[picspam primer] Evan Taubenfeld
Everyone should be writing Evan Taubenfeld into their bandom fic. You wanna know why? Well, allow me to show you!
Okay, so you're probably like "WTF, Reili? Who is this Taubenfeld character?" Well, I talked about him a little here, but let me show you some pictures!
This is Evan:
If you think he looks familiar, then you might be familiar with a singer called Avril Lavigne. In fact, you might be familiar with a video for a song called "Girlfriend." You know, this one:
If you notice, that guy Avril gets really close to in the band scenes? The one that's playing the guitar? That's Evan! He was Avril's guitarist for a really long time before he started doing solo stuff and he co-wrote both "Don't Tell Me" and "Hot" with Avril. And, like anyone paying attention to my favorite artists will be surprised, he plays multiple instruments!
But he's adorable when he plays guitar:
No really, I love him and guitars together as much as I love Brendon and pianos. Sometimes he has a guitar while he wears ugly Christmas sweaters!
Sometimes he has guitars in silhouette!
Sometimes he has a guitar in black and white!
And sometimes he kisses piano cats!
Oh. He also sings or something.
And, contrary to the message Evan is putting forth in this picture:
He's not about the Cash money, he's about the fans and the music! Also the goofing off:
Also the fanboying!
That's a Taking Back Sunday hoodie, in case you couldn't tell. Anyway, now that you know you Evan is, let me tell you why he belongs in every bandom fic ever! The easiest piece of evidence is that Evan opened for TAI on the Snakes&Suits tour. Even if they spelled his name wrong:
Actually I'm a total liar. The easiest piece of evidence is this:
And this brings me to my next point: have a VIDEO SHOWCASING WHY EVAN BELONGS IN BANDOM.
Did you watch it? Wasn't it TOTALLY AWESOME? Most of those are real tweets, by the way. Here, a conveniently linked version:
Pete Wentz
Avril Lavigne
Jordan / The Ready Set
Bananas Music Club
MTV Buzzworthy
Courtney Love
Evan's Tweets:
@BreezyMcAckley
so many flavors ...
feel like I'm ...
@cobrastarship
WTF...
@OhOhDonnaO
Let's start ...
boy meets ...
UNRELATED, BUT TOTALLY AMUSING:
Trace Cyrus comment
Cute little Evan plug.
David Allen comment
mashable comment
@evantaubenfeld from William Beckett
Taylor Swift mention
Oh. Evan also knows Gabe Saporta. No really, watch this video, it's fucking hilarious:
You'll write me Evan fic now, right? Right? You'll write me fic where Evan really did sign onto Decaydance and fic where Evan and Chiz talk guitars and fic where Evan (+Avril) drinks absinthe with Gabe and no? No you're not going to write me fic? Well, you suck. What do you mean you don't know what his music sounds like? FINE. His music is awesome too.
Here's his Christmas song, "Merry Swiftmas," which is totally adorable:
Is he not precious beyond belief? The Making Of video is hilarious too, in case you were wondering. That's not even the coolest video he has, though. You see, it's possible that I just like this video because I'm an art kid and it involves paint, fonts and lyrics but really I honestly believe I like this video because I like this song. A lot.
The video I like the best, though, is the lyrics video for "Cheater of the Year." It's sort of my favorite song by him and he USES MY FAVOURITE FONT NNG. What, stop looking at me like that. I was a graphic design kid before I was a music kid, okay? I have this very big soft spot for certain fonts in the same way that some people have soft sports for certain colors.
Whatever, okay? Just watch the video:
NOW WILL YOU WRITE ME EVAN FIC? PLEASE? You'll write me fic where Evan meets Jon walker at a Starbucks? Fic where Evan is too shy to tell Taylor Swift he likes her and has to get help from Pete Wentz or something? Fic where Evan and Brendon and Patrick and Bryce have musical instrument battles in music class while everyone else just stares because what the heck man how did they get to be such tiny musical geniuses. Fic where Evan hangs out with TAI and there are shenanigans! There should be SO MUCH FIC, you guys.
C'mon, look at this picture and tell me that you don't want to run around slashing this guy with everyone:
One last picture for the road! Evan will force-feed you beef jerky if you don't write me fic! Or something!
