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A few quick words about the Panic show in NYC on Saturday, because if I don't just post something in five minutes I will never get around to writing up an epic recap and thus never post at all.
HOLY SHIT, DUDES, THAT WAS AWESOME.
We were about sixth back from the barricade, right in front of Jon Walker (this is becoming a theme in my seeing-Panic-in-concert experience). There were only a few hundred people at the show even counting the raft of VIPs, and probably at least a quarter of the audience was "from the internet" as we like to say. I don't know if it was solely because we were all friends on the floor there, but it made for a very mellow non-shoving show experience, which was awesome.
I know a lot of people had a Spencer Smith Hotness Epiphany while watching him drum like a hot hot madman, but I'm afraid I have once again totally missed that bandwagon, because I could not take my eyes off Jon Walker. I occasionally managed to look away as far as Brendon, but honestly, that was it. Anyway, setlist:
We're So Starving/Nine in the Afternoon
But It's Better If You Do
[New Song I Totally Missed the Name Of] She's a Handsome Woman
That Green Gentleman
I Write Sins, Not Tragedies
Mad As Rabbits
They all looked very happy, they had snazzy and thematically-appropriate guitar straps, and according to Iulia Spencer Smith's feet, like his clock, are larger than most. Jon played guitar and Brendon played bass and Ryan sang on Mad As Rabbits (while Spencer stayed right behind his kit where he belonged, and it entertains me to imagine that they tried to get a complete role swap and Spencer just put his foot down). The new songs had a pleasing straight-up rock vibe--not like they're trying to be super hardcore or something, just like they've really embraced two-guitars-bass-drums and are running with it. Also entertaining: the faint frisson of "This is our contractual obligation song" when they played Sins, complete with Jon not bothering to put his hands on his bass for the first twenty or so seconds of the song, instead fiddling around with his mike. ♥
Also, there was a Q&A, in honor of which I have changed the subtitle of my journal to This is the sound of my brain voice. Also also, having done an entire semester of study on children's reading habits and information needs, let me just say to whoever in the audience was hassling Jon Walker for listening to Harry Potter on audiobook instead of reading it: STFU, MOTHERFUCKER. BOOKS ARE BOOKS, LET HIM USE WHATEVER FORMAT MAKES HIM HAPPY.
Ahem. ANYWAY. YAY PANIC!!! YAY FANGIRLS!!!! BOO CREEPY PUPPET AND FREEZING WEATHER! YAY THE INCREDIBLE HOTNESS OF JON WALKER!!
And boo to tomorrow being Monday, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iuliamentis being back home in Chicago, and having to go to bed.
HOLY SHIT, DUDES, THAT WAS AWESOME.
We were about sixth back from the barricade, right in front of Jon Walker (this is becoming a theme in my seeing-Panic-in-concert experience). There were only a few hundred people at the show even counting the raft of VIPs, and probably at least a quarter of the audience was "from the internet" as we like to say. I don't know if it was solely because we were all friends on the floor there, but it made for a very mellow non-shoving show experience, which was awesome.
I know a lot of people had a Spencer Smith Hotness Epiphany while watching him drum like a hot hot madman, but I'm afraid I have once again totally missed that bandwagon, because I could not take my eyes off Jon Walker. I occasionally managed to look away as far as Brendon, but honestly, that was it. Anyway, setlist:
We're So Starving/Nine in the Afternoon
But It's Better If You Do
That Green Gentleman
I Write Sins, Not Tragedies
Mad As Rabbits
They all looked very happy, they had snazzy and thematically-appropriate guitar straps, and according to Iulia Spencer Smith's feet, like his clock, are larger than most. Jon played guitar and Brendon played bass and Ryan sang on Mad As Rabbits (while Spencer stayed right behind his kit where he belonged, and it entertains me to imagine that they tried to get a complete role swap and Spencer just put his foot down). The new songs had a pleasing straight-up rock vibe--not like they're trying to be super hardcore or something, just like they've really embraced two-guitars-bass-drums and are running with it. Also entertaining: the faint frisson of "This is our contractual obligation song" when they played Sins, complete with Jon not bothering to put his hands on his bass for the first twenty or so seconds of the song, instead fiddling around with his mike. ♥
Also, there was a Q&A, in honor of which I have changed the subtitle of my journal to This is the sound of my brain voice. Also also, having done an entire semester of study on children's reading habits and information needs, let me just say to whoever in the audience was hassling Jon Walker for listening to Harry Potter on audiobook instead of reading it: STFU, MOTHERFUCKER. BOOKS ARE BOOKS, LET HIM USE WHATEVER FORMAT MAKES HIM HAPPY.
Ahem. ANYWAY. YAY PANIC!!! YAY FANGIRLS!!!! BOO CREEPY PUPPET AND FREEZING WEATHER! YAY THE INCREDIBLE HOTNESS OF JON WALKER!!
And boo to tomorrow being Monday, and
iuliamentis being back home in Chicago, and having to go to bed.