Yeah, I think Gerard is definitely the type to have some fun with melodrama. Two words: band. uniforms.
Yes, this. Ailleann explains it better than me.
Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.
'Out Of Gas'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Amy - May 15, 2008 6:09:14 am PDT #8323 of 10003
Because books.
Steph L. - May 15, 2008 6:10:13 am PDT #8324 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I hope you guys get what I'm saying -- I'm NOT harshing on them for taking the piss; I think it's what makes the album work so well.
Shir - May 15, 2008 6:10:45 am PDT #8325 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Nick Cave has said he's surprised more people don't find his lyrics funny, because he intends them to be....
Heard that too. Personally, I think it all sums up to what my once-boarding-school-roommate said: he who has more endurance has more joy (grammar?). (I must say this sentence is really different in Hebrew: it's something along the lines of "he who has more strength to suffer has more strength to be happy").
Then again, she was the one who took one too many Xanax few weeks later, so I wouldn't listen to anything she has to say.
Sophia Brooks - May 15, 2008 6:13:36 am PDT #8326 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm NOT harshing on them for taking the piss
I think I was mis-reading "taking the piss" as "making fun of", rather than "having fun with". Ah the internets....
Sophia Brooks - May 15, 2008 6:15:46 am PDT #8327 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Is this where I confess that even though a) I like Fall Out Boy , b) I do like the song Hum Hallelujah and c) I know that Pete Wentz actually did (Allegedly) take an overdose while listening to Jeff buckley's Hallelujah in a van and that is what the song is about.... I STILL get the giggles when the Cohen's Hallelujah part of the song comes around. Because it was in so many montages.
Amy - May 15, 2008 6:20:51 am PDT #8328 of 10003
Because books.
I think I was mis-reading "taking the piss" as "making fun of", rather than "having fun with". Ah the internets....
This was my take, too. And no, Tep, I get that you like it, and you're not harshing on it! (Also, isn't Teenagers awesome? And House of Wolves?)
Steph L. - May 15, 2008 6:23:41 am PDT #8329 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I think I was mis-reading "taking the piss" as "making fun of", rather than "having fun with". Ah the internets....
This was my take, too.
I could be using it wrong; I always thought that "taking the piss" was the equivalent of "not taking what you're saying/doing seriously," with an element of poking fun at youself for the level on which your words/actions *could* be interpreted as DEADLY SERIOUS.
Also, isn't Teenagers awesome?
LOVE!!!
And House of Wolves?
Hell yes, it is!
Trudy Booth - May 15, 2008 6:37:08 am PDT #8330 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Gerard is going to go as big and fabulous as he can. My guess is he'd consider "over the top" to be both a fair assessment and a compliment.
Some interview somewhere mentions some exchange along the lines of:
"Are we taking this too far?" "Yes. Can we take it further?"
lisah - May 15, 2008 6:38:13 am PDT #8331 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
I know that Pete Wentz actually did (Allegedly) take an overdose while listening to Jeff buckley's Hallelujah in a van and that is what the song is about....
Is it wrong of me to think that this is HILARIOUS?! (Knowing he survived obviously.) sheesh!
P.M. Marc - May 15, 2008 6:39:24 am PDT #8332 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Steph, I would say that they're pretty sincere about TBP, but also self-aware enough to recognize it as totally over the top. The stage shows for it had fire and tickertape, for crying out loud.
So while their tongues were not near their cheeks, it doesn't have the self-importance that ALW crap does.