Kevin McDonald is the nicest celebrity I've ever met.
I went to this last night. I'm sorry, Dave Foley, but Kevin McDonald has just barely edged you out as the nicest celebrity I've ever met. Not that you weren't nice. You were great, especially since you half remembered me from that one time we met 2 years ago at a sort-of cocktail party and talked for about 15 minutes. That was really impressive. (The half remembered me part was when I walked up and he got that "I know you" look on his face and said "Haven't we met before?"). Poor Ed Robertson has now dropped down to a very close 3rd, where he's tied with Kevin Smith who I love in a way words can not express.
Anyway, the show was fun, almost improv as they forgot a lot of lines. At one point Bruce said "We started rehearsing on Monday. I guess we should have started on Sunday."
And we got there a little late as it turned out that I was a bit too crazy to drive and ended up talking my best friend in the world Lisa to drive me to Alhambra to meet up with Felipe so that we could all drive into Hollywood together. I don't like to drive when I'm that distractable because on the few occasions I have had to it's been very hard to pay attention to lights and stuff. Last time it was 3 near misses on a 5 mile drive I do more than 5 days a week. Kind of scary.
Anyway, back to Kevin and Dave. There was, of course, a bunch of people hanging around after the show to talk to the performers, and I wasn't going to be one of them but we ended up running into Andrew Goldenhersh who I hadn't seen in years and we talked to him for a while and then the crowd thinned out. Then I decided I wanted to go say "Hi" to Dave Foley even though I wasn't sure he'd remember me. But he did, and asked me where we met and I told him that he had been very nice to talk to me on that occasion as I had felt very weird and awkward until he and his wife approached me. He made some comment about how he understood because he always feels weird and awkward and somehow the conversation deteriorated and pretty much ended when he said "string theory" and I said that I so did not want to talk about physics.
We parted and then I realized that I probably should get the program autographed to give to Luz. So I went around getting autographs and feeling rather silly about it but I told everyone that I was getting them for Luz because she couldn't make it. When I got to Kevin he said that she didn't deserve an autograph because she wasn't there, so I told him what she had told me when she dropped out at the last minute, which is that she'd gotten a cryptic phone call from her mom saying that they (Luz's Mom and Dad) had hit a car and for Luz to call her back. Then they didn't answer the phone when Luz did try to call her back, so of course Luz was freaking out and trying to find out what actually happened. Kevin was very sympathetic and we talked about how Jews and Canadian catholics always start that kind of phone call with "First off, everything is fine" even if it really isn't. For example, a Jew would make that call and say "First off, everything is fine." And then you say "What happened?" And then they say "Your sister just got in an accident and the car is totalled and she's broken both legs they think she might have brain damage." And you say "That's fine?" and then they say "Nobody's dead."
Anyway, what elevated Kevin to nicest celebrity I've ever met was when he said that Luz and I should come back the next night (tonight), if everything was okay with her parents. (Which, by the way, it is. She finally got hold of them and found out that when her mother said "we hit a car", what she meant was "we hit a parked car when we opened our car door."). That's not the nice part, sorry. The nice part was that when I told him that we couldn't because the show was sold out he said to call up the theatre and tell them that we needed tickets and to ask Kevin if they told us there weren't any. He said that he couldn't promise anything because he was a weakling, but he could at least try. THAT was what made him the nicest celebrity I've ever met.
Okay, now the sucky part. Neither Luz nor I have the $25 for the tickets for tonights show, even if he did get them for us. I mean, I didn't mention the money issue to him at the time because I didn't want him to think that I was angling for comp tickets (and also because I was so stunned by the gesture that it never even occurred to me), but that was pretty much the coolest thing ever.
And that's why Kevin McDonald is the nicest celebrity I ever met. Though now that I think about it, Ed Robertson did something sort of similar for Mykie-Dave once, but I don't know if it quite counts for me since I didn't benefit from it.
Anyway, the show was fun, almost improv as they forgot a lot of lines. At one point Bruce said "We started rehearsing on Monday. I guess we should have started on Sunday."
And we got there a little late as it turned out that I was a bit too crazy to drive and ended up talking my best friend in the world Lisa to drive me to Alhambra to meet up with Felipe so that we could all drive into Hollywood together. I don't like to drive when I'm that distractable because on the few occasions I have had to it's been very hard to pay attention to lights and stuff. Last time it was 3 near misses on a 5 mile drive I do more than 5 days a week. Kind of scary.
Anyway, back to Kevin and Dave. There was, of course, a bunch of people hanging around after the show to talk to the performers, and I wasn't going to be one of them but we ended up running into Andrew Goldenhersh who I hadn't seen in years and we talked to him for a while and then the crowd thinned out. Then I decided I wanted to go say "Hi" to Dave Foley even though I wasn't sure he'd remember me. But he did, and asked me where we met and I told him that he had been very nice to talk to me on that occasion as I had felt very weird and awkward until he and his wife approached me. He made some comment about how he understood because he always feels weird and awkward and somehow the conversation deteriorated and pretty much ended when he said "string theory" and I said that I so did not want to talk about physics.
We parted and then I realized that I probably should get the program autographed to give to Luz. So I went around getting autographs and feeling rather silly about it but I told everyone that I was getting them for Luz because she couldn't make it. When I got to Kevin he said that she didn't deserve an autograph because she wasn't there, so I told him what she had told me when she dropped out at the last minute, which is that she'd gotten a cryptic phone call from her mom saying that they (Luz's Mom and Dad) had hit a car and for Luz to call her back. Then they didn't answer the phone when Luz did try to call her back, so of course Luz was freaking out and trying to find out what actually happened. Kevin was very sympathetic and we talked about how Jews and Canadian catholics always start that kind of phone call with "First off, everything is fine" even if it really isn't. For example, a Jew would make that call and say "First off, everything is fine." And then you say "What happened?" And then they say "Your sister just got in an accident and the car is totalled and she's broken both legs they think she might have brain damage." And you say "That's fine?" and then they say "Nobody's dead."
Anyway, what elevated Kevin to nicest celebrity I've ever met was when he said that Luz and I should come back the next night (tonight), if everything was okay with her parents. (Which, by the way, it is. She finally got hold of them and found out that when her mother said "we hit a car", what she meant was "we hit a parked car when we opened our car door."). That's not the nice part, sorry. The nice part was that when I told him that we couldn't because the show was sold out he said to call up the theatre and tell them that we needed tickets and to ask Kevin if they told us there weren't any. He said that he couldn't promise anything because he was a weakling, but he could at least try. THAT was what made him the nicest celebrity I've ever met.
Okay, now the sucky part. Neither Luz nor I have the $25 for the tickets for tonights show, even if he did get them for us. I mean, I didn't mention the money issue to him at the time because I didn't want him to think that I was angling for comp tickets (and also because I was so stunned by the gesture that it never even occurred to me), but that was pretty much the coolest thing ever.
And that's why Kevin McDonald is the nicest celebrity I ever met. Though now that I think about it, Ed Robertson did something sort of similar for Mykie-Dave once, but I don't know if it quite counts for me since I didn't benefit from it.