oh night of many funs...

well. last night was definitely a well-spent evening!

on monday afternoon i found out that jon (foreman, of switchfoot) decided to do a spur of the moment live gig somewhere in bondi either that day or the next. later on he said that it would be tuesday, and details would be put up that day (tuesday, i.e. yesterday) so i concluded to check his blog the next day. except that i was on the internet chatting until early tuesday morning, and not long before i decided to go to bed i checked myspace and lo and behold, jon had blogged and put up details for the gig.

so last night at about 7pm, cheree, mum, matt and I drove out to bb's bar at bondi to see jon play. we managed to find a park about 2 streets away ('cause we missed the street we wanted and turned down another street and decided to park there 'cause there was space to) and we walked to the bar through the wind and spitting rain. it was cold! but we made it and sat down and it was about 10 to 8, and jon wasn't due to come on til 8.30pm. early for once! yay for us.

so we listened to the end of the trivia comp that was going, and pointed out to eachother when another member of switchfoot arrived.

and then jon came on and played. so good. he played songs that are his (and not switchfoot songs) so none of them have been released on records yet, but i knew them 'cause i downloaded them from various recordings at other shows that people have done. so it was really cool to hear them live. he also played 'dare you to move' and 'only hope' ('cause someone requested it).

the other songs he played were 'war in my blood', 'betrayal' (which he wrote with sean watkins from nickel creek), 'cure for the pain' (love that song), 'moon is a magnet', 'lord, save me from myself', 'learning how to die' and 'southbound train'.

many funs came after, however, when we went and talked to the guys. matt had this thing about getting one of them to sign his nipple, and he'd asked chad while he was buying a drink earlier (and chad had remembered him from exo day :D) but he wouldn't do it, so i told matt that if any of them would, it would be drew. so we squished our way past people and went and talked to drew. matt was getting to sign ree's book when i went over, and it was hilarious 'cause matt was spelling out cheree's name, and trying to get drew to do the acute on the 'e', but drew didn't know what it was, so first he did an umlaut (two dots) and then a circumflex on top of that (hat thing) and then he did a line under the 'e'. hehehe.

and mum got him to sign her book too, and i told him that she was my mum and mum said she was old, so drew signed the book and wrote underneath 'you're not old'. hehe. funny guy.

so anyways, matt asked drew to sign his nipple, so i gave him my sharpie and matt lifted up his shirt and drew so looked like he was about to, but then he just circled it instead :P hehe.

so next we talked to jerome. he's a pretty cool guy. (small sidetrack) when tim had walked in earlier, mum had seen how short he was and told me how he was so small and cute and she wanted to squeeze him and put him on top of her cupboard where she keeps all her soft toys and bears.

so when we were talked to jerome i mentioned that mum wanted to hug tim 'cause he looked so little and cute and matt heard this, so when we went to talk to tim, (which involved matt including himself in the conversation tim was having with andy the photographer and another girl) matt told tim that mum wanted to hug him, so he did :P and me and matt got hugs too :P hehehe.

and matt tried to get tim and jerome to sign his nipple but they would only do his arms. and tim said he was quite scared to :P and andy said he liked matt's rat's tail. ew. and the girl who they were talking to (can't remember her name, although i remember that she was american and was on holidays) said that her and her friend from work (also called elise) had a thing about rat's tails 'cause they're disgusting(!) so she asked if she could get a photo of me (elise) and matt with the tail to show her friend from work :P

a bit later we went outside to find jon and chad walked past and matt asked him again if he wanted to sign his nipple 'cause drew had been brave and had at least circled it. but chad still didn't want to.

and then we talked to jon for a bit and then decided to head home. all in all a rather tops night.
yay.
now to see relient k :P