#matt clegg

[rassilonwatchathon]

It's the 9 year anniversary of The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon, so this month we're sharing our older episodes!

FOURTH DOCTOR SEASON FIFTEEN (December 4th, 2018-February 16th, 2019) Episode 92- Horror of Fang Rock (Just This Once, Everybody Dies) w/ Brian Snape & Adam Clegg Episode 93- The Invisible Enemy (A Penny in Your Thoughts For Scale) Christmas Special - The Klepton Parasites (Toni and Joe Blast You to Atoms) PATREON EXCLUSIVE Bonus Episode 3- The Doctor in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (Doctor Who: Origins) Episode 94- Image of the Fendahl (Big Finish Pitch Session) w/ @radiantbaby Episode 95- The Sun Makers (Terrance Dicks is a Coward) w/ Nathan Laws Episode 96- Underworld (Minions: Origins) Episode 97- The Invasion of Time (Hey Thanks, Matt) w/ @mgoldentumbls

[icouldntfindquiet]

Who’s your dream guitar and drums for Catfish? Besides Bondy and Bob 💔

My joke answer: Can I just swap them and put Bob on guitar and Bondy on drums? 😂😂

Disclaimer: I’m not a musician so I can’t tell you who’s good and who’s great. Literally anyone who plays is better than me. 😂

Drums

Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) - I’ve seen his name thrown around and I commend his ability to enhance their changing sound.

Bryan Devendorf (The National) - Their newer stuff isn’t as drum heavy but if you listen to their older songs, there are some memorable drums for sure (ex. Squalor Victoria).

^ I’m sure Van and Benji would be ecstatic to work with them. 😁

But I’m also partial to the familiar faces such as Greenie (drummed for The Safest Place’s first gig), Joe Cox (I haven’t seen him play but he was Bob’s drum tech), and Joe Clegg (helped Bob with his kit swap 🥲).

Guitar

Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National) - They’re twins and maybe since there’s two of them, that’s why they sound so great?! They created the guitar solo for The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness which is one of my absolute favorites!! Probs not heavy enough for CATB though. 😂

Guitar solo @ 2:00

Billy Bibby (judge away 😂) - This would never happen but The Balcony is my favorite album. Billy did a fantastic job.

I can’t think of any guitarists CATB had in their circle. Were there any? 🤨 I also need to listen to heavier stuff bc my picks aren’t strong at all! 🙈

Thanks for the ask! What’s your dream?

[themovieblogonline]

“His Mother,” a 13 minute and 39 second short film that is Oscar eligible, stars Jennifer Lawrence look-alike Bethany Anne Lind as the mother of a young man who is threatening violence at his college, Southern Tech. Young Harrison Miller, age 19, 5’ 10”, has left a variety of clues that he is about to explode, saying things like “The end has come” and “None of you ever gave me a chance.” Maia Scalia wrote and directed this high tension race to save lives, She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of Art and has worked on 2022’s “Call Jane” with Director Phyllis Nagy and star Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver in 2022, a film about the fight for abortion rights in pre-Roe days, which would be just as timely right about now.  Ms. Scalia’s choice of Bethany Anne Lind to play “His Mother” is fortunate, because she does a believable job as a half-hysterical mother on her way to try to save her son from committing murder Bethany Anne Lind played Grace Young in “Ozark” and Sandra in “Stranger Things.” It is a tribute to Bethany Anne’s emoting while behind the wheel of her car and racing to the scene of the potential crime that this short works at all.  It was the third (of five) that had significant—or all, as in this case—portions shot inside a vehicle. Having written a few screenplays, I understand how tempting it is to use a car or a truck for the setting, as it certainly helps keep expenses down and frees up the set decorator and art decorator and lots of other sorts (not much need for unique costumes, either) and, consequently, helps keep the cost(s) of a production down. We never actually see her son, Harrison, or his preoccupied father, Jason Miller, whom Bethany Anne talks to on the phone. The voice of father Jason is D.W. Moffett, a Chicago native who has played roles in “Traffic,” “Falling Down,” and “Friday Night  Lights.” The voice of Harrison, her son, is Ben Irving, who played Bobby Freeze in Ben Affleck’s 2020 film “The Way Back.” Officer Davis (Evan Hall of “Orange is the New Black”) and the emergency dispatcher (Aleah Guinones; Keisha in 2023’s “Shrinking”) are the only other voices in the piece, and we never see them. Sound effects (bullets and sirens, for example) become important in this short piece. The music by Eli Keszler is crucial and the cinematography by Matt Clegg is mostly close-ups of Bethany Anne Lind’s face.  I found myself wondering how his mother telling the authorities to look for her son in a blue Accura was viewed by Ms. Miller when the authorities caught up to her son, who had posted videos that led to him being sought as an “active shooter at large.” Phrases like “This is his only choice” are countered by his frazzled mother’s plea “Please help me understand.” This one was tense and dramatic and takes place completely inside a car. I saw five in one sitting; this was my favorite. Read the full article

