09/08 ~ Wilkes-Barre PA

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Wilkes-Barre PA tour thread from DDB - continued:



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Post by: dare2dream on September 10, 2008, 01:05:37 PM

I just call you oowie oowie.

Yep. That was hubby on the chair. I pulled out the pink shirt for him in the morning and told him that was Kristy's color. When he didn't see anyone else in pink, he thought I was just messing with him. But he was a really good sport about it! He's VERY quiet and easy going, just like Jason. If you know him, he'll talk your ear off. If not, he's content to stay in the background and let me make a fool outta myself, LOL!!

I'm like Trish ... I was right there ... but I wanna hear your story!!!! Unfold it!


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Post by: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 10, 2008, 01:20:09 PM

I'm Tish...the one with the magnets and the 6 yr. old lying on the ground. Did you see him though when Jason came out? He was right up against that fence with our Dreadhead towels ready for a signature. I don't know how that little bugger snuck up there so fast. Forgot to mention that last night he said "Where's my Jason towel?'' I gave it to him and he put it over his pillow and slept on it. He's in as much love as I am. It does my heart good.


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Post by: etihwwons on September 10, 2008, 01:25:37 PM

Awwwww, that's so cute! He loves Jason! Hehehehehehehehe! That's awesome that he got himself up there and got the towels signed. He's small, so it probably wasn't too difficult for him to get up there. Hehehe.

Okay, here's a little more.















After the buses arrived it was probably at least another half hour before the first person came out. And that was David Cook. Needless to say, my friend was EXTREMELY excited. She hadn’t gotten her hug in Rochester either (though she’d gotten his autograph), and she wanted one really really bad. About as badly as I wanted one from Jason.

Cookie came out, and the crowd started screaming, and getting REALLY excited. We were probably just about in the middle of the crowd, and instead of starting with the people who were in front of the doors where he’d come out, he came down, past us, and started on the opposite side. He looked absolutely exhausted when he came out. He had slippers on, which was really cute. People were screaming at him as he went by, and he looked almost pained by it. He really looked like he’d just fallen out of bed and came outside. He had on a red baseball cap, and looked very cute.

So, he goes down and starts with the autographs, and it wasn’t long at all after that that Kristy came down, and went down and started where David had. She went very quickly though, because she was in a hurry. I think they all have different schedules as far as press goes. Or at least they did in Wilkes-Barre. She was in a hurry to get in for press while David seemed to be totally carefree, at least as far as time went. We tried to have her say a quickie hello to my brother on the phone. Called him up, even asked, but she didn’t hear us, and was in too much of a rush to do it. But we tried. And it gave my brother a nice twinge of excitement. Hehehe. He did get to meet her in Rochester though, and got her autograph. (And Carly, and Brooke, and Ramiele….he was very happy. LOL)

So, Kristy’s excursion outside was pretty quick. The fact that she had press though made me REALLY REALLY nervous, because I was afraid that Jason wouldn’t be able to come out at all. And we couldn’t stay afterwards because we had a 3-hr drive ahead of us. So staying was pretty much out of the question. If it was going to happen, it had to happen then. This was pretty much my only opportunity. Only 3 concerts after Wilkes-Barre, nowhere near me, and after that, who knows what. This was it. I was thinking to myself that if after all the effort I made to get down here to get my hug only to be thwarted by PRESS, that I was going to go on a head bonking spree with those people.

Of course, at this point, again, I was functioning on one hour of sleep after a period of increased stress, and not sleeping well anyway, plus I was insanely excited and overwhelmed (more so than usual) and REALLY REALLY nervous about the possibility of seeing Jason. So, like I said before, I went a little crazy. LOL!

It was funny, at one point IndreadiblyGorgeous came up next to me and said: “You’re not gonna get all fan-girly on me, are you?” And I went: “Oh yeah! I am. Definitely.” And she was like: “Oh no.” LOL! I was so tired and fuzzy and excited that I was convinced that if he came out, and got to me, I’d be sputtering out sentence fragments and making strange noises that would frighten him.

Well, my head didn’t get any less fuzzy when Archie came out, let me tell you. David Archuleta is my second favorite. I love him to pieces. He’s just so adorable, and he has got such an incredibly gorgeous voice…it just completely makes me melt. If he were just a few years older, I would be SO MADLY IN LOVE WITH HIM! Fortunately, he’s not older. LOL!

He didn’t come down past us and start where Cookie had. He started with the crowd by the door. And holy crap did he go slowly. WOW! He was so sweet, totally taking time with everyone down there. Cookie was taking his time too. A lot of time. Which was great. You know, it’s really nice when they take their time with the fans. However, when you’re in the middle, or one the opposite end of where they start, it’s like: “GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!” LOL! Of course I didn’t feel that way personally…no…Not at all…

I got a little more worried when a security dude came outside and went up to the security dude who was sort of taking care of Cookie and started whispering something to him. I really had no idea what they were saying, but something made it seem to me like the guy had come out to tell Cookie’s security guy to have him wrap things up because it was almost time for press. That was the impression I got. Don’t know why. Maybe it was a brain fart Heaven knows I had plenty of those on Monday!

I don’t know how long David Cook had been out, I don’t know how long David Archuleta had been out. But Cook was probably about 20 feet down the line from where we were, and Archie was a little bit further away than that, but closing in our position, (it was weird….both David’s were closing in on us…odd, very odd), and then it happened. The moment we’d been waiting for. The building doors opened, there was EXTREMELY loud screaming, and a flash of what else, but FLYING DREADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I let out 2 blood curdling screams as my brain imploded.


################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: lovinlifeinma on September 10, 2008, 01:36:01 PM

Wow, you are a good storyteller! More! More! More!


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Post by: etihwwons on September 10, 2008, 01:50:58 PM

Ask and you shall receive. Hehehe. I should say that I have to go out for a bit tonight, and I don't know how much I'll get written up before we leave, so y'all might have to wait a bit after this...not sure.












Yes, it imploded, and then goo came out mah ears, and I exploded all over the place. I tell ya, the staff at that venue is gonna be scraping up green goo for a month. Okay, maybe that was a little sick. But explosions always produce green goo which comes out of my ears as I explode. We’ve had to scrape it off the ceiling several times…

Anyway, after I exploded, needless to say, I could not think. At all. Jason started on the same side Archie had, and I had no idea what the heck to do. I wanted an autograph from Cookie, I wanted to get an autograph from Archie, and I was desperate for Jason. I had so much stuff with me, my purse, my water bottle, my HUGE imposing gift which made me feel conspicuous, my program with my printed out picture in it, and the Archie headshot I was gonna get signed, and I felt like a juggler, and couldn’t figure out what to do with what.

It didn’t help that Mr. Gee-tar seemed to like the leg of the girl who was standing in front of me, and it kept falling on her, (I’ll just call the guitar: Mr. Gee-tar, the Leg Groping Fairy) and I NEARLY lost my printed, backwards-autographed picture once too! It fell out of my program, and wound up, somehow, on the ground in FRONT of the girl whose leg kept getting groped by my guitar. It was all so great. Not to mention confusing!

Of the two David’s, I’m really not sure which one got to us first. I think it was Cookie who got to us first. I have no idea what my friend got from him when he made the first pass. She might have gotten his autograph, and he couldn’t stick around to hug, because now, suddenly, he was in a bit of a hurry. He said that if he had time, then he would come back down and do some hugs and stuff. So my friend was a little disappointed and concerned when she didn’t get her hug on the first pass. And I honestly can’t remember if I got my program signed or not…I’ll have to go look. LOL! What can I say, Jason was outside, AND I WAS GONNA GET TO MEET HIM AS LONG AS THE STINKING PRESS DIDN’T TAKE HIM AWAY! I was too hyper and frazzled to think clearly.

Even if I didn’t get his autograph though, that’s okay because I got one from him in Rochester, and it was really fun just to be so close to him.

Now it was Archie’s turn. He’s so little and sweet and cute, and I just wanted to pinch him as he made his way to where we were. The headshot I had, I’d gotten for my cousin. She LOVES David and couldn’t get to a concert. So I wanted to get her an autograph. I wasn’t able to in Rochester. I’d gotten one from him for myself, but not for her. So I had the headshot all ready to go. I don’t even think I tried to get one for myself. Especially after he said that he had like, literally 5 minutes before he had to be in for press. And that he was in such a hurry that he couldn’t really do pictures, and he could only sign his initials.

I got to hand him the headshot, which he signed his initials on (and which my cousin will worship me for, LOL), and I just melted a little bit as I was so close to him and his cute ADORABLE LITTLE HEAD!

He apologized so many times for having to have to rush things. It was so cute. And later on, as he came back up to make his way inside, someone down a bit from us asked for a picture, and he was like: “I really don’t know if I have time.” But they must have begged, and he said: “Okay, just really quick!” And he went in, and posed for a picture with them. It was so sweet! Can I please have a mini him so I can put him in my pocket?

Okay, so we’d gotten David (first time through), and we’d gotten….David, and I’d gotten the autograph for my cousin, and I got to see him up close and personal in all his sweet adorable cuteness. Now all that was left was Jason. And merciful heavens, if Archie only had 5 minutes before he had to get to press, did that mean that Jason only had 5 minutes before he had to be inside for press? If so, there was no way he’d make it to me before that!


################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: etihwwons on September 10, 2008, 03:15:11 PM

Okay, here is probably the last bit I'll be able to put up before I have to leave. I'll probably be able to do at least one more part after I get home tonight.

















I tell ya, at that point I was feeling very rageful against the press. It had been the press that had prevented me from having my moment with Jason before the concert in Rochester too! We’d gotten there just as Jason had to leave the crowd to go do press, so if they dragged him away from me again……it was not going to be pretty. I was going to jump on somebody’s head, and beat them with Mr. Gee-tar!

