come one, come all to this tragic affair
I haven't been online much this week, just enough to see some headlines and some OMGNEWS in fandom and other areas.
My possibly unpopular opinions:
1. Barack Obama fails. He sides with the Scalitos when it comes to the death penalty. And his stance on Israel/Palestine and Iran have become markedly more war-like in the last two weeks. I didn't have high hopes for any of the Democratic candidates who ran in the primary (as far as I can tell, they were all Republican Lite with respect to health care, ending the occupation of Iraq, and favoring the corporatocracy and military-industrial complex), and I didn't think Obama was all that progressive, but this is pitiful. PITIFUL.
2. Also? SCOTUS is made of EPIC FAIL. ExxonMobile wins, wealthy politicians win, gun-sellers win, it looks like the poor and middle class are fucked all the way around.
3. After watching their performances at Glastonbury and Hove multiple times, I must say... um, Panic(!) At The Disco? Please stop letting Ryan Ross talk between songs. PLEASE.
4. I'm waiting for fan backlash on the Toro-kid, like the crap that Pete Wentz got for not announcing the Wentz-Simpson pregnancy immediately after conception. Personally, I think it's none of our business, as fans, if he has a kid. I feel sorta squicky knowing details about their significant others if the SO isn't a public figure on their own, and that is magnified a thousand fold for any offspring. The sense of entitlement, like these people we admire are our possession and we have a right to know every detail of their lives, is one of the few things that irks me about band-fandom. Having said that... I am amused that Ray Toro finally gives us evidence that there IS a source of testosterone in MCR.
Having said that... Bob? Smoooches? Hee.
5. Reggie And The Full Effect and Leathermouth. TICKETS IN MY INBOX. The same weekend as Projekt Revolution. And Motorhead, I think. Will be a weekend made of awesome. FRAAAAANK. JAAAAMES. CHESTER. ROB BOURDON. :D
6. Jeremy Scahill is MADE OF AWESOME also.
7. Stone Temple Pilots. Tonight. How blazed do you think Scott Weiland will be when he takes the stage?
Also, Tabby? Should I be writing kitchen-counter sex? Before or after I finish the belated girl!Bren fic? ETA: Also, the ExxonMobile decision made me want to work on the otter!fic again. Make me finish something before I move on to the next shiny thing.
My possibly unpopular opinions:
1. Barack Obama fails. He sides with the Scalitos when it comes to the death penalty. And his stance on Israel/Palestine and Iran have become markedly more war-like in the last two weeks. I didn't have high hopes for any of the Democratic candidates who ran in the primary (as far as I can tell, they were all Republican Lite with respect to health care, ending the occupation of Iraq, and favoring the corporatocracy and military-industrial complex), and I didn't think Obama was all that progressive, but this is pitiful. PITIFUL.
2. Also? SCOTUS is made of EPIC FAIL. ExxonMobile wins, wealthy politicians win, gun-sellers win, it looks like the poor and middle class are fucked all the way around.
3. After watching their performances at Glastonbury and Hove multiple times, I must say... um, Panic(!) At The Disco? Please stop letting Ryan Ross talk between songs. PLEASE.
4. I'm waiting for fan backlash on the Toro-kid, like the crap that Pete Wentz got for not announcing the Wentz-Simpson pregnancy immediately after conception. Personally, I think it's none of our business, as fans, if he has a kid. I feel sorta squicky knowing details about their significant others if the SO isn't a public figure on their own, and that is magnified a thousand fold for any offspring. The sense of entitlement, like these people we admire are our possession and we have a right to know every detail of their lives, is one of the few things that irks me about band-fandom. Having said that... I am amused that Ray Toro finally gives us evidence that there IS a source of testosterone in MCR.
Having said that... Bob? Smoooches? Hee.
5. Reggie And The Full Effect and Leathermouth. TICKETS IN MY INBOX. The same weekend as Projekt Revolution. And Motorhead, I think. Will be a weekend made of awesome. FRAAAAANK. JAAAAMES. CHESTER. ROB BOURDON. :D
6. Jeremy Scahill is MADE OF AWESOME also.
7. Stone Temple Pilots. Tonight. How blazed do you think Scott Weiland will be when he takes the stage?
Also, Tabby? Should I be writing kitchen-counter sex? Before or after I finish the belated girl!Bren fic? ETA: Also, the ExxonMobile decision made me want to work on the otter!fic again. Make me finish something before I move on to the next shiny thing.