okay, madness. definitely destined for madness.
OKAY AHAH SO, A THING HAPPENED, AND REALLY, I HAVE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU. because it is the fucking funniest and douchiest and most wonderful thing to ever happen to me.
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OKAY LET ME EXPLAIN. HAHAHA I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU. BECAUSE. I DON'T DO THIS. I DO NOT EVER GET PICTURES WITH CELEBRITIES. I SAW THE OLD 97S SIGNING SHIT IN A PARKING LOT AND RAN AWAY, ONE TIME. AND I LOVE THEM. okay sorry i'm turning off the caps. but inside my heart there are caps. just understand that. okay. moving on.
AHHH
okay.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHBERGERRRRRRRR
what, okay.
GUYS MY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE COMING OUT, okay. whew. alright.
so. on saturday i got anxiety because it occurred to me that the last performances of hair in boston were the next day. sunday. yesterday. AND GUYS. like, if you are not into musicals and broadway, you have to try to conceptualize the feeling of something you love more than life being FINITE. and like. there's an end to it. like, it is not going to be on stage forever. it is only going to be in your city a couple of weeks.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE A CON. you love it, you are obsessed, it is in your city, you just HAVE TO GO. there is no consideration. you just. are there. and if it was there the next weekend, and you could scrounge the money, you would be there again. because it is something that is special and you cannot miss it, so you're there. obviously. IT'S JUST FACTS. OKAY THAT IS WHAT A STAGE PRODUCTION IS LIKE, when you are really into musicals.
so guys, like. hair is my favorite show on the planet because it speaks to places inside me that i don't talk about with people usually. namely the hard brutal truth that i do not want to make anything of myself, i have no aspirations of greatness, i am not a career-woman, or a family-woman. as claude says: I DON'T WANT TO BE A DENTIST, OR A LAWYER, OR AN IBM MACHINE, OR A BUM, OR A ROCKSTAR. I JUST WANT TO HAVE LOTS OF MONEY. and it's all about love, and acceptance, and having a sense of spirituality, which just gets RIGHT THE FUCK IN ME, MAN. and opens my heart.
OKAY SO IMAGINE THAT BEING IN BOSTON, AND THE CONVERSATION I HAD TO HAVE WITH MYSELF: michelle you just saw it last weekend. you had an incredible experience. you went with someone who loved it with you, you got to share it, you were so happy and fulfilled. it was beautiful. you got to take that through the entire week with you. HOWEVER. MICHELLE. IT IS IN BOSTON FOR TWO MORE SHOWS AND YOU MUST BE AT THEM.
hahahahah so like, that is what happened. and i was sort of joking when i called my ladies about it, who had both seen it before, haha lol remember how we already went to hair? wouldn't it be so stupid to go again lol? and both of them were like
._.
O_O
:D :D :D :D LEEETTTT'S DO IT!
and i was like shut the fuck up are you serious?
and they were like 8D BERGERRRR!
and that is how i ended up spending three hundred dollars on tickets for the final performance of hair. HAHAH AND THE FUNNY THING IS, THE NEXT THING THAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT WAS. i thought, i need to go to the afternoon show. BECAUSE GUYS. I AM A FUCKING MENTAL CASE, APPARENTLY. it's not okay. it really isn't. but like. when your heart explodes in your chest. all you want is to feel that feeling for the rest of your life, right? right, kids?
so i called my friend lyndsey who'd never seen it and was like lol wouldn't it be funny to see the matinee hair performance when i already have tickets for the evening show? and she was like, I'M DOWN. LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN. and hahahhahah WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE? I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!
the matinee show was jhaksfasj;fjsafjs awesome! and also, not awesome, because lyndsey had no fucking idea what was going on, although i tried to explain it, but really it is a compleeeeete mindfuck on stage so i felt bad for not doing a better job, and also, guys, berger was played by an understudy, which was fine, except it wasn't fine, because, i'm sorry but. IT WAS NOT STEEL BURKHARDT. IT WAS THE GUY WHO PLAYS WOOF. SO LIKE. I WAS LIKE. THAT'S NOT BERGER. THAT IS WOOF. I AM CONFUSED AND NOT SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO HIM AND THEREFORE THE CHARACTER OF BERGER IS NOT REALLY SUCCESSFUL. BECAUSE THE WHOLE POINT OF BERGER IS THAT HE IS A RIGHT FUCKING CUNT, EXCEPT YOU WANT HIM TO FUCK YOU AND/OR CLAUDE INTO THE FLOOR SO IT'S OKAY.
