she said you ain't no son of mine

AHAHAHAAHHHA. Ohhh my godddd. Okay, so I was sort of bopping around on the My Chem myspace to see if maybe they'd sekritly put up more tour dates on the East Coast (WAY TO NOT REPRESENT YOUR ROOTS BOYS, JEEZ) and you know that little radio/jukebox thing that plays songs while you're wandering around the site?

I JUST LISTENED TO THEIR VERSION OF MAMA LIVE. I never knew how empty my life was until this moment. GERAAAAARD. You giant loser. I just picture him doing retarded macarena-chickendance-bugaloo dances and getting way too excited and spitting all over the mic and Ray and Mikey in the corner staring, like, omg is he dying? Is this epilepsy? And Frank all mad, because epileptic flailing is his schtick, dammit!

And then at the end! When Gerard decides that since there are no ladies to weep and wail for him he WILL DO IT FOR HIMSELF. GERARD, YOU GIANT HAM. You just know he's wiping his eyes theatrically with a feather boa and that Bob is somewhere in the background, shaking his head sadly.

I cannot wait to see these boys live. I may pass out with joy.

GUYS!

Soooo.... I'm pretty nerdy. Like, no. Really, I am. 

How nerdy, you ask?

Well, today I was easing my hangover by slumming in the local comic store, Alternate Universe, bugging the owner and knocking things over with my crazy clumsy self and generally causing havoc. I'd picked up Doom Patrol 5 (WHY SO EXPENSIVE, GRAPHIC NOVELS?) and the new issue of Dark Tower and wasn't quite ready to venture back outside yet. So I kept poking through the collectibles and flipping through the posters and then I made this totally indecipherable noise and the owner looked up, all alarmed like oh god, what's she done now? Has she set things on fire?

THE ONLY THING THAT WAS SET ON FIRE WAS MY HEART. GUYS, SERIOUSLY.

To make a long story short, I am now the proud owner of an Umbrella Academy poster signed by our very own Gee Way, which I carefully lugged home in the crazy windy weather and up five flights of stairs and have hung in a position of honor above my bed.

I probably shouldn't be so insanely excited by this. But the Umbrella Academy, god. It's so fucking fantastic. Really and truly a work of art and brilliant, witty, fucking innovative as hell. Seriously, I am fuckin' ecstatic over here. I am even attracted to his ridiculous signature! GERARD WAY, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME.

Also, as a result, I am now broke. Yay for ramen!