Erin Broadley: Ville Valo of HIM

HIM are playing a Halloween show in my city. Neat.

I'd go gay for them... as long as the guitar is included!

Interesting Interview.
Ville good luck on the sobriety.
To the Band as a whole, Great Album,
I was very impressed,
Dark light through me for a loop.

If I was single, I'd sooo rape Ville...if the little fucker's band would come to Montreal, dammit..argh

Ever since this interview, I see the commercial for the pregnancy test, with a stream of piss at least twice a day...

Can't wait until November, flying down to Texas to see HIM on the 20th in Dallas.

Very true.

something i realize as a person who happens to be in love with HIM is the fact that life isn't what you expect at all. one day you're dating the guy you thought you'd be with forever and then all of a sudden your first real love turns up, and wants you back, even more than willingly to give you a chance and leave the person they're with just to "try things out again". do you take it? do you tell them no? it's your first love! the person you can never say no to, no matter how many times you've left them. that's what i love about this music and everything that Ville said. I think he gets me, quite a bit more than anyone else does and i don't even know him. i know i have no idea what he has to go through as a musical artist yet, but being an artist myself, and trying to say the right things at the right times is hard. and what's harder is fucking up. when i was between 15 and 17 i was an alcoholic. went to school drunk, drove drunk, but to me i was sober. so i know what it's like to go through things like that. fortunantly enough for me, i didn't have to go to rehab. now, don't get me wrong, once in a while now i have a drink or 2 but since i've become legal, it's just not the same. my life has been pretty crazy and with all that R. Kelly bullshit going on, DON'T PISS ON ME! as i try to make a name for myself, my life become more complex and more dramatic. i found out yesterday that i don't know how to be "sexy". my photographer told me to, and i said that i'd never had to try to be sexy because i just was. i've NEVER had to try to get a guy by being sexy. i've always just been myself...the shy complex type that's mysterious to a man...that's what's always been sexy to me. no face for it. no motions. just me. and here lately i've been more and more into myself, and it's going to tear me apart in the end because i am really really really egotistical. it got so bad that i was to a point where if i didn't find you attractive i wouldn't have considered speaking to you, but i have lightened up and i found that the best people aren't the pretty ones...but DON'T get me wrong, Ville is one of the pretty ones i'd love to know.

i was going through one of my photobuckets and found about 3 pages FULL of little HIM and Ville button things...like a million of them and i just sat there and stared. on the 6th of this month, i took a trip and a huge risk to meet the love of my life. almost the entire trip, i found myself listening to HIM and singing the love songs, finding humor in the best of them, and singing them to my love. for a week i was in the most amazed state of mind, and it turned out that after 9 years of knowing this man, and 9 years of never meeting him, and then seeing him for the first time, that he was my hero and the man i would love to spend my forever with. i know that this isn't what anyone is looking for as far as a comment to the interview goes but i think that i can understand everything that Ville has to say. and you know, after that week was up...after i had to leave him, and all though it almost killed me, i was happy. all because i KNEW it wouldn't be the last time i got to see him, that last we'd see each other, and the last of what we've had since i was 12 and he was 15.

i can't thank you enough, Ville, for writing the words i never knew how to say. in all honesty, your lyrics have become my heart. my life. what my entire world is made up of. no one has ever been able to place what's in my heart, except you. and someday it would be an honor to meet you. one day it will happen and then i'll be complete. i know this is long, but i think it's all i've wanted to say. again... Ville, thank you for being my words.

Hello everyone!

Well, it's that time...the results are in. I'm proud to announce that sirscootscoot has been selected to win the Fender signed by the members of HIM! Thank you all for your participation and the band thanks you as well for your kind words and support!

till next time,
erin

"to concentrate on emotion so much and to be able to verbalize it so well that it would make the dictionary"
If anyone out there could do this it would be Ville. His music is so beautiful it takes my breath away.

in our wonderlands
with vomit, shit, blood and love
HIM is everyone

That was a great interview. I love all your interviews so much.

A friend and I play a game where we occassionally send each other new music that we're currently loving. A couple years ago he sent me "Vampire Heart" and "Wings of a Butterfly". I loved it and those songs STILL end up on my random mix CDs from time to time.

Vallo is one of the greatest vocalists and lyricists ever to have penned a song, or held a stage.

He once said in an interview that "Love is a bit like the Bermuda Triangle, especially if she has a really hairy bush."

Our world is so much the better for having HIM and his band in it. Suicide Girls too. Thanks for the interview, you all.

Valo is just simply amazing. There's no other way to put it. Alas, I do adore him for his lyrics, but it's true, you seep the aspiration from music for the emotion put into it and that's the effect he has on people. The whole package.

Hmph, I didn't really grasp the humor part until just now. I just now realized the humorous input through melancholy subconsciously. Hah, damn. This is why I always love reading his interviews, he definitely keeps me on my toes and, at the end, I'm always thinking about the things he says hours later. DAMN YOU VILLE! *shakes fist*

But he's gotta get some love, he has more comments than the legendary irvine welsh. now THAT's an accomplishment all in it's own.

There is that line between genius and insanity and I think he walks it. I love HIM and Ville....I hope to see you guys some day that would be sweet.
Hanna

bam should have shut up and stayed on Toy Machine!

Holy shit I was so happy when the new album came out..... its like a mix of dark light and razorblade romance......... best album to date

Love H.I.M The last C.D shows how they can progress and still keep the same feel!

HIM is one of my favorite bands