[d2kvirus]

Dickheads of the Month: November 2024

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of November 2024 to make sure that they are never forgotten.  

Nice how the United States of America decided to let the world know that, as a nation, they cannot be trusted to operate heavy machinery. Really appreciated, that...

Should we thank registered sex offender Donald Trump for unwittingly releasing the Epstein Files, albeit he did so by naming just about everyone listed on them in his cabinet?

Because billionaire manchild Elon Musk is such a great employer, as soon as Wired reported on the people he practically trafficked around Michigan in the back of unmarked vans to knock doors for Trump (without telling them they'd be knocking doors for Trump) he promptly fired all of them because somebody spoke up - and skipped on paying a whole bunch of them

...meanwhile billionaire manchild Elon Musk tried to defend his million dollar lottery in Pennsylvania by saying that it wasn't voter fraud - as they already pre-selected the winner, making it...fraud

...just when you thought billionaire manchild Elon Musk couldn't be more painfully cringe than he already is, he announces that he will be co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency - because he is such an epic memelord he is in charge of a department that just so happens to share a name with his crypto scam he already tried to pump and dump a couple of years ag when changing Twitter's logo to a doge. And did I mention that a position which is supposedly about government efficiency has Vivek Ramaswamy sharing the duties of leading the so-called department, because nothing says efficiency quite like two people sharing one government job in a role which was clearly made up to give Trump's mates a so-called job

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk got in on AIDS denial, because he saw Anthony Fauci's name and that alone seems to be enough to have him signal boosting any conspiracy theory now

...and shortly afterwards billionaire manchild Elon Musk doxxed a member of the US International Development Finance Corporation all because he saw the word diversification in their job title and immediately assumed they were in charge of diversity

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk started threatening to have elected mayors removed from their post if they didn't fall in line with his presidency Trump's presidency

...soon followed by billionaire manchild Elon Musk once again demonstrating that every accusation is a confession by calling Bluesky "Pedosky" on the platform he bought and then removed all the safeguards for child safety and reinstated people banned for posting child porn

Remember how Keir Starmer repeatedly pledged to scrap tuition fees when he was in Opposition? Instead he increased them, which was also the first rise for eight years, putting him firmly into Nick Clegg territory

I'm sure that Matt Gaetz having all the worst people defending him after being nominated for Attorney General is really going to help him out. Hey, maybe if he didn't get busted for trafficking an underage girl he wouldn't have to rely on Marjorie Taylor Greene to fight his battles for him...?

...only for Matt Gaetz to have to withdraw from consideration when it emerged there was more than one underage girl he had been taking advantage of - just one underage girl he'd taken advantage of in 2017, that is, so who knows what 2018 onwards might look like

Three guesses what Benjamin Netanyahu called the ICC arrest warrant for him? Of course he called it "antisemitic" while continuing to commit genocide. Is there a different version of The Boy Who Cried Wolf we don't know about where the boy has a few laughs and nothing bad happens to him?

