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[sapote]

God bless lurkmuch, who sat up on AIM with me last night while I went "Wait, why are monkeys trying to make Pete and Patrick do it?" and then "Okay, so Fall Out Boy made a video where Patrick is a vampire hunter who's trying to save Pete's toothy soul? WHAT?" I have to confess the feeling of ridiculous glee was something like the first time I went "SPACE VAMPIRES? Are you kidding me?".

The thing is, I don't have an actual television, and I don't really listen to the radio except for NPR, so my exposure to pop culture pretty much stopped when I stopped going to the university gym. So I have zero bandom canon, just a lot of fanon from stalking murklins' del.icio.us. So now it is like watching fanfiction in motion! Ee!

Of course now that I'm edging over into bandom it means that bandom is about to make another migration to something else. Any guesses where people are going to go next, after Due South -> SGA -> bandom? Anyone?

Also, since I'm probably never going to watch the interviews: is it a point of canon that Patrick Stump's high school served a lot of potatoes? Why does that show up in every high school AU ever? God, RPS canon is weird.

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[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Umm... okay, I'm not in to FOB and never watched them until you put up these links and here's my question....

do you know where the band members are right now? Do they, uh, have a home base or something? Because I saw a guy this morning who, I really think, may have been the guy in the video.... the one with dark hair, getting felt up by monkeys.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I went to high school in a scenester town, which has corroded my ability to straight-facedly enjoy pop music forever, so I don't think I could call myself into them so much as into their fandom? I guess?

Pete Wentz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wentz) is from Illinois originally, but Google says he has a house in L.A. now. Apparently he does stay with his parents in Illinois sometimes, or at least ::cough:: he did in 2006.

But The Wentz was kind of a popular haircut for teenage boys for a while, I hear, and pair that with eyeliner and a hoodie and you're halfway to having a lookalike. Did the guy you saw have huge teeth / fangirl hoardes?

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Mouth closed. No fangirls. I thought he might be a model, which is why I remembered him - not because he was pretty, but because he had extremely stylized clothes and hair, and was too-perfect - normal people, even poseurs, don't look ... perfect ... in public. I mean, when I meet actors - not famous ones, just workaday actors, in their ordinary lives - they have the same look. There's a perfection there that non-performers don't have.

I ... think it actually might have been him.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I saw a fairly famous actress whose name I genuinely don't know in an airport once, and it was kind of like her clothes and hair and makeup were just more in focus then everyone else's? Like we were all kind of blurry, appearance-wise, and she wasn't?

And man,I hope someone in bandom shows up and offers corroborating evidence. I am burning with curiosity about where you live now (I could imagine good reasons for pop stars to be in New York or DC?) but see me Respecting Your Boundaries. *g*

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

I googled. No confirmation of his location, but it certainly isn't implausible that he would be in the area.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I think I am going to have to attend this statement with a yay.

\o/

I am not usually even much for celebrity sightings (has anyone ever come away from those with more to say than "he was shorter than I thought he'd be,"?) but the coincidence here is just too wonderful not to love.

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

-> Top Gear RPS!

I must start reccing way more things to lure people ;)

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Truly there should be more of it!
Please rec, I have this kneejerk refusal to read in general comms without recs, and yet, I have been watching much Top Gear and feel the need for fic.

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=nimnod&keyword=top+gear&filter=all)
might be a good place to start ;)

I'm particularly fond of "Not in Botswana any more". I'll try and find some of the other cool ones some time.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

YAY. I've read "Not in Botswana", and it was precious. Also, hot. I haven't read any of the others, besides the one where Richard Hammond was a male escort and James was a car part designer who needed to learn to love.

Good times.

[leupagus.livejournal.com]

Any guesses where people are going to go next, after Due South -> SGA -> bandom? Anyone?

Two words, my friend: Bible. Slash.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

when they say canon, they mean canon.

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

Oh no. Nonononononono. Because NOW, my mind keeps returning to whom I'd slash various disciples with. *shudder*

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Oh, c'mon, you know Paul secretly lusted after Andrew or something, that's why he was such a nut.

Also, for some reason I believe in Peter/James, though this could be just because I snicker at "fishers of men".

::facepalm::

[leupagus.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank God I'm not the only one who finds that funny.

Although 'fess it up: Judas and Jesus are totally the Lex and Clark of the bible.

Come to think of it, why *aren't* there more SGA/Bible or SV/Bible crossovers? John's the Son of God! Rodney doesn't betray him for 30 pieces of silver, he betrays him for 30 Reeses Pieces! Clark is Samson and Lex his bald, beautiful Delilah!

...oh, *now* I understand why there aren't crossovers. Because they mean that I am probably going to Hell.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Alas that you do not watch Torchwood, because in my brain Jesus/Judas and Jesus/Mary Magdalen was almost exactly like Captain Jack / Ianto / Gwen. Yes. Except that Jesus is not an intergalactic sex god - or is he?

Um. Also, John is totally Jesus, and if you wrote that, I would read it. You are aware of the story of Jonathon and David (http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/1sam/18.html#1), right? Ignoring the genocidal urges that make up so much of the Old Testament, it's basically a sweet Romeo-and-Juliet number.

[leupagus.livejournal.com]

Jesus: Son of God, or Sex-God?

That's a stumper.

Dude, you dared me to write SGA/Bible fic? You're on - but you have to beta. And then, I dunno, clean your brain with holy water.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I'm a Unitarian. When I die, I just go to a discussion group for eternity.

I totally dare you, and I would beta it like woah.

[leupagus.livejournal.com]

I'm a Unitarian. When I die, I just go to a discussion group for eternity.

I can't decide if that's Heaven or Hell. And that's awesome. I'm a Jew, and apparently we don't get to go anywhere after we die, so we have to do all our discussing on this plane of existence. Unfair!

I feel like I'm in a game of chicken - "I'm gonna write it!" "Write it!" "No, I'm really gonna do it!" "DO IT." Just wait, though - it's gonna be awesome. As in FULL OF AWE.

Also, I'm going to totally use biblespeak. Lo, the awesomeness shall rain down like goats blood. Or... something.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Well, I hear that if you serve on enough committees while you're alive, you get to sit close to the table with the Triscuits and carrot sticks. So there's that.

The awesomeness shall be like the sheaves of wheat that grow when the season is good for growing sheaves of wheat, in that it will be plentifully awesome. In other words, if I am called upon to beta, I will probably need to brush up on my Biblical English.

I need an icon that says "Special Hell" on it

[lurkmuch.livejournal.com]

Judas and Jesus are totally the Lex and Clark of the bible.

Wow. I'm seeing the New Testament in a whole new light.

Edited cause the cat walked on the keyboard, OOPS.

I don't know where fandom will go after bandom. I shudder to think about the progression of crack from Due South to SGA to bandom. I mean, seriously: how do you top canonical vampires and slash monkeys?

Re: I need an icon that says "Special Hell" on it

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

maybe we'll all take a sincere turn? Because you are right, the crack cannot escalate much. Not unless there's, I don't know, an all-musical Torchwood spinoff in space. I think that might do it.