#from the mods

mods-at-the-disco:

Hey, everyone… Mod C here. In case you don’t know, I’m the primary moderator of @pathetic-at-the-disco,@underappreciated-at-the-disco, and @psychopath-at-the-disco. I’m the one who writes our text posts, makes videos, and queues up the majority of our other posts.

I wanted to let you all know that I’ve been dealing with serious health issues all year and they just got abruptly worse. Yesterday, I had to go to the ER and was hospitalized overnight. Now, it turns out that I have to go in for major surgery this Friday (5/24). It’s going to be a long and difficult recovery. Thankfully, I have my best friends irl, Mods M and B, to help me out and stay with me (and I’m still on my dad’s health insurance plan). That being said, we may not be able to plan/write posts or be updated in the fandom for awhile.

We’re going to continue our weekly photo series of Brendon Monday,Spencer Tuesday,Jon Thursday, and Ryan Fridayforat least the time being, and we’re going to hopefully post content about Ryan’s upcoming appearance at Z Berg’s Prom. Other than that, The Tragic Love Life of Ryan Ross will continue to be on hiatus. Sorry if any of you are disappointed.

When starting this blog, I never even dreamed that we’d have thousands of followers (or that they’d be so nice). We love you all more than words, and I am definitely looking forward to getting better and making more content for all of you. <3

Love,
Mod C

P.S. Thank you to 8000 followers on @pathetic-at-the-disco, 6500 on @underappreciated-at-the-disco, and 2000 on @psychopath-at-the-disco!!!

Mod C here again! I’m thankfully out of the hospital. My operation couldn’t have gone better, I’m healing very rapidly, and I was even lucky enough to be discharged early. :)

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes and good vibes!

Love,
Mod C

Hey, everyone… Mod C here. In case you don’t know, I’m the primary moderator of @pathetic-at-the-disco,@underappreciated-at-the-disco, and @psychopath-at-the-disco. I’m the one who writes our text posts, makes videos, and queues up the majority of our other posts.

I wanted to let you all know that I’ve been dealing with serious health issues all year and they just got abruptly worse. Yesterday, I had to go to the ER and was hospitalized overnight. Now, it turns out that I have to go in for major surgery this Friday (5/24). It’s going to be a long and difficult recovery. Thankfully, I have my best friends irl, Mods M and B, to help me out and stay with me (and I’m still on my dad’s health insurance plan). That being said, we may not be able to plan/write posts or be updated in the fandom for awhile.

We’re going to continue our weekly photo series of Brendon Monday,Spencer Tuesday,Jon Thursday, and Ryan Fridayforat least the time being, and we’re going to hopefully post content about Ryan’s upcoming appearance at Z Berg’s Prom. Other than that, The Tragic Love Life of Ryan Ross will continue to be on hiatus. Sorry if any of you are disappointed.

When starting this blog, I never even dreamed that we’d have thousands of followers (or that they’d be so nice). We love you all more than words, and I am definitely looking forward to getting better and making more content for all of you. <3

Love,
Mod C

P.S. Thank you to 8000 followers on @pathetic-at-the-disco, 6500 on @underappreciated-at-the-disco, and 2000 on @psychopath-at-the-disco!!!

We have no idea what happened yesterday. 

Sorry for the interruption!

We hope everyone had a wonderful April Fools day!

~Mods C, M, and B

While putting away Christmas decorations, Mod M and I stumbled across an old wooden box containing figurines of the Three Magi from Christian mythology, and, well….

We didn’t plan this, we swear!!! (Nor are our real names Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar… or are they?)

~Mod Caspar

Hey everyone! The three tea giveaways are now closed! We’re going to tally up everyone’s entries and draw the winners, who will be announced later!

We’ll be sending out PMs to ask for the shipping addresses for the winners after they’re drawn!

Thank you to everyone that’s participated in these! They were a lot of fun! 

P.S. HAPPY 1 YEAR BLOG ANNIVERSARY! 

~Mod M

My dad told me that he only recently figured out the difference between Fall Out Boy and Nickelback.

~Mod C

Hey everyone! To celebrate almost a FULL YEAR of being on these blogs, we’re doing giveaways of some of your custom tea blends! And who doesn’t like TEA?

All of the details, including ingredients, are in the individual posts, so check those out!

• Ryan’s Tea
• Jon & Spencer’s Teas
  
• Brendon’s Tea

A big thanks to everyone who’s stuck with these blogs and we look forward to a lot of fun in the future!

~Mods C, M, and B

pathetic-at-the-disco:

psychopath-at-the-disco:

First, what is MBTI?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, is a popular personality test that divides people into 16 potential types, based on four dichotomies (Introversion vs. Extroversion, Intuition vs. Sensing, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving). These can be further broken down into “cognitive functions”, which are essentially interchangeable building blocks that form the 16 types. Here is a page explaining MBTI and cognitive functions for beginners, which I highly recommend checking out if you’re new to this.

Now, onto the scheduled program…

Brendon Urie is an ESFP.

