the gabe saporta challenge.
this is something that i stole from a tumblr entitled "the gabe saporta challenge" where you answered one of these a day and posted it each day. i condensed thirty days of work into three. :) so, here is the gabe saporta challege.
01. Your favorite picture of Gabe
i love mirror photos.
i love black and whites.
i love gabe.
add all three together and gabe looking his best from two different angles equals an amazing photo.
i'm cheating because that was my favorite serious pic of gabe. this is my favorite goofy pic of him. he reminds me so much of myself when he does shit like this. i honestly think that we would be great friends. we would be crazy and epic together.
02. Your favorite Gabe hoodie
even though it's in black and white, i love this one lots! there's a lot going on with it, which is the same with gabe.
(perhaps it's because the picture is so pretty is the real reason why i like it so much.)
anddd!
the classic, iconic purple hoodie. naturally. purple looks so good on him; it sets off his eyes and his skin tone (though you can't tell in this pic). he just looks absolutely gorgeous in it.
03. Your favorite Gabe band
(current) cobra starship.
and fuck you, kyle, i can like a band without knowing the one, one of the members was in before it.
i love cobra because it's just happy, jumpy music that makes my stressful little world seem a little brighter. knowing that out there, there isn't a band taking itself so. fucking. seriously. is the best thing ever. knowing that in five years i can be having fun, just like them, is completely inspiring.
(and before you continue on, know that i love everyone in the band completely equally, not just gabe. i'm doing this because i found it and just really wanted to do a [sorta] picspasm because i've never done one. :])
04. The first song you ever heard by Gabe
Snakes on a Plane (Come on, Bring it)
i don't actually recall if this was really the first song i heard by cobra starship but i'm pretty sure. i stumbled across the video looking at tai...'s videos. i sorta fell for the chorus because bill beckett is an amazing human being. i had some cobra starship hiding in my huge ass ipod, i listened to it and just fell, quick and hard.
05. Your favorite Gabe video
ryan ross is just the cutest thing and no matter how many times my friends try to convince me otherwise, my belief will stay firm. here, gabe is trying his hardest to be a real interviewer and ryro is just like "no" and he puts on the smile i imagine he (used) to give to brendon all the time. the whole i'm-putting-up-with-you-aren't-you-cute? smile. but the hug at the end is so adorable; gabe giving his usual gabey baby hug, all tight and intense and ‘you’re-completely-loved’, and ryan lightly tapping gabe's back like "let me go, you're being creepy again". best thing ever.
orrr (because, that was more my favorite ryan ross video)
because his bandmates fucking sing him awake. it's adorable and made my love for suarez bloom from a tiny bud into a full blown fucking flower. oh, alex! anyway, i love how gabe just can't help himself and starts harmonizing with ryland and alex. plus, c'mon, sleepy!gabesaporta is my favorite. (also, random pic of kirk cameron in his bunk! oh, gabe!)
06. A Gabe gif
there's a few...
this one made me cream my pants. i'm not kidding. (sorry about being so crude, but it's really true and all of you can go fuck yourselves if you say that you didn't too.) it's like watching softcore porn with the sound off starring a guy you'd actually wanna fuck.
with this one, look up at the previous reason.
just the fact that he looks like he's jacking off is enough for me to include it here and make me smile. (because, c'mon, boys jacking off is the BEST! [like funny, because upon reread, that sounds sorta...wrong].)
this one just further solidifies that fact that gabe is a big old nerd.
07. Your favorite aspect of Gabe’s personality
there's a few, all with pictorial examples! :D
he's funny.
he's goofy.
i don't know if he wrote this, but i completely believe him.
he honestly doesn't give a fuck about what you think of him (he is also gabe saporta, so he can do what-the-fuck-ever he wants.)
he cares about animals (and is adorable with them).
he's fun.
he's a nerd.
08. Your favorite Gabe quote
Gabe: Why are you sick, girl?
Shana: Because my girlfriend and I keep making out and swapping germs?
Gabe: Yeah, I've been sick from sucking too much dick.
from this article. i suggest that you read the whole out.com interview.
i am reminded day after day why i love gabe saporta.
09. Your favorite Gabe outfit
i love this picture because he loves his neon glasses and they love him back. as does his baseball caps and his lovely tee shirts. but his pants... probably look better on the floor than they do on him. ( ;D )
now this picture? amazing. even though he has bird legs, he totally rocks the skinny jeans. and on anyone else, the yellow shoes would totally ruin the purple/neon green thing he has going on but he rocks those too. (i stared at this pic for a long fucking time before i saved it, trying to get my inner fashionista [lovingly nicknamed "kurt"] to hate gabe for a usual affront to fashion but kurt didn't do anything other than coo at how earnestly he was singing and how much he looks good in bright colors. [kurt's such a bitch for pretty boys; don't even get him started on bb!spencer smith... and by him, i mean me.].)
the only reason why this one is in here is because patrick's shirt and the fact that that jacket, the one that gabe is wearing, has seen SO MUCH FUCKING ACTION! (mostly in the form of bill beckett which you will see in a moment, so we will move on.)