Okay, maybe not. But, you know…
So, I’m standing there all nervous and everything. Nervous about meeting Jason, nervous about not meeting him, nervous about what will come out of my mouth if I do meet him, nervous about accidentally spitting on him, or making sputtering noises, or frightening him, or passing out in his arms. Although, that thought was actually rather pleasant. And then I started to think about how HUGE the gift was, and how it was going to be hard for him to hold it and everything. But I stopped worrying about that, and figured he’d have a nice man behind him who would take Mr. Gee-tar and hold him safe and sound for Jason.

I really don’t know how long we were standing there after Archie went by us. Honestly, I don’t know. But my mom decided that she was going to go to the other end of the crowd, where Jason was, and scope things out. She was worried that if he was in a rush, and he got to the Dreadheads, he’d want to be fair with all of them, and would just do autographs for everyone, or something. Or that he wouldn’t get down to us at all. So she went over, and left my friend and I where we were, waiting impatiently. Her for Cookie to come back, and me for Jason. And we were both anxious for the other one, hoping that the other would have their moment. So it was tense. LOL!

What had inspired her to go over there was that either the girl whose leg kept getting groped by Mr. Gee-tar, or her friend who was standing next to her, left our side, and went over there because she was nervous too. And a couple minutes after my mom left, the girl came running back over, swearing like a sailor about how she’d met Jason.

Oh yeah! I just remembered! (Random brain dropping here.) It was so awesome, before Jason came out and after Cookie came out, the Dreadheads started a “JASON JASON JASON” chant, which was REALLY loud, and quite a few people joined in, and it was totally cool! And LOUD! And awesome! And kinda exciting. It made me feel that Dreadhead spirit even more powerfully. LOL!

Okay, back to the present….or rather, the past which is currently the present in the story…(WHAT!?)

I had to air myself out quite a few times while waiting there. I’d been listening to Josh all the way down, and now I’d been standing out in the roasting sun for over an hour, and Jason Castro was so close to me I could see his Dreads when I stood on my tippy toes! Fortunately my back just felt hot from the blazing sun (or, Ra), and not wet. Thank heavens for small favors!

Suddenly, my friend turns to me and says: “Your mom is waving you over!” So I gasped, looked back at her, and sure enough she was standing there, waving me over, and pointing. I grabbed my stuff so fast you wouldn’t believe, and ran over to where she was, and was absolutely STUNNED that there was a spot in the crowd where there was only one person at the barrier, and then ME! And Jason was COMING QUICKLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 10, 2008, 03:33:07 PM

Quote from: lovinlifeinma on September 10, 2008, 01:36:01 PM
Wow, you are a good storyteller! More! More! More!

LOL, she could take Ryan Secrests spot on AI! He knows how to draw out the results how!

Elyse - I sent you a PM!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 10, 2008, 03:51:04 PM

Quote from: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 10, 2008, 01:20:09 PM
I'm Tish...the one with the magnets and the 6 yr. old lying on the ground. Did you see him though when Jason came out? He was right up against that fence with our Dreadhead towels ready for a signature. I don't know how that little bugger snuck up there so fast. Forgot to mention that last night he said "Where's my Jason towel?'' I gave it to him and he put it over his pillow and slept on it. He's in as much love as I am. It does my heart good.





Tish - I love these pix of Sam! You should send them to Jason to sign for him!

Lakendra is visiting family and will not be back home until next week. Here's a picture of the Jason she made! So cute!



And a shot of Jason's shirt ... has he worn this before? I asked him and he said he thought he has. LOL, he was probably wondering how I know all the shirts he's worn on the tour ;D



Tish's dreadhead magnets



Me and hubby with our signs



Joly's daughter with another creative sign (don't recall who made it ... step up and take credit!)

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Wilkes-Barre PA tour thread from DDB - continued:



################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: vehementlovex on September 10, 2008, 03:59:17 PM

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And a shot of Jason's shirt ... has he worn this before?  I asked him and he said he thought he has.  LOL, he was probably wondering how I know all the shirts he's worn on the tour  ;D


HE HAS WORN IT BEFORE! I was looking through the pics i took 8.17.08 in Charlotte.. and look what I found!




he only wore it after the show though.. before the show he wore that homemade peace sign shirt from another dreadhead!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 10, 2008, 04:04:44 PM

Quote from: vehementlovex on September 10, 2008, 03:59:17 PM
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And a shot of Jason's shirt ... has he worn this before?  I asked him and he said he thought he has.  LOL, he was probably wondering how I know all the shirts he's worn on the tour  ;D


HE HAS WORN IT BEFORE! I was looking through the pics i took 8.17.08 in Charlotte.. and look what I found!




he only wore it after the show though.. before the show he made that homemade peace sign shirt from another dreadhead!

LOL.  For some ODD reason when we were posing for our group pic with Jason, I turned to him and outta my mouth came "Jason, is that a new shirt?"  He said "Is it?" and I said "I don't recall seeing it before" and he's like "I think I wore it before?"  LOL - He must have been wondering how *I* would know if he had worn the shirt before.   


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Post by: vehementlovex on September 10, 2008, 04:15:49 PM

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LOL.  For some ODD reason when we were posing for our group pic with Jason, I turned to him and outta my mouth came "Jason, is that a new shirt?"  He said "Is it?" and I said "I don't recall seeing it before" and he's like "I think I wore it before?"  LOL - He must have been wondering how *I* would know if he had worn the shirt before.   


haha thats too funny! I actually spoke real words to him.
and asked him for a favor.
and he said he'd see what he could do. :-D
sooo... im super pumped for datenight!!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 10, 2008, 04:41:27 PM

Okay, I didn't take this video, but someone posted it on youtube from Wilkes Barre!  So cute!

ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8oaOq9on-II

Credit to Mercilesstantalus


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Post by: Mrs. S. on September 10, 2008, 05:40:08 PM

SNOW... FINISH IT ALREADY!!! ;D
Mrs. S.


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Post by: dare2dream on September 10, 2008, 06:48:55 PM

Quote from: Mrs. S. on September 10, 2008, 05:40:08 PM
SNOW... FINISH IT ALREADY!!! ;D
Mrs. S.

I think she said she was going out for the night!  Dang!


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Post by: kali on September 10, 2008, 08:05:56 PM

he wore the same shirt the night before in Providence
<------see avi hahahah


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Post by: etihwwons on September 10, 2008, 08:24:39 PM

I was out all night, and I don't have time to write anymore up. I will be doing some more tomorrow though.

I just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU DARE2DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!  ;D And sorry about there not being anymore tonight, and keeping you guys in such suspense!

Love the pictures!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 10, 2008, 08:47:25 PM

Quote from: kali on September 10, 2008, 08:05:56 PM
he wore the same shirt the night before in Providence
<------see avi hahahah

Oh, Kali!  You little bragga!  Hmmm ... this gives me an idea!  BRB!


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Post by: ilene0124 on September 10, 2008, 09:49:17 PM

I'm still in the process of downloading my pictures, but here's one:

                   
                         


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Post by: ilene0124 on September 10, 2008, 09:52:49 PM

Here's our group shot!!


                       


Now the wind was seriously blowing that day and we were all squinting (including Jason, except that he looks beautiful as always!)!!


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Post by: ilene0124 on September 10, 2008, 09:59:04 PM

Quote from: kali on September 10, 2008, 08:05:56 PM
he wore the same shirt the night before in Providence
<------see avi hahahah

Kali, I texted you that night to tell you the feed was great!  Guess you didn't get it, or didn't know who the heck I was!   


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Post by: dare2dream on September 11, 2008, 03:12:10 AM

Tribute to Kali - Those of you who went to live feed in the early days will "get this"



ha ha ... Maybe I better post it on the main forum so she sees it!  Jason gives Kali the BEAN FACE!


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Post by: ilene0124 on September 11, 2008, 04:03:12 AM

That is so funny Christie!!!!!!!!!!

Good job!


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Post by: castrovote on September 11, 2008, 07:01:44 AM

Hey all ~ GREAT recaps and pictures!    Can't believe the tour is almost over... It's a bittersweet feeling.

I love that shirt he's wearing. He also wore it in Sacramento (post concert), so he's had it for awhile.


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Post by: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 11, 2008, 09:01:56 AM

Just remembered something someone (Christie I think) yelled when we all saw Jason for the 1st time "THE SNAKES ARE FLYIN'!"  Hilarious!


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Post by: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 11, 2008, 09:06:36 AM

Wanna know something else that is HILARIOUS?!?!  Now that my show is over my husband seems to think the whole "Jason thing" is over.  Little does he know we're in this for life and it is just the beginning.  He cracks me up....NOT!


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Post by: vehementlovex on September 11, 2008, 09:09:46 AM

Quote from: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 11, 2008, 09:06:36 AM
Wanna know something else that is HILARIOUS?!?!  Now that my show is over my husband seems to think the whole "Jason thing" is over.  Little does he know we're in this for life and it is just the beginning.  He cracks me up....NOT!


well duh, we're TOTALLY in this for life!

heart & soul baby!


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Post by: MomOf6 on September 11, 2008, 10:45:36 AM

Quote from: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 11, 2008, 09:06:36 AM
Wanna know something else that is HILARIOUS?!?!  Now that my show is over my husband seems to think the whole "Jason thing" is over.  Little does he know we're in this for life and it is just the beginning.  He cracks me up....NOT!
Are all husbands thinking this???  Mine said that to me this morning!!


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Post by: lovinlifeinma on September 11, 2008, 10:51:09 AM

^^^Not mine.  He knew after we met Jason in Providence that my obsession was just going to get worse.  ;D


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Post by: etihwwons on September 11, 2008, 11:22:50 AM

That is REALLY funny that your husbands think the Jason thing is over. LOL! Little do they know..... ;D

Okay, here's some more of my explosion!














