Pink is the new black

My friend Zani who is owner of  the website www.gerardwaybrasil.com started a project for Gerard's Birthday.

If you are interested you can send video or photo to Gerard's Birthday:-) you can send  all to Zani's email: zaninhacruz@gmail.com

I think it's a great idea:) I am helping Zani to spread the word!

Cali

Many people are asking me this! they often say I copy Audrey - FALSE!

I've always had my own style, people were jealous and they fucking stare. Truth. But I won't change myself because people (society) do not accept my fashion or style. I dress the way I feel. I was born in 80's and started to listen to music already in mom's stomach (yeah, I've laughed about that a lot when my mom told me that she has played me "Imagine" all the time while expecting. heh) Music was the only thing I've ever cared about, the other kids were playing in the streets but I was stuck in front of MTV or listened to my stereo. With this came also my taste for fashion. The biggest influence ? Nicholas Jones aka Nicky Wire and Richey James Edwards from Manic Street Preachers.

I do not copy Nicky nor Richey, never did. They just "taught" me and "showed" me the way how to feel comfi :) I was 6 years old when I got into Manic Street Preachers. So all the tiaras, boas, leopard skin, a loads of bracelets = 80's.

Happy now? take care guys, Cali and Stay Beautiful:)

Culture Slut, hell yeah!

I just wanna say that I was always obsessed with beauty! I love to look at all of those beautiful women and men and I wish I was pretty. Yeah, people say beauty is inside but face it -  in this homophobic and shallow society there is nothing so important than being pretty and looking good. Because all of this -  girls are starving to be slim, they are taking plastic surgeries and other drastic changes. Would you ever do that? What's your opinion about plastic surgery? We all want to be pretty, but we gotta suffer for this! low self esteem and men who are starving to see more and more beauty. Would you do that for yourself or for a man? I was never satisfied what the "nature" gave me. It's hard to look into the mirror and say: You are looking good!

Cosmopolitan, Elle, Vogue - full of glam and wonderful looking people. I don't think it's fair, I can't stop myself of buying "beauty" mags, it's like a drug.

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has responded to accusations of plagiarism by former employer Hart Fisher of independent comicbook publishers Boneyard Press.

Way told MTV news:

"I sent [Hart] an email years ago, before we finished [Three Cheers For Sweet] Revenge, 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."

Hey Everybody!

Me, Pete and Bryan are at Bryan's place in Ny today workin on some new tunes and learning a Johnny Cash song for a compilation. We have some great new ideas that are gonna turn into some sweet tunes.

Yesterday we all enjoyed celebrating the wedding day of our good friend Frank from My Chemical Romance to his beautiful wife Jamia. It was a fine family gathering which ended up in us singing a couple of Frank's fav Souls songs. Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio jumped up to sing along to an acoustic version of Night On Earth. He also did 3 of his songs on acoustic. Acoustic Skiba = goosebumps.

Congratulations to Frank to Jamia and much Love to you both.

Have a Good Day All,
The Souls

credit: www.myspace.com/boucingsouls

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard 'Garry' Way has invoked the ire of a former mentor who claims he has stolen lyrics and ideas from comics he has worked on whilst working with indie comic maker Boneyard Press. Hart Fisher, who claims Way is trying to deny his past associations, also had this to say about the frontman in a blog online:

''I'm fed up with this bullshit, and I'm coming clean with it very, very publicly this week. I have video proof that anyone else could find... You know, the kid I knew as Garry was a smart, sensitive teenager who was overly concerned about what other people thought of him. He worried way too much about his appearance and his image. I do not know why he is lying. I remember being very sincere in my pride in his work for Boneyard Press. You can't tell me he didn't do store signings with all of his buddies at the local comic book store. Every kid's book I ever published, they all did it, and when I first got published I couldn't wait to do a signing either. So why did all those folks at the stores and where he grew up, why are they all lying too? A lie by omission is still a lie.