10. Your second favorite picture of Gabe
this is my second favorite picture of gabe for many reasons. and the first reason is not that he's shirtless (that's reason number two), but rather that the body wash container says "cobra cleaner". but how about we all take a minute and stare at the loveliness that is gabe (and nate[?]) shirtless!
unf.
also, i love this picture because gabe is so pretty from this angle. and i feel so bad for the woman going through all the effort of making gabe's hair look pretty when he's going to shove a hat over it. but he's so goddamn gorgeous.
11. Your favorite Gabe related memory
my favorite gabe related memory is my first cobra show. (full recap at #18.)
here, have a picture instead.
12. A picture of you with Gabe or a picture you have taken that is Gabe related
i'm such a terrible fan; i don't have a picture of gabe and myself. i have taken video and stills of him at a show at msu but that was on maraahh's camera.
-hangs head- i feel terrible. :(
it's actually okay beacuse gabe probably has enough girls with hearts/stars in their eyes; one more would probably just be an irritant.
13. Your favorite song Gabe has done guest vocals on
what a catch, donnie | 3:45 | chorus of "grand theft autumn/where is your boy?"
so this song has a special place in my heart. i didn't really like FAD, in fact, i hated it. (that makes me a terrible fob fan but i don't really give a shit) but i was young and naive and didn’t realize that people (and thus their music) changed. i've listened to it and i still can't find the button to press that connects FAD to my heart and soul like all the other albums did.
except this song.
this song is heart breaking and patrick's voice does the cracking. so much raw emotion. add that with the video and all the things coming out the water (the fob letters from ‘thnks fr th mmrs’, patrick's jacket from ‘dance, dance’, andy's bass drum), and the background vocals (all previous fob singles' choruses) just completely breaks you apart. (for me at least it did.)
the first time i heard this song, i didn't hear the background vocals. on the thrid listen, i was in tears. (i don't know how the song was written - if the choruses were added in as a good idea or if pete wrote them in) but the whole fucking song felt like they were saying good-bye; like pete had given up before he let anyone else know.
gabe's voice, soft and resigned, rings loud and gives the heartfelt chorus soul. when you listen to it, you can hear it in his voice (in all of their voices; brendon's even seems to crack at one point) that everyone knew that the legacy - the legend - of fall out boy was falling apart at the seams and none of them could stop it. this pain is reflected in the way gabe sings his four lines, gentle and calm, as if he's singing a you a lullaby and not a proposition. like he's trying to sooth an open wound; a wound that we didn’t know that we even had - months in advance.
14. Your favorite of Gabe’s physical features
the apples of his cheeks!
look at them!
they're adorable!
(that's all i have to say because i don't like gabe just because of his looks. it's his personality and the way he projects himself that makes me love him immensely.)
15. Your favorite “fangs up” picture of Gabe
gabe is known for his fangs up and at every concert, he inducts people as cobras by this...for lack of a better term... gang sign. this is easily my favorite because, not only is he in a robot costume, he's in a robot costume made by his fans. (which is another thing i love about gabe; he loves the fans back.)
16. If you could spend a day with Gabe, what would you do?
it would totally be up to him (and if it was, we'd spend all of it either acting like tourists in whatever city we were in or drinking shit tons of red bull and vodka) but all i would like to do is curl up on a couch, watch all of his favorite movies, and just spend the whole day snuggling.
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17. Your favorite bromance Gabe is in involved in
bill beckett.
yes, he is in fact about as tall as the sears tower.
just in case you can't see teh pretti, here's a picture of snakesonaplaneera!william. (he's had a hair cut since this pic but isn't he so pretty?)
this will lead more towards a gabilliam (aka "giant love") rather than a simple bromance so feel free to skip this part. (this means you, gabe. you will skip this part and completely ignore the fact that i'm a raging slash fan. kthanx.) but if the idea that gabe and william are more than bros doesn't bother you, feel free to read ahead! :)
anyway! my favorite bromance is easily bill beckett.
gabe and bill first worked together on "snakes on a plane (come on, bring it)"; i think william might have written the chorus but i'm not sure (can't recall). they made this awesome video for the song and exchanged looks like this:
bill says 'bitch please'.
bill also says 'bathroom in five?'.
gabe says 'meet you there.'
so after this they went on tour together on warped (or whatever, details are usually lost on me because of teh kute). so they spent a lot of time together, doing best friendy things...
like hugs (on and off stage)...
offering shoulders when one's tired...
being general nerds together...
and eating chocolates out of one's navel!
...what? i totally eat chocolate out of maraahh's bellybutton all the time. no really. not really. but i understand gabe because who ever doesn't wanna eat chocolate out of william's navel is a freak.
anyway!
this is my favorite of gabe's bromances because who else can make bilvy smile like this? (also, refer to the picture above this one; who really smiles like that when someone is doing something as awkward as consuming sweets from a navel? people who are in complete and utter love an epic bromance together. that's who.)
i threw this edited one in because it's a) just as cute (if not cuter) as the original and b) was totally what gabe was thinking other than "i really wanna get on my knees for billbeckett". ;D
more reasons why i love the bromance gabe has going on with william: the looks gabe gives bilvy.
