- started writing graffiti when he was 7
- before gym class heroes took off he worked in a tattoo parlour, taught arts and crafts at a girls+boys club, and worked overnights at a gas station. all at once.
- attended art school for fine arts and illustration but dropped out; lived off the money he made selling paintings between quitting the 3 jobs above and gym class heroes taking off
- got his first tattoo when he was 14; it was a spray can and after he got it he realized he was one of the only people in his area who did graffiti and he was totally giving himself away, so he got it covered up
- when he plays shows he tries to make eye contact with as many people as possible to let them know he’s thankful they came to see him
- loves the movie grease and the tv show cheetah girls
- bites his nails
- very scared of aliens
- has ADD and anxiety and is kind of an imsomniac
- his pet bulldog is named stitch because he loves the movie lilo & stitch so much (and he has another dog named scrump)
- collects anime figurines
- loves his dad soooo much
- his feet are size 13??? wtf????
- super amazing with kids
- used to do rap battles. like serious rap battles. like he would travel into the city to do rap battles.
- wrote his snakes on a plane verse in the shower and recorded it in 15 minutes
- really really really wants to collaborate with andre 3000
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Find your art. If your art is banking, if your art is helping homeless people, if your art is picking up a brush; take that with you.
Gerard Way
What it means to submitter: 06/11/2014 Quote from when I saw Gerard in November last year at the 02 Academy in Oxford x
(via gwaypositivity)
im such a possessive person i just saw someone calling Karl Marx just “Karl” like they’re on a first name basis and i got jealous
LITERALLY POSSESSIVE OVER DADDY COMMUNISM! I THINK HE WOULD UH HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THIS!
u know what . i wish i had never posted this
more handy Queen anecdotes if you ever think they’re a serious band in any way:
1) roger locking himself in a cupboard to get his song as the b-side of bohemian rhapsody
2) freddie throwing a brick through their managers window because he walked off and left him at a restaurant alone #not glam
3) them all getting stuck in a lift because they started jumping up and down having just heard they got their first number 1 single
4) freddie calling his manager to get him out of michael jackson’s house immediately because michael kept bringing his llama into the recording stupid and it freaked him the fuck out and this is genuinely why freddie wasn’t on thriller
5) john coming up with the under pressure bassline then going out for pizza and forgetting it
6) freddie calling sid vicious simon ferocious
7) the new orleans jazz party which no one can actually remember
8) Roger and Brian getting into a fight and not stoping until they walked in on Freddie eating cereal in his underwear
9) “Freddie-poos, where are you?”
10) Police comming to break up a paty in the early 70′s (before they were famous) and Freddie playing nice and serving them tea laced with pot
11) Freddie and Brian signing girls’ butts
12) Brian sassing people on Twitter
13) The video for “I Want To Break Free”
14) Behind the scenes of “I’m Going Slightly Mad”
15) Freddie actually/probably wanting to buy the Hungarian Parliament
16) John’s secret cocktail bar behind his bass rig
17) When the guys used to visit Brian after his surgery and they used to made him laugh purposely, although it was very painful
John throwing peanuts at brian while brian was onstage doing his Brighton Rock solo.
Freddie getting his drink spiked and jumping up and down in the recycling bin yelling “I’M WHITE TRASH! I’M WHITE TRASH!” and laughing
When Freddie forgot his hair gel for a photo shoot and having to use lube which he just happened to have with him. And then commenting “what a waste” it was.
roger selling freddies fancy ass new jacket to a guy and freddie sprinting after said guy to get it back
freddie getting completely wasted before a show in 1985, stumbling onstage, laughing his ass off, and screaming “HELLO NEW ZEALAND, WE’RE GONNA HAVE A MOTHERFUCKER OF A TIME”
Rami Malek is really an icon….there he goes playing main character on a critically acclaimed hacker show….there he is alongside Ben Stiller as a cute pharaoh……there he is in some horror game about wendigos and serial killers or whatever Until Dawn was…….there he is as Freddie Mercury…….what can’t this man do