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?

http://www.rock-sound.net/articles/1032/My-Chems-In-The-Boneyard.html


oh gosh someone is really starving for some attention huh? Gerard would never lie, copy or anything. fuck you!

from a LJ user sweethooligan1! thanks for sharing these with us:-)

so, i just drove home from the school of visual arts in new york city to my place in new jersey and i just re-fell for gerard. i attended the lecture he was giving at his alma mater courtesy of a very good friend and pseudo-sister who is a photography major at sva. contrary to what we had heard, they didn't check student id's. rather, they gave out tickets to attendees as they walked into the building to see the lecture to guarantee them a seat. my good friend and current photography major at sva and another friend (who's a fan) and i got our tickets and went to the back of the line. after about a stuffy ten minutes in a small hallway, everyone filed into the room in an extremely orderly fashion. the room sat about 100 (according to my friend) and it didn't fill up at any point during the lecture. after sitting for about 10 minutes, gerard quietly walked into the room to a small round of applause wearing dark pants, a white button down shirt, a black tie and a jacket very reminiscent of the "i'm not okay" video, but with more embellishment. for the entire 1 hour and 11 minutes he spoke, i completely forgot he was GERARD WAY, frontman of mcr, and got completely wrapped up in gerard way, the regular pale guy who really likes comic books and holds an affinity for his professors at sva. he pointed out some familiar faces in the crowd, commented that SVA has always been stuffy and hot (indeed, it really was) and kept up the face smushes, nose swipes and talking out of the side of his mouth that we know so well. after his q&a--moderated by a former professor of his--he did a meet and greet with everyone and remained so nice throughout (we were pretty much the last to join the line). he spent as much time with each person as they wanted, signed copies of the umbrella academy and took pictures with everyone. it couldn't have been a better time. he discussed a potential comic book written AND drawn by him, the second installment of the umbrella academy, his favorite silent films and his feelings about garfield (yes, somebody asked. and no, he's not really into it.). below, i've listed some quotes i found particularly amusing/intriguing. i hope you enjoy them (sidenote: i taped the session, i just have to figure out how to get that onto a computer. if i ever can). he was candid and awesome and cursed a lot. here are some quotes, tips and tricks on how to get into the art business and general points of interest. did you know he can tie a cherry stem into a knot with his tongue?!

(On the Xmen) You could never take a picture of them. How nuts is that?
They're like the Amish.

(He played the snare in band camp and promptly quit)They're waking me up at 2a to play the drums? I couldn't believe it.

(On getting into the art business)You should never do anything for the money. Do what you're great at.
Be in it more for your passion than in it for the money.

(On doing an interview in an intimate setting) Playing in a rock band is different than this. I'm really shaking.

If I don't make it. I'm done. I'm never gonna make it. Kept chasing. No
gotta live have to make mistakes, suffer. Gotta put yourself out there.
No one ever really "makes it." You've got time. Still doing comics at 30 and
making lousy pages. Wish I had a professor to tell me to just chill out. If
you don't have anything to say, go find what it is that you have to
say.

(on why he didn't pursue the breakfast monkey. they wanted him to make pillowcases. some merch got carried away and he threw out the idea of breakfast monkey tampons. eeeesh) Breakfast monkey fucking pillowcase. A breakfast monkey tampon??!

Art is not bullshit.

(on working on more art after he got clean because he needed something to take up time) When you first get clean. Fucking burst of energy.
And you can't play warcraft all day
The show is fleeting it's gone

(on his favorite part of comics) I'm really attracted to fonts

(his favorite show. it's english and called )The prisoner. English show 13 episodes.

(on not being employed immediately out of college) If you suffer for a bit, you get a little desperate. When you go
forward, be careful what you sign. No matter how desperate you are to get
a bite, question what you get in the long run.

(apparently he didn't know he had a reputation about him) I'm considered a little gothy?

(on potentially sucking in art school) There will be a stretch where you could suck. But that's when you're really learning.

(on finding inspiration) Draw from an actual source. Don't draw from Tim Burton...because he'll be sad you copied from him and not his original inspriation.

(on his female characters in the umbrella academy) I didn't intentionally make the the two women in the book a profession liar and a villain.

Your least likely source is often the coolest.

(on why he didn't draw the cover for the umbrella academy) Drew an alternate cover. It was way past deadline and so late because paper got stolen. I think it was stolen in Russia. I thought I was in Detroit. Anyone from Russia? {one girl answered yes} You ever been to
Detroit? It's like Russia.

