Misery Loves Me

Greg "Garbo" Garbowsky is the bass guitarist for the band Jonas Brothers.
from his blog:

i'm embarrassed to say this, but i am enjoying listening to the new Panic at the Disco album, "Pretty. Odd." which came out last week. They were the band i loved to hate; bad music and bad makeup to go with it. but now i find myself driving around alone listening to the new album screaming, "why do you have to be so good?!?! agghhh!" after nearly running over a hobo, i realized the reason it's so good is because it blatantly rips-off the beatles' "sgt. peppers" album. it's worth noting for those of you keeping score that "sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band" is also widely accepted as the greatest album of all-time. the beatles were such a phenomenal band, that even mediocre bands who mimic their style 41 years later will still sound awesome. For teenagers on a steady diet of fall out boy, this will likely be their first introduction to a psychedelic influence in pop music. I hope this somehow begins a musical journey for these kids which ultimately leads to discovering the works of the fab four. "Pretty. Odd." isn't about Panic at the disco - it's a testament to how great the Beatles still are.

unfortunately this record is listenable from start to finish, which is exactly what i keep doing. i really really didn't want this to happen. but it did. cheers to you panic at the disco. well done.

everybody rips-off everybody; they just happened to rip-off the best. smart move.

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are you serious dude?
http://greggarbo.blogspot.com/2008/04/ah-crap-new-panic-album-is-actually.html

“You’re worthless.” Said Nicole’s boyfriend of 4 months.  She was used to those kinds of things happening every time they spoke or went on dates.  Why did she stay with him?  She was “in love”.

FLASHBACK
Nicole had one dream in life, to be a dancer.  She practiced at every single chance that she could, and it showed.  Dancing was her life…until it all got taken away.

“I’m sorry, but we just can’t afford it right now!” explained nicole’s parents.  This wasn’t easy for them, but they had no other choice.

“This isn’t fair!” Nicole shouted as her parents stood in the frame of her bedroom door, reeking of bad news.

“What am I going to tell all of my friends?! I’ve worked so hard!! Don’t you even care? I can’t live my life without it! I CAN’T!” Nicole was raging inside.  She didn’t know how her life was going to turn out.  It would be completely ruined now that she was being taken away from the one thing that never got old to her.  She was in love, with dancing.

*3 months later

Nicole’s POV

“Hmm, who is that?” I whispered quietly as I searched through my aim buddy list.

“I don’t remember adding this person” I smirked slightly, wondering how this mysterious name magically showed up out of nowhere.

After I had to stop dancing, things hadn’t been the same.  I was no longer in the loop, and many of my friends no longer considered me a “friend”.  They didn’t need me for any purpose in their life anymore.  I tried to move on, acting like things were okay but it never really worked.  There was an empty whole in the inside of my heart (believe it or not) where dancing used to be.  However, I tried to fill that void with countless hours on the computer, and thousands of conversations with my “internet” friends.  Yet, it never worked.

A window for a conversation popped up.

“hey who is this?” I asked waiting for a detailed reply.

“uh, this is nick…I know your friend brent” he replied within a matter of seconds.

(I never really did like brent.  He was always the creepy kid in the back of the classroom who would give your phone number out to all of his friends.  His friends being people whom I did not want my number to be given to.)

“umm cool, I’m Nicole just in case you were wondering.  How old are you?” I questioned

(I was seventeen, in search of something to find, not yet knowing what.)

“I’m 16, how old are you?” he seemed really eager to find specifications out.  As did I, I suppose.

“I’m seventeen.”

“awesome :D”

It all started with that minute long conversation.  Something so simple and forgettable that turned into something so unbearable.  Minutes turned into hours.  Hours turned into days.  Days turned into weeks.  Weeks turned into months.

*No ones POV

As the months flew by Nicole and Nick were inseparable.  They spent every waking moment they could, together. Then, things changed.  At first nick was marvelous boyfriend always doing and saying the right things, he loved Nicole.  But after a few months, harsh words started spewing out of nick’s mouth, tearing apart at the inside of nicole’s soul.  Every day she wondered why she was still with him.  Trying to make excuses for him every times she came home crying.

