Lopez Tonight

Jared Leto was on Lopez Tonight last night.  30 Seconds To Mars was supposed to perform, but unfortunately, Jared Leto was feeling a little under the weather and they were unable to perform.  Thankfully, George asked them if they would come back in the future and perform on the show and Jared said yes :)  That's good.  It was a really good interview though, Jared is so funny.  He gave George Lopez the sledgehammer gip mask and a whip as a present....lol, oh Jared.  Really good stuff, and I hope to see the guys on Lopez Tonight sometime in the neat future to perform and I hope that Jared gets better soon!! :)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

30 Seconds To Mars performed last night on Jay Leno's Tonight Show on NBC.  They were awesome!! (as usual).  Jared had this crazy black jacket thing with his awesome velcro silver and black shoes.  Tomo looked sick as hell with his gnarly red guitar and Shannon looked amazing rockin' out on the drums :)  As a really sweet added bonus, the guys invited men and women from the army to stand in the background while they were performing and sing "NO, NO, NO, NO!" with the rest of the audience.  It was a great performance and whoever missed it....wow, you really missed out. 

10:35pm

Jared Leto, Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic will be gracing the audience of Jay Leno's Tonight Show with a performance of "Closer To The Edge".  I'm obviously so excited :)  Mark Harmon will also be a guest, hmmm, I wonder what Leroy Jethro Gibbs has to say today?  Lol.  So, just watch it....it's 30 Seconds To Mars, you won't be disappointed.

Twitter

I would like to say congratulations to @30STMVOTE, who I follow on Twitter for getting 3 WorldWide Tending Topics 2 days in a row!!  First was 'MarsNewSong', second was 'JaredLeto' and third was 'ThirtySecondsToMars'.  It's been a fun past few days on Twitter seeing these trending topics and @TheHive responded with a family congrats to the Echelon :) WE ARE THE BELIEVERS.  WE ARE A FAMILY.  WE ARE THE ECHELON.  ₪ ø lll ·o.

April 14th, 2011. Aragon Ballroom. Chicago, IL

Just found out that 30 Seconds To Mars will be performing at the Aragon Ballroom on April 14th in Chicago!!! I'm so excited. Hopefully I can pull this off money-wise because tickets go on sale next Saturday Feb. 19th at noon and I will never get another chance like this. Ok, well, that's all for now.

"we all fall short of glory"

The first song I ever heard by what is now my favorite band in my 18 years of life was "The Kill".  I remember seeing the music video and thinking, "what the heck is with the bear?"  I never saw a music video like that, where the song cuts off for a few seconds to show a guy throwing a tennis ball at a wall, or some dude skate boarding down a hallway, it was all really strange to me.  Everytime it came on FUSE, the tv was turned up and I was singing along.  I started looking up pictures by going to Google images and typing in '30 Seconds To Mars'; I was hooked.  All it took was one song, one semi-strange music video and I was there.  I joined their MySpace page, their fanbase on the band's website, got e-mails and newsletters, tour info, magazine articles, pictures, everything I wanted to know about these guys I got.  Then came "From Yesterday", my God, words can not describe how I felt when I saw the music video for the first time.  13 minutes with an awe-struck look on my face.  Nothing could have prepared me for that moment.  Like the video for "The Kill" it was something I've never experienced before; the culture, the music, the deeper meaning, the look inside of a world I've never known, it was all in front of me with a band I knew I would love for the rest of eternity.  I went out and bought "A Beautiful Lie" the next week.  I had never heard anything so spectacular.  I called radio stations every hour to request the band's songs and waited to hear them, even though I had the CD in my hands :)  "Attack" was the next song I fell in love with.  It was just fun to listen to.  "The Battle of One" came forth, then "A Beautiful Lie", "Was It A Dream?", "The Fantasy" and the rest of the album fell right into place.  This was it.  I needed this music in my life.  When I made an iTunes account I discovered their first CD, self-titled, "30 Seconds To Mars".  The point was not to have every one of their songs wrapped around me tight, but to know what they started as and how they transitioned.  More of a techno-rock, the band's self-titled album was good, but honestly not as good as "A Beautiful Lie".  With following 30 Seconds To Mars' Facebook page, Jared's individual Facebook page, the band's Twitter, the guy's individual Twitter along with participating in their forum chats with other members of the Echelon and many others, I was a fan for life.  I was a member of the Echelon, a dedicated fan devoted to spreading the word of the band and promoting their songs through verbal and web communications.  With word that their 3rd album would be coming out soon, I had to mentally prepare myself for what to expect.  According to the guy's tweets, it was "like nothing they've ever done".  I was obviously psyched.  In the car one day i had on Q101 and a song came on, very weird because there was a bird's call in the beginning?  What is going on?  What goes through these artist's heads?  I didn't get it at all.  After my mental questionnaire was complete I heard the beginning after the overture, OMG IT WAS 30 SECONDS TO MARS!!! I had to pull over because I was tearing up from all the excitment.  I listened to the song while my heart was about to burst out of my chest.  I. Was. So. Happy! :)  I got home and tweeted to the guys that I had just heard "Kings+Queens" and how excited I was to hear the rest of the album.  December finally rolled around and 30 Seconds To Mars' 3rd studio album entitled "This Is War" was released.  It was absolutly amazing.  (Unfortunetly I didn't get the CD until the deluxe version came out in November 2010.)  I bought the songs off  iTunes and listened to them everyday, literally the whole CD, everyday.  It was like nothing they'd ever done.  It was spectacular!  Some reviews exclaimed, "like nothing you've heard before" and, "EPIC, as good as it gets".  "Kings+Queens" was the song I listened to the most for quite some time, then I finally started exploring the depths of the songs and when "Closer To The Edge" popped up on my iPod....I really can't explain in words, or facial expressions, how I felt and how I still feel about that song.  I listen to it at least once a day and it gets turned up as loud as my hears can handle.  The song was and still is amazing and it's my favorite song off of all 3 of the band's CDs.  Now for the music video for "Closer To The Edge", ummm, well, yeah.  Again, words can't explain.  I think when I first saw it I started crying because I was so happy.  I was happy, but also kind of jealous of the people in the crowds.  I've never been to a Mars concert.  I actually came very close to buying tickets when them were to perform at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, but I didn't which I suppose was good because that show got cancelled because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of "Hurricane".  The video was so powerful and full of life and to see all the fans and memebers of the Echelon brought together to celebrate our favorite band in the world was just absolutly phenomenal.  I've posted the video on Facebook hundreds of times and talked about it with other fans on Twitter, watched it almost a thousand times just to get the feel for how the experience would really be like and, of course, just to enjoy it and actually be in the moment.  This was the best song, and I honestly feel like this song changed my life.  It makes me happy when I'm in a bad or upset mood, when I need to escape I always turn the "Closer To The Edge" for my comfort and support.  30 Seconds To Mars is the reason I get up in the morning, they're the reason why I do what I do and I pray to God that I will be able to be part of the experience and go to their concert if and when they make a stop in Chicago.  That will make me whole.  That will change my life.  And if I die the next day, I will die a very, very, very happy person, knowing that I was able to be apart of the experience that brings all of us Echelon together for a night of freedom and celebration and pure joy and excitment.