My pics from the Honda Civic Tour 4-10-08

[jenepherre]

So, the post-concert (and post-missing the meet & greet) blues are easing up a bit, and I decided to post my pictures. I kinda stopped looking at all the pics other people are posting, but I still suspect these are pretty typical. I did go through and remove most of the blurry ones, but there are still a few that I thought were worth posting despite not being perfectly in focus. There are a few pics of Phantom Planet, The Hush Sound and Motion City Soundtrack as well, but it's mostly Panic At The Disco. And although I really made an effort to get pics of all the Panic guys, the majority of them are of Brendon. You just can't take your eyes off that boy. He's got some unexplainable magnetic thing going on. Seriously.

Phantom Planet

The Hush Sound

Motion City Soundtrack

Panic At The Disco

I looked through the few video clips I did that night again, and I won't be posting any of those. They're all short little clips - no full songs at all - and none are all that great. Maybe I'll do better at the DC show. Although it's not that my camera wasn't capable of it - it's that my arms weren't. Ugh.

I sort of have little stories to tell about the show last Thursday, but... I don't feel like typing them all out. So let me just say that Eric Ronick is awesome - and TALL. And Shane Valdés (or Valdez, take your pick) is so much hotter in person. No picture I've seen of him does him justice. And he's super nice. And no - I did not ask him about being roomies with Brendon or whether or not that shower pic really is of him and Brendon or anything. Which may have been part of the reason he was so nice and so willing to talk about everything from "The Making of Pretty. Odd." DVD (which he edited in only 3 days) to the fact that he's doing the whole tour with the band (lucky bastard).

Hopefully I'll get another chance to talk to Shane and actually get Eric's autograph on my Black Gold CD and get another chance at a meet & greet with Panic - the latter being something I'm currently fighting with Artist Arena about.

Oh! You can find my scans of the tour booklet here.

So, I'm off to the Washington DC area on Saturday, and will be out there until May 24th. For those who might be wondering, my brother and his family live near DC and I made plans some time ago to go visit them this summer. They just had a new baby about a month ago, and I can't wait to see the little guy. It just worked out well that Panic is doing their DC show while I'm out there. I'm also meeting llvoncan in NYC to see the closing night show of "Antony & Cleopatra" with Randy Harrison. And we're staying really close to the Angels & Kings bar, so I'm hoping to stop by there for a drink and a photo or something (celiarosalind - want to come with me?)... but I'll only be in NYC for about 30 hours, so we'll see. If any of my other east coast friends want to try and meet up while I'm out there, let me know.

Guess that's it for now.

Comments

[shiola-shiola.livejournal.com]

shaaaaaaaaaaannneee. :[

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

What is :[ ? It looks like a frown, but why be sad? Shane is awesome! I can't help wondering about poor little Dylan though. She's without both of her daddies. :-/

[inesssy.livejournal.com]

are you going to see them again at dc ?
lucky shane !

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yep. I have 5th row center tickets for DC. And I told Shane he was lucky, getting to go on the whole tour with them. He just smiled really big. :-D

[inesssy.livejournal.com]

cool.
idk how the m&g works but.. do you know if you're having it ?

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

I'm *not* on the list for it as of right now. But I'm pestering Artist Arena to do something for me and others who missed the M&G in San Francisco, and I told them I already had tickets to the DC show. No idea if they'll get me added to the list for DC or try to make it up to me some other way. Should find out within a week or so.

[inesssy.livejournal.com]

oh, ok.
so i dont really know how it woks but aparently they're really strict on m&g but if you DO meet the band, would it be possible for you to do something for me ?
just a little sign.. like writting on a piece of paper "Hi Inês" (Inês = my name btw lol) and then ask Brendon or any of them to hold it and take a picture ? that's all i ask for.. i mean, i only ask you for at least trying to do this..
they've never been to Portugal and dont plan on coming and probably never will come so.. if you get the chance, pleaseeeee ? ^^
of course that if they only take a picture it's with you obviously but still, even if zack says that it's one picture only.. ask one of the guys for just one more holding the sign and they wont refuse it. aha
if you're not willing to help its just as good..
thanks in advanced.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

You asked me all that before. Don't you remember? Like I said before, I can't make any promises, and I *really* don't think there will be time, but if there is time, I'll try. But I don't even know yet if I'll get into the M&G. ::shrug::

[inesssy.livejournal.com]

omg, im so sorry :$
i didnt remember..
feeling really stupid right now.. sorry once again.