SO we got coffee afterward, and processed, and like, talked some shit out, and talked about the fine array of asses we got to ogle, and i explained more, and we talked about the themes, and what we liked and what we didn't, and i felt better afterward. then we met my other two lady friends -- roommate and lifelong bff -- for a beer, and and roommate and bff were a lil wastey so they were so excited, and so we drank a bunch, and then i said to lyndsey, lol if steel is in tonight's performance you should totally come, LOL, that's funny, right? because you kind of were not into it at all earlier?
and she was like, .______. HOLD ON LET ME GO TO THE ATM.
hahahahahh AND AGAIN. WHAT THE FUCK IS MY LIFE, WHERE I AM SURROUNDED BY SUCH INSANE INCREDIBLE LOVING PEOPLE. OMG MY TRIBE. I LOVE THEM. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. I LIKE. WHEN WE WERE AT THE TABLE AND ALL SQUEALING I LIKE TOOK THE FLOOR AND LIKE, SAID A SPEECH, ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM HAHAHHAHA AND WASN'T LAUGHING, I WAS LIKE, NO REALLY, YOU GUYS ARE THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE. hahahhah and it was so stupid but also not stupid, it was so awesome!
GUYS THIS IS A LONG STORY ABOUT MY NIGHT AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GOT TO THE GOOD/AWFUL PART HAHAHA i am just dwelling on my incredible friends!!!!!!
so the performance was incredible, and my ladies were all dancey and screamy and squealing, but not in a shitty make-a-scene way -- in a way that you are supposed to act at a hair performance, which is basically just excited to be alive. and i think it showed how much fun the four of us were having because WE GOT INUNDATED WITH TRIBE MEMBERS. and we were kind of toward the back? but that cast was fucking beelining to us for high fives and snuggles and shit. and we were just losing our minds with joy.
GUYS AGAIN. BERGER. ON ME. LIKE, HUGGING ME. AND PULLING LYNDSEY'S HAIR LIKE SEX HAIR-PULLING THAT YOU READ IN FIC, LIKE, SHIT THAT SAM WINCHESTER DOES TO GIRLS IN UNLOCKED BATHROOMS. so obviously she had the time of her life -- she understood what was going on, was surrounded by superfans, was a little drunk so totally feeling it, and got molested by steel burkhardt. she was in. WHICH MADE MY LIIIIFE because it is something that is so important to me, and i so badly needed her to understand why.
and i was a bit hey-oooo (drunk) so at the end i was crying, and it is just. the most incredible story to tell, and the most incredible way to tell it. LE SIGH, SERIOUSLY.
at the end of the show after bows and whatnot, they wave people up on stage, and so we ran down the aisle like a pack of CRAZY HAPPY SCREAMING JOYFUL GIRLS and up onstage, and were dancing with old ladies who said, "i probably will never be this happy again." and i like. straight up was the most emotional person. so overwhelmed. GUYS I REITERATE. JOY. IT COMES OUT OF YOU LIKE THE SUN. FUCKING HELL. okay. so then because we were all a little hey-oooo (drunk) we were all about telling every member of the cast that they were amazing, that the show has changed our lives LOL and like, brought us closer together, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE CAST WE SAW was like oh my god how wonderful! and went for massive hugs! IT WAS A HUG FEST! IT WAS A LOVE FEST! WE HUGGED EVERYONE! my roommate hugged hud (who is pretty much the handsomest man alive, darius nichols UNF) and said, i was in the front row last weekend and you held my hand! and he was like, I KNEW YOU LOOKED FAMILIAR. I DO REMEMBER YOU. and when he walked away she was so overwhelmed she started to cry and guys i am getting misty thinking about it ughhh it was like, a beautiful moment.
and so after that we were high on life! and were floating, and losing our minds, and didn't want anything to end, like just imagine four girls screaming on the sidewalk out of straight-up happiness. so then it was suggested we go wait for the cast to come out, for autographs and shit, and i am like. I HATE DOING THAT.
when it comes to celebrities, for me, i am SO INTENSELY SHY. like, this is my dance space, this is your dance space. i enjoy respecting them and ogling them from afar, but really feel like i have no right to be in their grill and asking for their attention and autographs and shit. i have a joke with a friend that if i ever walked into a bar and jensen ackles was in there, i would turn around and walk out. i just can't do it, no matter how much i adore them. and the rest of the cast is cool, but for me, i have that bubble between me and steel burkhardt because i just am so overwhelmed by how much i love him and the way he plays that character.