...to which Tom Cotton had the totally sane and rational response of threatening that the USofA would invade the Netherlands in response to a genocidal maniac receiving an arrest warrant

Good to know that Nancy Mace is going to be fighting for the important things, namely putting stickers on all Capitol toilets which definitely don't give off the whiff of wanting Segregation to return while drawing attention to the fact how she doesn;t seem to have any issue with her boss walking into the dressing room for Miss Teen USA when it comes to "protecting women"

So it turns out that the Royal family are actually Britain's biggest slumlords, with a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation uncovering that they receive millions every year from charities and taxpayer-funded bodies up to and including the NHS and thge RNLI

...though it appears that the BBC must have missed the programme, given the complete radio silence about its findings on their various news programmes afterwards

Fascist little shrew Isabel Oakeshott obviously got out of the wrong side of Richard Tice's bed the morning she described the disabled as "parasites" during an interview on TalkTV. Gee, I wonder why that channel has such astronomic losses...

Well aren't Maccabi Tel Aviv fans a lovely bunch of people, what with their preparing for a match against Ajax by going around Amsterdam vandalising property, assaulting cab drivers who looked Arabic and chanting "Death to all Arabs" in a city with a 10% Muslim population, before going to the match and setting off fireworks during the minute's silence for victims of the Valencia flooding? Oh, and when they reached the "...and find out" part, they immediately claimed it was antisemitism while the official statement trivialised the Holocaust by comparing their fans getting a much-deserved shoeing to Kristallnacht

...and in response Sky News posted an article outlining the actual events of the night, only to swiftly delete the article and purge any mention of it from their socials in double quick time before posting a new version with all context removed and any suggestion that the Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans were being hooligans while supporting Maccabi Tel Aviv airbrushed completely, because doing a journalism is only allowed if it means repeating a much-debunked version of events rather than the truth

...and of course knower of all racism David Baddiel could not wade in fast enough to smugly finger wag about the evils of disproportionate, retaliatory violence - because giving some racist thugs a shoeing is absolutely comparable with an ongoing genocide

...though for some strange reason Israel fans marauding through the State de France with bats during France's international against Israel a week after Maccabi got pumped 5-0 by Ajax didn't get widespread news coverage. Why not?

Of course Reform Ltd couldn't politicise Remembrance Day fast enough, with Richard Tice snarling about not being invited to the Cenotaph in spite the rules clearly stating you need a minimum of six MPs for the privilege, while waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage posted a "moving" slow-motion tribute to his socials that probably needed more takes than Dan Woottoonn laying a wreath

Frowning thumb Joe Rogan tried to claim that Trump winning the Presidential election immediately caused Hamas to request a ceasefire, apparently missing that Hamas has been calling for a ceasefire for over a year but doing so would get in the way of the IDF's murder boner

It would be funny that Jeremy Clarkson is suddenly pretending to be the voice of farmers when he was quite open that the sole reason he bought the farm for Clarkson's Farm as an inheritance tax dodge if farmers weren't falling for it to the point they threatened to blockade London with tractors...a threat which somehow hasn't got any of them a three-year jail sentence for blocking roads during a protest

...and then you see Andrew Lloyd Webber at the picket line standing up for his fellow farmers, somehow failing to understand that his simply being there undermines any attempts to make it look like something other than millionaires pissing their pants at their inheritance tax dodge being closed

...and of course waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage was there, the same waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage who royally fucked farmers by removing the UK from a trading bloc that subsidised their farms and removing most of their financial safety nets. Just a reminder, the waffling gargoyle says the reason he doesn't do MP surgeries in Clacton is for safety reasons, but seems happy to waddle through thousands of farmers like a conquering hero playing dress-up

Militant TERF JK Rowling had another in a long line of normal ones when her response to Kemi Badenoch being announced as new Tory leader was to immediately go after David Tennant, which suggests that the black mould in her walls has eaten her brain

...and then militant TERF JK Rowling ran her mouth about Last Week Tonight calling out her militant transphobia - but ran her mouth after the show went on its end of year hiatus, rather than risk the next episode opening with a step-by-step takedown of her long-standing transphobia and general batshittery

Funny how Kemi Badenoch thought it was a bright idea to bring up a petition to have another general election at PMQs after it was signal boosted by billionaire manchild Elon Musk and suddenly doubled the number of signatures - but somehow forgot about how she said the UK "is run on elections, not petitions" when her own constituents ran a petition to stop Brexit - that would be the Brexit where the parliamentary petition to stop it has three times the signatures that the crank one which is apparently the Ten Commandments to the "You lost, get over it" crowd