I couldn’t believe how close he was when I looked down the line. He was just a few people away, talking and smiling and looking so sweet, and being so nice with the fans. And now I was going to have my moment! Just as long as I didn’t fall apart at the seems and run away screaming.

I tapped the shoulder of the girl who was in front of me, and said: “If I promise to leave right after, after you get to meet Jason, would you let me up to the barrier?” She was very nice, and said absolutely. So I was like: “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” And then, there was a moment.

When he was JUST off to my right, he posed for a picture with someone, and they were both facing my way. Jason had a huge, unbelievably gorgeous smile as he posed for this picture. And his teeth were just absolutely perfect. I couldn’t believe I was getting to see his smile up close and personal and I let out a giggle. Well, he heard the giggle, and he looked at me! Still smiling, and I was still smiling. Needless to say, I turned into a puddle of goo. TOTAL goo. I died. It was like: “OHMIGOSH! We’re making eye contact!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Yeah…it was nice. It was also nice when the nice girl in front of me who I’d tapped, and a girl next to her, who I think was her friend, actually made room for me at the barrier, before Jason had gotten to us. I couldn’t believe it. I was at the barrier, and Jason was RIGHT THERE! Coming toward me very quickly. I can’t remember if he got to the girl on my right before me or not. It’s a little bit fuzzy. But he was suddenly right in front of me, and I was hurling Mr. Gee-tar up onto the barrier and looking at him desperately, unable to actually say anything. He’d almost passed me before he realized it was for him. I might have said: “This is for you,” but I can’t remember. I know there were words somewhere along the line. I think he said thank you when he took it, but I seriously can’t remember that clearly. I was just desperate to make sure he knew it was for and I couldn’t really say it! LOL! Even if I did say it, I can’t remember it.

Now, I’m really not sure what order things went here, but I’ll just pick one order and go with it. LOL!

After I gave the gift to him, he backed off a little bit from the fence and put the guitar down on the ground. And then he stared at it for what seemed like quite a while, almost like he wanted to ask what it was, but didn’t want to sound stupid. It was really funny. I think he also saw the little gift bag that was hanging off the guitar’s neck, which had the necklace and gift card in it, and he might have been debating whether to look through it or not.

But anyway, after he was staring at it for a while, I answered his question before he had to ask. I just said: “It’s a pillow with an PM3 player hookup, and it has speakers in it.” Well, wasn’t I delighted when he lit up like a Christmas tree! He said: “Oh wow! I saw one of those once, and I thought it was so cool!” Of course, I went into the land of delirium, and in this squealy, fan-girly voice, I went: “Yyyyeeeeaaaaahhhhh!”

And then I asked him if he could sign my shirt, and he said sure. He left Mr. Gee-tar in the competent care of the security guy who was standing next to him, and came back to me. There was a part of the design on my shirt that was just light enough so that black ink would show up. So I laid it out flat for him, and said: “Can you sign right…there…?” And I TRIED to point to where I wanted him to sign, but as I was pointing, I noticed that my hands were shaking REALLY badly, so my finger was like all over the shirt. LOL! It was really funny. And I was made a little more nervous because I knew he could see how badly my hand was shaking, so he knew I was really nervous. But that was okay, he got that I wanted him to sign on the light part of the shirt. And then I had another gooey moment. VERY gooey.

He had his hand under the shirt, but he needed to have me put my hand right under where I wanted to have him sign it. So he asked me to put my hand there, for support. Now, I had another brain fart. Okay, again, I was functioning on ONE hour of sleep, and I was talking to Jason, and he was EXTREMELY close to me. So close that if he had been wearing cologne, I would’ve been able to have smelled it. I could not for the life of me figure out where the heck he wanted my hand! I put it under the sleeve to begin with, then he was like: “No, right under there, like a table.” And I tried again, and that wasn’t the right spot. Then I wound up stabbing his hand (the one that was under the shirt) with my finger nail, which strangely made me even more nervous. Like: “HOHMIGOSH! I JUST JABBED JASON’S HAND WITH MY FINGER NAIL! MY HAND TOUCHED JASON’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I wanted to scream. But I didn’t. I FINALLY got my hand in the right spot, and he said: “There we go!” I was grateful that he probably knew how nervous I was, and so wouldn’t assume I was dumb or something.

After all that, his first try at signing the shirt was a failure. Nothing showed up. So then he just put more pressure on the sharpie (and on my hand!!! SQUEEEEEE), and got it to show up, and he started signing. He signed very slowly, and deliberately, and I nearly screamed again when he did a little smiley face. I couldn’t believe it. Words cannot express how flubbered I was. I usually get really fan-girly anyway, but dude, this was special. I was flying high on exhaustion and stupification! Every little thing filled me with such great swells of excitement and delight that I couldn’t breathe. Like, the whole, stabbing Jason’s hand with my finger nail thing…that was an incredible moment for me. LOL! I LOVE his hands, and the fact that his hand and my hand were hanging out underneath the shirt, and that they were TOUCHING was just…too too much. LOL!

So, I’ve given him the gift, and he loved it. I got my shirt signed, and that was perfect. So now, he starts moving away, and I can’t ask for a hug! I’m totally mute, and he’s moving away, and if I don’t ask for a hug, I’m not going to get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Post by: vehementlovex on September 11, 2008, 11:49:13 AM

oh gosh!


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Post by: vehementlovex on September 11, 2008, 11:56:29 AM

So I bought a Jason Castro fanclub package and I got it in the mail the day I got home from Wilkes Barre.

and THEN today, I got another one in the mail! BUT.. I only paid for one.
My membership, necklace and shirt came in the mail on Monday. I messaged Jason's mom and McLovin because I got worried, I don't want to be ripping jason off!

McLovin messaged me back right away and told me they'll find out whats going on for sure and if Betsy can just send me a pre-paid mailing label or if I should just keep it. They were happy for my honesty.

I just know how much i spent... and to be receiving almost all of that again.. for free?! that wouldn't be very nice to just keep and not tell anyone about the mistake.


Did this happen to anyone else?


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Post by: etihwwons on September 11, 2008, 12:22:18 PM

That's pretty strange! It's good that you let them know about it though. I can't wait to join! I haven't yet. Before the concert, things were so crazy that I couldn't even check out the site that closely!!! I made a username for the cafe but never even got to verify it! So once my explosion is done, and I've gotten the pictures and everything taken care of, I'll be checking it out, and JOINING THE FANCLUB! YEAH!  ;D

Speaking of the pictures, man, I can't wait to post them! ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I can't wait to finish this explosion! You know how much anticipation you guys are feeling? Well for me, I just want to get it all out at once, and I can't! I'm too busy! LOL! I've got the rest of the pre-concert stuff, PLUS the concert! But that's okay...it'll probably just be an average-sized explosion, though it feels like it's taking me forever to write! LOL!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 11, 2008, 12:30:57 PM

Quote from: etihwwons on September 11, 2008, 12:22:18 PM
That's pretty strange! It's good that you let them know about it though. I can't wait to join! I haven't yet. Before the concert, things were so crazy that I couldn't even check out the site that closely!!! I made a username for the cafe but never even got to verify it! 

Don't worry.  I noticed Jason hasn't verified his account yet either, LOL.


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Post by: etihwwons on September 11, 2008, 01:51:42 PM

LOL! He has an excuse though. Hehehe. I did activate my account after I made that post, and I checked things out a LITTLE bit anyway. I feel better now. LOL!

Okay, here's some more.














It’s not really surprising that I was unable to speak for a few seconds after watching him so sweetly sign my shirt, and after having had words with him. Especially when what I needed to say was: “Can I have a HUG!?” A hug! From Jason! Oh the mere thought of it made my head tingle! Of course my head was already tingling, and I was about to just burst into flames right there on the spot.

Finally though, when he was like, about 2 or 3 people down the line from me, I leaned as far against the barrier as I could, and called out pitifully: “Can I have a hug?” He said sure, and started to come back over to me. He got close, and stretched out his right arm REAL wide. I was like: “Heeeeee…..I get to go there!”

So I leaned in, and put my arm around him, and he put his arm around me, and HE HUGGED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I honestly don’t remember an awful lot about it, except that I got to feel the DREADS! DUDE! They feel fuzzy. There I was, hugging Jason, and as a bonus, I got to feel the dreads! With my left hand. Oooooohhhhhhhooooooo! It was nice! LOL!

It was a REALLY great hug. Absolutely perfect. That image of him with open arms (or rather, open arm) is burned into my memory. And the way his dreads felt, of course. After it happened, I couldn’t even remember feeling his arm around me, but I know it was because Christie’s husband got the whole thing on video, and she sent me a cap of the hug moment, and his arm is around me. It was just all a blur of intense delirium. And everything else was overshadowed by the dread touch. If I ever get another hug, I’m going to ignore the dreads, and concentrate on how it feels to have his arm around me. LOL!

So, after the hug, we pulled away, and I was all like: “Heee hee hhehhhehh hhehhehhhh heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I just hugged Jason! And I didn’t spit, drool, OR frighten him!” The only problem was that I somehow managed to get a Charlie horse in my neck from hugging him. LOL!

I left that part of the crowd very quickly after the hug, and gooed with my mom who’d taken QUITE A FEW GORGEOUS pictures of our encounter, and we walked back to where we’d been before, near the Dreadheads. “Hyper” ain’t the word for how excitedly I told my friend I’d gotten my hug. LOL! The girl who, earlier, had come back swearing about meeting Jason was laughing at my hyperness. I was letting out machine gun bursts of laughter, and flying high. I just kept staring at my now signed shirt, all proud and happy.

Of course, we couldn’t leave let. My friend had yet to get her Cookie hug, and DUDE! Jason was still coming down our way, which meant I was going to get to have another encounter with him! HAH! How ‘bout that? Another encounter with Jason! After I nearly died from the first one? Dude…how much more would I be able to handle? LOL!