MY FRIENDS, ARE DICKHEADS, AND THEY BROKE THE BUBBLE.
i was like, totally cool talking to ANYONE ELSE there as they came out, and telling them i thought they were fantastic, INCLUDING PARIS REMILLARD WHO PLAYS CLAUDE AND IS STRAIGHT UP BEAUTIFUL. i could look him straight in the eye and be like, thank you so much for an incredible experience. sign my shit. take pics with my friends. okay great, thank you so much! BUT WHEN STEEL BURKHARDT WALKED OUT OF THAT STAGE DOOR I LIKE TURNED AROUND AND WANTED TO RUN AWAY. and my lady friends were like
:D :D HEY MICHELLE. HEY LOOKIT. HEY CHECK IT OUT. GO OVER THERE.
and i was like omg no, omg i can't, omg please he cannot see me and know i exist, please, why do i do that! why do i feel that! omg! whatever so what happened was, my three friends went over to him and he was super-gracious and i was like trying to press myself into the bricks and disappear like a RIGHT HOT MESS and then i SAW lyndsey talking to him, and then lifelong bff, and then he looked at me, and hahahahha I SAID, HAHAHA, OMG I FUCKING HATE YOU. and ahhahaha it was directed at lyndsey, who was saying, my friend is really shy and thinks you're great. and it was directed at lifelong bff, who was like, her name is michelle and she's standing right there. HAHAH BUT WHEN STEEL BURKHARDT LOOKED AT ME, I SAID, OMG I FUCKING HATE YOU. HAHAHAHAH WHAT. IS WRONG WITH ME. DOUCHE CHILLS, FOR LIFE.
so whatever he came up to me and was like oh my god you're so shy, and i was like shut up i knoooow, and he hugged me and my face was in his hair for a second, and i probably said something stupid like, i just really love the show and it was an incredible performance and thank you or some shit, right? and then cameras were out and i was like oh my god i am having a panic attack, and steel is just like, OKAY, SMILE, I'M BEAUTIFUL AND TOUCHING YOU AND YOU'RE HUGGED UP UNDER MY ARM LIKE YOU BELONG THERE AND IF I DIDN'T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND MAYBE I WOULD FUCK YOU. okay he didn't say that. but! that is what was in my head when that picture was taken. also oh my god my hair is probably a straight up scene right now, because i've been tearing at my hair and rubbing and tussling it all night with joy, and HAHAH CHECK IT OUT, IT TOTALLY IS! but that's okay, OUR SMILES ARE WINNING. or something.
ahahah wait it's not fucking over
this night continues
and gets worse for me hahahahhhaa
oh my fucking god okay, so, lyndsey is from boston and works in chinatown (right snugged up against the theater district) and so her hometown bar that she goes to several times a week and knows all the staff and shit is right down the street from the theatre. we went there for lunch before the 2pm performance, met the other ladies there for a beer before the 7:30 performance, and obviously after the bum rush of insanity were like, WE MUST CONTINUE DRINKING, AND FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS NIGHT!!! hahahah so we walk into the bar
lol olo llolool and STEEL MOTHERFUCKING BURKHARDT IS AT THE BAR
AND I PANICKED TURNED AROUND AND WALKED OUT HAHAHHHAA OMFGGGG what an idiot
so i stood on the sidewalk processing with lyndsey, and was like, no really i can't go in there, this is too douchey, i get that it is happenstance and pure dumb luck but like. i cannot go in there and fucking deal with the feeling of being a stalkery groupie. but then she finished her cigarette and we went inside LOL. fuck me.