[blahblahologist.livejournal.com]

to the fact that he's doing the whole tour with the band

\o/

awesome pictures too!

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

But who is watching Dylan? I never would have asked him that, but really... the poor puppy is without both of her daddies. :-(

Thanks re: the pics!

[spencypants.livejournal.com]

Hi, so I thought I should ask, would you mind me quoting your bit about Shane in my Primer? All this new info that's started popping up is what I need to flesh it out a bit.

Nice photos, too.
Thanks

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Sure, if you want to. Where is your primer? I only know about the one that shiola_shiola has done.

[kingsnvagabonds.livejournal.com]

Look at me still being logged into my friends account.

My primer's not quite on the Internet yet. I signed up for Brendon/Shane at bandom_ships but I've not been answered yet so I'm going to post it at m_b_fandom my comm within the next hour or two.
It's more Shane less UrieValdez now anyway.
shiola_shiola let me steal some of her info for the basis of it.

Thanks.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

So it *is* you! I didn't think there could be 3 different people doing Shane primers. Well, I guess there could be, but redundant much?

Ironically, I just now friended your m_b_fandom comm. And was going to ask you where you found all the awesome pics from the opening of the Pearl. I've only seen one of those before.

I need to write up my other random Shane convos from last Thursday. I somehow managed to see and talk to him before, during and after the show. Total sweetheart.

Now, I must delete some of my older icons to make room for Shane and UrieValdez icons. ::nods::

[kingsnvagabonds.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me! I completely fail remembering lending my friends my laptop.

Ha, coincidence! I got them here and here some of them get nice and huge too. Me and kaytvengeance were trying to figure out when Ryan and Brendon got their tattoos based on those pics and found those 2 places.

3 times?! Cool, I just wish he'd been over here when they were last month.

There are more Shane icons in the works! I lurked his myspaces and got some more photos for the primer so I'm going to icon them too.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Whoa... thanks for the links! Motherlode.

Technically it was 4 times, because I actually walked away from him during the concert and then found him again. I had a good reason for walking away though - I was trying to get pics of Spencer on stage and you totally couldn't see him from the left side of the theater.

More Shane icons... YESSSS! Now... where can I find some good Spencer ones? Because Spencer = LOVE. He is Switzerland in this band. Am I right? I love him for that.

Oh! Random questions that I could probably find a more appropriate place to ask, but who cares since this is my journal. Ha. First - the other guy in those pics from the Pearl opening? Has anyone figured out who he is? Second - Shane's tattoo... Realm, maybe? I don't know.

[kingsnvagabonds.livejournal.com]

Ha,yeah. I love Spencer pics, that is totally reason to leave Shane for a bit! I had trouble from directly in front of him when I saw them, and he was closer than the HCT set up.

I fail with Spencer icons my laptop tells me I've made one of his hands, my M&G pic and my 2 Spencer/Brendon ones, but they're coming after Shane I've got a fair sized icon dump then on to Spence. You could cruisefueledbygraphix for them. Spencer is totally Switzerland, I love him lots.

I believe other guy is one of Ryan's friends, he seems to have lots of random friends,shiola_shiola's Shane primer says Joseph, so maybe.
I've been trying to figure Shane's tattoo out all day, I thought it said Realm (or possibly Regan that would be too cute) but in this pic it looks like REH-something.

[xluvcantsaveuo.livejournal.com]

awww.

Shane is such a sweetheart. I met him back at the free show in Atlanta in March of last year. Definitely one of the nicest guys ever.

great pictures, btw =)

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else who met Shane and thinks he's a sweetheart. :-) And glad you like the pics.

[ginsatonic.livejournal.com]

The photos are great, some really good shots there!
Thought I'd say Hi, as I'm a person of the older variety (lol) as well and tend not to go down the front at gigs anymore. Nice to know there's more of us out there behind the boys!
Shane sounds lovely and if he's doing the whole tour, does that mean we can look forward to another DVD? I certainly hope so!
*I added you as a friend, hope that's ok?

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Thanks re: the pics!

Hi! Friended you back. You should check out twentyoneoclock, although I keep forgetting to post there and so do other people apparently, so it's not very active right now.

