Ramblings of a total Zack girl

Booked a flight for New York City! I will be there May 5th through the morning of the tenth.

Who wants to come hang out with me? I am planning on Gold Motel at LEAST the 6th, to hang out with marksykins (who said she would try to keep me from making a fool of myself) and hopefully the 5th, if there is anyone I can talk into going with me?

Anyone? Bueller? You don't have to promise to stop me from acting like an idiot if you don't want to. I mean, I don't think I will do anything TOO huge to embarrass you, and you are welcome to act like you have never seen me before in your life if I do. I won't mind.


Friday through Sunday I am currently free as a bird, so...is there anyone who wants to book my time? I am trying to work out when I can tell RL bestie she can have me...although she is a lovely person and you will all like her, I want to give her a space in which she can plan for things we will do together. ^_^ Especially since it will be HER BIRTHDAY, omg when did we get so old?


(Ex?) bandom people like Rachel and co., I hope to see you all! Maybe even A&K for old times'/tourist sake, if you don't mind? If you would rather not, camping out on someone's couch and converting me to Johnny Weir is MORE than okay, too. (Look, Rachel is writing in it. Rachel could make me want to convert to something with tons of death and drugdealing if she wanted to, because she would make me see the woobie side of the characters.)


I really am never sure who else is IN New York, so sing out! Are you there? Would you like to meet me? I promise I am just as weird in person. Coffee as a low-key, you're-really-only-committing-to-ten-minutes-and-can-then-run-away scenario is perfectly acceptable. ^_^

I totally get what people are talking about with the post-show adrenaline thing now. I'm euphoric and jittering and I feel like I could climb a mountain or proclaim my love to the world.

And I wasn't even performing.

Y'all, Brendon was in such a good mood. He was just glowing and bouncing all over the damn stage. I kept trying to pay attention to the others, too, but he just sucked up all my energy tonight and fed it back into me like an IV of pure joy.

The pictures they put on the screen in the background are really beautifully chosen, but again? Mostly, I was watching Brendon. Boy was on fire.

Also, the sexiness of Spencer drumming is hardly affected at all by his mustache. I totally still wanted to be thrown over the kick drum and ravished.

Ryan continues to be less British, which pleases me immensely, and the side-view screens caught a shot of Jon playing up to Spencer with an expression of bliss.

(Between what Zack said, not all of which will make it into this journal, and the reaction of the crowd, I think the boys are having a little trouble this tour--people aren't as excited to see them, they can't sing back (srsly, mostly? people sang 9itA, Day Met the Night and songs off Fever), and sometimes they LEAVE after Dashboard Confessional. Zack delayed the meet 'n' greet to round up extra fans, beyond those who'd actually won the drawing. The boys sang more Fever songs than I've seen them perform, and cut out such crowd classics as "waves of wooden legs", presumably because they knew nobody would know them...I swear, on Mad as Rabbits, I was one of maybe three people singing along. People mostly just stood there and stared during songs like "She's a Handsome Woman," where nobody knows what Ryan thinks he is talking about. There were people in the merch line who didn't know the "Reinvent Love" merch design was for Panic!

So, you know. When you go? Be REALLY LOUDLY FANGIRLY.)


OH! ETA: The Cab? Hardly failed AT ALL last night. Even Singer. Even Cash. I was kinda disappointed, I promised the baby bro he would find them hilarious. However, I kinda hope they do get big, because when Dashboard pulled Ian up to play with them he kept doing the signature Cab Bounce, and I think he may have been irreparably damaged so that he can't help it anymore.

Hey, guess what, y'all: a bright spot in all this misery!

I've won an Oscar!

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It's only one out of several categories, but some of the categories were pretty far-fetched, and this is the category I cared about, so I'm really happy.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO VOTE FOR ME. YOU ALL ARE SO AWESOME!!






ETA:

Also OMG I GOT TO HEAR PANIC LIVE THIS MORNING! VOICEMALS FROM AUSTRALIA FOR THE WIN! Oh, shihadchick, you made me smile so much, you have no idea.

Things that are awesome about Panic SO FAR:

--shihadchick

--Zack spotted me in line, asked about my shirt, and got me into the meet-n-greet!! Bden (who Zack referred to as Bden, god), Ryan, and Jon all loved my shirt. Brendon went so far as to call it "rad", which made me grin. (Rad, Brendon, really?) Spencer did not comment, but did look me in the eyes, which, uh, pretty much stopped my heart all on its own. (I love Brendon best, but we all know who I would make out with given the offer.) Probably just as well he didn't try to speak to me.

--they are all adorable. Spencer kept giving a thumbs-up, which I will never not find hilarious. On the way out, Jon jumped on a security guy's back, and Ryan tried to jump on Jon's. Oh, boys. Brendon kept flipping his sharpie in the air and catching it like a kindergarten kid forced to sit still. Oh, Bden, I heart you.

--Zack's don't be creepy speech is very awesome. Whatever they pay him, it isn't enough.

--Thanks to getting in early, we also have an awesome spot to watch from.

Music starts soon!