loveflyfree | WEEKEND OF AWESOME part 1

if you don't care about David Cook, Michael Johns or any of the other American Idols you'll probably want to skip the next few entries.

Note: This will probably be all over the place as I keep remembering things out of order. All video is from

livehead16. Pre-show signing pictures are all from

star_shining246. Concert pictures also from

livehead16. other pictures from the interwebs.

Flight to OKC was awesome as I had an entire row to myself. Which was helpful since I did not sleep at all the night before. So the two hours I napped on the plane was the only sleep I got in like a 48 hour period. Cause I'm hardcore like that.

Got to the venue and immediately sought out

ficangel. As she was the only person there in a "Mavid" shirt, that took me all of about 20 seconds. :) After throwing my luggage into her car we went back to the venue and set up camp along the barricades. Pretty soon after that

livehead16 showed up. After some chatting Lara reminds me that we agreed to help out her friend

wannabonefatone collect email addresses and hand out flyers for MichaelJohnsOnline. Apparently I somehow ended up with a personality transplant and had no problem walking up to total strangers and making them take flyers. My sales pitch was something along the lines of "look at how hot he is!" and "dude he's awesome. you know you wanna." idk. the end result was the distribution of quite a few flyers. I also had email addresses to give so hey. I did my part. (more on this later as I didn't totally know what I was getting in to.) A little bit later

wannabonefatone and Brandi (does she have an LJ?) showed up. At this point my memory is hazy because I totally don't remember the order that we saw the Idols in just that Cook was last.

KLC - She's growing on me. And she's nice to look at. Okay she's hot! Of course like Vegas I didn't have anything to say so I just said something about her being good? or something. and she signed my program.
Ramiele - Is the tiniest human ever. She's an absolute dollface. <3333. Very funny moment when she see's the picture that

livehead16 had for her to sign and she yells (Brooke! BROOKE! BROOKIE!) at Brooke before holding up the picture and asking if Brooke had done her hair that night. Brooke had. :)
Brooke - Okay Brooke White FTW. This would be a recurring theme for the weekend. I had no significant interaction with her, though she did sign my program. But then

livehead16 had a picture for Brooke to sign that created one of the best encounters ever. Brooke apparently thought she looked weird in the picture (I have no idea what she was on about as she looked GORGEOUS) so she asks if she can draw glasses on it.

livehead16 was like "do whatever" so Brooke takes the sharpie and begins to draw. We were all expecting stick figure glasses or something but no. no no no. Ms. White proceeds to carefully outline a pair of geek girl chunky glasses taking special care to make sure the frames blend into her hair and then another few minutes coloring them in. And just chatting away the whole time. it was fantastic.
Chikezie - I was so excited that he was out there! Although I think he doubted my commitment to sparkle motion. Although to be fair I am so retarded in the face of people I adore so I'm sure that my stuttering 'you're awesome' wasn't the big welcome he was waiting for. Whatevs, he signed the program I'm happy.
Jason - Okay um. I like him. I do. But just. I looked into his eyes and it was the blankest stare back that I had ever seen. Like maybe he was just spacing out at that minute, but it was almost unnerving. But he seems like a really nice kid and those eyes of his are awfully pretty.
David A - This kid is so presh it's ridic. His utter confusion as to why

ficangel wanted him to sign her iPod ("anyone who is in it gets to sign it." "What?" "um. everyone in it gets to sign it." "Wait. What?") was absolutely adorable. And I can see why all the teen girls are all aflutter. His eyes are so pretty. And he's got a fantastic smile. My interaction with him was limited to him signing my program and telling him and I really liked "Crush." But hey, that earned me an "awwww thank you" and a sweet smile so win. I figured that was all the David Archuleta interaction I would get. (yeah. more on that later.)
David C - Y'all know he's the most perfect boy ever right? Right? Okay. Just so we're clear on that. First he gets to

wannabonefatone and Brandi and comments on their shirts, which say MJO on the front. "Is that for Michael Johns Online?" They confirm and he looks pleased. idk. So they ask if he'll sign their shirts which of course he will and they turn around so he can see the back.

He laughs and says that was not was originally on there and that this is false advertising. He of course says all this as he is signing. ♥ Next is

ficangel who I kinda inadvertently psyched out earlier by telling her that I've taken to opening conversations with my friend D at work with "and by the way, I think David is the top" which of course is in reference to Michael/David. She's terrified that she's going to open conversation with that, but fortunately she didn't. She did however, and I believe I had a hand in this as well, open with how she had several things for him to sign and that she was "a demanding whore." Brother Love keeps a straight face for maybe a second before saying something that was awesome that I can't remember and then totally cracking up.

His laugh? is the greatest thing ever. TRUFAX. Then she has the flyer that I had been handing out earlier for him to sign. It has this ridiculous picture of MJ that while yes is totally hot sorta makes one think that he's never held a guitar before.

