Dia Frampton at Santa Fe Sol

Hello! It's been a while since I've written here. A lot has happened in the last week! It's going to be hard to summarize everything.

It starts with a trip to Santa Fe to finally see Dia Frampton and the rest of the band perform for the first time in my life. Now, I've never seen them live because I was never really the type to go to concerts. I've appreciated them from the confines of my earphones listening to each and every song I had from Meg and Dia. However, now that I have a car, my license, and my appreciation for them grew into something more as a source of inspiration (and fangirliness) there wasn't a single reason that I shouldn't go.

When we got there, I spotted Carlo and Jimmy aka "Not-Meg" or "Nutmeg" automatically. Alex and I sat in a chair and I sort of just looked at them talking to each other. Creeper, right?! I didn't know if I would bother them by talking to them. No one else came up to them and they were just sitting there in the open. No one but me was even looking at them. It turned into a different story once we got inside. Once again, they were standing in the back and no one was paying any attention to them, even when Dia was with them just drinking her beer with Carlo. I sat there wondering if I was the only one who even knew who they were. Had Alex not taken my phone away and pushed me toward them, I probably wouldn't have talked to them at all, but I did.

Carlo actually spoke to me first. "Are you Angelica, or Angie or something like that?" "Yes, wait, how did you know?" he told me he saw my Twitter, and that he reads his mentions all the time. I thought, oh no, I hope he doesn't remember the time I jokingly asked him to make out with me. Hahhha. Dia interrupted by grabbing the 3 chandler robots hanging around my neck and asked, "Can I take a picture of you? I want to send this to Meg, she'll love it!" I can honestly say, I didn't feel starstruck or dumbfounded. I didn't feel speechless or that my breath was getting caught inside my throat, or any of that. It felt really natural talking to them, and, as Dia likes to say, "organic." Like they were just people I was meeting at a party. I didn't see Jonathan until the show started, and Dia explained when she got on stage that her drummer, Nick, had family things going on. Everyone knows Meg is on break, but I was really neutral about Jimmy, who was standing in another corner watching Xenia while I was talking to Dia and Carlo. Afterwards, we left them alone to get some beer and that's when they were crowded by a bunch of people.

Once they got on stage, I can't explain how great the show was. There was much interaction with the audience, it's the first show I really danced at, she ended the night with a love song (during which in the middle of she pointed to me and Alex and said "You guys are so damn cute!"). Alex and I agreed at the end of the night that it was the most satisfying show we've both ever been to, which says a lot because we've both been to a lot of shows. It felt more personal, like a local show due to the small size of the audience, but I preferred it over seeing her at the very popular House of Blues in Anaheim, which I will write about after this nap.

xoxo

Angie