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I don't know if this is real.... I love Team "Wentz" (Ashlee, Pete, and baby Bronx) I'm just confused about this:

Ashlee Simpson is pregnant with another baby, Star Magazine reports, adding that its source says the singer is "just a few weeks along" and is "beyond thrilled."

Still, Jessica Simpson's useless sibling is opting to keep the news private "for at least two more months" before sharing it with the celebrity gossip media.

The mag says Ashlee hopes that baby #2 will make her and Pete closer as his grinding with skanks hectic schedule has put a strain on their relationship.

A foolproof plan if ever there were one.

"... She loves Pete and wants to hang on to him. She believes this second baby will really clinch the deal," the celebrity gossip source reportedly writes.

If you believe what you read online, Ashlee Simpson is knocked up and excited about it. But unlike his wife, Pete Wentz is not yet ready to father a second child.

"He absolutely loves Ash and Bronx Mowgli," claims the tabloid when referring to how the Fall Out Boy bass player feels toward Ashlee and their baby boy.

"But he also loves his freedom. He thinks a second kid could change things for the worse. He doesn't want to be tied down and stuck at home all the time."

No official confirmation (or denial) has been made by Team Wentz concerning the report of her new pregnancy, or the couple's supposedly rocky marriage.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were longtime lovers before making it official in May 2008. They welcomed the arrival of son Bronx Mowgli in November.

source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2009/05/ashlee-simpson-pregnant-again/

see ya' (:

wow people, long time I don't post a journal ... so I'm gonna tell ya all, I have a vigil this Thursday! A "vigil" means that a group of people (specially teenagers) have to stay awake since 6:00 pm Thursday until 7:30 Friday, yes... it's gonna be hard, but we are gonna do that for the Holy Week :9 And all my friends are goin to be there, like a friends says a "sleepover" xD but in the church HAHAHAHAHA   So GBU all <3

yes! finally this year I will be 15! and then 16! :) yeah!!! hahahahaa sorry, I get exited about that xD

so my list for this year is:

1. Don't bite my nails... yeah yeah I know "is stupid"

2. Get good grades...at school

3. build a robot... I don't know I always wanted to do that

4. Have a second turtle

5. Save money

6. Have at least 500 songs  in my ipod

7. draw another band, group, artist ...whatever...

8. Smash a fruit...I always wanted to do that xD  preferably with a watermelon...yeah a watermelon!!!

9. Learn to box

10. Devote time with my piano (L)

Well, I just start my summer vacations and  I noticed red spots in my face and all over my back :s ....

IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A PERSON!  my mom started to worry cuz' I'm 14 and chickenpox after 15 years old is worst o.o'...  I'm so itchy, I have headache, I don't have appetite and beside I'm so tired zzzZZzZzzzzz......eh°! sorry felt asleep °.° ...

So this is how it feels to have chickenpox... :'(   

<--- AWW! ISN'T HE CUTE?

(...) Is cute how Pete really wants to be dad    =) Good wishes from me Pete and Ashlee

Will Ashlee Simpson's new husband take their baby on tour?  A report this week notes that even though their baby isn't due for several months, Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz are already planning to bring the little one on tour. “I think it would be a really awesome environment for kids,” Pete, 29, tells In Touch.
“Bringing a kid along would be cool.” And he probably won’t get an argument from his wife, Ashlee, 23, was singing along backstage when Fall Out Boy performed at Victoria’s Secret Pinkapalooza in LA on July 17.
“Pete came over and sang to her belly after their set,” an onlooker says. “They were so cute.” Lead singer Patrick Stump gives his approval, too! “He’ll be a fun dad,” Patrick says. “I’m most excited about meeting the baby,” Pete tells In Touch. Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were married in May.

At the time there was all sorts of speculation that Ashlee was pregnant and she would finally have to confirm later that the pair are expecting.  It is reported that the baby will be due on Halloween.

Thanks to:

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272621836.shtml

Drum roll, please … the 2008 World's Sexiest Vegetarians are Alyssa Milano and Frank Iero!

