Friday, October 29, 2004
So the show ends, and I sip a bit more of my rum and coke. We see Harland and Liz spots Kevin at the bar. So we stay put for a bit and then the "looks" start, LOL!! See, there were three of us, you'd think at least one would be a leader but.......nope. :-) By this time my stomach is starting to really tighten up and bother me so I hurry up and take a swig of Pepto Bismol before we get up, and i'm *so* glad I did!(Yes, I carry a bottle of it where every I go) I'm quite sure Lori and Liz were thinking I was beyond strange at this point.
So Lori kinda got the ball rolling and said something like "if we're gonna do it, lets do it." Prompting me to say "It's Now or Never!" which became our theme of the night, LOL! And just so you know, that theme kinda sucks! lol, jk. We get up and they get their CD's out, I still feel bad that I had nothing for him to sign. Oh how I wish I owned "The Cousins" CD/DVD! So we're just standing there watching him talk to other people, which was more amusing than you'd think. Espcially the lady that didn't know how to use her camera phone!! I think she didn't know how to use it on purpose, just so she could have Harland keep standing so close to her! Not that I would have done that or anything.......:-P LOL
So they finish up and Lori starts to walk up to him and right away he walks up and askes "What's up?" something like that. He was so friendly and approchable in my opinion. The complete opposite of what I thought. I mean I kinda had the feeling he was a nice friendly guy, but he was way more "serious" than I expected. So he shakes Lori and Liz's hands and I was off more to the end since I had nothing for him to sign, and after he shakes their hands and they start talking, he looks at me WINKS and then shakes my hand! I say "hi" while trying not to passout!! Have I mentioned how much more HOTT and SEXY he looks in person?! I still dunno why he winked at me.....Trish said she thinks he "just happens to like big, beautiful women!" LOL, Have I mentioned lately that I love Trish?!
So then they ask for autographs and before they could hand him a sharpie he pulls a pen out of his sleave!! I thought that was just the coolest thing for some reason. I think he was really looking forward to meeting some fans. So while he's signing their CD's Liz tells him how far we had come to see the show. Actually I think she just metioned herself cause she told him Indiana, and I might have said something like Illinois/Chicago. I know I said a few things to him although most are unclear.....damm him and his sexyness! So she told him she came from Indiana and he's like "Shu......No you didn't!!" not believing her, so she tells him we really did and he says he hopes the trip was worth it, and obviously it was! I mean not to sound bad or anything, but by this point, even if we didn't get the chance to meet Kevin I wouldn't have been too upset over it, Harland was just so wonderful! Then a group of fans walk up and start talking to him before we could ask for a picture. So we observe and as soon as he's finished he turns right back to us and *I* ask him if he'd mind taking a picture.(i still can't believe I did this stuff!) He says of course or sure, very enthusiastically, and Lori asks Liz and Me if we wanna take it together, I say sure. And as we get on either side of him he says "Boy am I lucky!!" Causing me to giggle! I wrapped my arm around his waste (he did the same of course :-) and we took the picture.
Now here's where I step out of my body and someone else comes in, cause before we let go I tell him he's a great singer and pat him on the damn back/waste what ever you wanna call it! WTF?!?!?! I don't think he's told that very often cause he seemed very pleased by that and thanked me. But I can not believe I was so comfortable around him!! I'm not like that with regular everyday people. So he says he hopes Liz wont have to travel so far to see the show again and to check out thecousins.com, and then we thank him, I said it was nice meeting him...etc. And then we start walking towards Kevin who is sitting with Yvonne(his girlfriend). So we stand there, i'm trying to calm down and quit shaking, which obviously I can't. I asked Liz how many pics I had left on the camera, holding it up you know, and she had to grab my damn hand to hold it still! LOL, so terrible! So by this point Lori and Liz kept saying that I'm the one that should go up to Kevin first....etc. Esp. since Lor talked to Harland first and Liz talked to him more? lol, I dunno, I find it funny now but at that time I wasn't laughing much!
