The main thing I've learned about 2008: discretion is, in fact, the better part of valor. Or, sometimes it's easier for my own peace of mind to just shut the fuck up about opinions I hold. (Hence my default icon. Patrick Stump: Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Reading This Here Newspaper ( Read more... )

“For as little as he is, [Patrick's] pretty fucking militant,” says GCH frontman Travis McCoy. “He’ll be like, ‘Travis, hit this note!’ and I’ll be like, ‘Just tune that shit!’ and he’ll say, ‘Just fuckin’ be a man and hit that shit!’ I got four feet on the dude, and he’s putting me in check."

Dear Patrick Stump: this is why you win, always and

1) Someone explain to me, in very small words, exactly how Travis signing to Nappy Boy will affect GCH being on Decaydance. (I'm currently working on the assumption that it really won't, that NB would be for his solo stuff as opposed to the band, but I freely admit I could be totally wrong.)

2) Happy birthday to yesj! I hope you're having a good one, ( Read more... )

( Concert meme 2008 )

Hey Monday is playing Backbooth in downtown Orlando Sunday, Dec. 28 at 6:30 PM. (Technically, they're an opening band, but whatever.) Tickets are $12 at the door, $10 any day before Sunday.

This is part of what will almost certainly be a longer work, and possibly a larger universe, crossing over L.J. Smith's Night World novels with bandom. Frankly, I'm astonished someone hasn't done it before now. This one's for sharpest_rose, who likes those two things as much as I do ( Read more... )

I kind of get the feeling that by the end of this season, Tom Colicchio is just gonna punch someone in the face.

Going on Howard Stern for press the day your album comes out = good idea ( Read more... )

( writing meme 2008 )

( Xcellent Electric Xmas: Fall Out Boy at the House of Blues Orlando, Dec. 12, 2008 )