Cassie The Venomous' Blog

Those of you who follow my online shenanigans beyond this blog may be aware that I am the blogs editor for ACRN.com , Ohio University's All Campus Radio Network. One of the blogs I oversee is called Exec Recs . In it, the executives of each of the station's departments list their current recommendations to readers. The blog is updated twice weekly, and I have so much fun and learn so much from the varying tastes of the contributors as I edit the posts that I decided to start my own Weekly Recommendations series here. I hope you enjoy! ____ 1. "Blasphemous Rumors" - Depeche Mode Is there anything better to listen to while writing or painting than Darkwave? Don't challenge me-- I'm a gloomy kid and believe there is not. Recently, I wrote a story for my short fiction class about an encounter between a person who was about to commit suicide and a person trying to convince the other not to. It turned into a mental dialogue about how human interaction wh...

UPDATE: March 31 @ 9:34 A.M. Listen to MCR's cover of Pulp's "Common People": My Chemical Romance - Common People (Pulp Cover) by thisisfakediy ORIGINAL POST My Chemical Romance's session at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge that aired this morning featured in-BBC-studio performances of "Common People" by Pulp, which they had performed at a few stops of their recent European tour, and of MCR's current U.K. single "Planetary (GO!)." In the interview the accompanied the live performances, My Chemical Romance discussed topics ranging from their joking that that shred all the stuffed unicorn toys they get on tour to performing at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend on May 15. When asked what they would be likely to play at the festival, Gerard Way said they would possibly play a lot of material from Danger Days... , which the interviewer suggested, but that they hadn't worked out their festival sets yet, but that they wanted to includ...