Right so David looks at it, smirks and writes "Nobody plays acoustic guitar like that." BECAUSE HE IS MADE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS AWESOME. then it is picture time in which he makes honest to god chinhands and we all die. At this point it is

livehead16's turn and she has an awesome picture for him to sign but he kinda waves her off and is like no. I'm just gonna stand here and chill. and make chinhands some more so you can all go crazy while trying to appear cool on the outside. yeah. that's what I'm gonna do.

what. he might as well have said all that. IT'S WHAT HE DID.

so then he signs her picture and they may have talked about things. I don't know because he was getting closer to me and my brain was going bzzzzzzzt. I have my program for him to sign and I say something about him being awesome or something. idk it was totally lame.

when he had first made his appearance outside today I went a little haywire over the state of his hair. it was kinda faux!hawk-ish and sticking out in odd places and has some chucks of red in it that I think are new because I don't remember them from before and just generally I want to muss his hair so bad that my fingers ITCH. anyway, I comment to the girls that I am totally digging the hair. this leads to a conversation where I end up confessing that I liked his audition hair. I am declared insane.

look. it's awful. I know this. intellectually I know this. but I am telling you I would have hit that SO HARD. plus I kind of like ugly things? so I'm kinda terrified that I might lead with "I LIKE UGLY THINGS. omg I love you." which you know. might not come across the way it is in my head.

I realize my time with him is quickly coming to an end, so I look up into his eys (*sigh* so dreamy) and say something along the lines of "I gotta tell you, I am really liking the hair." As

ficangel pointed out rather than accepting the compliment graciously and moving on as most celebrities would have done he proceeded to tell me how he got it that way.

1. Hairspray
2. Pomade *makes swirly motions around his head*
3. You go to take a shower, but there's not shampoo, so you don't

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. that's right. the secret to David Cook's hair is filth. by now he moving to the girls next to us (*waves at

star_shining246 and her friend) but he kinda leans forward and says "oh yeah don't you want to touch it now" and then leans back and is like "no that's gross." I say, "don't say that there are people who will say yes." of course by people, I MEAN ME. I have problems.

Anyway, we watch him work the rest of the line in which at one point he is wearing a rainbow feather boa and at another tries to eat an old woman's hair. Listen kids I don't even have to make stuff up with this guy. He is puppies and sunshine and rainbows and just I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE IS EVEN REAL.

after all this we move my luggage to

livehead16's car and then we all trudge up to

wannabonefatone and Brandi's room to rest and eat before the show.

now I had been told that we would get passes for helping out with the whole flyer/email thing. but see in my head it was meet n'greet (I have no idea why I thought that) and so when those didn't materialize I was like *shrug* but then there was still talk of passes and

wannabonefatone was going to pick them up at will call and frankly I was not even allowing myself to hope at that point.

But yes. she came back and she did indeed have after party passes. oh. my. GOD. the only drawback to this was that there wasn't one for

ficangel which sucked a lot because man would that have been good times. *sigh*

the show was awesome. the crowd was fantastic and except for a few times when the usher tried to make me sit in my seat rather than stand at the railing (I"m sorry, have you not ever been to a concert before?!) it was all good. oh! our seats. which we thought were 5th row on the far side of the stage. yeah. they were 3rd. right next to the catwalk. SCORE. some of the highlights:

MICHAEL GOD DAMN AUSTRALIAN JOHNS. good lord that man. just. here. watch this. be prepared for the eye fucking he gives the camera at 0:43.

you'll notice that he looks at

livehead16's camera several times. this is because Michael Johns is a camera whore. something that will come up again during the weekend. bless him.

Carly Smithson. When she goes to sing "Crazy On You" she crouches down on the catwalk and starts off all slow before getting up and doing a high kick before rocking the fuck out of everything and everybody. She crouched down RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. That woman is so insanely beautiful I can't even stand it.

Okay see that. SHE WAS ABOUT FIVE FEET FROM ME ON HER KNEES ON THE STAGE. I hope I wasn't drooling. And seriously I love her voice. I love everything about this girl. yes.

Idol Gives Back - Okay seriously? Other than Michael and Carly, I don't really like the way they sound on this song. U2's Pride (In the Name of Love) for those who don't know. But Michael and Carly? ARE FUCKING AWESOME. And when it's just the two of them onstage? OH GOD YES PLEASE. Seriously could they just go on tour by themselves. I would follow that around the country. Oh yes.

Syesha. Okay not really a highlight but I think

ficangel might be amused. During her set I was spacing out and I kinda tilted my head and thought, "god DAMN she is a bad ass vampire hunter." yeah. that was a surreal moment of not seperating reality from fiction. go me.

David Archuleta. Oh this kid. So precious. also he was starting to get sick and was coughing between every song. (this would continue the whole weekend. poor kid.) but still his voice.

honest to god when he got to the part where he sings "Beautiful Girls" I BLUSHED. and he's doing his horrible little dance. I LIKE UGLY THINGS OKAY. oh kid. seriously. can I just adopt him as my little brother?

Brother Love.