END FLASHBACK

“You’re worthless.” Nick stated as he was talking to his girlfriend of four months.

Nicole simply stayed silent taking in the cruel expressions that had just entered her ears.

After mere seconds had passed, the only words Nicole managed to pry from her mouth were:

“…whatever”

An awkward silence filled the conversation as Nicole drifted off into thought.

*Nicole’s POV
I couldn’t let this happen again.  Come home or get off of the phone and burst into tears.  I have to end this some how.  But what will I have if I end this? I’ll be exactly where I was months ago.  This is what I tried to fill my empty, null self with after dancing was ripped away from me.  This is all I have, and apparently this is all that I think I deserve.

“I have to go” I told him as disappointment filled the airwaves of the phone line.

“but why??” he seemed so oblivious I couldn’t believe it!

“umm my parents said I have to get off the phone”

“alright, love you” those words pierced through my ear drums as slow as they possibly could after exiting from his lips.

I hesitated, not knowing what to say.  I love him don’t I? Yes, I love him.  I love him.  I love him.  I love him.  He’s just so mean.  Why should I have to deal with someone so mean especially if they so-call love me?!

A million thoughts traveled through my brain in a matter of seconds. Before replying with some of the simplest, most powerful, 3 words you will ever speak.

“love you too” I said.  The words barely escaped from my mouth.  I felt disgusted with myself for letting those words slip yet another time.

The conversation ended as dark feeling turned in the pit of my stomach.  This eerie pain occurred almost every time I got off the phone with nick.  I realized I was in tears as I looked up from the phone that had just been shut.  I didn't know what to do. This man boy was obviously not good for me.  And something needed to change.  Somehow.
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ohhhhh k.  So i decided that i wanted to make my own fan fic.  I know there are tons of fan fics out there but I thought this was a neat way to kind of get things off of my mind.  Like channel all of my energy into writing!! Plus it was lots of fun :D muaha
anyway.  I know this first part might have been kinda boring, but it's just the intro! so stick around for chapter 2!
buzz+comment please!!
pee ess: this does have panic at the disco in it....they're in parts to come :D
love

"Pretty. Odd." has done more than pretty well for Panic at the Disco.

The sophomore album from the Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen artists debuted at No. 2 on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 album chart. It follows the success of the Las Vegas-based band's platinum 2005 debut, "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out," which debuted at No. 1 on SoundScan's Current Alternative Albums chart.

The success of "Pretty. Odd." signifies the band's best-ever sales week.

"I'm excited, I don't know what to think about that," Panic at the Disco drummer Spencer Smith said during a phone interview from Louisiana. "It seems surreal."

When it came time to create its sophomore album, Panic at the Disco (guitarist Ryan Ross, vocalist Brendon Urie, bassist Jon Walker and Smith) wanted to make sure it was exactly what they wanted.

"Luckily we didn't have some A&R guy from the record label watching everything we were doing, giving his opinion," Smith said. "It was pretty much us, just writing exactly what we wanted, and that's what made it so fun. It took us a little while, but eventually we all became focused and on the same page. And it really became a band or group writing experience."

Songwriting inspiration for "Pretty. Odd." came from a variety of experiences, one of which was the band's quick rise to fame.

"In the last couple of years, everything's happened so fast for us," Smith said. "We went from a local band to doing a headlining tour within a short amount of time, and it's definitely something that was very much a part of our lives. That's what a few songs are about."

The first single from "Pretty. Odd.," "Nine in the Afternoon," is quickly climbing the charts; currently a Top 10 on alternative radio. The single's music video was directed by Shane Drake, the mastermind behind the band's 2006 MTV Video Music Award-winning Video of the Year for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." The video for "Nine in the Afternoon" is currently the No. 3 most-played video on MTV and the No. 1 video on Fuse.

All in all, Smith says the band just wanted to make sure they were "one step further than our last album." And yes, he feels they've achieved just that.

"For where we are right now, I think it's a good representation," Smith said. "We're just having fun playing the songs, and now that the album's out we just want to see people in the audience singing along."

Panic at the Disco will get to hear plenty of fans chiming along during its headlining spot on the 8th annual Honda Civic Tour, which stops at the House of Blues in North Myrtle Beach on Tuesday with Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet.