this look is one of complete adoration. gabe looks like he absolutely adores william and that's so endearing; the gentle curing of gabe's fingers on bill's shoulders makes me coo. fyi, i've never seen a pair of hands make such a perfect looking heart. a big part of why i love this picture is the fact william doesn't even seem to be aware of how much gabe adores him; he's oblivious. (i image after this picture was taken, gabe went back to smiling too wide and goofing off to distract william from the fact that he just professed his love for him with his pretty brown eyes. :P)
now this one is UNDENIABLE! yes, gabe looks drunk or high or both, but his eyes still say 'mine'. his chin is hooked over bill's shoulder, his lips pursed, as if prepping to lean down and kiss william's shoulder. plus, bill's smiling all wide and honest and that's probably because of something one of the girls said, but i like to believe that it's because gabe's standing so close or because gabe's other hand is (most likely) on his hip. one can only assume!
now we're going to talk about the even more undeniable kiss that was leaked onto the internet by some amazing person i wanna give my firstborn to. (i hope you want more than one kid, pete, because mine's coming your way.)
there. now that you've seen it (again, for the thousandth time), i will talk about it. yes, it's (probably) true that they were wasted when this kiss took place but i stand firm on the idea that alcohol only makes you do what you already want to do in the first place. yes, it's blurry and you can't make out their faces but that's the 'gabe's-gettin'-some-ass' jacket that causes girls to cream their pants and guys fall to their knees and that is a very unique sweater bilvy has on. you cannot deny the liplock that they're in.
plus, look at the way william is cradling gabe's face; his thumb appears to be mid-stroke. his pointer finger is outside of the hood, but it appears that his other fingers are in gabe's hair or wrapped around his neck. if you just glance at it, it appears to be a quick, friendly kiss, but gabe's hand lightly hovering over william's shoulder, fingers playing with william's curls; their lips are together too close to be just a peck - there was probably tongue.
this picture is beautiful and even though it's blurry, the blurriness adds to the beauty and realness of the pic; we see it how they experienced it - blurred and intense, a peek into a private moment.
just an amazing picture.
this is the end of the bromance portion of the gabey baby challenge. i'll leave you with a picture that says it all...
oh, so true, boys. oh, so true.
18. Something you have discovered through Gabe
the cobra and the fact that it DOES FUCKING EXIST!
evidence: maraahh and i went to a cobra starship concert that we thought it was at the wharton center (here in e.l. mi). we couldn't find a place to park; we went into the animal oncology unit, through the exit mind you, and parked there. (this is usually grounds for a boot.)
we get to the wharton center and all across the windows: "cobra starship is performing at the msu auditorium". we're not msu students, so we're like "the fuck is that!?!?!?" so we wonder back towards our car. i decided to wave down a car, a toyota prius, and ask for directions half way there.
the woman stops; she's in her late 50s-early 60s. i lean over and ask "do you know where the msu auditorium is?"
"sure," she replied and then, all of a sudden, with no prompting says, "i can take you guys there."
the back seat of her car is filled with books and shit, so i'm thinking "she's a professor" so mara and i jump in the back and thank her. we get to the show, about 20 minutes after it was supposed to start, and the opener is still on because of the move (or whatever) and we get to our epic seats, bought at the very last fucking second. (they're amazing seats for buying them a week before; more proof that i’m awesome.)
we see the show. fall in love with gabe. complain at how much fucking red ryland was wearing (and totally forgives him because of teh funni). officially add vicky t to BOTH of our chick exception lists. laugh at nate with his (disgusting) water spraying. get turned on by the way alex says his full name.
basically have a fucking blast. exactly what a cobra starship concert is supposed to be.
after, we start walking the fucking half mile back to where we (illegally) parked. i start doing travie's raps from 'kiss my sass' and 'snakes'. mara starts to sing in response. we're running on post-show high. we wanna party. (we don't because, at this time, she was still 17. :[ ) we get back to the car and realize that there's no boot - we're fucking estatic. the exit we came in is still open. everything worked out fucking perfectly.
it suddenly dawns on me that all this was possible because a higher power was watching over us. and that power was...
THE COBRA!
we were destined to see cobra starship and who else was i supposed to thank for that? so, naturally, i started to thank the cobra and told her that i would worship her forever. mara turns to the sky was says, and i shit you not, "jesus, she's just kidding."
so i get all upset because, hello! i'm praying over here; stfu. "i'm really not."
"what happens when you go to hell because of this?"
after i moment i said "ahh, pete's [st. peter, not wentz] a forgiving kind of dude, he'll just look at my life and be like, 'i see you worshipped a cobra for about three years' and i'll be like 'ahh, i was 18, what are you gonna do?"
"and then he'll send you to hell." she replied.
"i'll be partying with gabe then, won't i?."
yeah. i didn't make that up. you can't make up that much crazy.
that's what i've discovered through gabe.
19. Your favorite quote by someone else about Gabe
i didn't take the time to actually look up a quote because the most of them probably say something along the lines of "gabe's the coolest motherfucker ever! -thumbs up-" but i had these icons saved for quite some time.
someone had to make them thus meaning someone must have said them.
:]
20. Your third favorite picture of Gabe
gabe, as always, looks fantastic here. the plaid really works for him (thank god because he seems to have a boner for plaid of every color and it would be a shame if it didn't look good on him [though to be honest, everything looks good on him...most of the time].) i love his trucker hat too and the fact that it matches his shirt (from this angle).
i love this pic because...look at the way his hip is cocked, the way his knee is bent, the position of his arm. it's a flamboyant pose to match his over-the-top personality.
