RYAN TEDDER. 'Nuff said.

WIN!!

So this past Sunday, one of my fav California radio stations, Alice @ 97.3 FM (shameless product plug) had a free concert in Golden Gate Park. I grabbed my parental units, my 2 best friendz, some food, a pride blanket (happy Pride Weekend/Week/Month, BTW!!), and my brain, and set off for the concert.

We got there a bit late-- parking in San Francisco is IMPOSSIBLE-- and when we arrived, we discovered this:

20,000 people, all there for Alice's Summerthing 2011.

It was obvious they were ALL there for OneRepublic.

Oh yes, did I forget to mention that OneRepublic played A FREE CONCERT IN SAN FRANCISCO LAST SUNDAY?

Some other people were there, too, like Parachute, Michelle Branch, and Matt Nathanson. Whatever. No one cares about them anyway (except Matt Nathanson; he was pretty cool).

We knew we had NO chance of sitting up near the mosh pit thing, so we wandered around the field for half an hour looking for a place to sit. We finally found a little 6-square-foot plot of grass like a thousand million miles away from the stage and began to nomnomnomnomnom on our lunch.

Finally, best friends and I decided it was time to do something. It took us like half an hour, but we managed to get SUPER close to the stage. It was LEGIT.

I took a bunch of pics of Matt Nathanson or whatever, but the exciting bit was around an hour later...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, RYAN TEDDER.

In case you are DEAF AND BLIND AND A HORRIBLE PERSON IN GENERAL (jk), Ryan Tedder is God of Song, frontman of OneRepublic, music producer, and songwriter extraordinaire.

And I got to be like 10 feet away from him. And I took this REALLY COOL picture: http://yfrog.com/gylps2aj

First of all, OneRepublic is AMAZING live. Ryan's falsetto is UNREAL. The things he can do with his voice are INSANE. Cello-man (a.k.a. Brent) has COOL HAIR. Eddie is THE BEST DRUMMER EVER.

Anyway, enough of my creepy fangirling. Basically, I had a blast, even though my face and collarbone are SUPER sunburnt. Like this morning, I had this giant bag under my eye. What was it? Sunburn swelling. Lovely. (It went down, though. Thanks for asking. I'm OK now.)

HOWEVER.

As you know, one plays the drums by banging rather hard on the drumkit with drumsticks. These wear out rather easily. And it is standard for bands to throw their used drumsticks into the crowd after the concert.

And guess who caught one?...

ME.

WIN!

I mean, I did lose one of my dead step-grandmother's jade clip-on earrings, and I did get felt up a bit, and my best friend did get pushed to the ground and stepped on, and I somehow got a cut on my finger that wouldn't stop bleeding, but I got the drumstick. It's mine. I actually have something of value (other than Daniel Radcliffe's autograph)!! It's obvious that it's been used-- drum marks, yeah...

I'll be starting a Twitter account for it soon. :P

But yeah. That was my Sunday.

I'm also pretty sure I lost my voice screaming at the top of my lungs.

Oh! Oh yeah! The way Ryan Tedder talks is the CUTEST THING EVER. I'M SERIOUS.

Hey, this is the longest/least ADD blog post I've ever written. Plaudits (LOVE that word) for self.

So yeah.

This was my 5th concert (of not classical music) to date.

Seeing 1 (possible 2) more this summer.

Chronological order of concerts:

1) Jonas Brothers

2) George Michael

3) Paul McCartney

4) Jonas Brothers (5th row seats won on the radio!!)

5) OneRepublic (AWESOME SUPER-CLOSE MOSHPIT "SEATS")

6) 3OH!3, The Ready Set, & others @ the Vans Warped Tour

7) [?] Colbie Caillat with my dad who is a TOTAL teenybopper ;D

So yeah. For ** years old (hides age because is afraid of creepers like self), that's not bad.

Well, there you go. You should be happy for me-- best concert of my life. And that's saying a lot (see #4).

And before you laugh at me, YES, I LOVE THE JONAS BROTHERS.

Heh :D

I really did, though. And they have some actually good music.

Hey, if you made it all the way down here, you're pretty cool. Comment if you did *is stupid*.

Latahz, kidz!

UPDATED: OH my GOD, this post is LONG. Sorry.