Oh. My. GOD!!!
That was the BEST show!!! Our seats were seventh row center, near the aisle on the Andy side, so Simon was directly in front of us!!!! My dream come true!! He looked so flipping HOT, that I was DYING. I jumped up and down, danced and sang the entire time!! It was really the most amazing show!!!
There were two guys in front of us who had four seats, so in the middle of Hungry Like the Wolf (second song?) they asked my friend and I to join them and they were a lot of fun--totally into it and really cute!!! Small world--they knew our friend Adam (who was in the third row) and ended up joining all of us for drinks after the show--weird!!! Portland is so freaking small! So then we got to talking when we joined the larger group and we pretty much knew allllll the same people from high school, college and beyond.
That banner was directly in front of me, but luckily didn't block our view! The people in the 4th row were NOT happy!
I still thought it was pretty cool, though!
I started crying a little during Come Undone.....reminds me of my friend Doug who was a Duranaholic in junior high and high school and used to have this THING for Nick Rhodes (he once told me he orally pleasured Nick!!
). He was a roadie for them one summer--his parents knew someone at Duran's label, so he got an "internship" that pretty much consisted of doing drugs with them. Anyway, Doug died of AIDS-related cancer 6-7 years ago, and the song made me come unglued.
I was SO afraid they wouldn't play Reflex--it wasn't on the playlist--since they'd sang it the night before in Seattle and they were supposedly singing it every other show. We got lucky!!! That was the best!!!
They finished up with Rio and Girls on Film and everyone went nuts! It was an awesome ending. Simon looked HOT in his 1978 shirt. Damn, that man looks SOOOOO good!!!
Roger also looked great. Nick looked scary, Andy had that damn cigarette hanging out of his mouth and dark glasses (and why didn't I know the man was like 3 feet tall?
) and John looked botoxed with a scary hair color and hair line. Other people thought he looked great, but I've always been a Simon girl.
I got a great picture of a girl at Cucina before the show....very funny. She was Madonna-ed out and let me take the pic. We hung out there for about an hour and had a few glasses of wine. We completely missed I'm a Robot....had heard that they sucked....and went in and took our seats right at 9 p.m.
Only one pair of panties was flung. And no, they weren't mine.
I sent dsnylndmom a text telling her how young and thin I felt!! The average age had to have been about 35, I think.
Afterward, we met up with our group, which ended up being large.....and headed to Cucina. It's just so nice when we all get together for this stuff!! It's so much fun! What was weird was that we saw another group of people our age from our neighboring hometown!! We took the Max downtown to Rock Bottom and this huge group was there from Astoria. We visited with them for a while. God, Oregon is small!!
I'm working on 4 hours of sleep.....I think I'm still a little drunk!!!
I was supposed to work at Chloe's preschool today, but just as I walked in, Courtney's school secretary called to tell me that she was sick, so I ran to get her and now she's sleeping.....I should be, too!