Gerard Way: Emo Goddess

Chapter thirteen: My own personal introduction into the world of emo. Enjoy.

And then I discovered the shits, like, the four months after this happened while playing a video game similar to GTA called Saints Row II. It has a radio station called Gen X and that is where I discovered this beautiful thing called emo.

There I was, running over hookers in my stolen minivan, trying to find a nice station to listen to. I kept skipping when suddenly I heard this beautiful guitar thingy and I stopped swiping stations and pulled my van over.

I still remember the feeling of listening to something so beautiful as the beginning riff to Teenagers for the first time. I absorbed the sounds of the instruments and felt a little sad when the song was over. I went to the nearest music store (on the game) and bought it and listened to it over and over until I got the lyrics memorised.

I went back to Gen X one day, trying to see if there was any more music that would sound like heaven in my ears. The first thing that came on was Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off by Panic! At The Disco.

This one I liked because I was thirteen and it said harlequin and I was (still am really) really into Batman, also it said fuck like twenty million times so it was cool with me.

It also had Misery Business by Paramore, and a lot of cool stuff. It's a nice game, would recommend.

But yes. This was my little beginning to emo. Even if I never heard of MCR before, I would have eventually because, I know this sounds weird, but when I was younger I wanted to be emo. Like, I really liked the way they dressed and I really liked the hair and tattoos and piercings and shit and I wanted to be like that. I really want sleeve tattoos and Frank's old piercings. That would be pretty epic.

But alas, as fate would have it, I have a needle and blood phobia so i am scared that I will never accomplish those dreams. Fuck me, right.