- you spend all of ur free time on these message boards
- you plan on nameing your kids Hunter Adam Jade and/ or Davey boy or girl
- your whole arm is dedicated to them
- EVERYTHING reminds you about them
- Your favorite foods are now key lime pie, chicken, and granola bars
- You have a pet named after one of them
- You took a sudden intrest in bands that you have heard AFI members liked
- You spend hours trying to figure out the meaning of Clandestine
*cough*
- You call your local radio station requesting any AFI song until the station threatens to turn you in for harassment
- Stand on a street corner in the middle of winter freezing your noogies off and hand out flyers for a AFI show that's happening three states away
- You keep your little bro outside, duct-taped to the front porch until he agrees to buy the AFI CD
- Your boyfriend/girlfriend claims you love AFI more than them...and they're RIGHT.
- People ask you if you have any clothing that doesn't have AFI on it.
- When first meeting a person, you say: "Hi, do you like AFI?"
- You go up to at least one stranger everyday and ask if they have heard of AFI; if they say no, get all hyper and tell them AFI's whole bio.
- If you see AFI in a magazine while at a store, open each one of the mags to the page AFI is on and set them out all over the stand, then calmly walk away.
- Buy a car-window marker and go around writing 'AFI Kicks Ass' on random
cars; even hit up cars on display at dealerships and cars stopped in traffic.
- Write 'AFI ROCKS' in permanent black marker on all dollar bills you come in contact with.
- Get an AFI tattoo where everyone can see it and refuse to wear anything that covers it up.
- You frequently replace the CD in your sister's stereo with an AFI CD and then when she asks who keeps doing that, deny everything.
- You refer basically anything you do to an AFI song or a quote from one of the guys.
- Plaster pictures of AFI all over your books & walls & anything that glue&tape sticks to.
- You strip, paint AFI on your body and streak through the city with a radio on your shoulder with AFI playing.
- you know you're obsessed when you spend every hour of your free time on useless afi messageboards.
- when you "forget" to study for test cause you would rather look at the AFI picture on your notebook.
- write AFI lyrics in your books even though or have to turn them back in or plan to resale them(if your in college)
- tell random ppl all about AFI when they ask why you have pink and black nails
- write "AFI rocks" on math quizes
- You run though a store singing AFI songs and shouting "AFI kicks ass" after hearing someone say "cinematic" or just randomly
- Whenever you hear the words: �croissant�, �grapefruit�, �monster�, �Look what you�ve done to me now�, so on so forth, you start singing and/or quoting AFI.
- your whole family including your four year old sister know the words to afi songs
- when your mother fights with you about who looks better davey or Jade.
- You know you are obsessed with AFI when you are able to think up things that make you obsessed with AFI.
- When your friend's little sister knows all the words to AFI... and your influence is spreading to her friends too. Gotta get em while they're young!
- When you and your best friend turn up in matching black-shirt-pink-tie outfits to your drama club's video premiere, and you persuade the eleven year old boys to wear eyeliner to be like the Jade.
- When you and your best friend get bored and decide to have an AFI themed day where you can only speak in lyrics [even in lessons], have to be vegan for the day and drink soy milk [even though she hates it and is a raging carnivore]
- When you have plans to steal Adam Carson's drumstick from your boyfriend
- When you buy a packet of croissants, some soy milk and a grapefruit from your friend when she's hard at work in the supermarket because you know it'll cheer her up.
- When your sister complains at having to sleep in a room full of posters of "those dead-looking people"
- When you hold a pirates vs. ninjas party.
- When you and your best friend realise that you're planning on taking the same degrees as Davey and Jade
- You want a skunk mullet but your mom won't let you get one.
- You force your dad to buy Puget Blue from the garden centre
- You somehow work AFI into even the most unrelated school projects
- You do the whole pamplemousse-croissant-bakery thing in as many places as you can, including from the top of your local castle. You then go into town and try to figure out how many people heard you by asking random shoppers.
- You have AFI sims.
- They live with simulated you...
- ...and have a selection of outfits.
- Your three year old niece asks you to put AFI on so she can dance.
- Whenever you see the numbers 111, 336 or 337 you immediately think of AFI, whatever they may refer to.
- You make your 2 year old sister learn everyone of the band members, teach her to recognize AFI music and make her rock the horns everytime it comes on...
- Your Spanish teacher can recite TLSP2
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- You write lyrics from their songs anywhere tere's room on books.
- You find a way to bring them into every conversation you have.
- You must wear at least an AFi patch or pin every day.
- You like many other bands, but if asked who you like more, you say in a high, insulted voice..." I worship....AFI!"
