Zashy -|- Yulia_r0xx -|- nunzilla -|- o.G.A.g.

Zashy - author If you're bored.. then you will feel my pain! Day 2 (May 30, 2003) The group and I had discussed last night what time we would be getting up at. So I had to be the human alarm clock and wake everyone up. We had gone to bed that morning around 4am and said we would wake up at 8am. Well, I woke up at 8:14am.. and bolted out of bed and into the shower. After showering I woke everyone else up and we were ready and out of the hotel room at 10am to meet Yulia Roxx down in the hotel lobby. Once everything was situated I called Pacmangirl up to give her the details of today¡¦s schedule. We had made plans to meet up at the Shrine at around noon. *got that info on the girls being their from the previous nights meeting* Which in the end didn¡¦t happen but, oh well. After leaving the hotel we booked our butts to borders to buy some more magazines, then to best buy to buy a new memory card (whatever it was) thingy for Ogag camera so he could store more pictures and record some video footage. After best buy we went to the Lovely Kinko¡¦s.. we spent about a good 1 and half there printing out our pictures from the night before. Reliving the moment, over and over in our heads. While spending a good deal of time in Kinko¡¦s I got a call from Alerg and informed him of what was up, he said he wouldn¡¦t be able to make it today but would see us tomorrow for sure. Then I got another call from Pacmangirl asking me where the bloody hell we were..hehe we were still at Kinko¡¦s. Anyways after finally paying for everything we were on our way to the Shrine so we thought. Erm turns out we got lost a great deal. Didn¡¦t know where the heck we were, and it didn¡¦t help us any that none of us were from LA. After finally seeing the Shrine, I called up Pacmangirl again, and asked where she was, shes like I right by the stoplight thingy, hehe we were close. After hanging up Yulia Roxx parked her car and the meter and none of us had any change, so I got out too go meet up with Pacmangirl and Madsquirrel, Nunzilla came along with me as well. After being a bad friend and not introducing anyone to anyone... we left to go find Yulia Roxx, Ogag, k1n3t1k had parked the car. From there everyone introduced one another and we were off to the Shrine. Once getting all the details from Pacmangirl about the people at the Shrine and where the entrance was, we decided we should go check it out to get a feel for things and all find out the much needed details. None of us had a clue about how things worked with Mtv. So we walk about a good two blocks to where they would be entering the red carpet (its BLUE but we still called it RED) and paced back and forth down the sidewalk. Trying to figure out how we could get some information about how things work. We saw the stage crew still working on the set-up for the show. After standing there and debating what we should do, my tummy started making noises. Everyone else agreed so we walked a good three blocks to get something to eat. When we got to were all the food places were no one could decide on what they wanted so I walked in to Jack in the Crack (Box) and ordered something to eat for myself and Ogag. Turns out I wasn¡¦t that hungry and ended up wasting two tacos. I hate when your eyes deceive your stomach. After we all finished we trudged our way back to the Shrine... to stalk it like some mad fanz..( though were truly not mad HONEST) Finally there we begin walking up and down the path to see which one of us is going to be brave enough to take the first step and ask the question. It was around 3pm. So Ogag, Yulia Roxx, Nunzilla, K1n3t1k and I had been there for about and hour or so and Pacmangirl and Madsquirrel had been there for about 2hours or so. Finally I got very impatient and took the first step and ask this dude that was directing traffic what the deal was. He didn¡¦t know much and was like ask one of the stage crew people see if they can tell you anything. I was kinda like alright, but not to thrilled that¡¦s when 50cent and like 5 over cars drove past us. I didn¡¦t¡¦ even know who it was until the traffic dude told me. From there I began pacing the sidewalk again with Pacmangirl and Madsqurrel. Nunzilla, Yulia Roxx, K1n3t1k and Ogag stayed over with the traffic director dude talking about such and such. Then I saw some dude with an Mtv type badge, when I said what the hell, let me ask him. So I waved him over across the street and he was kind enough to come. When he approached, I asked him ¡§Ok, tomorrow the stands over there is it for any fan that shows up to sit in them or are the people already casted to sit in them?