Saved by My Chemical Romance

Thought I would post this for anyone interested in having the album from Pencey Prep (the band Frank was in before MCR).

You can buy it here

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0637872001929
Label: Eyeball
Manufacturer: Eyeball
MPN: 20019
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Eyeball
Release Date: November 26, 2002
Studio: Eyeball

Disc 1:

1. PS Don’t Write
2. Yesterday
3. Don Quixote
4. 10 Rings
5. Secret Goldfish, The
6. 8th Grade
7. 19
8. Trying To Escape The Inevitable
9. Lloyd Dobbler
10. Florida Plates

Album Description:
Pencey Prep was formed from the ex-members of local punk heroes Sector 12 and Stick Figure Suicide. They were a rare mix of punk, emo, and indie rock. Originally released in 2001, the band broke up shortly thereafter, and this title has been unavailable for over two years. Before bands like The Used and Thursday were mainstream successes, Pencey Prep was creating music that fused many styles together while keeping true to punk rock roots.

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This was too funny not to share

The walrus in this first video sure has some mad dancing skillz, but can he bust a move better than Gerard? The second video is one of my favorite fan videos of Gerard. Shake it, boys!

Keep them coming… I love being able to post two in one day…

This is from Alice:

When I was about 7 my mum had an accident… I’m not going to go into detail, it’s to confusing. Even I don’t fully understand what happened. Anyway, after her accident her arm was in serious pain. She still suffers with it to this very day [Im 13 now] so she allways needed help with everything. She even needed help cutting up her food because it hurt her arm to bad. Because of her arm I never had a proper childhood. I never had friends over, I never went on holidays, I never did things a normal 7 year old did. I became sorta withdrawn at home and in school. Then I went into high school. I hated it the first few weeks. I was put in a different form to all my friends and found it hard to make new ones. When I eventually did I loved school. My friends made it fun and I got through. However there were some people in my form who had it in for me tbh. They called me Fatty and Ugly and stuff like that. I learnt to ignore it but it still hurt. Sometimes I was so unhappy with my life I’d cut myself. My mum never really liked me and the only person in my family I could talk to was my sister but she moved away. Only to the next town but it still had an impact. I had to deal with mum on my own. Everything I did wasnt good enough though. I wasn’t good enough. When my mum and sister found out I cut I stopped for a while but when I went into year 8 I started again.

I think it was probobly because my friends allways trusted me with their depressing problems and it depressed me. It made it worse when I couldnt help, or my advice didn’t work. So I cut myself more and more. I wanted all the pain to end. I wasnt useful. I was used, unwanted. I wanted to die… Then one day I heard Teenagers on the raido. It wasnt the first MCR song I ever heard. That was probobly Im Not Okay, but I was to young to listen to the lyrics of it. I really liked the song and I realted to it. I bought the album and listened to it weeks on end. The lyrics of every single song reminged me that I wasn’t alone. That there were others that felt the same as me. I became a huge fan and I absolutly LOVE Gerard. I think he’s the one member of the band I can realte to most. The outsider.

Now I think what would of happened if I hadn’t bought The Black Parade. One of my closest friends wouldn’t be here. I saved her life. She tells me anyway. She tried to kill herself. I stopped her.
If it wasnt for MCR thered be two dead schoolgirls. I’ve been listening to The Black Parade non stop for around two months now. I dont cut and I let my anger out in other ways. Im happy most of the time. I really want to meet Gerard now and thank him for the gift of life. He’s my male role model. Well… Thanks for reading.
“I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone”

I apologize that this has been sitting in my inbox for a couple of weeks and due to my illness and trying to get caught up I hadn’t posted it yet.

i grew up in a small town of florida. my family was picture perfect on the outside.i had my mom and dad and a older sister . Me and my dad had the gratest relationship i could ask for. it wasnt till later on.my sisters senior year of high school she got havly involved in drugs and partying. A year into college she decided that crack cocaine and alchol was more important then her education.she then married a marine and had a baby…. we struggled with her partying as she lived at home while her husband was over seas in iraq. her son was a little rocker with a mohawk from the time he had hair and i became more and more into the punk scene. THEN it all happened in december of 06 my grandma moved in and made my life very difficult.Critisizing me and wanting me to stay the little pretty girl . i was so sick of my self i hated the way i looked and i didnt have hardly any friends. my mom wanted more than anything for me to be the preppy person like my sister. i felt that i was leting my parents down and no one knew what i was going through i didnt want to live any more …one day i saw this video on the tv of this band rocking out to a song called im not ok .but i didnt really care i just walked away. in april of 07 i turned on 97x the rock radio in tampa . and they were giving out tickets to a mcr show and i heard im not ok on the radio . and i actually listened to the lyrics and it explained every little thing i was going through . we got tickets and i went listening to kids that knew what i was going through. every thing the bullying the letting down . every thing and my mom listened to it and she liked it too. IT changed my life.i changed my self not only my outside appearence but i became a much happier person. My sisters little boy moved in after his parents split up and i went to my depressed ways again.i became more of a mom having to juggle my first year of highschool life with having to take care of a two year old..i had no time for friends i missed school alot of the time so my mom could go to work and i was miserable.listening to my chem was thereputic.it taught me that suicide wasnt the answer even though i thought it was.My relationship with my dad suffered we became more seperate and my parents fought alot. I thought i couldnt be saved .On top of it people told me i was like my sister andi the on;y one knowing her drugged past and future . it made me more depressed.Projekt revolution came and i could resist . It was the best day of my life …once again i saw people that knew whaat i was going through and has been in my situation.My sister and my nephew moved out and im alot happier.Me and my dad have gotten along better .I think it was because when i changed they changed their perspective of me they didnt look at me as this preppy good all around kid anymore they looked at me as …she wants to make something of her life.My depression is still their and will always be a burden i carry .But i will always know that even through fighting ,and bullying,trying to be a parent and peer pressure.I have five friends there and they know what im going through.so that is my story .