 


This year's contest was super close, but in the end, gorgeous Charmed alum (and my Sexiest Veg pick!) Alyssa Milano proved too much for the other lovely ladies to compete with. Just one look at her "Let Vegetarianism Grow on You" peta2 PSA and you can see why she won the coveted crown. Winning by a landslide, Frank Iero stole the show and, by the looks of it, thousands and thousands of hearts. The My Chemical Romance guitarist blew the competition away with those piercing eyes and his adorable smile.

This year's runners-up were quite a crop of stunners. Coming in a close second are The Hush Sound's lovely Greta Salpeter and the one and only Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars. Also rounding out the top five sexiest slots are the beautiful Natalie Portman, super hot Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta, 2007 World's Sexiest Vegetarians Kristen Bell and Davey Havok (sigh), and Heroes castmates and real-life lovebirds Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia.

Since being sexy is always in vogue and being "green" has become more than a passing fad, join the club and cut the meat out of your diet. You'll feel great, you'll look great, you'll be saving countless animals, and you'll be helping the planet too. Now if that's not sexy, I don't know what is.

Thanks to: http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-sexyveg08_winners.asp?c=p2228f 

So I'm not emo, I just love MCR and FOB music, I don't HAVE anything against emos, It just that, is stupid when persons do that by a depression or just a fashion thing.... God, please have in heaven and bless this girl. So if u r an emo, don't suicide. Just love life, and specialy God (if u r catholic or christian).

A teen girl obsessed with a “suicide cult” rock band, hanged herself two weeks after becoming an “emo”, an inquest heard today.

Talented karate artist and “model pupil” Hannah Bond, 13, and fan of controversial band My Chemical Romance, was found hanging from beneath her bunk bed with a tie in the early hours of September 23 at her family home in East Peckham.

She had several self-inflicted cuts in parallel fashion on her left wrist, which she told her dad was “an initiation into emo”, the inquest at Maidstone Coroners’ Court was told.

The petite, year nine pupil had in the months prior become obsessed with the teen trend (emo) - a popular fashion and lifestyle fad followed by kids who emulate the older ‘gothic’ crowd.

On her Bebo page Miss Bond, who used the online name Living Disaster and has internet friends with names like Sam Suicide, said she was obsessed with the hugely popular My Chemical Romance band, who hit number one with their last album, The Black Parade.

Her mother, Heather Bond, told the court how she learned The Black Parade is “where you go when you die” as she researched the emo fad.

She said: “The whole concept is aimed at people Hannah’s age.”

“In emo it is a very glamorous death to hang yourself.”

“There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves.”

“The band she was into, the music she was into - the whole thing is based on The Black Parade which is all about dying.”

“She called emo a fashion and I thought it was normal.”

“I didn’t know about the cuts. She used to wear emo bracelets so her wrists were concealed.”

“Hannah was just a normal girl.”

“She had loads of friends.”

“She could be a bit moody but I though it was just because she was a teenager.”

“In the months before she had become obsessed with the internet.”

“But there were no signs this was going to happen.”

“She had everything to live for.”

In a tribute book left at a shrine at her school following Miss Bond’s death a pal wrote: “I hope you enjoy The Black Parade.”

Her father, Ray Bond, a sensei at the Kyokushin Karate Club in Gravesend, where Hannah was a member, wept as he said: “Two weeks before her death, I saw the cuts.  I asked her about them and we discussed how it was an emo initiation.”

“She promised me she would never do it again.”

“She was in in touch with emos all over the world, particularly from America, over the internet.”

“The night before she hanged herself she came into the room and gave me a big kiss and said ‘I love you, Dad’.”

In the hours before her death Miss Bond had been hanging out with her boyfriend and others at a pal’s home.

She had not phoned her parents for a lift home when she was supposed to, playing up after she was told she would not be able to sleep over.

Her mum and older sister Jessica picked her up more than an hour and a half later to find that Hannah was “hyper active”.

Heather said: “She was hyperventilating. She used to drink the energy drink Kick, I don’t know if it had to do with that. She said she wanted a cuddle, so I reached back to her.”

As Hannah entered her family home she said she wanted to go straight upstairs. Heather told how she said: “I want to kill myself.”