¡¦ In his cute little British accent he¡¦s like I have no clue, why don¡¦t you ask one the stage crew members. So I said thanks for the help and he left. We were still basically left where we were a few minutes ago. From there the gang came over to us, we told him the little bit of nothing that we got. So then Ogag, Nunzilla and Yulia Roxx went across the street to talk to some people that were seated inside the gates at the casting booth thingy. They basically said the same thing, ask the stage crew. So Nunzilla, Ogag and Yulia Roxx went up to this guy and asked him what the deal was. He still had no clue. We kept getting the run around from everyone and it was starting to ware on us, but we still remain persistent. Getting very impatient again, I crossed the street over to Ogag, Nunzilla and Yulia Roxx to see what the deal was with them. Still nothing, then, I think it was Ogag who asked the right guy and he said, let me see what I can find out. From there we walked the BLUE CARPET, hehe, he said don¡¦t step on the ARROWS we just painted them. .so we watched closely and though, the girls will be walking this tomorrow. When walking the carpet we waved the rest of the group over and followed him behind the bleachers. He asked such and such people and they didn¡¦t know either. Then he told us to wait by the cooler because a guy named Lewis should be coming by here soon, he knows what¡¦s up, but in the mean time you can get on the bleachers to check it out. Ogag, K1n3t1k and Nunzilla got on the bleachers to check it out while I remained half on the stairs and on the concrete, and Pacmangirl standing next to me with Madsquirrel and Yulia Roxx sitting down. While up on the bleachers Ogag and K1n3t1k took pictures of the VJ¡¦s getting a walk through of things. The rest of us kept and eye out for this Lewis dude. I would call random people Lewis and they would look at me like I was whack. Finally, I asked the right dude and he found Lewis for us. Lewis told us that he didn¡¦t know and that we had to go back to the casting tent. That¡¦s when our hearts sunk, like not again. So we went back to the tent, and from there it got ugly. We ask the dude guarding the gate if we can go in and find out about the bleachers and such and such. He¡¦s like sure..so we go to the tent and the we ask the guy the questions, he¡¦s like I will go and find out for you guys. This is when some grouchy moofoo kicked us out. He says to the other guy that let us in, how do you know that¡¦s what they really want blah blah. When I said that is what we really wanted..we have no reason to lie about it. Then hes like well you need to wait outside that gate blah blah, and I said that¡¦s what were doing. Then he didn¡¦t like that I was responding too him with attitude since he was giving it too me, so he kicked me off the premises. ƒº yep that¡¦s right I got ejected.. So I am the only one on the opposite side of the street waiting for details. They finally get their answer and come over to tell me. We are told that it¡¦s full, and too check out the website seatfillers.com or show up tomorrow at noon to see if anything is vacant. With that news we all feel pretty crappy, because MTV became so FAKE TOO US..like where are the TRUE FANZ. From there, PMG, get on the phone to have her friend check out the website, but all they have left our fillers for the Essences Awards, blah. I think around this time its 5 or 6 at night. When Nunzilla goes back to the traffic dude to talk with him and have him give us a sign if he sees taty drive by, so we can prepare. PMG, Madsquirrel and I get this weird feeling so we decide to walk around the Shrine to see if there is another entrance, turns out there is. We talk to the dude to see if anyone has entered he said 50ct came through here when he was late. Were like oh alright, you wouldn¡¦t happen to be lying to us are you. He just smirks. Then we leave to go back to the other side of the Shrine. When we get to the gang there back on the other side of the street, where I am not suppose to be so I cross to go to the other side, cause the stupid man kept giving me evil looks. So PMG, MS and I are on the other side the gang is near the tent. When PMG, gets another weird feeling so we bolt back to the other side again. Grr, I tell you I never felt so dead in my life..Got nothing again. I asked the dude again and he said nada. Gosh, even flirting got me NOTHING¡Kblah.. We arrive back in the same place as before, no news what so ever from either. So we cross the street and wait at a stop sign, when this dude name Mike came up to us and asked us why we were here waiting. We told him and he gave us a tentative time in which taty would be arriving. *Mikes the dude that does the announcing of people on the red(blue) carpet.