This day has definitely been the most fun. The gig was incredible, but today was great overall.
To give you some perspective, it started with Tom recounting a story about how, while trying to get to sleep last night, he ended up in this half-awake half-asleep hallucination where he spent thirty minutes unravelling a wristband he was wearing, and when he finally completed the task he declared triumphantly, “I’ve done it! I’ve discovered the meaning of life!” – and then he just fell back to sleep again.
We didn’t plan it to be one, but today ended up as a YouTube gathering, just cos we kept inviting more and more people. In the end there were ten of us (including – most notably – meekakitty, who was lovely and who I had never met before). While waiting for some of our party to arrive at Grand Central Station (which I got excited about cos I recognised it from the pilot of Gossip Girl: what a loser), a homeless guy walked up to us asking for two bucks. He said he was sick and wanted a pint. Tom said, “what, a pint of medicine?” The guy said his name was Timmy and he wanted to share the pint with his brother Jimmy. I gave him a buck. He took my hand to shake it and then held it there, looking at me with his soulless eyes, and saying:
“I’m an alcoholic.”
And then he just held my gaze.
What the fuck was I supposed to do? I’d just given him money for alcohol!
Fortunately the dilemma was interrupted by further surrealism, cos the guy started saying he was friends with Eminem and did we want to hear him rap?!
So he just started rapping, right there, in front of us. There was nothing we could do.
That evening we arranged to have dinner with Maureen Johnson at a Chinese restaurant, and on the way we passed a tattoo place. Ed suggested we all get tattoos. Tom sparked the following ad-lib:
“Yeah, you should do it. Get an eagle. Across your entire back. No – TWO eagles. Two eagles KISSING. OH, and then underneath the two eagles kissing, it could say ‘equal opportunities’. NO – ‘EAGLE OPPORTUNITIES’!”
(I realise this blog is mostly ‘I have a friend called Tom what is funny’.)
The day ended with Michael Aranda losing one of the lenses of his sunglasses into the koi pond at the Chinese restaurant. The final scene had Aranda standing to the side of the pond, looking fretful, while a worried restaurant worker tried to fish the lens out of the pond with a pair of chopsticks.
You can’t make this stuff up.
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yeah tom is made of awesome :) wish I could be there to see the gigs :(
I laughed so much at the story about Tom discovering the meaning of life XD
Sound like you are all having such a good time <3
wow, that sounds like so much fun. tom is so funny, and full of awesome!
<3 melissa
(your biggest fan – i am still not over the fact that i was in your blog and you signed my jeans (which i am wearing today!!!!!! makes me super smile!!!!!!!))
You got to meet Tessa! Sounds like you guys had a blast. :D
i wish we could've gotten a picture of tom being ridiculous. XD
I love all the crazy shit Tom does when he is half asleep, the bracelet thing might be better than the time that I apparently woke up, told my friend a story about a robot vampire dance off, then fell asleep whilst doing the robot in bed,
'I gave him a buck.' A BUCK?! Look at you being all … American.
You're so American-y.
You're Melissa and you're American right? and Alex's biggest fan. Well my name's also Melissa (though I'm known as Mel) and I'm English, can i claim the title of Alex's biggest ENGLISH fan? as a kind of compromise? 'cause i am dead jealous ;)
What I want to know is if that restaurant worker succeeded in getting a sunglasses lens out of a pond using chopsticks???
It sounds like something my friends would dare me to do XD
Also if we're gonna start the whole 'biggest fan' thing then I call dibs on biggest Scottish fan
The only reason I believe any of this is because it happened in New York.
Only things like that can happen here. Glad to hear you're enjoying the states!
everyone needs a friend like tom, just to always have hilarious storys to tell!
…NO, EAGLE OPPORTUNITIES!…
…a pint of medicine?!…
…priceless!!!
