RRRGL Tour - 2/13/08, Slim's
Yesterday I went to the doctor with my mom, and apparently the nurse asked her if my high school had the day off. Granted, I dress like I just left a fire sale at Hot Topic (I'm a grad student and I work in an office with no dress code!) but this is the sixth person in the past six months to think that I'm under 18.
But, the point of this post: I love my fandom! And I have neither Cobra nor Cab icons. Must remedy this.
I met up with lesasoja in the will call line, and babbled at her about fic while we waited forever for it to move. Lesa is awesome for listening to me ramble both before the show and during the ride home about my Jon/Spencer coming out fic which refuses to write itself, and has decided to be a meditation on formation of queer identity.
Once we got tickets we met up with lovelypoet, clumsygyrl, and sandwich_armada, and giggled for a while. While standing in line, some staff person came out and said that guys could get out of line and go in. Really. No one really moved for a minute, and the staff guy was like, "seriously, young men, go on in!" I decided that this is going in my Big Book on Masculinity, along with Pete Wentz's circle pits (safe space for boys!)
The best friend showed up right as we were about to go in. The guy stamping hands at the front carded me, and I said, "Seriously? I haven't been twenty-one since the turn of the century."
The show, in bullet points:
- The Cab is really good. They have a lot of potential, and actual stage presence, which I wasn't expecting.
- I hugged 3/5 of them (2/3 of the Alexes!) Thank you, lovelypoet, for facilitating.
- Marshall is an adorable sweetheart. At the merch table I was like, "You guys were awesome." And he said thanks and hugged me. I was thinking, "You are so cute. Maybe you shouldn't be hugging strange women you meet in clubs."
- Cash is hot and hits my bassist kink and gives awesome hugs, with his whole head nuzzled into your neck. He is so my favorite. I was like, "why does my neck feel strangely raw? oh, because I don't usually have tiny, stubbly boys resting their faces there."
- The Cab is tiny and barely legal, and hugging them has not impaired my need for Cash/Marshall. I was thinking about fairestcat's post on compartmentalization and RPF and how I agreed with it before, but now I'm actually feeling it. I was leery of meeting any band members because my enjoyment of fic is more important to me than hugging a Cab boy, but I shouldn't have been worried. I had this visceral reaction of realizing that the friendly boys I talked to are so not the characters in fic. My brain can connect one as the inspiration for the other, but I can't really link up the two. And yes, I read Cab fic yesterday to test this theory.
- This little guy walked by where we were standing between sets, and I thought, he looks vaguely familiar. Then Katie said, all casual, "Hey, Nate." He turned, stopped for a minute, and said, "Hey." It was awesomely laidback.
- Metro Station is good. I was involuntarily grooving along.
- Conversation with VickyT, while outside smoking:
Me: Victoria!
Her: Hi!
Me: I'm really excited for your set!
Her: Thanks!
Me: (grins stupidly)
Her: (smiles indulgently) Well, I'll see you later!
Me: Okay!
Best Friend: (chokes on her cigarette from laughing at me)
And three minutes later, Gabe, Ryland, and a bunch of scene girls walked by, and I thought, "Who cares, Victoria was wearing knee highs."
- mmm, knee highs
- Cobra puts on a motherfucking show. I could not help but throw my fangs up. I was trying to look at people other than Gabe, but it was really hard to not watch him dancing and shouting and being completely into it.
- Gabe's OTP is GSF, with the constant touching (and finger-sucking) of VickyT, the declaration of Ryland as his valentine, and pulling Suarez towards him by his tie ("Alex, come here. I miss you.")
- I felt vaguely creepy happily singing along to It's Warmer in The Basement.
- I had no idea how they were going to perform most of Viva La Cobra live, because the instrumentation is so different from their live setup, but wow, it was really good. And I love that album like burning, so I was completely surprised to realize that hearing it live, with a crowd full of people responding to Gabe's cult leader schtick, was even better.
But, the point of this post: I love my fandom! And I have neither Cobra nor Cab icons. Must remedy this.
I met up with lesasoja in the will call line, and babbled at her about fic while we waited forever for it to move. Lesa is awesome for listening to me ramble both before the show and during the ride home about my Jon/Spencer coming out fic which refuses to write itself, and has decided to be a meditation on formation of queer identity.
Once we got tickets we met up with lovelypoet, clumsygyrl, and sandwich_armada, and giggled for a while. While standing in line, some staff person came out and said that guys could get out of line and go in. Really. No one really moved for a minute, and the staff guy was like, "seriously, young men, go on in!" I decided that this is going in my Big Book on Masculinity, along with Pete Wentz's circle pits (safe space for boys!)
The best friend showed up right as we were about to go in. The guy stamping hands at the front carded me, and I said, "Seriously? I haven't been twenty-one since the turn of the century."
The show, in bullet points:
- The Cab is really good. They have a lot of potential, and actual stage presence, which I wasn't expecting.
- I hugged 3/5 of them (2/3 of the Alexes!) Thank you, lovelypoet, for facilitating.
- Marshall is an adorable sweetheart. At the merch table I was like, "You guys were awesome." And he said thanks and hugged me. I was thinking, "You are so cute. Maybe you shouldn't be hugging strange women you meet in clubs."
- Cash is hot and hits my bassist kink and gives awesome hugs, with his whole head nuzzled into your neck. He is so my favorite. I was like, "why does my neck feel strangely raw? oh, because I don't usually have tiny, stubbly boys resting their faces there."
- The Cab is tiny and barely legal, and hugging them has not impaired my need for Cash/Marshall. I was thinking about fairestcat's post on compartmentalization and RPF and how I agreed with it before, but now I'm actually feeling it. I was leery of meeting any band members because my enjoyment of fic is more important to me than hugging a Cab boy, but I shouldn't have been worried. I had this visceral reaction of realizing that the friendly boys I talked to are so not the characters in fic. My brain can connect one as the inspiration for the other, but I can't really link up the two. And yes, I read Cab fic yesterday to test this theory.
- This little guy walked by where we were standing between sets, and I thought, he looks vaguely familiar. Then Katie said, all casual, "Hey, Nate." He turned, stopped for a minute, and said, "Hey." It was awesomely laidback.
- Metro Station is good. I was involuntarily grooving along.
- Conversation with VickyT, while outside smoking:
Me: Victoria!
Her: Hi!
Me: I'm really excited for your set!
Her: Thanks!
Me: (grins stupidly)
Her: (smiles indulgently) Well, I'll see you later!
Me: Okay!
Best Friend: (chokes on her cigarette from laughing at me)
And three minutes later, Gabe, Ryland, and a bunch of scene girls walked by, and I thought, "Who cares, Victoria was wearing knee highs."
- mmm, knee highs
- Cobra puts on a motherfucking show. I could not help but throw my fangs up. I was trying to look at people other than Gabe, but it was really hard to not watch him dancing and shouting and being completely into it.
- Gabe's OTP is GSF, with the constant touching (and finger-sucking) of VickyT, the declaration of Ryland as his valentine, and pulling Suarez towards him by his tie ("Alex, come here. I miss you.")
- I felt vaguely creepy happily singing along to It's Warmer in The Basement.
- I had no idea how they were going to perform most of Viva La Cobra live, because the instrumentation is so different from their live setup, but wow, it was really good. And I love that album like burning, so I was completely surprised to realize that hearing it live, with a crowd full of people responding to Gabe's cult leader schtick, was even better.