Stars - Part 1

So this may be short, but it's been about a week and such things, you know...

So I go to Southgate House at about 4:00 p.m., and the doors didn't even open until 7:00. I wanted to get there early though to have a good spot and to miss rush hour traffic from Cincy because it is horrid. So I find my parking place and walk around a bit, first to the venue. I ask the guy on the porch where will-call is since I've never been there. It turned out to be the lead singer of Bell X1, the opener and the band I really like now. So I go inside and check the place out for a minute, realize its coolness level is about a 9/10 or 10/10, and the leave to get some ice cream. No sooner than when I get back to the porch with my fucking $4 scoop in a fucking $4 waffle cone, do I see the lead singer of Bell X1 and the drummer for Stars eating some expensive fucking ice cream too! I didn't know their names, so I didn't say anything. But hell, 3 more minutes and we would have ordered at the same time. Shit luck.
So after I'm done I go inside because I have nothing else to do for a few hours. I sit at the bar just to wait around, and this is where I meet Bob and Lou. Bob is the older bar patron, 'round 60ish, and Lou, the bartender is about 40 or so. I can't remember the conversations we all had, but they were really awesome to talk to for a few hours. I felt at home. Cool, yeah.
So Stars come on and I'm pumped as hell. Highlight: Torq points to my Morrissey shirt and says, "This song is for the shirt that guy has on, see it?" It is "What I'm Trying To Say", though I've always imagined Reunion as a Moz/Smiths song from Stars. Oh well, they are amazing nonetheless. Also, I had the best spot in the house, right in front of Amy Millan. She looked at me more than once. Oh yeah.
I go to say hello to Torq after the show and we get to talk about Moz a bit, and then I get to go see and meet Amy - picture in previous post. I asked Torq if they would be out back because I had something in my car for them to sign, and he said they'd wait around. I go out and get my Set Yourself On Fire LP and take it to him. He tells me about how the cover is his wife and how amazingly beautiful it is and how mad it made him when Arts&Crafts banned the cover because it was terroristic in nature. We talked about how fucked that is and that there are far worse things in life than that. We got to talk more Moz after that and got to share a genuine corncob pipe with the others standing around. I didn't take in the pipe-ness, but it was a sight to see.
After Torq has to leave to change and watch Seinfeld (I told him to watch Arrested Development instead to which he agrees) I walk around front because I hear Amy is up there. I see her walk up the stairs as soon as I see the front door. I still go in to catch some of the karaoke night. Gawd those people were bad! Oh well, I had a great time, caught up with Lou to say hey. I then turned around and saw Amy standing there. I awkwardly said, "Hi Amy." and I asked her to sign my LP. She was obviously a little tipsy, but that was fine with me. She smiled and said, "I think we've met before." She held on to my record, but my other things fell on the floor. She held my shoulder as I knelt down to pick them up, and when I got up she said she was sorry and hugged me :) She then wrote something I still cannot read on my record.

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