It's Monday....Mondays are always really hard for me (for everyone I'm assuming!), but this Monday has been especially hard because I had an EPIC weekend. We 1)signed papers on our new house and 2)met Tom Petty! Friggin' amazing...words can't describe the past few days. While I won't bore you with all of the details, I do want to share a few things...
1)
Music (live music) is an extremely spiritual thing for me. Though I'm not a religious (or really spiritual) person, there's just something about live music that hits me hard, deep down to my bones! I have rarely had as much adrenaline going through my veins than I did on Saturday night at the show (other than my wedding, of course!) I had the same experience during my 4 days at Bonnaroo in the summer of '05 as well...
2)
Tom Petty still rocks the house! I don't like going to concerts in big venues, but when you have great seats you can't really complain. He played for a full 2 hours and ended with "American Girl." One of my favorite classics. He even played some of his new stuff and Paul and I both really liked it.
3)
Don't lose your All Access Pass! Instead of getting backstage "necklaces", we got "Local Crew stickers". Great because we had all access, but bad because mine came off immediately and I almost started crying! Luckily it was just stuck on my purse. Whew, that was close!
4)
Going backstage is all it's cracked up to be. Now, I was thinking we were going to be surrounded by groupies, photographers, and people who won backstage passes. This wasn't the case at all, in fact I may have become one of the groupies I made fun of. We were able to chill in the hospitality suite along with the band, and we even were introduced to Tom Petty himself. He was playing his guitar, cigarette in mouth, smiling from ear to ear. The image is forever in my head.
5)
I want to be a rockstar.
