So on my birthday, which was November 16th, my parents gave me a gift card that had enough money on it to buy a glass working torch. They would've just bought me the torch but they didn't know which one to get. So I will finally be able to make glass things over the summer because I'll have my very own torch to work on!

Other than that my life has been pretty hectic, which is making me find very little time to work on my art stuff while still finishing all my homework.

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Name: Joan

Age: 16 (17 on Nov 16th)

Height: Short, 5ft 2in

Eye color: It changes randomly from blue to green

Ethnic background: I'm half Greek, 3/8th Irish, and 1/8th German

Label me: serpentine (my friend Kayte is in the room and decided that)

Country: US

Siblings: 3

Four words that describe me: Random, Yoda (it's a nickname), side-splitting, music lover

Four things I like: Music (all genres except rap), Sharpies!, my friends, and food

Four things I hate: Fruit (I'm allergic to it), ignorant people, arogant people, The Daily Mail
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Favorites:

TV show: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Are You Afraid of The Dark?, or Whitest Kids You Know

Anime: No preference

Video game: Legend of Zelda Ocarina Of Time

Board game: Candy Land

Family member: My dog

Thing to wear: Jeans and a t-shirt? Or my pajamas?

Food: Kapama (It's Greek and I don't know how to spell it but that's how it sounds)

Drink: Sparkling water

Ice Cream Flavor: French vanilla

Time of day: Twilight

Season: Fall

Band: The Clash

Animal: Dolphin

Celebrity: Tre Cool

Movie: Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, The Boondock Saints, Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1966 Batman (with Adam West), or Alice In Wonderland

Magazine: Kerrang!

Comic book: Batman

Holiday: Halloween

Artist: I'm not sure




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What's better?

Pirates or Ninjas: Undecided, both are awesome

Ninjas or Samurai: Ninjas

Chicken or Turkey: Turkey

The 60's, or 80's: Weird, I love both those era's but I'd have to pick the 60s

Comedy movies or Horror: I love both

Cake or Pie: Cake! My mom makes the worlds greatest cake

Halloween or Christmas: Halloween, I love dressing up in crazy costumes

Sunny day or Rainy day: Rainy

Lots of money or lots of friends: Definitely friends.

Cats or dogs: Dogs

Egypt or India: Um...?

Paris or Rome: Paris, men in Italy are known for being incredibly sexist so I think I'd be happier in Paris

Sports or Fashion: Neither, I don't care about fashion and the only thing in sports I care about is The Chicago Cubs

Computer games or Console games: Console.

Markers or Crayons: Markers, but Crayons are fun.

Mp3 or iPod: iPod

Elves or Vampires: Vampires, I guess, but both are awesome

Unicorns or Fairies: I can't decided, I've always loved fairies but unicorns are so awesome

Black or White: Black, white is very empty looking

Daydreams or Nightmares: Daydreams, nightmares can be too scary

Dresses or skirts: Dresses, since I only ever wear either when I'm dressing up all fancy-like

Pants or shorts: Pants

Makeover or Spa treatment: I've never done either

Crying or Throwing up: Crying, throwing up feels horriblr

Randomness or Mundanely: Random!

Stars or Fireworks: Fireworks on occasion but stars are beautiful

Fire or Ice: Fire

New shoes or New underwear: Shoes..

Gum or Lollipops: Gum

Cash or Change: I guess cash... but money is money

Purses or Backpacks: Shoulder bags.

Taxi or Bus: Bus

Going to the movies, Renting movies: Going to the movies with friends, renting if it's just me and my mom

Sleeping in, Waking up early: Sleeping in!

Bacon or Sausage: Neither

Coffee or Tea: Neither

Soda or Juice: Soda, I'm allergic to fruit

Muffins or Cookies: Cookie

Hugs or Kisses: Hugs, I'm a huggy person.

Okay, the end

Finally my computer stopped being so mean to me and I was able to upload my newest peices AND edit my photography 1 photos so the matt board was cropped out! I'm right now taking a short break from studying for finals and enjoying the fact that my mom is willing to give me anything while I'm studying (like yummy Whoopie Pie, and if you don't know what that is I suggest you go to Foodstuffs and get one because they are amazing. It looks like a giant oreo but the chocolate cookie part is chocolate cake and the white stuff is like icing)!
I also went to The Rocky Horror Picture Show midnight showing last night (I go to the performance every month) and it was amazing! It was trashy prom themed and I got sat on by Frank, practically molested by Trixie (girl who sings opening song) and once again Eddie jumped on me when he died! *le sigh* Life is good.

So I've been trying to update my photography pictures by changing the files to versions of the pictures with the matt-board cropped out (because they look nicer that way) but the files won't load it just does that annoying circle thing! Gah! I'm getting so angry at this!