21. Your favorite music video by any of Gabe’s bands
guilty pleasure
snakes on a plane
or
the city is at war
22. Your favorite lyric Gabe has written
before i met you,
i used to dream you up
and make you up in my mind
- the world has it's shine (but i would drop it on a dime for you)
this whole fucking song is amazing and i feel like this verse finally gave words to feelings that i felt. nameless feelings that were just stuck in my chest whenever i spoke. it isn't directed towards a specific person but, rather, it's just the fact that i spend nights and nights dreaming up and making people up. i've built up so many different people that if i ever met them, i'm sure they'd break my heart. (and that includes gabe.)
23. Your least favorite picture of Gabe
my least favorite picture of gabe is his twitter pic. his outfit is awesome as usual (i'm sure that someone lays out his clothes each morning) but the fact that he's in front of a naked woman (who looks like a coke head with all the eye make-up and the "you-better-fucking-pay-me" look) sorta makes me cringe.
i understand that people like to have a good time and shit but sometimes i'm afraid that gabe is an alcoholic and coming from a family that was shattered by alcoholism, it makes me sad that he's drinking straight from a fifth of vodka. i'm going to keep telling myself that it's just something that he does when he tours and it's the post-show high that encourages him; he drinks to have a good time. not when he sits at home, watching csi or some other shit.
24. Something you have in common with Gabe
gabe seems deathly loyal to his friends.
we're taking a moment for me to say how fucking girly this arm wrestling match is. boys, if you wanna hold hands, you can just hold hands. yes, you can. in fact, we encourage it.
he never fucks one over (in a serious, 'feelings hurt' type of way) and is always there when they need him. ("you gotta do what? bury a body? no no no, don't call pete, that shit'll end up leaked onto the internet. call gabe, that fucker will be there in ten." "...he's on the other side of the country..." "i said he'll be there in ten.")
we're the same in that respect. if we're friends (true honest to cobra friends) i will never do anything to hurt you. and if you're hurt, then i hurt too. if you fight, that shit is my battle too. i will follow you until the grave. unless you hurt me, there's no way you're going to get rid of me, so you better be in it for the long run because i am.
25. Your favorite Gabe tweet
i first saw this vicky t tweet first.
and then this pic.
then i saw this one from gabe.
i laughed so hard, i nearly peed myself.
26. A story from the first time you saw Gabe live or the first live video you ever saw of Gabe
the first time i saw gabe live, it was at the "sparty spring party" (the one from #18), the first show before they kicked off their too fast for love tour wtih 3oh!3. nate, at his kit, played something, like a siren from his synth (?) next to him and gabe stopped and looked around, standing like something had offended him. then he said "wait, wait, wait. why the fuck does everyone have a new toy for this tour and i don't get shit?" it was really, really funny because of the way he was standing and he was just adorable. (though to be honest, ryland sorta stole the fucking show.)
27. Your least favorite Gabe outfit or fashion choice
gabe usually has really good taste in clothing...from the waist up. nine times out of ten, he wears the most fucked up pants, ever. (if you don't believe me, pick up your copy of viva la cobra and tell me that those checkerboard pants were not ridiculous.)
though to be honest, these are worse.
but sometimes, pants that should look bad look really good, like these purple ones.
only gabe fucking saporta can make neon pants that should look ridiculous amazing.
sexy bastard.
28. Your favorite song from any of Gabe’s bands
i'm going to go with my second favorite because i've already quoted my love for
"the world has it's shine" so my second favorite song by cobra starship (that's my band choice, btw) is..."kiss my sass".
it mentions 'fangs up'.
it makes a play on the mighty JTs "sexyback".
it has travie rapping...
AND MY WHITE CHICK ASS CAN FUCKING RAP TO IT! HELLZ YEA!
...i'm not saying that it's good, but i can fucking do it!
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29. Your favorite story that Gabe has told
this first minute and a half of this video.
if you can't see it for some reason or another, it's gabe telling the story of how vicky t was flung from a golf cart. he says that victoria fell from the cart, lost a fucking shoe and stands up saying "i'm fine." and gabe then says the line that literally made me lol: "that's going to hurt in the morning when you're not drunk!"
drunk!vickyt is my favorite. i imagine her way too giggly and way too cuddly. and who doesn't love cuddly band members?
…a commie. that's who.
30. Your favorite thing about Gabe.
i don't think there's a person out that he honestly hates (without good reason). i think he likes everyone that he meets and he's really humble about where he is and how he got there. other bands, once they achieved commercial success, forget that there are people out there who got them to where they are. they forget the ones that loved the albums before there was major hit. they forget about the original fans. once successful, it's not personal anymore. with gabe, it's always personal. i also think that he wouldn't snub a fan at all. (at least that's what i tell myself because, knowing my luck, i would be the one that he snubbed). he's humble and knows that he's blessed to be where he's at now. there's a lot of things that i love about gabe, all you have to do is look up and i hope you realize that.
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also, his abs.
:D
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and the curve of his ass.
