Brooke's Random Thoughts

totalfilm: Katniss strikes a pose in new poster for The Hunger...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:31:26 -0400

Katniss strikes a pose in new poster for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

We haven’t heard much from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire for a little while, so it’s nice to see Lionsgate keeping things ticking over with the release of a cool new poster for the upcoming sequel…

Mutual attraction.

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:22:23 -0400

Mutual attraction.

Hypothetically speaking

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:29:45 -0400

I have this job. It’s a great job. I love it most of the time. I’ve been there for almost 2 years. At times I wish my position would advance, but that doesn’t seem to be in my cards right now. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about benefit packages and how I could get one that suits me best. Does it hurt to ask? But I don’t want to risk my position. Should I just take the first benefit and see what happens? I don’t know. Or maybe I’m not the type of person that needs a benefit package until I’m in a full time career position…but everyday the benefit package becomes more and more appealing…conflicted.

fueledbyramen: We’re kicking this week off with lyrics from The...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:15:15 -0400

fueledbyramen:

We’re kicking this week off with lyrics from The Stereo. ‘Problems’ is from the band’s 1999 release, Three Hundred.

We’ve got lots of problems
We’ve got the rest of our whole lives to figure out
What to do with all the starry nights

I’m pretty sure I finally got my answer…

Sun, 12 May 2013 03:53:52 -0400

I’m pretty sure I finally got my answer…

community101: Welcome to Our Home - Community 4.13

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:55:00 -0400

community101:

Welcome to Our Home - Community 4.13

community101: I’m Not That Guy Anymore - Community 4.13

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:54:55 -0400

community101:

I’m Not That Guy Anymore - Community 4.13

Photo

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:26:28 -0400

buckhollywood: My Dr Pepper campaign starts today! I will...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:48:57 -0400

buckhollywood:

My Dr Pepper campaign starts today!

I will follow back everyone who re-blogs! Please share!

And ENTER to win my sweepstakes - a new HD camera and a custom What the Buck show about YOU! ENTER HERE!

community101: Jeff’s Graduation - Sneak Peek for Community...

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:54:42 -0400

community101:

Jeff’s Graduation - Sneak Peek for Community 4.13, “Advanced Introduction to Finality” - airing tonight.

Well that was a surprise of a blind date. You’re also psycho and I kinda love that. Also our...

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:36:55 -0400

Well that was a surprise of a blind date. You’re also psycho and I kinda love that. Also our faces weren’t inches apart this time…they were touching…but not our lips…yet…

community101: Tango and Cash - Sneak Peek for Community 4.13,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 03:10:11 -0400

community101:

Tango and Cash - Sneak Peek for Community 4.13, “Advanced Introduction to Finality” - airing May 9, 2013.

fueledbyramen: Fun.: One Foot (Lyric Video) Converse just...

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:32:16 -0400

fueledbyramen:

Fun.: One Foot (Lyric Video)

Converse just premiered their new Fun. lyric video for ‘One Foot’ from their album, Some Nights. Watch it above and click HERE to download the album on iTunes!

Want to win the sneakers from the video? Check out facebook.com/converse tomorrow to find out how.

fueledbyramen: Fall Out Boy: Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your...

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:32:08 -0400

fueledbyramen:

Fall Out Boy: Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy

We thought we’d end our day the same way it started - with a tribute to the 10th birthday of Fall Out Boy’s debut album, Take This To Your Grave. This album was a huge turning point in the history of Fueled By Ramen and the introduction of Fall Out Boy to music fans around the world.

I remember driving around Gainesville, Florida with Punchline and Fall Out Boy listening to the master of the album for the first time. It felt like the start of something big but I don’t think any of us knew just how big the band and their music would become.

Now 10 years since the album’s release, our friends at Property Of Zack have posted a great article on the impact and legacy of Take This To Your Grave - read it HERE.

“It’s timeless. And much like the music, the themes of the album - heartbreak, nostalgia, and youthful optimism - never go out of style.”

Happy birthday Take This To Your Grave from all of us here at Fueled By Ramen!

Adam

This is one of my favorite songs & music videos of ALL time.

Patrick Stump: I Was a Teenage Fall Out Boy

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:30:59 -0400

Patrick Stump: I Was a Teenage Fall Out Boy:

nervousbreakdance:

Ten years ago today, my band released our debut album Take This To Your Grave. We were just four unsuspecting Midwestern nerds named after a moderately obscure Simpsons character, living life like the background characters in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. We were totally unprepared for everything that followed.

