I wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday season! I hope you all have fantastic times and receive wonderful gifts!

I am still without internet and have been too busy to do more than check my email when I stop by the library (which is closed til Monday, sadly, so I don't know what I'm going to do) so I'm not up to date with what's going on in y'alls lives, but I hope things are going well and that you're all having a happy December.

♥!

By Peter Gaston on December 23, 2009 12:08 PM





After My Chemical Romance's grueling two-year tour in support of their hit third album, The Black Parade, the quintet put the band on hiatus and retreated to their personal lives to recover. Frontman Gerard Way married and had his first child, daughter Bandit Lee.

It was the chance to cover Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" for the 2009 blockbuster/graphic novel adaptation of Watchmen that pried Way and his bandmates out of their houses, and found them beginning to formulate their next move. "It was a good test to play around with where we might potentially go," Way tells SPIN.com. "We started with the Sex Pistols and then decided to go back further, before punk. What was before punk that was punk? So there's the MC5 and the Stooges, and that Detroit sound."

And those are just a few of the touchstone bands whose influences surface on MCR's as-yet-untitled fourth album, due in the Spring. Hints of Judas Priest, Def Leppard, and the Hives permeate seven new songs previewed for SPIN.com: "Death Before Disco," "Save Yourself," "Trans Am," "Only Hope," "Light Behind Your Eyes," "Black Dragon Fighting Society," and "L.A. Heavy."

And while Gerard is still writing songs to stir the jilted, with his typically snide worldview intact, these tunes reveal a band having a damn good time.

We caught up with Way to talk about the album, its roots in the band's home state of New Jersey -- and even a certain MTV reality show that's filmed there.

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OH MY GOD DUDES I HAVE FOUND MY APOCALYPSE WARDROBE.

Some of my favorite things.


AAAAH IT IS SO SEXY/USEFUL.


ALSO SEXY ALSO USEFUL.


LOOK AT ALL THE MOTHERFUCKING POCKETS YOU COULD KEEP SO MUCH STUFF IN THEM. AND THEY ARE SLIM FIT AND SEXY AS WELL.


So badass, and still functional!


AAAAH THERE IS LIKE A FANNY PACK ON IT BUT AN AWESOME FANNY PACK.


And this one is mostly your standard "looks awesome but is entirely inappropriate for the situation" article of clothing that everyone must have in the apocalypse. It's for apocalyptic clubbing!

Man, I didn't even look at the prices, because I don't want anything to kill my buzz over how awesome these clothes are.

Here is a very silly ficlet which I wrote to cheer up the lovely cjmarlowe ♥

It is Adam/Kris, around 1500 words, PG. Set in the established-relationship futurefic universe of your choice.

( Out, Damn'd Spot )

Happy Christmas everyone hope you are all well at this time of year.

Love Joshua and Emily-Elizabeth.

Ok, so I mentioned I wanted to put some prints up on Etsy. I would appreciate it if you guys could give me some advice on what I should print. I'm thinking maybe 4 or 5? Even if you've never commented or anything on my journal before, or we don't know each other, I don't care, I'd love your opinion! And who doesn't love ticky boxes?

( would you believe I don't actually remember the titles of these? warning - image heavy! )

Poll #1502501 Etsy artses
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

What should I offer as prints? (pick a couple)

Thank you, everyone!

CANDY-BASED GRIPE OF THE DAY:

America, it is pronounced exactly like it's spelled--Reese's. As in, "H.B. Reese invented this candy. They are Reese's invention. He decided to call them Reese's because it is a possessive and his name is Reese."

IT IS NOT PRONOUNCED "REESEYS."

Side note: I swear to god, if I hear one more person say Reeseys Pieceys instead of Reese's Pieces, I am going to scream in fury until nothing comes out of my mouth but blood, then someone is getting goddamn shanked in the facehole.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~tildes of calmness~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Artistically repurposed toys. These sculptures are beautiful and so intricate and inventive.




