PP Strikes Again!
There’s some hope that Roswell is not going to be cancelled since no official statement will happen until May. I so enjoyed last night’s episode. Michael/Brendan with short hair! Man! And Max is always more fun when he’s not being typical Max.
Alright so the Phantom Planet show was so much fun. Of course. It was great to see them again. They seemed tired. But since they were in Chicago the day before and were headed to New York the next day, I don’t blame them. So ate yummy food (chinese shrimp salad). David Spade was sitting in a table near us. Very odd to hear his voice having a normal conversation with his friends. As we left the Rainbow Bar to get our will call tickets, Eddie sees someone in the patio stand up from his table and totally start waving to us. He realizes it’s Darren so he tells me and I go over and look over the wall of the patio and he’s still standing up. There’s a whole table of people he’s with… some of the Phantom guys, friends, etc… so I wave back to him.
When we walked into the Roxy, we showed our ids and the bouncer was all, yeah! You guys are numbers 5 and 6 who are getting stamped out of 160 so far! Woah!
The first opening band was The Skirts. They had done 2 songs at the fan club show. A Rooney boy joined them and when he’s the best one in the band and not even a member of the band, that’s saying something but I give them credit for going up there in front of so many people. That does take guts. Two of the girls though ended up standing right near us during PP and were being SO annoying. Whatever. Adam Duritz was in the crowd watching them. I think they did like 3 or 4 songs including a These Boots Are Made for Walking cover. Rilo Kiley was cool. I’ve only seen them one other time. It was nice to see them again. Alex came out to see some of their set. He was wearing this funky hat, covering up his shaggy hair. I liked it… Darren’s hair doesn’t seem to grow as much as Sam and Alex (they made a pact not to cut their hair until their album is released - still a month to go).
Phantom’s set was not as long as I would have liked… they actually played more songs then they intended too. Alex climbed up on these speakers during the last song. Very Damon Albarn rock star behavior. Alex claimed he was worried that no one would show up since as of that day only like 70 tickets had been sold but it ended up being sold out in the end. And he thanked everyone for coming out especially on a school night. HAHA!
Afterwards, Eddie left with Sue and Erica to meet up with Candice at Virgin. She was waiting in the freezing cold to try and get tickets for the $2 Strokes show. I stayed to check out the merchandise and then saw Jacques come out… and Jason and Sam and Darren. So I make my way to Darren and grab his attention. Poor boy was all sweaty since the Roxy is like a sauna. He gave me a hug and we chatted for a bit. He asked where Eddie was and I said how he went to try and get Strokes tickets and Darren was quite envious (though he had no reason to since we didn’t end up getting tickets). He said how tired he was, how he was jet lagged… how they were going to New York the next day, etc… I forgot to wish him luck on Letterman. But I told him to take care and how great it was to see them doing so well and gave him another hug as we said goodbye. I then found Jason and was going to talk to him really quick. Just as I was about to go up to him, Sofia Coppola and some other people come up to him. So I didn’t bother. I left and saw Sam outside but he was surrounded so I just left.
Went to Virgin. It was so cold. We didn’t stay long since there was no point. And that was that.
And now I’m stressing about money. And my lack of money. And why I can’t seem to pay off my credit cards and how I shouldn’t use them. Like ever! Sigh…
Oh… and who’s the coolest Starsailor fan in New York City? Laura, of course, who worked her magic and got into last night’s show. She rocks! I still haven’t posted my story about the Starsailor gig with the Charlatans that I went to. It was incredible. Pete Yorn was there. My friends had a priceless conversation with him… I got a set list cause Starsailor’s roadies are so nice and I had it rolled up in my hand. So I swatted Pete in the arm with it to get his attention and told him he was great on drums with Phantom Planet the previous week and he was taken aback and thanked me. That man is very nice. We got handshakes and quick hellos, etc. from Barry, James and Foxy (the other James) as they left during the last part of the Charlatans set (we had gone outside to the backstage entrance). And we then had a hilarious conversation with Ben, the drummer, who seemed to forget for about 15 minutes that his bandmates were waiting in a van for him. He burned his hand with his cigarette. Signed stuff for us. Told us James has a boyfriend by accident (he has a girlfriend). Found out he’s been to Disney World 3 times. He loves the weather in California. And was altogether charming, giving us kisses on the cheek (handshake for Eddie) as he left. Ben is the best! So that’s it in a nutshell.
x-posted from boltofblue.net