* Were like great.. we haven¡¦t missed them with all the stuff that¡¦s been happening. We wait, we wait and we wait. At around 7 or so, I get this weird ole feeling that something was about to happen, so this time MS and I walk to the backstage place by ourselves We get a little away when I realize I forgot my pictures, grr so I turn around and run to get them. We get to our destination and I talk to a different dude and ask him if he has seen two short little Russians blah blah and I show him a picture. At first he¡¦s like no, then he like wait a sec let me see that picture again. I show him he¡¦s like yea I think I saw her earlier today, her and two other girls. That moment, I was like WHAT NO, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? Then he explains that he saw them and one was wearing baseball cap¡Ketc. then as he was telling us this, some girl came running up to us asking where she checks into cause she is a dancer? I am like are you a TATY DANCER, she¡¦s like YES, why¡KI was like ARE YOU FCUKIN SERIOUS. she just looked at me like I was crazy. Anyways, we did some more waiting over at the gate and saw Pink talking on her cell phone. When MD got a call from PMG telling us they were inside the gate with a bunch of taty dancers and extras.. we were speechless. Then we just kept on watching Pink doing blah blah, when PMG joined us. And long behold like 10mins later TATY Arrives and I am on the other side of entrance... I see a short little thing get out of the Van, she¡¦s wearing pink YET AGAIN then I saw a little glimpse of Lena. And then they were off. So we went back to the other side and they were like yep they entered so you saw them¡K*thought for a sec my glasses were deceiving me* After, that, we stayed there, just chilling by the gate annoying the heck out of the Mtv people. Long and behold at around 7:25 or so I am not really sure..a car pulls up to the gate wanting to enter. We look inside¡KohmyGOD¡Kits IVAN¡Kno way we all bust out our cameras and start taking pictures of Ivan.. we even show Ivan pictures of us meeting taty last night and he¡¦s gets this big OLE GRIN on his FACE kinda shocked. It was so cute. Well they (security dude) evidently didn¡¦t believe he was with taty so they made him park his car and walk back over. So he comes by us and me being me, ask him for an autograph, but he turned me down¡Khehe he was running late. I just thought I would give it a go *When he spoke he was very soft spoken, not what I was expecting at all. He came off very sweet and gentle.*But Ogag being the slick little dude took a picture of Ivan and I, and I look like I am giving and interview as we walk. So Ivan enters the gate, talks to the people, gets his tags or whatever and is off into the Shrine. So there we are,..we¡¦ve seen Ivan, we¡¦ve seen the girls..What more could standing outside the Shrine for an ungodly amount of time get you. After that, we backed off and chilled sorta on the other side. We got bored and went back over too the other side again pissing more people off but I think they saw our dedication. Its around 8pm now, we start hearing the girls practice faintly. We hear ATTS, and were kinda like what, err, weird then we hear NGGU. There were people there with Mtv dissing taty because they knew we were fans it was quite funny and entertaining, too think we gave a rat-ass what they said. But they sure loved to talk about taty. One thing that I must mention when they gates kept on opening and closing it felt like the fence scene from ATTSS, without the rain. One woman went inside and watched their performance and came out and told us about it. She¡¦s like if I could I would take you guys inside to see it but unfortunately I don¡¦t work for MTv. She kept on talking non-stop about the performance at how much it kicked ass. Making us want to see it even more, giving very detailed description about the school girls bum rushing the stage and ripping off their cloths and the headline in the back, what it read. She said it was full of lots of energy and the girls look and sang fantastically. She also said she didn¡¦t know who they were, but was sure after people saw this performance they would definitely know who they are. After that, she left again and we waited some more. We were joined by two other girls, that were taty fans and JT fans (bleh). We were also offered some drinks by this MTv dude, which was very sweet of him. Then long behold at around 8:35 the girls leave..it happened very very quick, we were like wtf, we didn¡¦t even see them get into the vehicle( we were all in a daze), but they zooooooooomed off . (got footage of that too). Then we saw Ivan come walking out by us again talking to some dudes getting more info. I think he was surprised to see us still standing out there. After they were all gone we decided it would be best to go home and get some sleep because we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow. We walk 2 blocks to our cars. PMG & MS go to his car and Ogag, Yulia Roxx, Nunny, K1n3t1k and I head to Denny¡¦s for our dinner. At Denny¡¦s me make the ¡§Day and the Life of a TATY fan¡¨ .Once finished eating it¡¦s around 11pm. We head back to the hotel to crash unfortunately we got lost yet again. But that was our day of finding out all the information possible that we would surely need for the next day.

