*Fangirl Voice* BILLY CORGAN AHHH!!!
I am posting this from David's house, I am spending the night. Yay. Anyway, I will give 72 imaginary dollars to them if they can guess who I met on thursday. Since no ever reads/comments, I'll just say it. I met Billy Corgan!!! *TRIPLE SQUEE!* The ride there was ok, albiet apprehensive and also a bit queasy. We got to the Borders and they had a wierd system. Everyone who had a book (Michelle and I) got a little desk calendar slip, and they called people in line sixty at a time. Since, we were October, and they were only on March, the guy at the front desk told us there was a camera store around the corner. So we walked around the corner and we found the camera place, and the guy who worked there was really tall and kinda looked like Rob Zombie. He was cool. He told us how Alice Cooper was really intelligent and well read for seemingly no reason at all. But anyway, we got back to Borders and Michelle, Julie and Dana were looking at calendars, and Dana wandered off for a few minutes. She came back and told us that she saw Billy up close, because a guard was nice and let her through. She didn't talk to him or anything, but she saw him. That was cool. Then, Michelle and Julie wandered off somewhere and it was only me and Dana. I really had to pee, hardcore style, so I told Dana that I was going to look for a bathroom and she said ok. I couldn't find the bathroom (which I passed by, but it was well hidden, kind of) so I went to the little magazine rack that separated the line (you had to go around to another part of the book store to get in line) and Billy stood up and stretched, and I was like "Oh my god, it's him," but a voice was telling me that it wasn't because
1. He had way too much facial hair than he normally did. (although he pulled it off nicely)
2. I know he's tall, but he looked gigantic.
3. My mind was convinced that I could never be that up close to Billy, ever in my life.
But it was him, and I couldn't hear anything except my heart beating, and everything else was basically a blur except for him (kinda like those bad anime battles, where the background is all squiggly and you only see the battling main characters) except not exactly. Anwyway, after I got over my seeing Billy up close for the first time shock, I went to find Michelle, Julie and Dana, but they were nowhere to be found. I was kinda worried that it was a dream, because that kinda thing happens in dreams all the time. So I stood in line, but then I realized they were only on June/July, so I got out of line, and set off to look for them. I eventually found them, they had gone outside to smoke. Then we got in line, because by that time they were on August/Sepetember and had been for a considerable amount of time. So, by the time they were on October/November we were almost to the signing table, which was cool. Earlier, we found out that he wasn't signing CD's or personal objects, which was a tiny bummer, but not much at all. We got up to the guards who checked the calendar slips, and Julie was taking the pictures. Since Dana wasn't doing anything, they wouldn't let her through, this hot gut with pinkish-blond dreadlocks offered to give Dana a piece of paper to sign, so she would be able to go through. No one heard him but me and I laughed. They let her through eventually, with some arguing on Dana's part. So Julie and Dana Stood of to the side and Michelle got her book signed, and I was next. When I walked up to him, it felt like a dream. It was so cool. I felt disembodied from myself. Someone said "Billy, over here Billy" or something to that effect and he responded with "Billy is not a dog. Billy does not answer like a dog. Billy is his own man." I laughed in my head, I might have laughed aloud, but I dont know. So I reached in my pocket and took out the note I wrote him. I gave it to him and he said thank you, and put it in his hat, which was neat. Anyway, I dont remeber him giving the book back to me, but I remember about two seconds after walking away, I felt the tears coming. I walked to Dana and I was talking to her and the asshole guards told us we had to moved out of the way completely, so I walked away, and they were playing Rotten Apples (the greatest hits CD) and Untitled was playing, and it was the perfect song for the moment, I don't know why, it just was. At that time Julie, Dana and Michelle were there and I was crying like a baby and Dana Hugged me, and I just started crying even more. I stopped after a minute or two, but it was a good cry. After the whole Billy ordeal was over, we went to eat at an overpriced New-York based coffee shop called Cosi's. They had good Shirley Temple, though. I didn't get anything except a Shirley Temple and a water, because everything was too damn overpriced. The whole time we were there, I kept checking my book to see if his signature was still there. It was, and it still is, which is awesome. So we went back and dropped Dana off, and Julie drove back to her house (she drove us there and back) and Michelle drove me to my house to get my stuff and I spent the night. So yeah, that was my evening at the book signing, quite possibly the best thursday ever. So anyway, I'll stop rambling now. Later.