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You know how sometimes a chance you're really not sure you want drops into your lap, and you hem and haw and decide to take it anyway? A couple of months ago (it seems like it anyway) miss_begonia texted me and asked if I wanted a ticket to see My Chemical Romance. At the time I was a big fan of Na Na Na Na and Sing, but had discovered I really didn't like Three Cheers or Black Parade when I tried listening to them this summer. I really really wanted to like them though, so I decided to take the ticket, and work in the weeks I had before the concert on becoming a fan of MCR's music as well as the band and the fic. IT TOTALLY WORKED. By today I liked or loved all the songs on all three albums (I never got hold of Bullets) except for one, which considering my starting point, was pretty good going, I thought.

Worth every single second of listening. The gig was absolutely AMAZING. Getting the shallow bit out of the way first: Gerard Way has an amazing ass, and Mikey Way is the hottest lesbian since Tommy Joe Ratliff. I do not understand how Frank didn't melt into a puddle or burst into flame, given he was wearing a thermal shirt under a polo shirt and a grandpa sweater and jumping around like a lunatic under the lights that were making Gerard sweat until it poured off him. Ray Toro seems, from the little I could see around the head of the girl in front of me, to be amazing from head to toe. Gerard also is beautiful and has entrancing fingers, and the most amazing hip-cock pose ever. He's fucking royalty, and a tremendous presence on stage.

emilytheodd was so so awesome and went upstairs to the coatcheck and got me earplugs after the first opening act, because it felt like my ears were bleeding. They made the Neon Trees and My Chem much better than they would have been without. I could hear the words!

There were several songs I was really hoping they would play, and they did play almost all of them. Na Na Na and Sing and Mama, and Famous Last Words, and Gravity, and Vampire Money, and Helena, and Cancer, and some I can't remember the names of right now because it's 12:20 and I just had a fucking amazing night. We were right in the center, on the third tier of the floor, and the sound was fantastic. We started out with lokte and me second row behind the barrier and miss b and emily in third row. The girl next to me was not only not dancing at all, she was bitching about the fact that I was dancing because it jostled her camera. I really wanted to punch her in the throat, which was not awfully conducive to my having a great time. I was also dying of heat. Fortunately, about five songs in, emily wanted to stand in front of me (I'd offered several times) and that worked out great. I am tall enough I could still see perfectly, I wasn't next to irritating girl, and i was standing literally ON an airconditioning vent. WIN/WIN.

Extra added bonus, the venue is like ten minutes from my house.

I feel like whole new worlds of music have been opened up to me in the last 18 months or so as a direct result of fandom, and I really love it a lot.

Speaking of fandom, I need to thank mistresscurvy for her encouragement in my learning curve that led to tonight. You made this not only much more fun, but more possible. Fangirls--all of you--really are the best ever.