Kate is amazing.

'Thank you for making everything worth it' -Kate Voegele to Roxie tonight.

I LOVE HER SO MUCH. <3333

Tyler.

I kind of met Tyler Hilton last night and had a little convo with him. It was just a little amazing. =P <3



Conversation went a little something like this...

Tyler: What's your name?
Me: Lauren
Tyler: Nice to meet you *shakes my hand*
Tyler: *starts signing my cd cover* Is that 'l-a-u-r-e-n?'
Me: Yep!
*brief pause while he's signing my cd*
Me: Do you know Amy Kuney?
Tyler: Yeah, I do.
Me: She's a friend of ours.
Tyler: Oh, really?
Katherine: Do you know Kate Voegele?
Tyler: Yeah, I know Kate Voegele, too.
Me: We're seeing her next weekend
Tyler: Oh yeah, they're coming up here, huh?
Tyler (to Keaton Simons): Do you know Amy, too?
Keaton: Yeah, I know Amy. She's awesome. (or something to that extent)
Tyler: Well, tell them we said hi.
Me: We will!

Then my sis and I each got a pic w/ Tyler and we went over to take pix with Keaton Simons (he opened for Tyler and they're good friends). He said to me again, "tell Amy we said hi" and I said "Oh, I will!" haha. <3 Then he said "alright, see ya. be safe!" or something like that. haha. He's a sweetheart. <3

AMAZING, UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT. AHHHHHHHH. <3 I cannot WAIT to see Tyler live again someday. He better come back up here real soon! I miss him already!!!!

RENT

So in case you haven't heard the FANTASTIC news, RENT (w/ Anthony Rapp & Adam Pascal) is making its way up to San Francisco on October 6th and will be there for 2 full weeks, through October 18th.

I just bought 3 tickets for me, my sis and Anthony for Wednesday, October 14th. I got 4th row center. SCORE! 2 rows closer than I was in LA, however, its on the left aisle of the center section, so it's not directly in the center like I was in LA, but still pretty damn good seats. It's closer to where Anthony Rapp stands during "Seasons of Love" so I can wink and smile at his sexy gay ass through the entire song. ;) BAHAHA.

Gwen Stewart, the original soloist from "Seasons of Love" was sick when I saw the show in LA, so I didn't get to see her. Hopefully all 3 of the original cast members will be performing at the show I'm at. I wanna see Gwen this time!

Amy! <3

OMG. Amy mentioned us Kate (and AMY!) fans in an interview. =)

T: You toured with Kate Voegele, what was that experience like?
AK: That was so much fun, and I’m about to go on the road with her again. I
love love love her fans. They are so energetic and eager. They’ve even
built a fan site for me! Not everyone is lucky enough to have fans
like that.


AHHHH AMAZING. <3333 I LOVE HER! :)

& I know your streets are lined

with A FINE MESS inside. I wanna come down and walk around your mind!

Ash Kay (from the k-v.com forums) will be flying out to Cali to attend Kate's northern Cali shows with me. Insane, I know. She's crazy. LOL. She's already been to 4 of Kate's shows on this tour, PLUS the album release party in Nashville. Talk about being a dedicated Kate fan. LOL. & Angel Taylor! <3

Ash, you'll also get to see the amazingness that is Amy Kuney and you'll fall in love with her, as well.

We're gonna have to drive up to Sacramento early on the Saturday of Kate's Orangevale show to pick Ashley up from the airport and then we can hang around for a bit before we go to the venue. I've also got my "Operation: Unbelievable" thing at 6pm and I won't know where its at until I write someone on Friday. I don't think I'll be able to bring everyone with me, so it'll just be me, Anthony and hopefully my sister cause she really wants to go with us and I promised Anthony ages ago that I would let him film it and take photos with his professional camera. I need to ask the man in charge how many people I'll be allowed to bring with me.

My sister's boyfriend is driving us up to Sacramento/Orangevale so he'll be going to the show with us, as well. There's gonna be so many of us there partying in the front row. bahaha. Me, Kat, Ash, Julius, Kao and Anthony. 6 of us. haha. I'm hoping that while I'm at my 6pm gig with Anthony, Ashley and Kao and all them can save us spots in line at the venue.

