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I was bored today, and re-reading lisaroquin's Penguins verse over at her fic journal, and there's a part where, for Christmas, Bob and Shannon(Leto) are given beanie-baby type penguins, customized by Gerard. each has vampire fangs, and drumsticks; Shannon's has a sock cap with blond hair, and Bob's has a kilt. I *really* wanted to see those little things, lol...so I manip'd a few pics, and here's what I ended up with!


The only image program I have is good ol' MSPaint, nothing else, but, I think they turned out pretty cute, lol!



and this one, which I've already turned ino a new icon, lol!



edit to add: icon version, feel free if you want to use it, lol!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ytdd12emm0m -video(quicktime)
http://www.mediafire.com/?hzb2muynwww -song (mp3)
http://www.mediafire.com/?yry5wjw1yot -532 screen caps(jpeg), courtesy of fleurdeliser over at Livejournal.

some crappy icons I made in celebration:

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and a few random ones; Patrick (from the FOB show in San Francisco, Dec. 2008), and the empty Cobra Starship room, for those of us who watched the Cobrahcam!

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*facepalm*

A nice long break. At least a year. Nothing till mid-2009 at the earliest, not even studio time. yeah, uh-huh.

you DORKS, lol; you barely lasted 6 MONTHS! I guess 'normal life' is just that boring, huh?

see....

that is paraphrased from an interview in NME magazine, jsyk, some parts/lines are cut out of this one; I saw the whole interview(not much longer) over on the mychemicalromanceforum; someone scanned it in; it also mentioned how some of the orig. ideas for UA became part of the BP, pretty interesting!

work-a-holics, all of them....
just hope Bob is taking care of his wrists!

sitting here listening to 'I kissed a Boy', and started thinking about how if you could ever sum up Cobra Starship in a single song, this'd be that song. :)

From the way they talk about fanfiction, to the way they poke fun at, well, everything. I think Gabe loves to make us think, and to point out that we aren't quite as open-minded of a society as we'd like to think we are. I feel he makes us think about a lot of stuff that we'd prefer to just ignore, or, well, gloss over; pretend that the things aren't real, or that whatever doesn't make us uncomfortable, instead of facing it.
I also think Cobra would all be able to laugh at themselves doing something stupid, you know? They'd understand people were laughing with them, not at them.

I feel you have no right to laugh at anyone else unless you can laugh at yourself first, you know? Just, if you do something incredibly stupid, like, say you walk into a screen door, in front of a group of people. No one gets hurt or anything, you just make yourself look stupid, you know? Can you laugh with them about it? Or are you hurt by their laughter?

Haven't been using this journal as much; the majority of my friends are still on lj, so I got sucked back over there. Been reading a lot of bandom fics; and well, it's pretty well lj-based, you know?

go click on data, it hasn't shown up on icecreamheadaches yet, so you might be one of that first 100.....

I can't believe how excited all this is making me, lol! It's so much fun!

Here's some of the pics I took at warped, if anyone wants to use them for anything, feel free to grab them. :)



these are just some of the better ones; I should really be heading to bed soon, lol, I have to get up around 4 am. Oh, and if you think they all look like they're taken from the same angle, even though they're at two differant stages, you're right! Somehow I was in the same spot for all of the performaces I saw. I don't know how it worked out that way, lol, but it did!

all the pics are here:

http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d103/lunar_scythe/bandom/warped%202008%20fresno/



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and off to bed. :)

Since this was my first time seeing all of these people live, this is more like just random commenting about warped than an actual review.
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Pics are in the next post, lol; this was getting long!

YAY!! My TBPID dvd set finally came! I loved it! Did anyone notice Matt Cortez is no longer listed as a tech, but as 'backline chief'? He's moving up in the world, lol!

Between the two shows, I liked the NJ one better; they looked like they were having a blast there! Plus, of course, the untitled song being played there, yeah!