That was the last time she was seen alive.

Nicola Appleton, the mother of one of the boys at whose home Miss Bond was spending time earlier that night, told the court how in the weeks prior she too had discovered cuts on her son’s arm.

She said: “He said they all did it.”

“I told him it had to stop.   He just said emos all do it.”

“He said he didn’t really want to hurt himself and the cuts weren’t very deep.”

“He had done it at school with a compass.”

Vanessa Everett, the headteacher at the Mascalls School were Miss Bond was regarded as an outstanding pupil, admitted there had been serious concerns over the spread of the emo lifestyle among students.

She said: “Hannah was known to me as a model student.”

“Everybody said she was a lovely, bubbly student who worked hard.”

“Right up to the weeks before she died Hannah was getting honours for her work in her lessons.”

“But we are very aware of this fashion trend which started with some of the older students.”

“Part of the problem it posts for us is it involves superficial self harm.”

“It can be difficult for us to differentiate between those students who were doing it because of serious psychological or emotional issues and those who are doing it for a fashion statement.”

“We wouldn’t have classified Hannah as one of those students with serious psychological or emotional problems.”

Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner Roger Sykes said: “She was a family friendly girl who was doing well as school.”

“A girl, aged 13 years, has taken her own life for no reason that could be regarded by anyone as sensible or justified and if in doing so she was thinking about how this would go down with those others who were involved with the emo fad; I just believe this a terrible tragic explanation for what happened.”

“It was not glamorous. It was a tragic loss of life.”

Visitors to the Miss Bond’s Bebo profile page are greeted with the words “Hi I’m Hannah and I’m addicted to My Chemical Romance especially Gerard Way”.

She even lists her hometown as “The Black Parade!!!”, and her playlist shows she has been repeatedly listening to 14 of the group’s hits.

She also asks friends to take part in an online vote on which member of My Chemical Romance is the sexiest.

The page is decorated with pictures of an emo girl with blood-spattered wrists after slashing herself in an apparent suicide bid.

Another picture shows a child’s exercise book scrawled with the words “Dear Diary, today I gave up…”.

She also glorifies in the slogan: “Brave is knowing that tomorrow isn’t a bright and happy future.”

Dozens of Miss Bond’s heartbroken friends have left tributes on her Bebo page.

One friend explicitly referred to the lyrics of Miss Bond’s favourite song when she wrote: “I’ll love you forever, I’ll never forget you, I’ll hold on to these memories till we meet again in the black parade.”

Another friend, Bonnie Price, wrote: “I miss you so much, when I found out I was devastated. I love you so much.”

Another added: “Black tears of death bring red tears of love and memories.”

My Chemical Romance have repeatedly come under fire for ‘glamorising’ suicide.

The band hit the mainsteam in October 2006 when their single Welcome To The Black Parade topped the charts.

Earlier hundreds of young devotees had queued all night outside London’s Oxford Street Virgin Megastore for a chance to see the band’s intimate in-store performance.

In the hit single the band’s frontman Gerard Way sings: “And though you’re dead and gone believe me your memory will carry on, will carry on.

“And in my heart I can’t contain it, the anthem won’t explain it.”

“Your misery and hate will kill us all. So paint it black and take it black.”

“Do or die, you’ll never make me, because the world will never take my heart. Though they try, they’ll never break me. We want it all, we wanna play this part.”

As well as selling off merchandise and personal items, Linkin Park and Panic At The Disco will be offering VIP concert tickets and the chance to meet the bands.

The acts were all asked to donate items that would be dumped or placed in storage to aid Music For Relief and Unite The United in their ongoing environmental and disaster relief efforts.
Earth Day falls on 22 April this year. The auction will take place on eBay.com.

YAY FOR DOING GOOD DEEDS!

Plant a tree for earth day!  They are cheap!  Help the world!  Do good things!

When kids from foreign countries start to love your music, you know you’ve made it. My Chemical Romance is proof with a story from a recent trip south of the border.

