Where I'm At. Fandomwise.
Some are born to bandom, some achieve bandom, and some have bandom thrust upon them. Me? I threw myself willy-nilly into the bandom pit because the Mikey/Brian archive went dead. Totally left me hanging.
Anyway, for want of anything better to do, I went nosing about and fell into bandom.
Now, I did know there was a Panic! At the Disco and Fall Out Boy and a My Chemical Romance. I had heard the names. Only, I thought Panic! sung "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" so when I went looking for pictures I kept wondering where the girl from the video was, and I thought maybe the fellow who sung that song might have left the band because he wasn't in any of the pictures either. And that's just reasonable logic on my part, because 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing' seemed like it would definitely come from a band called Panic! At The Disco, so that was a totally right thing for me to think, even if it wasn't a right thing. Also, I had no idea Pete Wentz was actually in an actual band. I mean I knew of him, but just that he'd married a Simpson lass; that he seemed a bit odd and had a nice smile - yeah. That's about it.
So - needless to say I've had my work cut out for me trying to figure out the tangled web that is bandom. It does not help that people don't always provide last names -glares at writers- and people who've left bands are included in the stories.
I read a beautiful set of stories which included a Tommy. I searched high and low on the webs looking for possible Tommy-candidates. I eventually settled on Blink 182's Tom as being who the character was based on, though I had a niggly feeling it maybe wasn't. I was near the end of the series when I found out about The Academy Is...and then it took further time to realise that there had been a Tom - Tom Conrad - who'd left and started up a band of his own called Empires. Then, because bandom is just packed full of pretty I got William Beckett confused with Tom Conrad - so I read the rest of the stories picturing Bill (Bill is what we people in the know call him) and then I realised a few days afterwards that Bill was Bill and that meant that Tommy - was probably Tommy Conrad.
That sort of shit fucks with a reader's mind, I don't mind telling you.
Anyhoodle. Bandom.
My favourite pretty is Spencer, which I'm not sure why, but there you go. I could just nip him. Well, if he wasn't a fucking boy, I'd nip him. Though, he's in his twenties now, at least.
I now have to go find their music. I tend to listen to audio books more than music . I do listen to the radio, but only when I'm driving Egar-car to the supermarket or to visit friends or such. For all I know I do know their songs, but I just don't know it's them who sings them.
I do hope this doesn't go like the NYNC debacle. I loved (still love!) the Nsync. Boygroup fanfic was all I could find in way of new work for a good few months back a few years ago. See, everyone had joined LJ and I hadn't known there even was an LJ. It was something of a it was a life (ring? vest?) well, life-thingy - in a stormy sea. There were such good writers; I was awed by the people writing these boys, and I loved them all. So, yeah, I found one of their CD's at a shop in Stones Corner and I was so eager...and...yeah..
Ahem.
I mean, maybe it wasn't bad, maybe it was just I didn't like that type of thing, but my goodness, it was just a lot of covers and...really...not of the good. But, then that was apparently a CD of theirs before they were set free from that evil fat old fuck, Paedophile-Lou. And I believe their CD with them as puppets on the cover did very well, so I suspect I came in at the wrong wedge of that particular cake.
Where was I? Oh, yes, getting the bands' songs. So, I'm crossing my fingers that I'll like their songs. Especially Spencer's band. Because...well...Spencer. But, Panic! have apparently done quite well for themselves and have top albums, so they've got to be pretty good, I'd think. Them and My ChemicalRomance is where I’ll start, I believe. Just to dip a weary toe into the bandom music pond. Oh, and Fall Out Boy of course, because Patrick Stump just is adorable and apparently Mozart with an electric guitar, so I'm interested to hear what all the fuss is about. I firmly believe Patrick is the second coming, here to save the music, and I've never heard a song he's sung (or at least been aware that I was hearing him). But I put my trust in slashgirls, and when pretty much everyone who writes him says he's brilliant and wonderful and whiskers on kitten and soft woollen mittens, then I believe.
