ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, IVONNE AND I SAW PAUL
McCARTNEY LIIIIVE!!!!!!!!!!
OK, there was this contest at beatlefest.com, they
were giving away tickets to the PaulMcCartney
listening Party at the House of Blues. You had to
write in 25 words or less why you wanted to attend. So
I wrote a poem. And I
WONNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I came home on the day they were supposed to announce
the winners, so I'm standing in front of my computer,
pressing "get messages" in my mailbox. The messages
keep coming and coming.... then i see a letter from
"Bealtefest Headquarter" So I think, oh, it's probably
a rejection letter. So I open the message. My knees
beginning to shake, and I begin reading
"Congratulations...." (My hands begin shaking) "You
have been selected as one of the over 50 winners to
attend Paul McCartney's listening Party....."
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I
start screaming jumping and crying, and jumping and
screaming... you get the idea. So I email Ivonne and she calls me back and
we're all screaming at each other "OH MY GOD!!
WE'RE GONNA SEE PAUL!!!!" and so
on.
Anyhow... it took Ivonne some time to convince her
parents to let her come to LA alone to see Paulie with
me. So finally she came on friday morning. I brought
her to my school... apparently she didn't like
Beverly Hills High... but I can understand her. =)
But enough of the dorky details. That evening we went
to the HOUSE OF BLUES where PAULIE would be playing.
We showed the people our IDs and they found our name
on the list. Then we had to get an envelope with our
tickets. It took them like 5 minutes to find it, and
we were SOOOOOO worried. But finally they found it and
asked us if we were under 21. Oh my god, we freaked
out, cuz most of the time you have to be 21 to get
into the HOB, but luckily not this time. So they let
us in.
The place itself was SOOOOOOOOO cool. I called the
door the gates of Hevan. =)
Inside, there was the stage, the drinking bars on the
sides, and a dance floor in the middle. There were no
seats. You just stood on the dance floor. We were
on the side, and pushing our way thought the crowd. I
guess you could call it 2nd row. =) These old people
were in front of us, saving spots for their stupid
frieds. They're probably seen Paul 30 years ago, but
Ivonne and I were Paul virgins!!!!!!! Oh well, we were
still close.
Paul wouldn't come out for like 2 hours. We just stood
there and pushed people and listened to some oldies
music from the speakers.
THEN........ HE CAME
OUT!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SIR PAUL McCARTNEY HIMSELF IN FRONT OF
US!!!!!!!!!!! SOME TWO FEET
AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he was wearing a white tee, an olive green vinyl
jacket with a zipper, and blue-black old jeans. =) And
the shoes he wore for the VH1 town hall meeting.
Oh before that, they showed us a really cool video of
making of Paul's new album run devil run. Paul looked
so happy in the video.
He talked and joked with us for like 3 minutes, and
then left. No he didn't play. BUT WE SAW HIM!!!!!!!!!!
AND HE TALKED TO US!!!!!!!
Then they turned on his new album and we got to listen
to it before anyone else! It's SOOO good, you
guys have to get it when it comes out!!!
After the album was played, Paulie came out
again!!!!!!! And he was like "I have jet lag, and it's
past my bedtime, and I have to go to sleep, and so do
you." and we were like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
Then he talked for another minute or so and left...and that was the end of the party... or so everyone
thought. Almost everyone left, but we stayed. They
started playing the whole album again. And Ivonne,
this chic Courtney we met, and I started dancing to
it! Some people were dancing too. (Those that
didn't leave) but we had the craziest dances and we
had SOOO much fun! Oh my god!!!!!!
Even though Paulie didn't sing, it was the most
amazing this to see him les than 2 feet from
us!!
Oh, Paulie has some white hair on his temples, but
behind that and his little wrinkles he's still so
gorgeous!!!!!!
