more than you ever wanted to read about the difference between Panic!’s two 2006 national headlining tours:

so I’ve been seeing posts & videos that seem to combine the summer 2006 tour with the Nothing Rhymes With Circus arena tour at the end of the year as though they’re the same thing. they were for the same album but had totally different costumes, makeup, stage design (and size), dancers, support bands, scripts, and… well they were just completely different productions. you get it. 

these two tours were both iconic works of freaking art & deserve some major individual appreciation so let me just break them down and we can get nostalgic about something we’ll never ever see….

JUNE & JULY 2006:

Their first national headlining tour (not an arena tour) was in June & July 2006 when Spencer was 18, Ryan & Brendon were 19, and Jon was 20.

The stage had the giant moon and Moulin-Rouge-type windmill since they were hugely inspired by that movie & soundtrack. The band filmed their show in Denver and then turned it into the Live in Denver dvd for the AFYCSO box set that had the same “1920s Moulin Rouge” theme as this tour. (x) 

Panic! did a costume change halfway through each show so the main outfits for this summer were:

Jon also had a random blue shirt for the first half of some shows, but for the most part this summer followed a red/white/black theme with some GORGEOUS floral detail going on in some pieces. Brendon also had that amazing black coat with gold buttons to go with the shirt on the left:

Right after this tour the band went back to a simplified all-black or black & white look with the occasional blazers, so these costumes were mostly for that summer (except the rose vest showed up on their fall European tour). The ryhawk disappeared by the end of August, though.

Panic! had used the Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque (their name at the time) for the I Write Sins Not Tragedies video and then brought them along for this summer tour:

And then the opening bands for most of this tour were The Hush Sound & The Dresden Dolls but Ok Go and some other bands were there for a bit too.

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2006:

During their 2006 fall European tour Ryan said that their next national tour at the end of the year was “going to be our biggest tour we’ve ever done. We’re planning a lot of production on that tour. We have a drum riser that’s gonna be like 8 feet tall and look like a carousel… and then we got like 6 performers coming out… It’s just gonna be a big show and something we haven’t seen a band do.” (x)

The Nothing Rhymes With Circus tour was a Very Big Deal™ and is the one that Rolling Stone shadowed the guys during for their 2007 cover article. This was Panic!’s first headlining arena tour and went for most of November & early December. Brendon and Spencer were 19, Ryan was 20, and Jon was 21.

So this theatrical tour is where we get several versions of the puppet makeup & incredible costumes styled by Anthony Franco:

The band brought in a few elements from other tours (like their light-up name, white piano, and Brendon’s choreography in There’s A Good Reason), but most stuff was completely different. The much bigger stage was like a massive circus tent with Spencer, Eric, and Bartram up on risers:

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This just made me very nostalgic, aww 2006-2008 what a time. 

I LOVE THAT THIS FOOTAGE EXISTS

and then @blurintofocus who recorded this said on her livejournal:

and here’s Brendon making faces at Pete:

I logged back into Tumblr to research something about Rebecca Black and discovered a bunch of chatter about Panic videos which is sweet.  (However, that’s not my LJ that’s my ex’s LJ...I was so confused for a moment because I never wrote about tours on a public journal that I could remember. But back in the day she and I were like the same person so it’s fitting to be assumed the same person I guess!  And I did go to 7 shows on this tour, and then like 8 on the next, and a lot of other shows.  I should publish the big list of every show I’ve seen and my thoughts that’s somewhere on a google drive someday)

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Argue your case in this game of dubious crimes. It’s Clue meets Cards Against Humanity.  Detective Bullshit, now funding on Kickstarter.

Tabletop enthusiasts! Some friends of mine have decided that Clue and Cards Against Humanity should have a ridiculous love child, and this game is it. Check it out and back it and what not! A certain trivia hosting drag queen may or may not be suspected of heinous crimes herein. 

This is my game.  

This game and the promise behind the funding of it for creating a gaming company means the world to me.

But what’s even better is seeing friends be great voices to amplify our dreams. xo

BANDOM GOTHIC

credit rubdown​​ mostly and also me

I choked.

So, in my art history class today, my professor was talking about something that is so fuckin awesome.

These are warrior shields from the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea. The warriors paint them with imagery meant to symbolize animals who have traits they wish to embody in battle. These depictions are intended to give the person using it the powers of what they’re depicting.

Now. Look at this Wahgi shield:

Hmm. That looks a bit different from the others.

That looks VERY different. Why, it looks like

The Phantom… American comic book character by Lee Falk. And that’s because it is.

The Wahgi people were isolated from the rest of the “modern” world until 1933. They came into contact with WWII service men who shared some aspects of western culture with the tribesmen. In particular, they showed them the comic books they read while shipped out. The Wahgi loved them. In particular, the Wahgi adored the stories of the Phantom, who wasn’t even particularly popular in its home of America.

He is so popular that the few Wahgi who can read english will read the comics out loud in the village center and hold out the pages for everyone to see, so the whole tripe can enjoy them and marvel at the Phantom’s might in battle.

They identify with the Phantom because he came from a jungle territory, like them, wore a mask to fight, like them, and came from a long line of warriors, which the Wahgi, who worshiped their ancestors, deeply respected. Further, despite not really having superpowers, the Phantom is strong, clever, and incredibly fast. He was so fast that his enemies began to believe that he was impervious to bullets and could not be killed.

Therefore, the Wahgi began painting HIM on their shields to invoke HIS abilities in battle. There are TONS of Phantom-Wahgi shields out there.

So, you might think that you’re huge comic book fan, but the Wahgi have taken their Phantom fandom to the next level and have made the Phantom a fucking talisman to carry into battle for strength.

Fucking rad

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“The correct answer here is "lead,” but I like how ambitious he is.”

“Well, that’s the thing about Jonathan Groff- he curses like a sailor.” - Lin-Manuel Miranda

So Staff tried to make a “fun” joke out of using the (problematic) new reblog system, but the better joke is if you go to this link on the staff blog the old system is still there (because the ugly reblog structure only exists in Dashboard, not on posts.) So everything is broken even more, since jokes in one format don’t even hold or translate when applied to another format, both of which are automatic on the site, albeit in different parts.

im sorry but she just looks soo good

SWEET TEARS

THIS SHOOT IS BEYOND

This shoot is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

However unflattering the old design may be, Tumblr users have adapted to it and used it in their blogging over the years. The update, according to Tumblr, will work retroactively to all posts on the dashboard, but will leave posts on individual blog posts in their original form, “for now.” The update also removed the ability to delete one part of a thread and leave the rest intact. Users must eliminate all of the captions, or leave them all.

Tumblr users have been posting their reactions to the update on the site, overwhelmingly unfavorably.

A new reblog update is coming Tumblr, beware.

This is my fucking life in a nutshell

Once at a 9 hour flight from Paris to Tokyo I had offered the guy sitting next to me a Finnish candy, Sisu (kinda like salty liquorice but not, but also not liquorice with menthol but kinda like?) He then showed me something, roughly the size of a breath mint. So I took it and put it in my mouth, because hey, they ate my Finnish Black Bomb so I’m going to taste their French Thingy.

Except it wasn’t a candy. In fact it was nothing edible. It was a fossil they wanted to show me. I just put a fossil in my mouth. Somebody else’s fossil.

It’s been 12 years and I’m still mortified.