Lukas Haas: The Patient of “The Black Parade”
Many of you have been asking, “Is Lukas Haas the character of ‘The Patient’ in the video for My Chemical Romance’s song, ‘The Black Parade’, directed by Samuel Bayer?” I don’t have any official confirmation yet, but it sure does look like our favorite little Amish murder witness all growns up, don’t it?
Anyone else hoping we can also get Henry Thomas into the mix?
Oh, and I know you’ve probably seen this already, but if you haven’t, here’s the album cover to The Black Parade, coming out next month:
Taking Back Sunday’s New Video: “Liar (Takes One to Know One)”
TBS has a new video for their song “Liar (It Takes One to Know One)”. It seems as though you cannot have a music video for your punk pop band unless the opening scene features someone hooked up to some type of medical machine (see MCR’s “The Black Parade” and The Academy Is…’s “The Phrase that Pays”).
In any case this video totally makes me think of A-Ha’s “Take On Me” meets Lit’s “Miserable” meets Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”. Do you agree? See for yourself:
WATCH: “Liar (Takes One to Know One)” by Taking Back Sunday: WINDOWS | QUICKTIME
Watch My Chemical Romance’s “The Black Parade” Video
It’s so epic and amazing! I can’t wait to see the second half with the infamous wall of fire!
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Adam Get Your Gun…and More Fun from the Boost Mobile Rock Corps Show
On Saturday I got a chance to go to the Boost Mobile Rock Corps concert at New York City’s famed Radio City Music Hall. This awesome event was the “thank you” given to the thousands of kids who did at least 4 hours of community service at select locations throughout NYC. What a great idea!
I was blown away by the sheer star power of the lineup. I mean it’s not every day that you get to see Nelly, Taking Back Sunday, Panic! at the Disco, and T.I. for FREE in one of the most beautiful music venues in the country. What a classy show.
The roster was pretty hip-hop heavy, with the aforementioned Nelly and T.I. opening and closing the show respectively, in addition to other big names like Kelis and Nas, Fabolous, Don Omar, Young Jeezy, Papoose, with MTV’s Wild ‘n’ Out star (who I’m pretty sure I have a raging crush on) Nick Cannon serving as emcee. I had a sneaking suspicion that most of the kids there were not super into emo-ish rock bands like TBS and Panic!, but boy was I wrong–
TBS had a pretty good crowd response. Sure it wasn’t as crazy as the first time I saw them, but it wasn’t as chilly of a reception as I first thought it would be. They went on during the middle of the show, with their flashing “TAKING BACK SUNDAY” sign lowering down from the ceiling as they came on stage.
By the time they played “MakeDamnSure”, lead singer Adam Lazzara had removed the jacket he was wearing to reveal that he was wearing an empty tan gun holster over his black button down shirt (!!!!). Later when talking to Gurj (who got mixed up in the “white people’s row”), she jokingly asked, “Who does he think he is? Carlos D.?!?!” Eggggzzactly.
Panic! was on second to last and had a ridiculously GREAT response. They opened up with “Lying Is the Most Fun that a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off” and during their big hit, “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies”, so many people were up on their feet! During the line where Brendon sings “what a shame the poor groom’s bride is a whore” he added the word “slut” after the phrase. There was some kid decked out in head-to-toe colorful BAPE-type clothing that was singing EVERY WORD of all the Panic! songs. Incredible! They rounded off their set with “Build God, Then We’ll Talk”.
WATCH: “Build God, Then We’ll Talk” by Panic! @ the Disco at BMRC
Lead singer Brendon Urie was doing the same over-the-top acting/singing that kinda disturbed me during the MTV VMA’s. (Thankfully there wasn’t a reapperance of that RIDIC black and red Mad Hatter’s hat.) I don’t remember his singing being so dramatic when I saw Panic! earlier this year at Nokia Theater, so methinks maybe all that singing on the road may have taken a toll on his voice.
Oh and I just have to say, little Ryan Ross looked adorable in a tastefull all-black suit.