Here are some basic descriptions of the ESFP (which stands for Extrovert-Sensor-Feeler-Perceiver):

“Entertainer” ESFP

Spontaneous, energetic, and enthusiastic people—life is never boring around them. (x)

ESFP - The Performer

People-oriented and fun-loving, they make things more fun for others by their enjoyment. Living for the moment, they love new experiences. They dislike theory and impersonal analysis.  Interested in serving others. Likely to be the center of attention in social situations. Well-developed common sense and practical ability. (x)

ESFPs are vivacious entertainers who charm and engage those around them. They are spontaneous, energetic, and fun-loving, and take pleasure in the things around them: food, clothes, nature, animals, and especially people. ESFPs are typically warm and talkative and have a contagious enthusiasm for life. They like to be in the middle of the action and the center of attention. They have a playful, open sense of humor, and like to draw out other people and help them have a good time. (x)

Does all of that sound like someone?

Let’s break it down into more detail…

Keep reading

This won’t be here permanently (since this post isn’t Ryan-related), but we wanted to share this with you all! It’s the first installment of our new series analyzing the MBTI types of pre-split Panic. :)

~Mod C

pathetic-at-the-disco:

Ever since Panic at the Disco dropped their iconic Halloween anthem in the fall of 2008, fans have been burning with questions: Why did they decide to do a Halloween song? Why did they dress up as monsters? Who are the people at the Halloween party? Who directed the music video?

It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, there are answers to all of these questions and more, lurking just out of sight of the mainstream fandom. But with some digging, they inevitably reveal themselves.

PART 1: The Song

I think we can all agree that only Panic at the Disco would write an ominous-sounding surf rock jam about hooking up with a stranger, thinly disguised as a Halloween song. Even the rather offbeat idea of a “Halloween song” in the first place is perfectly aligned with Panic’s spooky, mysterious, costumey image.

The boys of P!atD would seemingly agree with this statement, as confirmed in a recent Rocksound interview with Spencer Smith:

Rocksound: How did you all land on the idea to write a Halloween song?
Spencer: It was our version of doing a Christmas song. Halloween definitely fit Panic! better at that time, and with Halloween you don’t have to compete with Mariah Carey and Josh Groban.

-Spencer as quoted in Rocksound, October 2018

A Halloween song does make perfect sense for the band’s aesthetic (which is also undoubtedly why they had previously covered “This Is Halloween” in 2006).

According to the same interview with Spencer, there were a few more reasons why the band wrote “It’s Almost Halloween”:

“We were really just trying to have fun. Doing something less composed and orchestrated felt different and unexpected for us at that point. Also, around that time Ryan [Ross] was wanting to sing more, so doing that on a casual, fun song seemed like a low pressure way to ease into it.”

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

Butwhen did they write it?

The answer lies in the now-defunct Tumblr account of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker: weresoblogging.com. The blog may be long gone, but someone thankfully stored most of it in the Internet Archive, also known as the Wayback Machine, where it can still be read and accessed today.

Sometime between October 9 and October 22 of 2008, either Ryan or Jon made a mysterious post with only two words:

So while we cannot pinpoint the date definitively, the song was definitely written in early-to-mid October.

The whole process of writing and recording the song was rather hurried and a bit slapdash, as the boys were trying to do everything while on tour, even, as Spencer mentions, using bathrooms as their recording studio at times.

Rocksound: Zack Hall has previously shared that ‘It’s Almost Halloween’ was recorded in a bathroom—is that true? And if so, why?!
Spencer:I believe some parts were. Definitely the vocals. That’s purely a result of being on tour and having to make the most of what you have to work with. Backstage dressing rooms often aren’t as glamorous as they sound. Sometimes you’re playing a hockey rink and your dressing room is the visitors locker room, but the weird echo from the tile may add a cool effect to a vocal recording.

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

Unsurprisingly, it didn’t take them very long to write, record, film, and release the whole thing. As Spencer said, the process of recording to shooting the video only took “a week to 10 days.”

Speaking of the video…

PART 2: The Video

The video for “Its Almost Halloween” is Iconic and one of Panic’s best music videos. Its quirky, upbeat, and feels like a funny home video—which is kind of what it is.

Not a lot about the production of the video is known, in general. The director of the video is absent from the Wikipedia page, and there are no other credits for those who worked on the video outside of the band.

However, with a little bit of sleuthing with our old friend, the Wayback Machine, we can see that the boys did it all: the camera work, costumes, choreography, everything, entirely by themselves.

This was posted before Halloween on weresoblogging:

So, the boys did it all themselves, but how? Let’s start with the basics, such as: where did they film the video?

According to the recent Spencer interview, the forested parts of the video were filmed in Defiance, Missouri:

“It was in Defiance, Missouri outside of St. Louis. In a state park or some large conservation area. We found it on a previous day off when we rented a van, all piled in, and drove around scouting for a forested area.”

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

Interestingly enough, this was also where Jon and Ryan wrote The Young Veins song “Defiance”, after they were inspired by seeing the name of the song printed on a bridge. This shows the artistic mindset that Ryan and Jon were in during this time that eventually turned into the jangly, 60′s-ish, surf-rock sound of The Young Veins.