“We were in Mexico City for a signing at a record store . . . and we thought it was going to be pretty small with just a couple hundred people,” said guitarist Ray Toro. “But when we pulled up, there were thousands of kids waiting and going crazy, and we couldn’t believe it. . . . Afterward we just had to get into the van as fast as we could and get out of there. Kids were jumping over fences and getting knocked down, and it was pretty scary. We kept hoping that all the kids were OK.”

The band’s charismatic lead singer, Gerard Way, was known during their Warped Tour days for stopping by the medical tent after sets to check up on kids. Now, Toro said, that has been getting harder and harder. advertisement

Rising to fame as fast as many of their bubble-gum pop and blinging hip-hop counterparts, the gritty but polished rock five-piece hasn’t had much time to rest, let alone contemplate the success.

“It has been non-stop from the beginning,” Toro said. “We have pretty much been on the road since we started, and never really have time to sit down and think about everything that has happened until we go home, which is pretty rare.”

My Chemical Romance came out of New Jersey in 2001. After putting out its debut on an indie label in 2002, the band was quickly picked up by Reprise Records. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, released in 2004, skyrocketed MCR into the mainstream.

Since the release of 2006’s The Black Parade, the band has been riding the coattails of the critically acclaimed album. While most bands talk about maturing, MCR showed it with the epic 13-track rock opera and concept album.

Toro said the band focused on doing something different.

“We really progressed in our writing with this album and knew right away we had set a high standard for ourselves,” Toro said. “(The album) embraced what we all were thinking and feeling at the time.”

When asked if the band ever fears the next album won’t live up to the standard, Toro replies humbly.

“Of course we have thought about that many times, like most bands do after they have a successful record, but we are going to keep doing what we do and making music that feels right,” he said.

It has been reported that the band will go back to its punk-rock roots with the next album. Toro is hesitant to use the term punk rock, but said it will definitely have a raw sound.

MCR has several tracks written that the group has performed at select shows. After finishing its U.S. tour in May, the band will head back to the studio.

Unlike other bands whose success came quickly, the band has never let itself get caught up in the limelight.

“We were never the type to be all over the paparazzi,” Toro said. “We grew up together and still act like we always have. We still go home and hang out with our families and friends, and none of that has changed.”

The Wave: What characters and plots are you conceiving for your Umbrella Academy?
Gerard Way: It’s very reminiscent of Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol. It’s just very bizarre-type superheroes, almost as if they got thrown into it from when they were kids and they didn’t really wanna do it. But the dad’s really crazy and kinda forces ’em into it. It’s one of those comics that’s not the easiest to explain because it is so weird, and sometimes they’re fighting things that are more like concepts, rather than supervillains. And I’m actually a fan of characters that don’t have a tremendous amount of powers, so one of the characters was the first boy in space, and he was really smart, an excellent pilot, a better pilot than any adult on the planet – he was the first person to actually complete a mission to Mars. But he got in an accident on the way back from Mars, and they had to switch his body with that of a Martian simian, a primate that was indigenous to that planet. So his head got attached to the body of a giant blue space ape. Another character is called the Rumor, and her power is that she can tell really small lies, and they all come true. So I tried to really think about the powers and make them useful, but not so useful that you’re dealing with a Superman character.

TW: Were you tormented as a kid for liking comics?
GW: Yeah, I guess so. There definitely weren’t a lot of kids I could hang out with and talk to about ’em. That was the thing – they were all trading baseball cards, and I tried that and I hated it. And I didn’t really watch sports, so I had no idea what I was talking about. But I knew a lot about the X-Men, and I knew about Spider-Man and Batman. But there were no other kids around that were really into that. Now I always carry a ton of art supplies with me on the road. I really like standard black ink – I like brush and ink, and blue pencil’s what I use to lay it all down. Then I ink over it, kind of an animation way of working. And I like watercolor a lot, too, I’ll use it sometimes when I actually have time. But doing comics is a lot of work – it goes from guy to guy to guy, and then months and months later, you have a comic.

