David Cook - Cookey Report - Philadelphia, PA - 08/13/08
(Here's the Cookey Report from Requiem1byOne from Philadelphia! Woohoo! Omigosh!)
BUSES:
We got to the buses around 12:00, 1 hr late because we were stuck in HORRENDOUS traffic. When we got there we found some people hanging out by a gate, but I knew for a fact there were other people who had already arrived, but I didn’t see them. I called the woman and as it turns out, they were all waiting at the wrong place. DOH
So then we all found out we were in the correct place and we rejoiced. I was acting like a complete and total spazz the entire time, running back and forth... talking to EVERYONE, twirling around my MAVEBRELLA. It was so furiously uncharacteristic of me. I was like PEP RALLY Kara. We even started a GHEY chant at one point “lets go idols, lets go.” OMG WHUT? Shut up. Ok.
First out was DAVID COOK. Who quickly jogged over to the giant WORD NERDS APPROVE OF MAGIC RAINBOWS sign to give the word nerds some love. You could tell he was kinda rushing, as they gave him the 20 minute warning basically the moment he got out there. I wasn’t so sure how I was going to react to him, but after he walked out and starting signing, I knew I was gonna play it cool. When he got to me the first thing he said was, “That’s a big camera.” That was the phrase that pays today, I guess. I handed him his Mavid shirt with a quick explanation of how he was supposed to get it the same time as Michael, but the circumstances, blahblah... He didn’t really say too much besides THANK YOU and he kinda grinned. Then I had him sign my poster. I insisted he use MY RED SHARPIE and not the black one he was carrying because I had it all mapped out in my mind that it was gonna be signed in red. (IM SO CONTROLLING ) He said fine. He didn’t say anything about the poster, he just asked for my name and then signed it VERY SYSTEMATIC LIKE. I showed him the picture of him and his bro and I don’t remember what he said. Probably thank you. lol Then I handed him the folder with the pics and he was like “Oh, this is for me?” And I was like “YEAH.” < ----gripping conversation. But when I went to hand it to him, he was still holding my sharpie so I was like “How about we play switcheroo?” And then we played switcheroo. And then I asked for a hug. And he obliged. Pictures were taken of the entire encounter of mediocreness. I also got a great shot of David eating the Please Don’t Stop the Mavid bear.
Next out was The Arch, who seriously, like BLESS HIS LIL HEART, stayed out for like 2 hrs signing autographs and taking pictures. He is epic awesomeness, that lil kid. He was going SO freaking slow tho that KLC and JASON came out and lapped him. ROLF.
KLC went by me and I was like, eh. What does one say to a KLC? I took a pic of her and the girls next to me. Then I complimented her on her ring. (I also took a picture of it) OH, and here is an interesting note. When KLC first came out, NO ONE CHEERED. So me and the girls next to me felt bad so we all cheered. AND THEN, (what the hell was I thinking???) I yelled out “GOD BLESS THE USA ” Cause I am a reject. That’s why. I don’t even sorta like that song. Really.
Jason was freakin awesome. I totally fist bumped him. He told me I had a big camera. I apologized for sticking it so annoyingly 3 inches from his face and he rewarded me with giving me a EPIC POSE. You’ll see. Epic. My friend got him to record a video greeting for her friend and I got a video get well for Sarah. Later when he was leaving I was on the phone with Sarah and he walked by. I was like HEY IM ON THE PHONE WITH SARAH. He was all HI SARAH, and she heard it and was happy. YEY. When Jason and Arch crosses, the girls next to me were singing CRUSH, and Jason starting singing it and goofing around. It was really cute cause Arch was all embarrassed. Then I fist bumped Arch, and he told me I had a big camera. Lol And I got some great pics of him as well.
Brooke was last and I don’t have much to say about her. I asked her if she was done with vocal rest because I couldn’t think of anything else to ask her. ROLF.
MJ, CARLY, CHIKEZIE AND SY did not come out.
We got some grub. It was grubilicious.
CONCERT:
SO HERE WAS A NICE SURPRISE.... 3rd row? Was actually FRONT ROW, RIGHT IN FRONT OF MAVID DANCE SECTION. Me and my friend were like WHAAAAAA???? I went nutz of course. You can imagine.
Chikezie is awesome and I love him. That’s my review.
Rami was EH and I felt bad for her because no one seemed to give a crap about her set. O WELL.
MICHAEL JOHNS OWNED MY SOUL. There is an American Idol I’d like to make a baby with. So I was the only one standing in my section and I had my poster (of my drawings) out in front of me over the barricade. I thought I saw him acknowledge it considering he was at a few points standing literally 5 feet away from me. O YEA BABY. I freakin love him you guys, FOR REAL. He also said he visited the liberty bell. Ew, why? That’s boring class trip B.S.
KLC. I don’t even remember. I was texting. ROLF.
Brooke I could not freakin see at all when she first came out. All I saw was PIANO. The next two songs she sang on the catwalk thingie and I had a back-ass view of it. I wasn’t paying a whole hellava lotta attention to be honest.
I don’t even remember the order of people, so forgive.