Sometimes I want to scream

Sometimes I want to shout

Im in a depression I don’t know my way out

Will never be cool

Always will be put down at school

Never will be good enough

Never have nice enough stuff

Never be popular

That’s for sure

But even if all this bad stuff has happened to me

I have five friends that will be there when im in need

They have taught me that its okay not to be okay

They understand how I feel

And I don’t need to be made out of steel

I don’t need to make myself pay for other peoples mistakes

I don’t need to be on of the fakes

Last year they saved me

And im needing them again

Once again I feel the rain

This time they take me to a black parade

maybe it will take me out of this shade

just wanted to thank them for all the hope

and all the support they have so I can cope

I’m already getting hate mail for showing my displeasure at the fact that we were never told about Gerard (or Garry, or whatever the hell his name really is) and the comic On Raven’s Wings. Ok, fine, tell me what a horrible person I am for not standing up for Gee no matter what. That’s fine, but let me explain something to you…

I don’t like having to console an innocent nine year old boy because the one positive male role model in his life mis-lead him. I don’t like having to hear about how his entire world is shattered because what he believed was a lie, because he was so proud of Gerard for finally seeing his dreams come true. I hate knowing I mis-lead people by posting it as a possible scam when I gave people who knew the truth plenty of chances to set things right. I don’t like knowing that Gee’s ego meant more to him than being honest with the people who have loved and supported him. I wrote to Dark Horse and Scott Allie in October/November begging and pleading for the answer to this. They knew I was going to post it because I told them. I know someone with a Dark Horse e-mail addy visited the site because it shows me the referrer in my stats. They allowed me to put my own credibility on the line and my words to be posted on other web sites knowing it wasn’t the truth.

How much did my pleas for an answer to protect and inform MCR’s loyal fans matter to them? Not much, apparently.

I have put so much effort into sticking up for Gerard and My Chem. I did it because I believed in them. I believed in their integrity and honesty. I am the one who started this blog to be a positive place to share positive My Chem stories and info. I have been the one working to make this site a place where My Chem’s fans give a positive message about the band. Not rumors or hating, no fighting between each other. All I asked for was for fans here to respect each other and be a person the guys of MCR would be proud to consider a loyal fan. I gave them the respect to make sure I made a place where negativity was not associated with the band.

Did Gerard show me and the rest of MCR’s fans enough respect to be a positive representation for us? Does he care what this makes people think of those of us who have stood behind him and supported him 100%? Those of us who bravely stepped forward and said we were willing to be bashed and hated for saying that My Chem had changed our lives… did Gerard care about how this makes the rest of My Chem, his family and his friends look? They deserved better than this.

All he had to do was be honest. He knew, HE KNEW, fans believed Umbrella Academy was his first published work as a writer. He actually had a couple of years to correct that mistake. He didn’t. In Life On The Murder Scene, Gee says no one believed in him, no one would give him a chance in comics before he was famous. It was a lie. He mentioned his art in Weird Wild West, why not on writing On Raven’s Wings? Well, simply put… we supported Umbrella Academy because we believed he was finally getting his chance to prove himself, his dreams were coming true. Fans bought into this because it was his first leap into the world of writing comics. Someone finally believed in him. Fairy tale endings do happen! It would have ruined that if we had known he had done this long ago. Would we have still bought Umbrella Academy? Absolutely, but maybe we wouldn’t have fussed over him quite so much.

Why on the Dark Horse site does it claim * Umbrella Academy is the comics debut of Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance.

Why does Gerard keep claiming he wanted to keep the comic and band separate, yet in the full page ad for the Umbrella Academy in Wizard Magazine and also on the Dark Horse site it says “Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance” Why not just say “by Gerard Way”… they were dependant on that connection. Because celebrity sells. So does a beautiful fairy tale of a hard working Jersey boy’s dream finally coming true. Because the lie made us buy into the emotion behind the product.