On the down side, it's HOT. Here it is 11 pm, and it is still 93 degrees F. inside my ROOM!! ARG!! No wonder I've been loosing weight, it's like a sweatlodge in here, only without the steam! See, we have no air conditioning, only fans. The fun thing is, tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter, 111 according to the weather report. yuck.

Well, we now know where the mlp 'waterfire' got her name and symbol; it really does suit her, lol. Saw Waterfire on Saturday night. That day was also the Gay Pride Parade, and our hotel was about a block away from the main Gay Pride area. 10 pm was way too late to be wandering through there, lol; got several eyefulls that I really could have lived without; the she/he in the itty bitty shorts and nothing else, the topless girls making out with each other...

My poor roommate was freaking out, she's from a pretty conservative area and while she's ok with gay in theory, she'd never actually *seen* anything like that. Overall, I think she handled it pretty well, I mean, yeah, she was a little freaked out, but we were both sticking to each other; I was a little freaked out, too; not so much by the gay, but by the flamboyancy of the couples. Um, making out on the streets, with full bottles of beer in their hands(evidently the laws are different about drunk in public in RI?)

Of course, no one bothered us, or hit on us or anything; when we got back to the hotel we realized they probably thought *we* were a couple, lol! I had on an MCR shirt and my TBPID hoodie; she had on an mlp t-shirt, and we both had a bunch of the rubber bracelets they were selling at the fair; pink, purple, orange, green. yeah, lol, we were a little goofy when we realized that, and spent the whole elevator ride laughing about it! It's too bad we didn't go earlier when the group from the other hotel went; most of the reason we freaked was because it was just the two of us, you know? If we'd gone with them, we would have stayed and enjoyed the street party, I think!

The Waterfire show was incredible, I'd never seen anything like that. It's very soothing to sit there, looking at the river, with the bonfires on it, and listening to the music they have going, mostly orchestra-type stuff. We sat there for at least an hour.


I'm sitting here in the San Fran airport, waiting for my plane. It was supposed to be leaving at 8:30 pm; it's gonna be about 11 pm before we leave now.....

Well, I leave for the My Little Pony Convention in RI on Thursday, and haven't even started to pack! I'm really excited about this, it'll be my second year going to it. This year, I'm rooming with 3 other people, so it'll be interesting. Skylar and I roomed together last year, and it was a lot of fun, even if I wasn't awake for much of it, lol! This year the two of us are splitting a room with Wysteria and her fiancee, too. So this might be interesting, lol.

Been reading all the bandombigbang fics as soon as they're posted, and have yet to read one I didn't like, lol. bad people, you're making my bandom addiction worse! Especially PatD; I don't even *like* Pretty. Odd. all that much! But I seam to be addicted to PatD fics......

I sold some mlps this week, and made a tidy profit on them!

Pony Name/ I paid/ I got/ Profit

Sweet Scoops, /$40.00 / $250.00 / $210.00
Carribean Delight set /$ 8.00 / $170.00 / $162.00
TAF baby Sugarberry /$50.00 / $ 70.00 / $ 20.00
TAF baby Love Melody /$60.00 / $ 35.00 / ($25.00)
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Totals: /$158.00 /$525.00 / $367.00

well, it's paying for half of my ticket!

Gonna go to bed now; it's 3:30 am here, and I've been up for 20 hours or so, with only 4 hours sleep before that, so, yeah. I get rambly when I'm tired. The problem has been the heat. Seriously, the only time it gets below 90 F in my room is, well, now. from about 2 am till 6 am or so. See, my room is the SW corner of the house, no trees around to provide some shade...

in my last post, I mentioned how I've been reading tons of bandom stuff lately.