turns out tons of the cast was there, and the place was packed so it was so awkward to be squeezing by these folks to get a beer, and my roommate was drunk and saying to people at the bar DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY THE CAST OF HAIR hahahah and people were like, we don't give a fuck. and so we got a table and started talking to this older couple who'd also just seen hair, and we were all sharing how great of a time we had, and my roommate showed her the photos of the hippie party we had last year, outdoors with all the blankets and candles and stuff and she loved it. and then my three friends were like, MICHELLE LOVES IT SO MUCH AND GOT US INTO IT AND NOW WE'RE ALL IN LOVE WITH IT, AND SHE IS HAVING A MELTDOWN BECAUSE STEEL BURKHARDT IS OVER THERE AND SHE LOVES HIM.
hahahahh so this fucking woman, who is like early fifties and doesn't give a FUCK, is like, oh have you talked to him? oh hang on i'll just go get him! and i am sitting there like, LADY, NO. PLEASE NO. PLEASE GOD NO. PLEASE DON'T MAKE HIM ACKNOWLEDGE ME AGAIN PLEAAASE. and she fucking, ahhaha just brings him back to the table, and i am like jesus fucking christ he must think we are crazy insane stalker people. and so we were like oh hey, hahah, cool, hi, again LOL what? do you even say? and the woman was chatting him up and shit, about old lady stuff, like telling him hey come to denver and date my daughter, she's going to be a neurosurgeon! and he's like, oh yeah i'll totally do that! LMFAO JUST LIKE, BEING AN AGREEABLE CELEBRITY KIND OF? HAHAHAHHA. OH SURE COOL I'LL TOTALLY MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER. HAHAHAA WHAT.
and guys this went on for like half an hour. he was standing at our table and me and lyndsey are just carrying on a conversation and being normal and shit but on the inside i am like HOOOOOOLY FUCK GET ME OUT OF THIS. and then this woman, who is in her early fifties and doesn't give a FUCK, grabs my roommate's phone and was like, steel these ladies love hair! look at the party they threw last summer! and my roommate and i were like
..............................
and he was like, oh hahah, cool? (i think?) and i was like ._____. and my roommate LOL was like. it was hippie themed. there were a lot of candles. hahhahahah HAHAHAH ADHHHHHHHH THAT IS A THING THAT IS NOW IN THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE LMAO LMAO LMAO LMFAO okay and then i was like BUY HIM A DRINK SOMEONE BUY HIM A DRINK PLEASE i was totally panicking and felt like i owed him for having to deal with crazy people but i was trapped in the booth and getting up and over to the bar would involve me like having to be near him/scoot past him etc so lyndsey got him a drink and he thanked us and went for a cheers and fucking. hahahah our glasses didn't touch? so he was like, haha oh hey, our glasses didn't touch! so we like, had to do another cheers? AND AHAHHAHA GUYYYYYYYYYS I AM THE MOST AWKWARD HUMAN BEING EVER I LOST ALL MENTAL FACULTIES WHENEVER HE MADE EYE CONTACT WITH ME TO THE POINT WHERE I COULD NOT TOUCH MY GLASS TO HIS HAHHAHAHHA AND THAT IS ANOTHER THING IN THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE THAT I FUCKING HAVE TO LIVE WITH EVERY DAY NOW LMFAO. kill me.
and then he fucking, wrote a love letter on my playbill!! and i was so mortified to be getting all this attention! but he wrote, michelle, thanks for being a hippie! and fuckin, I AM KIND OF A HIPPIE, AND I WAS A LITTLE HEY-OOOO (DRUNK) SO THAT PRETTY MUCH MADE MY LIFE IN THAT MOMENT.
after that i fucking drank a LOT. and he finally left the bar so i could calm down. and then i realized my girlfriends were chatting up woof and margaret mead! hahah so i went over there and while there realized i needed to stop drinking so i asked margaret mead to drink my gin & tonic LOLOL and he was like oh, right on! yes! and lifelong bff got to kiss woof, who she loves more than life, so overall it was the most thrilling trip to intermission tavern ever. and then my roommate and/or lyndsey i can't remember, was getting hit on by some FOOL of a man, so margaret mead pretended to be her boyfriend LOL! and he was there with his boyfriend! which made it the fucking funniest thing to ever happen at 1am in a bar in the theatre district!
um, so. that is the story of that picture.
OMG GUYS I DON'T WATCH COMMUNITY BUT I LOVE TROY BARNES AND redteekal JUST BROUGHT THIS VIDEO TO MY ATTENTION, WHICH IS AN 100% ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF WHAT I WENT THROUGH LAST NIGHT. THANK YOU.