TW: I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t gone to the edge and stared into the abyss. In music and art, you seem to have managed that quite well.
GW: Yes. I think you’re just playing around if you’re not doing that. And that doesn’t mean to say that you have to be gloomy or depressed or anything. But if you’ve never been to the edge and stared into it, you’re never gonna become a better human being, I don’t think. And it’s facing that stuff that makes you a good person to other people – it makes you good to yourself, it makes you smarter, it makes you faster, it makes you better. Out of all these tragedies, you’re born as something better, so I think that staring into the abyss is one of the things that the band does really well.

TW: What, exactly, have you seen there?
GW: Really, a lot of black. I stare into that sometimes when I have to tap into it and write lyrics, and I see my life going in ways I didn’t want it to go, I see… just this kind of darkness. Without sounding corny or clichéd, that’s really what it is, you’re staring into the black and you don’t know what’s there. And it’s really that you’re staring into what you don’t know and all your fears at the same time, and all your anxieties and all your depressions, plus all your hang-ups on yourself and all the bad shit you’ve done in your life, everything. You’re staring at it, and you’re either gonna switch it off, or you’re gonna dive on in.

TW: I saw a great bit of graffiti once: “The abyss stares also.”
GW: [Laughs] That’s amazing! I never even thought of that.

TW: So you’ve probably seen great dark flicks like Audition and Oldboy.
GW: Those are really big films for me. We based an entire video, shot for shot, on Audition, almost to the point where it felt like we weren’t being that creative. And I LOVE Oldboy. That scene where he eats the octopus is one of the most intense things I’ve ever seen. When I was at art school, one of the last classes I took was video art, just the history of it, as a requirement. And I found myself to be so interested in it, I was like “Wow! Some of these things, they’re not supposed to make sense, they don’t have a plot, they’re actually just visuals.” But they were so interesting to watch.

TW: Is it true you’re going to write some horror books for Scholastic?
GW: It was a really amazing opportunity that came up. I’m actually really interested in young adult stuff, because I find that to be a pretty crazy playground right now. You find a lot of authors like Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker going to that form, so in a weird way its limitations give you more freedom, because if you’re writing for young adults, you can push the boundaries more. But it also keeps you from doing the things you would normally do in an adult book. And I think that’s what’s great about young adult – the stuff that crosses over.

TW: And one thing you’ve got to admit – all the stimulants and depressants in the world can’t equal the wonder of real life.
GW: Yeah. And not only is [real life] ugly and beautiful at the same time – because anything needs to be both ugly and beautiful – but it’s just so amazing, and there are so many opportunities there to do so many crazy things if you’re just not fucked up. And the point the band’s at now, creatively, especially on Black Parade? We pushed it so far with that record that we can do all kinds of crazy things now. And that’s what’s really exciting.

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Famous Last Words with Ray Toro

uh... I just read this and I'm a little confused :S

FRANK IERO GOT MARRIED!!!!

We are pleased to announce a show at NYC's one and only, Madison Square Garden. I know that its not a special small club show like the others on the tour coming up through the US. MSG holds a special place in our hearts. About 12 years back, my big brother took me to see The Smashing Pumpkins at that very venue. I turned to him and said "this is what I want to be...this is what we have to do...one day we are going to be on that stage." He felt and thought the exact same thing. Lo and behold..here we are announcing the show of all of our dreams. We wanted to share this special night with all of our hometown area fans. This is a great goodbye to "the Black Parade" tour and the beginning of the next chapter in MCR. Not only that, but we get to share it with our best friends in the world, Taking Back Sunday and Drive By. We can only hope that one or a few of you will feel the same thing at the show and a decade later, be on that stage.

Love to all of you, see you there.

Mikey Way

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I WANT TO GO!!!!!! I REALLY WANT TO GO!!!! :(    

Teacher:

Se que estas en un mejor lugar

que la vida te a recompezado con el paraiso en donde

Dios habita

Has pasado a buena vida

y solo te pido hasta alla arriba

que me guies para ser una buena niña

Nunca olvidaré esas clases de inglés

y esos abrazos que me dio en el recreo

y esos empujoncitos que me dio  al conseguir un amigo

Teacher......, querida Teacher, fue y será por siempre una graaaaan amiga

mi primer amiga, despues de mi madre

y ahora ya se que otro angelito con mucha

confianza

me esta observando desde una lugar

que merece alabanza

Teacher, falleció de este mundo, pero los buenos recuerdos

que tengo de usted,

simpre los tendré

Sé que esta feliz ahora en donde esta, y eso me da mas fuerzas

para seguir adelante,

que cada fecha que pase, sea una enseñanza...

