First of all, I think read the word "fucktard" about fifty times and I didn't even read half of the comments. I didn't know it was such a mainstream word...

Second, I realized that on every single webpage, that's not a MCR fan based site, the same discussion occur every single time! Some fan (times hundred) writes "ZOMG!! MCR IS SO NOT EMO!!!!!!!" and then a most likely hater writes back "Fuck off, they're emo and deal with it" (that was a very nice version of their replies).

SO WHAT IF MCR IS EMO?! I couldn't care less and thank god I saw this comment on the Kerrang! page saying something like "Who cares if they're emo. As long as you like their music it shouldn't matter what label they have". THANK YOU whoeveryouare!! This MCR-is-so-fucking-emo-no-they're-not discussion is getting old. No wait, it's getting ancient.

If you're a fan of the band and their music (hopefully not just the looks) then you don't care if people label them as emo. Deal with it like a normal person and just shut up.
If you're a hater and only leave ugly comments about how stupid, fucktards MCR fans are just... don't say anything, you only look really... well, stupid.
Then back to the fans: if the haters really can't keep their mouths closed, you don't really have to answer back at them. Just ignore them and they will after a while grow tired and stop leaving these lame comments :]

Got it?
Good.

That's all I had to say.

And if anyone has forgotten or misunderstood me here: I'm a big fan of My Chemical Romance and I can't wait for their new album! :D

2. I've been painting my room with mom lately (see picture) and it's finally done! No more painting ceiling white, walls white or orange! Or paining the door white... Mom said I can move in tomorrow and my reaction was pretty much only "Whoo yee... okay then". Why? I don't know, I guess it's the smell of painting that will only give me headaches. But I was just in the bathroom when she told me she had hung up the lift-curtains (or whatever you call them) so I went to take a look and suddenly my mind changed. I changed. I want to move in there tomorrow! So now I hope I will.

3. Just wanted to say good morning/day/night to everyone, depending on where you live! Tonight I will have 2am as a goal - will I fall asleep earlier than 2am? I sure hope so. Last night I got only 5 hours of sleep so I've been grumpy all day - up until I had my daily chat with Estaschia and that totally cheered me up because she's way awesome!

Aaaanyway, good night from me! ;D

RULES:
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds!


IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Sympathy - Billy Talent

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Time After Time (cover) - Quietdrive

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Tie Her Down - Senses Fail

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Homecoming - Hey Monday

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Over My Head (Cable Car) (cover) - A Day To Remember

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
The Show Must Go On - Queen

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Spread Legs Not Lies - The Blackout

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Life At Stake - Wetnurse

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Off The Heezay - Bring Me The Horizon

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BFF?
Waste Land (Live Acoustic) - 10 Years

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Sugar We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Shadows - 12 Stones

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Emptiness - Silver

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Pretty Handsome Awkward - The Used

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Halo - Beyonce

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
So Much Of Not Enough - Neverstore

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Save You - Simple Plan

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Hope In Devotion - Before Their Eyes

WHAT SONG WILL BE THE SUBJECT WHEN YOU REPOST?
The Way We Are - Cinema Bizarre

When I was gone for Spain I was away for 14 days, but yet I feel like I've missed so much more this time. I see the notes I've received and they make no sense and the comments also don't make any sense. My friends updates... you guessed it, don't make sense.

So strange! But it might be because I now have a headache, I think I'm hungry, I know I'm thirsty and I lack jsut about 12 hours of sleep from all the days I've been gone (hooray to waking up at 9 or 10 everyday when I usually sleep till 1pm!)

So if anyone feel like feeding me with updates from the previous 5 days - be my guest!

Have to go unload my bag now so mom can do laundry :p

Secondly: I just dyed my hair red again :D Yay

But then over to the real topic of this journal. Last week (don't remember what day) this guy called me because he'd been tipped about me, and he asked if I wanted to take pictures of band/crowd at Malakoff Rockfestival!

Quick about Malakoff: Norwegian, slightly small 2-day festival, only 30 minutes away with car from where I live. Good Norwegian bands playing!

Anyway, he asked and I said yes. Of course I said yes. I was actually going to volunteer at the festival to sell merch and such, but now I'll take pictures with Linda :D I feel like I've been upgraded or something...