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OKAY LET ME EXPLAIN. HAHAHA I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU. BECAUSE. I DON'T DO THIS. I DO NOT EVER GET PICTURES WITH CELEBRITIES. I SAW THE OLD 97S SIGNING SHIT IN A PARKING LOT AND RAN AWAY, ONE TIME. AND I LOVE THEM. okay sorry i'm turning off the caps. but inside my heart there are caps. just understand that. okay. moving on.
AHHH
okay.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHBERGERRRRRRRR
what, okay.
GUYS MY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE COMING OUT, okay. whew. alright.
so. on saturday i got anxiety because it occurred to me that the last performances of hair in boston were the next day. sunday. yesterday. AND GUYS. like, if you are not into musicals and broadway, you have to try to conceptualize the feeling of something you love more than life being FINITE. and like. there's an end to it. like, it is not going to be on stage forever. it is only going to be in your city a couple of weeks.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE A CON. you love it, you are obsessed, it is in your city, you just HAVE TO GO. there is no consideration. you just. are there. and if it was there the next weekend, and you could scrounge the money, you would be there again. because it is something that is special and you cannot miss it, so you're there. obviously. IT'S JUST FACTS. OKAY THAT IS WHAT A STAGE PRODUCTION IS LIKE, when you are really into musicals.
so guys, like. hair is my favorite show on the planet because it speaks to places inside me that i don't talk about with people usually. namely the hard brutal truth that i do not want to make anything of myself, i have no aspirations of greatness, i am not a career-woman, or a family-woman. as claude says: I DON'T WANT TO BE A DENTIST, OR A LAWYER, OR AN IBM MACHINE, OR A BUM, OR A ROCKSTAR. I JUST WANT TO HAVE LOTS OF MONEY. and it's all about love, and acceptance, and having a sense of spirituality, which just gets RIGHT THE FUCK IN ME, MAN. and opens my heart.
OKAY SO IMAGINE THAT BEING IN BOSTON, AND THE CONVERSATION I HAD TO HAVE WITH MYSELF: michelle you just saw it last weekend. you had an incredible experience. you went with someone who loved it with you, you got to share it, you were so happy and fulfilled. it was beautiful. you got to take that through the entire week with you. HOWEVER. MICHELLE. IT IS IN BOSTON FOR TWO MORE SHOWS AND YOU MUST BE AT THEM.
hahahahah so like, that is what happened. and i was sort of joking when i called my ladies about it, who had both seen it before, haha lol remember how we already went to hair? wouldn't it be so stupid to go again lol? and both of them were like
._.
O_O
:D :D :D :D LEEETTTT'S DO IT!
and i was like shut the fuck up are you serious?
and they were like 8D BERGERRRR!
and that is how i ended up spending three hundred dollars on tickets for the final performance of hair. HAHAH AND THE FUNNY THING IS, THE NEXT THING THAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT WAS. i thought, i need to go to the afternoon show. BECAUSE GUYS. I AM A FUCKING MENTAL CASE, APPARENTLY. it's not okay. it really isn't. but like. when your heart explodes in your chest. all you want is to feel that feeling for the rest of your life, right? right, kids?
so i called my friend lyndsey who'd never seen it and was like lol wouldn't it be funny to see the matinee hair performance when i already have tickets for the evening show? and she was like, I'M DOWN. LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN. and hahahhahah WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE? I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!
the matinee show was jhaksfasj;fjsafjs awesome! and also, not awesome, because lyndsey had no fucking idea what was going on, although i tried to explain it, but really it is a compleeeeete mindfuck on stage so i felt bad for not doing a better job, and also, guys, berger was played by an understudy, which was fine, except it wasn't fine, because, i'm sorry but. IT WAS NOT STEEL BURKHARDT. IT WAS THE GUY WHO PLAYS WOOF. SO LIKE. I WAS LIKE. THAT'S NOT BERGER. THAT IS WOOF. I AM CONFUSED AND NOT SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO HIM AND THEREFORE THE CHARACTER OF BERGER IS NOT REALLY SUCCESSFUL. BECAUSE THE WHOLE POINT OF BERGER IS THAT HE IS A RIGHT FUCKING CUNT, EXCEPT YOU WANT HIM TO FUCK YOU AND/OR CLAUDE INTO THE FLOOR SO IT'S OKAY.
