Vanessa Carlton Night

I'm playing catch up now... 

Last Thursday night we went to see Vanessa Carlton with the tickets I won on the radio.  It was nice.

It was at a restaurant downtown San Jose, in a conference looking room above the restaurant, and it was pretty packed.  We did find a row of four chairs that was semi close to the stage where she performed.  We got to sit behind the "snooty" family.  Oh, man, I wish I had a picture of them.  Alas, wouldn't you know my battery was flashing red on my camera and I only got one picture of Vanessa!  The pictures you see are from the radio's web site.  I'm still waiting for them to post all the pictures---I don't see ours yet!

We did take a picture with Vanessa-all 4 of us in matching outfits of brown and leopard print.  Vanessa was very sweet, and said:

"I like what's going on with your color theme." 

Ruben and Tania were both wearing brown, and Lizzy and me were wearing leopard print.  We all looked like we belonged in a JCPenny catalogue.  My mom would have been proud.

Vanessa was very sweet, and so TINY!  Why do artists/celebrities all look so tiny in person?  It's weird.  She did a good show, despite a cold that the radio DJ's announced beforehand.  They did an interview before the show, and I think Vanessa was a little annoyed by them.  Lizzy was in agreement. 

Vanessa sang with only the keyboard---she really impressed us--she has a very powerful voice.  Look at her hands!!  She plays that keyboard like nobody's business!

Okay, let me tell you about the snooty people we got to sit behind.

We take our seats, and I say something like this:

"Well, I think these are best we are going to get."

Immediately, the guy (who I assume is the father) turns to the young girl next to him and says:

"Do you think you can sit up a little higher sweetie, so the lady behind you can't see."

Very funny.  I know he was trying to be funny, but it came off sounding a little rude.  No one laughed.  The entire time we were there, this guy is looking back at the bar, holding his drink.  So this guy(ex-husband) is sitting there at the end, his daughter is sitting in the middle of with who I presume to be her mother (ex-wife).  The mother is the blonde lady holding her martini, playing with the green olives in her glass.  She never put her glass down to clap--she would do that silent clap between her hand and the glass.  She had  layers of makeup on with very expensive/designer look clothes and jewelry. 

"Well, all the appetizers are gone.  I guess that's what happens when it's free."  Ex-wife exclaimed.  I didn't see either one of them eat--they only drank their drinks.  Of course we were eating cheese and stuffed mushrooms behind them.  They must of thought we were too poor to afford to buy a meal downstairs or something.

Next to her was who we presume was her young boyfriend.  He was at least 15 or more years younger, cute and dark, and always leaning towards her, looking as though he wanted to be part of the conversation between her and the ex-husband-kind of a lost puppy trying to get some attention.  Lizzy picked that up right away.  I never saw the girl's face.  My daughter said that she was probably uncomfortable sitting in between the parents and the boyfriend who was probably not much older than herself.  After Vanessa performed, they left abruptly, and didn't bother to get their picture taken.  They probably had better, and high society stuff to do later.