If I’m being totally honest, I’m at a point in my life where the first thing I think of when someone mentions World War II – specifically D Day – is this gem of a music video. Then I think of Saving Private Ryan and then I think of my grandmother, who remembers seeing troops […]
Tag: 9/11
A Word on Today and Some Other Days
The ‘start’ of My Chemical Romance has always been 11th September 2001. Unless you think it though, anyway, and then it’s more “sometime between 9/11 and 23rd July 2002 when their first album came out” (9/11 was the catalyst but I kind of think that it took five people making noise to properly get it going, […]
10 Years, 10 Days: Old People Are Allowed to Get a Little Off Topic and Reminiscent.
It’s my birthday today, so I thought I’d take a moment and talk about myself. Well, more specifically, how I came to know My Chem. Since you all, obviously, really want to know. I was eleven, and studying for entrance exams for the school I’m at now. I’m not quite sure how it happened, but […]
10 Years, 10 Days: Well Let’s Go Back to the Middle of the Day that Starts It All
Everyone knows the story of how My Chem formed. We can’t not, with every article alluding to ‘the Jersey rockers’ East Coast beginnings, when vocalist Gerard Way formed the band after witnessing the Twin Towers fall at 9/11′. So most people call today the unofficial birthday of the band, although they say everything really started to come […]
This Is Probably the Only Blog Post You’ll Ever Read Linking My Chemical Romance and the 1947 Polish Elections
It’s become something of tradition, I think, to blog around this week every year. Not because I lost someone on 9/11. I was only five years and three hundred and sixty-four days old when it happened, after all… Most people my age probably can’t even remember it. I know a girl at my school who […]
I Accrued an Understanding of the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
Translation: I understood how to name hydrocarbons. There is a war in Afghanistan, right? On the 11th September 2001 al Qaeda crashed a couple of aeroplanes into the Twin Towers in New York. Apparently they were from Iraq. I think I prefer learning about hydrocarbons.