I can completely understand band members not liking fanfiction. It's a little strange when you look at it on the surface. But then again, who out there hasn't fantasized about someone famous, either meeting them, or what they'd be like in bed, or whatever? We fanfic people just prefer a story, a plot. At least, a little more then the teenage dreams of 'so-and-so rescues me and we Do It' type thing. Most of the time. Preferably with another person we recognize as the 'co-star' of the story. Because we don't want to read about some *other* fangirl getting them, right? Cause then we'd be too busy being jealous to enjoy the mental eye-candy, lol. But you put two of them together, or a couple in an established relationship, well, that's different. We can enjoy the story while knowing everyone in it is out of reach.

If any band people happen to find this(which I highly doubt, lol!):

Please remember the stories aren't about *you* you, they are about who you are when you are *on stage*, not the real you. We know very little about the real you. Authors take that piece of you that you give us, and try to create a whole, 3-D person from that.

The biggest thing to me about fanfiction is the people in the stories are recognizably the same people, just, you know, set into differant worlds. Fanfiction can be summed up in two words: 'WHAT IF'
What if this happened? What if so-and-so was a girl? a guy?
The possibilities for fanfiction are limitless; yet finite. It's like the people are keys on a piano, and you can put them together in infinite ways, yet each key has it's own special pitch, no two the same. And no matter where you put them in a song, they really don't go anywhere. They stay in the same spot on the keyboard, waiting for the next song you come up with.

Then again, I guess some bands like it, lol; Cobra Starship talk about reading fics in interviews. To the point where they talked about the storylines of the fics. Or more specifically, *slash* fics about themselves.

Well, evidently, so does Cobra Starship!!Vicky-T really freaked out an author when she commented on a femslash story about herself/Greta a while back.... (just a warning, this *is* a femslash story, rated NC-17, so don't say you weren't warned!) http://olivia-circe.livejournal.com/183216.html?thread=965808#t965808

The author later wrote a wonderful essay-type thing about the whole situation:

http://olivia-circe.livejournal.com/186057.html

That really got me thinking. See, one of my friends is trying to deal with a semi-similar situation: She's made friends with a small girl-band that's done a summer west coast tour or two, and used them as her best friends in a wrestling fanfiction (yeah. *wrestling* and it's a self insert fic. I haven't read it.) Now, they are pretty good friends, M. has gone to LA a couple of times and stayed with them for a week or so at a time. Now, though, someone reading her fic found the bands' myspace, and likes them. So M. is trying to decide if she should just *tell* them about the fic before this other person does, lol; since her fic is where the person first heard of them, and the band always asks people that when they finish a show. They aren't big or anything, just, well, they are her *friends*, so she's a little freaked out about the whole thing, lol. I'll have to show her that authors situation when she gets home, lol; then maybe she'll realize she has nothing to freak out about. I mean, in her story, they band is just her main characters *friends*; secondary characters, that's it!

to be good. I have 2 weeks till the mlp fair, and I still have to buy my plane ticket. yep, lol, I'm horrible! I have a hotel room, tickets to the fair, I've even got a spot reserved for the Hasbro tour on Friday. But I don't have my plane tickets yet. So, no buying anything right now. I'm being good on that part of things, lol; I haven't even looked at mlps on ebay in about a month!

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In other things, bandom has been eating my brain. Mostly over at lj, that just seems to be the place to find it, you know? I'm stuck on whoever-is-really-a-girl fics right now; So far I've been reading a girl!Bob fic series, and of course, there's the JustFrankie series. I also found a couple of Girl Gerard ones, and the one Girl!Mikey story.

I've been hearing rumors about the Daily Mail protest that's supposed to take place tomorrow. One set of rumors are frightening; that a large group of 'Emo's' are going to commit mass suicide.