. . . Wow, this post was almost four pages long in Word.
Okay, so you're probably like "WTF, Reili? Who is this Taubenfeld character?" Well, I talked about him a little here, but let me show you some pictures!
This is Evan:
If you think he looks familiar, then you might be familiar with a singer called Avril Lavigne. In fact, you might be familiar with a video for a song called "Girlfriend." You know, this one:
Click to viewIf you notice, that guy Avril gets really close to in the band scenes? The one that's playing the guitar? That's Evan! He was Avril's guitarist for a really long time before he started doing solo stuff and he co-wrote both "Don't Tell Me" and "Hot" with Avril. And, like anyone paying attention to my favorite artists will be surprised, he plays multiple instruments!
But he's adorable when he plays guitar:
No really, I love him and guitars together as much as I love Brendon and pianos. Sometimes he has a guitar while he wears ugly Christmas sweaters!
Sometimes he has guitars in silhouette!
Sometimes he has a guitar in black and white!
And sometimes he kisses piano cats!
Oh. He also sings or something.
And, contrary to the message Evan is putting forth in this picture:
He's not about the Cash money, he's about the fans and the music! Also the goofing off:
Also the fanboying!
That's a Taking Back Sunday hoodie, in case you couldn't tell. Anyway, now that you know you Evan is, let me tell you why he belongs in every bandom fic ever! The easiest piece of evidence is that Evan opened for TAI on the Snakes&Suits tour. Even if they spelled his name wrong:
Actually I'm a total liar. The easiest piece of evidence is this:
And this brings me to my next point: have a VIDEO SHOWCASING WHY EVAN BELONGS IN BANDOM.
Did you watch it? Wasn't it TOTALLY AWESOME? Most of those are real tweets, by the way. Here, a conveniently linked version:
Pete Wentz
Avril Lavigne
Jordan / The Ready Set
Bananas Music Club
MTV Buzzworthy
Courtney Love
Evan's Tweets:
@BreezyMcAckley
so many flavors ...
feel like I'm ...
@cobrastarship
WTF...
@OhOhDonnaO
Let's start ...
boy meets ...
UNRELATED, BUT TOTALLY AMUSING:
Trace Cyrus comment
Cute little Evan plug.
David Allen comment
mashable comment
@evantaubenfeld from William Beckett
Taylor Swift mention
Oh. Evan also knows Gabe Saporta. No really, watch this video, it's fucking hilarious:
You'll write me Evan fic now, right? Right? You'll write me fic where Evan really did sign onto Decaydance and fic where Evan and Chiz talk guitars and fic where Evan (+Avril) drinks absinthe with Gabe and no? No you're not going to write me fic? Well, you suck. What do you mean you don't know what his music sounds like? FINE. His music is awesome too.
Here's his Christmas song, "Merry Swiftmas," which is totally adorable:
Is he not precious beyond belief? The Making Of video is hilarious too, in case you were wondering. That's not even the coolest video he has, though. You see, it's possible that I just like this video because I'm an art kid and it involves paint, fonts and lyrics but really I honestly believe I like this video because I like this song. A lot.
The video I like the best, though, is the lyrics video for "Cheater of the Year." It's sort of my favorite song by him and he USES MY FAVOURITE FONT NNG. What, stop looking at me like that. I was a graphic design kid before I was a music kid, okay? I have this very big soft spot for certain fonts in the same way that some people have soft sports for certain colors.
Whatever, okay? Just watch the video:
NOW WILL YOU WRITE ME EVAN FIC? PLEASE? You'll write me fic where Evan meets Jon walker at a Starbucks? Fic where Evan is too shy to tell Taylor Swift he likes her and has to get help from Pete Wentz or something? Fic where Evan and Brendon and Patrick and Bryce have musical instrument battles in music class while everyone else just stares because what the heck man how did they get to be such tiny musical geniuses. Fic where Evan hangs out with TAI and there are shenanigans! There should be SO MUCH FIC, you guys.
C'mon, look at this picture and tell me that you don't want to run around slashing this guy with everyone:
One last picture for the road! Evan will force-feed you beef jerky if you don't write me fic! Or something!
. . . Wow, this post was almost four pages long in Word.