Matt Wertz

Thursday was an amazing night, except for one small part...nothing crazy, just buggy.

We (Tinny and I) went to see Matt Wertz and Gavin DeGraw in Rochester. We went to see Matt Wertz mainly (we left after 2 Gavin DeGraw songs...he is a potty-mouthed pervert we discovered) and we were basically two of the five folks in the crowd who knew Matt's music at all.

I found Matt Wertz's music after hearing his song "Red Meets Blue" on Brandon McCarthy's (a then pitcher for the Chicago White Sox) MySpace. I iTunesed the rest of Matt Wertz's music and loved it all. Until Amos Lee came into my life like two months ago, I would say Matt Wertz was my favorite current artist (especially since Third Eye Blind hasn't released an album since my niece has been alive).

So it was great, being the only ones in the intimately sized crowd who knew Matt's music, and like, we knew every word. I know most people have those "holy crap, he's looking at me moments" at concerts, but seriously, I'll get to it, but he WAS looking at us, as it turns out, he was looking a lot (since we were singing all of his words and since Tinny looked delicious probably). Tin and I even looked at each other at the same time after homey winked at us (the wink probably meant for Tinny!!).

After his set he went down to his merch. table to do some meeting and greeting, and we met and greeted. He was so unbelievably warm and just incredible to talk to...like ridiculous. He asked us about us, asked about my shirt, I told him I was torn up because he didn't play "Red Meets Blue" and he laughed, shook hands and was just this ego-less, positive, amazing guy.

The part where it comes in that he "was totally looking at us dude"? He said to me, with my shirt zipped up as you see in the picture below, "I saw you guys during the show, are you from Kansas?" "I said no, just a fan" he then said he was from Missouri but noticed the shirt, and we made out for a little bit (part of that story is not true).

I had my Kansas shirt on for the show but it was well-covered up by the time we met him. Also, during the show he stopped and asked if the one kid in the crowd went to Vanderbilt because he had a Vandy t-shirt on.

After we got THIS SHITTY PICTURE taken of us with Matt, he asked Tinny what her name was again, said thanks so much for coming to the show (and you could tell sincerely, sincerely meant it), and we were off.

The buggy part? NEVER TRUST A STRANGER TO USE YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA!!! ESPECIALLY A FEMALE STRANGER....here's why:


Stand still, hold the button halfway for a split second so the camera can focus, then push it down to take the pic -- IT'S SIMPLE. An otherwise perfect pic is kind of crap now. We would definitely print and frame this bad boy, but in a city that is the home to Kodak, this Rochester be-atch couldn't take a good pic (we have a really good camera) if her life depended on it. Seriously though, if you blur your own eyes a little bit, it looks crystal clear.




I got this somewhere through my reading and healing, and I love it....In prayer and meditation so much is focused on US. We pray for strength, we pray for our loved ones, or for an answer, or for Michigan to beat Ohio State (although FAR MORE maniacs pray for the reverse). What about sometimes just telling God "thanks for giving me such a phenomenal day"? Today was one of those days.

Joey's wedding Saturday was one of those days, and ya know, I've had more than my share of blessed days where I have had amazing experiences that so many people never have even one of.