#july 2002

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Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PlayStation 2, Jul. 2002 PlayStation Magazine advert)

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Laetitia Casta on the cover of OH LA! (July 2002)

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ITALY - JULY 19: Former porn-star and former Italian parliament member, Ilona Staller aka "La Cicciolina", 50, publishes her "Memoirs" in Rome, Italy on July 19th, 2002. (Photo by Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Today in Disney Channel History...

Kim Possible season 1, episode 8 “Mind Games” premiered on Disney Channel (19 July, 2002)

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My Chemical Romance FAQ

☠︎ What's the significance of the name of the band?

Mikey came up with the name My Chemical Romance. It works on a lot of different levels for the band. At the root of it, the name refers to the works of Scottish author Irvine Welsh. A "chemical romance" is the genre he has created in works such as The Acid House, Filth, and of course Trainspotting. Mikey added the word "my" to it to add a personal dimension to the name. In essence, it means a romance with chemical substances.

☠︎ So are you saying you guys do drugs?

No. My Chemical Romance does not do drugs or condone the use of drugs. However, the band is not straightedge and likes to party like everyone else.

☠︎ How long have you guys been a band? It seems like you guys came out of nowhere...

As a fully functioning band, My Chemical Romance has been together since Jan of 2002, when Mikey was officially added to the roster as bass player. Matt and Gerard started the band in November 2001, with Matt playing drums and Gerard singing and playing guitar, but Gerard isn't that good on guitar and he wanted a guitarist so he could just sing, jump around, dance and do other things like "unleash the bats,""hump the sky," and "exorcise the demons." Ray then joined the band and they had a hard time finding a bass player until realizing they should just train Mikey, who ended up making them all look like bitches when he learned the set in a month. Other than that all of the members of the band have been making music together for years in various bands and have been a part of the scene in various ways. Until now, the music and the combination of musicians never fit perfectly and could best be chalked up as a learning experience. We've recently Frank Iero as another guitarist, and the band now finally feels complete.

☠︎ You guys have a record coming out on Eyeball Records? How and When?

Eyeball Records is a label we respect and love, and we're thrilled to get the offer to do our first record with them. They have a long history, have put out and worked with a lot of bands we love, and have given us 100% creative freedom to make this album however we wanted. They are as excited about the record as we are. We record the first week of May '02 and expect the record to have a summer release. The album entitled "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love" will feature all of the songs from our set, including a final mix of "Vampires Will Never Hurt You". From then on we will tour and support the album for a long time while working on new songs.

☠︎ What are your influences?

Everything. We listen to lots of different music but if we had to list some bands and artists that have been a big influence on our sound we would have to say: Iron maiden (it doesn't get any better than these guys), At The Gates (except these guys), The Pixies, The Misfits (Danzig years) and Samhain, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Haunted, Pulp, Blur, Johann Sebastian Bach, Fernando Sor, Queen, Guns and Roses, Helloween, and the list goes on and on...

☠︎ Are Mikey and Gerard brothers?

Yes. Mikey and Gerard are loving brothers that enjoy rocking out together. But they consider Ray and Matt their brothers too, only Puerto Rican and French ones.

☠︎ What kind of equipment do you use?

Ray plays a Session guitar. A Session is a knock off of a Gibson Les Paul from around the early 80s. I asked a vintage guitar store owner some information about Session seeing as how Ray won't play anything else and he said, "It's a piece of shit. It was made in the Philippines in the '80s and Sam Ash used them to sucker people into buying a cheap guitar. Worst guitar ever. And the factory blew up". Ray also uses a 100 watt Marshall JCM 2000 head, a Laney Cabinet, and assorted stomp boxes. Mikey plays a Fender American Jazz bass with obnoxious silver sparkle finish. Matt uses Pearl drums, Zildjian cymbals (a lot), and an enormous Gibraltar drum cage. If you've ever seen us live then you understand how big this thing is. Gerard uses an SM58 Shure mic. The mic of choice for Bruce Dickinson.

☠︎ I want a T-shirt! Any merch soon?

We have some buttons and we're running out. We just invested in a button maker so we can have all sorts of self-indulgent crazy buttons you can wear for cheap. The band has finally decided on 2 designs that are being drawn up as we speak and they love them, so expect them soon.

☠︎ What's all this nonsense about bats???

The band likes bats. Who doesn't? If you've seen the band live you might have heard Gerard mention something about turning into one or unleashing some sort of swarm of them. "Unleash the fucking bats" is something they say to each other seconds before starting the set to get themselves pumped up. This all started back in Jan '02 when the band finally came together and started playing together with an intensity none of them had ever known. That fateful night they rocked together so hard that a "rock portal" opened up and out flew a swarm of giant bats. No shit.

☠︎ I heard you guys cover Morrissey...why?

We cover a B-side called Jack The Ripper. Basically we wanted to cover it because we knew we could do a really rocking version of this song. It rocks as it is but we felt if we added a little "kick" to it and did like we do all of our others it would be something special. If you've ever seen us play this live we absolutely can't control ourselves while we're doing it, and its a good warm-up for "Vampires Will Never Hurt You."

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19 years ago, on July 25, 2002, Johnny attended an after party  to celebrate the London Premiere of “Lost In La Mancha”, in London, England.

On that day, the documentary “Lost In La Mancha” premiered at the “Screen on the Green Theatre in Islington. Unfortunately, Johnny couldn’t attended the event once he was busy filming for “Finding Neverland”, but travelled from the Shepperton Studios to the La Finca Restaurant, located in Pentonville, London, to support the documentary and spend the night with friend, Terry Gilliam and those involved on the problematic filming of the movie.

> About “Lost in la Mancha”:

The documentary tells the dramatic behind the scenes of Gilliam’s attempt to make the first version of the 2018 movie “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”. It was originally planned to be the “Making Off” of the movie, but with all the problems during the filming, the movie ended up canceled and the “Making Off” was released as a documentary. Filmed in September of 2000, in “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” Johnny was going to portray the role of Toby Grummett, a 21st-century marketing executive that was thrown back through time. He was going to be acting for the first time with his then girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, who was going to take the female lead character and his love interest. This is considered one of the most problematic movies ever, and one of worst shootings Johnny ever experienced. In previous movies, Johnny already fainted, suffered with mental issues, and other problems, but on this movie the problems were worse: F-16s jet aircraft flew loudly overhead the place ruining the audio and stopping the filming, the site of the filming was hit by a sandstorm, by a thunderstorm, and by a flood that led part of the material to be damaged, washed away and lost. The production suffered with the lack of money and crew, once several actors didn’t show up on set, or got sick, or gave up due to difficulty to go to the filming area... And the list goes on, on this days of pure madness that led to the movie cancellation. But just like Terry, Johnny still wanted to make the movie reach the big screens someday, but he knew that due to his busy schedule, he was not going to continue on the movie: 

“Gilliam and I have talked about it. But to be honest, the thing about Terry... I love Terry, and I'd do anything the guy wants to do. But with Quixote... My dance card is pretty nutty for the next couple of years. So I'd hate to put him in a position - or ask to be in a position - where he'd have to wait for me. That would be wrong. But also, I feel like we went there and tried something, and whatever it was, the elements and all the things that got up underneath us, were there and happened and were documented well in that film Lost in La Mancha. So I don't know if it's right for me to go back there. I don't know if it's right for Terry too, but if he wants to…”  ~ Johnny Depp during the press junket of “Public Enemies” in 2009.

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July 2002— 31 days left. But who’s counting?

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