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[harborshore]

First things first, is anyone else having trouble with Gmail? I am, in Firefox but not in Safari. But Google is working just fine. *hands* I don't understand, and my internet is also currently running at a snail's pace, so I can't use my usual tools for figuring out what's wrong. DAMMIT. ETA: OH THANK GOD, it's working again.

But much more importantly, I'm slowly but surely becoming really interested in, you know, Patrick Stump. And Joe Trohman. Even Pete Wentz. Admittedly, I don't really like Andy Hurley, but I'm starting to love the band he's in.

Really, all of you, feel free to snicker at me. I'm the slowest of the slow, I'm well aware of this fact. I'm just sort of startled by this development--I've been reading fic about them for longer than I've been interested in MCR (in case I haven't shared this yet, my bandom origins story goes: Pete/Patrick porn; Weekenders; a lot more fic; hearing the Black Parade and going huh, I like the way the song changes throughout; hearing Teenagers; and then seeing that clip where Gerard tells the girls in his audience to spit in the faces of dudes who tell them to take their shirts off. And that was IT. Of course, it took me another, uh, nine months to get a livejournal. SLOWEST OF THE SLOW.

Anyway, FOB. For the sake of my new-found fascination with them and for the sake of the sequel to my big bang (which is partly in Patrick pov, it seems), I would deeply appreciate a link to your favorite/canon-defining/OTP-defining/etc/whatever interview/blogpost/photo shoot/etc. Basically if you link me to something, I'll be really, really grateful. OH, I almost forgot--tell me your favorite FOB album.

Comments

[graceoftheworld.livejournal.com]

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.

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of how the most overwhelming memory associated with a Folie A Deux song for me is how the first time I listened to "What A Catch, Donnie" I was on a Greyhound bus in the middle of nowhere, Vermont, parked at a stop and waiting for passengers, and I was staring out the windows at fall foliage and paying really close attention to the music. I have such a strong mental image of the moment, and it comes back almost every time I hear the song.

[graceoftheworld.livejournal.com]

i love how songs do that, attach themselves so completely to a time and a place.

the first time i listened to What a Catch, i had to lock myself in a bathroom stall in the library in kyoto and cry. that is a true story and i admit it without shame. now i'm totally burnt out on that whole record and cannot listen to it at all.

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

I have that same burnout w/r/t "Hum Hallelujah". I just listened to it too intensely too many times. I still love just thinking about the lyrics, though. PETE WENTZ LOOK WHAT YOU DO TO ME.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Seriously, Patrick STUMP. ♥ No, no, I don't have a thing for self-effacing talented and fiercely loyal people (who is this Bob Bryar you're speaking of?). Also I like the way he writes music, man, I really do.

I think it's looking like I'm starting with that one and Infinity on High--I want to sort of do a little at a time.

And oh, the way you describe that is so lovely, I can almost see it. Music just--sometimes it really does make a moment that much more tangible and memorable. Vienna Teng does that--I was sitting on the subway the first time I understood that City Hall was about gay marriage and started crying at the line "My baby's looking so damn pretty with those anxious eyes, rain-speckled hair, my ring to wear". It's possible I'm kind of an emotional person.

[graceoftheworld.livejournal.com]

THAT IS WHY PATICK/BOB IS SO EXCELLENT!

i am going to find that vienna teng song; it sounds extremely relevent to my interests. and crying in public about songs is a.) apparently another thing we have in common, and b.) always an excellent life decision.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

YES EXACTLY. \o/

You could check the comments to this post. You know, if you felt like it. ♥

[graceoftheworld.livejournal.com]

\O/ MUSICS YAAAAAAYYY YOU ENABLER!!

ALSO

LOOKIT YOUR FAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCEEEE!!!! i approve of it.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

*beams* I AM SO UP FOR SPREADING THE VIENNA TENG LOVE.

ps. passage? from the story? t'is a real song, and it's on there. warning for sad, obviously.

OH MY CRAZYFACE. *hides*

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Feeling things very deeply, maybe? And yes, absolutely. Excellent life decision, whether it's about a song or something else (the day Sweden passed gay marriage, were we lj friends yet then? Because I wrote a post about positively bawling in public even while smiling so hard through the tears).