Yulia_r0xx ::author:: This one's not so long, just some highlights. 05.30.03 - MTV Pre-Show Set Waking up at 8AM when one usually has noon classes is not fun. However, taking a field trip to Kinko’s was fun! Though yes, we did hit Barnes & Noble’s first; it was cool to see the amazed expression on k1n1t3k’s face. Now he knows what he was missing out on for not going to a B&N back in Fargo, hehe. I really wish I could have printed out more pictures, but it’s so expensive there. I like the pictures I did get though – a couple of small ones and one large photo from the night before, and also a high quality resolution one of Lena and Yulia at the 2nd Eurovision press conference. Afterwards we met up at the shrine and checked the place out. It was pretty empty in the sense that it was essentially fan-free. We were previously expecting to see Timberlake fans running around or what not, but I guess as far as the west coast goes, only t.A.T.u. fans are this devoted. Workers, both construction and MTV, were bustling around, and only the barebones of the stage for the Pre-Show was set. Basically everything that was going to be done only took up about half a block. It was weird to walk into this residential area and see a blue carpet, bleachers behind that, and some bright colored backdrops erected here and there. Not to mention a large, pink colored building, also known as the Shrine Auditorium, looming in the background. Some people there were nice, others not so much since we were technically loitering around the place. Eric, the traffic-directing guy, was very approachable. I am very glad that I actually went up to him and started to chat with him while the others were still walking along to get food that afternoon. We continued to keep in contact with him, just asking him questions here and there about the set, where the celebrities would show up, and so and so forth. Steve, who worked on the stage set, was also a very cool guy and kept trying to direct us to the right people. At one point, later on in the day, he actually got us past security and into the side parking structure. We were very excited after a long day of waiting, thinking we were finally going to get to speak to the people who managed the bleachers for the MTV Pre-Show. It didn’t quite kick in yet that all the people waiting in line were rather properly dressed females. We were too busy examining the white placards on the floor that read “tatu dancers” and “tatu extras.” It was funny when for a moment we even thought that among a small group of people walking towards us that there was Lena, but it turned out to be one of the dancers when she became more visible. Well, then finally one of the guys with a headset approaches us. He had this puzzled look on his face when he saw k1n3t1k and ogag, but he was professional enough not to mention anything. For a few moments there, he thought we were some dancers looking for a spot on the roster. We all quickly dismissed that idea. (Though now in retrospect, maybe we should have given it a try, haha.. it looked like a lot of fun. Too bad I can’t dance!) The guy said they hired professional girls from agencies anyway. Another let down, so we trotted back to the others to see what was happening. By this time, the tatu van had already pulled in and we all saw smudges of the color pink, etc. etc. I even used k1n3t1k’s camera to take a few photos, and I’m pretty sure in one of them I got a tiny picture of Yulia’s pink pant leg in a crowd of people. Go me! Then we actually got to see the artist Pink leave the rehearsal, and we all snapped some pictures. Of course, the highlight of this day had to be when we all started clamoring about Ivan being in that black Mercedes that pulled up to the gate. Some of us started snapping pictures, but everyone was chanting “Ivan!” (we found out later from Alerg that we used incorrect pronunciation, which would explain why it took so long