(You can also tell this was around the same time as the “It”s Almost Halloween” video because of Spencer’s silly mustache.)

The other location that was featured in the video, the costume party, was filmed in the band’s dressing room, which was suitably decorated. The people in those scenes were actually the other bands they were on tour with and their friends:

“We were on tour with the Plain White Ts and The Cab, and we told everyone on the tour to come to our dressing room and bring anyone they could find. So, while it looks great, I honestly don’t know half the people there.”

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

As for the decorations, they were actually provided by fans! Jon and Ryan put out an S.O.S. on their Tumblr looking for people to bring Halloween decorations and stuff to their October 19th concert in St. Louis, MO. Here is the actual post;

At this point, they only needed costumes and choreography.

Speaking of costumes, where did the costumes come from and how did they pick them? Well, again, Spencer has an answer:

“After we scouted the forest we drove the van to a Party City and each picked out our costumes. I think we decided on the spot at the store which costumes to wear.”

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

Curiously, it appears that three of the four specific monsters may not have been completely random, as they reference a recurring nightmare from Ryan’s childhood:

“I used to have [a nightmare] that was really strange when I was young, because I hadn’t seen that many scary movies. I was walking through a jungle and there was always Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man walking around too. I don’t remember what happened; I just remember that they were always there.“

-Ryan Ross as quoted in Rocksound, December 2008

This revelation, only a month or so after “It’s Almost Halloween” (which he later references in the same article), makes the choice of costumes for Ryan’s three bandmates much more intriguing.

Now, how about those sickening dance moves?

When we first began writing this article in early October 2018, it was completely unknown as to who choreographed the video—although we were going to speculate that Brendon (who had the most dance experience and seemed the most at ease in the video) probably had the biggest influence.

Then, Spencer’s interview was released, which clarified things somewhat and made our jobs ten times easier overall.

Rocksound:Who choreographed the sick dance section, and how much rehearsing did that take?
Spencer:We made it all up on the spot. Probably spent 10 or 15 minutes putting a little routine together. Outside of Brendon, dancing was not our specialty, and that’s apparent, but it was supposed to feel off the cuff and funny to a certain extent, so it fit the feel of the concept.

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

The finished video went live on the internet just in time for Halloween, and was of course plugged on weresoblogging:

PART 3: The Show

On the night of October 31, 2008, Panic at the Disco ascended the stage in Fairfax, VA dressed in their costumes from the video and surprised all the fans by replacing “We’re So Starving” and “Nine in the Afternoon” in their setlist with “It’s Almost Halloween”.

The process of recording “It’s Almost Halloween”, filming the video, and performing it live was apparently a surreal experience for Ryan:

Rocksound: What’s the most bizarre thing that’s ever happened to you?
Ryan: Doing the video for “It’s Almost Halloween” may not be the most bizarre thing ever, but it’s the most recent bizarre thing. We put it up on YouTube for Halloween and I’m dressed in a mummy costume. I was onstage for our whole Halloween show dressed in nude spandex and rags. I can’t believe I wore that outfit in front of a couple of thousand people for an hour.

-Ryan, Rocksound 2008

The show must not have left a lasting impact on Spencer, however, because he interestingly forgot that they ever performed “It’s Almost Halloween” live (as we pointed out in a previous post): 

Rocksound:Did you ever perform it live?
Spencer:No. But we gave a CD of the song to everyone who was at the Halloween show that year.

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

Funnily enough, a certain Mr. Jon Walker also noticed this discrepancy and helpfully, but bluntly, pointed it out to Spencer:

And Spencer himself has since issued a retraction:

So, that is all settled!

PART 4: Looking Back

“It’s Almost Halloween” is now 10 years old, and its still as fresh and beloved by the fandom as it was when it first came out. Ryan and Brendon haven’t said anything recently about the song, but Jon and Spencer have spoken about it. This is what Spencer has had to say :

Rocksound:Looking back on it 10 years later, how do you feel about it?
Spencer:To know that it’s become this sort of cult classic fan favorite in Panic! history is pretty funny, because we weren’t taking it all that seriously. But I love that its become those things for all the right reasons. Its silly, and fun, and almost a little bizarre for the band we were at the time. But for as light hearted of a song and video as it is, I still think it goes to show that when you put your guard down and do something spontaneous without overthinking, often times that’s when something special happens. Even if that something special includes werewolf masks and vampire teeth.

-Spencer, Rocksound 2018

Jon hasn’t said much, as he’s been in the recording studio, but he’s been retweeting fan covers of the song and even made this tweet calling for the song to be put on Spotify:

“It’s Almost Halloween” is an absolute gem of a song and video, and both gleam beautifully in all of their hokey, spoopy glory. We Mods can say, with all honesty that it is one of our favorite songs in the entirety of the Panic! oeuvre.

~Mods C and M

Fun fact: This was the first masterpost written by Mods C & M working together! :D (Usually it’s just C.) 

~Mods C and M