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(NME) Interesting Fall Out Boy bassist Wentz reveals he attempted suicide a couple years ago. You would too if you had to listen to Stump try to sing   (nme.com) divider line 48
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Jerry Garcia 2008-03-23 04:48:52 AM  
Yeah, I don't disagree with that.

 
CarkinNormal 2008-03-23 04:50:21 AM  
That'll earn em a bunch more street cred with all the 13 year old girls that listen to his music.

 
kpottruff 2008-03-23 05:45:57 AM  
ok I can see the guy wanting to talk about his situation but if he wants to be taken seriously why doesn't he try to talk to a more serious news outlet.

wouldn't it have more of an effect on younger people if he say went on an hour long program ala Dateline and tell the whole story? MTV news will only make the girls hornier and the boys more despising of him.

A Rolling Stone article would have had a much more profound effect too.

Good for him trying to be open about it but really that kind of article makes lolcats seem overly serious.

+1 to Wentz
-2 to the author of the story

 
farkplug 2008-03-23 05:46:44 AM  
Attempting suicide at a Best Buy parking lot? Now that's depression.

 
GungFu 2008-03-23 05:52:10 AM  
kpottruff: ok I can see the guy wanting to talk about his situation but if he wants to be taken seriously why doesn't he try to talk to a more serious news outlet.

The NME is not credible? Huh?

One thinks immediately you have English reading problems and confused NME with MTV.

 
kpottruff 2008-03-23 06:03:22 AM  
GungFu: kpottruff: ok I can see the guy wanting to talk about his situation but if he wants to be taken seriously why doesn't he try to talk to a more serious news outlet.

The NME is not credible? Huh?

One thinks immediately you have English reading problems and confused NME with MTV.


and I quote from TFA... Speaking to MTV News the bassist said..., my reading is fine thank you.

CNN can quote the National Enquirer about Batboy but that doesn't make the story any better. Besides what the heck is NME?

A very small 5 paragraph story like that smacks of Ric Romero journalism to the nth degree. If this is what passes for news in todays world I am truly scared.

 
farkplug 2008-03-23 06:21:38 AM  
NME is the Wall Street Week of music in the UK.

"Best Buy parking lot!" could very well become a new fark cliche, a sort of personal "glass parking lot!" But no. For that would be too much like making light of a serious issue, suicidal depression. I lost a dear friend to suicidal depression and it was just devastating on so many counts.

 
Hope_Tabonia 2008-03-23 06:27:02 AM  
Unfortunately he did not succeed.

 
EnemyFrank 2008-03-23 06:51:19 AM  
Encore.

 
boulevard_of_broken_dreams 2008-03-23 07:49:55 AM  

 
boulevard_of_broken_dreams 2008-03-23 07:53:41 AM  
OK that one didn't work. Let's try again

i65.photobucket.com

 
the voices in your head 2008-03-23 08:00:26 AM  
farkplug: NME is the Wall Street Week of music in the UK.


NME is a bunch of braindead drug addicts who'll give a good review to anybody who slips them a few pounds.

 
FeedTheCollapse 2008-03-23 08:13:49 AM  
the voices in your head: farkplug: NME is the Wall Street Week of music in the UK.


NME is a bunch of braindead drug addicts who'll give a good review to anybody who slips them a few pounds.

Bunch of Nationalist fark heads too. Most any American act I've seen reviewed in their mag generally gets slagged unless it's general critic fodder (not meant in a bad way) like Beck, White Stripes, etc. Just imagine a snobbier version of Pitchfork Media and you get the basic gist.

And if you want to know why we keep hearing about Oasis, ask NME. They seem to have single-handedly kept that long irrelevant act somehow relevant.

 
Crewchef 2008-03-23 08:16:23 AM  
attempting? Apparently he can't do anything right.

 
luckybastard 2008-03-23 09:09:08 AM  
FTA: I remember I was listening to Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and sat there and took a bunch of Ativan in a Best Buy parking lot.