And it's Friday and Saturday. So I won't be here this weekend until Sunday... I just hope I won't take only crap pictures xD That will be embarrassing... But I'll try my best! And as much as I know now, I can use the photos I take so maybe I will post some (if I'm happy with them, ofc).

You see, my mom have decided to paint my room - with my help of course - and it's to my great pleasure! I'm tired of the turquoise walls and pink curtains with kissy-lips on. Let's face it now while we're still young - I'm not a teenie anymore. I hate it, just as much as I hate ABBA.

Anyway, I was cleaning and I really suck at cleaning away things. My great best friend, Estaschia, have been informed about this quite a "few" times these last days. I can't throw away much without thinking "Hmm... what if I will need this in a couple years? I'll just keep it, you never know". And you know what? I don't think it's healthy to think like that. So my cleaning started with that, but ended with just throwing out most things I found lying around.

I came across a couple "funny" things and very many "creepy wtf-are-those-doing-here!" things. My school diary from 06/07 was a funny thing.  I made my own cover that year and, with my big obsession of MCR, Mr. Way was on the cover! Along with some stickers that I'm now slightly embarrassed about. That year I wrote every single day. I realized that I didn't do much, but my life has changed a lot since that time.
Two big (musical) happenings in 2007: first and second MCR concert. First festival trip.

And now my room is more of a mess than it was before I started cleaning! Seriously, how is that possible? There are just so many things to sort - what to keep, what to throw out. That raging darned thought that makes me want to keep something never goes away either. Anyway, I moved into my old room for now. It's pink and purple ... and I feel really bad for all those people who have been sleeping here the last years! These walls are ... ugh!

Oh! While my mom was getting the "new" bed ready for me I was walking around wiping away some dust and was remembered why I don't like to clean. It's so dusty! Ew. And yes, I sound stuck up and all that, but seriously. Dust is gross and spiders are even worse.

But I will give you some advice:
Don't ever let it be more than two weeks between every cleaning session!
When my room is ready again I will try my best to clean more often. Hopefully I will have it my way and barely stuff in any things. It will make it much easier to clean.

While I'm at it - here's my ideas for my room! And these aren't any of my mom's ideas.
- The walls will be painted white - or well, with the color named "chi". It's grayish white, apparently. But one wall - the one with the window - will be orange! BAM!
- My bed will be placed in the middle of the room. Not against a wall or anything. I have to try out something new. I'm just a little afraid I will fall out of the bed all the time. Then I would have to shove it against a wall...
- Below the window there will be some sort of shelves or a drawer or something, in black. That's where I'll keep my school books, my Twilight-saga and the good CD's.
- I want to paint my roof black - but my mom won't let me -_______- she won't even paint the floor black. What a buzzkill.
- There won't be any kind of decoration. The only decoration I will allow is posters!!!!

I think that was all...

Tomorrow I will post lots of pictures and reply to all your notes ^-^

xoxo

See you in 13 days, unless our condo has wireless internet :D

Hope you all have a lovely summer so far

xoxo Kristine

I'm not good at explaining, but the system here (about second/twelfth graders like me) works that so we have to have one exam - writing or presentation - but not both. And because I didn't get to write my exam, I had to wait a month to find out what subject I'd get. My greatest wish was to get instrument, but no. Not with my luck. I got music history instead. But that's fine with me.

As I was saying: I went to school at 10am and found out my subject was music history, so I am currently sitting at the kitchen table at home, correcting a presentation about Bach's instrumental music from the 17^th century. That's my main project, but I also have to listen to 15 ancient songs that I picked out a couple months ago and I have to memorize them till Tuesday (for my exam). Songs like "Cannon in D major" by Pachebel, "Overture to The Flying Dutchman" by Wagner, "The Surprise, Symphony No.94: 2.movement" by Mozart. Familiar to some, very unfamiliar to others...  

Memorize as in: remember what song is it by listening to it, remember who composed it, what genre the song is, what era it's from and then I also have to remember some important facts about the era.  I just hope I manage to remember all the facts about everything and manage to separate them from each other because I only get questioned about one song.

Soon is summer and vacation for me as well!!!! :D

I should get back to my work, I have a lot to correct and learn. It's not like I've been paying much attention to my teacher in class, so I have a lot to catch up on when it comes to Gregorian song and other stuff we learned in the fall.