I also promised to call Leah after my 6pm gig and let her know how it all went down. I believe the venue's doors open at 7:30 so I'll still have like an hour left to wait before we're let into the venue.

Ashley will be spending the night over at my house before we go to the SF show on Sunday. Kate has an in-store at Borders in SF at like 3:30pm I believe, so we'll have to leave at like noon to get there early. Hopefully Anthony will be there a bit before us as he lives a little bit closer to SF than I do and he can save us a good spot. I'm sure Kao will be there early, too. My sister and her boyfriend aren't going to the SF shows, so it'll just be me and Ashley with Kao and Anthony. Also, a friend of mine from the Sean Hayes forum will be going to the SF show. She's not a die-hard Kate fan like the rest of us, but she likes her. haha. She's always telling me she doesn't know who Amy Kuney is cause she's never heard of her. Well, she's opening for Kate in Cali so there ya go! =P I'll have to introduce Ashley to Amy and Reese (Amy's amazing female manager) and we can party with them, Angel and Kate's band members. LOL. Between me and Ashley, everyone performing at the shows in Cali will know us. HAHA. It's fabulous. & We're starting a site on Angel Taylor at Angel-Taylor.com and we're gonna tell her all about it when we see her. Lucky Ashley is going on tour with Angel this summer on her freakin' tour bus. So jealous! I'll have to get Angel to put my name on her thank you notes, too. LOL

Wow, this post was loooong. But that's only because lots of things have been developing. hahah. I'm seeing Tyler Hilton in 4 days! BOOYAW.

Saturday

I haven't posted in a few days. Lame, I know. =P

So I'm dropping the blog every day thing. Sometimes I just don't have anything to say.

exactly 1 week until I see Tyler Hilton live in concert. and 2 weeks until I see Kate and Amy!!!! =) Those shows are going to be phenominal. First, Amy performs, then Angel Taylor, whom I hear is AMAZING and then KATE! <333 Usually I don't really care about the opening acts of shows I go to, but this time I actually know one of them, so it'll be amazing.

I need to write a certain someone this coming Friday for details on the you-know-what. I need to find out where I'm going to meet up with you-know-who and if I can bring a few people with me. When I find out where I'm going to meet this person, I'm so not posting it here or anywhere publicly. Chya, like I want people showing up just to stalk this person. ha. Don't think so. =P

I'm probably gonna go swimming today. I checked the water yesterday and surprisingly, it was not freezing. It was actually somewhat warm. haha.

Glee

I already know what my new favorite show will be this fall. "Glee." It's a show about a glee club, which is like show choir. I love musicals, so this show is like amazing. haha.

Check out this performance of "Don't Stop Beleiving" and tell me you don't wanna watch this show. =P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFaSgUMWo_Y

Kate Opening Her Gift. <3

Kate Freakin' Loves Us.

"You guys make me so happy. Like, for reals. Any time I have a bad day, or I have writer's block or someone from the label is being a jerk, all the stuff you guys make me and like, say, like messages and stuff, like, it just totally makes it all go away." -Kate Voegele



"That can be the official kate-voegele.com picture." -Kate Voegele

I'd post the video of Kate FREAKING OUT over the quilt from all of us last night, but it's set to private. ANYWAY. She LOOOOVED it and her reaction TOTALLY made my YEAR. <3333 I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE HER!!!!

"Anthony is like, the artist." -Kate Voegele

sooo many amazing quotes! <3 hahaha

21 days

I just got an e-mail tonight saying that they're finally shipping my Tyler Hilton tickets. Phew! I was kinda getting worried about them. haha.

21 days, man. 21 days. I cannot wait any longer. It's killing me! AGH. She just had to make the west coast last on her tour, didn't she?!?! *sigh*

She'll be headlining a tour again this October so YAY. Hopefully I'll get to see her again then. :) I cannot wait to experience the greatness that is this tour, though. I've heard so many great things. <3

Alicia, you should go with me to her free acoustic performance / meet & greet at Borders in SF on Sunday, June 7th. It'll be lots of fun!