So if you've seen the MCR portrait Kayte (fanggrrl666) and I made then you might be wondering about the story behind it. I've had a few people ask me so here is the story:

I went to an MCR concert on Friday, April 18th, at the congress theater (their second concert there). I took some pretty great photos (links are at the bottom) and had a great time. They played with David Costa (who I hadn't heard of, and I wasn't impressed by), Drive By (who sold their own merch after their set so you could go and meet them personally!), and Billy Talent (I already liked them and they were great live).

It was an eventful night though. So here's how it went:

We arrived at the concert and met a lady, Carolyn, who works for my dad. Her friend owns the congress theater and we were supposed to go and meet MCR before the show so we walked behind the theater to the backstage entrance only to be told that although my name and the three other girls with me had our names on the list Carolyn's name had not been placed on the list (instead Max's (a guy who was originally going to be the one to get us backstage but couldn't since his wife was starting chemo the day before) name was on the list) and we couldn't go in without Max.

Right after we turned away who walks out? Bob Bryar. I looked at him and my eyes widened because he was so close that if I was to raise my arm I could touch him. He saw my eyes widened and looked nervous. I didn’t want to bother him since he had obviously come out into the alley for a reason so I turned back to my friend Kayte and when I turned away I saw him visibly relax, glad I wasn't going to go up to him. He walked towards some people and we were told we had to leave the alley so we walked behind Bob and a girl in the group of people he was taking to goes "Bob they're following you" in a teasing voice.

We walk back to the front only to find out that because of the name change we can’t get our tickets from Will Call and can’t get in. So Carolyn calls her friend, who calls his friend that’s working at the theater that night and his friend comes around and brings us to the back and literally sneaks us in the back entrance. It was pretty cool. So we got inside and were pretty close up when David Costa hit the stage. I've never left my seat during a concert before but David Costa were so bad (in my opinion, sorry if anyone likes them) that me and my three friends (Kayte, Kelsey, and Caitlyn) left and went to sit on the stairs in the front room.

We went back when Drive By was starting to set up. They're really good, but didn't have very good stage presence. They're new to touring though so I'm sure they'll improve in that area. They filmed the crowd a bit (I'm sure they're making a small video like Kut U Up did on the Pop Disaster Tour) and they're performance was filmed as well.

Then Billy Talent came on, also didn't have great stage presence but were great, I already was a fan before the show though.

Then MCR came on. Caitlyn and I pushed up to the front until there were only two people in front of us and enjoyed the show. While they didn’t play any new material off the upcoming album they did play Head First for Halos and Desert Song (those two made my night). During Desert Storm both Ray and Frank sat down to play.

Mikey was wearing a shirt that read Mikey Fuckin’ Way in big block letters. You could get that shirt at the merch stand as well as one that had Ray on it that said Toro above the picture of Ray playing guitar on stage. I’m betting that they’re having a contest to see who’s shirt sells more (that’s just my personal thoughts though).

By the way, at the concert Gerard said something that REALLY amused me right before they played I'm Not Okay.

He started it out sort of like the video saying,

"We like D&D, comics, fangoria.... We're never gonna make it, but I don't want to make it. I just want to DANCE!" and then the song started but I was laughing to hard to sing along because he said it REALLY excited-like. Probably the best moment on stage of the night.

Someone also threw a stuffed animal unicorn on stage which Gerard picked up and said "A unicorn! Mikey loves these! Don't you Mikey?" in a teasing voice.

After the concert Carolyn and the guy who owns the congress theater takes us to a place where the band was supposed to sign stuff for some fans. We waited a good 45 minutes while the equipment was loaded into trucks because apparently they couldn’t come and sign anything till it was all loaded up. When that happened it was 11:35 p.m. which is curfew for the city of Chicago (if you are under 18) and that means the band couldn’t come out a sign anything since it wouldn’t be fair to the fans under 18 that couldn’t stay out.

We saw Gerard and Ray talk to the security guards about coming and signing any way but the guards wouldn’t have it. They came over and told all the fans to leave. My friend Kayte and I had made the MCR guys something (which is the glass art portrait of them) and the security guard gave it to Bob for us (the guys said thank you through the security guards to us).

And we went home some what disappointed but it wasn’t like the MCR guys didn’t want to come and see us because we heard and saw them argue with the guards. These things happen.



And that’s it.

Since this has become an unbearably long update I’ll stop here.



Here are the links to the pics from the concert:

[link] -->Frank(in cowboy hat), Bob, Mikey, and Gerard

[link] -->Gerard, Bob, and Mikey


[link] Ray Toro (bad shot but my only on of him since I was like right in front of Frank so I was far away from him)


[link] -->Frank, Mikey, and Bob


[link] -->Gerard, Mikey, and Bob


[link] -->Gerard "conducting" the auidence, having them sing the beginning of Welcome To The Black Parade