Are you still a fanboy or fangirl?

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And is the member of the opposite sex the primary focus thereof? i.e. me and Sleater Kinney.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 28 November 2002 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Might be. What do you mean by fanboy exactly? Saying they're insanely super great even when they're not and drooling uncontrollably?

(you've confused i.e. with e.g. BTW)

― meirion john lewis (mei), Thursday, 28 November 2002 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah bollix, it's almost 1am here.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 28 November 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Saying they're insanely super great even when they're not and drooling uncontrollably?

That, plus spending like $40 on posters and T-shirts and stickers and a concert. And hatching schemes to marry Carrie.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 28 November 2002 09:06 (twenty-three years ago)

*cough*I travelled to Portugal and Spain to follow a Radiohead tour around. (I live in Chicago)*cough*

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I too travelled to Portugal to see Radiohead, i live in Scotland though. As far as fangirliness, i was all a quiver when i saw Girls against Boys again a few weeks ago, they really are the most handsome band you could ever hope to see.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim H to thread!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a britney calender.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

still a fangirl for the Cure.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 28 November 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an Iggy and the Stooges calendar... this amused me more than anything else on earth, so I had to have it.

I really secretly wanted a Strokes calendar, but they don't appear to actually make any. Chiz.

Yes, I am still a fangirl, and I always will be. Music and sex are so utterly linked, it's stupid to pretend that sexual thrill is not a part of the enjoyment of music. It's not the ONLY thrill, or else, fuck, I might actually start LISTENING to the Strokes or something, but yes, it's a part of it.

Does this make me a teenybopper? Errrrrmmmmm... maybe. Who is to say that one person's enjoyment is any better/worse than another person's enjoyment? Blah blah blah...

― kate, Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay then, I'm a fanboy.

When I had very little money I nearly paid £150 to see Bjork play.
I _didn't_ in the end pay that money, but that's because the tickets had sold out in five minutes and I only remebered ten minutes after they went on sale.

But I would've.
And I kicked myself that I didn't.

― meirion john lewis (mei), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I once bought a scalper a leather jacket on my M/C in trade for two front row Radiohead tickets.

Worth every penny.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

That poor cow that died for your Radiohead tickets!!

My brother loves Radiohead so much he paid for my ticket so he'd have someone to go with, haha. twice...haha

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

*joins the S-K unreasonable idolization club*

― jm, Friday, 29 November 2002 04:58 (twenty-three years ago)

my fanboy days ended the day "legal man" was released. that's not entirely true, but I can't imagine ever adoring a band the way i did B&S circa 97-98.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 29 November 2002 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

$150. Janet Jackson. Heavenly.

― cybele, Friday, 29 November 2002 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I spent $133 that I didn't actually have on a Björk ticket, as well.

In addition to travelling to Portugal and Spain, I also have gone to Los Angeles and Oxford to see Radiohead.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 29 November 2002 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I get nervous even when I meet celebrities that I don't like. I met Kenny Burrell after a horrible show at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, and I gushed uncontrollably about how he was the best thing ever, loved his stuff, etc, etc. It was pathetic.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 29 November 2002 06:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I only paid $10 to see The Cure at the Kilburn National back in '92 (no fanboyness at all, obv) but I did refuse to sell it for 200 pounds - an absolutely unheard-of amount of money to my 16 year-old self - just before the doors opened (stoopid fanboy obsessive foolishness).

And I hitched a ride from Hamburg to Munster with a fucking psycho to see Pulp in '95. Silly. But it rocked.

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 29 November 2002 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

A long, long time ago, when I went to see Blur at some little tiny club in NYC, around the time of Parklife, when they were selling out Mile End at home, some random British people offered me something like $200 for my ticket. I told them to fuck off, har har har, and I'm glad that I did.

― kate, Friday, 29 November 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have you all beat.

Fifteen years ago, I got my hair permed. For some reason, I figured that the people at TEC Tones (i.e, Ralph Records) would like to see it. (I was buying about $100+ worth of records from them a month then.) Did I take a picture of myself with my new hairstyle and send it to them? Nope. I did a much more pathetic thing. I cut off a lock of my hair, taped it to my next order, and sent it in. I got a letter back saying something like, "Be careful with your hair! Someone might cast voodoo on you. This is going up on our office walls." So if you were ever in the TEC Tones/Esoteric Music Group offices and saw a hank of curly brown hair on the wall, that was mine.

As you may have guessed, I wasn't exactly in a normal state of mind in my late teens.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 29 November 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

The word "fanboy" just entered Merriam-Webster. It's dated to 1919!

― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

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