Hey Everyone,
Sorry it's been 2 days and I haven't gotten to post about being at TDS. It was awesome. And a little surreal. Me and Amy had a good time talking and re-counting our favorite moments from the Conan appearance before the show started ("and then you had to leave! leave! leave!" Conan is such a spaz and Jake, we both agree, is such a dork and that's why we love him!)
We sat in the 3rd row of the center-right section facing the "stage" which was cool because the way Jake was sitting, he was pretty much facing our section. We were about 40 feet away I'd say. A little too far to feel as "with him" as I wanted. When he came out, his eyes sort of swept over the section we were in...a fleeting moment of feeling like I *almost* had some eye contact. But the general impression I had was how soft his eyes are, how the energy of his looking at the crowd was of softness somehow, even though it only took a second or two.
I was baffled that I didn't somehow get to meet him -- after all I had this cool hand-clapping song to show him after his thing on Conan of wanting to do that! But, it was not to be that day. It was over pretty quickly. And no, I couldn't hear a lot of what was said, because the audience noise drowns out a good bit of what you can hear even on TV (I still have to watch the tape of it to see what I can get that I didn't hear then). But they obviously had fun together and play off each other well.
So, there you go everyone! Oh, and if you want to listen for my cheering, I don't know but I felt like I was pretty loud, at least in my section. I have a really high pitched cheer that can go on for a long time and I was going "yeoww!" a lot near the end of when Jake came onstage and sat down.
Oh Jenny, I am so happy for you..... and soooooooooooooooooooo JEALOUS! Did you wear one of your t-shirts?
Thank you for your wonderful report and I listened for the high-pitched yeows and I think I heard them!!!
Why does this never happen in Amsterdam? Oh please Jake, please... come to Amsterdam to promote your movie!!!!!! It's not that far from Morocco!