i want to bathe with you in the sea

soooooooooooooo

Jenell and I went to west chester to see TAYLOR HAWKINS AND THE COATTAIL RIDERS.

Of course, with this comes opening bands. Here is a picture of one of them.

This dude ... sigh. He said something to the effect of, "Some people would call this a stage, but we call it the Hospital of Regrets and Dreams" or something like that. And in this photo above, he's hugging an empty Heart Box that was once filled with chocolates (i presume).. things like this happened. "Have you ever stared at the sun for so long that you saw spots? That's what this song is all about. It's called, 'Spots from the Sunlight" I mean come on...

However. The lead singer was actually very nice, and if we never went to say good bye to him... we would have never met Taylor, so I'm not gonna give their name and mock them too much.. He should just lose his stage persona cause it was a bit ridiculous.

ANYWAY, this is Taylor Hawkins. Horraaay. I liked his set very much. Jenell even danced to "Cold Day in the Sun" -- yeah she danced it out!

BUT ANYWAY WE MET TAYLOR HAWKINS LATER. YEAH WE DID. I kept whispering to Jenell, "I've never been this close to a foo fighter!" and things like, "i'm gonna tell him we have the same birthday!" ohhh lots of stupid things. One time, I met my favorite female bass player, Melissa Auf der Maur, and she said something and I stupidly spit out, "I want a picture with just you cause you're my idol" almost as simply as someone would say, "Pass me the ketchup?" And mind you, I was 20 at this point. So I had no excuse!!

So of course, when I went to talk to Taylor, all I could think to say was, "We have the same birthday" .... but no. Thank GOD I did not spew that out. Instead, Jenell told him that Dave Grohl was a better singer than him. And he was also informed of what a big fan I was. I just thank God I didn't tell him we had the same birthday... or that we both have 13 letters in our name AND we're 13 years apart in age.... or that when I was 14 I taped my head over his girlfriend's head.... THINGS LIKE THAT. I'm happy that all stayed in my mouth.

But yeah, what DO you say to someone you who had such a big impact on your life? You're standing there with a crowd of people, and you get your "moment" with them and what do you say? To me, spitting out something like, "you've had such a huge impact on my life!" is so cheesy to say.

Essentially, they're just a stranger whom you happen to know a LOT about, but they know nothing about you. So WHAT do you say?

All I know is I was shakey and nervous and went completely blank, haha.

But, I'm super excited about it and I'm suuuper stoked it happen and that Jenell was there so more happened than just a signed ticket haha.

HISTORY, PEOPLE!

woke up in my head, good times never end

Why what is this?  Oh yes.  It's my autographed Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders cd.  Taylor decided to send it to me cause he knew how big of a foo fighters fan I've been over the years. 

.......That or I ordered it online.. WHO'S TO SAY?  It's tomato/tomato (that phrase doesn't work so well in type form, huh?)

I do know that my younger self would be STOKED to own something that has been touched by a member of the Foo Fighters... okay I'm happy about it NOW too... but back when I was 13, I probably would have locked it in an air tight safe and prayed to it or something.

Anyway, this is the newest Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders cd.  I fell in love with Taylor when I was 13 years old.  I wanted to marry him and have a bazillion and 2  babies with him.  His picture was all over my wall and has been, by far, my biggest celebrity crush ever to exist.   For that reason (and my love of the foo fighters), I support other musical projects of his, and it's just my luck that I happen to like his music as well.  Check out the single from the album, "Way Down" - very Queenish/70s rock bleeding into 80s rock a bit.  Maybe it sounds influenced by Queen because he has 2 members of Queen on the album, as well as the incredible Dave Grohl.  Not to mention former guitarist of Alanis Morrissette's tour band (YES THAT IS HIS SIGNATURE ON THE COVER AS WELL, omg, right?).. anyway.. enjoy!