SHOULD HAVE BEEN POSTED ON: August 12, 2011 @ 02:03am
The day started with Jilly* picking me up cause my raggedy ass car was broken. We met some of her Twitter friends & had lunch. Then we decided to head to The Pageant to get a spot in line. We were the only people there at that point. Lol. We found out that they were gonna give early access to the venue for people 21+ by way of The Halo Bar, so we sat outside the door. At this point we met Kitty, who turned out to be a person I follow on Twitter. She had on this cute little clip on monkey tail that eventually Jackson wore on stage. Hehe! After a while, Jilly needed to get some stuff from her car, so I went with her. We walked back behind the venue & got to see the guys taking their instruments inside. Jackson was walking around with his pant legs rolled up to his knees. Damn his legs are white. LOL! And he was wearing his boots, which made him look silly. Ha.
After we sat back down at the Halo Bar door for a while, Jilly wanted to go exploring. We went to this place called the Moonrise Hotel. It was pretty cool. We took pictures of the color changing stairs.
So then there was some more waiting & finally The Halo Bar opened to let us in. We got a table & talked a bit & met a few more people from Twitter. For some reason, the Gods decided it was time for me to have a good day or something, because one of the girls in our group gave me her extra Meet & Greet pass. All of us in our group ended up with passes & with that we got even earlier entry into the venue. We had to line up in Suite 100 & wait for Lani to come get us to go meet the guys. I know it wasn't as long as I made it out to be, but the wait seemed to take forever. Lol.
They were letting people in 2 at a time. I got to go in with Jilly. Once I got in there, my eyes were the size of saucers. I didn't know wtf to do. LOL! I've never been to a M&G before in my life. Lani told us to go ahead and stand with the guys so we could get our picture taken. The guys were all standing in a row: Uncle Larry, Jerad, Jackson, Ben G, and Ben J. As soon as Jackson saw me, he said "it's been a long time!". Yes, over a year is a long time. Thanks for noticing, J. LOL. Jilly had some stuff to give to them, so while she was handing it all out, I just stood there with the Bens. They both said "hi, how's it going" & shook my hand. I can't believe I actually spoke to BMFJ! Or rather, he spoke to me. Lmao. He seemed so happy, which was a change from last time when he was sick, so that was good. Finally, it was time for the picture. I stood between Jackson & Ben G. Then it was over. When we were walking away, Jackson said "keep on dancin', keep on dancin'" & did a little wiggle. *ded* One of them said "hey, she has a...." I didn't hear the rest of that so I don't know what they were talking about.
When we got out of the room, we met up with Jilly's friend Cara & ended up bumping into Thwilla. We got a picture with him & he asked us to save seats for his family at the bar. We stood there until Jake Miller went on. I've never seen The Kissing Club before, so I went down on the floor to watch. Jake was amazing! And his band, too, of course. Loved them! I was supposed to go with Jilly to interview him after Bleeding Horse Express went on, but since it's been so long since I've seen the guys, she chose to take Cara instead.
The guys were fucking amazing as always. They sang a lot of older songs along with the new stuff. Due to my suck ass life, I didn't have the new cd 'Live And Kicking Part Too' yet. I loved the improv they did here. Watch my video of it. It was called Shut The Front Door. Bwaha. Normally I'd list the songs they played, but I can't remember them all. My memory is so gone. Ugh. Once the guys were done doing their thing on stage, they headed over to Suite 100 to do an autograph signing. My friends & I waited until the venue cleared out a bit to go over there. The line was sooooooo long so we waited in the front of the building until the line got smaller. We were the last ones in & the guards shut the door so nobody else could get in. They only opened it for people to leave. I got to meet Jake again, and also Bleeding Horse Express while waiting to get to 100 Monkeys. While I was in line, I had just enough money to buy Live & Kicking. I got it open just in time for Jerad to take it from me to sign. I took the sleeve out for them all to sign, but they signed that AND the cd itself. Both Jerad & Jackson read my shirt, which said 'Sith Happens', which is a Star Wars reference. Jackson was like "Sith happens. It sure does, doesn't it?" LOL. I asked him how many socks he had now** & Ben J chimed in saying "manneh...that means many." Lmfao. I love those guys. I asked them to come back again & they said they would.
After we all got out stuff signed, we went outside to look through the pictures we took during the show. Mine turned out crappy cause my camera sucks, but at least they weren't complete crap to were you can't see anything or whatever. All in all, it was one of the best nights ever. <3
(This picture is clearly the crappiest of them all, but I had to put it in here anyway.)
* Aside from bands & their crew, names have been changed to protect privacy...even though nothing here really needs to be protected. LOL.
**One day on Twitter, Jackson mentioned something about not having any clean socks. Some fans bought him socks & took them to the shows they went to.
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