I decided that since I hadn’t asked for a picture with him, that I would do so when he came down past us, and also, I’d have him sign the printed out picture I had with me. My mom and friend were like: “You should ask for another hug.” LOL! My friend said he’d probably think it was funny, and he probably would have, but I didn’t have the guts to do that. I didn’t even have the guts to ask him to sign the picture myself. I had to give it to my friend and have her ask. Kinda weird, thinking about it afterward. I just didn’t want to seem greedy, even though I knew he wouldn’t mind.

So we waited until he came down to us. I know it was a little while, but it seems like it was almost instantaneous, from the time I got back to where we’d been, to when he got there, and I know it wasn’t.

[cba]

Wilkes-Barre PA tour thread from DDB - continued:



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Post by: jessica on September 11, 2008, 02:26:47 PM

etihwwons, I'm lovin the detailed account of your explosion.  Can't wait for the next installment!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 11, 2008, 08:45:40 PM

Okay, I'm in the process of uploading videos.  Here's my youtube channel where they will be downloaded (more to be uploaded tomorrow)

ca.youtube.com/user/dare2dreamJC

So far I've uploaded short vids of us talking to Archie and Cook about Jason and also Snow's hug!  The Dreadheads with Jason is in the process of uploading now.  Then I will upload one of Jason with random fans that I don't know!  KLC and more Cook stuff to follow tomorrow.

Enjoy!
Christie


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Post by: vehementlovex on September 12, 2008, 08:10:36 AM

Christie... i saw me in one of your videos! It was me and jason hugging and discussing date night quickly! I was so excited. Im so happy it was captured.


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Post by: dare2dream on September 12, 2008, 10:20:58 AM

Quote from: vehementlovex on September 12, 2008, 08:10:36 AM
Christie... i saw me in one of your videos! It was me and jason hugging and discussing date night quickly! I was so excited. Im so happy it was captured.

Yay!  So far hubby is 3 for 3 on capturing hugs that people didn't even know about!  I wish I had a way to get ahold of the lady in the wheelchair that Jason spent a few minutes with.  I put it on youtube in hopes that they seek it out and find it.


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Post by: vehementlovex on September 12, 2008, 10:21:35 AM

i sure hope they find it. that was so sweet


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Post by: etihwwons on September 12, 2008, 10:24:33 AM

Christie! EEEEEEEEE!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Thank you for the videos being uploaded! I'm so excited my encounter is on video. 2 out of 3 anyway. Just as he was getting to me on the way back for a picture, the video cuts off! LOL! But 2 outta 3 ain't too bad.

As for my explosion, I'm sorry it's taking me so long to finish it!!!!!!!! GAH! You'll have more later today. Hopefully the rest of the pre-concert stuff! And the rest of my Jason stuff! I hope! Just be patient. LOL!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 12, 2008, 10:55:59 AM

Quote from: etihwwons on September 12, 2008, 10:24:33 AM
Christie! EEEEEEEEE!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Thank you for the videos being uploaded! I'm so excited my encounter is on video. 2 out of 3 anyway. Just as he was getting to me on the way back for a picture, the video cuts off! LOL! But 2 outta 3 ain't too bad.

I think I remember seeing you 3 times on the videos.  1 with the hug, then I remember you taking a picture and another one getting your picture signed.  The hug is separate, then you're in the Jason w/ Dreadheads one, and then I think you are in one of the other Jason w/ fans ones ... then your friend is in the Cook (extended version) one.


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Post by: etihwwons on September 12, 2008, 11:04:36 AM

LOL! Okay, I'll have to look at all of them. I only looked at 2 of the Jason ones, and in the one, my picture with Jason was cut. Okay! EEEEEEEE! I've gotta go out just now, but I'm so excited to look at all the videos! You and your husband rock, I have to say! LOL!

GAH! This has made me so darn hyper! I can't wait to get my explosion finished, and get my pics posted, and LOOK AT ALL THE VIDEOS! I'm thanking you from my friend in advance. She's gonna die.  ;D


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Post by: etihwwons on September 12, 2008, 03:51:44 PM

Okay!!!!!!!  ;D I got the rest of my pre-concert part of the explosion written up, and it's below. I'm also going to write about the actual concert itself. Do y'all want to see that too?















We had only been going for what seemed like a minute when he started to round the corner, and come down to us. I chucked my picture at my friend, and mentally prepared myself to ask him for a picture.

Now, somehow, there was suddenly room at the barrier, and my friend jumped in, her picture and my picture ready to go. He got down to the group of Dreadheads, and started chatting with them, all very friendly and sweet. I can’t remember a word of what he said, but I remember being really really soothed by the sound of his voice (which is probably why I have no idea what the heck he said). He had this cute little drawl that I noticed for the first time. I don’t know if I’ve been deaf this whole time (possibly, I don’t always hear accents), or if he was just trying to talk cute. But it was really nice to hear his voice and hear him talking like that.

The one thing I remember clearly is when Tish had her moment with him, and gave him the books. I thought it was so cute how she told him not to stay up all night, and he said he was, ‘cause that’s just what happens. Just so cute! I also think it was her who posed for a picture with him, but the camera that was taking the picture pooped out, and after she left him, she went back and asked for another one! And he said sure! I was like: “Dude! I can’t believe that!” It was just one of those moments that really emphasized the point that he’s really easy-going and sweet. Not that asking for a second picture wasn’t good or anything. It’s just, he was so accommodating, it was so sweet!

I was also amazed by how calm Tish looked as she was meeting him. I seriously wish I had her calmness! LOL! For me, explosions were happening by the second.

He had the two girls next to the grouping of Dreadheads (the one who swore about meeting him before, and the friend, who were getting groped by Mr. Gee-tar) to go through, and then I think my friend was next, and he was right in front of me (AGAIN). She handed him my picture to sign, and as he started to look at it, she told him it was for her friend. He said: "Okay," and then he looked at the picture VERY intently. At the time, I was like: “Okay, why is he staring at the pic for so long!” All insecure and stupid. Now though (and after my friend said what she thought), I think he was reading the words on the picture, and figuring out where he was going to sign it.

He propped the picture on his left wrist, so he could sign it with his right. It was very awkward though, and the sharpie slipped right off the edge of the picture, and he went: “DANGIT! It went off the side!” And his “Dangit” was absolutely adorable! My friend and I both giggled girlishly, and he just shook his head, and put a smiley on it.

After he’d signed my friend’s pic, I asked if I could have a picture. And it was funny, because he said: “I’m gonna do pictures on the way up. I forgot, that’s my method!” And he said “DANGIT” again! It was so stinking cute!

After he’d gone down the line a few people, my friend gave my picture back to me, and I goooooooooooooooooooooooed myself to death. Couldn’t believe that I managed to get my shirt signed, AND the FRONT of my picture signed too! So the front, AND back are signed! It’s a very special picture now! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Judging from the order the pics are in, Cookie came back down the line while Jason was busy down the line. And my friend got her hug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And she managed to get out the question she’d wanted to ask him. She asked him how Adam was doing, and he said: “Good, thanks for asking!” She was thrilled! LOL!

So now, she’d gotten her hug and I’d gotten my hug. All that was left was to wait for Jason to come back up the line and for us to do a picture.

So, logically…

I have no clue how long it was before he came back up. Not a clue. By that point, my brain was COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY fried. Having 2 Jason encounters and a hug, and having my brains fried by the sun, AND having only gotten 1 hour of sleep…..It wasn’t exactly conducive to being able to think clearly.

I don’t even really remember him coming back up the line. I just knew he was coming, and he did some pictures with people as he came up (I’m sure), and suddenly, he was really close to me. He said hi, like he remembered my asking for a picture earlier, and I think I just said: “Picture?” And he was like “Sure.”

Now, I’ve had my picture taken with celebrities before. A couple, anyway. Every time it happens, I look TERRIBLE! I mean, we’re talking, just, BAD! I’m not photogenic anyway, but get me with a celebrity, and I just look like a blob of goo. So to avoid that, I had determined ahead of time that I was going to do a big goofy smile. Make a goofy look. And I’d also thought about just telling him to go ahead and make a goofy face too, but I didn’t think of it when the time came.

So he got real close to me, and leaned against the barrier. I was going to put my arm around him, but then I got shy, ‘cause his arm wasn’t around me, so I just rested my hand on the barrier, and did my pose for the camera.

Well, as I’m posing, I realize that my hand feels kind of funny, and I’m like: “Why does my hand feel so weird?” And then it hit me! Jason was leaning on it! When it hit me, needless to say, I exploded. “HOHMIGOSH! JASON IS LEANING ON MY HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” My hand was touching his stomach, and it was a total accident! So, my left hand had jabbed his hand and hung out with it under my shirt, and it had touched his dreads, and then my right hand touched his stomach!

Couldn’t believe it. I’d gotten to give him my gift, and he loved it; I’d gotten my shirt autographed, I got to touch his hand, I GOT A HUG! I got the front of my picture signed, I got a posed picture with him, and I TOUCHED HIS STOMACH! Without meaning to, of course, but still. Having Jason lean on your hand is a very unique experience.

After the picture, he moved on, and I heeeeeeeeeed and gooooooooed myself into an oblivion for the thousandth time. And then my mom showed me the picture that she took of us. OH MY GOSH! I actually don’t look like a mutant in it!!!! And the best part is that JASON WAS MAKING THE EXACT SAME FACE AS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were both making the same face, and neither of us knew the other was doing it! It’s TOTALLY awesome! It’s one of the best pictures of me, and it’s with JASON! Of course Jason makes any picture look beautiful, no matter who’s in it, or what’s in it. He could make a hunk of mold look beautiful.

