:-O

So last night I got to go to my first movie premier, and go backstage at a Kevin Costner (Modern West) concert, and then hang out in Kevin's hotel suite. omg.

When my cousin Quinn was little he was best friends with his next door neighbor, Ben. Ben's father Larry is now the drummer for Kevin Costner's band. Kevin is from Ventura, which is like half an hour away from here. He wanted to have a special premier for his new movie, Swing Vote (its actually really good, I recommend it), in his hometown, followed by a special concert by the band, which did all the sound track for the movie and has a small scene in it. Since Quinn is visiting, Larry (who actually dated my mom's little sister in high school and has all these weird connections to my family) got us tickets to the premier and VIP passes to the concert and stuff. Then after the concert we were all hanging out back stage, then people went to the bar at the hotel they were staying at, but some people thought that was too loud so we just all went up to Kevin's room. It was kind of crazy.

Oh also really weird, some of Larry's other friends were talking to him right after he got off stage as we were walking up to him and they were like "Hey what ever happened to Jimmy Gallagher?" And Larry was like, "Well he's right there!" It was so weird, I guess these were some of Larry's friends from high school and they were my dad's neighbors when they were little and stuff. It was kind of funny though because my dad like does not remember them, he even called my aunt (Quinn's mom) and she didn't remember them either. But they were going on and on about his motor cycle and bunk beds and working for my grandpa in the summer and all this stuff so apparently they were like really good friends, or just have some freakish obsession with him. And one of their wives went to high school with my mom and like seriously there really were just all of these crazy connections. They were very nice though and it was fun.