The Cartel Contest: You Wrote In, You Won
I want to thank everyone for the great response I got to the contest to win the autographed copy of Cartel’s album, Chroma. You guys sure do love Cartel! The answer to the question of the name of the 31 Corn Lane bag the girl with the glasses wears in the “Honestly” video is…the Holly bag!
You guys are good. So good that almost all of you got the answer right, but I only had 5 signed copies to give away. But as a special bonus, I managed to weasel out one more copy, so there were actually 6 winners! The winners have already been notified and their prizes mailed out.
Look out for other contests the future. They’ll be equally as hot.
Panic! on the Cover of Spin…Me on the Inside
Wow! I just saw the October 2006 cover of SPIN with Panic! at the Disco on the cover. That is so rad. The boys get all A Clockwork Orange on us, and yes, it totally reminds me of the photoshoot that My Chemical Romance did for Kerrang! in late 2005 where they too dressed up like Alex and the droogs. (Gotta say, My Chem looked more authentic in the spot on outfits–suspenders and all.)
[SOURCE: PATD-FAN.com]
You can check out the tour gallery by Autumn de Wilde online right now on SPIN.com.
Also of note, if you look carefully at the piece on this year’s Warped Tour, you’ll see two of my photos from the Long Island stop (Everytime I Die and Aiden) in the story. Wooh!
Panic! are playing the Boost Mobile Rock Corps event in NYC tonight.
My Chemical Romance’s MTV2 $2 Bill Airs
Just a reminder…
My Chemical Romance will be on MTV2 on Saturday, September 16th at 8:00pm ET/PT performing new songs for their recent performance at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia. They will showcase new material from their upcoming album The Black Parade, coming Oct 24, for the latest installment of MTV2’s $2 Bill Concert series.
I got a chance to watch a rough cut of the performance and gotta tell you it’s total fun to watch. You will probably have heard most of the songs they perform, but it’s so awesome to watch people in the audience singing along to the all new songs. Way to go devoted fans!
Volunteer to Get a Ticket to a Free Taking Back Sunday/ Panic! at the Disco Concert in NYC
How cool is this? Boost Mobile RockCorps is in New York, are asking for volunteers to help clean up NY. They payoff? Those who donate their time will get a ticket to a hot concert at Radio City Music Hall on September 23, 2006.
According to the press release:
T.I., Panic! At the Disco, Young Jeezy, Taking Back Sunday, Fabolous, Don Omar and others will perform at this year’s New York City concert event on September 23 at the legendary Radio City Music Hall. The event will be hosted by Nick Cannon. The concert is in recognition of the 5,000 hard-working local youth who volunteered four hours of community service through BMRC to earn tickets to this ultra-exclusive event.
Check out the Boost Mobile RockCorps web site for more information and to sign up.
Contest: Win a Signed Copy of “Chroma” by Cartel
Hi guys! This is pretty cool. As you already know, I love Cartel after seeing them do a great mini-show for the VMA Kick Off Concert.
I like them so much I want to share the love. I have 5 autographed copies of Cartel’s album, Chroma, to give away to you. All you have to do is email cartel @ somorescene.com with the name of the 31 Corn Lane bag that the girl with the glasses is wearing in the Cartel video for “Honestly”:
WATCH: “Honestly” by Cartel
I’ll randomly pick 5 winners next Tuesday–it’s that easy. Good luck!
Pete Wentz’s Clandestine Industries Does Up NY Fashion Week
Hi guys. Just got back from the joint Clandestine Industries/ Yellow Fever fashion show at Capital here in NYC for Fashion Week. I’d never been to a fashion show before, so it was kinda exciting.
[WATCH THE VIDEO: Clandestine Industries fashion show highlights]
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz showed wears from his Clandestine fashion label…
What I didn’t realize about fashion shows is that they are worse than concerts. They start NO WHERE on time. They started letting people in around 8pm, but they didn’t start the show until 10:30 or so. It might have had something to do with the fact that none of the models were there around 8:30. I wanted to kill myself a little. Things got so desperate that I even found myself drinking free Red Bull and vodka, which is the world’s most disgusting tasting drink.