SO we got coffee afterward, and processed, and like, talked some shit out, and talked about the fine array of asses we got to ogle, and i explained more, and we talked about the themes, and what we liked and what we didn't, and i felt better afterward. then we met my other two lady friends -- roommate and lifelong bff -- for a beer, and and roommate and bff were a lil wastey so they were so excited, and so we drank a bunch, and then i said to lyndsey, lol if steel is in tonight's performance you should totally come, LOL, that's funny, right? because you kind of were not into it at all earlier?
and she was like, .______. HOLD ON LET ME GO TO THE ATM.
hahahahahh AND AGAIN. WHAT THE FUCK IS MY LIFE, WHERE I AM SURROUNDED BY SUCH INSANE INCREDIBLE LOVING PEOPLE. OMG MY TRIBE. I LOVE THEM. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. I LIKE. WHEN WE WERE AT THE TABLE AND ALL SQUEALING I LIKE TOOK THE FLOOR AND LIKE, SAID A SPEECH, ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM HAHAHHAHA AND WASN'T LAUGHING, I WAS LIKE, NO REALLY, YOU GUYS ARE THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE. hahahhah and it was so stupid but also not stupid, it was so awesome!
GUYS THIS IS A LONG STORY ABOUT MY NIGHT AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GOT TO THE GOOD/AWFUL PART HAHAHA i am just dwelling on my incredible friends!!!!!!
so the performance was incredible, and my ladies were all dancey and screamy and squealing, but not in a shitty make-a-scene way -- in a way that you are supposed to act at a hair performance, which is basically just excited to be alive. and i think it showed how much fun the four of us were having because WE GOT INUNDATED WITH TRIBE MEMBERS. and we were kind of toward the back? but that cast was fucking beelining to us for high fives and snuggles and shit. and we were just losing our minds with joy.
GUYS AGAIN. BERGER. ON ME. LIKE, HUGGING ME. AND PULLING LYNDSEY'S HAIR LIKE SEX HAIR-PULLING THAT YOU READ IN FIC, LIKE, SHIT THAT SAM WINCHESTER DOES TO GIRLS IN UNLOCKED BATHROOMS. so obviously she had the time of her life -- she understood what was going on, was surrounded by superfans, was a little drunk so totally feeling it, and got molested by steel burkhardt. she was in. WHICH MADE MY LIIIIFE because it is something that is so important to me, and i so badly needed her to understand why.
and i was a bit hey-oooo (drunk) so at the end i was crying, and it is just. the most incredible story to tell, and the most incredible way to tell it. LE SIGH, SERIOUSLY.
at the end of the show after bows and whatnot, they wave people up on stage, and so we ran down the aisle like a pack of CRAZY HAPPY SCREAMING JOYFUL GIRLS and up onstage, and were dancing with old ladies who said, "i probably will never be this happy again." and i like. straight up was the most emotional person. so overwhelmed. GUYS I REITERATE. JOY. IT COMES OUT OF YOU LIKE THE SUN. FUCKING HELL. okay. so then because we were all a little hey-oooo (drunk) we were all about telling every member of the cast that they were amazing, that the show has changed our lives LOL and like, brought us closer together, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE CAST WE SAW was like oh my god how wonderful! and went for massive hugs! IT WAS A HUG FEST! IT WAS A LOVE FEST! WE HUGGED EVERYONE! my roommate hugged hud (who is pretty much the handsomest man alive, darius nichols UNF) and said, i was in the front row last weekend and you held my hand! and he was like, I KNEW YOU LOOKED FAMILIAR. I DO REMEMBER YOU. and when he walked away she was so overwhelmed she started to cry and guys i am getting misty thinking about it ughhh it was like, a beautiful moment.
and so after that we were high on life! and were floating, and losing our minds, and didn't want anything to end, like just imagine four girls screaming on the sidewalk out of straight-up happiness. so then it was suggested we go wait for the cast to come out, for autographs and shit, and i am like. I HATE DOING THAT.
when it comes to celebrities, for me, i am SO INTENSELY SHY. like, this is my dance space, this is your dance space. i enjoy respecting them and ogling them from afar, but really feel like i have no right to be in their grill and asking for their attention and autographs and shit. i have a joke with a friend that if i ever walked into a bar and jensen ackles was in there, i would turn around and walk out. i just can't do it, no matter how much i adore them. and the rest of the cast is cool, but for me, i have that bubble between me and steel burkhardt because i just am so overwhelmed by how much i love him and the way he plays that character.