So anyway, after that, even though we wanted to see Michael, we just left. We were hot, we were tired, and we’d gotten EXACTLY what we’d wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And there was much rejoicing.


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Post by: etihwwons on September 12, 2008, 04:18:31 PM

BTW, Tish, don't think I've forgotten about your picture! I don't even usually look at the pictures thoroughly until after I do my explosion. If you want, we can e-mail it to you sooner, or you can just wait until I get all of them done up. Whatever. 


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Post by: iLoveJasonCastro on September 12, 2008, 06:22:20 PM

DREADHEADS!!! Helllo! I am very sorry that I didnt get to post since the Wilkes Barre concertt on Monday but it was the best EVER!!! I'll tell you my story--

Well I couldnt get there early because my mom didnt get off work until 4 ( I skipped school SHH!!) lol So sadly i didnt get to meet him with the other dreadheads. When we got there it was about 6:00.  Me, my mom, my sister, my two aunts, and my two cousins all went together. When we were pulling into the parking lot the people standing in front of that fence started screaming so I JUMPED out of the car and SPRINTED over to the fence (despite my injured leg from volleyball) I missed him... I got to th fence and someone told me that JAson just went onto his tour bus.. I was sad but I know he obviously had to come back out of it! So i stood there and waited... THE DOOR TO HIS BUS OPENED AND I STARTED SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF!! I had my Jason Castro shirt on that said Dreadhead number 338 and blue glowstick necklaces and bracelets and i even had my nails painted and each hand spelled out JASON. LOL  Well anyway... The fence was kinda far from the bus but i still saw him clearly and everytime he went into or out of the bus he would sweetly look up at the screaming fans and smile and wave!! I was so thrilled that I started crying and this nice woman in front of me was like "Aww! You're shaking!" After he went back inside we went in and took our seats (section 108) .  I was sitting patiently through the concert waiting for Jason. I got my camera out knowing that he would be next cuz he was #4 and my heart was RACING. OF COURSE THEY HAD TO PUT THE LIGHTS ON AND CALL AN INTERMISSION! HOW DARE THEY!!! FINALLY, he came out... gorgeous as ever and sang beautifully. Between his songs when it was semi-quiet me and my cousin screamed "WE LOVE YOU JASON!" the loudest my voice has EVER went!!!! I hope he heard us! I took many pictures and videos ( I will post them later). The concert was over... I was sad, but then we went and stood out by the fence again... waiting... the door to the arena opened and I was the FIRST ONE who saw him come out I screamed at the top of my lungs "JASON!!!" HE LOOKED UP AND WAVED TO ME!!! I completely LOST IT!!! I was soooooooooooooo happy!! He actually SAW ME!!!! OMG!! i was jumping like crazy! Definately one of the best moments in my life! He went back into the arena while they were loading up the buses.. then a security guard comes over to us and says "They are having an autograph signing at the west enterance." I SPRINTED OVER THERE!! But of course there was already a huge crowed... my aunt know how much i love Jason and she shoved me up a little further, there were about 3 ppl in front of me. I stood on my tippy toes the whole time. First Kristy Lee cam out (I didnt get hers cuz i was waiting for my lover to come out!) THEN----- Kristy went in..... JASON CASTRO CAME OUT!!!!!! I SCREAMED I SCREAMED I SCREAMED!!! I held my program up in the air for him to reach it and while he was making his way down the line i had my arm up in the air taking pictures.. ( I thought my toes were gonna break for standing up so high on them ) then he came closer.  A girl in front of me by the rope got to take her picture with him!  HOW FRIGGIN LUCKY!!  I shoved my arm out there so he could get my program, he went to reach for it and i froze like i was paralyzed! (I WAS TOUCHING THE SAME BOOK AS HIM!!) lol that sounds a little ridiculous. Then my aunt is like MCKENZIE HE HAS IT LET GO!! so i let go.. he saigned it and held it out for me!! I was hypnotized! then once he gave it back I was screaming "JASON I AM DREADHEAD NUMBER 338!!!" I really hope he heard me.. I cannot believe I was 3 feet away from our boy Jason. I know I didnt get to meet him or give him a hug, but that is good enough to please me... He waved good bye and went back inside. Then Brooke came out and told us they had to go so no one else would be signing any more autographs. I was soo thankful that Jason was one of the only two idols that came out to the fans!! I said a prayer thanking him and God for letting me have that chance! I was so happy I got his autograph and he waved to me! It was the best night of my life and even sitting here writing this is making me cry. If only that could happen again! It was the most fun I'd ever had and i am so grateful! I love Jason!!  ♥


Tell me what you think Dreadheads! Sorry it took so long to write!


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Post by: Olivia Ortiz♥ on September 12, 2008, 07:41:39 PM

omg.. the part bout you feeling paralyzed is exactly what i did... in houston... he came out and i heard people screaming so i turned around and there he was.. i was shaking sooo bad lol


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Post by: dare2dream on September 12, 2008, 07:47:58 PM

McKenzie, I'm so happy you got to see Jason after the concert and to get an autograph!  Lakendra has some photos posted on her myspace with the crowd after the concert.  I don't think she'll mind if I post them here since she is visiting family until next week. Maybe you will see yourself in the crowd:




















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Post by: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 12, 2008, 08:40:59 PM

Quote from: etihwwons on September 12, 2008, 04:18:31 PM
BTW, Tish, don't think I've forgotten about your picture! I don't even usually look at the pictures thoroughly until after I do my explosion. If you want, we can e-mail it to you sooner, or you can just wait until I get all of them done up. Whatever. 


I am still laughing at the explosion.  You actually looked really calm the whole time.  You seemed like this quiet, tall, skinny, shy girl the whole day.  Little did we all know you are a exploding powerhouse who can tell a heck of a story.  You should be a writer!

I can definitely wait for the picture....I am enjoying this too much to be interrupted by email exchange.  Carry on.....


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Post by: etihwwons on September 13, 2008, 07:14:35 AM

Aww, McKenzie, I'm so happy for you!!!!! EEEEEEEEE!  ;D ;D ;D Congrats! That paralyzation feeling really is somethin', ain't it? So happy, again, that you got to meet him! And how fortunate too, since only TWO came out! Leave it to Jason to be one of them!

LOL Tish! "Exploding Powerhouse"...I like that. Hahaha! I still, to this morning, think he thought I was creepy. And I have to say, that after everything that happened, when he posed for his picture with the two girls next to me (the ones Mr. Gee-tar liked), I was so jealous that he put his arms around both of them! Even though I'd gotten a hug! How absurd is that!? Lunacy I tell ya, LUNACY!

I'll get started on the rest of the explosion later today. A couple of exciting things DID happen during the concert (my left hand was EXTREMELY happy that day, I tell ya!!!), and I'm looking forward to writing it all! Though it won't be all that long in comparison to the pre-concert stuff, that's fer sure! This thing is already 13 pages long, and the concert hasn't even started yet!  ;D Well, the longest one I ever did wound up being about 30 pages. That was for the concert where I got to meet Josh Groban, and got to stand at the stage for the last 4 songs. This one will probably wind up being a good 17-18 pages.

Okay! Enough mindless rambling! I CAN'T WAIT TO UPDATE MY SIGGY!

[cba]

Wilkes-Barre PA tour thread from DDB - continued:


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Post by: lakendra on September 13, 2008, 08:40:27 AM

Dare to Dream -
Thanks so much for posting these after shots as I was hoping maybe someone would find themselves in the photos.  I just held the camera up and was amazed at the number of people as well as Jason's grace and patience..this crowd was crazy, passing towels, shirts, programs...running off to buy stuff and bring it back. Those photos only tell half the story.  It was chillly, windy and the moon was covered by an orange mist...it was surreal and yet I was so happy just to be able to lurk in the moment! : )

All is well in Cleveland, however not much time for the computer! I have been trying to look at photos and posts......

Your videos are awesome...your husband is amazing! Anyone who would like to see my photos...feel free to go to my myspace: myspace.com/laranco  They are in the Wilkes-Barre album...Duh (I'm such a dork!)

I have to write something, and will, just haven't been able to devote enough time to it! 

Snow...told ya he'd like yur gitarrrrrrrrrr gift!  Ha ha!

And Tish...my dreadhead magnet is on my Mom and Dad's fridge till I get home. How thoughtful, creative and just dang sweet of you to do something for everyone!!! Also...thanks for takin' the balloons...what a fiasco that turned out to be...but worth it!! And your darlin' boy...he looked up at me at one point and I said, what's up?...what would you like?  And he said, "I just want to get my towel signed.!" And we made a little path for him to get up front and he waited...so cute and so patiently for the Dreadhead King!"  What a sweetheart!  Loved meeting you both!

Thanks everyone for your  experiences...that day counts right up there as one of the best for me and you all helped to make it special! Oh yes, Flat Jasonnn had a great time too didn't he!!!? He and his clone were pretty worn out after the night! (Right Ilene???) Wow...we had such a blast!

Until a bit later...
peace, love, and Castro,

Lakendra, LK, Linda


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Post by: etihwwons on September 13, 2008, 11:45:02 AM

Hah! It was you! HEHEHE! I thoroughly appreciated your comment about the gift, and was THRILLED when he lit up so much.

Flat Jason....okay, was that the one that groped someone's leg? I remember it fell on someone's leg, and then everybody was like: "Oh my gosh! Jason's groping your leg!" LOL! Who was that who had it fall on them? There certainly was an awful lot of that going on that day! Between Flat Jason, and Mr. Gee-tar! Jeez! Fresh!

Okay, I'll be starting on the rest of my explosion soon. Should have all the rest of it, and pictures sown up, like, between now, and Tuesday.  ;D

Can't BELIEVE tonight is the last night of the tour!!!!!!!!! 