Okay, I was sitting at the table and talking to my sister, and then suddenly I looked over and Darla was just sitting there like this, watching us talk.

WHY ARE BEAGLES SUCH CREEPERS.

Posted on Dec 22nd 2009 10:00AM by Steve Baltin

The name Trans-Am conjures up a lot of images -- muscle cars, hard rock, stadium tailgating, football. These are things fans might not normally associate with My Chemical Romance and frontman Gerard Way is the first one to admit that. "The fact there's a song now tentatively titled 'Trans-Am' is a bold thing for this band to do as opposed to our previous material," he tells Spinner of one of the tracks on the band's eagerly anticipated 2010 album. "There's something in that phrase that's obviously more than the car. But to bring something like old '70s muscle car culture into the music, that's kind of different move."

That difference can be heard in the opening of the rocking partier 'Death Before Disco,' which features a vibe similar to Judas Priest's 'Living After Midnight.' "That's my favorite Priest song," Way says, admitting there is some '80s flavor on the disc. He credits 'Trans-Am' for freeing those influences up.

"That song actually reminded me in an odd way of all the best stuff of '80s what is called cock rock, but not all of it was," Way says. "Judas Priest is considered metal, but it's great rock 'n' roll. It's having nothing to do with that era of metal, the hair rock, but then having everything to do with like the birth of power-anthem metal. After 'Trans Am,' that started to really bleed into the record."

Judas Priest wasn't the only '80s influence on the new music. The band also turned to one of the decade's cinema classics as well. "I watched a lot of 'Blade Runner' and I watched a lot of the 'Making of Blake [sic] Runner.' Ridley Scott was really inspiring too, just kind of his unwillingness to put the camera down and really capture something special. He wasn't trying to make 'Star Wars,'" Way says. "People were upset by that, but he was very strong in his vision and I think the band was very strong in its vision this time. That's why the record took -- instead of a month and a half to do -- four months to track because our barometer for great was very high."


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Life On The Murder Scene now available on iTunes
posted by Jeff on Dec 22, 2009 11:26am

The live video album for MCR’s Life On The Murder Scene, featuring 19 live songs from their 2006 show in Mexico City, is now available on iTunes. Click here to get it now. You can also get the Life On The Murder Scene video diary, which contains footage documenting the behind-the-scenes activity from the same show. Click here to get it!


Note: Links go to the iTunes store and will open iTunes on your computer. The first link is saying not available in the US store; the second link seems to just be LOTMS as we know it. No, we have no idea what WB is doing.


ETA The post is now edited to say "2006 show in New Jersey."

ETA2 And the post is now deleted.

PREVIOUS HERE

It’s finally over. This is a short chapter, being that it is an epilogue, but I hope you enjoy it all the same!

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This was originally supposed to be a one shot, and the first chapter turned out to be long enough so I decided to split it into 3 parts at first, and then 5. It was never intended to be a well thought out, multi chaptered fiction. All of the inconsistencies just need to be over looked, because I didn’t really plan all that well for a “one shot”, who does?

And no… I was never raped, or incestuous, or abused. So no I’m not working out my issues in my stories, thank you very much. Rolls eyes.

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Words: 3,522
Chapter 5
It Takes Two
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Thanks for sticking with me, those who did. I love you guys… have a cookie!

Final Exams Are Over! Whoo!!!!

I feel so lazy right now even though I know I can't afford to be. I have 5 MBLAQ fics in the process of being written and I still need to finish my Minho/Key & Seungho/Joon followups. I have about a billion videos to sub for worldvidz. I have so many graphics & requests to finish that I've been putting off forever. I want to change the headers and layouts for all my comms and this journal. And so much real life stuff I promised I would catch up with once exams were over. Ugh. Now it's all piled up and I'm getting scared just looking at the list O_O

*sigh* I guess I'll just tackle it one by one....

