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I can't believe I've been at this job for a month (maybe more than a month? August, how are you ALMOST OVER?), and I only just yesterday discovered that it's totally okay, even encouraged, to listen to my iPod while walking the dogs. Turns out that my job is 80% more tolerable when I can ask the pit bulls and bulldogs if they've heard that I'm the new cancer, and that I've never looked better. (And now you're totally imagining Brendon singing to Hobo. Or well, if you're me you are.)

So while walking the dogs and listening to said iPod, Cupid's Chokehold came up, and it's really amazing how much I still adore that song beyond all reason. The guitar works against Travis and Patrick's voice *so* well! And that's something I've noticed in most GCH songs, actually: the guitar usually has this lilting, sweet quality, almost like it's acting as the feminine counterpoint, a female voice to balance the masculine Travis puts into most of his rapping, especially in As Cruel As School Children. Anyway, so one of the lines in the last verse jumped out at me and reminded me of something in this Frank/Bob story gigantic and I have been writing. I immediately texted Ceej to share the lulz, and our resulting conversation is still cracking me up. Because the lyrics totally fit if you're a Frank/Bob tinhat like us! Of course Frank's a ten! Frank has the cutest laugh Bob has ever heard! When Bob starts to build his future, Frank's the main component! (Because of Frank's BAND, get it get it?) Now I dearly want video of Bob karaoke-ing this song. He can sing Patrick's parts and Gerard can do the rap. \o/

I've also found that I can't stop listening to Kanye West's Stronger. You'd think I would be sick of it, considering how often it's played on the radio over here, but no. The chorus and the samples and the beats are kind of crazily addictive, but I'm really not nuts about the lyrics. His new album is coming out, and I don't know, I'm a bit ambivalent--I don't want any more songs from him about how famous he is, man, that's getting boring. What I really loved about College Dropout was the diversity of subject matter, all the different things he chose to make songs about. I mean, working at the gap? College? Jesus? Materialism? I kind of feel like he started out focusing on lyrics and the subject matter of his songs, and now he's focusing more on the producing side. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but it would be nice if he could keep the production values up and still write decent rhymes.

I always feel a little embarrassed at how much I love Kanye, considering how very much his ego does not need help at all. But he was one of the artists that got me into hip-hop, and gah, I really hope Graduation does not disappoint.

Unrelatedly, this fandom has made me feel weirdly protective of my writing. I've just found myself being very possessive of all the stories I've written, very wary of anyone else playing around with those same ideas--which is stupid, right, because hello, we're all writing fanfiction here! It's not something I've really felt in other fandoms, and it makes me uncomfortable because it's so irrational. I'm even kind of possessive about ideas. I read that bexless was opening her fic ideas post up to anyone who was in need of ideas to write, and totally fretted for a bit about people taking my ideas omg! before I realized how silly I was being. If I didn't want anyone to write about stuff I had thought of, duh, I shouldn't have commented in the first place, and if I don't want other people to take concepts in my writing and run with them, I shouldn't post stories to the internet, hello. :/ I'm trying to curb the possessive urge because it--correctly--makes me feel like a total asshole.