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I had an eventful weekend.

I went to the FT show on Saturday at ImusicASS. When I arrived Sergio was outside and payed for me to get into the show. I didn’t think that he would pay for me, I thought he was just going to put me on the list. Anyway, let me just cut to the good parts. I found Jesse and he told me that they were doing “shut up” for me, and I was like “oh, what are you trying to say?” and then he goes “no it’s not TO you it’s FOR you”, and I was like riight. So then I saw Scott. He comes up, we hug as is customary. Then he goes “I was just thinking about you today”, and then he said something about how I’m so supportive or something. I was standing with Geoff and a guy from Geoffs band and he kinda said to them something like “yea, when I needed a kidney Valli was there”, like a joking thing..

I think the theme for the night should of been “surprised”, because I was continually surprised by things he said to me. ‘Cause none of the other guys say stuff like that to me, well not entirely true, Kirk has said some great stuff, Sergio talks about putting me on the guest lists and stuff, he says thank you and I know is genuinely appreciative. I think Jesse is appreciative too. Scott has always been the one that I thought didn’t like me or at least I wasn’t sure if he did or not, it wasn’t until after they came home from being on tour all the time that he kept saying all these nice things, like introducing me to his mom and saying that I was instrumental in them getting signed and wondering why I need him to sign my copy of ITNOP ’cause I’m a friend. And then of course there was the infamous night at the show in Berkeley, where we were cheek to cheek for a moment and he said that I should be there carrying him into heaven since I’ve been there from the beginning. He was drunk that night so that left me thinking it was all a fluke. I just realized that he’s 28 this year. Weird. If there was ever something that I never thought about Scott it would be his age, I just never thought about it one way or another.

But I digress. So after saying the kidney thing (or he may of said it before that, I can’t remember the order) he said “you look really, really good” and I was like “thank you”. Purely surprised, because no other guy had said anything to me about how I looked since having the surgery, and to have the first comment come from Scott was like someone just pulled the rug out from under me, but in a very good way. So then I promptly smacked his chest/arm and was like “it totally sucks that you guys aren’t doing the acoustic show”… and he said, what acoustic show? He said that they didn’t tell him about it, then made some joke about how they only let him decide which beer to get. But then he was like, well I’ll do it by myself. And I like a nut realized yea he could do it by himself if he wanted to. I didn’t put much stock into him actually doing it ’cause it was Scott, I could never tell if he was serious or not. So I didn’t think to much about it, I even asked other people at the show if they knew of anyone who could do the show.

Eventually FT finally went on and then DS. Before DS started or it might have been during the very beginning Scott walked by and stopped and gave me a hug, I think I tried to say “good job” or something lame. It was weird and awkward and unnecesary. Anyway, During DS I seriously just wanted to leave. I had this horrible crampy/pain thing in my stomach and I was like I just wanna sit down or go home. But I knew that if FT was outside and they saw me they’d be like, why ya leaving? and all that so I was like I should just tough it out and stay. While I was standing on the side of the stage, some icky drunk dude came up and asked if I had some gum. Which I did so I gave it to him and then he proceeded to talk to me about DS and I had no idea what he was saying. Eventually he wandered away.

So after the show all the FT guys were handing out this new sampler they made that has two new songs on it. So I found like Jesse and Kirk and told them I liked the new, new songs that they played that night and then I headed for the exit where Scott happened to be handing out cds. That annoying ImusicASS owner was there talking to him about putting songs online and selling them like iTunes or something. idiot. He’s a nut. Anyway… I waited for them to finish, and there was this girl standing next to me kinda in front of me, waiting for Scott to hand her a cd, but it seemed like he got everyone but her and she didn’t like say anything to him, so after numb nut got out of the way I pointed her out to Scott and he finally gave her one. Then I told him that I liked the news songs, and then he said something to the effect of “don’t give up on us eventhough we might give up on ourselves”, and I just smiled and was like “I never have and I never will”.. then I turned to leave and he said I was like Prudential, I was a rock. so I just smiled and kinda laughed and left.

Now cut to Sunday afternoon. I went to Albertsons to get a couple things and the only reason I turned my phone on was because I was hoping Jon would call me. So like a couple minutes after turning it on I got a call and I didn’t know who it was, and by the time I tried to answer it it was too late, it already went to voicemail. So I checked the message and it was Scott. Yet another surprise because I had never given him my phone number, so he must of gotten it from Kirk. I called him back immediately and he told me that he wanted to do the acoustic show by himself, but he didn’t want to be on the bill or on the flyers or anything. So I said that was fine, I thought it’d be great to have him in any way So then he said how he was kinda pissed that the guys hadn’t told him about the show at all, and he asked about how it all happened and I told him. Then I was I said how I didn’t want this to be some thing between them or something, and he said it wouldn’t be. Then he said how he was working on this one song and did I want to hear it? So I said yes of course and he started playing the song and sang it to me! It was the coolest thing in the world. I thought he’d sing like two seconds or something, but no it’s like this whole song, all about love and stuff.. there was literally a line that said “I love you”.. Needless to say I was freaking out, I had the biggest freaking smile on my face. Then after it was over, he asked what I thought of the sampler and I said I hadn’t listened it to yet and now that I have I wish that I had ’cause “Lounge Act” sounds freaking awesome. So then he said “you looked really, really great tonight” (yes he kept referring to the night before as ‘tonight’, I dunno why), I think he said it twice, and I said thank you and that he was only one that noticed. Which I’m not sure if that was the right thing to say, but anywhoo. Then he talked about how I was so supportive of them all this time and I said how I belived in them and how I know this means a lot to them. We talked about the show (from the night before) a little bit. Then he was like “so what store are you at? safeway?” and I said I was at Albertsons in Pleasant Hill and he just went “ohh”.. I can’t remember much of how it really ended but I got his email address so I could give him info on the show. The thing that got me was how the conversation kinda repeated itself in some parts, he kept saying how he was nervous about doing the show by himself, but he really wanted to do it, he thought it’d be good. I guess it just seemed like he wanted to talk like he didn’t have anything else to do, so that kinda made me go, uhm.. well I’m not ending the conversation he’s gotta do it

So after all of that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, and I’m so freaking excited about the show in November. I just wish that there was another regular FT show coming up soon so I could see them again and see if Scott says anything else really awesome in the meantime. hehe. Plus now I’ve got like a month to get on my exercise so I can look even better for the acoustic show.

And now I’m super, duper excited because my iMac G5 has just arrived like three days before it was supposed to. I can’t wait to go home and play with it. I really need to get a digital video camera, ’cause with this computer I can make DVD’s. So freaking cool!