The show was being held at Capital, which is this fancy former bank on the Bowery in NYC. There was a runway set up and about 4 rows of chairs on either side. When people were getting seated, I saw this blonde girl looked like she got Mary-Kate’s hand-me-downs by wearing an oversized white shirt that was belted (a look I rocked when I was 10 years old) and I asked Jeff “Who the hell is that?” He didn’t know at first and then he was like, “OH! That’s Heidi!” I was like, “Who’s Heidi?” Then Jeff proceeded to point out that “Laguna Beach” alumn LC (Lauren Conrad) was there and that blonde girl was Heidi, the sorta annoying roomate of LC from MTV’s “The Hills”.
Then I noticed that LC and Heidi had cute matching blue and white striped bags that looked like they were designed by 31 Corn Lane. (As you may remember, 31 Corn Lane did a colaboration with Clandestine for a cute bag that will be sold later this year.) Then I noticed that some dude wearing a black hat was sitting next to them. Then I realized that dude was former Ashlee Simpson boy toy, Ryan Cabrera.
Jeff was using my little point-and-shoot cam, and I just went through the photos now and found this gem: a hysterical picture of Ryan Cabrera glaring right into the camera making a big frowny face. He’s got red eye so he looks really evil. Hahah.
Other noteable folks in the audience included Russell Simmons, Petra Nemcova, Lydia Hearst, the fake Paris Hilton, Natalie Reed, and Tyson Ritter of All-American Rejects–who looked ridiculously HOT in the John Bartlett show the day before. Yowzah!
The Clandestine fashion show didn’t really show off any new designs. Most of the stuff I’d seen before, some of it is not even available anymore, like the infamous gray and purple hoodie. Some of the highlights of the show was when Gabe Saporta of Midtown/ Cobra Starship walked out during “Staying Alive” by the Bee-Gees wearing the “Stay Gold” hoodie, and then when Liam McMullan started busting out flips:
Um…why was this boy so ridiculously pretty? Like lady-pretty. Geez.
Taking a bow to a Cobra Starship song…
After the final walk of the Clandestine show, we ended up backstage and I took the above shot of Pete and this photo of Gabe still sportin’ the Clandestine gear:
During the Yellow Fever fashion show, the song “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers was playing. I started singing along to it, and looked to my right and low-and-behold, I spied Pete Wentz ALSO singing along to the song. Apparently the Killers vs. Fall Out Boy hatefest seems to really be over …for now.
The Yellow Fever show litterally ended with a bang–as yellow and pink confetti were shot out of cannons from all corners of the stage, models brandishing silver automatic weapons came out with Yellow Fever designer Jamison Ernest with a bag over his head and they proceeded pretended to shoot him down. It certainly got my attention, and it was kinda awesome. Bang bang!
More photos…
Tyson Ritter of the All-American Rejects sat in the front row and listened to “Move Along” being played during the show…
Uber-model (and possible James Blunt main squeeze) Petra Nemcova buddied up with Russell Simmons…
and Ryan Cabrera kicked back and enjoyed the show sitting next to Heidi and LC from MTV’s “The Hills”.
I also ran into Trent from Pink Is the New Blog…who mentioned that I should check out MisShapes because Kelis was making an apperance…which she did, but I got there a little too late to witness it. That’s what happens when you eat dinner at 1am. I did get to see her, after her two gigantic bodyguards allowed for some photos to be taken.
More peeps…
Josh Ingber from The Upwelling mentioned to me that the last time he was on one of my sites he was wearing a backpack. I would like us all to take a moment to remember that JOSH WORE A BACKPACK out to a nightclub. Thank you. Next time, fannypack.
Um, have you guys read the hilarious camp note that Midtown’s Rob Hitt wrote to his mom in 1993? If you haven’t, you must read it now.
