EeK! I'll try, but I need to be quick.
I unfortunately drew the short straw when we were being seated and Diet Coke and I were as far over to the right as we could possibly be while still being in the studio. (The seating is very random.) The musical performers are all the way to the left. However, I was right in front of Ricky Minor and his band and I enjoyed them thoroughly. They all have great charisma the vocalist was CUTE! and I had a ball watching them.
It was a long day of waiting, but chatting with
Lynne, mys*&@^#r, Diet Coke some old PFers and unfortunately, only got to hang with
8toInfinity and
Stardust for a bit since everyone was already in line and I didn't want to look like I was trying to take cuts.
My local friends (the ones who are lucky enough to go to Ellen today) got there at the ass-crack of dawn and were first in line. They were rewarded with seats on the floor right in front of Adam.
Oh well, no biggie. I am very happy they got to be that close. They earned it.
I enjoyed the show. The warm-up guy was awesome and BTW!!! HOPEFULLY BACKSTAGE WEBSITE VIDS TO COME. They did a big push about backstage interviews. We'll need to keep an eye on the Tonight Show site.
I enjoyed the show and LOLed throughout. I so want to tweet @gqfashion and say I'm waiting for them to declare Sam Worthington's wrested-from-his-eighth-grade-hamper look au courant while Adam's impeccably tailored (possibly custom-made in Shanghai suit) was I dunno, indicative of a hormonal imbalance.
My first thought: Holy EFFFF, he looks gorgeous!!! And though I love all his incarnations, I am a sucker for a beautifully tailored man's suit, so I could not think of a hotter thing for him to be wearing. Seriously.
[Note: Despite GQ's recent plunge into pedestrian, it was still a compliment the way RS used the term. I STILL use it and am always a little sad that it is now tainted.]
Anyway, I had pretty much come to terms with the fact that I would be seeing Adam's performance from about 25 yards to the right, but they did bring down the big monitor behind Rickey. I got very nervous during the commercial break right before. And duh! the whole time I kept wondering how the band was going to fit in that very short space. It was about midway through the show before I remembered that was only a screen and the equipment was set up behind it.
It was breathtaking. The first verse, I got that OMG! feeling like you're watching a tightrope walker. When he went for the first
Myselllff, I braced myself a bit like I still sometimes do when he sings
Eyes, baby eyes. The lane is soooo narrow there and seems like a million ways to miss those notes and only one miniscule window in which to nail them, yet he does. And he stuck the dismount with that one too.
I breathed a little easier then and tried to take it all in. I was mostly watching the monitor and could see the spit flying once and was reminded of a quote from a teacher I had in a Shakespearean acting class. He used to say, "If you are doing Shakespeare properly, you should be spitting all over your scene partner." LOL, and gross, but he did get the message across – when you are delivering your words as they should be delivered, that is going to happen. Now, I don't even notice it when watching the videos.
Anyway, when he started wailing out those last notes, I thought, "Holy shit!!!" I already knew he had killed it, now he was murdering it all over again. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!! I kept squeezing Diet Coke's leg and freaking out. Afterward, he was his adorable, radiant self, as you can see on the videos, hugging Jay and later Sheri (that was cut out). They shot several promos with Adam standing to Jay's right and the other two on his left. He's smiling radiantly in each take.
Jay had to do some pickups for a line he flubbed in his monologue and by the time they turned us loose, I was powering up my phone so I could start tweeting. Yes, would have loved closer seats, but that is so random, but it was still a complete blast overall. The performance was every bit as amazing live as it is on TV, but thank god for TV/video, because we can watch it over and over and take in nuances we could barely grasp the first time.
