"'Congratulations on your win, sweetheart, I brought you a trophy...' aaand, go."
First of all: bitchinparty registration is on Saturday! EEEEE I AM SO EXCITED.
But mostly this is going to be another post about David Cook. I'M SO SORRY. I CAN'T HELP IT. I AM HAVING SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW. Like, okay. He makes a SURPRISINGLY HOT ZOMBIE, for one thing. Hot bantery zombie.
(I have TRIED to find pictures of the whole band all zombie-fied and have come up empty-aside from the one Kyle tweeted of himself-so if you've found some, or IF YOU WERE THERE AND MIGHT HAVE SOME OF YOUR OWN *koff*otherbella*koff* I would LOVE to see them.) Also they did "Lie," and it was BEAUTIFUL and that's the first time I've ever heard the crowd TOTALLY SILENT for the a capella part, well-played everyone, but I was giggling ALL DAY yesterday over how the meaning of this song changes when you put it in proximity to zombies. I mean: "Lie to me and tell me that it's gonna be all right, lie to me and tell me that we'll make it through the night, I don't mind if you wait before you tear me apart…" Right? RIGHT? I am LOLing. It's like the totally unintentional sequel to "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville"! (Shut up, I can make my dolls kiss if I want to!)
Also this morning I finally watched this video where Dave talks about how forensics was his favorite class in high school AND how he quit basketball in favor of musical theatre AND then he plays some baseball a;sldfj;gwea;g ;sklgj, which segued nicely with how dugrival and I spent a good portion of yesterday texting about a DCATA baseball AU. IT WOULD BE SO GREAT. An Independent League team called the Kings, wandering the Midwest in their shitty team bus! Dave is the star starting pitcher, and we were originally going to make Neal the lights-out closer, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought he really needed to be the catcher, despite dugrival's reservations about ACTUALLY slashing the pitcher and the catcher, but I'm sorry, Neal is built for it AND he was the MUSICAL DIRECTOR and did all the carefully-crafted setlists, he's calling the damn game. (Also I'm pretty sure he's a switch hitter, Mr. I'm-Left-Handed-But-I-Play-Guitar-Right-Handed.) So there is the inviolable bond of the battery, AND opportunity for dirty conversations at the mound, hidden behind gloves, AND-as dugrival put it-if Neal's going to be patting Dave on the ass already whether they're sleeping together or not, might as well EMBRACE it, right? So anyway. There's that. We put Andy at shortstop, because he is PIVOTAL (and agile) (though I personally also have a kink for Andy being the brilliant young sports reporter who travels with the team, but we wanted him ON the team, so: AU of the AU, ACTIVATE); Kyle's in center field (doesn't hit for power but he can like hell, and makes great diving catches); Monty's the power-hitting first baseman; Devin gets the hot corner at third. Joey is the wild up-and-coming starter, with great stuff but no control (a la Nuke LaLoosh), we'll get Nick Gibson off the bench as a pinch-hitter, and somehow we ended up with James Hart from Burn Halo as our crazy closer. Also I'm pretty sure I'm putting all the Crash Kings boys out in the bullpen. And at one point Dave gets scouted by a major-league team, has a cup of coffee in the big leagues, but has to be moved off the roster to make room for up-and-coming phenom Kris Allen. IT WAS A REALLY PLEASANT MENTAL PLACE TO SPEND THE DAY, IS WHAT I AM SAYING, and dugrival is the most awesome. ♥ ♥ ♥
AND then they released their new video today/last night/whatever, and it gave me ALL THE FEELINGS.
I just. I think EVERY band should release a touring-shenanigans video, and while this is light on actual shenanigans, it is heavy on that "Turn the Page"-esque road-stories kind of feeling that I am a TOTAL and COMPLETE sucker for. Interspersed with Dave walking around being incredibly hot and staring soulfully off into the distance and thinking about Neal I'm sorry I can't help it every damn song is a Dave/Neal song to me right now, these guys have WAY too many breakup songs between them. After the videos from the first album were so… um… not-ideal? And now there is this one and The Last Goodbye, which fulfilled ALL my dreams of this band showing us their dorky side (and being extremely hot at the same time), and I am a VERY HAPPY FANGIRL. YAY.
Here are some incredibly beautiful photos from the Seattle show, BTW. The lighting for this show is GORGEOUS, and this stream has some of the best pictures of Kyle and Monty I've ever seen (though it is shockingly light on Andy; I think maybe it was kind of dark over there on his side? IDK). I want to stare at this one for the rest of my life, but this one is extremely awesome as well. O HAI ANDY. ARE YOU ENJOYING YOUR JOB?
Also (brought to you by Stuff I Am Rediscovering On My Hard Drive) remember when Dave whispered in Neal's ear during the Bar-ba-sol guitar!sex (I have watched this dozens of times and I swear I think they're going to kiss EVERY TIME and they NEVER DO but I KEEP HOPING)? Remember when Dave mocked his brother, got into a pick-throwing war, and threatened to fire Neal (Neal's timing with that pick to the face is SO GENIUS, I have watched THIS clip like a hundred thousand times and I laugh out loud EVERY SINGLE TIME)? Remember when Dave talked about Thanksgiving and terrible porn music OMG I LOVE HIS SCRUNCHY GIGGLY FACE? Good times, good times.
