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. . . yeah, that nickel is long gone. I don't even know where I'd put it now, calendar-wise. Maybe a back-to-school thing? "What We Did on our (Endless) Summer Vacation"?

Or not.

Anyway. I'm going to sit down later this weekend and gather up the highlights, but basically the only big notes for right now are that Jon has unfollowed everyone (again), is/will be moving, and was apparenty attacked outside his house; and Ryan spent at least two weeks at Greenwald's house (with Greenwald's housemate) while Greenwald was away. (For those of you as care: Greenwald: still in London; has a chest cough; was at one time the voice of a recycling dinosaur which was evidently something of a touchstone of a CA childhood but that I had never heard of, and also, wow, when his voice broke it broke, goodness.) Also Nick Murray locked his Twitter down for a couple of days towards the end of July/early August, but has since unlocked it again, so maybe that was a mis-click.

Tangentially, there's some interesting The Like canon filtering up via non-Twitter sources, i.e. press interviews with the band. For example: He's Not A Boy is about Johnny Borrell, the lead singer of Razorlight?? And also: Narcissus in a Red Dress is NOT about Charlotte? In fact she was in the band when it was written?? THE PLOT, IT THICKENS!

i feel like I should award this story some sort of special prize for getting jossed twice, and the first jossing making it more plausible, not less. It's another one I started last winter, showed to sinsense, and then put aside, possibly due to school.

Then Panic split. This actually made it make sense, as it was a band-reuniting fic, with some bonus h/c thrown in. (The working title was, for a time, "Highly Unlikely Warped Tour".) So, meanwhile, life goes on, stuff happens, etc etc, and then Bob departs from MCR, jossing me again, and also creating a (possibly minor) problem. In the sense that a Bob + Brendon friendship was supposed to be a key subplot. I gave serious thought to using it for BBB, but then I decided canon was too unsettled and also there was just too much potential for sad.

(re: BBB, for those of you as may be wondering: the detective fairies, along with tentacles, puppies and West Texas, is on my list to write this summer.)

In any case, here's some bits and pieces from what has now been re-titled You Could Always Sell Any Dream To Me:

( the beginning )

( Bob and Brendon have a conversation )

( Ryan and Brendon have a moment in the middle of the night )

( a drum circle, a walk back to the bus, scraped knees and sleepy boys )

Warning: Contains mentions of blood in a context that could be triggery for self-harm.

Author's note: I got almost 2K into this before I abruptly ran out of story. The premise: Brendon wakes up a cat boy, and does not enjoy the experience.

( He was vibrating more than usual, fists clenched at his sides, and his eyes were a little too bright. )

Brendon: Wished his father a happy birthday and the internets a happy "irish holiday"; referenced Seinfeld, Billy Crystal and Regis Philbin; watched a Bil Maher special and some puppies playing; shared a video of a gentleman who is VERY fond of his motorcycle; had some Thai food; was sorry he couldn't be with Keith Buckley in Vegas, and was apparently amused by a music-geek joke on a t-shirt that I totally didn't get at all, and the comments on the Twitpic were no help. On a related note, musical selections were from Yeasayer, Local Natives and Lagwagon. I was especially amused by the Simon and Garfunkel cover fron Local Natives, specifically, the dude(s) playing drums on the trees.

Spencer: I think I'm just going to call him Silent Bob from now on. He tweeted twice, once about MTV March Madness, and once to share a picture of a t-shirt that said "Two Words: Suck it" over a large X, which is apparently some sort of wrestling reference.

Brendon: Also quiet this week; did share pictures of a funny Hallmark card, a FUCT demo CD and a picture of pre-split P!atD taken by Tom Conrad that he found while unpacking, and one of Steve McDonald sleeping. I'm not sure if that last one is Steve McDonald, bassist, who has worked with The White Stripes and Tenacious D or not, but I've put his name under music (general) just in case. There were also some Chilean earthquake-aid related tweets, and finally he appreciated a beautiful rainy day.

Spencer: No tweets at all this week.

Brendon: Again urged us to vote for some friends-of-friends in a dream wedding contest; mentioned a couple of songs, one by Stars, the other by Sublime, and declared Valentine's Day "Listen to Nothing But Barry White" day with a reference to a Queen song; saw "PRENUP 1" as a vanity plate; went out for dinner and showed us a picture of what looked like a really good steak; discussed the Haitian earthquake with a Jehovah's Witness (I have to wonder if a) the JW knocked on his door and he answered, or b) it was a chance encounter) and, of course, made a short movie with Butch Walker in the style of American Psycho. He also referenced John Mayer's infamous Playboy interview and shared a link to a YouTube video of a Dean Martin and Phil Harris routine/song that is one of most hilarious, campiest things I have ever seen. I can only hope he was inspired, and the Universe will shortly be blessing us with the Brendon & Spencer show, in which they drink tea spiked with whiskey, call each other baby and sing random songs while trying not to crack up. It will be glorious, I am sure. Also: His icon is now the Devil/Angel manip that Shane made.

Spencer: Mentioned the new Yeadsayer record (Odd Blood), though not by name. Otherwise: too busy pretending to be dead for the cameras to tweet.

Brendon: Lots of movies this week: Batman (1966), Whatever Works, The Shadow, Zombieland, Yes Man, and Orgazmo. (Brendon likes superheros/comic book characters a lot. Though I'd venture to say Batman is his favorite.) Also an aside about framing pictures of his favorite food. That was pretty much it, actually; kind of a quiet week for him, possibly due to whatever it is they were/are doing in the UK.

Spencer: Has probably seen Avatar; also quiet, again perhaps due to travel/mixing a record.

SPECIAL NOTE: LJ is being a pain and for some reason will not let me update Spencer's list. I somehow contrived to delete the original master-list entry (don't worry, I have the content) and am now trying to post a new, backdated entry. >:((((( LJ.

ETA: Okay, I got it to work, but I had to take most of the links out. Argh. The new masterlist is here. Sorry guys.

Brendon: Shared a link to a remake of the rap scene in Teen Witch; was sarcastic about Keanu Reeves' acting ability in Speed and Point Break; made several terrible puns about snow (while enroute to NYC where it was/is currently . . . not snowing, nor even all that cold); traded some airplane gossip with Spencer; congratulated Mark Hoppus on the song on the Alice soundtrack, hung out with Pete Wentz, and then quoted my all-time favorite Frank Sinatra song, New York, New York. It is the very best for Rockette-style high kicks while slightly drunk at parties. Usually weddings. Anyway, I really do hope they use a Sinatra song as their cover on the next tour.

Spencer: Back from Twitter vacation, yay!!!!, and evidently watched the wedding episode of The Office on the plane on the way to New York/New Jersey, where he and Brendon working with fun. He also shared a link to a video of the rap scene in Teen Witch, a picture of Brendon, and documented his encounter with an Ed Hardyfied beer bottles.

Brendon: Had Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast (d'awwwwwwwwww) and watched some unnamed live comedy before celebrating NYE at "headquarters". (All I could think of was Batmobiles.)

Spencer: Is still maintaining radio silence.