Am I still proud of Gee for the Umbrella Academy? Without a doubt! Despite whether it was his first or second attempt at comic book writing his talent showed through. He can do it, we believe in him… I just don’t think he believes in himself. My anger is at having been mis-lead by so many people involved in this. I am angry they allowed my integrity to be questioned. I’m angry because I stuck my neck out to protect fellow fans, people I have so much respect for, and I am now getting hate mail from these same fans. I’m angry because my feelings and my credibility meant nothing to them (Gee and Dark Horse). I’m angry because at 3:30 in the morning I am writing this with a temperature of 103.5 degrees and having to defend myself and it pisses me off. I’m angry because when the FCBD edition came out I discovered several stores who claimed they didn’t get them yet were selling them on eBay, I’m angry because I spent hundreds of dollars buying every copy I could and sending them, free… the way they were meant to be, to My Chem fans all over the world who couldn’t get it. I’m angry because I put so much energy and effort into making this truly special for Gee any way I could with what little impact I could have.

I did it because I believed in him, I was proud of him.

I am staring at the manuscript for one of my books… it’s a look at the positive impact My Chem has made on the world. It talks a lot about the fact that Gee and the boys are honest, positive role models that respect their fans. Do I feel respected right now? Nope! Shit happens, right?

I feel stupid for crying all night when I couldn’t see them in Atlanta. I feel stupid for being willing to do whatever I could to see these respectful, honest, positive role models in person. Yes, I now feel ashamed that I was naive enough to buy into the whole emotional thing. Gerard… a guy who hides behind his sunglasses, hair and black clothes… hiding from himself?

All I want is an apology. For Gerard to not hide and to say to us “I’m sorry I mis-lead you”. For Scott and Dark Horse to own up to what they did. I just want to be respected enough to finally get the truth. Is the truth too much to ask for?

So yes… I’m sick, cranky and very pissed off. Bash me if you want. It was MCR that taught me not to take shit from anybody… and I’m not going to take it from them (Gee, to be exact) either.

I received this article from contactmusic.com:

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE star GERARD WAY has been accused of stealing ideas for his graphic novels from his one-time mentor, comic book icon HART FISHER. Fisher published the rocker’s On Raven’s Wings comic when Way was a teenager, but now he’s lashing out at his one-time protege for “ripping off” his writings in the singer’s Dark Horse comic book series The Umbrella Academy. The angry publisher rages, “(He’s) ripping off my old message and many of my actual written bits. I’m in the process now of going through the lyrics and matching up where he has straight up ripped me off from my old editorials.” But Way is refusing to hit back at his old mentor, insisting instead he has attempted to reach out to Fisher. In a statement the My Chemical Romance star says, “I sent him an email years ago… thanking him for believing in me, and never got a response. “I’m not ashamed of what I did for him, and wanted to see him in person and thank him. I’ve never had the chance.”

Ok, I have several problems with this…

First of all, Gee never denied stealing from Fisher! Just doesn’t seem right. As a writer who has had scripts stolen, I take these accusations seriously. If he didn’t steal from Fisher, why not say so?

Secondly, is this why I never received an answer about On Raven’s Wings the several times I pleaded to know the truth? Was Gee telling people NOT to mention the comic? I don’t appreciate being made to look like a fool when all it took was a simple answer to my question… did Gee write two issues of a comic called On Raven’s Wings. yes or no? Apparently the answer is yes, he did.

I’m not happy right now, this is not helped by the fact that I am writing this in bed with the flu. I’m sorry I have not been posting, I have been ill for several weeks. I hope to be back on later to give more updates.

Oh, as for On Raven’s Wings…  You can get both issues from Mile High Comics.

Here is Fisher’s blog post where he ends it with:

The part I’m most sick of… I’m not going to let my fans, my readers, nor the people that worked so hard on these books be cheated out of their due… I’m not going to let any motherfucker call my guys a pack of liars, not an anonymous stranger and not some rock star who forgot who his first fans were. A fucking rock star who forgot just who was in his corner and encouraging him when NO ONE else was, when he was just another fat kid with a bowl haircut who got pushed around at school, who was building you up then Garry? Who went on the record and pumped you up in print for the world to see? Who was that guy on the other end of that phone when you needed him?

Why’d you do me like that Garry?

Why’d you do the Boneyard Crew who fought for you?

Tell your fans why you lied to them.

If this is true, as it seems it is, I am seriously disappointed with Gee. This was someone I looked up to, someone who changed my life. If he didn’t tell the truth about this, what else has he lied about? I feel cheated, used, and as if my time and energy fighting for this band to get positive publicity has done nothing but show my own niativity.

As a writer, I am outraged… as a My Chem fan, I am ashamed… as a comic book lover of over 20 years and someone who would love to have my own comic published (twisted and morbid as it is) I feel pangs of guilt over having supported Umbrella Academy as Gee’s first work… and as someone who was the only one to speak up about the comic and raise concerns about who wrote it, I feel deceived. Dark Horse could have answered me, Scott Allie could have answered me, and Gabriel Ba could have answered me. They all chose to ignore it.

Now I know why.

Gerard is shown very briefly (and I mean VERY briefly) but it’s a great commercial.