...the force be with you.

(I actually watched Star Wars just last week.
At least, until my mom, dad and myself all fell asleep. We were dog tired, but didn't really realize it until we put the movie on. And turned out the lights. As we each reclined on the comfy couches.)

Two days left to spare, and here I am with my month's entry. Ta-da!

It was announced in March of this year that My Chemical Romance were finished as a group. It wasn't until this month I really started dwelling on it at all. I suppose I hadn't slowed down enough to really process it much before now.

When my sister told me MCR had broken up, I hadn't thought of it much aside from, "Man, haven't listened to them in forever." I've been listening to them a ton the last couple of weeks, including watching videos on youtube and searching the internet for that one shirt I always wanted but now is nowhere to be found.

I couldn't really pick just one picture. But this was the first one that seemed to suit so I stopped looking and saved you some loading time.

Before their split if you had asked me how much I liked MCR, my answer would have been much different than it is at this point. I liked them a lot, though I wouldn't say they were my absolute favorite. (That varied a lot depending on who I had heard that year, and whatnot. Most of the time it was The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand or something.) These last couple of weeks I've done lots of reminiscing over my teenage years. "They were really great, weren't they? Forgot how much I loved those guys..." and that kind of thing. I now know more about the guys in My Chemical Romance than I ever did while they were together.

Going through old interviews, music videos and "backstage pass" kind of films it's been neat to see how much they positively affected thousands of kids in a scene that was otherwise dark, violent and hopeless more often than not. The guys in the band had struggled with their own demons, and especially after the lead singer got clean & sober, they made it a point to get the word out to fans to get help if they need it, that they're not alone; they can get through their stuff and live.

My Chemical Romance encouraged respecting others (this is apparently not "rock 'n' roll" and made them stick out in the scene), didn't take bullshit from anyone, promoted using art as a positive method of self-expression. An inspiring group of young men.

But enough of those guys...
Summer is here! And with it has come extra hours at the library! yay! I also now work at a local artsy movie theater on the weekends. Well, Sundays so far. Yay, concessions. (But it's easy. Nothing much to complain about, except maybe the "golden-flavored popcorn topping" that spits at me every time.)

The lease on my current apartment is coming up at the end of July. I think I may move to a studio apartment near here. I hate this building. One day I will take pictures of its falling-apart-ness and show you the awful building I live in. It's almost disgusting how bad it is. (Granted, there's worse, but this is just... blegch.)

June is almost here. I have a feeling my monthly post will be closer to the middle than the end this next time around. I already want to tell you about it, but it hasn't happened yet, and I may just as well wait until it's here to talk about it. And whatnot.

[What a great word, "whatnot." Like "methinks", it looks like a wrong kind of mash-up, a word a kid would make after he learned about compound words. But it's a legitimate word! Really!.]

"Golden-flavored"? That is incredibly sketchy.
» randomjunk on 2013-05-30 02:17:27

I didn't know "methinks" is a proper word! I know whatnot is and whatsoever....

I didn't know that MCR broke up. Thanks for telling me. Now I am going to play some sad MCR song to mark the occasion.
» Nuttz on 2013-06-07 08:09:44

did you know that a "whatknot" is when you say so much confusing stuff to someone that their tongue gets tied and they don't know what to say?

i just made that up.
» thaitanic on 2013-06-09 02:36:56

I think it's vanilla ice cream and that outside peel part is banana flavored.
» randomjunk on 2013-06-13 12:42:13

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