5 Reasons to Dislike Pete Wentz, as illustrated by this quote:

1. Attempted suicide. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

2. Took pills to attempt suicide. You were in a car. Do a James Dean or something.

3. Listened to 'Hallelujah' while attempting suicide. Ugh. Great song, but how cliche.

4. Felt the need to explain that Buckley was doing "Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'" Listen, douche, the song's famous, you don't need to name drop the writer.

5. Did all this in a Best Buy parking lot.

I rest my case.

 
thisisntnamtherearerules 2008-03-23 09:20:45 AM  
i123.photobucket.com

1.If you try to kill yourself and it doesnt work you were not really trying to kill yourself.

Link (new window)nsfw links of the page
some kid overdoses, slits ,his wrists, lights himself on fire, shoots himself in the head, hangs himself, blows himself up, and falls off a cliff all at the same time

/If your gonna do it...

 
acronym 2008-03-23 09:43:46 AM  
"The symptoms of Ativan overdose may include:
Confusion, drowsiness, hypnotic state, lack of coordination, low blood pressure, sluggishness"

how could he tell?

 
Blink Found GVSU 2008-03-23 10:16:14 AM  
jesus christ, i'm not a fall out boy fan, nor do I follow their music closely, but this was news back when their first major album got popular.

/old news is so exciting!
//photos-h.ak.facebook.com

 
pestluvr 2008-03-23 10:19:01 AM  
He told you he was emo.

 
awfulperson [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 10:38:54 AM  
i32.tinypic.com

"How much is the fish? How much is the fish? How much is the fish?? DOES THE FISH HAVE CHIPS??"

(what I thought Submitter was talking about)

 
deevo 2008-03-23 11:13:30 AM  
Blink Found GVSU: jesus christ, i'm not a fall out boy fan, nor do I follow their music closely, but this was news back when their first major album got popular.

/old news is so exciting!


at least subby didn't call him the front man

 
redface 2008-03-23 11:33:19 AM  
GungFu: kpottruff: ok I can see the guy wanting to talk about his situation but if he wants to be taken seriously why doesn't he try to talk to a more serious news outlet.

The NME is not credible? Huh?

One thinks immediately you have English reading problems and confused NME with MTV.


Eww. NME is not even fit to wipe my ass with.

 
NotWithoutAsswelts 2008-03-23 12:08:51 PM  
TRY TRY TRY AGAIN
TRY TRY TRY AGAIN
HEAD FIRST THIS TIME
DIVE RIGHT IN

 
JudgeItoBox 2008-03-23 12:29:51 PM  
attempted suicide

Damn, it didn't take.

 
boxybrown27 2008-03-23 12:45:44 PM  
wow, with sex & the city inspiring a world where 1 in 4 teenage girls has an STD and an admission like this will only make him MORE attractive to his fans, the modern day girls are beyond farked up

 
boxybrown27 2008-03-23 12:48:41 PM  
boxybrown27: wow, with sex & the city inspiring a world where 1 in 4 teenage girls has an STD and an admission like this will only make him MORE attractive to his fans, the modern day girls are beyond farked up


and the SATC fanwhores begin with their "THE SHOW IS JUST FUN TO WATCH" in 3....2.....1.....well right after they put their cell phone on silent so their boyfriend doesn't hear here the guy she slept with last weekend when he calls.....

 
Bob LobLaw's Law Blog [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 12:50:46 PM  
Wentz is a sick attention whore, but Stump can sing. Fall Out Boy could be decent if Wentz was not associated with them and died in a fire.

 
jesuspants 2008-03-23 01:02:07 PM  
yep
Link (new window)

 
FlyingJ 2008-03-23 01:08:54 PM  
Mein Gott! Here I was castigating a poster for getting "too obscure for FARK" vis a vis an obscure Thomas Pynchon reference & that Magnificent Bastard awfulperson shows up with a Stump reference

I think farkplug meant that NME is the Wall Street Week Journal of music in the UK...but I'm not FTFY because it's not true either

I'm not gonna get into it but Bob LobLaw's Law Blog is correct, Ashlee CAN sing...I'm the farthest thing from a starfarker-y'ever think you'd just hate somebody but they were so even-keeled & good-natured it's impossible?

 
radiofreewill [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 01:49:01 PM  
Who cares? Let me know when he and his merry band of FAIL succeed.

