one more miracle

So. Bandom is a fandom about bands. And I think it's pretty impressive how much we pay attention to the music, but it's also obvious that the boys themselves steal the thunder a lot of the time. I personally was a bandom music fan before anything else, for all the big names - I listened to Fall Out Boy all through high school, probably about 3 years before I even knew who Patrick Stump was. I loved Panic! my freshman year of college - Brendon who? And I listened to The Black Parade for six months before more than vaguely acknowledging MCR's freaky singer. (I'M SORRY GEE ILU)

I know that there are definitely people who fangirl some bandboys without particularly loving their music, which is totally cool, these guys are awesome and so's the fic! But I'm curious about how effective bandom is at converting people to the music... so I'm gonna do a poll!

I want to know whose MUSIC you're a fan of. That is, you own an album or more by a band, have listened to it enough to be familiar, and genuinely LIKE the music. I wouldn't call myself a fan of The Cab - I have their album, listened to it maybe twice, but I don't particularly like it. Just as an example. I would say, on the other hand, that I'm a fan of We The Kings, since the album I downloaded a week ago already has 12 plays.

Satisfy my curiosity, o bandom! (Non-bandom people are more than welcome to answer too!)

[Poll #1249056]

For the record, Dublin is the WORST PLACE IN THE WORLD I could have chosen to spend a year JUST as I was getting obsessed with a bunch of currently popular bands. You know why? Because NO ONE COMES HERE. Belfast? Sometimes! London? Sure! Heck, let's hit Glasgow! And while we're at it, let's go to Malaysia! BUT NOT DUBLIN. Why are we the bastard stepchild of the music world??? D: D: D:

My ENTIRE FLIST this evening is "PHANTOM PLANET!!!" and "LOOK HOW MANY HCT DATES I'M GOING TO!" No joke, every single post. Now, I'm happy for you guys, in an objective way, but right now I am exhausted and drained and upset because I've hurt my knee doing karate and so I'm just sitting here sulking. Because not even the news that Panic was coming to the UK was helpful to me. On top of that, the MCR dates in London were a DIRTY STINKING LIE.

I'm going to go curl up in a sad little ball and watch myself some Torchwood.

*whine whine whine*

I woke up this morning with pink eye! Not surprising, since my roommate has it, but BLEH. Additionally, when I woke up it was 10:20, and my class started at 10. Whoops. I kind of sighed and started getting ready to make it to my 11 oclock. I get into school and... there IS no class! It's "reading week" for the humanities, which I just thought meant no tutorials, but apparently no lectures as well! So I trudged home, went grocery shopping (FOOD YAYE) and am now contemplating if I want to make the effort to trudge all the way BACK to school to see the doctor.

Meh.

I'm still stressing about the money that I'm spending. Some of the pairs of MCR tickets I was watching ended up selling for muuuch cheaper than we paid, which, um, was unexpected because all the other ones went up to over 100 pounds per pair in the last minutes. Dammit. Also I keep putting off buying the plane tickets because it's so expensive! >.< My dad can be zen about this all he wants, but it doesn't change that I fucked up pretty badly :-/ The only thing that's keeping me from hating myself is that I did this for a friend, and if I hadn't I would have let her down badly. There's no way we could have known other tickets were going to go cheaper, because none of the others did, so that's not really our fault. We're going to have an amaaazing time - if I manage to get there. So. Chin up! Stiff upper lip and all that! (also, FRAAAANKIE)

My flist is distinctly unentertaining right now. I seem to inhabit this weird corner of fandom (no matter what fandom I'm in at any given time) where I don't see any of the actual wank, but I see people talking ABOUT the wank and how stupid it is to wank in the first place. I always agree with those posts, but I don't think they do any good. People are going to wank, period. It's stupid and annoying but it's a fact of fan life. I just close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears and go "lalalala" until it goes away. Like Mikey and Gerard in that one fic whenever their brother's sex life was brought up, hahaha. Good times.

Okay before I got around to posting this I bought my plane tickets. 116 Euro. On my American debit card so conversion fees apply.

Sigh. I kind of want to cry. But I have a flight now. I have a flight and concert tickets and a place to sleep. I think I'll survive.

