postcard sent by elliot smith to friend sean croghan after moving from portland to la c. 1999
Interviewer: Do you think suicide is courageous or cowardly? Elliott: It’s ugly and cruel and I really need my friends to stick around, but dying people should have that right. I was hospitalized for a little while and I didn’t have that option, and it made me feel even crazier. But I prefer not to appear as some kind of disturbed person. I think a lot of people try to get mileage out of it, like, “I’m a tortured artist” or something. I’m not a tortured artist, and there’s nothing really wrong with me. I just had a bad time for a while.
Gerard Way releasing new comic series, "Paranoid Gardens" part one (of six) in comic shops on July 17.
Here is the Harold and Jude’s “my sweetheart” scene if anybody is looking for it, i thought this song would fit Jude’s inner thoughts well
Gerard Way as Joan of Arc, 2022.
When Fiona Apple sang, “How can I ask anyone to love me, when all I do is beg to be left alone,” and when Mitski sang, “you’re growing tired of me, and all the things I don’t talk about,” and when Julien Baker sang, “it’s not easy when what you think of me is important, and I know it shouldn’t be so damn important, but it is to me,” and when Elliott Smith sang, “I’m alone but that’s okay, I don’t mind most of the time; I don’t feel afraid to die,” and when the Front Bottoms sang, “sometimes you get sad when we’re together because you’re not sure if you’ll miss me when I’m gone,” and when
jude expressing his anxiety about willem not cuddling him once when they were sleeping is the reason i cry myself to sleep every night