for me, it isn't.

You're All I Have.

You're all I have
The Sun that shines me
And make me feel so happy
The straight who leads
My being
Only you, my love

If I hold you
I feel your heart
Falling in me
There isn't a space
In my feelings
You're my light

You're all I have
And I take between my lips
All your passion
I'll cross, baby
All the deppest oceans
Just to know about you

You're all I have
Always and forever
Since the day I saw you
I'll never had any fear with your love
I'm feeling again 'cause I'm born

I'll fly for you
To the world where I'll drink
Your love
Leaving the distance
Behind me
Only you and me

We will dance today
Over a white cloud
That's in heaven
Your eyes like stars
Shine
For me, at me

These feelings will never be gone
Your whisper over me
Bringing my feelings
To love
Only for you
My love.

This is a song I did today. I repeated some words to give a stronger meaning to the song. Hope you all like it. It's called "Shy And Small".

Shy And Small.

Help, I've done it again.
Sorry, I can't help myself.
Look, I'm a lost soul in a found world.

Crying, I'm crying again for you.
Being, I'm being myself for no one.
Loving, I'm loving you once again.
Dying, I'm dying for something that is supposed to be alive.

You can't see me, right?
You can't feel me screaming in your mind.
Come here, hold me, I'm shy and small.
'Cause there's nothing you can do for me
At all.

Be, be my destiny and make me exist
Run, run away from me or I'll haunt you
See, see the world with my eyes
Exist, you'll die for me so I can exist.
Shy, like a shy soul I'll find my paradise
Small, like a small bird I'll use my wings and fly.
'Cause if I do not see you again, I'll cry.

I'll be your friend, I'll hold your hand whenever you need me.
'Cause I'd give the world just to see you happy.
I'd hide all those unnecessary tears from you.
With me you'd be protected from trouble and pain.
'Cause just like me, you're shy and small.

Today our favourite frontman is getting older! 32 years old!
This year is more than special for him, it's the year he will become dad... This is such a great change even for him, even for our fans, who will see this in his work. Besides this year is the year that MCR is recording the new CD. :)
This is the second Gerad's Birthday I celebrate here on Buzznet and I expect that there will be many others on the way.
Once again, I wish him many good things, like health and success for him and for his family and may all his dreams come true. 

HAPPY B-DAY GERARD ARTHUR WAY!

A fan video where Gerard talks about depression.

Speech:

"Something we've been saying on this tour, is that sometimes the world could be a really ugly place, right? It's not always really pretty, its ugly, people's feelings get hurt. Sometimes its terrible, but its also a really beautiful place that we all share together, and if you ever feel depressed or hurt in any way and you(some jerk yells) find yourself feeling very desperate find somebody that you trust, that you can talk to, be it a teacher, a parent, a best friend, a therapist at school, there's lots of free programs you guys can find people to talk to. But the most important thing is no matter what, no matter what happens to you, no matter how desperate you feel, never resort to violence."

Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=S9lH9mnmAFE