:D
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though i had fun, i am NEVER doing a picspam again. oy, i nearly died; i worked in this nonstop for three days. hope you liked it! :)
01. Your favorite picture of Gabe
i love mirror photos.
i love black and whites.
i love gabe.
add all three together and gabe looking his best from two different angles equals an amazing photo.
i'm cheating because that was my favorite serious pic of gabe. this is my favorite goofy pic of him. he reminds me so much of myself when he does shit like this. i honestly think that we would be great friends. we would be crazy and epic together.
02. Your favorite Gabe hoodie
even though it's in black and white, i love this one lots! there's a lot going on with it, which is the same with gabe.
(perhaps it's because the picture is so pretty is the real reason why i like it so much.)
anddd!
the classic, iconic purple hoodie. naturally. purple looks so good on him; it sets off his eyes and his skin tone (though you can't tell in this pic). he just looks absolutely gorgeous in it.
03. Your favorite Gabe band
(current) cobra starship.
and fuck you, kyle, i can like a band without knowing the one, one of the members was in before it.
i love cobra because it's just happy, jumpy music that makes my stressful little world seem a little brighter. knowing that out there, there isn't a band taking itself so. fucking. seriously. is the best thing ever. knowing that in five years i can be having fun, just like them, is completely inspiring.
(and before you continue on, know that i love everyone in the band completely equally, not just gabe. i'm doing this because i found it and just really wanted to do a [sorta] picspasm because i've never done one. :])
04. The first song you ever heard by Gabe
Snakes on a Plane (Come on, Bring it)
Click to viewi don't actually recall if this was really the first song i heard by cobra starship but i'm pretty sure. i stumbled across the video looking at tai...'s videos. i sorta fell for the chorus because bill beckett is an amazing human being. i had some cobra starship hiding in my huge ass ipod, i listened to it and just fell, quick and hard.
05. Your favorite Gabe video
ryan ross is just the cutest thing and no matter how many times my friends try to convince me otherwise, my belief will stay firm. here, gabe is trying his hardest to be a real interviewer and ryro is just like "no" and he puts on the smile i imagine he (used) to give to brendon all the time. the whole i'm-putting-up-with-you-aren't-you-cute? smile. but the hug at the end is so adorable; gabe giving his usual gabey baby hug, all tight and intense and ‘you’re-completely-loved’, and ryan lightly tapping gabe's back like "let me go, you're being creepy again". best thing ever.
orrr (because, that was more my favorite ryan ross video)
because his bandmates fucking sing him awake. it's adorable and made my love for suarez bloom from a tiny bud into a full blown fucking flower. oh, alex! anyway, i love how gabe just can't help himself and starts harmonizing with ryland and alex. plus, c'mon, sleepy!gabesaporta is my favorite. (also, random pic of kirk cameron in his bunk! oh, gabe!)
06. A Gabe gif
there's a few...
this one made me cream my pants. i'm not kidding. (sorry about being so crude, but it's really true and all of you can go fuck yourselves if you say that you didn't too.) it's like watching softcore porn with the sound off starring a guy you'd actually wanna fuck.
with this one, look up at the previous reason.
just the fact that he looks like he's jacking off is enough for me to include it here and make me smile. (because, c'mon, boys jacking off is the BEST! [like funny, because upon reread, that sounds sorta...wrong].)
this one just further solidifies that fact that gabe is a big old nerd.
07. Your favorite aspect of Gabe’s personality
there's a few, all with pictorial examples! :D
he's funny.
he's goofy.
i don't know if he wrote this, but i completely believe him.
he honestly doesn't give a fuck about what you think of him (he is also gabe saporta, so he can do what-the-fuck-ever he wants.)
he cares about animals (and is adorable with them).
he's fun.
he's a nerd.
08. Your favorite Gabe quote
Gabe: Why are you sick, girl?
Shana: Because my girlfriend and I keep making out and swapping germs?
Gabe: Yeah, I've been sick from sucking too much dick.
from this article. i suggest that you read the whole out.com interview.
i am reminded day after day why i love gabe saporta.
09. Your favorite Gabe outfit
i love this picture because he loves his neon glasses and they love him back. as does his baseball caps and his lovely tee shirts. but his pants... probably look better on the floor than they do on him. ( ;D )
now this picture? amazing. even though he has bird legs, he totally rocks the skinny jeans. and on anyone else, the yellow shoes would totally ruin the purple/neon green thing he has going on but he rocks those too. (i stared at this pic for a long fucking time before i saved it, trying to get my inner fashionista [lovingly nicknamed "kurt"] to hate gabe for a usual affront to fashion but kurt didn't do anything other than coo at how earnestly he was singing and how much he looks good in bright colors. [kurt's such a bitch for pretty boys; don't even get him started on bb!spencer smith... and by him, i mean me.].)
the only reason why this one is in here is because patrick's shirt and the fact that that jacket, the one that gabe is wearing, has seen SO MUCH FUCKING ACTION! (mostly in the form of bill beckett which you will see in a moment, so we will move on.)