Okay. Sorry, you guys. SORRY.
But mostly this is going to be another post about David Cook. I'M SO SORRY. I CAN'T HELP IT. I AM HAVING SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW. Like, okay. He makes a SURPRISINGLY HOT ZOMBIE, for one thing. Hot bantery zombie.
Click to view(I have TRIED to find pictures of the whole band all zombie-fied and have come up empty-aside from the one Kyle tweeted of himself-so if you've found some, or IF YOU WERE THERE AND MIGHT HAVE SOME OF YOUR OWN *koff*otherbella*koff* I would LOVE to see them.) Also they did "Lie," and it was BEAUTIFUL and that's the first time I've ever heard the crowd TOTALLY SILENT for the a capella part, well-played everyone, but I was giggling ALL DAY yesterday over how the meaning of this song changes when you put it in proximity to zombies. I mean: "Lie to me and tell me that it's gonna be all right, lie to me and tell me that we'll make it through the night, I don't mind if you wait before you tear me apart…" Right? RIGHT? I am LOLing. It's like the totally unintentional sequel to "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville"! (Shut up, I can make my dolls kiss if I want to!)
Also this morning I finally watched this video where Dave talks about how forensics was his favorite class in high school AND how he quit basketball in favor of musical theatre AND then he plays some baseball a;sldfj;gwea;g ;sklgj, which segued nicely with how dugrival and I spent a good portion of yesterday texting about a DCATA baseball AU. IT WOULD BE SO GREAT. An Independent League team called the Kings, wandering the Midwest in their shitty team bus! Dave is the star starting pitcher, and we were originally going to make Neal the lights-out closer, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought he really needed to be the catcher, despite dugrival's reservations about ACTUALLY slashing the pitcher and the catcher, but I'm sorry, Neal is built for it AND he was the MUSICAL DIRECTOR and did all the carefully-crafted setlists, he's calling the damn game. (Also I'm pretty sure he's a switch hitter, Mr. I'm-Left-Handed-But-I-Play-Guitar-Right-Handed.) So there is the inviolable bond of the battery, AND opportunity for dirty conversations at the mound, hidden behind gloves, AND-as dugrival put it-if Neal's going to be patting Dave on the ass already whether they're sleeping together or not, might as well EMBRACE it, right? So anyway. There's that. We put Andy at shortstop, because he is PIVOTAL (and agile) (though I personally also have a kink for Andy being the brilliant young sports reporter who travels with the team, but we wanted him ON the team, so: AU of the AU, ACTIVATE); Kyle's in center field (doesn't hit for power but he can like hell, and makes great diving catches); Monty's the power-hitting first baseman; Devin gets the hot corner at third. Joey is the wild up-and-coming starter, with great stuff but no control (a la Nuke LaLoosh), we'll get Nick Gibson off the bench as a pinch-hitter, and somehow we ended up with James Hart from Burn Halo as our crazy closer. Also I'm pretty sure I'm putting all the Crash Kings boys out in the bullpen. And at one point Dave gets scouted by a major-league team, has a cup of coffee in the big leagues, but has to be moved off the roster to make room for up-and-coming phenom Kris Allen. IT WAS A REALLY PLEASANT MENTAL PLACE TO SPEND THE DAY, IS WHAT I AM SAYING, and dugrival is the most awesome. ♥ ♥ ♥
AND then they released their new video today/last night/whatever, and it gave me ALL THE FEELINGS.
I just. I think EVERY band should release a touring-shenanigans video, and while this is light on actual shenanigans, it is heavy on that "Turn the Page"-esque road-stories kind of feeling that I am a TOTAL and COMPLETE sucker for. Interspersed with Dave walking around being incredibly hot and staring soulfully off into the distance and thinking about Neal I'm sorry I can't help it every damn song is a Dave/Neal song to me right now, these guys have WAY too many breakup songs between them. After the videos from the first album were so… um… not-ideal? And now there is this one and The Last Goodbye, which fulfilled ALL my dreams of this band showing us their dorky side (and being extremely hot at the same time), and I am a VERY HAPPY FANGIRL. YAY.
Here are some incredibly beautiful photos from the Seattle show, BTW. The lighting for this show is GORGEOUS, and this stream has some of the best pictures of Kyle and Monty I've ever seen (though it is shockingly light on Andy; I think maybe it was kind of dark over there on his side? IDK). I want to stare at this one for the rest of my life, but this one is extremely awesome as well. O HAI ANDY. ARE YOU ENJOYING YOUR JOB?
Also (brought to you by Stuff I Am Rediscovering On My Hard Drive) remember when Dave whispered in Neal's ear during the Bar-ba-sol guitar!sex (I have watched this dozens of times and I swear I think they're going to kiss EVERY TIME and they NEVER DO but I KEEP HOPING)? Remember when Dave mocked his brother, got into a pick-throwing war, and threatened to fire Neal (Neal's timing with that pick to the face is SO GENIUS, I have watched THIS clip like a hundred thousand times and I laugh out loud EVERY SINGLE TIME)? Remember when Dave talked about Thanksgiving and terrible porn music OMG I LOVE HIS SCRUNCHY GIGGLY FACE? Good times, good times.
Okay. Sorry, you guys. SORRY.