josh kelley in seattle: november 6, 2007

Once, back in 2007 Mei-Ling and I went to this store, Rugby by Ralph Lauren, to see Josh Kelley do an instore. It was SO AWKWARD. There were like 11 people there, and we all just stood in a half circle around him.

I asked him to play my favorite song of his for me. He obliged, but this is how it turned out… (you can hear me give him lyric cues)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epA8UBLljbc
At one point he needed a guitar pick and Mei-Ling came to the rescue with a Brandi Carlile one. While we waited in line to say hi, I took a sharpie and wrote “JOSH KELLEY NEEDS TO LISTEN TO STEPHANIE OREFICE” all over the duct tape on his guitar case.

When we said hello, this is the conversation that happened.

Me: What is that on your face?
Josh: it’s a beard!
Me: it’s ugly.
Josh: my girl likes it.
Me: get rid of it.
Josh: My girl likes it, the beard stays.

Then we took this picture:

The next week Josh was lip-synching in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9lfeG-WGpM
…beardless.

Stephanie Orefice – 1
Katherine Heigl – 0

(except jk because she’s a beautiful rich actress so she really has infinity points on me… and Josh has a beard.)