#pete wentz gray

[souryogurt64]

About a decade ago, Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy (and James Montgomery of MTV) published a novel, Gray. It is my favorite book of all time. It is— for lack of a better term— “a freeze-dried wet dream.” 

People are usually appalled when I tell them this; they think I must be the dumbest fangirl alive. It's understandable. After all, Gray is the vanity project of a runner-up for 2007’s Sexiest Vegetarian, and has been referred to as “an insult to book readers everywhere." 

But truthfully, this is not my favorite book because I like Fall Out Boy— rather, I like Pete Wentz's band because I fell in love with his book. From the moment I first picked Gray up, I felt—very strongly— that there was something inside of it, something that went beyond the veneer of "pseudo-artistic" misanthropy it put up. It was a carefully crafted puzzle. It was so advanced that no one understood it. I was sure of it— even if nobody ever believed me. 

But over the last ten years, I grew from an emo teenager into a professional writer. So now, I can prove that I've been right along; Gray is an incredible work of literary showmanship. It's just misunderstood. So, in honor of its big anniversary, this love-dissertation seeks to dissect and defend my favorite book of all time. 

In this essay, I begin by fully contextualizing the creation of Pete Wentz and James Montgomery's Gray. Then, I explain the novel's identity as a "roman-a-clef," and thus, its place on the spectrum between fiction and reality. Finally, I argue my thesis. Which is: Gray deliberately masquerades as exactly what people expect it to be: the rant of a narcissistic rock star “so shallow an ant would struggle to drown." But a reader with a little faith will understand that things are not always what they seem. Rather, Gray brilliantly executes its stated intention by blending paradoxes like irony / authenticity, reality / fantasy, truth / lies, and satire / sincerity, into a narrative so ambiguous it “defies understanding, let alone a solution.”

But only if you're in on it.  

Read the full piece here.

Incredible art by @gebtoons.

#gray #gray pete wentz #fall out boy #pete wentz gray #fob

[literallyscene4]

Pete Wentz/William Beckett book

While I was surfing around google, looking for a cheap listing of Gray (doesn't exist) I found references to a Pete Wentz/William Beckett book on like three different sites. Hilariously, the first reference to it I found was on the Blues Clues Wiki. Obviously, that sounds crazy fake. Upon further googling, I found earlier references. I thought at first that maybe this was some sort of draft of Gray as Gray kept popping up in google suggestions, but the Blues Clues (least reliable source) mentions them as separate entities. This blog references it once again and this blog claims to have an excerpt from the book. THIS site has a quote that reads “I've been following this book since it was supposed to be written with William Beckett,”. All in all, I'm VERY confused and have no clue about this seemingly canceled project? Was this really a first draft of Gray? What happened to William Beckett's chapters? Is this lost media?

EDIT: There is this excerpt from this Wordpress article:

“It’s called Rainy Day Kids,” explains Wentz. “It’s gonna be between 100 to 200 pages. It’s a lot different than The Boy With The Thorn In His Side. It’s closer to my true voice as a writer.” Wentz adoration for literature is tremendously evident due to the fact that he’s already begun collaborating on yet another book with best-friend/The Academy Is… singer William Beckett, whose band has been quite “the buzz” lately. “He’s one of my closest friends, so it’s rad to be involved with him doing any of that kind of stuff,” says Wentz fondly. “He’s a good kid. I love him.”

Chat, I this is in reference to the original scrapped version of Gray. William Beckett/Pete Wentz untitled book may be lost to someone's crappy old laptop.

#fob #fall out boy #pete wentz #william beckett #decaydance #pete wentz gray #gray book #mystery #bandom #2000s #Chat pls lmk if you have info #Im so curious and lost #the academy is...

