Closer to Love
Remember that eye candy post about my newest musical crushes, Mat Kearney and Parachute.
It seems as though fate is on my side. Or maybe it is like field of dreams, but in blog terms…If you post it, he will come, because Mat brought his amazing voice and adorable smile to Maryland to do a show about five minutes away from my house.
He is still a relatively “up and coming” artist so he played in a very small venue. And when I say small, I really do mean small. It was maybe about as big as the gymnasium at my kids’ school, if that. It was a dream come true to see him perform in such an intimate setting since I’ve been playing his new cd on an endless loop in my car and iPod.
Look how close we got…
It was pretty amazing.
Now here is the best part…There was a moment.
You know when you are at a concert and you swear that Joey McIntyre is singing “Please Don’t Go Girl” directly to you? Oh, that never happened to you? Well, it happened to me. Or at least that is what I thought when I was fourteen and at the New Kids on the Block Concert and Joey’s eyes maybe glanced in the direction of me and about a thousand other screaming, lunatic girls for a millisecond.
This time I have witnesses that it actually happened. I swear at one point in the show Mat was singing the song directly to me for about fifteen consecutive seconds. Now it may seem like I’m once again having Joey McIntyre-esque delusions but I swear that this time was different. There really was a moment. I thought maybe I was just imagining it, but my husband and my friend saw it too. I probably turned about six different shades of red and nearly fainted.
Of course, the fact that he did the same thing to about thirty other girls in the audience does not make this moment any less exciting to me. Oh no. Trust me, when I lay my head on the pillow tonight after I finally come down off this high, I will be having sweet Mat Kearney dreams.
As I was recovering from my moment, it occured to me that if Ryan Gosling were to do something like this at his Dead Man’s Bones concert that I would probably never be able to compose myself again, ever.
You know those people you see at concerts that cry and look like they are about to have convulsions right there on the spot? I’ve never understood what makes them carry on like that. Take, for instance, this girl at an American Idol taping a few years back about to lose her shit over David Archuleta (at least I think that was who she was going nuts over):
Yeah, that will be the way I will look forever and ever if Ryan were to pull any sort of eye contact stunt with me. Mark my words…it won’t be pretty.
So, I feel like I need to document how I looked pre-Gos-concert.
Me and my friend Shelie happy to be within ten feet of Mat Kearney:
While I’m on the subject of Ryan (sorry Matt, but I got off on a Gos-tangent and I need to complete it), I feel the need to inform you all that he is now on Twitter. It is his band’s account so the updates my not be from him directly, but it is the closest thing I have at this point so I’ll take it.
And while I’m recommending people to follow… here is Mat Kearney’s twitter as well.
Sorry to get off topic…back to the concert. To sum it up in one word: FANTASTIC! If Mat Kearney is playing a show in your neck of the woods, I would highly recommend going to see him.
I’m curious…what was the best concert you’ve ever seen?
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OMG that is so cool and I agree if Ryan sang directly to me I’d be like that crazy girl on American Idol. Sad to say back in the day when Ricky Martin was straight I went to his concert and I swear he was looking and sing at me, my sister says it was her but whatever!
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You are fantastic! I am so excited for you and so know what you mean. Did the same thing one night with some girlfriends and we practically had my friend married off to the singer because he lingered on her eyes for what seemed to us, clearly long enough to fall totally in love!!!!!
still sick with jealousy about the DMB’s gig!!!!
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HAHAHA I sweat to you that Bon Jovi looked at me, pointed while singing “I”ll be there for you” and I was ready to marry him! Problem was…I was 9 years old and had to wait a few years before he could sweep me away. Ah well.
That is SO awesome that you got to go to the concert! I bet he sounded great.
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scratching my head trying to remember if I knew (and forgot) that you were in MD too?!?!?!
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You have the coolest life!
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you are so funny.
I totally prefer small venues to large stadiums. In fact, and maybe it’s an age thing, my last big venue exhausted me… I get to see Joshua Radin at our Knitting Factory in November and I am ecstatic!
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I think the best concert I’ve seen was probably John Mayer with Maroon 5 opening – at least it’s the concert I thoroughly enjoyed the most. It was just… amazing.
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I hope that by ‘best concert’, you mean objectively. My best wasn’t my best because it was the most amazing show I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t a ridiculously expensive show where you see a rock legend. Nope. None of that.
But, it was my first concert ever. I was in 7th grade. I wore a black and white spandex dress on my shapeless preteen body. I saw Nelson. The twins of the long, blond locks? Who needs a reminder? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaI4uZ4oeg&feature=channel.
BAM! There it is folks. I was front and center for this one. Boo-yah!
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Hilarious! Always love reading your posts!
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That little girl was actually swooning over Sanjaya, i’m pretty sure….
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