this is a love song in my own way

[reflectedeve]

I find that, in certain parts of life, it's almost always more fun to join them than beat them. (As if you could!)

Which is why I totally sat down with sweetvalleyslut on Saturday night and watched so much bandom-related material (ALL of Life on the Murder Scene, and more youtube videos than I can count) that when we overheard Panic at the Disco playing on SNL (my roomie was watching it in the living room), I thought I'd gone crazy. Which was kind of hilarious.

I have the best best friend ever, because she could totally be getting a whole lot more mileage out of this. <3

I'm not entirely rid of my fear of commitment--it's a long and metaphorical story--but whee all the same. (Fic! Good fic! Lots of it! That hasn't happened to me in ages, bar yuletide.) It's a bit frustrating that most of the music really doesn't suit my workplace, because I need some time to process all that.

Also, B and I went shopping and bought lots of pretty girly clothing. And it was warm and sunny on Saturday! It's been a rather novel weekend all around.

(And er . . . no, I haven't started my painted_spires entry yet. I need to re-watch "Missing." I've been seven kinds of truant lately, as usual, but hey. I feel re-energized! That should help.)

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[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

*beams* *tries not to beam, because no one is made this happy by Adobe Captivate*

I'm going to send you parts of the pimp post I sent Rel, because that sort of narrows down the things you should read/watch. And I will send you music--I know you need GINASFS (which is an IOH bonus track, or extra British track, or something) and Greta singing "Baby It's Cold Outside"...hm. Tell me if you have any specific thoughts or I'll just send you whatever. You need "Prison," too, but that falls under the category of "really, REALLY not appropriate for work," sadly.

I just spilled my tea! And I know say say there's no use crying over spilled tea, but...it's just SO SAD!

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

I so know what you mean. :)

Yay pimping post. And actually, hon, I have both GINASFS and "Prison" now (though not along with me in any form--the song-dump CD I made Saturday morning is mostly music I've had for ages, except for "Bang the Doldrums" and "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"). I work fast. ;) What should I listen to from Cobra's first album, FOB's previous albums (I actually have all of Cork Tree, but I'm not sure I'm keeping all of it), and Sweet Revenge? (I have a few songs from each, but.) And I could use some more Academy Is, though I gave the ones you sent before another listen, and I'm not wild about it.

I definitely need more Greta, if there is some. I'm thinking of giving "So Sudden" a try after all; I know you said it wasn't impressive, but I'm thinking I ought to at least hear it. (Also, have you seen this picture (http://www.friendsorenemies.com/web/foe/photos/thehushsound/?id=40896571&p=2)? *g*)

Sadly, I can't get Friends or Enemies videos to play on my laptop either. WTF. I did manage to find the tire-changing episode on YouTube, though, and god, so in love.

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

You do work fast :) Hm, I don't have any earlier Cobras. And if you don't like TAI... there's really no reason to listen to their music, since people do not generally write fic about them. I don't have too many songs from Take This To Your Grave either. LOL bad bandfan. I do like "Saturday" (obviously) and "Where is Your Boy" but that one's probably too pop-y for you. It's almost too pop-y for *me,* except that I totally adore it anyway. "Chicago is So Two Years Ago" and "Dead On Arrival" are the other songs from that album that people generally like. Oh and then there's the Christmas song "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" which is from that era and is kind of hilariously emo.

Bullets: "Headfirst for Halos" makes me SO HAPPY. Which is possibly a little messed up, but there you are. I haven't listened to most of the others enough to judge.

Three Cheers: "Helena" (duh), "Give 'Em Hell, Kid," "Hang 'em High," "Thank You For the Venom" are all kind of essential, and I love "I Never Told You What I Do For A Living," in which they are hitmen. Or something.

Black Parade: If you don't already have it, you should listen to "House of Wolves" which as far as I can tell is about an evil priest.

Let me know if you enjoy So Sudden and maybe I'll give it another try, but it was just a little too far on the side of dreamy indie for me. That picture is amazing, though, oh Greta.

Have you tried using a different browser to watch these things? That sometimes works for me.

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

"Headfirst for Halos" makes me SO HAPPY. Which is possibly a little messed up, but there you are.

*looks at lyrics* *raises eyebrows* Well, I remembered to download that one, so I will have to see. ;p The only one of your Three Cheers recs that I have is "Helena" (because yes, duh), so I'll have to get ahold of the others. I have all of Black Parade except for "Mama," because of my random issues. (I'd really like to read some interviews about Black Parade, because the concept stuff will keep nagging at me.)

Well, "dreamy indie" does sometimes work for me. We'll see. :)

I'll try on a different browser, though I'm really confused: FoE vids work just fine on Firefox on my work computer. Meh.

Oh, so I totally forgot to finish talking to you about Doctor Who spoilers. Or should I not do that?

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

Hm, I'll try and find the BP booklet online for you. I mean, there's roughly ten million video interviews where Gerard rambles about the patient and What It All Means but that's the one where they actually go in depth on each song. I haven't read it all the way through because it's sad and creepy and I haven't really felt like going there, so I'm not sure how much more concept stuff there's going to be--I mean, I feel like just like Three Cheers this album started as a concept album and ended up being about more personal stuff. There's songs that were obviously written for that concept, and songs that probably weren't but you can still squeeze them into it, and then ones that just don't go with anything else at all.

Yeah, I've always used Firefox to watch FoE and buzznet and it's been fine. But I can't watch some things, like the Comedy Central website, and I use IE for that.

No, do tell! What's going on?

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

*nod* It's just that I want to know what they were trying to do, even if they deviated/didn't succeed. There's a real sense of intent to some of those tracks, and it nags at me. Probably won't want to dwell on it, because I fully expect sad and creepy, but I seem to be incapable of listening to music without thinking about what it's about (at least a little).

Well, guess who showed up at the end of the episode (they actually totally shocked me with it, too, which was impressive), just sort of silent and glum and unnoticed, and then walked off and *vanished* into thin air? Hoo boy.

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

I can't guess!

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

I can't believe there hasn't been wank about it yet. (Though maybe it just hasn't made any comms.) Not all her fans are "contentedly besieged."