I ended up going to the concert! I dragged T with me, who is my coworker and travel buddy from back home (work rented us neighboring apartments and we spend... pretty much every day and every evening together). It was not his kind of music ultimately, but he did enjoy the show, because wow, does that band know how to put on a show. Brendon Urie. He's a talented guy.


look! they didn't take my camera away! also he has a wedding ring! times they have changed

I had no idea just how young the crowd would be, perhaps I'm a little out of touch with reality, but I'm also pretty sure the crowd in New York was much younger than the crowd was in the Panic concert I saw in London. In any case we hung out in the back feelings old, but the venue was spacious and I could see the stage well and that is all I wanted.

I was worried that Brendon would act like a douche, because uh, he can sometimes be that, especially in live shows, but he was very nice! Not nearly as talkative as he was in the last concert I saw him at, mostly just sang and thanked the audience every once in while, making sure no one was getting crushed up front.

I am still not a huge fan of Panic's fourth album and don't know the songs there well at all, but there were one or two that I changed my opinion about, seeing them performed live... now I just have to figure out which songs they were.

--oh and he did a backflip during Miss Jackson and it was pretty freaking gorgeous. And at least half the songs were from the first three albums, so you know. I was happy.