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[elucreh]

The little *facts* about bandom that can make me smile whenever they pop into my head. Some personal moments, some bits of canon.

--Gerard and Lindsay. Getting married. IN MATCHING UNICORN T-SHIRTS.

--Bronx's lullaby. Duh.

--The look on Zack's face when I explained that you could tell Jon and Spencer apart on my shirt because Spencer has real shoes and Jon has flipflops.

--Jon Walker smells like Christmas, and Spencer Smith enjoys it when he does.

--Bob finding baby!Ray on YouTube

--Greta's story about the violin

--Spencer (and his band) think Prop 8 is total bullshit.

--Shane at Disneyland with Brendon's family for Christmas

--Bestfriend puppy. Just.

--Pete thinks Jennifer Aniston movies are something he needs to apologise for.

--"Gewawd"

--Jon knows Ryan is a vampire.

--Zack's body type is "more to love"

--Brendon should have been in his cage hours ago.

--Zack tells the fangirls that Brendon's hips don't lie

--Spencer's smile

--Bandit Lee. Oh, Ballato-Ways.

--Ryan and Spencer still have mutual birthday parties. With musical cakes.

--Partying with the Cobras means light beer and plastic guitars.

--Pete's unique interpretation of a swearing jar

--SYNCHRONIZED HALLOWEEN DANCES

--Zack plays hockey, and Ryan used to. The mental images!

--Brendon's church-singing pose

--Zack carrying Brendon offstage like a damsel

--Ryan keeps all the teddy bears.

--Jon didn't pack any shoes for like, three tours straight.

--Pear Liberal Studies, bless her. I miss your darling imaginary face, Pear.

--Brendon flipping a sharpie into the air and catching it over and over.

--The fact that Ryan thinks he can fool us into thinking he went to see the Backstreet Boys for Jackie and Crystal. Who were, like, seven at the time.

--Spencer hitting himself in the face and Ryan laughing so hard he lost track of the song

--Brendon's child-of-the-eighties vocabulary. Rad, fr srs.



I know I'm missing some, y'all. C'mon. Get on the internet and tell us all about the awesomest parts of our canon.



ETA: I know it isn't fair, and I'll try not to add any more. But Maple reminded me about that interview where BRENDON'S MOM STILL LOVES HIM. Which is my favorite thing in the world.

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[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Ooo, do, yes! Are there any on mine you need explained?

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

--The look on Zack's face when I explained that you could tell Jon and Spencer apart on my shirt because Spencer has real shoes and Jon has flipflops.

What is the shirt of which you speak? And the look?

--Greta's story about the violin

I do not know this!

--Spencer (and his band) think Prop 8 is total bullshit.

I believe this but don't believe I saw anything about it. :(

--Shane at Disneyland with Brendon's family for Christmas

??

--Bestfriend puppy. Just.

Is this Dixie? I might just be confused.

--Brendon should have been in his cage hours ago.

??

--Pete's unique interpretation of a swearing jar

I feel like a very bad fan now, just so you know. :(


Having gone back through your list again, I have to say that I think I need to amend mine! Because, for real, EVERYTHING about the Abbey Road Sessions owns me and there's so much I left out! There's just so much to love! Really!

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

--The shirt:

So, one day when I was teaching and the kids were busy, I was bored and drew this. I knew I was going to HCT soon and that I would be meeting shihadchick for the first time, so I cafepressed the drawing sans OT4 in the corner to make her laugh, and wore it to the concert.

While I was standing in the line, Zack was wandering up and down it, and he noticed my shirt and came over to me.

ZACK: "What--what is that?"

LU: "They're stick figures."

ZACK: *considers shirt*

ZACK: "Okay, I see Ryan and Bden,(HE ACTUALLY SAID BDEN. OUT LOUD. ANYWAY) but which is Jon and which is Spencer?"

LU: "Well...Spencer has real shoes, and Jon has flipflops."

He looked like that was the best thing he had heard all month, seriously.

ZACK: Where did you get that made?

LU: Um...Cafepress? It's an online shop, they print stuff on shirts.

ZACK: But who designed it?

LU: Um...I did?

ZACK: *abruptly* You here with anybody?

