And, in a break from talking about Til Schweiger, I'm going to see Steeleye Span next month! Complete with Maddy Prior!

Steeleye Span was my first introduction to folk. (But can they be called folk when they use electric instruments??? Oh, the ructions!) And even though I don't listen to them too much nowadays, there's still so much nostalgia. The soundtrack of my childhood is a mix of Beatles and Steeleye Span.

I'm SO looking forward to this.

In other news, my hamster really is a hamster of very little brain. She's currently having a lot of trouble figuring out how to drink from her water bottle. Which is impressive, considering she's been using it quite happily for several months.

And in other, other news, somebody has offered RPF - Rugby League Superleague for Yuletide. WHOEVER YOU ARE, I LOVE YOU.

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Now that Fall Out Boy are taking a break guitarist Joe Trohman has updated Rock Sound with his future plans:

"I'm going to hang out with my fiancée and live my life in New York City," he said. "I've been here a year now and I really like it so I think we're going to stay. I will be working on music projects with people and when the time is right I will be taking them off the backburner and showing them to everyone."

Rock Sound hopes to bring you more on this soon, in the meantime pick up the latest issue of the magazine to read more about Joe Trohman's life as he opens up and lets us into his world.



Thanks, juhidee119

Pete Wentz, lyricist and musician of the pop/punk rock band Fall Out Boy, joins us this week as AOL Radio's guest blogger -- sharing with us 10 underrated lyricists overlooked because of their loose association with the label "emo." Check out his list below -- which includes lyric highlights hand-picked by Wentz himself -- and download Fall Out Boy's Compilation album 'Believers Never Die -- Greatest Hits,' available Nov. 17!

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Dear Til Schweiger,

You took a role where your head came off but your clothes stayed on?

You have no consideration.

Love,
Me.

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Thank you, cityofgold!

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Thank you, cityofgold!

You can listen and/or download it here. It's the 2nd one(October 9th).

Thank you, sash_iamme! 

22:17:01: You rule!

"Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity."
"Wallace D. Wattles"

This quote by Wallace D. Wattles opens up clear insight to the importance of keeping your eyes and ears open. There is no sense in sitting around expecting great things to happen, they will not come, only through your own efforts will better opportunities present themselves. And as he stated, the next job may not be the best, but if it seems one step better than the place in your in right now, that is one step closer to the opportunity you really want to make happen for yourself.
Make it a great week.


Thanks Stephen Silver for the inspiring note. =)

FICTION

Cobra Starship
- bluelightqueen: The tables have turned... ^m • 1,427 words (Gabe/William, R) [TAI, CS]

Fall Out Boy
- romanticalgirl: A Fortune for Your Disaster ^m • 10,933 words (NoPairing, R)

My Chemical Romance
- citricpepper: Good Little Girls They Never Show it ^m • 1,078 words (Frank/Gerard, PG-13)

Panic At The Disco
- manipulant: A Field Guide to Ryan Rosses, by Spencer J. Smith, Esq. ^m • ~9,500 words (TheYoungVeins, Brendon/Spencer, Ryan/ZBerg, PG-13)
- jocondite: Under The Upas Tree ^m • ~4,700 words (TheYoungVeins, Brendon/Ryan, R)

The Academy Is
- bluelightqueen: The tables have turned... ^m • 1,427 words (Gabe/William, R) [TAI, CS]

ART AND COMICS

- ordinaryink: Greta, Carousels, & the Stars ^m • (Gen, NotRated) [THS]

RECS

- turlough: Bandslash recs: 10 fic • [MCR]

CHALLENGES

- rpf_big_bang: Mod Post ^m

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Updated: 16:10, Monday November 9, 2009

US rocker Pete Wentz admits his band Fall Out Boy need to rediscover their creativity before they can regroup.

The punk pop group have been on an indefinite hiatus since last month, with Wentz blaming burn-out.

'We lived and ate and slept and breathed Fall Out Boy for seven years,' Wentz told AAP in Sydney on Monday.

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i love this director. “hot mess” by cobra starship

Thank you, cityofgold!


Mod note: we are sorry for spamming the hell out of your flist. I haven't even looked at my google alerts yet. /o\

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The post disappeared but google reader never forgets!

Thank you, _slashygoodness!

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Thanks to Paul Bradley for his help getting this guitar signed!

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The Fall Out Boy rocker talks about having songs in 'Band Hero'
By Paul Semel
Special to Metromix
November 4, 2009

While some teens and tweens want to be grown-ups, some wish grown-ups would stop trying to be teens and tweens. It's for this latter group that Activision Blizzard is presenting "Band Hero," a "Guitar Hero"-style music game made for people too young to drink but too old to drink juice boxes.

While "Band" looks and plays just like "Guitar Hero"—and even uses the same guitar-, drum-, and mic-shaped controllers—where it goes young is in its setlist, which includes tunes by All-American Rejects (“Dirty Little Secret”), Taylor Swift (“Love Story”) and Fall Out Boy, whose song “Sugar, We're Going Down” is available on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and Wii versions, and “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs” is playable on the DS version.

We spoke to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz—who's also co-starring in the TV commercial with Swift, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, and Blink-182's Travis Barker—about the game, the commercial and his Tom Cruise impression.


"Band Hero" is a music game aimed at a teen and tween audience. But given that rock bands don't usually want to appeal to teenagers and, uh, tweenagers, why did you decide to let them include two of your songs in the game?
Well, to be honest with you, our demographic probably goes from 13 to 24, so teenagers are a large part of our demographic. But one of the things that's coolest about it, for me, is that one day my kid will be able to play my songs in the game. It's weird, but as I became a dad, I found myself wanting to do things like this.

Who decided which of your songs would appear in the games?
They came to us and requested those songs, and we then decided whether to do it or not.

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