Teacher, las lecciones que me enseño en el colegio

las e guardado hasta el momento

son esas buenas calificaciones, que me ayudaran a ser una gran persona.

Y agradecerle,  muchisimo, por ser una de las personas que me ayudo a ser la niña que soy ahora.

Que Dios la tenga en la Santisima Paz.

La quiero mucho Teacher Jaqueline...

Atte. Su estudiante del alma, katherine. (kathy)

esto me lo mando una amiga, y espero q lo entiendanm amy w. es un gran persona, solo que necesita saber que sus fans la estan apoyando, y no caiga en cosas peores :( t.q.m amy!

Nelstar* :

HEY ! mira pararecio la barrita q sale arriba para editar el mensaje... es q antes no me aparecia... bueno ya podras ver el mensaje en mi color favorito: Naranja! yeah... pero weno la vdd... no he estado muy feliz stos dias de tan solo pensar q en un mes ya casi estara posiblemente presa!!!!  y no muchas personas la apoyan y aveces me da tanto corage xq la gente no lo entiende y cm yo digo "Todos somos Amy Winehouse" de una manera u otra tenemos problemas y hasta hemos llegado a un punto en el q hemos qrido "suicidarnos el problema " para no decir q queremos suicidarnos a nosotros mismos xq en el fondo no qremos y q mas da!! no tenemos salida y llegamos a seguirle la corriente a otros q no tienen la razon pero x quitarnos un gran peso de encima hacemos lo q sea cm Amy, drogarse y claro eso esta mal pero cm ella lo dice en su tan grandiosa cancion con inigualable letra 'Rehab' "I Just need a friend..." y en su otra cancion no por eso menos GRANDIOSA!!!! 'Tears Dry On Their Own' ella en la letra se pregunta "or maybe I should b my own best friend!?" pues hay q demotrarle q esta equivocada!!! q no ha llegado a la cima x su INCREIBLE TALENTO solo para volver a bajar!!!! hay q keep supporting her!!! ok!? y aveces pienso q solo sera necesario pero creo q con mas personas q piensen = q tu y yo la llevaremos adelante y q se de cuenta q un hombre como Blake no es indespensable en su vida!!! q ella puede ir solo adelante con nosotros!!! sus fans!!! con el apoyo q ella necesita!!! y quien dijo q para ella cambiar necesita ir a un 'Rehab' q levante la mano maldito bastardo pues no es cierto y posiblemente osea los mas probable es q ese sea su peor error y su cabeza esta llena de pupu de pajaro!!! ella puede hacerlo por su cuenta! xq!? sabes xq!? xq ella es fuerte ella es stronger dura cm una paila de hierro q pega duro en la cabeza... y bañada en oro con un gran escudo llamado fe!!! si fe, esperanza!!! si yeah!! y nada de NEGATIVISMO (no se si esa palabra exista pero q importa la cosa es q tu me entendistes) y si hubiera una orma de q este mensaje lo leyeran un millon de personas y nos unieramos y formaramos una campaña y solo seria para apoyarla y un señor dueño de una empresa nos daria dinero para ir a todos sus sonciertos y keep supporting her!!! uff... dreams dreams of when we had too stared at things... well... gracias x 100pre entenderme... y bueno la vdd quisiera q el mundo entero (sin exepciones hasta los niños pobres del Darien) supieran quien es ella y q la alabaran!!! y entendieran los grandiosa q es lo bella lo talentosa y su grandiosa voz q mata cm las de los delfines!! increible persona, la mejor desde ... desd nadie!!! tiene todo lo q una persona podria tener es tan completa!! es la creacion de creaciones FABULOSA!!! LO MAXIMO LO ULTIMO!!! JUST AMY!!! si eso es... bueno ya si me estan doliendo los dedos principales de la mano tu sabes los q estan alado del pulgar... bueno jamas habia escrito tantas palabras tan seguidas desd... nunk osea... bueno espero no haberte molestado x el mensajito... tan corto q te estoy mandando... ya son alas 3 y 8 de la mañana asi q ya me voy...con un poco de tristeza y alivio al mismo tiempo xq ya no tengo ese peso tan pesado sobre mi ya me desahoge gracias Katheix te qelo mucho!