So to my horror Kevin gets up to talk to someone, then he walks over to the bar and I start walking. He walks over by Sean (brother) and they start talking so I/we walk past and all of a sudden Lori and Liz are looking at me.....they already said that it was me that had to aproach him FIRST. And the looks I was getting made me feel like if I didn't they'd never go up to him and get his autograph either and we'd all regret it. It's kinda like in Ghostbusters 2 where they are all standing around the hole saying "Well someones got to go down there.." and they all look at poor Ray? It was EXACTLY like that, lol, nothing I could do to change their minds! So they're looking at me and then back at Kevin...etc. An I tell them to just give me a minute to clam down from meeting Harland. The next thing I know Kevin walks up to the bar and in that split second my mind just cleared, I figured out what to say(I think someone else jumped into my body again, I swear it!) and as he started walking towards his family I tapped in on the shoulder!! He turns around and I stick out my hand and say "Hi Kevin, my name's Marie. My friend Liz and I came all the way from the Chicago area to see the show!!" He seems very shocked at this just as Harland was. Some of what was said is a bit unclear mostly because it's the kinda stuff you say to any normal human being.(and Kevin is a normal human being uh...right?....anyway....) I know that after I told him that he was a bit suprized and asked how long it took and for sure I said something really quick like "11-12 hours" which got an equally touched/shocked look. I can't get over how clear yet dream like it all was. I'm having a hard time explaining. I mean I remember his face very clear, and most of what was said, but it was like everything else around me "disapeared" when I was talking to him, I know that doesn't make sence but....whateves, LOL. Oh I have to mention that when he first turned around all I could think was "Man, look at those EYEYS! And geez is he tall!" I had to kinda look up at him. Which I thought was WAY cool, because I don't have to do that very often. So anyway, i'm pretty sure I told him it was a great show and it was definately worth the trip. I asked him if I could get his autograph and he says sure and take's my CD. Of course I didn't have my sharpie out, and what was cute was right away he stuck his hand out for something to write with. So I hand him Liz's sharpie and he signs his name, then asks me what *my* name is: "Your Liz or Ma--" "I'm Marie!" So he writes it and starts Singing. My. Name. "Marie, Marie......Oh Marie-ah, ::to Sean:: Isn't that a song::.....Oh Marieeeeeaa...etc." It sounded to Liz and I like he changed the words to The Cousin's song "Christina" into "Mariea" At any rate it was the coolest damn thing! So my autograph reads:"Oh Marie!" -Kevin Hearn
I just couldn't believe he started singing!
Then I hand Liz back her sharpie, which I dunno why I did that, prob. cause Kevin handed it back to me? And he takes her CD, and yet again he holds his hand out for me to put something in it for him to write with.(I was standing right at his side the whole time.......yeah, i'm not complaining {g}) Oh and I have to mention that Kevin was a *bit* wasted. His eyes were kinda glossy and he seemed a bit out of it the whole time. Although he wasn't as out of it as I was and I had hardly anything to drink!!
This is where the story gets interesting and hilarious to some, but just remembering it makes me wanna barf!! So after we get our autographs I ask him if he'd "*mind* taking a picture?" He shakes his head "no" and turns his head to talk to Sean. So I walk forward a bit and tell Lori and Liz his response. They look at me like "Wha?" So I ask him again "Would you *mind* taking a picture? and this time he tells me "no." Turns his head again to talk to Sean. I guess by this time Lori and Liz started to back off/walk away cause I walked up to them and said "He said 'No.'" They seemed just as confused as I was. So we start walking more towards the door and stop to talk and all of a sudden someone walks up, leans over and I hear kevin say "What's going on? I asked you where you wanted it?" And I say something like "Oh, i'm sorry, where do I want what?" And he says the picture and I tell him that right here is fine. Like, i'm gonna tell him where to stand! Or where I *want it* for that matter! He's so damn cute! See what's so funny is he never asked me "where do you want it" but I wasn't about to argue with him, LOL! So we all take our pictures and thank him again.
If you look closely, under his left arm(he's holding it in his right) you can see him trying to hide his beer! :-P Wish i'd have looked to see what kind it was...
Then before we leave he asks us where we came from again and when we tell him again he puts his hand to his heart and says "Safe Journey's Home!" And we say thanks and that the show was great....etc.
He's such a nice guy!! Not to mention sweet and considerate, and do I have to even say that drunk Kevin is extremly cute?! I can't get over how nice he was! Although he's definately shy, but not as shy as I had expected, probably thanks to the beer! Especially with my dumb ass and the picture fiasco! He could have so gone back to his family and let us leave, but he didn't!
I still can't get over that I actually shook hands with Harland(and Kevin of course), and spoke to them. I think i'm coming off all wrong as well, because I mean yes it was Harland Williams, and yes it was Kevin Hearn.(and I look up to Kevin alot, I admire him emensly!) But it was also the fact that I put my shyness to the side and actually spoke not to mention introduce myself to Kevin. It's just that the things I did that night are things I wont even do with every day strangers I meet. I ALWAYS forget about introducing myself to people, I hardly ever shake hands....etc. Yet for some reason I did it, and I have to admit i'm just a bit proud of myself with the whole approching Kevin thing. I mean I even introducing Liz while talking to him.(I *still* wish i'd have introduced Lori, but then again it's probably a good thing I didn't, with Kevin being drunk, might have confussed him more, lol! So um, sorry Lori! Next Time for sure! ;-) So thats why i've been so excited and out of it. I met them, and I can actually say that I met them. It wasn't just "put the book or paper in their face" they sign it we leave type of thing, we shook hands and spoke to them like the normal, nice human beings that they are!
Marie @ 1:26 PM