Happy Birthday, icecreamhdaches ♥

A (late) happy birthday wish to phizzbin! He's definitely one of the most interesting people to join my flist, a challenge to my mind and sometimes my tolerance in the best of ways.

Trust me, it’s really, really dope in person, but still wanted to post early approval pics.

November 23rd, Death of Neon.

The end of the decade is nearly upon us and on December 9th, Rolling Stone’s panel of critics, artists and industry figures will name the best songs and albums of the past 10 years. But we want to know what you think too. Starting today, we’re asking the Rolling Stone readers to tell us what they think is the Song of the Decade and the Album of the Decade. Plus, be sure to place your vote on the Readers’ Poll ballot to help decide the pick for Artist of the Decade.

Who will it be? Timberlake or Radiohead? Jay-Z or Beyonce? Springsteen or U2? You can only vote for one song, one album and one artist of the decade, so think long and hard before casting your vote. The balloting stars today and runs until Monday, November 30th, giving you 20 days to make these difficult decisions. Click here for the Readers’ Poll ballot and remember to check back on December 9th when we reveal both Rolling Stone’s and the Readers’ Poll picks.

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Thank you, rawr_santi!

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Thank you, anon!


Listen to and/or download Pete on Hamish & Andy here.

Thank you, 101randomwords!


There's a video of Pete on Nova100 here.

The luck dragon has struck again. Pete Wentz (ya know, that dude from that band Fall Out Boy) will be sitting down and chatting with us all on Friday, November 13th at 5PM EST (spooky)! Click here to go to our chat page and get ready.

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No Need to say Goodbye

AU, Kidfic, Gen, Angst

G-PG Rating

Sam, Dean, Jess, various OCs

5600 words (aprox.)
Beta’d by the lovely immortal_jedi , any and all remaining errors are mine alone.
Title from the song “The call” By Regina Spektor

For j2_babygirl86 in the Fandom Free-for-All, for the prompt: Supernatural, no pairings, Jess dies in a fire but Sam manages to save their son. He calls Dean & John for help. Whether he joins the hunt or settles down somewhere with Dean is up to you... you can take it from there but I need a happy ending I think perhaps there is more angst in this than you wished for, babe, but I hope you like it anyways.

( In the end, it all works out okay )



Since this is my first fic, can anyone point me in the way of communities where I should put this? Thanks!

fine. fuck it. youll get me at a moment of weakness.
i can already feel the "you're going to regret this in the morning," but fuck it.

you can sit all day online and read about peoples sadness of breakups. the post sensitive-artist drivel that pours out of their mouths and on to blogs around the world. there certainly is no shortage of that. and god, you certainly dont need to read that. but truthfully, i havent felt much. its as if its not really happening. i havent cried or even felt the urge to. which is strange since i have lost it after ending things with girls i barely even cared about. maybe most of those were about the fear of being alone but i think im actually pretty okay with being with me and my head. and really, i have so many of you to thank for it. the more you go around talking about things, the more you learn coping skills. well, thats what the doctor said on the documentary i watched a few nights ago about people who survived plane crashes. but i think the emotions i placed on breakups back then were really misdirected because i simply didnt want to be alone.

but this time is different. oh, listen to the cliches already.
see, i havent mourned. i havent opened up. every last person who has asked me what happened i have told them, "it was just that time,"... which really is just bullshit. its no reason. its the reason you give when you dont want to go into just how badly the other person wrecked you. when asked, "how are you doing?" i have responded, "im fine," no less than 100 times in the past day.

i truly am stoked that i would have so many people out there willing to listen to me. i am thankful of this every waking hour. but this thing, like all breakups, is done alone. you can talk all you like but no one holds your hand while the thoughts of that person making out with someone new race through your head at 3:18am. no one is there when you realize you will never hear that laugh or feel her hands as she played with your hair or the way she depended on you. because it was awesome that she depended upon you. because it made it feel real. fuck all the psychological bullshit about it being unhealthy, it was rad when she looked to me for advice. it was rad to know someone who truly knew me. me. not the funny me, or the writer me, or the internet me, or the pizza guy me... but the me who likes putting my feet on the bottoms of your feet. the me who would just stare at you from across the room even after three years and just watch you yell at a computer screen and think it was more adorable than kittens. the me who thought you were funnier than anyone and everyone combined. the me who thought you were "cool", like fucking cool. the me who loved the smell of your dirty hair. the me who found it endearing when i saw your dirty underwear. because thats how real it was. more real than any of them combined.
(no offense to those who still read this)

and sure, maybe its fucked up that i still wake up with a smile. i eat just fine and go about my day. i laugh and order food and get tea with friends and shop and my life hasnt missed a beat. not a skip. not a moment staring at a blank wall. and that sucks. because i know what that means. it means that i am not prepared for this type of devastation. my brain and heart have not come up against anything like this and they are shutting down. like preparing for hypothermia, they are shutting down parts of my body to protect my core. but its only a matter of time before the bomb drops. before the cold takes over and i feel it. i know what wreckage feels like and if i hold my breath and pretend its not happening, its not happening. but see i have taken it all and walked away from: 5.5, 3.5, 5, and 3.5 year relationships. yeah, add it up. none. none have come close. none WILL come close to this level of devastation.