I just remembered that Leah, Miranda and everyone will be giving Kate the you-know-what tomorrow. OMG. <3 I hope you guys take VIDEO of it!!! I'll kill you if you don't. =P

It's officially 2 weeks until Tyler's show and 3 weeks until Kate's. EEEEK.

I think I'm just gonna bring Anthony's birthday gift with me to Orangevale. LOL.

22 days

Yeah, I did not blog yesterday. I fail.

I was too busy freaking out over the fact that the wonderful Lee Norris wrote me yesterday. Twice. He wrote me to say hi and to tell me about this new (adorable) photo shoot he did in NY. He also said that he has signed on for the next season of OTH and that things have been hectic over at the "Hill."

I wrote him back and told him my plans to see Tyler, Kate, Reese and Amy and how I really wanna pursue a career in the music industry promoting artists and he wrote me back saying how great that was and that he's always had a passion for music, too. <3 He also said to have the best time seeing Kate, Reese and "Ty". lol. He said he was supposed to see Kate the other night in NYC, but they just missed each other. :( Sadness.

2 weeks and 1 day until I see Tyler. <3 My love. Except he has a girlfriend. *sigh* I've had a crush on him for so many years. SO NOT FAIR. lol. I don't think my tickets for his show have come in the mail yet. Rawr. They're supposed to ship them no later than 10 business days before the show, so if they don't ship them by Monday I'm gonna get cranky.

On Skype

With some of the Kate peeps. And apparantly, Sophia Bush was at Amy's show in LA on May 9th, which was also Reese's birthday party thing. Ugh. SO wish I could have gone!!! Rawr.

Leah saw Kate tonight. And TREY. <3 Agh. He's going to all the shows Leah is going to. SO JEALOUS. I wanna meet Trey so bad!

I get to meet Papa V. though. YAY! :)

This blog is lame, I know. But it's 10:30pm and I haven't written one yet today because I fail. I've been spending a lot of time on my Kate site lately and I've been neglecting all my other sites and I feel bad. Kate is too busy these days. She's getting all famous and sh!t, on E! news. Pshh. LoL. You know I'm happy for her. Of course I am! She just keeps me busy. LoL.

Needless to say, OTH was amazing. You seriously know you're a hardcore Naley fan when you start crying tears of joy over their hott sex scene in the women's bathroom at Tric. lmao. I've been waiting for a hot scene like that between them for years. I'm allowed to cry a few tears of joy, dammit! Hands down, they have the hottest chemistry ever.

I added a bunch of new songs to my OTH playlist tonight, thanks to an amazing OTH Music community on LJ. =) Only One Tree Hill could get me hooked on a song by Nick Lachey...

Music: "All In My Head" - Nick Lachey

NO SPOILING!!!

For once in a REALLY long time, I DO NOT want to be spoiled for tonight's episode of One Tree Hill. There is a REALLY HOTT Naley sex scene tonight and I DO NOT want it ruined/spoiled for me. I want so badly to enjoy this scene that I've waited YEARS to happen, that I will not allow myself to go on Twitter for the next few hours. & if you know me, you know that I check Twitter like every 5 minutes. So you know this Naley scene means A LOT.

I. CANNOT. WAIT. AHHHHHHHHHH.

Boo.

Hello people who read this blog.

Apparantly, Kate Voegele has old men stalkers. EW.

There was your random, yet creepy, fact of the day. ha.

Leah gets to see Amy Kuney and Bryan Greenberg together at the same show. SO JEALOUS. They're both opening for Ari Hest in NY. I WANNA GOOO.

Leah says I win forever because I get to see two Kate/Amy shows. haha. =P

I've decided not to go to Wilmington. I know. Shocker. I realllllly wanna go back to Disney World next May and bring my sister with me this time. I think it'll be super fun, especially since her and I never get to hang out anymore without her boyfriend around. Blah.