Yeah, *that's* a good way to protest something. I hope this one turns out to be just a rumor. Protesting something by killing yourselves is not showing how much you care about something. All that proves is you were looking for a way to kill yourself that would give you tv coverage. You don't change anything by doing it. You just become another little cult thing, a stupid fanatic.
If you're an MCR fan and do this, well, you weren't much of a fan. You obviously didn't listen to what they were saying; *how* many times have they told you to live now, in how many ways?

the other set of rumors is good; that a group will be marching in protest, with signs quoting things said by MCR members, things like what Gerard said in the MSG show, about keep on living, even if that's the last show MCR ever does, and so on. They want to show the world that just because someone dresses in black doesn't mean they want to kill themselves, and just because one person gave up on life, doesn't mean the bands she listened to would have supported her choice. They've said in just about every way possible that they don't support suicide, and think it's pretty stupid. They call themselves the 'Band that'll save your life' not the 'band that'll take your life', after all!

Gerard, Mikey, and Brian are all pretty inspirational, in the 'Things can *always* get better' kind of way, all you have to do is put effort into it, right? I mean, the men are addicts who turned their lives around! They've been about as low as you can get, and lived through it. They *know* how bad things can get, but they didn't give up.


See, the thing is, you know if both of these happen, the self destructive group will be the only one who gets press coverage, not the ones trying to actually change things. Because the one group is doing exactly what the media say they do; try to kill themselves.

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I've been going nuts reading fics, as normal. If anyone wants recs, lmk, and I'll start keeping track of them, lol!

I dunno if my fic will ever get another chapter, even though I have plenty more of the story in my head. It just doesn't seem to translate well out side my head, lol. I may just leave it as a never-read one shot, lol; I'm not brave enough to post it anywhere else, you know? Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's absolutely horrible or anything, lol; my self confidence isn't *that* low! I've read( or attempted to read) some pretty bad stuff over the years, and I have no doubt that it's decent comparatively speaking, lol. I'm just not satisfied with it, personally. The story is so much more fleshed out in my mind, you know? I may also post it at my lj, just to see if anyone has an opinion on it, but that's it.

Part of it is I'm really uncomfortable about it having an OFC in it. I *hate* Mary Sues, and I'm afraid that that is what this'll become. But the thing is, I don't think the story would work *without* an OC. There *has* to be a char in the story who's been raised in California, either the bay area or central valley, for the basic plot line(MCR caught in the bay area in a major quake) to work. I guess I could find a random person tied to the band somehow, and have that person do what needs to happen, but, well; I don't want to completely screw up the characterization of whoever I use, you know? That's kind of the whole reason I went with an OC in the first place!

On the other hand, the idea of writing something that I probably would skip over, if it was written by someone else, is just weird. How come I get things stuck in my head that I wouldn't read, lol?

made it home, after some minor adv. with high winds almost making me late to change planes, lol. Gonna crash now; been up about 20 hours straight, and before that, I was up for 19 hours straight. I took a two hour nap in between, lol.

By this tome tomorrow, I'll be home, in my own bed. Ok, well I'm pretty sure I'll really be up all night talking with my room mate, lol, but still. I'll be home. :) I've missed my pets more than friends and family, lol; the people I can call and talk to, the animals notsomuch, you know?

Anyway, I still have packing to do, so this is going to be *really* short. The freeway going west from here is closed due to high winds and dust, so I hope there's no problem with the shuttle tomorrow! I'm going east to El Paso, but the way the winds here have been, and since they're coming from the west and moving east, I'm a little nervous, you know? I'm also hoping there's no problem with me(and my *luggage*) making the connection tomorrow, I've only got 30 minutes between planes, so, yeah. It may be a little tight!

Today I was working on packing things up, since I head back home in, well, 30 hours or so? Yeah, the shuttle's gonna pick me up at 6 am on Thursday. :)

I came to the conclusion I *really* like to shop, lol. Just not for the things people think of when someone says that!
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Got some more cd's, The Cab's Whisper War, and Cobra Starship's Viva Cobra! Quickly falling in love with both cds, lol. I mean, who doesn't like the idea of a star telling off some annoying chick wanting him to sign her chest, lol, and the vocal harmonies by the Cab just, yeah!