“Hi everybody. I remember some English class that focused on how to start your writings and I more distinctly remember that I was never too keen on that bit. Plus I have a near infamous penchant for being long-winded. So here I am at a loss for how to jump in and say what I’m thinking. I guess one must really start at the top.

I love the people around me. I do. I’m a space cadet and sometimes I don’t say it enough or in the right way but I desperately love the people I surround myself with which extends not just to my friends and family, or people that come to our shows and such, but to other bands. To other musicians with whom I share the common bond of “Hey, I dropped out of/didn’t go to college so I could be in some silly band that was likely going to put me in crazy debt and get me dumped by every girlfriend I’ve ever had…” It’s a common language, the way we all start in tiny rooms playing to next to no one (sometimes no one). Or playing to only the other band we’re on tour with (I’m looking at you Spitalfield/Fall Out Boy tour 2002). It is because of this common bond that I share with everyone in music that I have to say it’s been a bad couple months.

First we were hit with the news of the passing of Donda West whom I never met. Obviously Kanye is a friend of the band’s but I don’t even know him that well. I do however know him well enough to know he loves his mother dearly. As dearly as anyone’s ever loved their mother. And so it was with the weight of that knowledge that her passing hit me hard. Not to mention the shock of her young age. I called my mom that night. I’d advise anyone reading this to do the same.

Next came the truly horrible news of a tragedy I will keep quiet that happened on my own tour. I will respect the effected family by keeping the details private but it hurt some of my closest friends and near brothers profoundly. In turn I am near tears as I write this thinking about precisely what happened.

And now Casey. You know, to be frank I didn’t know Casey very well. I have far reaching memories of him in the early days when we played a comic book shop together. We talked hardcore and laughed about Kiss makeup. Then on that tour we did together I remember him being simply genuine, always pleasant, always kind. Now, I’m sure no one needs another arrogant rock star prattling on about how the world done him wrong and all, but I’m pissed that Casey’s not here anymore. I’m pissed because I think I took him for granted a little. Pissed at myself. Cause every band we’ve had the luxury of touring with I’d say with maybe one or two exceptions, are all people I’ve really liked and if you don’t ever tell those people it can be too late.

It’s the same way I felt when the late John Holohan passed away. It’s horrible. I remember the phone call. I remember calling Jack to ask if it were true and I needn’t have on account of his voice. We were at a photo shoot and every time I see one of those photos and have to autograph it or some such blasphemous thing I feel horrible just thinking about the sound in Jack’s voice.

Then last night another friend of mine came to me with the news that his father had had a stroke. I did not press to learn if he is expected to make it. That was really irrelevant to how I should feel…my friend was in obviously pain and that was all I needed to know.

Anyway, I’m still rambling. This is why I’ve never had any kind of blog…I’d never have time to write what I was thinking and I wasn’t gifted with conciseness. I guess I’m just trying to say that all the people I’ve talked about will be horribly missed. And that I want to let everyone know, even the people that hate my band and say mean things every time someone leaks some ridiculously fake scandal and slaps my best friend’s name on it, we are all doing this little thing called music. That makes us family, however dysfunctional. Don’t take your friends for granted and hug your loved ones every chance you get.

-Patrick Stump”

IT WAS SOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!   MANA IS SO COOL!    I MET  "FHER" THAT IS THE VOCALIST, AND IT WAS SO COOL!  it was a great or still a great experience :)

I couldn't take more photos at the concert.... but! they gave me (Thanks to Sr. "Coco") an autographed photo, i LOVE THEM

Happy birthday Panama!!!!!

Viva Panamá...!!!

If you don't know where is Panama....