- You need to keep up with all their news, and you know them better than they know each other.
- When your little sister gets obsessed too
- When your ex boyfriend calls you "pamplemousse"
- When your mom actually starts singing AFI
- When your mom prints AFI pics for you
- When you paint the AFI logo on your sister's wall with some cheap paint
- When you see a gatorade you think of Jade, and have all your friends call it Jadeorade.
- When you are told to give a speech about something, you pick afi.
- Whenyou quote afi lyrics randomly into conversations.
- When you have written afi on everything you see.
- When have actully asked one of your teachers, 'what the speed of dark was, anyway'.
- When your mom knows all the band members names, birthdays, etc.
- When your grama thinks of you when an afi song comes on.
- When your friends get annoyed at you because you've been talking about afi all lunch period.
- When you call random numbers in the phone book and talk to them about afi.
- When your boy-friend has a picture of Jade in his locker.
- When you dream about meeting afi.
- When you have a whole dream about Jades shoes.
- When you write lyrics to their songs on the bottom of your shoes.
- When your homeroom teacher knows who afi is.
- When you 'tattoo' on people the letters AFI.
- When on a lottery ticket you used band members birthdays, instead of your own.
- when if in front of your AFI posters, you can't burp/fart, etc in fear of embarrassing yourself in front of them.
- When someone replies "Davey Havok = gay" under your graffiti of "AFI rocks!"
in the toilets, you match the handwriting and hunt the person down.
- When everything you see reminds you about AFI... EVERYTHING
- You send death messages to the American Film Institute threatening them to change their name.
- You have started using obscure words in your vocabulary like exsanguination, and synesthesia.
- You're favorite time of the day is 3:37.
- You paint your room black and put up a sign that says one, big, dark room.
- When the ghetto kids blast rap you try to blast AFI even louder.
- Tim Burton has become your favorite director.
- the only daydream you have during class is one where AFI walks in a kidnaps you and makes you assistant tour manager
- when the phrase "crackhead puke" makes you smile... not frown in disgust... tell me I'm not the only one...
- when you can't control your outbursts of excitement when you hear about AFI appearances/ when you see that one of the bandmembers made a thread...
- when you do your hair like one of the band members *cough*me*cough*
- when you practice everyda in front of a mirror what ur gonna say to them when you meet them
- when you carve AFI into your skin
- when your making a thread to see how you rank on the obsessed charts
- You hate anyone named Mark
- you stick afi flyers in people's lockers to spred the joy of AFI
- when someone sees you AFI writing/patch/sticker/button on your back pack and askes " Duhhh... Whut Ayfee??" like a retardand you get all pissed off and sock em
- when you start quoting songs or using their quotes when you talk.
- when you suddenly dress up like them.
- when you download every video they have (especially live performances) and learn them and the band's moves by hard...
- When you go through every AFI song looking for vocabulary words you have just so you can make your english teacher listen to them
- When you insist on dressing up as davey for halloween
- you read "Pt.II" , you sing/remember 'the leaving son Pt.II'
- when you read an "AFI word" (like omnipotence animosity...etc) and immediately stop what youre doing and sing the song.
- you email pictures of the band members to everyone that you now, even if they don't know or like AFI
- When you tell your best friend all the silly things they say in interviews. Like, from the Jadester.
- when your messenger bag looks like cinderblock and people think your pins are free samples
- you're at work and see a copy of the magazine "Cigar Aficionado" and only see AFI.
- when you break out into an AFI song at 11:30 at night at work
- when you yell "AFI" very loudly in psycholgy class cause your prefessor says "synesthesia"
- when you pull up in your drive way blasting AFI and get the whole WTF look from all of your neighbors until you get out of your car wearing your AFI shirt.
- When you see the BFI garbage cans, and have the urge to scratch that B out, and mark an A
- you force your mom to discuss the band members with you even though she always says the same thing about them (genderly challenged and satanic...)
- your brother hates afi, yet he knows all the words to the songs. (and can play cereal wars on the piano -hella sweet-)
- everyone knows you love afi, so they do whatever they can to piss you off (even if they like afi, too) by screaming "AFI sux!" when they walk past you
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- when you wake up at two in the morning and get your brother up because you just realized you memorized a new quote that you haven't said yet.
- You go through all the lyric booklets and make your own little (little is an understatement) dictionary of all the words you don't know so you can be smart like his Davey-ness.
- You send the guys of AFI stuff for their birthdays
- You have been on the AFI message boards so much, you are constantly saying "hella rad," "spiffy," and "lovely."
- You force your friends to have key lime pie at their parties. (yum!)