Such honesty and integrity from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves in posting tributes to John Prescott which were the same boilerplate text with a couple of the words changed, which definitely does not come across as their factional bollocks being so deeply ingrained they can't even be bothered to attempt even a façade of unity when having to pay tribute to somebody from the "other" side - the "other" side known as the Labour party

Maybe it's a good idea to keep Cynthia Erivo away from the Wicked promotional tour, given her latest charm offensive was to respond to a question about her thoughts on first hearing that Arianna Grande would be her co-star by talking shit about the two audition partners playing that role

So we had Robert J O'Neill say that he would make a van full of underage boys his concubines, which he somehow believed would help the Trump campaign in some way...

Thanks to David Coote being caught on camera calling Jurgen Klopp an "arrogant German cunt", which the last time I checked was fair comment given he acted like an arrogant cunt every time Liverpool dropped points (and funnily enough this was after a match against Burnley where they did exactly that) and is obviously German, now we have to put up with Liverpool fans howling about the conspiracy against them - while Arsenal fans are joining in, somehow failing to understand that saying there's a conspiracy against another team that doesn't mean there's a conspiracy against yours, especially when the "evidence" includes the time Coote didn't award a penalty against Arsenal for Martin Odegaard blatantly handling the ball in the Arsenal penalty area

Looks like Mattel using AI to create their packaging is already backfiring, as the packaging for the Wicked tie-in Barbie dolls has the address of a porn site on them

[nofatclips]

The Hanging (Kris Dirksen remix of Hang Us All) by Spotlights from the Hanging By Faith EP - Director: A.F. Cortes

[nofatclips-home]

Flux by Ellie Goulding - Video directed by Rianne White

[jackbatchelor3]

The Dancing on Ice Launch This Morning

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[raiyine]

GUEST POST: Somer Canon

GUEST POST: Somer Canon

The Halloween Mood It’s that time of year again. Summer has come to an end, the days are getting shorter, and the color orange is starting to saturate our world of capitalistic vice and consumption. There’s pumpkin spice, well, everything and the general cozy feeling that comes with the season, and then we have the people who are annoyed with the deliriously evangelical followers of the autumnal…

[current-mcr-news]

frankieromustdie: Happy Release Day!! I can’t believe i finally get to say that! Past Lives the debut full length record by L.S. Dunes is finally out in the world on Fantasy Records. This Record has been a labor of love for my friends and i. It kept us going during the pandemic and gave us something positive to look forward to when we were at our collective lowest. I couldn’t be more proud of what we made together and i couldn’t be more proud of my friends who gave it everything they had and completely blew me away with their talent, support, and hard work.

Thank you to my band mates (all of them!)

Thank you to all the kind folks at Fantasy for believing in the project and the crazy people behind it.

Thank you To Gordie for your beautiful art.

Thank you to Will Yip for your insight and expertise.

Thank you to Paul Clegg for always having a plan even when you obviously don’t have a plan and are just as scared as we are.

Thank you to Stacy, Carmen and Shana, Matt and Geoff and Clare for always being the foundation to which i can build my dreams.

Thank you to the fans that have followed project after project, got tattooed off one song, camped out just because, and gave me the benefit of the doubt time and time again to try new things, evolve and grow.

And thank you to my wonderful family for always having my back and never making me feel like i have to choose. Your unconditional love and unwavering support is the world to me and only reason i can do this.

i hope you enjoi the record, play it loud and often. KTF 🖤 xofrnk

[Nov 11, 2022]

[weezer-blog]

Matt Sharp looks like he grew up in Apartheid-Era South Africa. I'm not saying this just because he has a mildly racist aura, but also because I could definitely imagine him calling me bru and bussin it down to Johnny Clegg.

