i really almost forgot.

I didn't even know it was Sunday and when I did I realized I have forty minutes to write of something awesome.

Double A had their television debut this week in the new Weezer video for troublemaker. The video sucks, but making it was too much fun so I will talk about that.

It was a Wednesday night and Ashley closed at Barnes and Noble so I had to wait for her to head off to Los Angeles to film a video shoot. We had to send tons of Emails and wait for several replies before we got the ok, the day before. We didn't want to drive in LA traffic so we left that night. But we didn't have to be there til the next morning so we stopped to give Fevercrotch our regards on the way out of town. The singer also known as Fever asked someone how to get us in to the shoot cause we were worried it might not happen, and he said we were in, but we heard nothing from his contact so we just thought it was cute he thought he did something for us, even though we ourselves in with the emails.

We stop at a twenty-four hour Wal Mart in an attempt to make shirts that say trouble and maker in the parking lot, but Wal Mart failed to provide us with the tools that we needed.

We get to the shoot about 7am and we're one of the first ones there. When its time to check our names off and get teh red wrist bands ashley notices our name on another list and we ask oh which wristband to we want!? They reassured us that Yellow is the choice color of wristband and they were right as they designated us "friends and family" of the band. We felt bad realizing Mr. Fever had pulled through tenfold and we professed our love of him and vowed to buy him drinks in the near future.


The video theme was breaking world records. Here are some that were broken:
Worlds largest dodgeball game- NOT FUN, somewhat painful.
Worlds largest logo made of nachos- only thing we didn't participate in as it was before we realized the power of our yellow wristbands.
Worlds smallest drum set- pat the drummer was the only one who did this actual
Worlds longest car pool with teeth- We sat in the front seat in the middle and look ridiculous.
Worlds largest air guitar something...?- This felt stupid, but was funny.
Worlds largest skateboard- you can see Ashley ducking on it in the video!
Worlds largest hootenanny- I played the flute and Ashley the didgeridoo(sp?)
Most guitars being smashed in a music video- there was only one shot so it had to be good.
Worlds largest pie fight- WOW. that was great. and disgusting and the last thing we did before a two hour ride home. I was covered in custard and Ashley in tapioca!! that's gross.


With our handy dandy wristbands we met the lead singer, River Cuomo's father, though we had no idea who he was at the time. I noticed he had a yellow wristband and asked him what that meant. He wasn't quite sure what we could do with it but tried to figure it out with us and we decided it meant we can do anything. His name was Norman and he was sweet. We told him we wanted to be in the car that the singer pulled to break a record and he only wanted to be in the air guitar scene. We told someone else that worked there what we wanted they got us the OK. When we were called upon for that later, Norman was excited for us and was like you did it!! and he showed us pictures he took of us in the car. We were like wow, river's dad has pictures of us in his camera. The other awesome thing about these wrist bands was lunch. Instead of waiting under a red tarp area called "holding" we got to walk around the set and have "the good lunch." While everyone else got boxed pizza, we chose from a buffet of food that I have to say was very vegan friendly and quite tasty. We sat at a table, next to Norman which also happened to be two seats away from Mr. Cuomo, the younger one. This is when we heard Rivers ask Norman how mom was doing and it hit us who this man was. He wasn't just some awesome old guy, so then we felt kinda weird, but still awesome. We never stop that.

We had a great time even though it was shot and we were there from beginning to end, a whole 13 hours. We weren't elitist and spent time in the holding area as well because we did meet really nice and fun regular people too. We shared our hoopla of instruments. OK I'm gonna try to name everything we brought: Flute, Guitar, mini accordion, cowbell, tambourine, spoons we stole from Denny's the night before, finger cymbals, tap shoes, kazoo and a didgeridoo.

I hope that was all of it cause it was a lot. While showing people or hoopla our backpack felt like a never ending Mary Poppins bag. But like I said, there were good people there who tried to keep their spirits up the whole time and got their own hootenanny going by playing Weezer songs with all the instruments they brought. There's a video of Ashley and I dancing to this on you tube somewhere as well. I guess we tend to get around. Thanks to everyone there and the people who got us there. It was just an overall really fun day, but everyday is pretty fun when Double A is around.