- You've written at least one letter to each guy
- You incorporate AFI into everything you do (pretty much)
- You're too young for tattooes/not allowed to get one but you tried to make one of AFI anyway and cried when you failed.
- Your dreams include the guys.
- You fell off the sofa when AFI got MTV2 Award at the 2003 VMA's
- You buy magazines just because they contain AFI
- You look up "AFI" in a baby names book and found one - "Afi!" (true!)
- Pretty much all you do on the 'net is go on the AFI MB, AFI sites, and promote AFI in tagboards, messageboards, Gaia, etc.
- You cried when Davey got sick.
- You have AFI icons for instant messengers.
- You have an AFI site.
- Your xanga/weblog contains AFI
- You listen to AFI in the shower, etc.
- You have AFI on your cell phone.
- You have made a mini-shrine to AFI (not neccassarily religious)
- You got into trouble for doodling AFI and their lyrics on school stuff
- You wear AFI stuff to school
- You got your 6-yr.-old bor into AFI
- You make random AFI stuff.
- You made at least on doll of an AFI member
- You write AFI randomly on people's stuff
- You got pulled over for speeding, and you say to the cop, and say AFI lyrics that MAY somehow have to do with it. ("I know it's here we retreat, for where else would we go?")
- You have made up an AFI videogame. (I wish!!!)
- You have made AFI trading cards.
- You got arreested for doing AFI graffitti
- You insist you do your friends' hair, and make it look simaler to one of the AFI guys
- you give anyone who rides in the car with you the fair warning of "your going to get "AFI'ed".
- you suddenly start wearing make up again even though in the past you insisted it took to much time to apply.
- you listin to AFI as you apply that makeup.
- you find yourself hanging out at Hot Topic hoping against hope one of them will show up...even though you live in Texas!
- you freaked out when you saw some of the chapter pictures in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoinex...Sirius Black, going by the books description and chapter pictures really looks like Davey!
- you know all about Clandestine but you refuse to see it...you don't really want the neighbors hearing you shout "that coulda been me!" when you see Davey kiss that girl.
- When ever you see pink and black you always thing of Jade
- You have carved 'AFI' into your skin
- Anytime you go to write/draw/doodle anythng it always comes out as 'AFI' or AFI-related artwork
- You download ANY song by ANY band that you hear one of the mebers does back-up/plays bass/plays the drums/plays guitar in
- Anyone you meet with the name Adam, Davey, Jade, or HUnter, you tell them you love them
- Any time you hear the begining to ANY AFI song you run to the TV/radio that its playing on to turn it up full blast
- You freak out when your grandma says she's making a Key Lime Pie for thanksgiving
- when your in the car wit someone and right as your getting out of the car you hear an AFI song start and you yell at the person driving to keep the car on until the song is over.
- Instead of spelling 'havoc' you spell 'havok'
- you name your stuffed animals after them
- You use lines from songs in everyday conversation
- You celebrate their birthday's
- you know more about them than they do
- people around you know the tunes to all of their songs because you sing them all
the time
- you rehearse what you're going to say if you meet them
- Your local radio station is getting sick of you because you ring them everyday to request an AFI song.
-whenever you see a word like "mafia" you freak out and say "HOLY JADEORADE! ITS AFI......oh wait...nevermind
- when you sit for hours contemplating AFI videos and thier "meanings"
- You talk about them so much around your mother and make her listen to them when she's in your car that when you're in her car one day, going to lunch, and listening to Josh Groban (who's at the time singing in Italian) and says "You know what he's really saying? ::sings::'IIIII love AFIIIIIII!' " eventhough she doesn't care for them much......
- you paint your nails like them
- you drink and eat all their favorites
- When you have no identity and dress and look and try to listen to all the bands Davey does, and go vegan and straight edge too
- when you nickname one of your best friends "Cadet Jadet" even though her real name is nothing like that.
- when someone holds your AFI albums and your girlfreind over a cliff and asks you to choose which one to keep and which one to throw off the cliff and you choose to keep your AFI albums
- when you have a picture of them on your birthday cake
- you develop an obsession with Robert Smith and/or Trent Reznor
- you start wearing chokers or any necklace very high on your neck
- You brag that you live in Puget Sound, cuz of Jade's last name.
- You go to a school dance wearing and AFI shirt and ask everyone if they like AFI
- You write a science project about Porphyria (the disease), including AFI's lyrics.
- when your room door says ONE BIG DARK ROOM.
- u paint a 2ft x1 ft nephilim bat for your art exam
- when ur digital clock says 3:36 or 3:37 u feel all warm and fuzzy, yet mysterious and dark.
- all your future tattoo plans are influenced by afi and alan forbes' art work