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Love it when a plan comes together

after work i headed out to the city. samshrew is a billy corgan fan but she had forgotten to buy tickets for the show tonite and it sold out, so i pulled a few strings and managed to get a pair of tickets.

that meant i had the tickets so we'd have to meet up before the show. unfortunately she was coming from south bay and i was coming from sacramento. also, i had no interest in seeing the opening bands. so we ended up meeting up before the show and i gave her her ticket and told her i'd meet her later (no i didn't just leave her there by herself, she had two friends with her). then cindy and i went to meet jeremy and his friend (amanda? aka "puff") at papalote for some dinner.

at papalote i ended up having the chicken mole quesadilla. i should've had it as a burrito instead. the mole sauce was tasty, but it overpowered the quesadilla and i barely tasted the cheese. the mole in the burrito would have been great, as the rice could have soaked in all that sauce.

sidenote: on my way to cindy's house i ran into suresh. uncanny huh?

after dinner i dropped cindy and jeremy off at their house and headed over to the fillmore. i parked around the corner (the 4th most amazing parking spot i'd found that evening) and was headed over when samshrew called. apparently the opening bands had just ended. talk about great timing.

the show itself was just alright. the crowd seems to love it, but it felt way too polished. the giant video screen tiles were pretty cool, but it was sorta too u2 like. but really i think the inspiration was the new order crystal video.

after the show, samshrew said goodbye to her jealous friends and we took our coveted VIP passes and went upstairs (thanks debbie for the passes!). there was going to be a meet and greet and samshrew was total star struck. there ended up being a lot of people back there, i didn't really say anything to billy as there were lots of people who just "wanted to shake his hand". i wanted to ask him what was up with his album cover and say "honestly, no one told you it might be a bad idea? hrmmm.." but decided not to be the rude girl.

there was an open bar at the after party but i was driving so was sadly not partaking. however, samshrew and i went to the bar so i could get a water. while there we met richard, some self-employed promoter dude. he was total into samshrew. talked her into a drink and kept asking why she wasn't having more and hey did we want to go to the after after party? we ended up talking to him for a while, samshrew total giving the "so not into you vibe" and me doing all the talking. or actually, that should probably be listening. this richard dude was too much. we ended up getting bored and not going to the after after party.

Posted by pocketpig at July 17, 2005 11:20 AM

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