YES - another... DVD or something is in the works. I would have mentioned it, but I can't remember the details. But it made me happy enough that I asked if I could hug him and he said "sure" and hugged me back. :-D

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Yay, have fun! I'm glad you got pictures, since I forgot I had a camera, and probably would have lost it in the pit if I had remembered, haha.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Plus, I had your purse, remember? Heh. I was walking around taking pictures and talking to Shane with 2 purses hanging off me. LOL Oh well. The pics are pretty good, and lots of other people got good pics and video clips, so I'd say the evening is well documented. :-D

Where are you? Back home? Talked to Artist Arena again this morning. They're working on it, but nothing definite yet. ::sigh:: And I have not shipped off your forgotten item yet either. Tomorrow, for sure.

(3 new icons if you want them. 2 Brendon and 1 Jon. See my user pics page, which is totally completely full now, OMG. 142 icons? How?)

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

True! I was really glad I didn't have my purse later on. Plus, Shane saw me earlier, so the reason you were carrying two was prob obvious :D :D

...He is so attractive. *distracted* What were we talking about? Oh. Artist Arena. THE ANTICHRIST. *cough* I haven't emailed them yet. I'm phrasing it in my head for maximum "I AM REALLY PISSED OFF but I am being very calm and polite, so SNAP TO AND FIX IT" effect.

*goes to look at new icons* I'm at 138, I think. And yeah, HOW did I use that many spaces?

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yep! With Eric! Eric and Shane! I wish I'd noticed what store they'd been shopping at. Eric had a cute little black shopping bag, remember? No idea where it was from though. [/ random]

When I talked to them this morning, they remembered me from having called them earlier in the week, and they also remembered that I'd given them info for my friend - meaning *you* - so you can kind of keep that in mind when writing them too. But I'd definitely pester them be persistent. ::nods::

But *where* are you? I'm guessing you're back home now, but I have no idea. Yeah, you must be. Work = regular internet access, right?

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're more outspoken than me! Now hopefully at my own concerts I won't be afraid to go up to Shane and be like "SO...What's up?"

I want to say it was from some place like Abercrombie but I can't remember. Bah.

I'm home! We got back about an hour earlier than we expected on Wednesday (BECAUSE *I* was driving the last five hours, omg my mom goes five under the speed limit and it drives me CRAZY).

Guess what Seattle was saving for me? A possible chance of SNOW. IN APRIL.

[bl00dyvalentine.livejournal.com]

What kind of camera do you have? Your pictures look pretty good. I can't wait to go through mine.

Clearly I didn't know how important Shane was when I met him. I was just all "oh this kid has my job...awesome" haha

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

hahaha When did you meet him?

I bought a new camera specifically with this concert in mind. I love it. It's a Canon Powershot A720 IS. Less than $200 at Wal-Mart, Target, etc. It also does 640x480 video clips - any length of clip you want as long as your memory card has space. And I found a 16 GB memory card for about $70 at NewEgg.com. Too bad I didn't end up taking advantage of it. Yet. But I'm really impressed with this camera.

So you pics that you'll be going through and maybe posting? Which show were you at?

[bl00dyvalentine.livejournal.com]

Sunday in Phoenix
He was hanging out backstage with the dudes and we were talking about cameras and I was insanely jealous. haha
Yeah, I had a photo pass so I'll def be posting them. Hopefully this weekend.
Does your camera have manual settings?
Were you barricade? I'm just impressed at how people are getting decent pictures with point and shoots from the pit because usually they look so crappy being all washed out or blurry or too dark, ya know?

Oh and for the record, Eric kept tossing his hacky sack at me and it hit me a couple times. hahaha

[celiarosalind.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm happy to see your HCT pictures. Some of them are really nice! For some reason the 6th PATD one is just hilarious to me. And I don't want to be sacrilegious or anything, but what is Greta wearing? And what is her piano wearing? Eeee! It seems like she's always being photographed in really cute strapless dresses, so I sort of imagined that is all she ever wears. Oh well, even if everyone in THS is wearing tablecloths and bric-a-brac for this tour, I am still very excited to see them.

And definitely let me know if you're going to Angels and Kings during your NYC whirlwind. I live in Manhattan and still haven't been there. My friends and I don't generally hang out in Alphabet City/East Village, so we never happen upon it by accident, and none of my friends like any FBR bands (sad frowny face) so no one ever wants to make the trek out just to go to a (forgive me, forgive me) bar that isn't that special if you're not into FBR. So definitely let me know, I would love to tag along! I will PM you my phone number shortly. :-)