*deeeeep breaths*

I'm gonna go watch Heroes to make me feel better.

I have commenced my second week of lectures (I know, what the hell? You've all been in school for aaaaages) and I'm feeling a bit better about some of them, a bit wary of others. Even though I'm taking just about the same number of hours of courses as I did back home, it feels like a lot more because 8 subjects is so much more overwhelming than 4, especially when 7 of them are chemistry/biochemistry, as opposed to ONE. I'm just not sure how much reading and focus I'm supposed to do or give to each subject. Gah!

Just to show you how insane the life of a chemistry student is, here's my schedule! (Each lecture starts on the hour and lasts ~50 minutes)

Monday:
9 - Quantum Chemistry
11 - Organometallics
4 - Thermodynamics

Tuesday:
10 - Quantum Chemistry
11 - Group Theory
2 - Proteins & Enzymes
3 - Medicinal Chemistry
4 - Proteins & Enzymes
(5-7 - Karate)

Wednesday:
10 - Electrochemistry
11 - European Societies
1 - European Societies
2 - Medicinal Chemistry
(7-9 - Choir)

Thursday:
9-12 and 2-5 - Physical chemistry lab
(5-7 - Karate)

Friday:
10-1 - Computational physical chemistry lab

FUN! \o/ It wasn't SO terrible until I picked up quantum chemistry (two days that started at 11! Score!) but now it's just kind of like I'm going to be dead of exhaustion really soon, heh. We'll see.

Of course, it doesn't help that I have yet to be HEALTHY. I arrived in Ireland with a cough which has STILL not gone away, and now today on top of that I've felt lightheaded, flushed, achey, and tired. I hope it's a 24 hour thing, and not a lingering flu that will lay me out for a week. BLEH. I had to tell Simon not to come up today, because I am just not up for more than drinking tea on the couch, and I think he was angry/disappointed, as his texts were very terse. :(

Also, tonight Kevin Smith is coming to talk to my college, but I really do not feel like making the fifteen minute hike, and then sitting in an uncomfortable chair for however many hours. Like I said. Tea. Couch. Sigh.

Oh I forgot to tell you guys! Guess who might be coming to talk to my school? Oh yeah, that's right, CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY. *falls over laughing* I just... WHAT? What the HELL has Chad Michael Mayhem done to be invited to talk at the oldest university in Ireland??? Ahahaha. There's a chance he might not come, but if he does I might have to go just for the comedic value. Now WHY couldn't it have been Jared or Jensen??? Gosh.

Amusing bandom thing - redbrickrose was talking about Gabe in an entry, and how you kind of can't take him seriously because then you'll be super skeeved out, so you love him A LOT A LOT but it's very ironic, because let's face it, he's a crazy dude. So then she proposed an Ironic Love spectrum, with Gabe as the most ironic and Gerard as the least. I'm not sure Gerard would be the least for me, but I think it's a hilarious idea, and I want to kind of think about this! ( If you can give me a pithy and accurate definition of irony, you get a cookie. It's the strangest abstract concept ever. )

Okay, that was all kind of pointless but I spent a long time on it so I'm going to post it anyway! SO THERE :P Tell me where everyone is on your irony scale!

To Do list tonight: Have dinner. Read more d-block chemistry. Post at least some of bandom happyplace spam. Watch Dirty Sexy Money and House.

OH BY THE WAY SGA IS THE MOST AMAZING LOVE EVER. GAH HEARTS FOREVERRRRR.

(Pee. Ess. "I ain't suckin you off for any amount of money." OH GERARD. (From the the end of the live Give Em Hell, Kid off LOTMS))

This post is way too long. Over and out.

So apparently bandom is EXPLODING with amazing at the moment. NO SERIOUSLY. Let me sum up!

( Links and quotes and pictures, OH MY! )

Finally, JoeTroh is going to be on Cribs in 10 minutes on MTV (10PM)! SWEEET!

Basically, OUR FANDOM WINS! \o/

ETA: Joe Troh is INSANE. God I love him. Hahahaha. A RUG OF BARBIE HAIR. A WALL OF MOLD.

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