10. Your second favorite picture of Gabe
this is my second favorite picture of gabe for many reasons. and the first reason is not that he's shirtless (that's reason number two), but rather that the body wash container says "cobra cleaner". but how about we all take a minute and stare at the loveliness that is gabe (and nate[?]) shirtless!
unf.
also, i love this picture because gabe is so pretty from this angle. and i feel so bad for the woman going through all the effort of making gabe's hair look pretty when he's going to shove a hat over it. but he's so goddamn gorgeous.
11. Your favorite Gabe related memory
my favorite gabe related memory is my first cobra show. (full recap at #18.)
here, have a picture instead.
12. A picture of you with Gabe or a picture you have taken that is Gabe related
i'm such a terrible fan; i don't have a picture of gabe and myself. i have taken video and stills of him at a show at msu but that was on maraahh's camera.
-hangs head- i feel terrible. :(
it's actually okay beacuse gabe probably has enough girls with hearts/stars in their eyes; one more would probably just be an irritant.
13. Your favorite song Gabe has done guest vocals on
what a catch, donnie | 3:45 | chorus of "grand theft autumn/where is your boy?"
so this song has a special place in my heart. i didn't really like FAD, in fact, i hated it. (that makes me a terrible fob fan but i don't really give a shit) but i was young and naive and didn’t realize that people (and thus their music) changed. i've listened to it and i still can't find the button to press that connects FAD to my heart and soul like all the other albums did.
except this song.
this song is heart breaking and patrick's voice does the cracking. so much raw emotion. add that with the video and all the things coming out the water (the fob letters from ‘thnks fr th mmrs’, patrick's jacket from ‘dance, dance’, andy's bass drum), and the background vocals (all previous fob singles' choruses) just completely breaks you apart. (for me at least it did.)
the first time i heard this song, i didn't hear the background vocals. on the thrid listen, i was in tears. (i don't know how the song was written - if the choruses were added in as a good idea or if pete wrote them in) but the whole fucking song felt like they were saying good-bye; like pete had given up before he let anyone else know.
gabe's voice, soft and resigned, rings loud and gives the heartfelt chorus soul. when you listen to it, you can hear it in his voice (in all of their voices; brendon's even seems to crack at one point) that everyone knew that the legacy - the legend - of fall out boy was falling apart at the seams and none of them could stop it. this pain is reflected in the way gabe sings his four lines, gentle and calm, as if he's singing a you a lullaby and not a proposition. like he's trying to sooth an open wound; a wound that we didn’t know that we even had - months in advance.
14. Your favorite of Gabe’s physical features
the apples of his cheeks!
look at them!
they're adorable!
(that's all i have to say because i don't like gabe just because of his looks. it's his personality and the way he projects himself that makes me love him immensely.)
15. Your favorite “fangs up” picture of Gabe
gabe is known for his fangs up and at every concert, he inducts people as cobras by this...for lack of a better term... gang sign. this is easily my favorite because, not only is he in a robot costume, he's in a robot costume made by his fans. (which is another thing i love about gabe; he loves the fans back.)
16. If you could spend a day with Gabe, what would you do?
it would totally be up to him (and if it was, we'd spend all of it either acting like tourists in whatever city we were in or drinking shit tons of red bull and vodka) but all i would like to do is curl up on a couch, watch all of his favorite movies, and just spend the whole day snuggling.
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17. Your favorite bromance Gabe is in involved in
bill beckett.
yes, he is in fact about as tall as the sears tower.
just in case you can't see teh pretti, here's a picture of snakesonaplaneera!william. (he's had a hair cut since this pic but isn't he so pretty?)
this will lead more towards a gabilliam (aka "giant love") rather than a simple bromance so feel free to skip this part. (this means you, gabe. you will skip this part and completely ignore the fact that i'm a raging slash fan. kthanx.) but if the idea that gabe and william are more than bros doesn't bother you, feel free to read ahead! :)
anyway! my favorite bromance is easily bill beckett.
gabe and bill first worked together on "snakes on a plane (come on, bring it)"; i think william might have written the chorus but i'm not sure (can't recall). they made this awesome video for the song and exchanged looks like this:
bill says 'bitch please'.
bill also says 'bathroom in five?'.
gabe says 'meet you there.'
so after this they went on tour together on warped (or whatever, details are usually lost on me because of teh kute). so they spent a lot of time together, doing best friendy things...
like hugs (on and off stage)...
offering shoulders when one's tired...
being general nerds together...
and eating chocolates out of one's navel!
...what? i totally eat chocolate out of maraahh's bellybutton all the time. no really. not really. but i understand gabe because who ever doesn't wanna eat chocolate out of william's navel is a freak.
anyway!
this is my favorite of gabe's bromances because who else can make bilvy smile like this? (also, refer to the picture above this one; who really smiles like that when someone is doing something as awkward as consuming sweets from a navel? people who are in complete and utter love an epic bromance together. that's who.)
i threw this edited one in because it's a) just as cute (if not cuter) as the original and b) was totally what gabe was thinking other than "i really wanna get on my knees for billbeckett". ;D
more reasons why i love the bromance gabe has going on with william: the looks gabe gives bilvy.
