My Encounters with Rock Stars

I was thinking about this the other day, and i've had some cool encounters with rock stars. Three to be precise. Incubus, Greenday, and HIM.

I met Incubus back in 2004 (WAY TO FREAKING LONG AGO). I won backstage passes in their MYF auction (put me 240 bucks in the hole but it was so worth it). And we got to meet before the show so that was nice because they weren't exhausted and sweaty and anxious to leave. My friend Breezy came with me, and man it was freaking awesome.
First of all, they are your typical boys. Funny, childish, you know the drill. Their drummer, Jose, complimented me on my name and signed my autograph with "NICE MARY! JOSE!" and he wrote shit on breezy's because i think he spelled her name wrong or something.
you can see already that our autograph pages are really, really interesting.
When i met brandon i thought i was going to defecate myself, but i somehow held it in and we had a nice conversation about art. I think Mikey was either drunk or high when he was there and was drawing pictures on everyone's autograph. I got Saturn. complete with rings.
After that was done we all just kind of wandered around, mingling with other fans and the band. Then someone got a ball out and started playing dodgeball, and i had the privilege of hearing brandon, my idol, scream like a girl and get smacked with a ball. It was thoroughly entertaining.
And Jose tackled me. Which was exciting. Like tackle tackle. we woulda been on the floor if he hadn't pulled me back.
I had this nice conversation with Mikey, he's like an inch taller than me (i'm 5'3) so it was so cute! he had the biggest pile of curls.
We all had a really nice time. I was really impressed with them. I mean, when we all said goodbye, Brandon actually had the decency to remember i was going to art school and said "good luck, i hope i see your art in museums someday"
i mean, who remembers that? it was just a really nice gesture. That was definitely one of the top 5 experiences of my life.

Incubus is the only band i've ever actually met. But I had just as neat experiences with Greenday and HIM.

I saw Greenday in 2005. It was actually the night of our senior prom but seriously, who'd rather go to fucking PROM when you can see GREENDAY AND MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE FOR 25 BUCKS!? yeah, exactly. It was actually my boyfriend's and my first date. Anyway, so we got there at like 10 am because we were on the floor and we wanted FANTASTIC floorspace (although everyone knows by the time the show is over you're literally 3 miles from where you originally planted yourself). Anyway so we're sitting on the ground in line for like six hours. We took turns wandering around so we wouldn't lose our spot in line, and Greg found a My Little Pony cone hat (like for kids parties) in the gutter. So, obviously, he put it on. So we just played with that hat for like four hours and then FINALLY they started letting people in the arena. We couldn't take the awesome hat with us, so we left it at the gates, on top of a brick thing.
SO like an hour later, we're just enjoying the fantastic show, Billie Joe came out in a bunny suit, you know the drill, blah blah blah. Till randomly, middle of the show. Billie Joe appears with this FUCKING MY LITTLE PONY HAT perched right on top of his scraggly little head.
Now where the fuck do you suppose he got that? So Greg and i thought that was pretty damn sweet.
plus after the show we ran into some guy who'd caught Tre's drumsticks at the end of the show so i got to hold those for a sec.

And last but certainly not least, HIM. We saw HIM in chicago in 2005 as well. It's been far too long. Anyway, so that show pretty much went without incident up until they performed "Play Dead". Greg and i were pretty much front row center, and everyone was pretty subdued for that song, you know, lighters and everything. So Greg and i just decide to dance to it since we're not getting murdered in a moshpit for 3 minutes. The guitar solo begins and Ville NOTICES us. He sees us dancing and begins to laugh. He smiles and points and waves to us, and we wave back. he smiles and nods like 'yeah bitches' and begins to sing again. We honestly didn't really think much about it because i mean we've only been dating for like 5 months at this point and are still focused majorly on each other. But later on we were like, "Dude, Ville Valo saw us dancing and thought it was cute"
That was one of those delayed reaction things. and then we were like FUCKING YEAH!!!

I just randomly wanted to share those experiences.