On Patrick Stump, from Fall Out Boy:

Some people will probably want to kill me for saying this, lol, but unlike most people in the music industries, he's not really physically appealing. Honestly, can you say you'd look twice at the guy if he *wasn't* in a band? Here's this geeky little chubby guy, with a receding hairline, a thing for shoes and hats, and has these kind of frightening sideburns he lets grow out. And he kisses My Little Ponies, lol.

He's cute in a kind of puppy-ish 'aw, so cute, pat him on the head and give him hugs and cookies' way but not really in a 'hot, want to sleep with' way, lol.
He really points out that looks aren't really what matter, it's what you *do* that does; because once he's on stage, he just, yeah. Whether he looks good or not, it doesn't matter anymore, because of what he does. Is there anything, musically speaking, the man *can't* do? I mean, he can play at least 6 instruments, produces, directs, sings, even acts. Those matter much more than his looks.

I mean who doesn't like looking at cute guys in bands, lol; but looks are just icing on the cake of a good band. If they weren't a good band, no one would ever bother finding out what they looked like, you know? I mean, say a bands' members were all good looking, but they suck? No one would care about them. There's tons of those around, you know?

I'd been reading rumors all over the net that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were pregnant, and were getting married this weekend, but now those are no longer rumors. :) Congrats to them both, for both, lol!

Evidently Patrick Stump is now dog-sitting the ring-bearer, Hemmingway, for the honeymoon.

I love the fact that Pete skipped the whole bachelors' party thing for a dinner with his soon to be father in law.

I've heard a lot of people in bandom saying some pretty mean things about this relationship; that it won't work out, that they're 'so wrong for each other', that they (or one of them) was just in it for the publicity, and so on. Well, I hope it *does* work out, for them and their soon-to-be little one! I hope they don't let the stress and pressure they are always under make them do something they'll regret; and I wish them all the best. I hope they both continue with their carreers, but, well, their happiness is much more important then me getting to hear new music from one of my favorite bands. (OK, so I couldn't really care less what she does, lol; I haven't liked her music much.)

It really makes me sad how bandom fans seem to jump all over the wives/fiancees/ S.O.'s of the band members, especially if they weren't in the picture *before* whoever it is made it big. I find this attitude ridiculous! I mean, these same people are all 'I love so-and-so, they can do no wrong', yet they don't think the person they are saying that about has any common sense (which, well, some of them really don't lol, but still.) as far as relationships go.

Honastly, I don't really understand why so many people think they have a *right* to have a say in who 'their' favorite marries/dates/ whatever. It just boggles my mind. Don't these same band members have rights, too? Like to privacy? And, you know, *having* a life out of the public, if they want? lol, not that all of them seam to *want* that, but, you know. It's not the fans life. It is the stars life, to do with as they please. If they get married, break up, dye their hair, change their style of music, whatever. Fans should try to remember that.

I like to think that most fans would love to view themselves as friends of whatever stars they follow. So if you wouldn't say something about/to a friend, then you shouldn't say it about the star; does that make sense?

It's not like authors really let reality stop them from writing what they want, anyway, lol.
After all, most of MCR are now married, but that hasn't stopped slash from being written about them, that's for sure! Probably more of it is written now than before any of them were married!

Finally been updating my website. Jeeze, I hadn't done anything serious to it in ages! It was all mlp stuff, but I'm changing that up some; adding a bandom section, along with fic recs, picspam, and so on, lol. Including a page about *why* I read what I do, for people who are still going, 'ewww, slash! *you* read that stuff?!'

Got moved into a different hotel room, but now I don't have to change hotels for the 2 nights; and I figured out *why* I was going to have to change: there's a bike run going through here, and all *300* of them are booked here at Best Western tonight!

The bad part about switching hotel rooms? I realised just how much stuff I have here. It took me over an hour to pack up and move, and nearly 10 trips. I actually had to bring a bag into the new room, *empty* it, then go get more stuff with the same bag! So far I have 2 boxes ready to mail. I'm gonna need at least 2 more.

sitting here watching FOB: **** Live.
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