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jay. 26. she/they. they've got their treasure laying way up high where there might be many mansions. but when I look up, all I see is sky.

[bxckbxrner]

ok if anyone out there has the video of Brandon and another member of tk being interviewed in maybe 2004 where they were talking bout Jenny on the setlist (maybe) and Brandon said quote “people left in bags that night” if you could get that to me because I can’t find it but that phrase has regularly been in my vocabulary for years

[girlrustcohle]

i love men crying #mencrying #freak #pervert #myfreakperversions #mytruth

[bxckbxrner]

who's the man?

[femme-4-butches]

Femme Rooms.

Ulla's Room, 1998. Asia's Room, 1996. Miss Deena, 1999.

All photographs © Chloe Sherman.

[pepsidogonline]

Pressure machine is deathly serious to me

[maulscrafts]

^ embroidered a net onto the front pocket of these overalls

^ shrimp in there

[badassdemonsword]

cringing with babish

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

[badassdemonsword]

Babish milk embarrassment

[ninevoltheartt]

just felt a breeze in the air

[reg1ment]

do any of you guys have tumblr

[oh-snapperss]

they'll fund a genocide and let their poor regions be destroyed. don't fucking forgive them for that.

my hometown is completely gone from what pictures i can find of it, i have not heard from my family (including aunts, uncles, parents, one sibling, and a grandparent), and the infrastructure in the mountain communities is wiped out. i cannot stress how catastrophic this is, or how difficult it will be for these communities to build back. i am angry, and scared, and heartbroken by everything that's happened.

and our government is spending it's money to fund a genocide.

free palestine, and don't be complicit. realize that this is not something happening that doesn't affect you--although it shouldn't take this to care about the deaths of thousands of people anyway.

[battleborne]

got hot fuss 20 vip tickets. If anyone still cares

[velvetdestroya]

Breathtaking and an amazing performer. What more do we need? Corona Capital Festival, Day 1 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriquez, Mexico City, Mexico on November 18, 2022.

[photo credit; moisés castillo]    

[battleborne]

you said ask abt other shows soooooo…what’s the last concert you went to

i saw walk the moon in dc a little bit ago for their self titled 10th anniversary tour :-) i loooove them and this was my fave out of all the other wtm shows I’ve been to they played for literally 3 hours and as an unironic shut up and dance enjoyer well you just had to be there . no one gets it they’re the best most happy band live and every time I see them it’s like oh yeah. this is what life feels like. lol :|

[iiwaken]

˗ˏˋ  time to eat!  ´ˎ˗  

[bxckbxrner]

Are you a dancer? ♢ I wanna be now.

[destielgaysex]

every day i miss him. every day.

[bxckbxrner]

Brandon Flowers hates emos, excepts for the ones that he doesn’t: A history on The Killers’ and My Chemical Romance’s love affair

It’s something widely known in the pop punk community that one certain Brandon Flowers used to think that emo was a dangerous genre, that he wanted to beat Fall Out Boy to death, and that he was mad at Green Day for filming their American Idiot concert DVD in England and… not in front of the White House. Okay maybe he slayed with that one. 

So it would be easy to assume that our dear Mr. Flowers hates all the emos. This, however, wouldn’t be true. It all started in 2005 when Brandon and his band won the VMA for “Best New Artist in a Video” and “Best Rock Video” for Mr. Brightside, beating out MCR’s Helena in both categories. Upon being asked about how he felt about this, Brandon said that he thought Helena should have won because he really liked the song (don’t have a link for this source because it’s from an old magazine you know how the mid-2000′s were).

Both bands released albums in the fall of 2006 (TK’s Sam’s Town and MCR’s The Black Parade) which primed them for touring around the same time in 2007. At the beginning of 2007, Brandon told NME that he thought MCR would be the band of the year and that he wanted to “sign up for The Black Parade.” Brandon would go on to praise The Black Parade two months later in NME again:

“We share a lot with My Chemical Romance. It’s funny, if you look at very different bands they often have the same influences. The bands that My Chemical Romance or Kasabian or The Strokes list as their influences are similar to ours. I guess we all come together on David Bowie and things like that. There are threads weaving us together, but we’re all very different bands. It astonishes me, but it’s really cool that it can happen. ‘The Black Parade’ shows that My Chemical Romance have a real gift with melody and they’re doing their own thing. They were all on the Big Day Out with us, and I had emailed Gerard Way before but we’d never met, so that was nice.”

Gerard also talked about how much he liked Sam’s Town and even said it was one of his favorite albums of 2006, which is notable because Sam’s Town was wrongfully slammed in the press for being too different to The Killers’ first album. Gerard said: “We were making our record when this came out, but I can finally listen to it now. It’s one of the most moving records of last year, you feel what he’s talking about and it’s very risky. There’s stuff on there that makes me cry and it’s been a long time since that happened.”

Sam’s Town makes me cry, too, Gerard.

Later on in June 2007, the two bands played at Glastonbury together and took shelter from a storm together: “the Las Vegas rock group are running for cover from a freak tornado, huddled together in a shaking Portakabin with their friends from the band My Chemical Romance as the festival site where both groups are about to play is ripped apart.”

That same month, TK’s drummer Ronnie Vannucci told Racket Magazine, “I think first and foremost, everybody’s got to have their shit together, musically … A lot of bands try to cover it up … Muse and My Chemical Romance certainly don’t cover anything up because they’re both great bands.” The sentiment is likely shared by Gerard, who said at Oxygen Fest that year that he hoped to see The Killers because he “really likes them.”

Not much publicly has happened between the two of them since 2007, though Gerard did tell SPIN Magazine in 2009 that there’s “definitely” a connection between the Jenny in MCR’s Bulletproof Heart and the Jenny in TK’s Murder Trilogy. 

That’s the story of how one emo in particular one over Brandon’s heart. This next part is speculation on my part, but I’d like to think that Gerard’s outfit at their show in Las Vegas (TK’s hometown) this year was an homage to Brandon’s from the 2007 NME Awards, which they were both in attendance for and MCR finally beat TK for “Best International Band”. This is probably a stretch but it warms my heart to imagine.