...about me
Introductions:
Name: Mandi or Mandi Elizabeth
Age: I'm almost sixteen!
Birthday: August 27th, 1993
Kink for: Drummers (they have such SKILLS, OMG) and chocolate milkshakes
Likes: Swimming, ranch dressing on almost everything, being on Stage Crew more than being in a show, growing up in a small town, pretty scenery type things, the water, taking pictures of clouds using my cellphone (YOU THINK I KID. I DO NOT.)
Dislikes: Science, mushrooms, tomato sauce, underwater tunnels, bridges, heights, diving boards, needles, shots, having attention focused on me (stage freight, aka), high school boys
Bandom Crushes: Brendon Urie*, Ian Crawford, Alex DeLeon, Alex Suarez, Mikey Way [And I adore Spencer in a strictly, omg-he's-a hotass-with-such-skills-I-want-to-be-his-best-friend platonic type way.]
OTP: BRENDON/SPENCER ♥
* I'm kind of hell bent on marrying that stupid dork. You know, in a strictly stalker-type way. I'm not going to like, change all my usernames to OMGMRSURIE or BRENDONMARRYMEPLZ or something. XD I plan on keeping it places where he and people besides panicatthecobra can't hear, and going OMG at pictures. ;D
panicatthecobra is my best friend - we have freaky Ryan/Spencer mindmeld powers. eddis64 is our epic college friend - her and I are braintwins in the dead of night, she's *awesome* at conspiring with me.
I'm impossibly ridiculous as a general being. I cry at anything that tugs on my heart - which is a lot, because I'm very sensitive - and I can totally get Brencer out of ANY AND EVERYTHING - test me, I dare you - and I'm popculturely illiterate. I also have a kind of fantastic taste in movies.
How I Got Into Writing:
I've only been writing for, like, a little over a year. It started for me in, like, April of '08, when panicatthecobra was thinking about writing a story for Avatar: The Last Airbender and putting us into it as characters - Hello! *waves* We are dorks! - and I was so fucking jazzed for it that I was just like, let me write too! (even though I'd never even given writing a thought before.) I was like, how hard can it be? And let me tell you, rereading my old stuff, I was awful. I mean, I don't know if I'm good now? But…yeah.
Why Bandom Will Always Have a Special Place In My Heart:
I could go really, really heartfelt here - seriously - but I won't. Instead I'll say that, initially Panic, helped me through some really fucking tough times and the music and fics and wonderful people in bandom have helped me to really grow into myself and learn - at least, in my teenaged mind - what's really important to me.
(:
Music and Me:
As far as my musical abilities, I've been playing the trumpet since fourth grade - so 8 years, I think? - and I'm pretty good. I can hit a high C above the staff…? I've been playing piano for two years, and I'm *wiggles fingers around* all right. I can't really sight-read anything, I have to work toward it. (I'm starting more classes this fall though, so hopefully that'll change.) I took Music Theory I this past year - and fucking LOVED IT. I would sit in Theory class all day if I could. I absorbed it like a sponge. I seriously will fight Brendon for the title of Biggest Theory Geek. ;D And along with my piano classes, I'm taking Theory II this fall, which focuses on ear skills…so…*hands*. And, I'm in the choir at my school - an alto - and I don't sound good, but hey, I hit the pitches and I kind of enjoy it. =D
As far as what I listen to, I have a hugely eclectic taste, but I'll list the ones that I have more than 5 songs from…
The Academy Is…
Aerosmith
All Time Low
The Band (courtesy of panicatthecobra's mom. :D)
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Boys Like Girls
The Cab
Cat Stevens
Cobra Starship
Counting Crows
Fall Out Boy
Forever The Sickest Kids
The Fray
Hedley
Hootie & The Blowfish
The Hush Sound
Jack's Mannequin
Jackson 5
Journey (Brief intermission for: JOURNEYJOURNEYJOURNEY. :DDDDD)
Motion City Soundtrack
My Chemical Romance
Nickelback
Owl City
Panic(!) at the Disco
Queen
Smashing Pumpkins
Something Corporate
Streetlight Manifesto
Switchfoot
Taylor Swift
Third Eye Blind
Train
And, okay, I have to include: The Young Veins
Those are the 'biggies' but I've got a total of 221 artists and counting. (: I'm open to pretty much anything. (Oh. Except rap, and most screamo. =/)