Fans will have a chance to drive away in a brand new 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid. A portion of each Honda Civic Tour ticket sold goes to a special eco-fund. Concertgoers can log on to www.spin.com/ecocontest to enter.

"It was something we wanted to get our voice out there about," Smith said of the environmental cause.

For more on Panic at the Disco, log on to www.panicat thedisco.com or www.my space.com/panicatthedisco

Source: myrtlebeachonline.com

04-24 - PATD ON YOUR TELEVISION

PATD will be all over your TV screens the next few weeks. On May 5th the band will be appearing on MTV’s TRL. Then on May 8th the band will be performing on the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS at 11:30pm ET/PT. Stay tuned…you never know if the band will need a few last minute audience members for the shows!

Friday, April 25th, 6PM
Purchase a copy of Panic At The Disco's latest CD “Pretty. Odd” at the Orlando Virgin Megastore Downtown Disney location only to receive a wristband to attend the CD signing on Friday, April 25th @6PM. Time & Space are limited.
-patdonline

Your memory still haunts me
After all the things you've done.
I try so hard to leave you behind
But the pain and misery become one.

I settled for less than what I deserved
I regret it every day.
My tears turned into anger,
"I love you" was all you could say?

You ran me over any chance you could
Yet nothing I would do.
I thought that you would change,
I thought that I loved you.

You and my best friend
I thought I'd never see.
I hope she tasted good.
How could you do this to me.

Your words were nothing but lies.
every single one.
Stab my back and slit my wrists.
Finish the job till your done.

Panic At The Disco will be among the artists that will perform on the second season of Sundance Channel series Live From Abbey Road. Live From Abbey Road is a weekly series where musicians discuss recording and perform an intimate set at the Abbey Road studios in London. The new season premieres in June.
-patdonline

Panic At The Disco will perform at the Furia Sound Festival in Cergy-Pontoise on June 29th. They will also play at The Virgin Show in Paris on July 4th. Visit their websites for more information. Thanks to sarah.
-patdonline

It is here.  It is in my hands. It is Pretty. Odd..
No I did not acquire my deluxe edition of pretty. odd. because it didn't come in the mail on the day it was supposed to.  However, I got my copy that I'm listening to right this second....at walmart.  I await the day when I can grasp my deluxe edition in the palms of my hands.  Anyway, on to my review.

1. I'm not going to go through every single song and tell you what I like and what I dislike and how I think that pretty. odd. is an "oh-so-beatle-esque" themed try at panic finding their official sound of music.  Because I don't think any of those things.  I absolutely love Pretty. Odd..  I have heard lots of people saying how they "should have kept the style of Fever",  but I couldn't disagree more.   Don't get me wrong, I loved the style and lyrics of how things used to be, with Fever, but everyone changes.  You, me, everyone.  And no one has a problem with it.  So why should we?

2. This album is marvelous.  The lyrics, the new style, and the beautiful addition of ryan, spencer and jon's voices.  I am officially in love with it, even after stabbing myself accidentely while trying to open it.  I don't have a favorite yet, because they are all awesome.  Once I put it on my ipod we'll see which ones I listen to the most.

3. Some more awesome things:
Brendon's voice when "The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know" starts/ends sends chills up my spine.
I love how "We're So Starving" goes straight into "Nine In the Afternoon".
I love how they added brendon to "Behind The Sea".
I love ryan's voice.
I lmao when I uploaded pretty. odd. to my itunes, it kept the "!" in Panic! At The Disco. (gosh i haven't written it like that in ages)
I love the album artwork.
These songs=brilliance.

The bottom line is. This album owns me, my world, and I will be blaring it out of my speakers for eternity.  There is a defenite possibility that I will randomly quote any and every song from this masterpiece.
"But who could love me? I am out of my mind.  Throwing a line out to sea. To see if I can catch a dream."

love

Soo i came to write this short journal to state that i'm not gonna listen to the leak of pretty. odd..  Even though everyone i know has probably already listened to it, i want to save the suprise for when i get my beautiful deluxe edition.  It will be just the like that perfect Christmas when you wake up, run down the stairs, and find that red bicycle that you wrote a letter to santa for. (ok so no i never got a bike for christmas, and i don't think i've ever written a letter to santa.)  I just don't want to kill the excitement of when it arives.  And i can hold it in my hands.  And i can put it in my cd player and listen to it, without trying to get mtv to even start working.  Soo i guess that's all, haha thanks for listening.