'One Tree Hill' Summer Concert Series

It seriously is starting to feel like it. I mean, seriously. Bryan Greenberg has just announced some tour dates. He's just an opening act, though, so nothing too exciting, but he'll be in San Francisco on June 1st, 2 days after I see Tyler and 5 days before I see Kate & Amy. I mean, really. Must they all come to northern cali the SAME FREAKIN' WEEK? I mean, come on. OTH summer concert series. That's really what it is up here in good ol' northern cali.

I won't be seeing Bryan, though. I'll be going to SF 6 days later to see Kate & Amy and I'll be up in Sacramento 2 days before to see Tyler. It's just too much. Too much!

My mom says they should all just come the exact same day and perform at the exact same venue and put on this whole OTH concert thingy. I totally agree. Throw in some Bethany Joy Galeotti and you've got everyone from the show that is musically inclined. =P

I Saw 90210 Filming

and I didn't even know it.



A still from a video I took as my dad and I drove by a random production filming on Beverly Blvd in LA back in March as we rushed to get back to our hotel after the extra long taping of The Late Late Show so we could make it to RENT in time.

It was right across the street from The Kokomo Cafe, which is used as the "Peach Pit" on the show. The episode they were filming that week just aired this past Tuesday, and the clothing store that Naomi and her sister were shopping in during one scene looked kinda familiar.



While watching the scene, I saw the address of the store they were in on the door, so I looked it up online using the street my dad and I had been on. Turns out the store in the scene is right across the street from the Peach Pit. ... Yeah. IT WAS THEM FILMING WHEN WE DROVE BY. fhtygrsdrgdsf. They had extremely bright lights set up (in my photo above) to make it look like it was daytime. But omfg trfuhjsdff. We drove right past where AnnaLynne McCord was filming and I had no idea. I'm not too pissed about it, though, as we didn't have time to stop and check the place out. We had to get to RENT. But MAN. We drove right past them filming! FUJYHTSEGBFDF. What are the odds!

Amy!

So I randomly started a skype chat tonight and it happened to be great timing because I tweeted that kv fans should get on skype if they could and then maria, amy's intern, sent me a text on skype asking if she could join the chat and i said sure, so i called her and then all of a sudden i hear someone say "hi, it's amy" and i was like WHAT?! lmao. I sooo wasn't expecting that. hahaha. AMYYYYY. <3333 I miss her!!!! 28 days, people. 28 days!!!

4 weeks and 1 day

4 weeks and 1 day until quite possibly one of the greatest days of my life. No biggie. =P

Tyler is in San Francisco right now and he's taking requests on stage tonight via Twitter. I hope he does that for my show in 3 weeks and 1 day. He's opening for a band called Thriving Ivory, which is why I'm not going. I'd rather see him headline, which he'll be doing in Orangevale. (Score!) I'm so gonna request my favorite song, "I Believe In You". [LINK TO SONG]

Angel Taylor's song "Make Me Believe" was on 90210 this past week. Angel Taylor is opening for Kate on her current tour, so I'll be seeing her along with Kate & Amy. I think we should all get together on the bus and have a big party before the Orangevale show. Yeah?

RENT needs to announce its extended tour dates because I'm getting really antsy. I know for a fact that the tour has been extended and both Anthony and Adam have signed contracts for it. The extended run in San Francisco is what hasn't been confirmed yet.

I'm really hoping Papa V. (Kate's dad) comes to her northern cali shows because I really wanna meet him! He loves the site and it would be really cool if I could meet him and say I CREATED IT. *bows* Ya know... or something. =P He was in SF the last time Kate had a show there, but I couldn't go. BOO. Please come back, Papa V!

Blah.

It's almost 4am and I'm still awake.

The caffeine I drank a few hours ago has done this to me. Yeah, not a smart move.

Although according to Reese's latest tweet, she's up, as well. So I don't feel so bad. Because Reese is awesome. =)

Speaking of whichhhh. Kate & AMY in 30 days. 30 days!!! That's LESS than a month. Finally. Holy crow.

23 days til Tyler Hilton. Yeehaw!

Don't know where that came from. I'm not country. At all.