DID I MENTION THAT HE'S A GOD DAMN ROCK STAR?

okay you just assume that everything he did onstage was awesome. um. because it was. oh! at the end of "My Hero" which he, as always, dedicated to Adam (I SWEAR TO GOD HE'S REAL. HE'S NOT MADE UP. HE'S ACTUALLY REAL.) he jumped down off the stage and into the area between the stage and the barrier and went and stood on a little platform at the very front. the crowd promptly totally lost their shit. it was awesome.

I love the stunned look on the girl right in front of him and then the girl holding his hand which I think is an excellent visual representation of how I felt all weekend. \o/

what many people didn't see is that when he went to go back to the stage he turned around and SMACKED his shoulder into part of the stage that sticks out. that looked like it hurt! but he just kinda rolled his eyes and laughed at himself before running back to the stage. I'm pretty sure his inner monologue was something along the lines of "awesome! way to fuck up that rock star move." I love him. He finishes up the show with Billie Jean which was again RIGHT IN FRONT OF US and it was awesome and I want to have 10000 of his little rockstar babies.

The Song That Shall Not Be Named is the finale and Michael and David bust out hula hoops for this one. Not my favorite that they've done but ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ OH. except I just watched it and forgot about the epic Cook/Archie moment. at the end when they usually just point at each other as the crowd cheers Cook goes over and gives Archie an uncomfortably long hug. From our angle you could just sorta see Archie's hands flailing helplessly. LOL-ARIOUS. After the hug ends Archie is just standing there kinda stunned which sends Cook into hysterics. Archie then misses his cue. such is the power of Cook.

OKAY. so the concert is over. the day has been awesome. it can't get any better. right?

wrong. after party time.

livehead16,

wannabonefatone, Brandi and I wait patiently (okay that part is a lie) for them to lead us into the room they have set aside.

Michael - oh my god if I had a brain in my head I would have gotten a picture with the man who is fucking gorgeous and really quite funny and gracious in person. I did get a big hug from him as I had gotten him this t-shirt. win. there were a couple of other times during the evening where he would just randomly reach out and grab my shoulder. why I'm so retarded and didn't talk to him more, I have no idea? oh! but random hilarity. since

ficangel wasn't with us, we brought in the MJO flyer that David had signed so we could show Michael. Michael looked at it and then signed it with the text "I am not a nobody!" these boys. <33

Carly is a ghost. She was there and then when we turned around to talk to her? VANISHED. *sigh*

David Cook. seriously I'm running out of words to describe him. Here. have a picture of us. I look like deep fried ass and the picture is blurry but I so don't care because Señor DorkFace is making total dork!face and have I mentioned that I love him? Okay. (although thank you David for not sticking anything up your nose.)

please note my t-shirt. the text reads "feelings are boring, kissing is awesome." it's from Dinosaur Comics. ♥

things are starting to wind down and

livehead16 heads over to talk to Archie. I'm just kinda standing there, half paying attention. they're talking about Robbie Williams and Archie keeps looking at me and trying to include me in the conversation which I thought was very sweet but was so not necessary and really at this point in the last 43 hours I've had two hours of sleep so you know. whatever. also we kinda saved him from this older woman who was badgering him and as soon as

livehead16 got his attention and started talking to him he completely turned his back on her. ahahahha good on you kid. so they finish their conversation and we're about to leave when Archie takes a step towards me and MY HAND TO GOD says "awwwww but I like feelings."

*blink*

*blink*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

omg I just about died. so THEN. I start BABBLING (and seriously now that I think about it he and I could probably have the babbliest conversations known to mankind) about how girls get pegged as being all about feelings and never about the "other stuff" and how I was merely presenting an alternative viewpoint that you know, the other stuff is good too. but that yes I also like feelings. YOU GUISE. THE OTHER STUFF. thank christ dadchuleta was outside the room, or that I didn't actually think about what I was saying or else I would have died right then and there. but god bless him that kid was going right along with me, smiling and laughing and let me tell you. this kid? not the spacy little ball of fluff he's been made out to be. he is totally self-aware and frankly much more like fic!Archie then you might imagine. which does not help with that whole 'wait is that real? or did I read it in a fic?' thing that I sometimes get about him and Cook. anyway. we turn to go again and he says goodnight or tells us to have a good weekend or something and I say "oh well we'll see you tomorrow."

OMG the kid starts practically GLOWING and going on and on about how awesome Kansas City is going to be because it's Cook's hometown and how great everything is and how great Cook is and listen. I don't know if he's gay. But he's got some serious hero worship going on for Cook. Which is so adorable that I can. not. STAND IT. we all come to the conclusion that we're really looking forward to Kansas City and that it should be good times all around.

And that is how David Archuleta became my new BFF.

After that we hang outside the room a little (where we talk to Brooke again because Brooke White FTW) and just kinda watch David being his hotass self. It was nice. :)

Then it is outside to say goodbye to

ficangel,

wannabonefatone and Brandi before we make the trek up to Kansas City.

There is no way that it can possibly get any better than this.