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A few days back, redorchids picked these icons when I volunteered for her meme. So. Six icons, six drabbles. Sorry it took me so long.



( HG/SS, Potterverse, 265 words )




( Jepha/Bob, bandom, 247 words )




( Spencer/Brendon, bandom, 127 words )




( Patrick/Brendon, bandom, 150 words )




( Gabe and Pete, bandom, 178 words )




( Ryan gen, bandom, 156 words )



So. You can volunteer for this yourself and I'll pick 6 of your icons, or you can tell me six additional icons that should be drabble fodder for me.

So, J's not so much into music, really, but I converted her to the Church Of Hot Addiction by taking her to see Cobras and Cabbabies at the RRRGL tour. I got this email from her today:

It is entirely your fault that I’ve had Patrick Stump’s voice in my head all day, singing “Nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy…”. It won’t. Go. Away.

Would I ever had listened to Fall Out Boy without your encouragement? I doubt it.

BANDOM FOR THE WIN.

1. Dallas. Wretched weather on the drive up with vic_ramsey and playfullips, but it cleared up once we were there. We met up with eckerlilas, fiddleyoumust, and shutyourface and others whose LJ and/or real names I cannot remember. Because I'm just that forgetful. wendy and phaballa dropped why_me_why_not when they were done seeing the Hannah Montana movie. (I think that's what they saw, anyway.)

- The venue and tour management made the early entry/meet&greet entry a total clusterfuck. Dear Charlie, please come back and tour manage, because Beaver Productions are failing hard-core.

- Better yet, could Zack Hall please come work his magic for Fall Out Boy? Panic's m&g/ee work with military precision in comparison.

- I forget how tiny the Fall Out Boys all are. I knew it as a fact, but then they stood there next to me, and they were shorter than me as a reality, and I was like, "Really?"

- Personal bubble issues: I realize it's a m&g photo op, but I really was not expecting Pete Wentz to put his arm around me. (And to have to reach up to touch my shoulder, HAhahahahahaha!)

- Mosh pit dudes: please mosh the other direction. Every time I inched away, you expanded toward me. You broke my shoes and my big toenail is cracked all the way down to the base. If I wanted to mosh, I'd join you. Please don't follow me. Especially to Saturday, okay? THAT IS NOT A SONG TO WHICH MOSHING SHOULD BE DONE.

2. Houston's cancellation: sad, but understandable. I think that the organizing for entry at that venue would have been just as bad or worse than Dallas if the show hadn't been canceled, because the person at the gate was fucking CLUELESS, and there didn't appear to be much communication between her and venue management and/or tour management.

3. New Orleans. Totally made up for Houston's fail.

- The drive from Houston? Longest, boringest drive ever. And I've driven through Kansas, Nebraska, north Texas, the Utah desert, and other empty stretches of the US. Plus: terrible road, unbelievably wretched stink, and NO SOURCES OF COFFEE until we actually hit NOLA.

- I realize it's not the venue, it's the tour management, but still. Having a security dude tell us that there was no m&g or early entry when we asked for details? Not cool. The situation ended up being messy, but not the cluster that Dallas was.

- Hey, hi, center of the barrier. I like you, I'd like to have you as my spot for all FOB shows for the rest of my life.

- FOB can be as political as they like, as far as I'm concerned. In the grand scheme of political punk (heh, isn't that sort of redundant?), they barely even register a blip. But because they are popular and have a relatively young fan base, i guess any political message earns criticism. Whatever. I didn't take the spiel as being aimed at govt; it was aimed at individual and societal greed. JMO.

A'right, photos. These are generally chronological. I am not a particularly good photographer, and I don't have a particularly good camera, by way of warning.

( Believers Never Die Part Deux, Dallas, 17April09 )


( Believers Never Die Part Deux, New Orleans, 19April09 )

♥ why_me_why_not's tickets are booked for the Believers Never Die roadtrip. \\O//

♥ our manuscript is going to rest over the weekend; we'll re-read and edit, then submit Monday (I hope)

♥ home-made imperial stout on tap

♥ Badger hockey; I miss the Kohl Center

♥ Dante on my lap

♥ Cash's twitter

no ♥ for getting up in time to leave at 7am tomorrow to drive down to Rockport

♥ Eric Clapton, Brandi Carlile, and The National

♥ Pete Wentz fanboying Matt Skiba

♥ ( this pic from the 2006 VMAs )

(really really necessary today)


♥ new episodes of Supernatural (Oh, Dean. Also? HAHAHA, did anyone else see the trend in the names the perp used when they lured the first four victims?)

♥ Headfirst Slide. (I know most of you probably have this song already, but on the off chance that someone doesn't... click.) Even though the lyrics are not cheerful, I could listen to this on a loop just for Patrick Stump's voice, and the way he belts out the "does your husband know"s.

♥ Alex DeLeon, you precious, precious failboat

♥ ridiculous t-shirts that are inappropriate for work (I wore it anyway)

♥ boyfriends who are married and share clothing

♥ The Line, by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

♥ knowing that a copy of Chelsea Cain's Sweethearts is on its way (from J)

♥ bow-tie pasta with peppers and peas in vodka-cream sauce

I left an agarose gel of a DNA digest running overnight... at the current I'd use if I wanted to visualize it in an hour. *facepalm*

Also, I shouldn't sign up for bandombigbang, right? Even if I could write the Matt Cortez gen Panic fic. Or Gabe-isn't-nearly-as-smooth-and-easy-as-people-think-he-is fic. That's 20k words due, in rough draft form, by 30April. Is that a deadline I could meet?

Aaand, OMG, still giggling over the woman wearing the "apple bottoms" jacket on the light rail this morning.

AND. JFC, LOOK WHAT JUST APPEARED IN MY INBOX:

BELIEVERS NEVER DIE PART DEUX TOUR

Gabe Saporta and Patrick Stump on stage together, Y/MFY?

ETA: Also... any of you Houston ppl going to see Scott Weiland this weekend? Dunno, I sorta wanted to, but I've heard that he's not doing any STP. Like, when the crowd yells requests, he ignores them completely. And I don't like his new stuff well enough that I'd want to hear 90 minutes of it.

Dear Bandom,

You are not giving Andy enough love. I can understand the pretties with Ryan, Pete, Spencer, Brendon, and Frank, really I can.

But seriously. Andy? Needs more love.

Kthnx.




What brought this on? I was cleaning up the piles of magazines in the living room and found the Rolling Stone with the FOB cover article, and re-read it. (Yes, I was procrastinating; when I finished, I looked for the P!atD one also.) Andy's dystopian sociopolitical views and the way he rationalizes his own participation in the music corporation make me smile.