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+ Someone has to have bootlegged BUrie's acoustic performance at ComicCon last night, right? Where is it, Internets? Are you failing me?

+ This morning I heard an ad for NoPerformanceTax, which is not something I disagree with, in theory, but I was amused that the website talks about "local" radios being harmed by this tax, and the radio station on which I heard the endorsement? Owned and operated by ClearChannel, not a small, local company.

+ Hey Monday and fangirl funtimes tonight.

+ I am weak; I succumbed to the lure of Andrew McMahon and Dr. J, even though they will be at a venue that I hate.

+ The Houston Press's Music Showcase is Sunday night. For $10 you get a wristband that lets you in to any of the host venues. Music starts at 5pm and goes until after midnight. Support local bands, Houstonians!

+ Crack fanboy/rockstar dreams: simultaneously the best & worst thing ever. I blame you, playfullips.

+ ETA: vic_ramsey is my hero.

OK, I need to drink coffee and think about work for a minute or two. Or three.

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 )