I hope everyone else is enjoying their break :D

Oh, anon memes. I was going to do that anon crush meme, but then I was like, NO, THAT'S DUMB, so I didn't. Then again, home is being sort of awful right now, and I could use some cheering up.

Tell you what! I will leave anon comments on and you can tell me happy secrets! About anything!

This entry was originally posted at http://feverbeats.dreamwidth.org/57941.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

ALL RIGHT. This is my very spoilery post about Avatar. I have some really positive things to say and some really negative things too, but in the interest of full disclosure I did enjoy the shit out of this movie-watching experience, so I'm afraid I may well be doing that BUT I LOVE IT thing of hand-waving problems. Anyway here we go:

( Spoiler: I love all Zoe Saldanas )

http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide_admin/93221.html

In case anyone didn't see, there were some problems with the final deluge of yuletide pinch hits. If you want any of the ones that already went out, you have to email the alternate address in that link, and they're still not sure how the second half are going to go out. Of course it would be Yahoo! that turns out to be the pain in the ass in a year with an entirely new system. :D

Merry Christmas! :)

Title: Captive Prince
Chapter: Nineteen
Book one: Prologue | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7A | 7B | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
Book two: 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17A | 17B | 18 |
Warnings: R, adult content, WIP
Summary: Damen is the true heir to the throne, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the prince of a rival nation as a pleasure slave.

I don't think anyone could even begin to understand how much beta work bop_radar did on this chapter, she is AMAZING.

( Chapter Nineteen )

Hello! We'd just like to remind dotcoms_refresh readers that dotcoms_refresh will be on hiatus from December 22nd to 28th (U.S.) and no newsletters will be posted during that time. But not to worry! Once we return from our break we'll be collecting all the links posted during our absence and they'll be included in our regular newsletters.

See you back here in a week!

- the dotcoms_refresh team

FICTION

Cobra Starship
- katelnelaine: LAX to O'Hare ^m • 673 words (Gabe/William, PG-13) [TAI, CS]

Fall Out Boy
- dazi_li: Sixteen Is An Important Birthday ^m • 3,415 words (Patrick/Pete, PG-13)
- end_thistragedy: The Last Cigarette ^m • 2,764 words (Frank/Gerard, Mikey/Pete, PG-13) [MCR, FOB]
- nonskid: You said "Love me when I'm gone" and now I'm "Here without you" ^m • 1,349 words (Patrick/Pete, PG-13)

My Chemical Romance
- mcrvampy: The Nightmare Stops with this Bullet ^m • 1,527 words (Gerard/Mikey, Frank/Gerard, Frank/Mikey, NC-17)
- chemicaldreamsx: For a Smile They Can Share the Night ^m • 1,569 words (Frank/Gerard, PG-13)
- end_thistragedy: The Last Cigarette ^m • 2,764 words (Frank/Gerard, Mikey/Pete, PG-13) [MCR, FOB]

Panic At The Disco
- nonskid: My Vision of Reality ^m • 4,229 words (Brendon/Ryan, PG-13)
- nonskid: SleepWalker ^m • 1,448 words (Jon/Spencer, PG)

The Academy Is
- katelnelaine: LAX to O'Hare ^m • 673 words (Gabe/William, PG-13) [TAI, CS]

ART AND COMICS

- milenaa and saba1789: Art by milenaa - Ryan and Jon cuddling in the backyard - and rec by saba1789 ^m • (Jon/Ryan, NotRated) [PATD]

RECS

- list50: Minilist: Headspace • ~6 Bandom recs [PATD, MCR, MSI]
- list50: Minilist: Lots of Toys, For Girls and Boys... • ~1 Bandom rec [MCR, MSI]
- turlough: Bandslash recs: 8 fic & 4 art
- milenaa and saba1789: Art by milenaa - Ryan and Jon cuddling in the backyard - and rec by saba1789 ^m • [PATD]

MISCELLANEOUS

- bryar_collected: Mod Post ^m

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