you know i talk to girls now and it feels hollow. i say the words and play the game and none of it is real. my mouth moves and my brain is just shaking its head from side to side in disappointment. its all words. its all well put together phrases designed to evoke a response.
wanna see?
"you look adorable today. i love what you did with your eyeshadow." instant smile.
its not a lie... but i know what im doing. i wouldnt say it if i didnt mean it but i also know what emotion it evokes. its like i have been cursed because i have studied how to speak to people, how to captivate peoples attention and how to write the words. again, they arent lies. but they are intentional.

i hate this. right now. i hate the fact that i never had to pull any of that bullshit with her when i did with every last girl i even kissed. and you know, its a fucking embarrassingly long list. and not once, well maybe in the very very beginning, but never did i pull that bullshit with her. you know why, because she called me on it. for all the shit i talked she was beyond brilliant with a bullshit meter that could tell the future. and i needed that. i needed someone to call me on my shit. because no one ever did. and yeah, maybe it was messed up and dysfunctional and messy but fuck it was real.

so ill fall asleep just fine tonight, just like i have for the last week. no worse sleep than usual. no staying up late pouring words into some secret journal. no bad mouthing her to my friends and no spontaneous bursts of sobbing. and thats fucked. because i know its coming. more than it ever has before, its coming... sweet, just in time for my birthday on tuesday, the release of a new book, thanksgiving and maybe even christmas.
so yeah, things are "fine" right now. but they wont be.


hey, you said you wanted to listen.

I went to the orthopedic surgeon today, Dr. Bucholz. I love the guy! He "got" my sense of humor, but was also blunt and honest, and answered all my questions. I got some very good news. No, not that I don't need the hip replacement. I do, and I'll probably go ahead with that next year. But I thought that years of limping had trashed my knees, since both hurt - the right one particularly hurts much worse than the hip. And I've been having all this back pain, so I thought I'd screwed that up. Well, no! My knees are great! Not a thing wrong with them! In fact, he said they're particularly healthy for someone my age. The pain in the knees is actually displaced pain, which is to say, it's really in my hip but is only felt in the knee.

He proved this to me in three ways. First, he said, "The pain is here and here. Right?" Me: "Yup!" Then he showed me the X-rays, which showed two beautifully unmarred knees. Then he manipulated my legs: "Does this hurt?" Me: "Nope." Dr. B: "That's working your knee. Now, lets add the hip." Me: "OUCH".

The back pain and leg cramps are all the same cause, too. There is a sheath of nerves that runs alongside that area, and they're connected to my back and both legs. My poor ol' hip really does look bad - the cartilage is almost all gone, and the head is distorted from being worn away.

When I get the hip replacement, it'll be the titanium head, which should last the rest of my life. Recovery time is surprisingly short, too. So now I only have to get over the anesthesia phobia.

GMSC09 WINNER!!!! (and the crowd goes wild!)
Paul Klinke // November 10, 2009

The Great Moustachette Sticker Contest 2009 has finally come to an end! It has been a wild ride with thousands of stickers staching around the word in over 15 countries. The pics we received are both amazing and disturbing. They’ve turned up everywhere from topless bars on Hollywood Blvd to the faces of sad school children in Taiwan.
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TURNS out ROD STEWART is even more of a lord than I thought he was.

He may be 64, but the Scottish singer's prowess on the football pitch shows no sign of waning.

In fact, FALL OUT BOY star PETE WENTZ says he's so good that some celebrities, including himself, have refused to play with him.

He says: "Rod holds these celebrity football games in LA.

"I did get an invite once but I had to turn down one once as I had broke my ankle a few years back and I was scared I wouldn't be good enough.

"I knew I'd get frustrated if I couldn't play at the level I know I can.

He added: "Rod is just so good still. Didn't he used to be a pro? He's also got great hair.

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Here’s a section of the new tee design I did for Clandestine industries.

For anyone who thinks it looks a little Ed Hardy-esque – don’t freak out. The little snap shot i’ve posted on my blog is about one third of the actual design. The rest is not Ed Hardy-like at all (thank god). Nor is the t-shirt going to be bedazzled in rhine stones, studs or stuck on fabric patches (thank god again). I’d post up the full illustration now but I don’t want to spoil the surprise before its release. What really sucks is that Ed Hardy has made a bunch of great old school tattoo style designs just seem really tacky and cheap. However, I guess I can thank Ed Hardy for allowing me to recognise a total douche bag with no sense of style immediately.

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Thank you, _slashygoodness!

Title: Charity Auction Drabbles
Author: kissoffools / wakeyourheart
Pairing: The first two are Madam, the other three are Kratt.
Rating: The ratings vary, but I'd settle it at PG-13.
Summary: People gave me prompts and I wrote them.
Disclaimer: I'm just some person in front of a computer. Please don't sue my ass, I can barely afford to own this computer.
Notes: Written for the ontd_ai charity auction for my girl xflames03x . She appeased me by giving me five song prompts, and I returned the favour by completely stretching these prompts. All five drabbles are written from Matt Giraud's perspective, and can stand alone - you can, however, consider the Madam ones to belong together and the Kratt ones to belong together. Your call.