I was tagged by tokyobound21 :D

5 things I wish for...

5. I wish I could do anything, and make it seem simple

4. I wish I knew what to do

3. I wish I could fly

2. I wish i could totally meet the members of my favorite bands :D

1. I wish i didn't have to tag 5 people. haha

I tag: jesslovespanic, ultraviolet06, ryroandbdenishot, hispanicxatxthedisco, and vanee

Ok so I just found out that you can also pre-order fall out boy's cd/dvd "**** live in Phoenix" from target.  It's also cheaper than some other sites that i've seen it on.

Everything Burns-Ben Moody ft. Anastacia
She sits in her corner
Singing herself to sleep
Wrapped in all of the promises
That no one seems to keep
She no longer cries to herself
No tears left to wash away
Just diaries of empty pages
Feelings gone a stray
But she will sing

Til everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
Til everything burns

Ooh, oh

Walking through life unnoticed
Knowing that no one cares
Too consumed in their masquerade
No one sees her there
And still she sings

Til everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns

Til everything burns
Everything burns
(Everything burns)
Everything burns
Watching it all fade away
(All fade away)
Everyone screams
Everyone screams
(Watching it all fade away)
Oooh, ooh
(While everyone screams)
Burning down lies
Burning my dreams
(All of this hate)
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
Til everything burns
(Everything burns)
Watching it all fade away
(Oooh, ooh)
(Everything burns)
Watching it all fade away

With Panic's second album hitting stores March 29, the Hot30 were stoked to drop into the Warner office to score a listen to one of only two discs in the country and give you your first taste of the record!

There’s been a lot of talk about just how different this second album is, but fans shouldn’t be too alarmed if they're willing to be adventurous. It's brilliant if you let it be.

The band may have swapped the fast-paced ‘emo’ flavour for a lusher, old school pop sound but essentially they’re the same band at heart. They still relish a clever turn of phrase and ridiculously long song titles, have a knack for turning in unlikey yet infectious pop songs and indulge their love of theatrics. Anyways, let's get into it...

1) We’re So Starving
A short and sweet guitary intro with lead singer Brendon Urie chiming in over a little pop tune – “we’ve been busy writing songs for you / You don’t have to worry, we’re the same” like the smart-arses that they are.”

2) Nine in the Afternoon
Like many of the new songs, this first single is a lot slower in tempo than their first breakaway hit, ‘I write sins not tragedies’, with a sunny procession of piano, horns, bells and strings. Nine in the afternoon? That’s crazy talk!

3) She’s a Handsome Woman
The tune kicks off a rocky guitar and a piano twinkle. Urie is in fine form here, singing bizarrely about cupboards and cookie jars. A big drum build-up rises to a rousing chorus about “filming the world before it happens” – the paparazzi maybe (?).

4) Do You Know What I’m Seeing?
Starts with film score strings before rolling into a playful, dreamy track that climaxes in a Beatles-like chorus. “I never give a damn about the weather, but it never gave a damn about me,” sings Urie.

5) The Green Gentleman
Faster and rockier, this tune is screaming out to be a single with its pacier, bouncy tempo. It sees the band wrestling with their life-changing fame and time in the spotlight with lines like “Things have changed for me… and that’s okay”.

6) I Have Friends in Holy Spaces
This two minute tune sounds like it’s being played on an old radio with a breezy island vibe over jazzy clarinet noodling. Weird but interesting.

7) Northen Downpour
A ponderous acoustic ballad that sees Urie soulfully banging on about the moon just like he does in ‘Nine in the Afternoon’ with guitarist Ryan Ross adding his vocals. He plays Beatle John Lennon to Urie’s Paul McCartney.

8) When the Day Met the Night
Another song with more moon and sun references confirms the Panic boys have been spending way too much time at the observatory! Launches into a joyous, sun-drenched chorus with trumpet blasts and swirling strings. These emos have finally cheered up!

