Flaming Lips

Last night, something pretty crazy happened. I was at the Norva waiting for the Flaming Lips to play. I got a text from a friend that said "I'm here", so I walked towards the entrance. As I was walking and trying to text with a beer in my hand, I was approached by a guy with really long hair. He said, "You need me to hold that beer for you?" I kept walking because I thought he was just being weird. He said "Wait, what's your name?" and then shook my hand. He goes on to tell me that he's trying to get people on stage to dance during the show in costume. I didn't believe him because he didn't look legit. I even said "Mmm you smell like weed" real sarcastically. Anyway, he ended up convincing me that this was for real and I said I wanted to do it and I know that my friend would, too. He said he'd meet me back at that spot in 5 minutes with my friend. Well, she arrived and he took forever. I finally saw him walk by and I had to run after him to tell him I was still interested. He only had one pass left. I took it.

I went to the spot where we were supposed to meet with our backstage passes, and there were 8 of us. When we went backstage, we immediately saw Wayne and he was so normal and friendly. We were shown our costumes (we all dressed as Dorothy), and I was a little nervous we were gonna look more like Brett Micheals groupies because of how tiny they were. Thank god I had shorts on.

It was pretty damn cool to get to see behind the scenes of this famously wild show. The best part was when Wayne singled me out and came up to me during a song and gave me a huge hug. After we danced for the 1hr 15 min show, we went backstage--- got free shirts, autographs, and as much time as we wanted to get pictures with Wayne. He was so insanely nice, and he even took a picture on his new iPhone 4 and texted it to me later! Which means, I have his phone number. Haha

This is the opening to the show (I found it on youtube). We come on stage around minute 5 of this video. None of us really knew what to do, we were so shocked to be in the position we were in. I hope I didn't look like a nerd.

He was signing the shirt he gave me here. It said, "Hey Sarah! Peace Wayne" with a drawing of a sun. Hah!

The second one was taken by Wayne. I can't get over how cool it was of him to go out of his way to send it to me directly from his phone!