our Blender's broken

[justtothesea]

That means I can't make a milkshake.

And oh yeah, about how fob unplugged recently... I like to think that Patrick forced Pete to quit the internet for a while and he did too just to set an example and now he's somewhere in Pete's basement comforting him and watching Back to the Future 2

Also, you didn't think I missed the internet exploding over the Blender thing, did you? Coz actually I logged in to check my f-list like yesterday or something? And there was the article, and then I read the article then I went all >:( and :'( over the article and I saw about 3 comments on icecreamhdaches at the time, then I refreshed like a minute later and there were over 100 comments, so, I decided not to touch that one...




Then Pete did this and deleted the little picture under the blender, then he did this and then this which leads me to thinking the things I said at the top, of course, because then Patrick said this, but you don't have to read all that, just know that at the bottom:

Happy New Year, and I think I'm going to retreat into my luddite tendencies and not update this site for a while. Be safe
-p.v.stump


Then Andy bitched about being portrayed as crazy on twitter, which, yeah actually I was already thinking that the interviewer took the part about him hitting the wall too seriously =/ it's like something my brother does when he exaggerates being upset over a lost soccer match on TV.

Poor Andy, I don't think you're crazy. Just, you're a bit scary looking. And Joe made me feel so bad for him :(



AND THEN THERE'S FUCKING THIS:

While the two pals catch up, Patrick Stump sits in silence, awkwardly picking at his huevos rancheros. Though he’s ostensibly Fall Out Boy’s frontman, Stump inevitably takes a backseat to Wentz both onstage and in real life. Partly it’s good for business: Their well-known division of labor (Pete writes the lyrics, Patrick the melodies) keeps Wentz’s antics front and center, while Stump is largely a blank slate—a golden-throated delivery system for someone else’s emotions, the plain white cracker to Wentz’s cheese. But it’s also a function of personality. A self-described nerd, Stump says he has “terribly low self-esteem” and shuns the spotlight whenever possible. And though he’s a gifted producer who’s been invited to make beats for superstars like Lil Wayne and Jay-Z, he always finds a way to say no. “I’m just a fat white dude from Glenview, Illinois,” he says. “As a hip-hop fan, I don’t want me doing hip-hop.”

>:'(

>:'(

Okay one, and on a more sympathetic note, this: While the two pals catch up, Patrick Stump sits in silence, awkwardly picking at his huevos rancheros. I totally get that because I am there a lot of the time and it kind of sucks a lot :( *wraps self around Patrick*

Back to anger: while Stump is largely a blank slate—a golden-throated delivery system for someone else’s emotions, the plain white cracker to Wentz’s cheese.

PATRICK AIN'T NO CRACKER, SON.

THE FACT THAT PATRICK BLOGGED ABOUT HOW HE HASN'T GOT HARD FEELINGS ABOUT THE ARTICLE EXCEPT FOR A FEW INCORRECT THINGS ASTOUNDS ME. HE IS NOT SOME BLANK SLATE, HE'S THE STRUCTURE PUTTING THE WORDS TO MUSIC THAT CAN CARRY THE MEANING, JACKASSES. IT'S BAD ENOUGH HE ALREADY FIGURED HIS ONLY ROLE IN THE BAND WAS AS THE WORKHORSE BUT NOW IT'S VALIDATED IN PRINT AND HE'LL BELIEVE IT MORE, THAT BOY'S ALREADY GOT TROUBLED THOUGHTS AND SOME SERIOUS SELF ESTEEM ISSUES TO MATCH AND YOU JUST MADE HIM FEEL JUSTIFIED ABOUT IT, BLENDER, THANKS

Also I don't like it when P.Stump calls himself fat because he's way obvious about hating himself for it. :'( IHU BLENDER

There was something in there also about Patrick Stump quitting at one stage, which, well this is what Patrick said about it after in response to what was printed:

"Did I quit the band? Did I say what appeared in the article? Of course. But followed immediately by it was something to the tune of this: I quit, until I started writing my solo songs and I realized how much I need him. My songs sucked without Pete and they were less fun to write," Stump wrote MTV News in an e-mail. "I love the guy, he's my best friend, and I realized that for all the decisions I'd ever gotten mad at him about, I likely would've done exactly the same in his position. I quit the band (as we all have, by the way, that's part of being in bands) and when I returned I resolved to keep doing this as long as all four of us were having fun."

My main thing with that is I do think that's true about the quitting and all, but I think Pete took it a lot more harshly at the time, like a ~wake-up call or something or it scared him and that's why I think it relates back to What a Catch, especially since Pete said it was written to remind him of Patrick. Or the "...said, I still want you back" and "all I can think of is the way I'm the one who charmed, the one that gave up on you" I listened to the song after and I cried ;_; I am such a girl. But yeah.

But I still love Patrick getting all defensive about people saying mean things about Pete, and

"The only reason I thought it prudent to say anything was because it never fully resolved the issue of the band's "Secret breakup," instead leaving it an open issue to confuse our audience. I've heard a lot of kids asking if the band broke up and if it is indeed still together because of the ambiguous nature of the piece and thus I decided to correct that. That's all. That's why I referred to the article as "Plotless," in an interview with MTV.com because Blender established the conflict without showing you the resolution that had already happened. My "Quitting the band," happened a couple years ago on our first trip to Australia and happened out of miscommunication. The end of the story is that Pete and I sat down and had one of those, "I thought you said this..." "Well I thought you said that..." "Well we were both misled weren't we? Let's hug and move on," kind of moments. Very sitcom. Furthermore, ask any guy in any band, they've all quit at some time (I'm sure there are exceptions, but not many). "

Sitcom ♥

Okay, last one:

"I don't like hearing Pete Wentz jabs, I also don't like hearing about how bad good music journalism is. Music is a community and should operate as such."

I couldn't be as forgiving about it. I know there are other similar-ish articles but I feel like in this one they just made everyone look like losers, which they are, but they're loveable losers.

Just, in conclusion: FUCK YOU BLENDER.

that is all

Comments

[ninatron.livejournal.com]

Awww, I'm so glad you posted this. I saw that Blender article and I was like what the fuck? and it got me all depressed and idk it was stupid and I didn't know what to think. I was starting to remember why I hated Pete so much in the first place.

I feel a bit better about it all now.

[josiemus-prime.livejournal.com]

Nina they called him a plain white cracker PATRICK IS NO ONES CRACKER.

I felt so bad for Joe :(

Ninaaa no you can't hate Pete I CAN'T BE LEFT ALONE WITH MY WHOLE NOT-HATE OF HIM

And it'll make Patrick sad if you do. :( THINK OF THE PATRICK...s

[ninatron.livejournal.com]

Ikr the Joe bit was the worst ;_;

and wtf how can Patrick still like Blender after that, that was so r00d of them.