Matthew Phillip Sharp

[jackatlas]

i saw a post (i think on tiktok) talking about how matt hancock joining 'i'm a celeb' is him following the same steps as boris (and tbh nick clegg did this too after being deputy pm): becoming a celebrity and nothing more in the public's eyes

like hes still an mp and hes going on a reality show to seem funny and likeable and to have his deplorable actions brushed off because people like him! boris was loved after his goofy olympics behaviour and all the disgusting things he said was just. forgotten about for a good while. its scary how good a pr move this can be?

[rassilonwatchathon]

It's the 9 year anniversary of The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon, so this month we're sharing our older episodes!

NINTH DOCTOR SERIES ONE (June 27th, 2023-January 31st, 2024) Episode 161- Rose (Eat At Toni Jo’s!) Episode 162- The End of the World (An Old Earth Ballad) Episode 163- The Unquiet Dead (Everything We Do is for the Lesbians) w/ Steve Conway Episode 164- Aliens of London/World War Three (Let Zygons Be Zygons) w/ Vincent E.L. Episode 165- Dalek (Daleks Can’t Shoot Up) w/ @mgoldentumbls Episode 166- The Long Game (Who Gets Pegged) Episode 167- Father’s Day (Dad Stuff) w/ @truestoriesaboutme & @bradheath Episode 168- The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (Mummy Issues) w/ Adam Clegg & Vincent E.L. Episode 169- Boom Town (Hey Thanks Wales) Episode 170- Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways (Don’t Think About Death) Ninth Doctor Special- A Fantastic Return (Charles Dickens Perservering) TENTH DOCTOR Episode 171- The Christmas Invasion (Premium Dad Content) w/ Vincent E.L. & @bradheath Special- Richard Starkings Interview (The Connector of Universes) w/ Richard Starkings

[re--laaaaaxer]

my reading list in 2022

I saw a post by @un-----made where she listed down the books she's currently reading, going to read, and rereading the ones she hasn't finished. I thought I'd do the same since it might give me the motivation (I think, I hope) I need in order to jolt me into reading more. I was in a bit of a reading slump in 2021 due to the fact that I was so overwhelmingly consumed with finishing my masters' dissertation. I had pretty much poured my heart and soul into researching, henceforth, giving my 2022 a little breather with some of the books I will do my utter best to deliciously devour. No pressure though *cough cough

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currently reading:

1. 101 essays that will change the way you think by Brianna West (2016) (21%)

2. The Way of the Samurai by Inazo Nitobe (2019) (38%)

3. Secrets of Divine Love by A. Helwa (2020) (10%)

books I want to start reading in 2022:

1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)

2. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2005)

3. Smoke & Mirrors by Neil Gaiman (1998)

4. The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2021)

5. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Canor

books left unfinished during 2021:

1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2001)

2. The Reality Frame by Brian Clegg (2017)

3. A World Without Islam by Graham E. Fuller (2010)

books read in 2022:

1. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020)

2. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom (2015)

3. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (2005)

[themovieblogonline]

“His Mother,” a 13 minute and 39 second short film that is Oscar eligible, stars Jennifer Lawrence look-alike Bethany Anne Lind as the mother of a young man who is threatening violence at his college, Southern Tech. Young Harrison Miller, age 19, 5’ 10”, has left a variety of clues that he is about to explode, saying things like “The end has come” and “None of you ever gave me a chance.” Maia Scalia wrote and directed this high tension race to save lives, She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of Art and has worked on 2022’s “Call Jane” with Director Phyllis Nagy and star Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver in 2022, a film about the fight for abortion rights in pre-Roe days, which would be just as timely right about now.  Ms. Scalia’s choice of Bethany Anne Lind to play “His Mother” is fortunate, because she does a believable job as a half-hysterical mother on her way to try to save her son from committing murder Bethany Anne Lind played Grace Young in “Ozark” and Sandra in “Stranger Things.” It is a tribute to Bethany Anne’s emoting while behind the wheel of her car and racing to the scene of the potential crime that this short works at all.  It was the third (of five) that had significant—or all, as in this case—portions shot inside a vehicle. Having written a few screenplays, I understand how tempting it is to use a car or a truck for the setting, as it certainly helps keep expenses down and frees up the set decorator and art decorator and lots of other sorts (not much need for unique costumes, either) and, consequently, helps keep the cost(s) of a production down. We never actually see her son, Harrison, or his preoccupied father, Jason Miller, whom Bethany Anne talks to on the phone. The voice of father Jason is D.W. Moffett, a Chicago native who has played roles in “Traffic,” “Falling Down,” and “Friday Night  Lights.” The voice of Harrison, her son, is Ben Irving, who played Bobby Freeze in Ben Affleck’s 2020 film “The Way Back.” Officer Davis (Evan Hall of “Orange is the New Black”) and the emergency dispatcher (Aleah Guinones; Keisha in 2023’s “Shrinking”) are the only other voices in the piece, and we never see them. Sound effects (bullets and sirens, for example) become important in this short piece. The music by Eli Keszler is crucial and the cinematography by Matt Clegg is mostly close-ups of Bethany Anne Lind’s face.  I found myself wondering how his mother telling the authorities to look for her son in a blue Accura was viewed by Ms. Miller when the authorities caught up to her son, who had posted videos that led to him being sought as an “active shooter at large.” Phrases like “This is his only choice” are countered by his frazzled mother’s plea “Please help me understand.” This one was tense and dramatic and takes place completely inside a car. I saw five in one sitting; this was my favorite. Read the full article

