Monthly Archives: November 2010
sam stop. but don’t.
Ah Monday. The Monday after Thanksgiving no less. Always fun to be back at work after a full week off, no? But, I guess I should be lucky I have a job so maybe I should just get to the point of this post, no?
So, this past week, I have felt off. Not just because I was sick, but because I was ::gasp:: offline for most of the week. Can you believe it? Yeah, me neither. I was THAT sick that even the computer was making it worse.
Anyhoo, last night as I was getting ready for night night times, I realized that the “off-ness” I was feeling was that I hadn’t checked or really been on twitter in what seemed like years, save the half hour that I listened to the Fearless interview with Mr. Bradley. I started sweating at the realization. What had I missed? What important tweet did I miss RTing? GAH!
With shaking hands I grabbed my cellie and quickly scrolled through both my accounts saving the SoS one for last. And. Then. I. Saw. It. My worst fears came true. I MISSED a GENIUS TWEET.
http://twitter.com/samueltwitt1/status/9074693944385537
With THIS pic linked:
anddddd....i DIE.
You’re probs thinking uh, what’s so special about that? Erm. That’s where I have a confession to make. HATS. Hats are my kryptonite. A guy in a hat is like a girl in a school girl uniform for guys. Like WHOA.
And it’s NOT the first time people. Did you all see this (where he apparently got that hat in the pic)? GAH. I mean, sometimes, even THIS is goo, although, I could do without the beibs hair. and that huge watch. But whatevs.
Naturally, I got on gchat with Amber and I might have virtually squeed all over her (heh) about the hats. Which of course led us to thinking about hats that we could give Sam during the next meet and greet. I mean, don’t be surprised if we show up with one of these to give to him the next time he rolls through Dallas, although, this post might just make him skip Dallas on the next tour. So maybe I will just send him this for Christmas, yeah?
a blog divided
All the good hats are college ones, right? And since Amber and I are from dueling nations, she being a ::ahem:: Sooners fan, where I am a die hard Longhorn gal, we couldn’t decide on which school to give so there.
Although, I guess this one would be goo too, don’t you think?
cafepress rules
What hat would you like to send Sam? Let us know. And in the meantime, please to be NOT stopping with the hats, mmmkay Sam? Preesh.
where we address the bobbyphant in the room…
what? i don't see anything....
Yeah. So, you all noticed. You are onto us. There is one less name up there on that ol’ nav bar and one less floating head over there on the right. We honestly didn’t think the twelve readers we have anyone would notice. But you have. And you have let us know that you have. Whether it be in DMs, emails, texts, discussing it in forums….you’ve all had the same question for us– what the FU….no, I kid….there was no cussing. But a number of you guys have wondered the same thing so we figured we’d go ahead and address it here.
Let’s just get it out in the open, shall we?
Why did we remove Bobby Long from the site?
Well, to be honest, it wasn’t a big “OMG-let’s-dump-Bobby-cause-we-hate-him-now” thing. We just felt it was right. Like the equivalent of dating a REALLY nice guy and then realizing that there really isn’t any chemistry there, even though you have TONS of fun together, you just know deep down they aren’t the ONE. And then you break up and your friends all bombard you with, “BUT y’all were PERFECT! What HAPPENED?”
Nothing happened. At all. Bobby didn’t do anything wrong. We didn’t stop loving his music. We just realized that we wanted to focus on Sam and Marcus.
When we started this blog last year, we did it as a way to continue fangirling over the three guys we saw over a kick ass weekend in Dallas. Amber and I met for the first time, bonded over our fangirl squeeing and we didn’t want it to end so to speak, so we decided to start a blog. We knew there was already support out there for the guys, by the way of the Land of Dreamers, but we weren’t looking to horn in on their “territory”, aka creating street teams and such. Really we just wanted a way to make fun of our own fangirliness. So we went a different route– one where we could share news concerning the guys but also have a bit of fun too.