 Concert: My Chemical Romance
             The Hove(d)scene, The Hovefestival, June 30^th 2007
Audience: 12.000

As the very last headliner band to perform at the Hove(d)stage at Hove 2007, is New Jersey band My Chemical Romance. It is the first time they play in Norway during their six years as a band, but has visited Sweden and Denmark before. They are on tour after the latest album The Black Parade was released in October 2006, the largest and most bombastic album that the band has ever released.

The most famous songs, such as I'm Not Okay (I Promise), Helena, Welcome To The Black Parade and Famous Last Words, are some of repertoire during the evening. Not all songs are taken from the latest album; some are from a the CD Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004). But none of the songs from the debut album I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love (2002) is played.

First song out is This Is How I Disappear, and it is a good opening song. It gets the fans on the ground to jump high, scream and sing along. With 12,000 in the audience, it's very cramped for space, but everyone gets to jump, and everyone find space to wave their hands high in the air when the lead singer Gerard Way command them. Up on stage, it is much better place and that is Way and Frank Iero (rhythm guitarist) happy about. The guitarist who only measures 1 meter and 50 centimeters (4 feet, 9 inches) up from the ground jump and bounce around on stage as a four who has received too much candy.

Guitarist Ray Toro plays many familiar guitar solos. The first is towards the end of the Dead!. Many of the others is to be heard in the songs I'm Not Okay (I Promise), Welcome to the Black Parade, Teenagers, and You Know What They do to Guys Like Us In Prison. One song after the other dances Toro's fingers up and down the guitar in a quick speed. He has experience with the guitar since he was a teenager and has a reputation saying that he is a musical genius. Iero also has played guitar for many years, and My Chemical Romance is not the first band he is a member of.

My Chemical Romance knows how to give the fans a great stage show. Smoke machines and colorful lights help. Back on the stage is a large cylinder in which drummer Bob Bryar is placed on top, this means that he is easy to spot. And this large platform does not stand still - it spins every time Bryar's changes drum kits, as he alternates on two. And behind the drummer is a huge "back drop" with the band's logo on. Occasionally, in between the songs, Way speaks to the audience and ask questions about how the festival week has been, and of course everyone screams back to indicate that they've had a fantastic week with a lot of good music to listen to. So, if you do not think the music lives up to expectations, it is still much to lay your eyes on. 

The first time My Chemical Romance played in Norway, they were not completed as a band. A little "changes" had been made. Matt Cortez stepped in for bassist Mikey Way - who's the vocalist's little brother. The original bass player took a little break from the tour because he got married earlier this year and would take a break to spend time together with his wife. It is not only Cortez who has stepped in, behind the keyboard, we could see James Dewees from the band Reggie and the Full Effect. He has followed My Chemical Romance for many months to play keyboard for them. On the latest album is the piano and keyboard sound effects used a lot, and it is the first time the band has with a sixth man on tour to get include these sounds.

Although the band is known for their strong texts with rough sounds, My Chemical Romance also has some rock ballads under their sleeves. I Don't Love You, Sleep and Cancer are such songs. Only instrument that is used when Cancer is performed is the piano and reinforces the very atmosphere that is in the song. The song is about "The Patient" (the person that The Black Parade is based on) who has cancer and will die, and the song describe how he handles that. While this song is performed it is only the vocalist and the pianist who's on stage, it is completely dark around Gerard Way and the fans are almost silent. Only by listening to the song you can hear the concert begins to approach the end. The whole band comes out on stage again when the last chord is played and the last note is sung, and they play one of the most famous songs from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Helena. Among some of the fans at the front rows tears runs down their cheeks as they sing along. They know that Helena is a tribute song and a song that means a lot to the band. It was written after the grandmother of Gerard and Mikey Way died. She supported the band and gave them, for example, their first tour-bus.

The last statement Way throws out is "Thank you for an amazing first date, Norway", and with that the band walk of the Hove(d)stage. The fans continues to scream and clapp for a long time afterwards, in the hope that they will come out again for an encore. But eventually they realize that the show is over and teenagers stroll slowly but surely away from the scene.

I want to "thank" Google Translate for making the translation way easier for me. It took me five minutes to translate it all xD Also, thank you Linda for having all the songs from the concert posted on her page!

Anyway; I haven't gotten my grade yet, but my teacher told me it would be a 4 or 5 (something like a C or B). I didn't really expect anything better :]