for him to notice us). He looked surprised to see a group of people there calling him; extremely more so when Ogag whipped out some pictures from the day before. Ivan’s face lit up with recognition instantly and he made some sort of loud exclamation like “OH!” We all took this as a positive sign and pretty much would have poured into his car if we could. I got to take a really good close-up picture of him with Ogag’s camera. Well, Ivan couldn’t help us get in to watch the rehearsals, especially since he could barely get himself in there. Again we went back to waiting, hoping we would catch a glimpse of them when they came out of rehearsal. It was getting darker by the minute and became very, very cold. I was freezing since all I had on was a sleeveless, shorts, and flip-flops. We all sat around by the fence, staring down there at the side door entrance. Nunzilla was generous enough to loan me her fleece blanket that she kept in her backpack to wrap tatu magazines. I shared the blanket with Pacmangirl (from tatysite.net) who was cool about it. Hours of waiting and being cold, and all we got to see was their super-tinted van drive off in a hurry. We were all a bit battered, but we all convinced ourselves that there was still tomorrow. After a long day without much food, Denny’s actually tasted pretty good.

nunzilla - author Day Two (May 30, 2003) Friday morning we met up with Yulia_r0xx and dashed over to Borders (where I picked up the Q magazine) and Barns and Noble, where ogag was kind enough to buy me the original Russian release of 200 KMH in The Wrong Lane (thanks ogag ). We scampered over to Kinko’s for photo fun and met a nice man who looking at one of ogag’s pics mistook me for a certain short black haired Russian tatu member...er don’t ask...heh. After Kinko’s it was time to meet up at the Shrine where t.A.T.u. was scheduled to rehearse for the MTV Movie Awards for Saturday. Save for a brief trip to Jack in The Box, us (and 2 members from Tatysite) waited at the MTV Shrine’s “red carpet” (it’s actually blue with yellow arrows) for 8 hours. We rubbed elbows with stage hands, stage directors, security, traffic employees, casting directors, Matt (the voice that introduces celebs on the red carpet), credential employees and even Ian Robinson, an MTV VJ (who kindly signed my pants) in an attempt to get on the list to sit on the bleachers for Saturday. No luck. But all was not lost. We watched t.A.T.u. enter w/their band in a black tinted (and might I add, kinda spooky) van, and caught a few glimpses of them hanging around before they dashed in for rehearsal. We also saw a tanned Pink and her bf exit the MTV area in her silver pimpin’ car. But the highlight for me was about an hour later when Ivan (yes, THE Ivan_ pulled up in his car to try to enter and was denied entry by security and told to park down the street and walk up. All of us, chanting “Ivan” and pretty much scaring the crap out of him instantly mobbed him. When he did walk up to the gate from the street, he was mobbed again but refused autographs and photos (which we took anyway) and finally was let in, late apparently for t.A.T.u.’s own rehearsal. After hours of waiting and listening to the muffled sounds of t.A.T.u.’s rehearsal t.A.T.u. finished up and one of the credential people we had made friends with skipped on over to us and told us how amazing the performance was and wished she could have found a way for us to see it. Harrumph. T.A.T.u. left in their black van and Ivan walked out the gates with a male accomplice and was not mobbed by us like before, but was instead sneakily (er, not to sneakily) stalked until her entered the parking area. Oh and did I mention we somehow got past security and were in line for the t.A.T.u. dancers checking in? K1n3t1k and ogag in a schoolgirl uniform...now THAT would’ve been classic. Friday ended with a whimper and a “t.A.T.u. diaries” at Denny’s near the shrine.

