i love all patricks. this article from the nyt is pretty wonderful esp for patrick talking about pete. the part where travis tells about meeting patrick is my favorite piece of fob canon ever: “The first day I met him was the day Ray Charles died,” said Travis McCoy, the frontman of Gym Class Heroes, whom Mr. Stump has produced and who are signed to Decaydance, the label run by Mr. Wentz. “He was in the dressing room, crying. I knew from that point on, dude was special."

my favorite record would have to be folie à deux, not because i think it's necessarily their best (i think that might be IOH) but because that was the first record that came out after i started loving them. i remember every time a new song leaked leading up to the release date i'd walk around kyoto in a daze of love, in my dreams trees grow all over the streets; those songs just encapsulate everything i love so much about fob, that lightness and sweetness and seriousness, like the best kind of fairy tale.