this look is one of complete adoration. gabe looks like he absolutely adores william and that's so endearing; the gentle curing of gabe's fingers on bill's shoulders makes me coo. fyi, i've never seen a pair of hands make such a perfect looking heart. a big part of why i love this picture is the fact william doesn't even seem to be aware of how much gabe adores him; he's oblivious. (i image after this picture was taken, gabe went back to smiling too wide and goofing off to distract william from the fact that he just professed his love for him with his pretty brown eyes. :P)
now this one is UNDENIABLE! yes, gabe looks drunk or high or both, but his eyes still say 'mine'. his chin is hooked over bill's shoulder, his lips pursed, as if prepping to lean down and kiss william's shoulder. plus, bill's smiling all wide and honest and that's probably because of something one of the girls said, but i like to believe that it's because gabe's standing so close or because gabe's other hand is (most likely) on his hip. one can only assume!
now we're going to talk about the even more undeniable kiss that was leaked onto the internet by some amazing person i wanna give my firstborn to. (i hope you want more than one kid, pete, because mine's coming your way.)
there. now that you've seen it (again, for the thousandth time), i will talk about it. yes, it's (probably) true that they were wasted when this kiss took place but i stand firm on the idea that alcohol only makes you do what you already want to do in the first place. yes, it's blurry and you can't make out their faces but that's the 'gabe's-gettin'-some-ass' jacket that causes girls to cream their pants and guys fall to their knees and that is a very unique sweater bilvy has on. you cannot deny the liplock that they're in.
plus, look at the way william is cradling gabe's face; his thumb appears to be mid-stroke. his pointer finger is outside of the hood, but it appears that his other fingers are in gabe's hair or wrapped around his neck. if you just glance at it, it appears to be a quick, friendly kiss, but gabe's hand lightly hovering over william's shoulder, fingers playing with william's curls; their lips are together too close to be just a peck - there was probably tongue.
this picture is beautiful and even though it's blurry, the blurriness adds to the beauty and realness of the pic; we see it how they experienced it - blurred and intense, a peek into a private moment.
just an amazing picture.
this is the end of the bromance portion of the gabey baby challenge. i'll leave you with a picture that says it all...
oh, so true, boys. oh, so true.
18. Something you have discovered through Gabe
the cobra and the fact that it DOES FUCKING EXIST!
evidence: maraahh and i went to a cobra starship concert that we thought it was at the wharton center (here in e.l. mi). we couldn't find a place to park; we went into the animal oncology unit, through the exit mind you, and parked there. (this is usually grounds for a boot.)
we get to the wharton center and all across the windows: "cobra starship is performing at the msu auditorium". we're not msu students, so we're like "the fuck is that!?!?!?" so we wonder back towards our car. i decided to wave down a car, a toyota prius, and ask for directions half way there.
the woman stops; she's in her late 50s-early 60s. i lean over and ask "do you know where the msu auditorium is?"
"sure," she replied and then, all of a sudden, with no prompting says, "i can take you guys there."
the back seat of her car is filled with books and shit, so i'm thinking "she's a professor" so mara and i jump in the back and thank her. we get to the show, about 20 minutes after it was supposed to start, and the opener is still on because of the move (or whatever) and we get to our epic seats, bought at the very last fucking second. (they're amazing seats for buying them a week before; more proof that i’m awesome.)
we see the show. fall in love with gabe. complain at how much fucking red ryland was wearing (and totally forgives him because of teh funni). officially add vicky t to BOTH of our chick exception lists. laugh at nate with his (disgusting) water spraying. get turned on by the way alex says his full name.
basically have a fucking blast. exactly what a cobra starship concert is supposed to be.
after, we start walking the fucking half mile back to where we (illegally) parked. i start doing travie's raps from 'kiss my sass' and 'snakes'. mara starts to sing in response. we're running on post-show high. we wanna party. (we don't because, at this time, she was still 17. :[ ) we get back to the car and realize that there's no boot - we're fucking estatic. the exit we came in is still open. everything worked out fucking perfectly.
it suddenly dawns on me that all this was possible because a higher power was watching over us. and that power was...
THE COBRA!
we were destined to see cobra starship and who else was i supposed to thank for that? so, naturally, i started to thank the cobra and told her that i would worship her forever. mara turns to the sky was says, and i shit you not, "jesus, she's just kidding."
so i get all upset because, hello! i'm praying over here; stfu. "i'm really not."
"what happens when you go to hell because of this?"
after i moment i said "ahh, pete's [st. peter, not wentz] a forgiving kind of dude, he'll just look at my life and be like, 'i see you worshipped a cobra for about three years' and i'll be like 'ahh, i was 18, what are you gonna do?"
"and then he'll send you to hell." she replied.
"i'll be partying with gabe then, won't i?."
yeah. i didn't make that up. you can't make up that much crazy.
that's what i've discovered through gabe.
19. Your favorite quote by someone else about Gabe
i didn't take the time to actually look up a quote because the most of them probably say something along the lines of "gabe's the coolest motherfucker ever! -thumbs up-" but i had these icons saved for quite some time.
someone had to make them thus meaning someone must have said them.
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20. Your third favorite picture of Gabe
gabe, as always, looks fantastic here. the plaid really works for him (thank god because he seems to have a boner for plaid of every color and it would be a shame if it didn't look good on him [though to be honest, everything looks good on him...most of the time].) i love his trucker hat too and the fact that it matches his shirt (from this angle).
i love this pic because...look at the way his hip is cocked, the way his knee is bent, the position of his arm. it's a flamboyant pose to match his over-the-top personality.