9) Pas De Cheval
Blues guitar meets a galloping drum beat with big backing vocals and another tongue-in-cheek chorus ‘It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened / Imagine knowing me!”

10) The Piano Knows Something I Don’t
An airy-fairy Beatles-sounding track sitting on a bed of strings, until the drums creep in and it’s suddenly an explosion of light, melody and trilling horns. Picture Urie playing the lead guy in a film on a moon-lit balcony pondering love lost…

11) Behind the Sea
Bouncing along on handclaps and guitar, this tune features Ross singing once again. Then slap bang, the song turns into a fantastic dance-a-long escape. You can almost imagine the band in a can-can line doing the high kicks!

12) Folkin’ Around
Worth it just for the title alone. This short song’s country banjo and squealing fiddle sees Urie lamenting “You’ve never been more divine in accepting defeat and and I’ve never been more scared to be alone.”

13) She Had The World
Beatles! Beatles! Beatles! Indulging a ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ vibe, Urie and Ross get astrological again as they sing “When I look into their eyes, I just see the sky” over a harpsichord (?).

14) From a Mountain In the Middle of the Cabins
This colourful number has a swing in its step with horns, playful piano and double bass. It features one of the album’s best choruses – “If you’re going, go! Go go go!” You can already hear a thousand emo teenagers around the world breaking up to this.

15) Mad as Rabbits
The guitar returns for a finale with a frantic chorus about “mad as rabbits / bushels of bad habits”. Scores points for the use of the word “bushels”, the ‘doot doot’ singing and its rousing swell of voices for the climax!

Source: Hot 30 - Australia
credit to patdonline[dot]com

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the greatest thing about the realization that so many people love to hate you is the moment you step beyond the paranoia and junior high school insecurity- when you realize that it is truly liberating. you can think whatever you want or do whatever you do because people hate you beyond clicking an anonymous submit button.

i have beaten contra three times this week. only with the thirty lives though.

i have the greatest love of my life.

i am going to a couple of areas of extreme conflict in the middle east late this spring. i am anxious to hear the stories of people and bring attention to the refugees. war is over if we want it to be. change is here if we want it to be.

i want to stay in that ice hotel sometime. it seems to be one of those things i want to do before i die.

i miss hearing how youve been when we come through your town.

hope we can put it all together some day down the road. no big deal, but i do miss it for the record.

i think 90 percent of how i feel is based on my sleep patterns and the way i only sleep about three hours a night. i am going to a sleep doctor that will help me figure this all out with out the aid of narcotics. i am nervous.

you only see what i want you to.

Fall Out Boy's **** Live hits stores April 1st. Taped last June at the Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix for the 2007 Honda Civic Tour, the DVD features over one hour of live music. Also featured on the DVD are all eight Fall Out Boy music videos in chronological order, the making of “Me & You” (filmed in Uganda) and plenty of behind-the-scenes footage and out-takes from last summer’s Honda Civic Tour. The CD + DVD package includes an 18 track Live CD featuring select songs from the concert and a previously recorded, never before released studio recording of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” with John Mayer on guitar.

DVD Track Listing
Thriller
Grand Theft Autumn/ Where Is Your Boy (Gabe from Cobra Starship)
Don’t Matter (Akon cover)
Sugar, We’re Goin Down
Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued
Of All The Gin Joints In All The World
Hum Hallelujah
I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today
I’m Like A Lawyer, The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)
Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me”
Beat It (Michael Jackson cover)
Carpal Tunnel Of Love
Golden
I Write Sins, Not Tragedies (Panic! @ The Disco Cover)
This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
The Take Over, The Breaks Over
One And Only (Timbaland Cover)
Dance, Dance
Drum Solo
Saturday
credit to petewentzonline.org
CD Track Listing
Thriller
Grand Theft Autumn
Sugar, We’re Goin Down
Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued
Of All The Gin Joints In All The World
Hum Hallelujah
I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today
I’m Like A Lawyer, The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)
Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me”
Beat It (Michael Jackson cover)
Carpal Tunnel Of Love
Golden
This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
The Take Over, The Breaks Over
Dance, Dance
Saturday
credit to petewentzonline[dot]org

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