Country. Taylor. Taylor Swift. OMG FYUHTKMNSEAES her music video for "You Belong With Me" is my favorite. EVER. OMG. SOOOOO ADORABLE. fyuytrrew4sgvcxdf. I think I can't love that girl any more than I already do and then she proves me wrong. *sigh* I'd so go girl for her.

Should be getting Felicity, Season 1, Disc 1 in the mail from Netflix on Friday. Can't wait. Have I mentioned that I love that show? =P Not as much as Sex and the City, but you know. It's up there.

Do any of you guys even read this blog? "You guys" is referring to all my kate peeps and some of my real-life homies. No one has bothered to comment thus far, so either ya don't read my blog or you're too lazy to comment. =P

Oh, yeah. Guilt trip.

lol.

Wednesday

It's almost 5:30 and I haven't blogged yet today. 3rd day in and I almost already failed at this "blog every day" thing. Ha.

I blogged twice yesterday, though. Does that count?

Sometimes I am in the mood to type things. Sometimes not. haha.

I am home alone right now. My mother had to take my grandmother to the doctor's office because she was freaking out about her pulse not being normal. Turns out, there was nothing wrong with her and she was just being paranoid. That was the problem yesterday, as well. They did a whole bunch of tests and nothing was wrong with her. *sigh*

I had 2 cavities filled today, so the left side of my mouth has been numb for a couple of hours now.

My dad is in Vegas on business and my mom and I are getting Moo Moo's (YUM!) for dinner, while my sister goes to church with her boyfriend. She's at his place right now.

I gave my dad my flip cam for his trip, so he could take videos for me, specifically of the huge water fountain show thing at the Bellagio hotel. They'll probably be uploaded to YouTube if they're good enough videos. haha. I reminded my dad how to use the camera and everything, just in case. Told him not to lose it or break it. haha. I need that thing for Kate's shows! & Tyler's as well. He bought it for me for Christmas, so hey. He breaks it, he buys it. Although he kinda already did. But whatever. =P

Let's Fly Away

I am itching to fly somewhere. Anywhere in the U.S.

I am supposed to be going to Wilmington this July with Miranda, but those plans are not set in stone yet, as Miranda and I have barely talked about it.

I am really tempted to go to Kate's album release party in Nashville. I asked Anthony if he'd be up for flying out there with me, but he's got finals like right around that time that he needs to study for, so that sucks.

But I have got this itch to fly somewhere and it needs to be scratched. Rahr.

If this Wilmington trip doesn't work out, I'd really like to fly back east to meet and hang out with Leah & Sherine. That is if they'd have me. haha. Or maybe go to Disneyland (or possibly Disney World) with Anthony or something. Or Alicia. Hey Alicia, wanna go to Disney World this summer? LoL.

Just got "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" from Netflix. Believe it or not, I've never actually seen that movie. I'll be watching it with my mom today and then mailing it back tomorrow, so I can get "Felicity" Season 1, Disc 1 this weekend. I already rented the entire series from Netflix, but now I'm gonna get my mom and sis to watch it, because I really ended up loving it. I'm asking for the dvd sets this Christmas. lol

90210 Contest

I just submitted a video to the 90210 Dr. Pepper contest to win a trip to the set of 90210, a tour by one of the cast members and a Rodeo Drive shopping spree. Heck yeah. I hope I win.

The video had to consist of me telling which 90210 cast member I'd wanna go on a road trip with. I picked Jessica Stroup, as she is a total music junkie, like myself. I love discovering new bands and artists - particularly ones that most people have never heard of. I think the 2 of us would get along really well. I'm not gonna go on telling you everything I said in my video, because it would be majorly lame if someone tried to copy me. =P

I am going to try and attempt to blog here every day. I was inspired by the whole "blog every day in april" (aka BEDA) thing that went on last month so now I'm doing it this month. Or whatever. But yeah. Blogging here every day. I'm going to at least try. haha.

Hello.

So, I've signed up on Blogspot. Whatever. I know, I have an LJ (that I now only use for private postings) AND a tumblr, but I wanted a blogspot blog. Because, well. All the cool kids are doing it. =P

So, with that said, I welcome you to "A FINE MESS," my new blog at blogspot. I hope you will visit often and enjoy it. :)