[xxi0naxx]

#fall out boy #fob #2000s #iona nation !! #lgbt #emo #pete wentz #xxionaxx #pw #oscar wilde #queer #writer #alternative #the importance of being earnest #picture of dorian gray

[heaveniowa]

gray - pete wentz // love from the other side - fall out boy

#hello its me again #I love doing this sorry IC ANT STOPPPPPP #pete wentz #joe trohman #patrick stump #andy hurley #gray pete wentz #fall out boy #fall out boy lyrics #fob lyrics #can you tell i was getting emotional writing the left like why is the last paragraph bigger than the first onedshfgjh #sye did something

[cartoonpigeon]

day 1 of cringetober - heterochromia :D

decided to draw mikey for this cause I realized he had heterochromia pretty soon after I first saw the cringetober post (or right before?) so he was the first person I thought of :3

#experimented with a more anime inspired art style than usual #might do a full colour of this tomorrow.. I dunno tho #I'm really tired #cringetober #my art #traditional art #mikey way #mikey fucking way #definitely exaggerated the blue a bit #its way more gray in the photo #hehe way #mcr fanart #I understand pete wentz #what. who said that /j #cringetober day 1 #we'll see how long this lasts... 5 tests this week

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

have you seen her? now you have.

#myevilposts #pete wentz #sooo sooooo soooooo BEAUTIFUL. he gave me food poisoning 😍 #GRAY HAIRS + WRINKLES + BUN = I AM DEAD.

[looselipssinkships-x]

If i had gotten my hands on this book when i was 19 it would have been over for me. I had not learned how to articulate or even identify gender envy but i would have latched onto pete wentz because there would've been something about that man that scratched my brain just right

#pete wentz #gray #gender envy

[chaoswalking67]

Anyone else take about 5 minutes after waking up to realise that they are not in fact married to the famous man twice their age and/or the fictional character? Is it just me? Am I going insane?

#like I'll wake up and it'll take me a while to realise it was a very realistic dream and not a memory because I can still feel their touch? #ryan ross #pete wentz #frank iero #matthew gray gubler #spencer reid #andrew garfield #these are the most recent ones I'll be here all day trying to tag them all

[pisshandkerchief]

Far as I can tell, the Disaster is meant to be Dirty, Martin is Patrick, the Animal is Andy, and Joe is conspicuously lacking a stand-in. Also Her is Jeanae, from what I've read (although I'll admit I don't know much about her as a person, and the ending deviates quite drastically from reality in that regard)

I feel like some of this is wrong but I'm in no position to dispute it

#to be fair I haven't actually read the book. Waiting for this website's official Gray scholar (souryogurt64) to get ahold of this post #also I mean. I don't think we'll ever really know unless we finally figure out a way to see what's going on in Pete Wentz's fucked up brain

[iohera]

anybody have a pdf of gray i could download. wanna read it, but alas i am a broke college student and pete wentz doesn't need the money

#pete wentz #fall out boy #gray pete wentz #personal

[x-phonehome-x]

just found out my library has a copy of pete wentz’s book so i’ve got. a thing to do now

#fall out boy #pete wentz #gray pete wentz

[frnkieroismydaddy]

I need a copy of Gray by Pete Wentz to read and another to annotate and chew on and cry into

#gray pete wentz #pete wentz

[heaveniowa]

“you’re losing it,” they say, but I know I am, so technically speaking, I’m pretty sure I’m “giving it away,” not “losing it.” gray - pete wentz

#yeah......thinking and feeling these lines more than ever #pete wentz #gray pete wentz #fall out boy edit #fob edit #sye did something

[vsprtn]

if u didnt catch it pete did an interview recently and he says the graphic novel(?) is gonna b out early next year :)))))

#pete wentz #im soo excited obv i love his lyric writinf but i couldnt muster through gray so this is an epic Pete’s Writing opportunity

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

gray by pete wentz is a lot like diary of a wimpy kid but for drug abusers who've attempted suicide at least once.

#don't call me. don't come by my house. WE'RE DONE. #myevilposts #gray #pete wentz #doawk #drugs tw #suicide tw

[looselipssinkships-x]

My last big hyperfixation was vincent van gogh and i read almost every book the boston public library had on him. Does anyone have any book recommendations for fall out boy/90s/00s pop punk??

Current reading list:

- My So-Called Punk, by Matt Diehl

- Where Are Your Boys Tonight? by Chris Payne

- Gray, by Pete Wentz

- None Of This Rocks, by Joe Trohman

- Please Kill Me, by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil

thankssss xx

#fall out boy #fob #reading list #hyperfixation time #2000s #pop punk #my so-called punk #where are your boys tonight? #gray #none of this rocks #pete wentz #joe trohman #please kill me book