Anyway. Yeah. That's where I am. Fandom-wise.
So. Right. Thanks for listening.
Anyway, for want of anything better to do, I went nosing about and fell into bandom.
Now, I did know there was a Panic! At the Disco and Fall Out Boy and a My Chemical Romance. I had heard the names. Only, I thought Panic! sung "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" so when I went looking for pictures I kept wondering where the girl from the video was, and I thought maybe the fellow who sung that song might have left the band because he wasn't in any of the pictures either. And that's just reasonable logic on my part, because 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing' seemed like it would definitely come from a band called Panic! At The Disco, so that was a totally right thing for me to think, even if it wasn't a right thing. Also, I had no idea Pete Wentz was actually in an actual band. I mean I knew of him, but just that he'd married a Simpson lass; that he seemed a bit odd and had a nice smile - yeah. That's about it.
So - needless to say I've had my work cut out for me trying to figure out the tangled web that is bandom. It does not help that people don't always provide last names -glares at writers- and people who've left bands are included in the stories.
I read a beautiful set of stories which included a Tommy. I searched high and low on the webs looking for possible Tommy-candidates. I eventually settled on Blink 182's Tom as being who the character was based on, though I had a niggly feeling it maybe wasn't. I was near the end of the series when I found out about The Academy Is...and then it took further time to realise that there had been a Tom - Tom Conrad - who'd left and started up a band of his own called Empires. Then, because bandom is just packed full of pretty I got William Beckett confused with Tom Conrad - so I read the rest of the stories picturing Bill (Bill is what we people in the know call him) and then I realised a few days afterwards that Bill was Bill and that meant that Tommy - was probably Tommy Conrad.
That sort of shit fucks with a reader's mind, I don't mind telling you.
Anyhoodle. Bandom.
My favourite pretty is Spencer, which I'm not sure why, but there you go. I could just nip him. Well, if he wasn't a fucking boy, I'd nip him. Though, he's in his twenties now, at least.
I now have to go find their music. I tend to listen to audio books more than music . I do listen to the radio, but only when I'm driving Egar-car to the supermarket or to visit friends or such. For all I know I do know their songs, but I just don't know it's them who sings them.
I do hope this doesn't go like the NYNC debacle. I loved (still love!) the Nsync. Boygroup fanfic was all I could find in way of new work for a good few months back a few years ago. See, everyone had joined LJ and I hadn't known there even was an LJ. It was something of a it was a life (ring? vest?) well, life-thingy - in a stormy sea. There were such good writers; I was awed by the people writing these boys, and I loved them all. So, yeah, I found one of their CD's at a shop in Stones Corner and I was so eager...and...yeah..
Ahem.
I mean, maybe it wasn't bad, maybe it was just I didn't like that type of thing, but my goodness, it was just a lot of covers and...really...not of the good. But, then that was apparently a CD of theirs before they were set free from that evil fat old fuck, Paedophile-Lou. And I believe their CD with them as puppets on the cover did very well, so I suspect I came in at the wrong wedge of that particular cake.
Where was I? Oh, yes, getting the bands' songs. So, I'm crossing my fingers that I'll like their songs. Especially Spencer's band. Because...well...Spencer. But, Panic! have apparently done quite well for themselves and have top albums, so they've got to be pretty good, I'd think. Them and My ChemicalRomance is where I’ll start, I believe. Just to dip a weary toe into the bandom music pond. Oh, and Fall Out Boy of course, because Patrick Stump just is adorable and apparently Mozart with an electric guitar, so I'm interested to hear what all the fuss is about. I firmly believe Patrick is the second coming, here to save the music, and I've never heard a song he's sung (or at least been aware that I was hearing him). But I put my trust in slashgirls, and when pretty much everyone who writes him says he's brilliant and wonderful and whiskers on kitten and soft woollen mittens, then I believe.
Anyway. Yeah. That's where I am. Fandom-wise.
So. Right. Thanks for listening.