This is the entire EBE adventure with gina, as far as i can remember since its now late june
Friday April 27 (or was it thursday)
After one of my classes, i think it was, no it wasnt italian, oh well. Anyway, i have a voicemail. i check it and its gina, shes talking about working merch for everybody else. at the time, i wasnt as big of a fan of them but i did know that they were buddies with rooney. i called gina back and we got all giddy and fan-girly about thinking that we could get rooney's numbers. ha oh how naive we were, but still hopeful.
over the weekend, i talked to sam on the ebe myspace confirming the working and things
Monday April 30
we were supposed to be there at 5pm
gina had to drop off an artwork, so i waited in the car and since it was "rush hour" in tempe, and the fact my damn car clock was 10 min slow made us barely make it, well we really didnt need to be there that early. after we had arrived the band began to unload their stuff. gina talked to mikey, who was setting up his keyboard outside and i was watching carrick and austin bring in stuff. we finally decided to go inside. there was austin telling us how to set things up and where exactly. he was super cute in his little hoodie as always. we didnt have any change to give out, so i tried texting austin, and mikey eventually showed up, but by that time we had already come up with some. oh well. we put things together and on the rack and saw that they had panties. hahaa we got a good laugh out of that. Those things got a lot of attention, even from the lead singer of the higher as we were packing up. The merch guy of self against city was cute, i hadnt caught his name but it turned out to be drew. There was of course the most attention right after they played with all the little girls loving on carrick. gina and i watched some 'whore' as we called her talk to mikey and we of course saw her at the tucson show. near the end of the show carrick mentioned they didnt have anyone working the tucson show the next day, so gina and i freaked out and thought about it and said ' what the hell' so we agreed. we went back to our lives
Tuesday May 1
It happened that this was the last day of classes, but i felt like sleeping in and gina and i had planned already to miss art history so we could leave. her friend sam joined us and it was pretty uneventful on the drive down as normal, i think sam fell asleep and we just listened to some tunes from my ipod. we got there a bit early, earlier than ebe (which they said they took the 'scenic route' what scenic route? ha they probably got lost) the higher was there and we decided just to scope out the place. not bad, but tucson isnt such a nice city, small and sheltered. we were hungry so we decided to get some delicious sonic. when we returned reggie, the guitarist of the higher had his guitar on the floor (a pretty sweet gibson might i add) and we once again set up and the guys were sound checking. they were the first to play. carrick came over to see if anyone would want to tape the show. gina volunteered as i stayed back and was heavily distracted by the family guy playing just over our heads. they played born to do which made me very happy, LOVE that song. during the show carrick gave a shout out to gina in the crowd who was filming and austin added a shout out to the merch, aka me. haha i felt special. love that guy. there wasnt much traffic to the merch area and drew was there again. although there was some lady who payed us 20 bucks to go get a poster signed, which gina went out and did. easiest 20 bucks everrr. we had an awkward weird time just hanging out, i was intimidated by them or something. we each got a picture with all of them and i felt like asking austin for a picture with just him. i was too chicken and lame. but we did get a picture with reggie at the end. on the way home was astonishing, we were listening to some demetri martin and ebes next show (the next day) was in los angeles. i suggested why not? gina was at first apprehensive but i persuaded her, since it would be the best birthday for her. unfortuately sam couldnt make it. i packed up and freaked out that night.
Wednesday May 2
I picked ms gina up around 8? 830? i cant remember nad we gased up and left. we had fun times listening to my ipod for about 5 hours or more. we got to los angeles around 2 pm and we got some lunch at toi and walked down sunset to amoeba records and went inside guitar center as i drooled over the gibson les pauls and messed around on keyboards while gina actually made music on they keys. we hung out for a while after until ginas aunt got home so we could put our stuff away and get ready for the show at the troubador! ah how awesome. unfortunately we actually had to pay for our tickets, courtesy of gina. we first went up top then wandered down below and then decided to stand in the back as the place filled up. act as if played and we were stuck behind crazy dancing fans of theirs, but no worries, they werent bad at all. then over it played! gah that guitarist freaked me out in tempe and he didnt fail that night. carrick walked by and he saw us and was happily suprised. I was eye stalking austin through a window while he was in the bar, it looked like he was talking to his mom? i had no idea. when everybody else got onstage we went up to right in front of mikey and gina commented on his shirt being the same one hes had on forever. we spent some time on mikeys side of the stage and then we moved over to austin's side, to give each unloved guy some lovin since carrick gets all the little girls. ha! during the show as same as the tucson show, austin was looking my way, or so i thought. my vision is tampered at concerts, but i do have a video of me being caught by him when i was focusing the camera at him hahaa its funny. near the end of the show, as self against city was starting their set, gina and i waited to talk to mikey then when she was conversing with him, she was getting her own lovin haha as i got a picture with him. but my mission was getting a picture with austin we went around back about 1700 times and back to the front to get a picture. in between, we finally found out the significance of orange soda and well that carrick like french authors. i finally got the nerves to ask austin for a picture and he was appreciative for gina and i coming all the way. good. we deserved it hahah. hes so adorable. well when get got back gina and i went to toi and got some of the best ice cream everrrrr! then we left the next morning after picking up some toi breakfast that taunted our noses the whole drive back and it was, well amazingggg