[brokehorrorfan]

Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II original motion picture soundtracks are available on vinyl via Waxwork Records. Scheduled to ship on October 29, the scores are composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, John Wick).

Halloween features score cues, dialogue samples, and soundtrack songs by Alice Cooper, Misfits, Blue Öyster Cult, Nazareth, Peter Frampton, Kiss, Iggy Pop, and more. It costs $45.

The double-LP pressed on 180-gram black and clear striped vinyl with orange splatter, housed in a gatefold jacket with matte satin coating featuring artwork by Robert Sammelin. It includes a liner notes by Zombie, a 12x12 20-page booklet of unreleased set photography, printed inner sleeves, and a 12x12 print.

Halloween II features scores cues, dialogue samples, and soundtrack songs by The Moody Blues, Motörhead, Void, Scream, Foghat, Captain Clegg and the Nightcreatures, and more. It costs $35.

The LP is pressed on 180-gram orange, red, and magenta swirl colored vinyl, housed in a gatefold jacket with matte satin coating featuring artwork by Robert Sammelin. It includes a liner notes by Zombie, a 12x12 20-page booklet of unreleased set photography, printed inner sleeves, and a 12x12 print.

[callmeblake]

Frank Iero, New York, NY, June 2019 (X)

Aug 29, 2019, 09:10am

Frank Iero May Just Be His Own Puppet Master

Photo Credit: Audrey Lew

Interview below the cut

Derek Scancarelli

Contributor

Hollywood & Entertainment

I am a music journalist living in New York City.

Frank Iero is breathing deeply and fighting off nausea. This isn’t uncommon for the 37-year-old guitarist and vocalist, given his predilection for debilitating anxiety. But on this occasion, it isn’t pre-show jitters.

“Oh my god, I hate this f*cking boat,” Iero says, as the docked vessel on which he sits knocks against a pier in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Iero and his band, The Future Violents, just finished an intimate Saturday matinee show as fans sweat, sang and caught a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty.

It had been about 16 years since Iero and his now defunct band, My Chemical Romance (the band broke up in 2013), first performed on water. In July of 2002, the band released its debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. In October of 2003, the soon-to-be emo heroes performed alongside New York Hardcore legends Sick Of It All at an aquatic gig booked by New Jersey college radio station WSOU. And in June of 2004, My Chemical Romance released Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, the band’s platinum-selling breakthrough record. In a matter of two years, Iero’s life changed dramatically.

In 2019, Iero still hasn’t found his sea legs, but a lot more has changed. He’s fathered three children, released three full-length solo records (including 2019’s Barriers), and survived a near-death experience. And as he gets older, he finds truth in life’s greatest clichés.

“Time flies, it just screams by,” Iero says. “You think you’re appreciating the time, but it’s easy to take it for granted. It’s a shame.”