(oh and with chopsticks, wtf?!)
omg! that is hilarious! how did he manage to lose the lens? it just fell out? what brand of sunglasses were those??? not CK i hope (like mine!).
eagle opportunities… let's all just hope none of us gets drunk enough to wake up with that on them! can you imagine the laser removal bills?!
meeting random alcoholics in the streets… that always makes for the best and most awkward stories. :)
wait, wait, wait! Melissa is in New York. and if Mel gets to be your English biggest fan, and Alison gets to be your Scottish biggest fan, then surely i get to be your west coast biggest fan! America is too big for Melissa to get the whole thing! i'm in LA. and i write you insane random messages on YT. and i was the first to message you about how much i love Parrot Stories. that's gotta count for something! :D
If we're deciding who Alex's biggest fan is in different parts of the world, I'm going for biggest fan in Holland ^_^
Anyway, your New York trip sounds like so much fun :)
I've been there, but I guess it's different if you go with friends your age instead of family.
Dangit! You beat me for West Coast biggest fan! I'll settle for second biggest fan on the West Coast.
Gosh, I love Tom.
when i say that i don't mean it in a fangirl way. i had to clarify. xD
well, are you from SoCal? if not, then i'll take southern west coast and you can take northern. XD
Unfortunately. :/ I never wanted to live in NorCal until now.
aw! we'll share the fandom! we'll go bi-weekly and split up holidays. ^_^ no one should EVER wish they were from NorCal!
oh, hey! what part of SoCal are you in?
You got to meet Meekakitty AND Micheal Aranda? I'm so jealous
glad you had fun :)
I just watched meekakitty get raped by Tom. It's good to know your only a serial killer AT NIGHT. :P lawl
Wow. That sounds like such an intense day.
I felt so sad when I read the bit about the homeless guy.
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But then I laughed at the bit about the Koi Pond and chopsticks.
(Ok, I'm calling dibs on biggest Australian girlfan. [Just in case there's a guy who likes alex more than me] )
Tom sounds like an extreme awesome. And OMG! MEEKAKITTY! :D
You're right, you can't make that stuff up. I went to New York City as part of a class trip last year (I live in CA and keep begging you to come here) and some of my friends freestyle rapped for about a block and received ten dollars. It was awesome. None of them, by the way, had ever rapped before or done anything like it. ^_^
Rancho Cucamonga. So about an hour east of L.A.
Well hello there, mr serial killer
meekakitty exposed your secret xD
im glad you had a good day :]
Hey Alex!
My name is Katie, I'm a 19 year old blogger from Seattle, WA in the United States. I was just wondering if you would be interested in doing an interview with my blog about your music and the life you lead over in the UK.
Please email me if you're interested, I'd really like to talk with you more about it
Thanks!
Katie
yeah, i know where that is! some of my family lives there. i get no phone signal there. but i'm pretty sure that's from being in the vicinity of my family and not the area itself.
cool to know a fellow neri-fangirl lives somewhat near by. we can hold up his welcome banner if he ever comes to LA. :) one fangirl can hold up a crummy sign, but it takes two awesome fangirls to hold a banner!
Oh, it's totally our area. But the family might be a contributing factor. And that is an excellent idea! It'll be a little welcoming party! :D
You must live an incredibly random life. It sounds amazing. BTW, the music is sweet ass. :)
I saw that Dappy guy from N-Dubz in Westfield today, just walking around like a rapper and stuff. I couldn't help laughing when I thought about your video where he was draped across you “like his bitch”. His haircut really is terrible.
Awesome blog, it made me smile xD <3
Can we say…hilarious? I wish I knew someone who did ridiculous things like that while half-asleep. Remind me to wander around with you in NYC next time you're there and I happen to be there too (although I live in NC [no Y] and have never been to the Big Apple before except for a few hours during a layover). Do all English people spell realize with an “s”?
XD found your twilight videos on youtube (my friend said I had to see)
found it awesome, and couldn't resist the website
this is just awesome (I say that word too much, I know)
please keep writing…it's awesome :):>
Americans use -ize, British people use – ise.
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GOSSIP GIRL<333
you're awesome, come to pennsylvania (:
I call biggest American fan in the southeast!! This is the first time I've been glad to live in Mississippi.
Just wondering, I haven't seen a Project for Awesome video by you today, are you making one?
“I realise this blog is mostly ‘I have a friend called Tom what is funny’” I loved this line. Also the sunglasses pond chopstick incident sounded hillarious.
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