o.G.A.g. - author Day 2: 05/30/03 Basically I am still in shock from what happened the day before. The plan was to go to the shrine auditorium and hopefully catch a glimpse of the girls once again this time with k1n3t1k and nunzilla. First we decide to head to bestbuy to buy more memory for my camera. But we saw a Barnes and Nobles on the way and we decided to stop by and buy some tatu mags. Then we headed off to bestbuy we buy our memory then I think it was nunzilla who spotted a Russian taty cd which I didn’t have. So I bought that as well. After bestbuy we saw a kinkos and decided to print out some pics that we took the night before to have them signed if we do get to see them again later on that day. An 8 x 10 gloss pic costs 4.99. We printed some smaller versions as well along with some hard clear sleeves. We printed a batch of pics and the total came out to like $80.00 +. Ok then we head off to the shrine to meet up with Zashy’s friends from tatysite.net. Our main mission that day was to try to get casted for the bleachers. We got passed around a lot and we were under the sun most of the time. We were getting hungry so we went to the local Jack in the Box restaurant. Then we head back to try to get any kind of info on tatu and the whole bleacher thing. We ended up making friends with some of the guards, and employees working there. They weren’t rude or annoyed by our presence but were rather helpful despite working under the sun all day. The rest of the day was spent near the main gate where the vehicles enter to bring equipment and for the performers to rehearsing that day. With us making friends with some of the guards, we told them that if they stop a car and see 2 girls who are said to perform that to give us a sign that it is them. After waiting for a few hours, a big black van supposedly transporting tatu pulls up. We cant see a thing through the limo tint so we were unsure if it was them It has the license plate that started with MUSIC so we thought it was them. Then at a split second I caught a shadow in the car I saw a head with spiky hair so I thought it was yulia coz who else has big spiky hair like that? So after a few minutes after the can got in, we asked the people at the tents if that was tatu and they said that they are in the building so it was them in the van right in front of us and we didn’t have a clue. Well a few moments later, a black Mercedes pulls to the gate and guess who? Ivan Shapovalov manager of tatu! Infamous mastermind behind tatu! He was late for the rehearsal. They guard (who doesn’t know who he is stopping ) stops him from entering and asks for ID. As the guard goes to the booth to check, we start to walk towards him and say that we are tatu fans. He looked uninterested in what we were saying at first then I pulled on of the pics we took the night before and his face just turned red and had a shocked look on his face. I handed him the pic and he took a look at it and handed it back to me. We were snapping away with pics at this time. He was very nice and cool. He was very soft spoken. He looks a lot better in real life as well ( im not gay hehe!) So the guard ok’s him but he has to park at the shrine parking lot so he backs up and heads to the parking lot. A few minutes later we see him walking towards us coz we were in front of the entrance and we try to ask for autographs but he cant coz he was already very late for the rehearsal so we just took some pics. We went to one of the booths and checked in and that was that. We still camped out for the next few hours hoping to see tatu leave. I think the guards were tired of our sorry asses coz we were in their spot the whole day haha! But thankfully they were really nice but a few were real dicks about it. So the sun goes down and we are freezing coz it was getting windy and cold. Some of us not wearing a jacket got a little help from nunzilla who brought a small blanket in her bag. Then after waiting even more, the black van pulls out surprisingly quick and guns the gas to the main road. That was out glimpse of tatu leaving. All of us, by this time very very tired decided to split and to meet up again the following morning. Myself, Yulia_r0xx, K1n3t1k, Zashy and Nunzilla get something to eat at Denny’s. There we stuffed outselves and recorded a little tatu diaries video. Then we head off to the hotel to review the pics we took and chat some more. Yulia_r0xx had to go home after a hour in the hotel so after that we all just went to bed to get some rest for the big day ( MTV MA’s )