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Degrees of Britney Spears

Last night I went to World Cafe Live to see my friend Jesse play for like the 18339020858933303048th time.

True story.  Also true story, I met the guitarist for Britney Spears.  He's friends with Jesse.  Well, this is the guitarist for Britney when she's playing in Vegas.  No lie, I looked up tickets and they range from like 100 bucks all the way up to like almost a grand!  So, it's pretty legit.

Basically, I stood in the same space and breathed the same air as the guy who stands beside Britney Spears and plays guitar while she's on stage performing at the Planet Hollywood resort.

I thought it was kind of neat.

Well, so basically the rundown is as follows:

I left work, I stopped at Starbucks and picked up an iced coffee, cold brew.  I then came home, changed, fed the critters (my cats) and hurried onwards downtown.

I found a parking spot not too far away... The parking ends at 8pm, so you only have to feed the meter until  8.  I put a dollar in the machine and paid up full.  Then I went inside.

Unfortunately, even though I got there a good 45 minutes before the show started... I still was not early enough to snag a seat at the bar.  I snagged a stand at the bar instead, which means I stood there, at the bar.  I ordered a burger, and a delicious wheat beer.  I ate, and made conversation with other people in Jesse's posse... We all know each other and have for years.

Even the guitar dude... I'd met him before, he didn't remember me though.

Although to be fair, it was probably 5 years ago or more at another of Jesse's shows and it was only for a moment.  SO, I'm considering this the first time that we met.  Or the first "official" meet.  Also, she wasn't Britney's guitar dude when I met him last time years ago.

Anyways...

I ate my burger, and drank my beer.  I had a few good beers throughout the night.  I basically stuck with the fancy crafty wheat beers.

I alternated with water to hydrate.

Jesse played his set along with his friend, the guitar player for Britney... Jesse was super fantastic as always... Funny, genius, talented... Rocked it.  And his friend is a very talented guitar player as well.

After they played the headlining dude came on.  He also rocked... His name is Wrabel.  I was very impressed.  He has just this super crazy powerful voice that is like... Whoa now... That's what's up!

Very enjoyable.

After the show I was hanging out with Jesse's fam, the usual deal.  We all sat and chatted... Jesse's sister and Jesse's friend Zach (the Britney guitar guy) and another friend of Molly's (that's Jesse's sister) and myself all sat at the bar, although they had stopped serving drinks... and we just had water... But anyways so we all just chatted.  Of course Molly and I and Molly's friend were like... OMG!!!!!  TELL US EVERYTHING ABOUT PLAYING GUITAR FOR BRITNEY...

He was like... "I play guitar for Britney..."

And then he stood all cool looking, and sipped his water.

We were like... "Whoa..." On the edge of our seats gathered around him, "...That's soo cool.  Can we like... Touch your coat."

"He was like... Sure."

"We were like... OMG!  I can almost feel Britney's presence coming through his presence."

Okay, so maybe that's not exactly how it went.  We all just sat there and talked.  But still...

It was cool to just sit and talk.  It was mostly like... "How cool is Britney on a scale of one to cool."

And he was like... "She's very very cool."

And then we were like... "Like VERY VERY cool?"

And he was like... "SOOOOO VERY VERY VERY cool."

And we were all, "SOOO SO SO SOOOOO VERY VERY VERY VERY COOL?"

And he was like... "SOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOO VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY COOL!"

Which is actually pretty much almost exactly how the conversation went honestly.

Anyways, that's how I met the guitarist for Britney Spears from her Vegas show.

After that, I was then talking with another group of people, we chatted about this cool non-profit that this one husband and wife helped to start... It's called One Simple Wish.

You can read more about it here:  https://www.onesimplewish.org

It's pretty awesome.

All in all it was a good night.  For a Valentine's Day... It wasn't bad.  I survived without having that someone special in my life.  I suppose she's out there.  After all... 24 hours ago, I didn't know I was just about to meet and sit and chat with the guitarist for Britney... And that's how love works... The day before love walks into your life, you don't know it's about to walk into your life.

You just know, that you don't have love... And then all of a sudden... You have love.

So, in theory not having love is actually a good sign, because that's what occurs right before finding love does happen.