Picture of Gerard Way from WWWY.
Listening to: The Sharpest Lives - MCR
Well. My migraines have been worse than usual lately. They give me really bad fatigue and brainfog
and make it hard to be productive. I've been managing to stay on top of studying and household chores despite them,
but if they get any worse I might have to take a trip to my neurologist to get back on preventive meds. For now
I'm trying to figure out if there is something I'm doing that is causing them to be worse. I think
my screentime might be too much. I've been working on the website a lot, and I do a good chunk of my schoolwork on my pc,
I watch youtube videos while I eat, I play videogames in my free time, I make mostly digital art.. So by
the end of the day I've racked up a good amount of screntime. I think I need to pick up something relaxing to
do that doesn't involve any devices. At first I thought about reading, but most of the stuff
I'm currently interested in (AKA Star Trek novels) is hard to get for cheap here in Italy. Sure,
I've found several PDFs of the novels online, but at that point I'm just adding
another activity that involves screentime to my daily routine.
My cousin lended me a fantasy book that I intended on reading,
but it's hard for me to get to it when my brain is constantly tuned on Star Trek and MCR (ooh we'll get to MCR alright later).
I think I might pick up another cross-stitching project. I finished the last one several months ago
and I think it was good for me. It was relaxing and helped me regulate my mood when I was stressed or having sensory issues.
So that might be the solution. I found a website that turns images into cross-stitching patterns, And it would be really cool
to get an artwork of mine or the MCR logo on a tote bag.
ALRIGHT. Let's get to MCR. Sooo.. When We Where Young festival happened. For context, MCR had not really played since
they finished their return tour that took place in 2022/2023. The only thing they had been booked for after that was two nights at WWWY,
on the 20 and 21 of october, in which they were going to perform their album The Black Parade in full.
So everyone and their mother in the fanbase had been anticipating the even, and the day finally came. AND IT WAS GREAT!!
I couldn't see the first night livestreamed, but I did manage to catch the second one!! And I was so exstatic.
The performance on both nights was incredible, and I can't wait for people to get back home and upload
the recordings of it on youtube so I can check it out from more angles. I'm so excited that my tummy aches and I want to pace around.
It was an amazing experience for me, but I think some fans where devastated by the end of it because they were expecting the band to announce or tease a new record.
Honestly I wasn't really expecting that to happen during the festival, so I wasn't disappointed at all.
It would have been odd for something that big to be announced during a festival, where the band
isn't the main focus and many people in the crowd aren't even fans.
I must say that I'm a bit sad that we have no more scheduled concerts of them to look foward to,
especially becuase there is a chance that WWWY will be their last one. I get why people
are distraught they didn't announce a new album or even nodge to it. Since the band reunited in 2019,
fans have been speculating about a possible new record, and everyone got their hopes up when
they released a single, Foundations of Decay, in 2022. Things were really looking up, until their producer,
basically the only one they ever had, died suddently in the middle of the tour.
So now we don't know if the possible new album will be delayed because of it, or if it will ever even happen.
There is a lot of stuff that suggests the album was in the making, and a lot of stuf suggesting it's not going to happen too,
but I won't get into it today or this blog post will end up being long as hell.
I'll be fine either way. I became a fan during the period the band had broke up, and I
never expected them to get back togheter, much less that I would get to see them play live.
So wether ot not they release new music I will be happy.
So I'm trying to be normal about MCR. Aside from that, things have been pretty routine.
I tried cooking a new dish: porkchops with honey and mustard sauce, and it came out really well!
I'll probably add it to the meals I cook regularly, because it's quick, easy, and, more importantly,
not carbs. Listen, I'm the last person in the world that would demonize carbs. But I cannot be eating
pasta and risotto every single meal, I need to get some protein somewhere. I would like to
get back to working out regularly sometime in the future, and when I was doing a lot of exercise
in the past the main issue I had was not eating enough protein, which was stunting my progress.
So if I could improve my diet now and be ready for when I'll be working out again it would be great.
And I got an haircut! It's a short mullet with longer hair in my sideburns area and short bangs.
I also got my roots bleached again and a fresh dye job while I was at the hairdresser. I've had my hair dyed
bright red for almost two years straight now, and I'm not getting tired of it.