 
Renegade Pancake 2008-03-23 02:05:48 PM  
Failing at good music AND failing at suicide?

Yeah, this was news when he wrote songs on his last two albums about this. He's just milking it.

Death is so marketable.

 
lolmadillo 2008-03-23 02:55:00 PM  
why do you think they have a song called atavan halen

 
farkplug 2008-03-23 03:48:37 PM  
FlyingJ:
I think farkplug meant that NME is the Wall Street Week Journal of music in the UK...but I'm not FTFY because it's not true either


lmao, well it is true, I only meant it in the sense that it's an institution in the popular music world, certainly it predates MTV by a few decades

 
ElTaco 2008-03-23 04:17:26 PM  
He tried to take Ativan to commit suicide? That's like when I ate too much Easter candy.

 
TheJoe03 [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 08:01:28 PM  
farkin emo douche! I can't wait for the emo and smug indie fads to die out. That kinda music is so pussy and gay, but all the nerdy and/or scene douchebags with their thick glasses and tight jeans keep acting like they are listening to legendary shiat. Even 50 Cent has more credibility than these ass clowns, and I personally think 50 is hip-hop's antichrist. Can we please go back to a time where rockers had some testicles, and were going hard instead of being as soft as possible. I hate 00s music, it's even worse than the 80s.

 
Im in ur Fark 2008-03-23 08:09:50 PM  
Hey, you leave Patrick out of this!

I've had depression, so I should be the last person laughing at a suicide attempt, but I just hate this guy SO FREAKING MUCH. I don't even know why. Every time I see him, I want to pound his head into the pavement.

/may have forgotten to take her meds today.

 
radiofreewill [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 09:30:33 PM  
Im in ur Fark: Hey, you leave Patrick out of this!

Sorry ma'am, guilty by association.

 
ukiah 2008-03-23 09:35:04 PM  
Has anyone else noticed the trolling article submissions lately that all just hate on Pete Wentz? I'm thinking someone is in denial about having a thing for him.

 
Satchel_Brown 2008-03-23 09:38:20 PM  
thisisntnamtherearerules: 1.If you try to kill yourself and it doesnt work you were not really trying to kill yourself.

Link (new window)nsfw links of the page
some kid overdoses, slits ,his wrists, lights himself on fire, shoots himself in the head, hangs himself, blows himself up, and falls off a cliff all at the same time

/If your gonna do it...


wow...that's kinda disturbing..is it real?

 
DaCaptain19 2008-03-23 09:52:38 PM  
As posted in the Rowling headine - nobody but Loser Attention Whores (LAWs) "attempt" suicide. Suicide is easy - if that's what you want. Failure at suicide = Attention Whoredom in its essence. I wish that all those who "attempted" it would be (accidentally) successful.

 
Ed_Severson 2008-03-23 10:10:57 PM  
There is no try, Pete. Only do or do not.

/Get to it.

 
thermo 2008-03-24 12:27:04 AM  
who?

 
tetzy 2008-03-24 02:05:47 AM  
farking quitter.

 
bottsicus 2008-03-24 11:02:17 AM  
Try again, asshole.

 
dtirkel 2008-03-25 12:26:09 AM  
I went to high school with Patrick Stump(h) and was in his graduating class, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/Pat didn't sing much in HS but played the drums while a member of several bands. Extremely talented drummer.

 
Bhasayate [TotalFark] 2008-03-25 01:44:58 AM  
He's doing it wrong!

 
eeviewontwakeup [TotalFark] 2008-03-26 06:25:33 PM  
Bob LobLaw's Law Blog: Wentz is a sick attention whore, but Stump can sing. Fall Out Boy could be decent if Wentz was not associated with them and died in a fire.


This.

And to be fair, it wasn't so much that he failed at suicide...there was an intervention.

/Still an attention whore.

 
frozencopper 2008-03-27 02:51:14 AM  
Well, it has been scientifically proven that depression hits losers the hardest.

/I want to hold a seminar entitled "Suicide:Getting It Right The First Time"

 
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