[There will never be an ]umbrella academy/mcr music video.

[if i could choose] Anyone in history to spend a day with...i would choose to spend it with my wife.

It's all winging it.

(on networking) Getting to know people, be sincere, not full of shit. People smell passion andbeing a good person. That's always going to win out. Network on a smaller scale.

(He had laid out a storyboard for the black parade video and it was almost made into an animated video, that's how detailed the board was. ) I'm inspired by life. Life is what's really going on.

(on the boundaries of scriptwriting and comic books) Novels there's never a limit, but there probably should be.

(getting into art)If you've got it, it's easy to break into, but it's hard to keep it.

(on the beginnings of MCR) Just wanted to be an amazing fucking live band. Wasn't sure we wouldplay again because we were careless about our bodies. If you can do something else that no one else can freaking do, you've gotit.


(on his secret talent) I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue.

so, there you go. i took notes on my sidekick. i hope you guys enjoyed a more candid and sort of all over the place gerard. it was great and made me remember that he's an actual person and not just a frontman. viva g.way!

who cares? enjoy this community and stop f*cking complaining. I am getting sick of all this crap! I am happy that I've met an awesome friends here and that I can post pics. why are you all so starving for a "PINK STAR" ? thanx god that myspace doesn't have these "problems". I've joined "Say no to Drugs" association few weeks ago, I hope I can help some people as long as I know what hell is that and I was addicted as well. Let's think about these serious problems than who is big on buzznet. We are all humans, we are the same! No matter if you are Queen Elizabeth, you are still a human. I've found my old Edith Piaf cd I got years ago from mom and it made me cry from pleasure =)

If you care take a look on this site and help! www.drugfreeworld.org

Exclusive First Look at MCR’s Gerard Way’s On Raven’s Wings

The internet sh*t storm is waging strong. The story was leaked onto major media newsites like Rolling Stone and MTV. This is big.
That said, I wanted to raise up a few things I thought should be commented on to set a few things straight.
Lucas Siegel of Shotgun Reviews posted on the drama Friday 22, 2008. Go check out his site, there is a statement from both Scott Allie and Gerard Way on the matter.
I emailed a few people at Dark Horse asking for an interview on Pulp Secret with both Gerard and someone close to the Umbrella Academy project, but have yet to hear back from anyone.
I have also been lining up interviews with people related to On Raven's Wings and Hart Fisher. Look for that here on Pulp Secret, in the next couple of days.
A few things of note:
On Raven's Wings is a full comic book. It does exist. It's by Gerard "Garry" Way. It's not a collection. It was supposed to be an ongoing series, but only lasted 2 issues.
People have been searching for these hard to find books on places like Craiglist, and Ebay. And people on Hart's blog have been begging him to reprint the series.
But we have a special treat for all those people hunting the book down …
An Exclusive First Peek at the art of Gerard Way's On Raven's Wings scanned from the books we have at Pulp Secret Headquarters.



ORW_Issue 1




ORW_Issue 2
On Raven's Wings
Written by Garry Way, Pencils by Jose Santos, Inks by Dana Greene, Lettering by Warren Montgomery, Covers by Rob Nemeth, Published by Boneyard Press, Publisher-Hart D. Fisher
My final thoughts on the whole Gerard "Garry" Way/ Hart "Boneyard Press" Fisher mediastorm?
I felt it best to not touch upon the Lyrical Plagiarism aspects of this drama until I have copies of Poems for the Dead and Still Dead, and Gerard's lyrics in my hands and in front of me. I also didn't feel it had to be drug out onto a Comic Book Culture and News site. Comics belong here first and foremost, and that's what I stuck to.
I like the Umbrella Academy. Everyone who works here owns a copy or 2 and has said nothing but good things about the series. The art is amazing, and the story was well written, even if it was by a "rockstar". It would be good if it was written by Garry Way or Gerard Way, it doesn't matter.
Good is good.
And you know what? On Raven's Wings is good too. It's impressive that Garry had found his voice at such a young age. Hart has sold out of Issue One. 2,000 copies out there, floating around!
I'm trying my best to stay neutral in this and not take sides.
Be sure to keep checking here as this whole silly thing plays out.
-Jeaux Janovsky