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Hmm. I wonder if I can write 2564 words before midnight tonight.

And OMG, I just had the best idea for next year's NaNoWriMo. Can't be this year's because I just have way too many documents I am juggling at the moment - at this point if I make another one I honestly think I am going to be sick.

But this is something that could actually be a proper novel, I'm thinking, as well as something I could stand to write non-stop for 30 days. Gonna require preparation, though. It's a 2nd person POV concept and I think it calls for me listening to a lot of Jonathan Coulton songs, and possibly reading If On A Winter's Night a Traveler and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

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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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!

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!

Proceeds will help provide music lessons for children who wouldn't be able to afford it otherwise.

Bid on this item or buy tickets to the auction at Rock For Kids website

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

Photographed by: Steve Nozicka (http://www.nozicka.com/)

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Thank you, rainydays05!

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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Thank you, anon!

I see no handy dandy embed code, so here's a link! Videos are on the right side.

Thank you, 101randomwords!

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Thank you, anon!

its funny when even kelly clarkson songs begin to have meaning. its also an interesting time we live in when its not so much the words that cut the cord but the click of the 'relationship status' on facebook profiles.

and just like the one before and the one before and the one before her, i will keep my chin up and maintain a smile because next week wont hurt as bad as this week and next month wont hurt as bad as this month. come summer time this will all be but a faint memory obscured by time and the clarity of black and white.

because this is how its always been.

its the rare instance when time is actually our friend.





single.



please be respectful.

Patrick Stump performed a solo set mostly of covers with an as-of-yet unnamed backing band at his old high school, Glenbrook South in his hometown of Glenview Illinois. The performance was for a local charity donating canned foods to needy families. Footage can be seen

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Currently Stump is in the studio beginning work on several musical projects including a new album for California MC Murs, new music with Las Vegas band the Cab, and a solo recording with legendary producer Peter Asher for an upcoming compilation album.



Thank you, calledoutbywntz, for telling me the secret to copying/pasting from his website.

After much delay, Lil Wayne's highly-anticipated rock album, "Rebirth," is now slated for a Dec. 15 release date according to the Universal Music Group website. The set will be packaged as a dual-disc along with the Young Money collective, "We Are Young Money."


Originally scheduled for April 7, the first single off the set titled "Prom Queen," produced by Infamous and Andrew "Drew" Correa, reached no. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Second single "Hot Revolver" debuted at No. 33 on the same tally.

In addition to Infamous and Correa, producers Cool and Dre and Develop also have tracks on "Rebirth," while Fall Out Boy is featured. The latter comes after their first collaboration on Fall Out Boy's 2008 release, "Folie à Deux." Lenny Kravitz, Travis Barker and Young Money/Cash Money artist Drake also appear on the set.

Although the album is mostly rock inspired, with Lil Wayne playing guitar on most of the tracks, the leaked song, "Fix My Hat," produced by Drew Money, is one of the few rap tracks that made it onto the "Rebirth" set.

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Patrick Stump recently updated his blog with what he'll be doing while Fall Out Boy is taking a break. His entry can be found below.

"Patrick Stump performed a solo set mostly of covers with an as-of-yet unnamed backing band as his old high school, Glenbrook South in his hometown of Glenview Illinios. The performance was for local charity donating canned foods to needy families.

Currently Stump is in the studio beginning work on several musical projects including a new album for California MC Murs, new music with Las Vegas band The Cab, and a solo recording with legendary producer Pete Asher for an upcoming compilation album."

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EEEEEEEE!

The second Wolf House book is out! *gleeflail*

True facts about how ridiculous my brain is: a) certain points of my headcanon about Dark Signer physiology I actually lifted from the vampire physiology in this. And it is a testament to how amazing Mary is that when I babbled incoherently about this she didn't say "Immi, what is with you and that silly cartoon," and was instead quite delighted that I wanted to lift anything from her at all. She is also inviting crossovers, so many of which exist in my brain right now it's not even funny. One of which related to... Point b)! after reading the first book I got such a clear image in my head of how Benji-Crow should act that I just wrote an asston of Zero Reverseless-verse fic. He is just that sort of awkward teenager (it was the snippets about listening to Iron Maiden and getting tattoos and dying Yusei's hair that I did actually XD) And yea, there is just epic, bizarre, crossover fic in my brain. It's really not even close to being funny. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I haven't been able to write anything at all of late, let alone that.

Point of sad: I have work tonight so I need to go to bed right away. Which means no sitting up reading this all afternoon like I want to. Bawwww. Why must I have to work? I want to read ridiculously awesome vampire stories and continue to amuse myself by listening to far too much My Chemical Romance and picking out which songs Benji-Crow would totally listen to on repeat...... SOMEONE STOP ME FROM LISTENING TO THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE (AND ALSO THE MYCHEM COVER OF "DESOLATION ROW") OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MY BRAIN!!!!! XD

Okay, that's enough. Bed for me. Now.