It pays to be a music geek

Remember when I was moping about not being able to see She and Him on Bro's post? Well, I've been dealt a change of luck.

Thursday night I made an attempt to win Virgin Mobile Festival tickets. At 5:30 pm in the afternoon, the radio station I was listening to (94.7 the globe which is out of DC) wanted the tenth caller. Obviously those sorts of phone contests are impossible to win at times. You have to time things very carefully. Of course, I didn't win. I felt frustrated and thought "shoot, maybe I'll try again during the 8 pm hour." The next give away was going to happen at 8:30 pm during th 80s at 8 pm program. So here I am listening, I have the station's number on speed dial, the dj gets on the air and says "First caller to tell me what year these things happened wins two 2-day passes to the Virgin Mobile Festival." The question was "What year did the beastie boys get censored on american bandstand, the cure released their album kiss me kiss me kiss me..." That's all I heard as I quickly hit dial on the phone. It was ringing, I could hear on the computer the dj also mention that Peter Gabriel's "Sledge Hammer" was a hit. As the phone rang like three times, I thought to myself "Dear God, please let me get this one. Please! I'll give up anything. I'll even give up sex for awhile..." (Sometimes you have to give up things like sex or beer to get something awesome) The DJ picked up my call first! I must've been on a 3 second delay by listening on the net. So I didn't even know my choice of answers. Lucky for me, he repeated the years when he answered the phone. I said "1987." He replied "You sound pretty sure of yourself." I laughed and said "Well kiss me by the cure is one of my favorite albums." and he said to me "Well guess what, it looks to me like you have plans for the weekend..." (for a second there, I thought I was going to lose...when he said guess what) I start freaking out when he told me that I had won. "Oh my god, I can't believe I won!" If someone told me a few days that this would happen to me, I would think they were either nuts or full of it. I just still can't believe it in a way. I will when I get there. But yeah I won tickets that are close to 200 bucks (175 dollars plus ticketmaster charges duh) a piece and it was all because I knew that the Cure's album kiss me kiss me kiss me was released in 1987. See being a music geek works!

I originally asked my sister, but she really only wanted to see a few bands and wasn't sure if it would work out. Our parents' finances aren't the best right now. So I asked Meredith if she would go with me. She can drive and her bf is giving us gas money and I am providing my parents' ford escort and well she has an aunt, who lives in Baltimore (so yeah we have a place to spend Saturday night). Looks like everything is going to work out nicely. She freaked out when I asked her too. I'm quite excited, but I know that I'll be quite exhausted by Sunday night. I've never been to a both days of a two day music festival before. I'm just totally stoked about how this all turned out.

Meredith and I are taking a camera so hopefully there will be pictures to share! and of course, I will post stories on either Monday or Tuesday. http://www.virginmobilefestival.com (check out the line up, it's nuts and yes, I'm sorry but you're just going to have to be jealous.)

ps - On a different note, I watched Superbad tonight for the first time. All I gotta say is that the movie was hilarious, awesome, cute and crude. (Is that even really possible in a film? Apparently it is)