CARLY. Omg. That woman? Needs to make out with me, like, yesterday. SHE IS SO FREAKIN GORGEOUS, I cannot comprehend. I had the idea to pull out my 8x10 copy of the pic I drew of her and hold it over the barricade on front of me cause I was close enough that I figured she would probably see it. I got the crazy ass idea to give her the two copies I had printed out and had not gotten the change to give to her while she was on stage. BALLSY, AREN’T I??? Well right when she was done her last song I was like “CARLY ” And she looked at me and I reached out to hand her the folder and she squatted down and reached out for it, but we were like JUST INCHES too far away from each other so one of the security guys took it and promised to give it to her. =) LUFF HER
The group number was awesome, because there was Carly and Michael and what more could you want?
Jason came out and did his thing. I took a lot of gratuitous ass shots for Sarah.
Sy came out and I fell asleep. But I must have looked interested because she kept seemingly looking at me. Or was I just paranoid? CREEPY.
Archie was freakin adorable with his talk talk talk laugh format that he rinses and repeats all the time. And I giggle every time. Like, a MATURE giggle, not a tard giggle. If that makes sense, and we will pretend it does. SO CUTE. When his piano came out in the beginning I was choking on the fog. It smelled like ass.
Cook emerged from the ground like the stage was giving birth to him. He was all sexy-cocky and his TUMMAH was out in full force. He was cracking some funny lines throughout, but I don’t remember everything. At one point he looked up and saw a I LOVE DAVID A. sign and he was like “I LOVE DAVID A., thats NICE, I love him too.” Awww. (don’t think what I hear you thinking.) The one point I really want to highlight is when he was filming the crowd I had my poster held up like PRACTICALLY IN HIS FACE (ok, like 5 feet away) and when he saw it he kinda like acknowledged me and gave me a little nod. WE HAD A MOMENT. Thanks Cooker. You the best.
PLEASE DON’T STOP THE MAVID, I had my camera out and insisted on making my video MIKE-CENTRIC. MJ was just like goofing around and doing silly dances with everyone. When they did their little dance, it was cute, but it was what MJ did as David was walking back was HILARIC. He was like shuffling behind him... kinda grind-like. Like if he had been doing it up close to David, it would’ve been grinding. You’ll see.
I freakin bolted before the last song was over to get a spot by the buses. I really really wanted MJ to sign my poster, since I had just unceremoniously fallen in love with him over the course of the evening. I needed an unsolicited hug, like he gave Mena. LOL
BUSES PART 2:
We got a good spot right up again the barricade, because of my ridiculous sprinting. I got to talking to the girls behind me and when they saw my poster they were like “OMG I SAW THAT UP ON THE BIG SCREEN.” I was like “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??????”
OK, so apparently there was a live feed video camera running (maybe?) off and one the entire time. I didn’t realize it was a live feed so when it turned towards me I aimed my poster at it and he filmed it. Because of how close we were, the screens were almost behind us. OMG GUYS. I IZ FAMOUS. Want my autograph??? Craziest thing I heard all day.
KLC came out first followed by Brooke. Arch and Jason came out. I didn’t care. I wanted Johns.
THEN HE CAME OUT. EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
When he got to me, I thought I needed to pick and choose what I showed him. The first thing I did was show him my poster and he goes (get this) “Oh, I remember this from the front row.” OMG. So I was like “Oh yea, I was in the front row too, ya know, holding it.” ROFL. So he looks it over really good and he was like “Why did you make me look all pretty and then Dave got to look like a vampire???” HAAA (He was referring to the Taintedlove Dave drawing) I told him not to feel bad because of all the small little Cook heads, his two heads were the biggest. LOL @ ME. He signed it and then I showed him the manip picture that Cherise told me to give him. I was like “my friend had you sign this and she said that you said you really wanted a copy” He was like “WHY WOULD I SAY THAT?” I was like “I dunno You said you wanted it for you bunk ” We were both laughing and I kept like play shoving him, probably just as an excuse to touch him. He was like “ I WAS PROBABLY KIDDING.” And then (you ready) he holds the picture up to the side and starts singing to it, “Hellooooooo, is it me your looking for????” And then he says “David, are you awake???” LOL LOL LOL omg. Him. It was epic. So I gave it all to him and then I went to give him my bag of pranks and I explained some of what was in there and showed him the fake moustaches which he laughed at and said was “great.” He was like “OMG you guys should ask Brooke about the prank I pulled on her ” And she was just passing him in front of me when he said this so he told the story... I guess she walked onto their bus and MJ said to her something like “what if we were changing in here?” So I then she then walked off the bus and when she walked back on Michael was IN HIS UNDERWEAR. Rolfrolfrolfrolf.... Brooke then took a look at my poster and she was like “These are great You are really talented.” Or something similar. So I asked her to sign it. LOL. So she did. Then I like thought that MJ was reaching above me to sign something, but he PULLED ME INTO AN UNSOLICITED HUG. Omg, guys. I IZ DEAD. I also congratulated him on getting the Mavid Dance back and he said “it’s all because of you guys.” I mentioned something about the petition. I dunno. I probably said like 15 million other things too. I was mad yappy. LOL
BEST NIGHT EV.
I might’ve left stuff out. But O WELLS. All will come out in TIME.
Mavid Brodance:
http://www.youtube.com/v/5VKPBYy7qcE&hl=en&fs=1
Jason Castro: