zots and crambles

i felt like yesterday was the beginning of a long sunday, like it was the beginning of another busy week of running around. i got dropped off at bill's in jc but we had tickets to see stella in brooklyn and then labyrinth at the sunshine in manhattan. i honestly felt like there wasn't enough time and that it would be too much for one night. but it turned out to be one of those things where not letting my crankiness get the best of me made all the difference and we ended up having a really good night. also, because we were late and rushing around a really funny thing happened. 

we left late and then we had to stop on the way because there was a lost dog and i made bill call the number on his tag. the number didn't work though so we ended up just letting him go. this of course majorly bummed me out. i got over it during the train ride although the weekend train goes to hoboken before heading into the city which was annoying. then we got to 14th and had to walk two avenues to union square. here, we waited for the R train for a long time. then a Q train showed up and the announcement said it was local so we got on. we sat there for a bit until bill realized that it wasn't going to our stop so we got off before the doors closed. turns out, the R train wasn't running. we had few options from union square and were running out of time. bill wanted to get a cab so we went outside and hailed one down. the cabbie said he wouldn't go to brooklyn but then changed his mind. i was slightly concerned about the fact that he had an earphone in his ear but not enough to  get out i guess. there was traffic so it was slow going through the city. all i could think was how awful it would be if we went all that way and missed the show. but we got there about 2 minutes to 8. when we went inside the only seats left were in the front row. it was so tight in there that we were actually resting our feet on the stage. 

stella were practicing material for their tour, material that they didn't know at all and had to read from scripts. we were their guinea pigs. at one point, they made up a song where they would all snap their fingers and would take turns saying, "zots" "crambles" "zots" "crambles." the joke was that they would pretend that david wain was messing it up even though he wasn't and one of the michaels said "i bet we could pull anyone out of this audience and they could do a better job than you." and then he pointed right at bill and said "how about this guy." so bill went up on stage blushing and smiling. it was funny. they made fun of his name for about 10 min and then went into the song. when they were done michael ian black went "even that guy could do it right and he's a fuckin' retard." i was so proud. it was very awesomes. 

labyrinth was of course phenomenal, especially seeing it with so many of my friends. so tired afterward though and not happy to come home to the power not working in my half of the apartment...we had to go to the bathroom by candlelight.