Up to that point in the band’s history, we were merely something to do before we were forced to give in to the pressures of real life. We saw ourselves as a pretty cool excuse for a semester off of college. My accountant mother was also the ex-wife of a musician (my dad in point of fact). She knew empirically the odds weren’t in our favor and wisely advised me to consider planning on getting a real job. Instead of taking her advice, I went ahead and recorded an album.

Take This To Your Grave began as a demo…a supremely lucky long shot lightning strike of a demo. The band was a fractured and seemingly futureless mess at the time; No drummer, having also freshly lost our most recent of many revolving door rhythm guitarists. We had all entertained the thought that our collective candle for our little pop-punk odyssey was about to flicker out when the great Sean O’keefe offered to record us. We discussed a three song demo to be recorded at the legendary Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin. We thought “What the hell? Why not?” We didn’t even have three new songs to record, but who doesn’t love a hearty bluff?

I remember writing “Homesick at Spacecamp,” on the plane home from visiting family only days before the session.

We’d asked our friend Andy Hurley to play drums on it. He said yes…granted he could make it to Madison in time after tracking an entire album earlier that day for another band in Chicago. I actually checked drums with Sean, under the assumption that I’d have to play them. We were literally about to start my first take of “Dead On Arrival,” when in walked Andy.

I guess in a lot of ways, in walked the actual beginning of Fall Out Boy as well; From that point onward, Joe, Andy, Pete, and I were a proper band. The three songs we recorded in what felt like two days (“Dead on Arrival,” “Homesick at Spacecamp,” and “Saturday,”) would go on to become three of our most enduring, and certainly the first time any of us heard ourselves in speakers and went “Huh! We definitely don’t suck!”

It laid the groundwork for many “Huh! We don’t suck!” Moments to follow on our four subsequent albums.

So here we are, ten years, two gold and two platinum albums, three MTV VMAs, a couple Kerrang awards, and a Grammy nomination later. Hell, we just had our second Billboard number one album a couple weeks ago! I guess I can say this now: Mom, I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’m getting a real job.

Thanks to everybody who’s supported us over the years. It continues to be a crazy ride.

Love, Patrick

fueledbyramen: On May 6th, 2003, Fueled By Ramen released Fall...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:05:29 -0400

fueledbyramen:

On May 6th, 2003, Fueled By Ramen released Fall Out Boy’s debut full-length album, Take This To Your Grave. In honor of today’s 10-year anniversary, here are lyrics from ‘Homesick At Space Camp.’

Tonight the headphones will deliver you the words that I can’t say.
Tonight I’m writing you a million miles away.

I keep telling myself that it’s just a bad dream. I’ll wake up soon and everything will...

Mon, 06 May 2013 03:05:31 -0400

I keep telling myself that it’s just a bad dream. I’ll wake up soon and everything will go back to the way it was. Back when times were simpler.

community101: Meant to Be Together - Community 4.12

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:14:22 -0400

community101:

Meant to Be Together - Community 4.12

fueledbyramen: Gym Class Heroes: Under The Bridge (Red Hot...

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:14:15 -0400

fueledbyramen:

Gym Class Heroes: Under The Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers Cover)

This week’s Sunday Night Music Club song comes from Gym Class Heroes. It’s their cover of ‘Under The Bridge’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers that originally appeared on the Punk Goes 90’s compilation released by Fearless Records.

I drive on her streets ‘cause she’s my companion.
I walk through her hills ‘cause she knows who I am.
She sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy.
I never worry. Now that is a lie.

"Chris: Look Jamie. I said a lot of crappy things the other night and I’m sorry about that. The..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 01:24:19 -0400

“Chris: Look Jamie. I said a lot of crappy things the other night and I’m sorry about that. The truth is, I’m scared to be your friend, because I’m always going to want more. But then I got to thinking that I would rather have you in my life as a friend than not at all.
Chris: [Jamie opens her door] You know that’s a lie too.
Jamie Palamino: [Comes outside and closes her door] Why are you back here?
Chris: Because I want to take you on a date. And I don’t care if it’s in the day, or at night, or whenever, as long as it’s a real date. And I wanna tell you how beautiful I think you are. Inside and out. And I wanna have babies with you, and I wanna marry you, and I love you Jamie. I always have.
Chris: [Chris leans in and kisses her. Jamie accepts this for a second and pulls back] Sorry. Twenty years all at once, just blah!
[Jamie laughs. Chris leans in and kisses her again]”

- Just friends