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Post by: etihwwons on September 13, 2008, 12:36:40 PM

Okay, here's a little bit more of the explosion.  ;D














So, we left the crowd, and went back to the car where my dad had been sitting the whole time reading and listening to music. We all gave him EXTREMELY hyper accounts of everything that had happened, and showed him the pictures, and all of that. Then we went Bennigan’s (or however it’s spelled) for lunch/dinner, and we got there at about 4:30 or so. I brought my t-shirt in with me, so I could put it on, and wear it proudly to the concert.

I tell ya, as we were sitting there, I got SO TIRED! Oh my goodness….that one hour of sleep really caught up to me, that and all the excitement of the afternoon, which had taken up a lot of energy. I just wanted to curl up on the table and go sleepy! Oh goodness, it was insane. I kept having mood swings! I’d go from OVERLY excited, to panicky, to exhausted, and back again. It was real interesting. LOL! Didn’t know how I was gonna get through the concert without sleeping. In fact, at that point, I just wanted to go home. Hahaha!

Really though, the pre-concert stuff WAS the main event for us, and the concert was just an added bonus. And at that point, it didn’t much seem like that great of a bonus. LOL!

But, my excitement levels rose for a minute when our waitress came by to take our order. I’d already eaten a little bit in the car, and I wasn’t going to get anything more inside, except like, ice cream. So the waitress comes over, and takes our order, and she gets to me, and I tell her to just come back when it’s time to order dessert. And she’s like: “Are you sure?” She was truly baffled by my not eating, so then my dad says: “She can’t eat a lot right now, she just met Jason Castro over at the arena where the American Idols are playing.” Well, then the waitress said: “Oh my gosh, I thought he was so gorgeous on the show! I loved him! If I had a man like that, that would be it!” And then I told her I’d gotten a hug, and she said she hated me. LOL! It was really funny. I was sorely tempted to show her the autograph on my shirt, since it was sitting in my lap, but I decided not to, for fear she’d disembowel me.

After we ate, my friend and I went to the restroom to freshen up, and I put my shirt on. And then I was gleefully pointing at my chest (where the autograph was), with this really stupid grin on my face. I swear, if anyone else had come into the bathroom at that moment, they would have called the men in white coats.

So we got done there, and got to the arena. I got all my gear on. My blue star glow necklace, my glow pen necklace, my errrm, nifty glow thingy that I can’t explain, but which is AWESOME, and then there were my two Jason buttons, and my one David button. I had to put two of the buttons on my stomach, so they wouldn’t cover the autograph. And then there were my signs! And then we had the skyliner (really cool thing), and all sorts of other concert gear. Not to mention my towel! LOL!

We got in, and I bought a couple of key chains, we got ourselves put together and oriented, and went off to find our seats. Section 119, row F.


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Post by: HannaB2 on September 13, 2008, 01:49:05 PM

LOL   Snow, I'm really enjoying your explosions.  I'm so glad you had such a positive experience, and glad you got that David head shot signed!!  It's great that you got your hug and picture!!  Thanks for letting me know you're posting your experience!  I look forward to the rest of your epic novel! 


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Post by: HannaB2 on September 13, 2008, 01:50:32 PM

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to post your stories and upload your videos!  After tonight, I plan on going back and reading about all the encounters and watching the videos!!   


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Post by: etihwwons on September 13, 2008, 05:43:34 PM

Yeah, I'm SO glad I got it signed too!!!!!!! LOL! That head shot's been through a lot.  ;D

I'm glad you're enjoying the explosion. I HOPE to be able to finish it tomorrow. Sorry it didn't work out to gitter done today. Ack! I want this thing to be done so badly! LOL! It's like that song that has the line about how when the song-writer has finished writing, it would no longer be inside her "threatening the life it belongs to"! That's how I feel! It has to all come out, and I don't have the time to get it all out at once. LOL!


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Post by: dare2dream on September 13, 2008, 09:46:26 PM

These pix from Wilkes Barre are amazing! 

s257.photobucket.com/albums/hh215/njsas08/080908%20AI%20WB/Jason/

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Post by: HannaB2 on September 13, 2008, 11:26:54 PM

Wow.    Whose pictures are those in that Photobucket?   They are unbelievable! 


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Post by: dare2dream on September 14, 2008, 05:09:52 AM

I found the link in the Wilkes Barre thread on Castrocopia.  Aren't they AMAZING!?


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Post by: etihwwons on September 14, 2008, 11:24:33 AM

Heavens, yes! They are gorgeous! Yowzah! Thank you MUCHLY for the link!!!

Okay, I'm getting started on the rest of my explosion! I hope to get it DONE today!

[cba]

Wilkes-Barre PA tour thread from DDB - continued:


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Post by: etihwwons on September 14, 2008, 12:25:52 PM

Okay, here's the beginning of the end!  ;D















Well, I nearly peed my pants when I saw our seats! I knew that we had good seats, because, as I said a LONG time ago, at the very beginning, we’d been to a Josh concert at that arena, and had had the exact same seats, just on the other side. However, no matter how many times I go to a concert, when I see my seats, I’m always tickled pink. And these were DANG good seats! The catwalk/walkway out into our section ENDED in our row. Not the row below, not the row above, but OUR ROW!!!!!!!!!!! And my seat was 2 seats away from it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And our “F” seats actually wound up being “D” seats. LOVE  how that section is set up. If you’re closest to the stage in those sections, there are 2 less rows in front of you. So what’s marked as the 6th row, is actually the 4th row. So there we were, 4 rows up, RIGHT NEXT TO THE CATWALK!!!!!! So that meant that anyone who came over, well, I could reach out and grab their hand! And my friend was thrilled, ‘cause she knew that Cookie would be coming over, and standing up on the railing on the catwalk during the Hero song!

It was all very exciting.

The two seats next to me filled up, but the people who sat there were nice. There was a very nice boy (he was probably 17 or 18) who was an extremely ginormous Brooke fan, and who had met her about 4,000 times, and he had on a shirt with pictures of them together, and all of that. He was with a nice lady who sat next to me. She was unable to stand up straight, and she couldn’t stand at all during the concert. But, there’ll be more about that later.

She asked me what my signs said, so I showed her the Jason one first. (DH # 590 is Craaazy 4 Jasonnn.) And she giggled, and then she said: “Wow, you have a high number! I’m like number 2560!” (Not EXACT number…) I was really surprised that I wound up sitting next to a Dreadhead! LOL! She seemed like the type though who would have joined ALL the fan groups of each contestant. She liked everyone.

And then I showed her my David Archuleta sign. (Archie + WYSYLM = 1  Grobanite.) And as she was looking at it, I asked her if she knew who Josh Groban was, and she said yes, and I was like: “DUDE! I’m sitting next to one rockin’ lady!” LOL! And so I just explained that one of David’s songs is a Josh song. Her…whatever he was to her, I’m not sure, asked what a Grobanite was, which was pretty funny.

My friend and I asked her if she’d be offended if we reached over her if someone came out onto the catwalk, and she was like: “Probably, but everyone else will do it, so go ahead.” It was pretty funny!

I have to say that this time, I did get a kick out of the pop tarts dude a little more this time. Still mildly annoying, but I didn’t want to tear his head off like last time. LOL! Nobod was really cheering very loudly when he was out, and he was trying to get everyone going, and it was kinda like pullin’ teeth outta chickens.

But that was okay, because when the lights went down, and the music started, everyone started screaming, and we got up on our feet, light sticks and all waving!


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Post by: etihwwons on September 14, 2008, 01:23:13 PM

More!














Okay, so, obviously, the concert was awesome. Even though both my favorites are AFTER the intermission, the first part was still extremely enjoyable, because I do like everyone. Chikeze had lots of energy, and he was really good. He came onto our side of the walkway, and I could see the individual beads of sweat on his forehead. It was totally crazy. I didn’t reach out for him, I was just kinda too surprised by JUST how close he was! LOL!

So he was really good, and enjoyable. And since there were a few people in our section standing, my friend and I decided to do the same. Now, it’s a pop concert, and we were in the 4th row. It don’t matter WHICH 4th row, it was just the 4th row. Everyone on the floor was standing, everyone in the section across from us was standing, some people in our section were standing. So we stood! It’s what you do! We weren’t planning on standing for the entire concert, but it was the beginning, and there was still excitement flowing around from its just having started.

Well, I have to say that the worst thing about the concert were the group of people behind us. They came in with a lousy attitude, complaining bitterly about the seats. I don’t think they’d ever been to a pop concert before, and they were completely clueless. They didn’t know that the curtain that was drawn at the side of the stage before the concert started was going to come down.

Now, as I mentioned before, the lady who was next to me, who was UNABLE to stand due to a physical limitation did not complain ONCE when the people in front of her stood up. Not a WORD! And she had an excuse, and it would have been reasonable for her to have asked the people in front of her to sit down. No one would have thought anything of it. But she didn’t. However, the people behind us, had a different point of view, and after we’d only been standing for a minute, they asked us to sit down. We did, begrudgingly. But we did. However, when Michael came out, we stood up again. Michael was a favorite, and his opening song had EVERYONE on their feet, including the people who were in front of us. Now, they were more directly in front of the people next to me. But when I sat, I could not see Michael through their arms and bodies.

Well, the lady asked me to sit down again, and this time I told her that the people in front of us were standing up. And she started arguing with me about how they weren’t directly in front of us. Well I wasn’t directly in front of her either! She really annoyed me.

This time, I didn’t sit down, ‘cause I wouldn’t have been able to see. And seeing Michael was EXTREMELY important!!! At least for the first song anyway! (I did sit down after the first song.) And holy moly!…..he was in fine form in Wilkes-Barre! I thoroughly enjoyed his set. Of course, his songs rock, he rocks, and he’s just really good. He had some smooth moves too. He took off his LOVELY leather jacket at one point in a very nice way, and he fell on his knees! Of course, I bent over just before he did it to grab my water, and I missed the move! I just heard screams, looked up and saw Michael on the floor, and my friend said what happened, and I nearly whacked myself in the forehead! How could I have missed that!