MY FRIENDS, ARE DICKHEADS, AND THEY BROKE THE BUBBLE.
i was like, totally cool talking to ANYONE ELSE there as they came out, and telling them i thought they were fantastic, INCLUDING PARIS REMILLARD WHO PLAYS CLAUDE AND IS STRAIGHT UP BEAUTIFUL. i could look him straight in the eye and be like, thank you so much for an incredible experience. sign my shit. take pics with my friends. okay great, thank you so much! BUT WHEN STEEL BURKHARDT WALKED OUT OF THAT STAGE DOOR I LIKE TURNED AROUND AND WANTED TO RUN AWAY. and my lady friends were like
:D :D HEY MICHELLE. HEY LOOKIT. HEY CHECK IT OUT. GO OVER THERE.
and i was like omg no, omg i can't, omg please he cannot see me and know i exist, please, why do i do that! why do i feel that! omg! whatever so what happened was, my three friends went over to him and he was super-gracious and i was like trying to press myself into the bricks and disappear like a RIGHT HOT MESS and then i SAW lyndsey talking to him, and then lifelong bff, and then he looked at me, and hahahahha I SAID, HAHAHA, OMG I FUCKING HATE YOU. and ahhahaha it was directed at lyndsey, who was saying, my friend is really shy and thinks you're great. and it was directed at lifelong bff, who was like, her name is michelle and she's standing right there. HAHAH BUT WHEN STEEL BURKHARDT LOOKED AT ME, I SAID, OMG I FUCKING HATE YOU. HAHAHAHAH WHAT. IS WRONG WITH ME. DOUCHE CHILLS, FOR LIFE.
so whatever he came up to me and was like oh my god you're so shy, and i was like shut up i knoooow, and he hugged me and my face was in his hair for a second, and i probably said something stupid like, i just really love the show and it was an incredible performance and thank you or some shit, right? and then cameras were out and i was like oh my god i am having a panic attack, and steel is just like, OKAY, SMILE, I'M BEAUTIFUL AND TOUCHING YOU AND YOU'RE HUGGED UP UNDER MY ARM LIKE YOU BELONG THERE AND IF I DIDN'T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND MAYBE I WOULD FUCK YOU. okay he didn't say that. but! that is what was in my head when that picture was taken. also oh my god my hair is probably a straight up scene right now, because i've been tearing at my hair and rubbing and tussling it all night with joy, and HAHAH CHECK IT OUT, IT TOTALLY IS! but that's okay, OUR SMILES ARE WINNING. or something.
ahahah wait it's not fucking over
this night continues
and gets worse for me hahahahhhaa
oh my fucking god okay, so, lyndsey is from boston and works in chinatown (right snugged up against the theater district) and so her hometown bar that she goes to several times a week and knows all the staff and shit is right down the street from the theatre. we went there for lunch before the 2pm performance, met the other ladies there for a beer before the 7:30 performance, and obviously after the bum rush of insanity were like, WE MUST CONTINUE DRINKING, AND FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS NIGHT!!! hahahah so we walk into the bar
lol olo llolool and STEEL MOTHERFUCKING BURKHARDT IS AT THE BAR
AND I PANICKED TURNED AROUND AND WALKED OUT HAHAHHHAA OMFGGGG what an idiot
so i stood on the sidewalk processing with lyndsey, and was like, no really i can't go in there, this is too douchey, i get that it is happenstance and pure dumb luck but like. i cannot go in there and fucking deal with the feeling of being a stalkery groupie. but then she finished her cigarette and we went inside LOL. fuck me.