And then not too long ago, a new site opened, i.e. Music Bobby Long which was pretty kick ass if you ask me. Amber and I were like WHOA, and then we were jeal cause we wanted forum too but we were (and still are) too poor to do anything but have this free hosted blog. We still went with posting Bobby news cause that’s what we did, however, it quickly became apparent that we couldn’t keep up. I mean, there were two of us posting on three guys and something was always getting missed. So, after some chatting, we decided that it would be better to have any Bobby news come from them. We just didn’t want it to seem like we were “competing”, yanno?
So that was it. We deactivated his pages (but didn’t delete them– it’s like keeping our “couple” pics around hidden deep in a drawer somewhere) and decided to just keep on posting like nothing happened. We were like, no one will notice. Boy were we wrong.
And there you have it. No big dramz. No crazy sordid stories. Although, Amber and I did have fun coming up with fake stories on why we “broke up” with Bobby. And then we imagined it going down just like this– except in a breaking up sort of way.
Amber is Maverick and I am Goose. Naturally.
Now, it’s your turn. Are you disappointed we broke up? Did you have a theory of why we “dumped” Bobby? Let us know…come on….DO IT!
I’m THIS Close to Pulling the Emergency Handle Marcus!
Yesterday, LiLi and I got all kinds of jazzed up! We were kind of dying for some Marcus news for awhile, and finally last week, you came out of the woodwork and tweeted for us:
Of course, we were walking on air for you! I mean, I literally squeed out loud and did a happy dance. So then, yesterday, Chris Maas (XMAAS on the Twitter) tweeted this:
LiLi was excited. I said WTF. Because back in June, you tweeted this:
Now, here is my question… is the new EP still coming? Or are you ::gasp:: starting over since you got the record deal? Cause let me tell you, I’ve been eagerly awaiting this EP and I don’t know how much longer I can wait.
Since it’s what we do, LiLi and I had a little chat about this. Here is my reaction, in real time:
So there. See what you are driving me to Marcus? Not only am I thinking about pulling out Harold & Kumar this weekend, watching, laughing, and then being all sad panda about not having a White Castle near me, but I’m also getting impatient and am THIS close to pulling the emergency handle.
Give us a little update. Do it for Sam, cause trust. He does not want to be on the receiving end of that awkward DM.
P.S. I just saw and rememebered I mean to ask you about this tweet:
Srsly. Dude. I will blow your ass out of the water on Words with Friends. I am this close to just searching for MarcusFoster1 and starting with this battle royale of word play. Oh, and don’t cheat and use your English words on me. I only can write in American.
P.P.S. For any of you wondering… I would NEVER pull the emergency handle. Ever. And I stay away from that mofo when I am drunk, cause I don’t trust Drunk Amber with the emergency handle. At all.
having contests is RAD…announcing the winner is RADer…
In case you forgot, since instead of sending promotion tweets we like to talk about sausage, gchats and cleavage (duh), Amber here was awesome enough to get an extra copy of Sam Bradley’s Zuni last Friday to giveaway. And to make her even more awesomer, she got it signed! And then she may or may not have nuzzled it against her exposed chest for the rest of the night. She claims it was because she was afraid she would lose it, while I maintain that she was just drunk enough that she thought she was holding Sam himself, but whatevs.
Either way, we have our winner today! We assigned all entries a number and then put the total in random.org, hit “generate” and VOLIA! A winner!
So, without further ado, the winner of the signed copy of Zuni goes to….
Julie
And I am so pumped it was her that got picked….check out her comment entry:
Awww….right?! It was seriously meant to be. No more sadpanda for Julie–YAY! Congrats!
Now, Julie, all you need to do is email us your mailing addy and we will get your CD out to you when we stop being lazy ASAP. Then you will have to email us again, once you’ve had a chance to listen and tell us your fave song. 
Alright, LiLi out. This headache I have KILLS. I need darkness. And quiet. And possibly some spaghetti bolognese, no?
LiLi’s Sober Recap (cause someone has to drive)
which is funny, cause I let Amber drive after the show. Whoops.
Anyhoo….
So, you all know that Sam played in Dallas last Friday, thanks to Amber’s revisit yesterday.
It was AMAZING. He sang Lights. And Scared. And a song about Sugar Mamas. And then the heavens opened and angels poured in and filled the HoB with rainbows and sunshine.
Did that really happen? Well, no, I mean, DUH. But if it did, I wouldn’t know cause I wasn’t effing there! Yup. I missed the WHOLE set. After all my planning and determination and speeding and changing while driving (HOLLA old man at stop light in Kaufman who gave me a courtesy honk while I took off my jeans) I didn’t get to see nor hear ONE song.
BUT, I did make it in time for the meet and greet after Sam’s set– which pretty much made up for the fact that I missed the WHOLE effing show. Yeah, in case you missed that– I MISSED THE WHOLE SET. At least I am not bitter, right? Heh.
Approaching the HoB, I recieved a text from Amber letting me know to come right in the door and she would be waiting along with Sam. This made me laugh out loud since I had been reading her tweets (at stoplights– not while driving) and I could see the drunk progression as the night went on. Yet, she wasn’t kidding. I opened the door and boom, there he was. Right there. It kinda made me jump cause I really thought Amber was kidding. He was in the midst of talking with some fans so naturally I did what needed to be done. I went to the bar.
Finally, with a beer in hand, aka my liquid courage since I am not good at talking to people, I made my way to the line only to be assaulted by Amber and her 10sec recap of the entire set. It was impressive. She sounded like that micromachines guy that used to do those commercials. And then she ::ahem:: directed me to get in line so she could get in line again. To which I laughed cause this girl loves her some meet and greet lines.
It didn’t take long for us to reach the holy land Sam and much to my surprise he not only remembered me but also noticed that I had cut my hair. Pretty amazing if you ask me since there are peeps that I have known for years that have yet to notice. It wasn’t until later that I realized I had missed my chance! I should’ve used his complement to my new coif as my segue into finally completing my creepsterness touching Sam’s hair. UGH. Foiled again.
After that, much is a blur as I was trying to buy a CD from TwoShoes (HOLLA– who I was supa excited to see in person again) while attempting to sound coherent to Sam with people stopping by every few seconds to wish him well and say goodbye. As always, he was generous to everyone that stopped to speak to him, giving them his undivided attention. This is one of the reasons I like him so much, outside of his music. He is genuine with every fan that he encounters, making sure that everyone has a good time at his shows.
After a break in the people saying goodbye, I got my chance to tell Sam how much I enjoyed the album, to which he replied, “I heard.”
Um. Say what?
I asked him to clarify and that is when I found out that he has, in fact, heard both mine and Amber’s audioboos.
::facepalm::
He only laughed and said, “Well, I do follow you guys on twitter.”
er…..yeah…..about that…..
Amber and I both try not to think about the fact that Sam does follow us, otherwise, I don’t think we’d have the balls to post half the shizz we do. Let’s just say it’s a good damn thing he can’t see our gchats. Whoa.
Ignoring the increasing embarrassment at knowing now that Sam has heard me sound like Sylvester the Cat on the ol’ Boo, I asked for my CD signed, we got a few pics and then I returned to my lover, I mean the bar to get a refill.
That is when Sam excused himself to uh, ::whispers:: use the john and then he never returned. I’m pretty sure that he got caught up in whatever it is musicians get caught up in after their shows– I shall not venture a guess– either that or he’d been eating way too much Mexican food while in Tejas and he really did get ::ahem:: caught up in the bathroom.
Either way, the night was awesome, even though I didn’t get to hear him play, I got to hang with Amber, meet some new peeps, get my copy of Zuni signed and managed to squeeze in a little side hug from Mr. Bradley. Not too shabby. The only thing that would have made it better would’ve been the hair. ::sigh:: One of these days…..
Now– have you entered to win a SIGNED copy of Zuni???
Why the eff not?? The contest is open to anyone and ends tonight at 11:59pm (central time, yo).
So getchyoself over there and enter!
Amber
Li Li