But Iero is trying his hardest to pay attention to the little things, especially when it comes to family. He and his wife, Jamia, have three children together: nine-year-old twin daughters, Cherry and Lily, and a seven-year-old son named Miles.

“It’s wonderful to see them evolve and come into their own,” Iero says. “But it’s funny how personalities are innate. We shape the way they experience things or teach them the ropes, but for the most part, I’ve found that we are who we are when we’re born.”

From the start, Iero has seen an even split in the twins’ personalities. Cherry, he says, most behaves like her mother, whereas Lily possesses her father’s attitude.

“Some of the sh*t I hear coming out of my daughter's mouth,” Iero says laughing. “My God! It’s stuff I think but never say — they don't know to be ashamed yet! It's amazing and honest and pure. And I know exactly where she's coming from because I feel the same way.”

As part of fostering a relationship of trust and honesty, Iero has been age-appropriately transparent with his kids about the 2016 accident that almost killed him, his brother-in-law and guitarist Evan Nestor and his manager Paul Clegg.

While unloading gear from their van in Sydney, Australia, a city bus crashed into the group and their vehicle. In a 2017 interview with MTV, Iero recounted, in vivid detail, the moment he was dragged underneath the bumper of the bus, the screams of his brother-in-law, and the blood pooling from his manager.

Although Iero was able to walk into an ambulance carrying one of his friends, the scene was a spectacle overrun with emergency personnel — they even landed a rescue helicopter in nearby Hyde Park. Despite serious injuries, amazingly, there were no fatalities.

When Iero returned home from the hospital, he explained to his children that he was in a car accident, but that it was a singular freak incident.

“You don't want to lie,” he says. “They're getting older. Their friends and their parents are on the internet. They're asking questions. It does get back to them.”

Iero was as honest as possible, but avoided any gory details. He was also conscious that it wouldn’t be long before he would travel for work again — and he didn’t want to scare his kids any further.

Almost four years later, residual damage from the crash is impossible to ignore. Nestor has nerve damage in his leg that may never be corrected. Clegg’s leg and knee have undergone multiple surgeries, but are in poor shape. And Iero still has a tear in his shoulder that hurts every time he plays the guitar. Despite the pain, he’s afraid to undergo surgery.

“I was lucky enough to walk away and still play,” Iero says. “If I were to test fate again and go under the knife, if something were to go wrong… to let that be taken from me … no, I can't.”

On some days, the emotional toll of surviving such a traumatic accident weighs more heavily. Iero describes his recovery as non-linear: some days he feels collected and in control, other days the memory rushes back into his mind.

After his new band finished recording Barriers, Iero and his team went back to Australia for appointments pertaining to the accident and corresponding litigation. As soon as he exited the plane, Iero felt like he’d returned to the horrific scene. For the following week, he was barraged by an unending state of panic.

“You go through these instances of PTSD,” he says. “You never know what's going to trigger and send you all the way back to the beginning with recovery.”

Iero greatly underestimated how difficult his return to Australia would be. When navigating to a doctor’s office near where the accident occurred, he couldn’t bring himself to walk down the street. And suddenly, he felt surrounded by buses.

“I don't know if this is true,” he says. “But it felt like every other car on the street was one of these f*cking buses. They were everywhere. It was frightening. I couldn't do anything. I was shaking like a leaf.”

Despite the traumatic flashbacks, Iero continues to reflect on that day. In the promotional run for Barriers, he discussed the accident at length. And on the record itself, he addresses the complicated ripple effect it’s had on his entire sense of self.

“I don't think it needs to define me,” Iero says. “But it was something I needed to talk about on this record. It's not something I could sweep under the rug. But do I want to dwell on it every day and relive it? No. But I think about it constantly. I feel the pain constantly. It's on my mind.”

In recent interviews, Iero has tended to frame a few philosophical takeaways from his ordeal. In simple terms, the first idea is that he’s found a new lease on life — that everything happens for a reason and he’s been given an opportunity to seize the day. The second philosophy is much darker, a sort of survivor’s guilt compounded with fear and existential dread. The third and most abstract consideration is closest to Simulation Theory — where Iero has the ability to control his own artificial timeline.

Sometimes, Iero questions if actually died that day. He wonders: Is this all real?