Yes…..I like Michael, and he was REALLY REALLY GOOD! I was, however, disappointed that he only went onto the walkway on the other side, and not on our side. But heck, I might not have survived that at that point. LOL!

I really think everyone in the first half did quite well. Though the girls seemed like they were either a little bit under the weather, or they had been backstage weeping for hours about how close to the end of the tour they were. Ramiele was a bit off, as were Carly and Brooke. Carly and Brooke still did really well, but they were off, and sounded a little hoarse. Carly looked like she was exhausted. And while Brooke was hoarse, she was still really good. I just love her. Definitely my favorite girl. Jason’s female counterpart.

Well, by the time Brooke was out, I had to use the bathroom. In Rochester, I’d left during the group number just before intermission, so I wouldn’t risk missing Jason. But our row was GINORMOUSLY long, and there was really no way to get out. So I waited.

Loved the group number, and when Michael came out for it, we stood up again for a few seconds to show him our ardent llllllooooooove. Dang! He was a hottt mama!

Sorry…he was just really stunning that night, and it really really struck me.

It was cute, because after Brooke finished her set, and while the group number was getting ready to start, she came around to our side, between all the stage steps and all that, and the railing on the side. She bent down, and put her shoes on (she’d been barefoot). Of course, the kid who was 2 seats down from me waved VERY VERY vigorously at her, and she waved back. It was cute.

Well, intermission started soon, and I started to get REALLY REALLY excited!!!!!!!!!! JASON WAS COMING UP! *SQUEE*


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Post by: etihwwons on September 15, 2008, 02:31:52 PM

Okay, only one more bit of explosion left after this, and then I can start on the PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!













I made a valiant attempt during intermission to head to the bathroom. I figured, if I heard Mr. Poptart Dude start up, I’d just abandon the line and head in. Well, I’d hardly even MOVED in the line (it was a HUGE line), and the guy started up. My dad had come out with me, and was waiting for me, so I signaled him, and we went back in. I felt thoroughly victorious when I got back to my seat.

We brought a black light with us, so we could charge up our signs (they had glow in the dark paint on them), so we started doing that. As Mr. Poptart Dude was doing his thing, I noticed that the people in the section to our left (they had a perfect view BEHIND stage) started screaming! On both sides of the stage. I couldn’t see back there, but I knew that they were screaming because they could see Jasonnn!!!! He was backstage! Getting ready to come on!

Although this part with the Poptart dude/Guitar Hero dude was REALLY amusing (with the little kid’s teacher, who he so lovingly called: “Ms. Barf”), I was SO THRILLED WHEN HE WAS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THE LIGHTS WENT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason came out on OUR side of the stage. I think I was one of the only ones who noticed him coming around in the dark, and I got so excited, I started bouncing up and down, and screaming and going crazy! Just because I saw him come out on stage! And then I gave myself a good shake. Here I was going berserk over his coming out on stage on our side, when I had gotten a HUG from the man earlier! LOL!

As soon as everyone realized he’d come out, there was a lotta screaming. He got a very warm welcome. I have to say that the 4 guys (Jason, David, David and Michael) all got the most applause and cheers. They were the best of the night too.

Jason started OTR, and OBVIOUSLY my friend and I were standing. I was going to stand for OTR, and then sit down. That was the plan. I was standing, my friend was standing, and my mom was standing. I looked around us just to make sure we weren’t the ONLY people standing in the section, and we weren’t. I had my sign up, and was cheering and all happy and gooey.

Hearing his voice live for the first time in Rochester struck me, and I was impressed by how he sounded. In Wilkes-Barre, I was even MORE impressed. He just keeps getting better and better. The more he sings, the better he sounds. There’s such a beautiful tone to his voice that he’s developing more and more as he uses his voice more. It’s almost this kind of smooth, kind of sultry tone. I just love his voice. It’s so unique. And he’s SO relaxing! I was in zen heaven as he was singing. LOL!

At least, that is, until the people behind us went crazy again. It was only about a minute into Over The Rainbow when one out of the group tapped my mom. She said, very angrily: “I don’t mean to be rude, but would you please sit down!” And my mom put her hand on the lady’s arm, and said: “You could stand up. It’s a pop concert.” And then the woman was like: “But then the people behind me won’t be able to see! It’s rude!” And my mom said: “Then they’ll stand up.” And the lady started raising her voice to my mom! I couldn’t believe it.

Even though my mom won the round (without raising her voice, or being rude), she still sat down, and I decided to sit down too, as did my friend. But I resolved that at the end of each of his songs I would stand up, which I did.

Unfortunately, I was fairly distracted through the BEST PART OF THE WHOLE DARN CONCERT because angry rays were coming out of the back of my head at the people behind us. LOL!

As he was introducing Crazy, I was standing (since OTR had just ended), and I had my sign held up, of course, and he went on introducing, and before he said the name of the song, people started screaming in anticipation (obviously fans), and he was like: “And you all know the song, so here it is.” It was just this cute little moment between him and his fans.

I love how chill and cool his rendition of Crazy is. It suits him so perfectly, and he did a great job on it. And on Daydream too. I couldn’t understand most of what he said while he was up there, but that wasn’t too big of a problem, since he doesn’t really say too much anyway. Hehehe. But when he was getting ready to introduce Daydream, he said something about how it had been his first song on the show. And he said something about how there’d been a learning curve or something…..Learning curve, having known all the songs he does on tour already, I don’t know….something along those lines. I’ll have to watch some videos to find out what he said for sure! LOL!

So, yeah…he was great, and when Daydream was over, it was very depressing, because it meant he had to go. So sad!

It was nice to just relax and chill out during Syesha’s part. I’m not so much into her, and other than the times when she hit notes that make bats cringe, it was nice to just sit and recover from the excitement of Jason. LOL! Especially since Archie was coming up next. There’s no way I could handle Jason and Archie going back to back. OVERLOAD! So Syesha gave the explosiveness some time to cool off.

After her last song, everybody got really excited, because they knew Archie was next. And as she’s introducing him, that LOVELY door in the floor of the stage opens up, where the piano sits underneath, and comes up. After the left, there was a pause with lots of screaming, and you could see the top of the piano, and the top of his head. And then there was the smoke, and then he started to come up, and started on Angel.

Now, the two girls who were in the front row of our section stood up when he came onto the stage. That was fine. However, one of them had a big sign, and she held it up WAY over her head. Blocking my view, and the nice two people who were sitting next to me….’s view too.

The lady next to me was HILARIOUS!!!!! This was the one point where she got a little miffed. She yelled out: “Get that sign down, or I’m gonna beatcho head!” It was so stinking hilarious! She was trying to get the girl to put the sign down for half of Angel. I couldn’t see Archie, I could only hear him (I didn’t stand up because by that time, it wasn’t worth getting yelled at by the crazy people behind me…however, I found out later from my mom that THEY STOOD UP FOR ARCHIE!!!!!!!!!), and along with his amazingly gorgeous and stunning and earth-shattering voice, the lady next to me kept trying to yell out so that the girl could hear her. So I had Archie singing in one ear, and the nice lady yelling in the other. LOL! FINALLY, the girl got the message, and put her sign down, and I could see David playing the piano, AND hear him sing.

Ooooooohhhhhhhhhh his voice does things to me! Voices like that are the kind that make my legs crumble beneath me. And with the smoke that was POURING out onto the stage, and off the stage into the audience, it made for an almost ethereal experience.

Now I remembered that David comes over onto the walkway during Stand By Me, and the mere thought of it made me feel weak. If Jason had come over, I would’ve died a thousand deaths. The fact that he didn’t is the ONLY thing about the concert that could have been better.

Anyway, Angel was amazing, and then he went into Apologize. HEAVENS! I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely love it! And the way he does it is amazing. I wish he would record it. It’s just awesome, and the way he moves when he’s singing it…You know, for a 17-yr-old, the boy sure has an awful lot of mojo and charm! It’s alarming. Makes me feel really warm and fuzzy, and then I get freaked out that I’m feeling that way OVER A 17-YR-OLD BOY! Who’s really really short!

So, anyway…His voice is awesome, and he’s a lovely performer, and he started Stand By Me.


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Post by: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 15, 2008, 04:24:31 PM

How old are you Snow?


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Post by: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 15, 2008, 04:27:24 PM

I loved Archie too!  Way more than on the show.  He just kind of grew on me throughout the tour.  He also has the voice of an angel and that that kind of sealed the deal.  WHOOP for Archie.  Brooke too.  She was way up there for me at this show....love her!


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Post by: etihwwons on September 15, 2008, 06:00:17 PM

I'm 22. And I remember you talking about Archie when he came out. I was like: "YAY! Another Dreadhead loves Archie!"

Okay, here's THE REST OF THE EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!













Ooooohhhhhhoooooohhhhhhoooooo! *Heh-um* IS HE 18 YET SO I CAN HAVE A CRUSH ON HIM??? I honestly don’t know…

Anyway, love his performance of this song. I think we stood during Stand By Me (I managed to see the lady who had tapped me earlier standing, so I decided to stand, and he might actually have told the audience to stand, not sure), and when he started to mozy on over to the walkway on our side I got really really excited.

He came up so slowly, it was like he was teasing us. That little booger! And dude, if I loved how he moved during Apologize, then how he moved during Stand By Me had me losing my head. He has these adorable little dance moves that are very, well, cute. They make ya feel like you’re gonna ooze outta your seat! The closer he got the more I felt like I’d been hit over the head with an EXTREMELY gooey hammer. I’m almost glad Jason didn’t come onto our side of the walkway. If Archie was making my brain explode, I don’t even want to think about what Jason’s coming over woulda done. Even though I’d already met him, there’s a difference between what happens before and after a concert, and what happens DURING a concert, while the man is singing.

