ABOUT THE OWNER
About Me:My name is Frances. I'm 21. I'm a student. I'm kind of short. Instead of making this like a lame myspace 'about me,' I'll just give you all some fun random trivia about myself.
- I play bass and it's all Chris Joannou from Silverchair's fault (and he knows it).
- I used to live in Ecuador (that's in South America, for the geographically challenged) on a chicken farm when I was younger. It sucked.
- I have no class and one of my dreams was to get Tommy Lee of Motely Crue to sign my boob. That dream came true. Twice.
- I work for the California Air Resources Board, so now smoking vehicles and smog bug the hell out of me more than usual... mostly because it means more work for me.
- My favorite album of all time is "Neon Ballroom" by Silverchair.
- I worked for Billboard.com for a summer after winning a photography contest. I submitted two photos: one of Pete Wentz at Fall Out Boy's secret show at Chain Reaction and the other of Alex Greenwald from the Roxy. It was the coolest summer ever and I oddly owe it to both of them for being so damn photogenic.
My Phantom Planet Story
My friends recently started this joke that if I told them I was in a coma for the majority of my teenage years, they'd believe me. I guess I have a bad habit of dropping things I love and coming back to it full force years later. With that said, when I was 14 a friend of mine got me a copy of "The Guest" and Phantom Planet's "live" CD. On it was a note that said "You'll love this." To be fully honest, little 14 year old me was not impressed until I got to track 6. "In Our Darkest Hour." I think that's when I knew this band was something special. My whole freshman year of high school I lived off three albums and "The Guest" was one of them. The funny thing is that last year I looked back into my old blog I kept in high school and I found things I wrote as a 14/15 year old about this band, and then I found pictures of my room before I had to paint it with posters of them up (god, that's kind of embarrassing to admit, I'll be honest). Kind of hard to believe that I kind of forgot about them until I was 19 (though I do remember watching the "Big Brat" music video and the only comment I had was "Alex's hair is so gross when it's long"). So yeah, flash forward to a 19 year old me, driving down Sunset Blvd. with a friend. We pass the Roxy and the marquee reads "Rooney, Phantom Planet" and some other bands I can't remember. My reaction? "Hah.... I used to really like those two bands" totally nonchalantly. Then, through a series of fluke events, plans falling through and sheer curiosity, we got tickets to the show. Granted, it ended up only being Alex and Sam acoustic, but the feeling is hard to explain. Within the first five minutes, I knew I was an idiot for 'forgetting' about this band, and it was just a damn acoustic set. When I went home I went and looked up everything I missed in my 'hiatus' which in turn made me feel like more of an idiot, because it was flat out amazing (yeah, I'm talking about the self titled here. I think that's my favorite thing they've done). A few weeks later, I actually saw Fall Out Boy's secret show at Chain Reaction, walked out and went "That was the biggest rush of my life." Four days later, I saw my first full band Phantom Planet show. I walked out feeling like most every other band I've ever seen was a waste of time, and immediately took back my Fall Out Boy comment. Now, I guess I'm making up for lost time. At the time of this long nostalgic paragraph being written (13 months after my first full band show), I've seen the band 18 times in 5 different states. Yeah, I go to a lot of their shows...but I think when it's good music, and especially with a band consisting of the most talented and awesome dudes ever, it's completely and totally worth it.