turns out tons of the cast was there, and the place was packed so it was so awkward to be squeezing by these folks to get a beer, and my roommate was drunk and saying to people at the bar DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY THE CAST OF HAIR hahahah and people were like, we don't give a fuck. and so we got a table and started talking to this older couple who'd also just seen hair, and we were all sharing how great of a time we had, and my roommate showed her the photos of the hippie party we had last year, outdoors with all the blankets and candles and stuff and she loved it. and then my three friends were like, MICHELLE LOVES IT SO MUCH AND GOT US INTO IT AND NOW WE'RE ALL IN LOVE WITH IT, AND SHE IS HAVING A MELTDOWN BECAUSE STEEL BURKHARDT IS OVER THERE AND SHE LOVES HIM.
hahahahh so this fucking woman, who is like early fifties and doesn't give a FUCK, is like, oh have you talked to him? oh hang on i'll just go get him! and i am sitting there like, LADY, NO. PLEASE NO. PLEASE GOD NO. PLEASE DON'T MAKE HIM ACKNOWLEDGE ME AGAIN PLEAAASE. and she fucking, ahhaha just brings him back to the table, and i am like jesus fucking christ he must think we are crazy insane stalker people. and so we were like oh hey, hahah, cool, hi, again LOL what? do you even say? and the woman was chatting him up and shit, about old lady stuff, like telling him hey come to denver and date my daughter, she's going to be a neurosurgeon! and he's like, oh yeah i'll totally do that! LMFAO JUST LIKE, BEING AN AGREEABLE CELEBRITY KIND OF? HAHAHAHHA. OH SURE COOL I'LL TOTALLY MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER. HAHAHAA WHAT.
and guys this went on for like half an hour. he was standing at our table and me and lyndsey are just carrying on a conversation and being normal and shit but on the inside i am like HOOOOOOLY FUCK GET ME OUT OF THIS. and then this woman, who is in her early fifties and doesn't give a FUCK, grabs my roommate's phone and was like, steel these ladies love hair! look at the party they threw last summer! and my roommate and i were like
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and he was like, oh hahah, cool? (i think?) and i was like ._____. and my roommate LOL was like. it was hippie themed. there were a lot of candles. hahhahahah HAHAHAH ADHHHHHHHH THAT IS A THING THAT IS NOW IN THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE LMAO LMAO LMAO LMFAO okay and then i was like BUY HIM A DRINK SOMEONE BUY HIM A DRINK PLEASE i was totally panicking and felt like i owed him for having to deal with crazy people but i was trapped in the booth and getting up and over to the bar would involve me like having to be near him/scoot past him etc so lyndsey got him a drink and he thanked us and went for a cheers and fucking. hahahah our glasses didn't touch? so he was like, haha oh hey, our glasses didn't touch! so we like, had to do another cheers? AND AHAHHAHA GUYYYYYYYYYS I AM THE MOST AWKWARD HUMAN BEING EVER I LOST ALL MENTAL FACULTIES WHENEVER HE MADE EYE CONTACT WITH ME TO THE POINT WHERE I COULD NOT TOUCH MY GLASS TO HIS HAHHAHAHHA AND THAT IS ANOTHER THING IN THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE THAT I FUCKING HAVE TO LIVE WITH EVERY DAY NOW LMFAO. kill me.
and then he fucking, wrote a love letter on my playbill!! and i was so mortified to be getting all this attention! but he wrote, michelle, thanks for being a hippie! and fuckin, I AM KIND OF A HIPPIE, AND I WAS A LITTLE HEY-OOOO (DRUNK) SO THAT PRETTY MUCH MADE MY LIFE IN THAT MOMENT.
after that i fucking drank a LOT. and he finally left the bar so i could calm down. and then i realized my girlfriends were chatting up woof and margaret mead! hahah so i went over there and while there realized i needed to stop drinking so i asked margaret mead to drink my gin & tonic LOLOL and he was like oh, right on! yes! and lifelong bff got to kiss woof, who she loves more than life, so overall it was the most thrilling trip to intermission tavern ever. and then my roommate and/or lyndsey i can't remember, was getting hit on by some FOOL of a man, so margaret mead pretended to be her boyfriend LOL! and he was there with his boyfriend! which made it the fucking funniest thing to ever happen at 1am in a bar in the theatre district!
um, so. that is the story of that picture.
OMG GUYS I DON'T WATCH COMMUNITY BUT I LOVE TROY BARNES AND redteekal JUST BROUGHT THIS VIDEO TO MY ATTENTION, WHICH IS AN 100% ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF WHAT I WENT THROUGH LAST NIGHT. THANK YOU.
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