“It’s hard. No one can tell you what to believe,” he says. “But you come to this realization, ‘Well, this is real to me, the hand I was dealt, so I have to make the best of it!’”

Through the acceptance of uncertainty, Iero surmises that he just may be his own puppet master.

“If this is a figment of my imagination,” Iero says. “If this is all in my head, then I am the master of my own destiny. If I want to do something, I can manufacture it. And if it's not the case, then at least it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe putting positive vibes out into the universe is beneficial. If we didn't make it and we're just going through this weird labyrinth in my mind, I can do anything I want.”

And lately, he’s been doing just that. Call it sorcery or the power of positive thinking, but Iero is motivated. For Barriers, he was able to assemble a dream band, The Future Violents (different lineups of his backing band have previously gone by The Cellabration and The Patience), featuring his brother-in-law Nestor on guitar, Thursday’s Tucker Rule on drums, Murder by Death’s Matt Armstrong on bass, and Kayleigh Goldsworthy on keyboard.

The theme of the album — and his own internal dialogue — mostly relates to tragedy and timing. Did the universe have a course set out for him? Or was he just some random victim?

“The crazy thing is that you didn't do anything wrong,” Iero says of the accident. “Yet, all of this stuff was taken from you and you have to make these decisions. You get angry a lot.”

He continues: “These random, abrupt, violent actions. Do they happen to us? Or for us? I wouldn't have been able to make this record if it didn't happen. And it made me realize a lot of things about myself. Am I happy it happened? No. But I'm happy where I am right now.”

Iero views Barriers as an exercise in vulnerability. If the aftermath of his accident taught him anything, it’s that success was meaningless to his character, but adversity helped him grow. For the first time, addressing childhood trauma helped Iero expose himself in a way that felt freeing.

“When you put something to song, it gives that memory weight,” Iero explains. “If you never talk about it, it's almost like it didn't happen. There's a fine line between relinquishing that power to this memory, situation or trauma, or holding that power over it and creating your own narrative from it.”

Barriers also intertwines Iero’s childhood experiences with his current perspective as a father. This go around, he felt comfortable writing about his parents’ divorce — the couple split when he was three and divorced when he was seven.

He looks back on the unpleasantness of the process and his consequential understanding of his mother’s issues with addiction, depression and mental illness. On his 2016 record, Parachutes, Iero first referenced his mother’s struggles and his own liability to inherit her traits. He’s still horrified by the idea of predeterminism.

“When you're a young kid being surrounded with it, it doesn't feel right,” Iero says. “You're not happy. You're scared. You're constantly concerned for your parent. It’s almost as if you become the caregiver.”

He continues: “Then you see yourself falling into these patterns that you were witness to and maybe in a roundabout way were taught. That addiction, that depression, runs through you. It's easy to fall off that cliff. I don't want that for my kids and I need to stop this cycle. Like this sh*t stops with me. Whether it be I get okay, or I f*cking turn my lights out.”

It’s this sort of tongue-in-cheek use of concerning language that keeps Iero’s fanbase enthralled, yet somewhat on edge. Take for example, in the comment section for his video “Young & Doomed,” some diehard fans are troubled by his repeated use of the words “hurt myself again.” While he’s surprised to hear about the response, he counters that the record is ultimately meant to feel uplifting and positive, even if addressing dark topics.

“I don't think that we should strive for perfection,” Iero says. “This idea that we should all have this perfect life and be pretty and purse our lips to post a picture on social media is bullsh*t. The things that make us unique are important.”

He continues: “Sometimes we're our own worst enemies and we hurt ourselves. Those scars, though, are important. They're beautiful. ‘Young And Doomed’ is a call to arms to celebrate the things people think are wrong with us.”

Now, Iero just hopes his story and music inspire fans to try, fail and try again.

“You don't find out who you are unless you get a scar and get hurt,” Iero says. “You should be hurt, hurt other people, and learn that it feels terrible to hurt someone else. You should feel sorry for it and make amends for it. These are important lessons to be a better person. You find out who you truly are by attacking things that scare you the most.”

Frank Iero is currently touring Europe with Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers.