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gala_applesthree recasts i definitely should not write (and reasons why i really want to, and why they would totally work)
1) Who Is Bugs Potter AU.
So basically all these teenagers all over North America convene in Toronto because they're the best musicians of their various schools. They're going to practice together for a week and then do a orchestra night. Bugs Potter is a drummer, and calls himself The Most. He is apeshit mad in love with drumming and metal music. His roommate is Adam, and every night Bugs sneaks out because he's just heard about this band playing and it's THE BEST BAND EVER. the first night he sneaks backstage and asks if he can drum with them for one song. they say yeah, and Adam has to drag him off stage and back to the hotel. Each night the crowd gets progressively bigger and the bands start to hope he'll show up to their concert. It ends in Bugs saying he'll be playing this certain venue, and so all the different bands and all the fans show up and it's this orchestra and they stage crash and it's awesome.
My main problem with writing this is actually trying to recast. Bugs has a very very Pete/Frank personality, but he has to be a drummer. It doesn't work if he's not a drummer. Spencer/Andy/Bob/Nate don't really have the personality it takes to set off flashbombs at an orchestra. If Frank was MCR's drummer this would have been written weeks ago.
I have some epic love for this book. When I was a kid, i had a lot of nightmares, and the collective works of Gordon Korman were the only things that kept me sane. every night after i'd wake up screaming i'd read Bugs Potter or I Wanna Go Home or the MacDonald series and eventually fall back asleep. If only bandom had a ridiculously hyperactive drummer, i feel like i owe it to Gordon Korman to rewrite his work with my new love.
2) Idle Hands AU: I'm not entirely sure about the recasting of it. But seriously, the combination of pot smoking, demonic hands, killing your best friends and them being totally blase about it and still wanting to be your best friends, and accidental serial killers? yeah, i can't be the only one getting the MCR vibe from this.
I used to watch this movie years before i was a stoner, and loved it. the first time i watched it stoned i thought i was going to die i was laughing so hard. now that i don't really smoke anymore, it's still brilliant.
3) Airheads AU: recast is ridiculously easy. if you haven't watched it (which you should, i have a vhs and a dvd copy, it's that awesome that i need to be able to watch it in any room of my house) it's basically this band that can't get signed so they break into a rock radio station and hold everyone hostage so they can get their demo played. except the demo tape gets eaten, so they have to track down the singer's girlfriend because she has the only other copy. it's funny as fuck, and every character except one is directly translatable.
IMDB has provided me with a few helpful quotes for proof.
okay, so hardcore rocker Chazz has just gone outside to meet Kayla his gf, who has the demo. the cop has her by the arm and is trying to embarass him into giving up.
Chazz: [Carl has Kayla in a Lock, and is trying to Humiliate Chazz in front of the entire Audience and calls Him "Chester"] Hey, You leave My Girl Alone!
Kayla: Wait a Minute, Chester? Why'd He call You that?
Carl Mace: There's a lot that Chester didn't tell You about, huh, Chester?
Chazz: Um... Kayla, I...
[Embarrassed]
Chazz: awww shit... I haven't been entirely honest with You Kayla, My real Name's Chester... was a Geek in High School, had really short hair, played "Dungeons and Dragons", ate my own boogers, and had a bug vollection, and I would understand if you didn't love me, anymore.
Rocker 1: [Aloud] I played D & D, too!
Rocker 2: I was Editor of the School Newspaper!
Rocker 3: I used to wear Corduroy's!
and then the entire crowd gathered outside the radio station start a 'chazz chazz chazz' chant and Kayla sacks the cop and runs over to Chazz. also he's super passionate about his music. so, Gerard much?
the second person in the band is Rex. Rex is very obviously Frank. After Chazz breaks into the radio station and no one is taking him seriously, Rex brings out a few toy guns and tells them they better listen to Chazz or he'll pop them. Rex thinks that going to jail is the price you pay for being a legend.
Rex: We're gonna take the cops up on those demands they wanted.
Pip: We got a killer list goin'.
Rex: Yeah, check it out. We ask for airplay and whatever else we want, then we demand a whole bunch of weird stuff. This way we can plead insanity later.
*proceeds to ask for shit like naked pictures of bea arthur, 67 copies of moby dick, a football helmet full of cottage cheese*
the last person in the band is Pip. he's not directly translatable, as he's sort of stupid, and nobody in MCR is. however, he's got this great scene where the receptionist hits on him, and they end up having sex in one of the back rooms, and then Rex bursts in and starts laughing at them and telling him to put his cock away. so Pip is Mikey.
The radio DJ who ends up signing them is Brian. the aforementioned receptionist is Pete. the cops are just cops, whatever.
the real problem is Kayla, Chazz' girlfriend. now obviously it'll be a boyfriend, because slash is the way i roll. she needs to be hardcore, in the first five sentences of meeting her she's throwing shit at Chazz and telling him to get the fuck out of her apartment, and then she goes to a bar and is all sexy and looking to get laid. with the attitude, she fits Bob way better than Ray. but would anyone even read like 10k of Gerard/Bob?
1) Who Is Bugs Potter AU.
So basically all these teenagers all over North America convene in Toronto because they're the best musicians of their various schools. They're going to practice together for a week and then do a orchestra night. Bugs Potter is a drummer, and calls himself The Most. He is apeshit mad in love with drumming and metal music. His roommate is Adam, and every night Bugs sneaks out because he's just heard about this band playing and it's THE BEST BAND EVER. the first night he sneaks backstage and asks if he can drum with them for one song. they say yeah, and Adam has to drag him off stage and back to the hotel. Each night the crowd gets progressively bigger and the bands start to hope he'll show up to their concert. It ends in Bugs saying he'll be playing this certain venue, and so all the different bands and all the fans show up and it's this orchestra and they stage crash and it's awesome.
My main problem with writing this is actually trying to recast. Bugs has a very very Pete/Frank personality, but he has to be a drummer. It doesn't work if he's not a drummer. Spencer/Andy/Bob/Nate don't really have the personality it takes to set off flashbombs at an orchestra. If Frank was MCR's drummer this would have been written weeks ago.
I have some epic love for this book. When I was a kid, i had a lot of nightmares, and the collective works of Gordon Korman were the only things that kept me sane. every night after i'd wake up screaming i'd read Bugs Potter or I Wanna Go Home or the MacDonald series and eventually fall back asleep. If only bandom had a ridiculously hyperactive drummer, i feel like i owe it to Gordon Korman to rewrite his work with my new love.
2) Idle Hands AU: I'm not entirely sure about the recasting of it. But seriously, the combination of pot smoking, demonic hands, killing your best friends and them being totally blase about it and still wanting to be your best friends, and accidental serial killers? yeah, i can't be the only one getting the MCR vibe from this.
I used to watch this movie years before i was a stoner, and loved it. the first time i watched it stoned i thought i was going to die i was laughing so hard. now that i don't really smoke anymore, it's still brilliant.
3) Airheads AU: recast is ridiculously easy. if you haven't watched it (which you should, i have a vhs and a dvd copy, it's that awesome that i need to be able to watch it in any room of my house) it's basically this band that can't get signed so they break into a rock radio station and hold everyone hostage so they can get their demo played. except the demo tape gets eaten, so they have to track down the singer's girlfriend because she has the only other copy. it's funny as fuck, and every character except one is directly translatable.
IMDB has provided me with a few helpful quotes for proof.
okay, so hardcore rocker Chazz has just gone outside to meet Kayla his gf, who has the demo. the cop has her by the arm and is trying to embarass him into giving up.
Chazz: [Carl has Kayla in a Lock, and is trying to Humiliate Chazz in front of the entire Audience and calls Him "Chester"] Hey, You leave My Girl Alone!
Kayla: Wait a Minute, Chester? Why'd He call You that?
Carl Mace: There's a lot that Chester didn't tell You about, huh, Chester?
Chazz: Um... Kayla, I...
[Embarrassed]
Chazz: awww shit... I haven't been entirely honest with You Kayla, My real Name's Chester... was a Geek in High School, had really short hair, played "Dungeons and Dragons", ate my own boogers, and had a bug vollection, and I would understand if you didn't love me, anymore.
Rocker 1: [Aloud] I played D & D, too!
Rocker 2: I was Editor of the School Newspaper!
Rocker 3: I used to wear Corduroy's!
and then the entire crowd gathered outside the radio station start a 'chazz chazz chazz' chant and Kayla sacks the cop and runs over to Chazz. also he's super passionate about his music. so, Gerard much?
the second person in the band is Rex. Rex is very obviously Frank. After Chazz breaks into the radio station and no one is taking him seriously, Rex brings out a few toy guns and tells them they better listen to Chazz or he'll pop them. Rex thinks that going to jail is the price you pay for being a legend.
Rex: We're gonna take the cops up on those demands they wanted.
Pip: We got a killer list goin'.
Rex: Yeah, check it out. We ask for airplay and whatever else we want, then we demand a whole bunch of weird stuff. This way we can plead insanity later.
*proceeds to ask for shit like naked pictures of bea arthur, 67 copies of moby dick, a football helmet full of cottage cheese*
the last person in the band is Pip. he's not directly translatable, as he's sort of stupid, and nobody in MCR is. however, he's got this great scene where the receptionist hits on him, and they end up having sex in one of the back rooms, and then Rex bursts in and starts laughing at them and telling him to put his cock away. so Pip is Mikey.
The radio DJ who ends up signing them is Brian. the aforementioned receptionist is Pete. the cops are just cops, whatever.
the real problem is Kayla, Chazz' girlfriend. now obviously it'll be a boyfriend, because slash is the way i roll. she needs to be hardcore, in the first five sentences of meeting her she's throwing shit at Chazz and telling him to get the fuck out of her apartment, and then she goes to a bar and is all sexy and looking to get laid. with the attitude, she fits Bob way better than Ray. but would anyone even read like 10k of Gerard/Bob?
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Date: 2010-08-30 03:38 am (UTC)Well, my answer to that is a completely predictable FUCK YES.
Also, I don't know if you know this, but there was a Gerard/Bob community, so I think I'm not the only one who'd love to read it.
Re: your drummer dilemma. I'm not familiar with that story, so I don't know if this is a ridiculous suggestion, but can't you make him a guitarist instead of a drummer? Or the drums are somewhat relevant to the story? I think that changing the instrument is better than screwing the characterization.
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Date: 2010-08-30 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-30 03:51 am (UTC)also, bob is a demon hunter who show up to murder that evil hand!
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Date: 2010-08-30 07:27 pm (UTC)bob would make a fucking amazing demon hunter!
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Date: 2010-08-30 07:49 pm (UTC)bob is a grand demon hunter, maybe patrick can come wit him and carry his axes and stuff and patrick totally is good at magic chants and helps mikey save pete from getting sacrificed and pete and patrick become best pals after mikey and pete make out a little.
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Date: 2010-08-30 08:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-31 02:57 am (UTC)