So, anyway, he gets to the edge of the catwalk, where I am only 2 seats away from him, and I’m like, “HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” And then I start mentally slapping myself for getting so excited over a BOY (again).

His hair looks very interesting when you’re that close. He’s really awfully cute. *Heh-um* Anyway, I TRIED to have a hand moment with him, and held my arm out, but it wasn’t out far enough, and he couldn’t reach. So I didn’t get to touch his hand. But that was okay. It was funny, afterwards, I turned to my friend and told her he had short arms so he couldn’t reach me. LOL!

So then, he finished the song, and I stood up WITH my sign, ‘cause it was now time for it. And he took a good long time introducing When You Say You Love Me, and I had the sign up the whole time. He was so adorable as he was introducing it. I love what he says to introduce the song (this thing is already 20 pages, so I won’t elaborate). Once he started, I sat down. He did a beautiful job on my song. It was fantastic. I still honestly can’t believe that he decided to put a Josh song in his set. That is just the most awesome thing ever!

Of course, I stood back up when he was done, sign held up and everything. It was great fun. While he saw the sign in Rochester, he didn’t here. But that was okay. I felt like a proud Grobanite/Arch Angel while holding it up. LOL!

So then out came David number 2. I switched seats with my friend so she would get to be closer to him when he came out onto the catwalk. And then the most fantabulous thing happened. Of course, I hadn’t gotten a chance to use the bathroom during intermission. And once Archie was gone, it hit me all of the sudden that if I didn’t use the bathroom THAT SECOND, my kidneys were going to explode. There was no way I could wait through Cookie’s 5 songs. So I had to disrupt an ENTIRE ROW OF PEOPLE so that I could run out to use the bathroom. It was great. I only missed most of his first song though, and got back pretty quick. I was bent double as I came back into our row, and moving really fast so that I wouldn’t put the peeps out for longer than was absolutely necessary. Only problem was that my friend had bent down to get something, and she didn’t see me coming. Well, I rammed her head with mine so hard it left me feeling concussed through the whole second song. And my friend wound up getting a bad headache from it. So that was fun. It’s a miracle I can remember as much from the concert as I can. LOL!

I don’t have all that much to say about Cookie, I mean….he’s COOKIE! He’s the epitome of cool (even though he wears funny pants). He’s a cool guy, and he’s got a really pretty face, and he has a cool voice. It doesn’t make my legs crumble out from under me like Archie’s voice, and it doesn’t do to me what Jason’s voice does, but I like it. It’s cool.

He introduced the Hero song, and my friend got really excited, because she knew it was during that song that he comes over and stands up on the rail.

Now, somehow, when he does this song, it’s really exciting, and it really gets everyone going. I don’t know why but it is. The song, I actually find almost annoying, because it’s like, the same 10 words over and over again, and then just loud guitar slamming. But somehow, it’s incredibly exciting when he’s performing it! It’s just cooooooool. LOL!

It was REALLY cool when he came over to our walkway. REALLY REALLY REALLY cool! He came over, and got himself up onto the railing, and his legs were like, 2 feet away from me. And he looked really beautiful as he looked up into the audience at all the people. His neck and chest were splotchy. I had a great view up his nose. It was cool. My friend thought so too! LOL!

So that was really neat. The rest of his set was great, and then he came back out to do his encore song, and then there was the group number finale. Jason came out onto the stage on our side, like he’d done for his own set, and before he’d come out onto the main part of the stage, our side sections gave him a very excited warm welcome, and he looked up at all of us and waved, and gave us all a huge grin. It was great.

Now, of course, when Jason goes up the walkway on the side, it’s on the opposite side from where we were. Only part about the concert that stunk. But I figured, hey, I’d gotten a hug from him, so, you know….I hadn’t however gotten a hug from Archie ‘cause he’d been in such a rush. And THANKFULLY Archie didn’t go on the same side as Jason. HE CAME BACK OVER TO OUR SIDE!!!!!! My friend moved out the way so I could get as close as I possibly could, and I reached my arm out (WAY OUT). The lady next to me reached her hand out too, so I made sure that what I was doing wouldn’t interfere with her chances. He started shaking hands on the other side of the walkway, and made his way around. He took the hand of the lady next to me, and then he was about to leave the walkway, he saw my hand, hesitated, and then he reached out and TOOK MY HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the second his hand touched mine, I brought my thumb down on his fingers and gave him a squeeze (so…I’ve hugged Josh Groban’s wrist, and now I’ve hugged Archie’s hand…)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn’t believe it! His tiny little fingers were IN MY HAND! Of course, my uhh, grip was a little bit firm…..In fact, I nearly swung the poor boy right into my row. I didn’t mean to have a vice grip on his fingers, it was just a result of how far I was reaching out, kind of a balance thing. If I had been holding on any less tightly, I probably would have fallen right into the nice lady’s head. It was okay though. He did finally get manage to get away.

But dude……it was perfect! It really couldn’t have been more perfect. I got EVERYTHING I wanted from Jason, I got my cousin’s Archie head shot signed, and I got to grab his hand! *Squeal* It was really great. Everything before the concert was a dream, and the concert itself was wonderful! And it ended on a HUGE high note! I TOUCHED ARCHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Sigh* It was all great.

And getting a hug from Jason was exactly what I needed that day. The day had started off miserably, and it had ended wonderfully. And I slept all the way home.

It was neat, we left the arena, and exited using the door that the Idols had come out of earlier in the day. There was a big crowd standing there, and it was a weird glimpse into what the Idols see when they come out to greet the fans.

After we’d traveled around Wilkes-Barre for FOREVER to find a place to use the bathroom, we passed by the arena again, and someone was outside signing autographs. We couldn’t see who it was, but it looked like a guy, and if only 2 people came out afterwards, one of them being Jason, I’m guessing it was probably him who was out. If that’s the case, that’s pretty darn cool!

So, we didn’t get home until 2:30 in the morning, and we were all so exhausted the day after that we were near weeping. LOL! But it was all worth it!



                     THE END! (FINALLY!)


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Post by: InDREADiblyGorgeous on September 16, 2008, 11:03:12 AM

I freakin' love it...the explosion that is.  Thanks for keeping the dream alive for a little bit longer!

PM me if you ever want to go to a Jason or Archie concert.  We're there!


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Post by: etihwwons on September 16, 2008, 02:49:29 PM

Well I'm glad you've enjoyed it! I certainly had fun writing it up, and posting for everyone. I've got a few of the pictures ready to upload, and I HOPE I'll be able to get them all up tonight. I really hope so. These pictures are absolutely GORGEOUS! One of them, the first time I saw it, I about died! It's amazing. So hopefully, the wait you guys have had to endure for these pics will have been worth it. 


################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: etihwwons on September 17, 2008, 01:57:12 PM

Okay, here are all the pre-concert pictures. I'm not going to post the two that Tish are in, unless she gives me permission to. However, there are Dreadheads in several of these pics. Hope you guys don't mind. 

And PLEASE, anyone who sees these, don't crop them, and PLEASE DO NOT REPOST anywhere other than in the pictures section here, or on JCM. Other than those 2 places, again, please don't repost them. (Unless you're in it, and you want to show it off somewhere.) And as for the picture of ME with Jason, that stays here. LOL!  ;D Don't repost it period. Thanks. 

Okay, enjoy!!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D They're all 800 pixels wide, so just right-click, view image, to see the bigger version.

























^That was the smile I talked about in my explosion, just before he got to me, where I saw THE TEETH, and started giggling, and he looked at me! I think this was just before he looked at me. AHHHH!

And here are all the pictures my mom got of my first encounter with Jason. You can see the side of my face, and my hair on the left side of the picture, in all of them. And in this first one, you can see Mr. Gee-tar's head. I've just given it to him. And the second picture is one of my all-time favorite pictures of him. It's absolutely gorgeous. I think it's when I'm telling him where to sign my shirt, and my hand is shaking.




















^Hehehe, I think that's where he talking about his office. That was so cute, and I'd forgotten all about it until I saw the video!



^Tish's bundle. I cropped the side of my face out of this one. LOL!




And finally, my picture with Jason. Again, DO NOT REPOST ANYWHERE!!! LOL!








And then the last picture of Jason. The two girls he posed with after me. (The one on the left was the one whose leg Mr. Gee-tar liked, and the one on the right was the one who came back swearing about how she'd met Jason on the other side...these 2 girls, for some reason, fill me with rage when I see this picture. LOL!)








I'll post the concert pictures when I get them up. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to put these up!!! I tried to last night, but I couldn't get on the site!

If anyone who was in any of these pictures wants either a bigger version, a version without my screenname and stuff on it, or both, let me know. 


Edited to add: I forgot to put up the two caps that Christie took of the video her husband got. One of them is MY HUG!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! That reminds me, I'd love to make an animation of my hug for an avitar. Are these videos up for DOWNLOAD yet?








################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: HannaB2 on September 17, 2008, 11:45:10 PM

Thanks for the great stories and pics, Snow!  You look so cute with Jason...like you were happy or something! 

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Wilkes-Barre PA tour thread from DDB - conclusion:



################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: missmeliss on September 17, 2008, 11:46:16 PM

I LOVE EVERYONES STORIES AND RECAPS!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

they were amazing!!!!!!!!!


################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: etihwwons on September 19, 2008, 01:04:40 PM

Okay, after nearly TWO STINKING WEEKS, I can finally post the last bit of what I have to post from the concert! (Except for my autographs...hehehe)

The concert pics:



























































################Title: Re: 8 September---Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Post by: elel on September 23, 2008, 07:52:06 AM

snow, your pictures are great! esp the jasons and brooke!