Just letting everyone know that this tumblr won’t be updated for the rest of September, as your intrepid webmistress is going on holiday. Feel free to submit things in the meantime, and I’ll post them when I get back!
Yeah, I don’t really know how it all came together. I think what happened is that the band had seen me in a movie called ‘Lady in White.’ They watched it when they were kids and it really scared them. So they reached out to me to play the role of ‘the Patient’ in the video. I don’t know, I guess they thought I’d be the best actor for the part.
The main character is The Patient. He is dying tragically of a disease kind of early on in his life. When death comes for him, it comes for him in his earliest memory, which is of his father taking him to the parade. So, death comes for him in the form of this black parade and takes him on this journey of basically his life flashing before his eyes. He goes on and sees different things he’s seen throughout the years–different decisions he had made, different people he’s met along the way–and you get to hear those stories. Finally at the end of the record, he starts to plead with death and realizes he didn’t live his life the way he wanted to live it and he wants another chance.
