team radiohead

it started with an early morning text from eden. walking on the streets of seattle she was creeped out by a man {and i won't even say what he was doing} and sent me a text at 2am central european time. for whatever reason, my usually silent phone had its ringer turned on and i woke up. as i read the text, i very clearly thought "that's unfortuante, eden, but it can wait until tomorrow when i am awake" but as i put my phone down to go back to sleep, i also very clearly thought "check your email" and without even pausing to wonder what could be so important, i did.

and there was the email from mike, radiohead friend #1. he was giving me the very important tidbit of info i would have otherwise missed during my travels: radiohead pit tickets were going on sale later that day, two days earlier than i thought. unfortunately this meant it would be while i was traveling through venice with my parents, or even worse: on the train to rome.

next there is scott, radiohead/music friend #10 {remember my bon iver friend from the concert?}. i called him straight away and gave him all the tips i know about scoring pit tickets. i also gave him my credit card info, waste log in info and instructions to purchase the maximum number of tickets possible: 4.

then there is the lottery. because you don't know what time the fan tickets will go on sale, just the date, and even then, it's a rat race to get in there fast enough to score tickets. last time i bought tickets it was 6am local time of the show {4am pst}, but 6...7....9! o'clock rolled by and no celebratory text from scott. the streets of venice were losing their appeal. i dreaded getting on the train to rome which would take me completely out of the reach of wireless and unable to do anything at all for our cause. but i said a prayer, got on the train and waited.

and beyond all luck, he got 4 tickets that sold out in less than a minute. and the crazy thing is i had seasoned fans lose out not only on this pre-sale day, but when the rest of the tickets went on sale two days later {and they had 3 people trying at once to no avail}.

but it wasn't until this morning that i realized the 4 people who all worked to make this bit of luck come together are the same 4 who will be getting these tickets and seeing the show come april 9th. without the text to wake me up, without the email giving me that crucial update, without cashing in on scott's luck karma {blended with a lovely bit of type-a focus that helps get a job done}, we wouldn't have these tickets.

so there you have it. team radiohead 2012*: eden, mike, scott & me.

*with several important sidekicks joining us for the show {including music friends numbers 7, 12 & 13}