21. Your favorite music video by any of Gabe’s bands
guilty pleasure
snakes on a plane
or
the city is at war
22. Your favorite lyric Gabe has written
before i met you,
i used to dream you up
and make you up in my mind
- the world has it's shine (but i would drop it on a dime for you)
this whole fucking song is amazing and i feel like this verse finally gave words to feelings that i felt. nameless feelings that were just stuck in my chest whenever i spoke. it isn't directed towards a specific person but, rather, it's just the fact that i spend nights and nights dreaming up and making people up. i've built up so many different people that if i ever met them, i'm sure they'd break my heart. (and that includes gabe.)
23. Your least favorite picture of Gabe
my least favorite picture of gabe is his twitter pic. his outfit is awesome as usual (i'm sure that someone lays out his clothes each morning) but the fact that he's in front of a naked woman (who looks like a coke head with all the eye make-up and the "you-better-fucking-pay-me" look) sorta makes me cringe.
i understand that people like to have a good time and shit but sometimes i'm afraid that gabe is an alcoholic and coming from a family that was shattered by alcoholism, it makes me sad that he's drinking straight from a fifth of vodka. i'm going to keep telling myself that it's just something that he does when he tours and it's the post-show high that encourages him; he drinks to have a good time. not when he sits at home, watching csi or some other shit.
24. Something you have in common with Gabe
gabe seems deathly loyal to his friends.
we're taking a moment for me to say how fucking girly this arm wrestling match is. boys, if you wanna hold hands, you can just hold hands. yes, you can. in fact, we encourage it.
he never fucks one over (in a serious, 'feelings hurt' type of way) and is always there when they need him. ("you gotta do what? bury a body? no no no, don't call pete, that shit'll end up leaked onto the internet. call gabe, that fucker will be there in ten." "...he's on the other side of the country..." "i said he'll be there in ten.")
we're the same in that respect. if we're friends (true honest to cobra friends) i will never do anything to hurt you. and if you're hurt, then i hurt too. if you fight, that shit is my battle too. i will follow you until the grave. unless you hurt me, there's no way you're going to get rid of me, so you better be in it for the long run because i am.
25. Your favorite Gabe tweet
i first saw this vicky t tweet first.
and then this pic.
then i saw this one from gabe.
i laughed so hard, i nearly peed myself.
26. A story from the first time you saw Gabe live or the first live video you ever saw of Gabe
the first time i saw gabe live, it was at the "sparty spring party" (the one from #18), the first show before they kicked off their too fast for love tour wtih 3oh!3. nate, at his kit, played something, like a siren from his synth (?) next to him and gabe stopped and looked around, standing like something had offended him. then he said "wait, wait, wait. why the fuck does everyone have a new toy for this tour and i don't get shit?" it was really, really funny because of the way he was standing and he was just adorable. (though to be honest, ryland sorta stole the fucking show.)
27. Your least favorite Gabe outfit or fashion choice
gabe usually has really good taste in clothing...from the waist up. nine times out of ten, he wears the most fucked up pants, ever. (if you don't believe me, pick up your copy of viva la cobra and tell me that those checkerboard pants were not ridiculous.)
though to be honest, these are worse.
but sometimes, pants that should look bad look really good, like these purple ones.
only gabe fucking saporta can make neon pants that should look ridiculous amazing.
sexy bastard.
28. Your favorite song from any of Gabe’s bands
i'm going to go with my second favorite because i've already quoted my love for
"the world has it's shine" so my second favorite song by cobra starship (that's my band choice, btw) is..."kiss my sass".
it mentions 'fangs up'.
it makes a play on the mighty JTs "sexyback".
it has travie rapping...
AND MY WHITE CHICK ASS CAN FUCKING RAP TO IT! HELLZ YEA!
...i'm not saying that it's good, but i can fucking do it!
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29. Your favorite story that Gabe has told
this first minute and a half of this video.
if you can't see it for some reason or another, it's gabe telling the story of how vicky t was flung from a golf cart. he says that victoria fell from the cart, lost a fucking shoe and stands up saying "i'm fine." and gabe then says the line that literally made me lol: "that's going to hurt in the morning when you're not drunk!"
drunk!vickyt is my favorite. i imagine her way too giggly and way too cuddly. and who doesn't love cuddly band members?
…a commie. that's who.
30. Your favorite thing about Gabe.
i don't think there's a person out that he honestly hates (without good reason). i think he likes everyone that he meets and he's really humble about where he is and how he got there. other bands, once they achieved commercial success, forget that there are people out there who got them to where they are. they forget the ones that loved the albums before there was major hit. they forget about the original fans. once successful, it's not personal anymore. with gabe, it's always personal. i also think that he wouldn't snub a fan at all. (at least that's what i tell myself because, knowing my luck, i would be the one that he snubbed). he's humble and knows that he's blessed to be where he's at now. there's a lot of things that i love about gabe, all you have to do is look up and i hope you realize that.
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also, his abs.
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and the curve of his ass.
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though i had fun, i am NEVER doing a picspam again. oy, i nearly died; i worked in this nonstop for three days. hope you liked it! :)