mat kearney!

-i love that mat kearney is so much cuter in person. i'll forever go all week in the knees for boys with guitars.

-i love that he still sounds just as amazing live as he does on his cd.

-i love that for the first time in 100+ concerts i got to be the tall guy at the very front and center of the stage, blocking all the people behind me. i finally got to be that guy.

-i love that i was actually close enough to get some decent pictures of him with the camera phone.

-i love that i made it to work on time today with only 2.5 hours of sleep under my belt. mat was so worth it.



i met up with lisa and as always we talked non-stop for the hour drive north to see mat kearney. we hit this one stretch of the highway that had blood splattered all over it, guts and various pieces soon followed. lisa said a poor little deer must have been killed. i told her it looked more like a massacre of twenty-five people with all that blood. seriously, it went on and on.

so we found some free parking and headed to the house of blues. we stopped at the gift shop and looked around to kill some time since we were about forty-five minutes early. a few people were hanging around outside and a few more were walking in. we decided to follow the crowd that was heading in, to avoid the cold. we made it to the door and found out that we were in the ziggy marley line and the ticket girl told us to stand by this one set of doors and wait for 9 when the doors would open. i joked that we looked like we were a museum exhibit since we were standing inside these ropes and people kept walking by us. i was as excited as the twelve year old little girl that i am because mat was doing a sound check and ever time the door would open he was standing right there, about eight feet away. eventually #957 came over, that was his staff shirt number and how we referred to him for the remainder of the evening, to give us a hard time. he asked us what we were doing and we told him waiting for the doors to open. he informed us that we had the wrong colored bracelets on and asked us where we even got the ones that we had. we told him the guy at the door put them on us as we walked in. he then removed the ones that we had on and gave us a new color. he asked us who told us to wait there and we pointed to the ticket girl who just looked over and smiled at us. he asked us if we wanted to be the first ones in or something. lisa informed him that we did because we'd never been the first for anything. he asked us if we VIP passes and we said no. so he told us that we were supposed to be waiting outside with everyone else but if we just would go and sit on a couch he wouldn't make us go to the end of the line. so we did. after a few minutes lisa then walked back up to the first guy who gave us the bracelets and told him how much of an ass #957 was. she explained everything that happened and he said for us to just wait where we were and he'd let us know when they were about to open the doors so we could get in first. i asked lisa if were supposed to watch for a secret sign like three tugs on his ear followed by a scratch of his nose and she just laughed at me. after a few minutes the guy finally told us that we were able to go in so we hurried in and stood right in front of the stage. i had to pee and lisa assured me that she would save my spot. in the few minutes that i was gone about thirty people had filled in around her and made their way in front of us. i was still only two people away from the stage so it wasn't that big of a deal. when the opening act came on and i realized how close we actually were i began to freak out inside. it was insane how close we were, we could see spit flying and drops of sweat. it was such a great show and so much fun. he sounded just as good as his cd and seemed to really love being in front of a crowd. that was one of the best concerts i've ever been to, right up there with matt nathanson show #1, howie day show #1, tonic's acoustic show, and the counting crows show in columbus.



last night completely made up for missing him in ann arbor over the summer.