LU: Um, I'm meeting my friend, but I think she's inside, she had...early admittance or something?

ZACK: "So, would you wanna come and meet the guys?"

LU: *sputters* Um...sure?

ZACK: *hands over M&G wristband, heads to EE line*

LU: *follows, completely confounded by this development*

CLAIRE: OH GOD I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER FIND YOU AND DIE AT THIS GODFORSAKEN VENUE

LU: I THINK MY TSHIRT SAVED YOUR LIFE. OR AT LEAST YOUR VIRTUE. GOD BLESS ZACK.

On the way in, they were searching my bag to make sure I wasn't trying to sneak in cookies for the boys or anything, and they found my advil. The zackling searching it was all, "Are pills okay?" and Zack looked at me and said, "Will you share?" and winked at me. And from that moment on, I was a Zack girl.

(Later, he explained everything I had told him about the shirt to Ryan while I stood there trying not to explode, and he was teasing me that I would get it printed and sell thousands of copies. Mostly I spluttered and ran away, because of the unfortunate part where Spencer was the first one at the table and I made the mistake of looking into his eyes, completely losing all control of the English language. When I got up to do the picture part, Brendon told me the shirt was "rad, seriously", which at least stopped me being so fucking nervous because part of me was able to be going "RAD, BRENDON, SERIOUSLY?" And that is my great adventure. Sorry to have rambled so much. The story of the shirt, the end.)


--Greta told a story in one of the HCT videos (I can't find it, I'm sorry!) about how she tried to play the violin when she was a little girl, but she gave up because it was "too squeaky, mama."

--Spencer's second interview with Out magazine

--The Shane at Disneyland with Bden's parents...somebody leaked private family photos of Shane celebrating Christmas with them there, including a picture of him opening HIS OWN STOCKING. BOYFRIENDS!!!!!

--Once when Dylan was lost, Shane placed an ad on Craigslist that read "Lost my bestfriend puppy." It is lots of fun to spend an hour or so debating whether he left out the apostrophe-s, meant that Dylan is his best friend, or is as much a firm believer in Brendon's puppy qualities as we are.

--Their first RBL show, just before the last song:

BRENDON: So you guys warmed me up, good job. I'm tired, and sweaty, and probably smelly--

RYAN: It's past his bedtime!

BRENDON: Yeah, it's three hours past my be--I should have been in my cage like, four hours ago.


--Pete told us at my concert, this last tour, about how he's a new dad, right, so he's trying to cut down on the swearing, and he has a swear jar, and every time he says a bad word on stage he has to put in a dollar. And then he takes the money, and he has to use it to buy fish sticks, and then he has to put them *dramatic pause* IN HIS MOUTH.

Because he hates fish sticks.

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. Okay so the picture and the accompanying story has made me laugh so hard I literally choked. Brendon is actually *levitating* in that picture. LMAO. :D

That is awesome and I'm so glad that your experiences with the band and Zack were so awesome! :D

I think I did hear that Greta story, I know I watched all the HCT vids. I much just not have registered it. :/

I *did* know the Spencer thing. I just didn't connect it to that interview. ~facepalm~

I definitely never heard a whisper of or saw pictures with Shane and Brendon and Brendon's family. Senile though I am, I would have remembered that.

I was also definitely in fandom long, long before RBL, but I don't remember that story. Sad. This meme is useful for cheering up *and* education purposes! :D

Hehe, I never heard the Pete story either. I'm giggling at Pete and the fish sticks too. hehe.

Thank you! You are sweet for going through this for me! :D

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

I have to go shower and see Cabbabies, fr srs, but I will try to go through and gather together the recording of Brendon's cage and the Shane/Brendon pics for you tomorrow.

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

Have OOOOODLES of fun with the Cabbabies and I'll look forward to seeing it! :D

[tanisafan.livejournal.com]

JUST INTERRUPTING TO SAY YOUR STORY IS THE BEST STORY EVER.

bestfriend puppy
I like to think this is like a friendship bracelet, but in Dylan form. *forcibly holds back the 'how are they REAL?'*

And you're right, I have to go spread your meme. Off I go!

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

It still gives me the dorky fangirl squirms, you know? I just want to smile every time I think about it. *G*