Vote for My Chemical Romance at the Kerrang! Awards. I’m thinking they’re only eligible for International Band and Live Band unless we vote “The Black Parade is Dead!” for Best Album. Anyhow, go for it! 
Speaking of voting, vote for Frank Iero as Peta2’s Sexiest Vegetarian 2008. He’s about 2000 votes ahead but all the more reason to keep voting and make sure he absolutely kills the competition, yeah?
If you’re not all voted out, go visit Shell at MCR-Pics.com and vote for which set you want her to post next.
Official News!
– This Monday the 23rd, we’re letting 40 MCR fans get a sneak viewing of the entire DVD of “The Black Parade Is Dead” at the Warner Bros Records offices in Burbank, California. All you have to do is send an email to blackparadescreening@warnerreprise.com telling us you want to go. We’ll email back 40 of you on Friday to let you know how to get to the screening. You will also need to bring 10 cans of food, which will be donated to http://lafoodbank.com.
– Purchase your copy of “The Black Parade is Dead!” at any HMV location across Canada and receive a limited edition album lithograph. Offer valid in Canada only from June 30th to July July 7th, while quantities last.
– Check out this new facebook application for “The Black Parade Is Dead!” where you can post on your own page and send a mask from the limited edition as a gift to your friends. Click here to get it!
Wow, three updates from the official site in one day. Ha. Like I need to talk, right?
Off topic, but I missed my UPS delivery today. I bought a bunch of back-issue mags with MCR in them and Reggie and the Full Effect’s new CD/Tee. *sigh* Must track them down tomorrow.
Shell at MCR-Pics.com has put up a poll as to what you want to see for her next update: Live, Events (award shows, etc), or Photoshoot. Go vote!
All entries are now up in the archives.
Apparently WP isn’t posting comments. It’ll let you post one, but then it won’t display them. I still have some tweaking to do, apparently.
Whoot! We’re now rollin’ in WordPress. The content pages still haven’t been converted, but I’m currently going through and updating them and their information.
For the sake of consistency, I’ve pulled a few updates and put here (see below!) so that whoever hasn’t seen them will see them now, and they won’t have just been lost in the archives.
Archives? Heck yeah. We now have archives. All 310 entries that Kathleen and I have posted since the site opened. My first “Testing” post was done on July 22, 2007. I quit posting and talking to myself about June 27, 2007, so I’m not sure what to call our anniversary. I’ll say July 22nd, because that’s the day the domain got registered and the site actually came online. Whoot!
Speaking of archives, you can see those here: Mikey Way Online Archives. You want to know what’s really cool about those archives? Lauren from Skin Off Our Bones let me republish her archives of Mikey’s old MySpace. That makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Hopefully I’ll be getting the lyrics section up soon, too, which includes Pencey Prep (Frank’s old band) and Leathermouth (Frank’s new band). Those are being donated to Lauren in exchange for Mikey’s blog entries. Those are definitely worth a read. I gained so much more respect for that man afterwards. A lot of people apparently think he’s a douche for posting what he did, but the man stood up for his wife and took the heat for it.
I’ve actually considered putting MWO’s first layout back up; yeah the pretty pink one. It was up and down before I think anybody got a chance to see it. It’s still my favorite layout haha. That won’t be happening for several, several more months. This one’ll stay up at least until (my goal is) September.
Next on Johnnie’s agenda: the Gallery (new layout, getting it back online), Forum (new layout), making the site W3C compliant (all that means is that the site should look fantastic no matter what browser or computer you’re on haha).
So, on the line of that last W3C compliant thing, things will look a little strange. Font sizes may change spur of the moment (that would be me modifying them probably) and just little things like that. Bare with me 
This week’s issue of Kerrang! features an article about the protest against the Daily Mail on May 31, 2008. Scanned by nmhrbrtsn
And, if those weren’t cool enough, here’s another random photo for you to enjoy.
Tom DeLonge [Blink-182, Angels and Airwaves] spoke out about the controversy surrounding My Chemical Romance and Hannah Bond’s suicide.
He defended My Chemical Romance, saying there was nothing abnormal about the content of their lyrics.
You can read more here.
CHECK OUT THE LATEST TRAILER FOR THE NEW DVD
Hello everyone. There’s only three more weeks until the release of our DVD “The Black Parade Is Dead,” and we just got this new trailer that shows ya even more of what’s gonna be on it. Click here to check it out. And make sure to head over to theblackparadeisdead.com to pre-order the limited edition which comes in a pinebox with a mask designed by a member of the band. These are really nice but there’s only a handful left, so hurry.
Rolling Stones recently did a “100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time” and although our boys did not make the actual list, they did make the “honourable mention” list. Rolling Stones posted a “special online bonus” list which included 25 songs that didn’t make the cut and “Welcome To The Black Parade” was on it.
The mascara kings’ lead guitarist Ray Toro has talked about his adoration for Queen’s Brian May, and the title track of their platinum concept album is practically a five-minute elaboration on the solo from “Bohemian Rhapsody”: Toro and Frank Iero’s guitar parts cloned into an emo army, leaping to heroic heights and diving into bombastic glory.
So, claps for them.
