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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

[iamsupernova.livejournal.com]

Peeeete! Jooooooe! I don't know as much and that's probably the reason I care less about Patrick, but he's pretty sweet, too!

& Andy can gfh as far as I'm concerned.

I can't choose my favorite FOB album. Depends what kind of a mood I'm in. I do love Cork Tree and IOH and FAD all a lot.

http://delicious.com/explodingsungirl/falloutboy

[yan-tan-tether.livejournal.com]

I properly, properly love From Under the Cork Tree, I think it's got an amazing energy to it. I don't have a lot of FOB media saved but the 16 Candles vid is definitely one of my favourite parts of canon. I like this blog entry of Patrick's and Pete's Q&A answers are always worth reading. This out.com interview with Pete is fantastic too.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

I really don't know much about FOB or FOB fanfic (except for how I like pretty much all fic that pairs Patrick with people not in his band, and Andy/Matt Mixon), and I also don't like Andy Hurley :(

HOWEVER, Folie a Deux is one of my favourite albums ever, bandom or otherwise!

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

Spend some time digging around icecreamhdaches, especially the very beginning of the journal (summer 2007, I think?). Lots of canon!

Photoshoots: Look for the one with Pete covered in stuffed pandas (saved in my delicious somewhere), and the one from Warped 05 where they're all stipped down to their underwear (except Patrick, who keeps his tshirt on) and are watergunning each other.

And my favourite FOB album is for sure Infinity on High.

[justsomehippie.livejournal.com]

so, i don't have many interviews saved. D: but i do have some fic. all three are pete/patrick (i hope that's okay; i recced them because of the authenticity of the characterizations and the really fantastic dynamics between the two of them. and that's my otp, so. .__.)

first off, A Stitch Away From Making it (A Scar Away From Falling Apart) (http://femmequixotic.livejournal.com/276577.html) by femmequixotic, because of the amazing relationship dynamic. this is the most true-to-form relationship between the two of them that i have ever seen (or, at least, the one that i find to be the most likely. i've never actually met them, sadly).

second, Stereo Field (http://normalhumanbein.livejournal.com/25632.html) by normalhumanbein, because it's amazing. the pete/patrick is mostly implied here, but the characterization is just as fantastic.

third, i took my time (i hurried up) (http://fidelian.livejournal.com/15596.html) by fidelian, because, again, characterization. (i'm sure you've caught on to the pattern by now.) it's a bit different than the other ones, but that's because of the AU setting.

and as for my favorite album... i don't really have one. i love all their albums pretty much equally - except for evening out with your girlfriend, oh lord my ears :( - so i compiled a ZIP of my favorite songs. :P and since i put almost all the songs from take this to your grave on there, i guess that one could be considered my favorite. here's the link. (http://www.mediafire.com/?ljt2zow4owj)

haha, wow. sorry for the tl;dr-ness of this. .__. i just get excited when i know something, y'know. \o/

[wasoncedelight.livejournal.com]

I'm less than no help with the FOB side of things (I know basically nothing about any of them, and everything I *do* know I learned from my flist), but I just wanted to say hiiiiii. :D

[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.

[sullen-hearts.livejournal.com]

Gmail isn't fucked for me, it usually is but today, it is not. Maybe I gave it to you? Sorry.

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

I think this is an appropriate post to do this on. :)

I have been meaning to friend you for aaaaaaaaages, but for whatever reason, I keep being too shy. Not today! I see you around a lot of my friends' journals and always think, why aren't we friends? So, let's be friends? :D