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So, last night I went to see Panic! At The Disco, mostly as an excuse to hang with my gig girls - emma_took and strongplacebo - who are awesome and hilarious and I love them a lot. I swear I haven't laughed so much as I did last night in a long, long time. I keep remembering random moments and giggling to myself &my gig girls;

The highlights of the night, IMO, were a really rather good cover of How Soon Is Now by The Smiths, and Nearly Witches, which I've had stuck in my head since I woke up. I'll leave the full-on concert report to someone else (as I am sure there will be many posts about it), if you follow me on twitter then you know my thoughts were mostly 'Ian! \o/' based.

I took a LOT of photos as is my want, and these are they.

Or they will be, first have a random shot of an empty tube station, and one of the only good thing about the support band - their bassist, who was hot. Why yes, I am the shallowest, thank you for noticing.

( hot bassist )

Aaand these are the photos of Panic! We were sitting in the back row of the first level balcony so some of them are just a tad grainy due to distance and lighting effects, etc.

( Panic! At The Disco @ Shepherds Bush Empire )

In other news: UK people, if you haven't done already, go out and vote! It doesn't matter if you're pro or anti AV, you should make your choice known.

Detailed warnings for Ghosts in the Machine.

( contains major plot spoilers )

I’ve been trying to post this for a couple of days but LJ has been being most unco-operative. Stupid LJ.

Anyhoo, on Tuesday I jumped on a train and went to Newcastle to meet up with turps33 and see My Chemical Romance. It was awesome.

turps33 posted an excellent recap here so if you haven’t already read it you should go do so. Mine is likely to be a lot less detailed and a lot more rambly, as is my want.

( My Chemical Romance @ Metroradio Arena, Newcastle )

Here, have some (not especially great) photos.

( I have photographic proof that Mikey smiles! )

And have a few random shots of Newcastle for good measure

( hither )
In short: MCR are awesome, Newcastle is gorgeous, and turps33 and her family are wonderful, lovely, funny as hell and I really did not want to go home.

After the thrill has gone ~ Arthur/Eames (Inception) ~ 1600 words ~ PG

For cmonkatiekatie because it's her birthday and I love her a lot A LOT. Thanks to foxxcub for the super fast beta. No warnings apply.

( The problem, Eames thinks, is that the thrill of the chase doesn't lie in the chase itself )

Today did not start well. I woke up nearly two hours later than I am supposed to on a work day and then when I did finally drag my ass to the station there were no trains because someone stole the overhead cables (again). So I had to get an unbelievably crowded and uncomfortable 'rail replacement' bus for half the journey then wait half an hour for a train to finally show up a few stations down the line. I eventually got to work roughly four hours late. And my day went downhill from there :(

Anyways, I saw Black Cards last night at The ICA in London. The sound was pretty shitty but they were tons of fun. Bebe is gorgeous and adorable and super bouncy and entertaining, and Pete was smiley and happy and dancing around and enjoying himself and that was awesome to see. I didn't really realise how much I'd missed seeing his face until he stepped on stage &Wentz; Also, I maybe got a little teary-eyed during his 'depression beard' speech but we're just going to blame that on PMT and move on, okay? Okay.

Plus I got to hang with strongplacebo which is always awesome, and we saw jess_darkwater and lovinspike247 as well (although I didn't get to chat with them much as I had a friend from work with me who found the whole black walls, ceiling and floor thing The ICA has going on to be hugely claustrophobic and uncomfortable).

I took a bunch of photos ( these are they )

Hello, livejournal. I have been mostly absent for, ooh, a while now. This can be blamed almost entirely on work being crazy busy and me not having the energy to do much more than collapse on the sofa in front of Eastenders when I get home (on the iplayer, because, lol, do not get home early enough to actually watch it most nights :|). But I shall try and be a bit better about keeping up with my flist, etc, from now on. Honest.

UK flisters - I have two spare tickets for the Black Cards show at The ICA in London on October 27th. Anyone want them? Or, alternatively, anyone know someone who might want them?

Also of (potential) interest to UK types - I saw THE most brilliant production of Hamlet on Saturday at The National Theatre. Seriously the best production of the play that I've seen (and I have seen it far too many times!) with some really interesting takes on both the characters and the overall setting/atmosphere of the play. I'm not sure how long it runs for or even if there are tickets available but I really recommend seeing it if you can.

In other news: I have signed up for mini_nanowrimo. I am hoping it will be the spark that I need to start writing again, because I kind of miss it.

ETA: I finally beat the last level of Plants vs Zombies! My overblown sense of achievement, let me show you it \o/

I saw The Like play the The ICA in London on Wednesday. They were awesome and I want to see them again asap.

I took a bunch of photos - they're not the greatest because my camera is not the biggest fan of dark places (  but here are some of them anyway )

Interesting fact for those who collect canon info: Z announced that it was her and Tennessee's 9 year anniversary on Wednesday, which means they met on September 15th 2001.

Few things in life make me happier than wandering over to Hype Machine and finding the new LCD Soundsystem single has leaked all over the blogosphere \o/ Oh James Murphy, how I love thee. Now gimme that album.

Other things that make me happy right now are: winning auctions on ebay by a single penny (ha! sucks to be you, rival bidder!), and the way that tumblr is a constant source of really pretty pictures from the TYV tour. So, in honour of the second of those things, I picspam.

( there's no one happier in life than Ryan Rossy with a tambourine )

p.s. I am off to Sussex again tomorrow, but I will upload some classics of the nineties (as per the poll results) on Wednesday ♥

UK flisters, the sheer unadulterated joy that is In The Loop is on BBC2 at 10pm this evening and I cannot recommend the watching of it highly enough. It is one of the sharpest, most intelligent and funniest movies ever made, also the swearingest (what? it's a word!). If you are not familiar with the glory that is Malcolm Tucker then you can get a taster of both him and the film here and here.

(I still think it is highly unfair that I am not allowed to have a sign saying "What would Malcolm Tucker do?" above my computer at work >:( )

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I've had an exceptionally lazy weekend that's mostly involved much in the way of doing as little as possible and trying to catch up on all the sleep I missed last week. But I have spent some time thinking about my BBB (you know, as opposed to actually writing it. but it's the thought that counts, right? right?) and I have also created a new tumblr account. Mainly because my mum follows my inacitylining account aaaand while I do love her a whole lot I really do not feel comfortable sharing my thoughts on faily boys in bands, etc, in a space I know she will see on a regular basis. Which means I couldn't really use tumblr in the way I wanted. At all.

I'm still going to use the inacitylining account as a photoblog but I now have a main, day to day type account here. I've added everyone I was following already (I think! If I've missed anyone out, let me know) so if you were wondering who the random person who started following you is, it's me. And if there's anyone else whose tumblr I haven't discovered yet - feel free to add me if you so desire :)

In related news: Ryan Rossy continues to be adorable. &Ryan;

And lastly, my thoughts on Bob Bryar are these: Bob was my favourite member of MCR and, in fact, the main reason I had any interest in them at all. I enjoy Mikeyway in a fannish sense, in that his persona as created and used in fic by fandom is something I like a lot and will continue to do so, but on the whole MCR have always been my least favourite of the bandom bands. So while I am not as devastated by the news as some people on my flist, I am both saddened and sympathetic to the upset some are feeling, and I'd like to offer big hugs to those who need them. ♥

I know a lot of people are on limited budgets, but if you do have a few pounds/dollars/euros, etc, to spare please consider donating to one of the many charities organising disaster relief in/for Chile.

You can donate via Google here, or if you are in the UK you can donate via Save The Children, Christian Aid, or the British Red Cross.

♥