nunzilla -|- Yulia_r0xx -|- Zashy

nunzilla - author I just have to say... To all of those I met and hung out with, Yulia_r0xx, ogag, k1n3t1k, Alerg and Zashy (plus the 2 tatysite forumees): You hooligans are awesome and I hope we can meet up again for another organized t.A.T.u. event. May the experiences you had on this, my best week ever, never fade from your memory. DAY 3 Saturday ( Shrine Auditorium ) On Saturday we woke up and dressed our best in hopes of possibly getting to be fill ins for the bleachers (even though they were pre-screened and pre-casted) and made our way back down to the shrine. I’ll admit I was in a sour mood, expecting another 8-hour wait and being booted from off the sidewalk across the street from the shrine by security. How foolish my pessimism. We approached the gate but once again no luck as we were told the bleachers were full and were sent back, our heads hanging low. After 30 mins of waiting Zashy and ogag went to pickup ogag’s tripod and Yulia_r0xx and k1n3t1k went back to the car. I was left alone and occasionally was approached by curious onlookers who for some crazy reason thought I knew some special secret and were disappointed when I gave them my pessimistic prediction for the day. Soon enough Yulia_r0xx and k1n3t1k strolled over to us but were stopped by Eric, who was a part of the traffic crew hired by MTV, who seemed to be telling them something I was afraid to miss. I told the two tatysite people to guard my spot and ran down the street. Eric told us that t.A.T.u. would probably be dropped off by the farthest tight of the red carpet set, get interviewed by MTV and then stroll down to the MTV news section which was on the middle right of the MTV Red Carpet set up. Being interviewed by MTV News was optional. With this info in hand, I decoded to stakeout the farthest right of the red carpet along with k1n3t1k and Yulia_r0xx so we divided and had the 2 tatysite forumees near the MTV News set along w/Zashy and ogag and the rest of us on the right. This setup didn’t last as we switched places several times but we tried out hardest to keep both spots. Alerg arrived and hung out w/me Yulia_r0xx, k1n3t1k and ogag for a long while. We all were engaged in a conversation with Alerg and completely missed Eric waving his hands at us indicating he had stopped t.A.T.u.’s van. The van went up the street and around to enter through the street on the far left side of the red carpet set up and MTV backstage shrine entrance. We dashed over by the gates and watched slackjawed as t.A.T.u.'s van drove in once again and I caught only the barest glimpses of Yulia before they were swallowed up by their entourage. We strolled back to Alerg defeated and prepared to wait for the Red carpet kick off. Suddenly, out of nowhere a young man (whoever you are I LOVE you!) ran up and told us MTV was selling tickets for the MTV Movie Awards for only 50 bucks. We thought what the hell, dashed over there, and got what we thought were crummy balcony seats. Suddenly enthused, I convinced Yulia_r0xx to take me back to her car so we could put our bags away and search for a place that sells binocs. On a whim, I snatched my õóé âîéíå bear that I had brought down with me to give to Yulia and grabbed the t.A.T.u. CD ogag bought me and my own english 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane CD and put it our Kinko’s bag. Alerg, Yulia_r0xx and I strolled over to Radio Shack. Yulia_r0xx thought they might sell binocs, and she was right. We got 2 binocs (that’s all they had ) and ran back to the shrine...only to see...a line of people and a guy handing out blue wristbands. Eric yelled out at us, “Where were you? They were looking for fill-ins for the bleachers.” Desperate, we got in line, only to be turned away by the guy in the green mtv fill-ins shirt. We started to slink back across the street when suddenly...the guy changed his mind and let us in line. K1n3t1k and ogag got in line with us and called Zashy and the two tatysite formees and somehow they convinced the guy to let them stay. 8 hours of waiting around on Friday and it finally payed off. Eventually the line moved and we got on the bleachers. At first I thought I was screwed getting stuck on the farthest left side of the right bleachers (across from the press and towards the end of the red carpet) but instead was pleasantly surprised when I realized I was at an angle where I could see the faces of the celebrities (as opposed to the tops of their heads) as they walked down the carpet. After some shots where we were told to cheer for the camera the pre-show got on a roll. Let me just say there were many celebrities, because listing them would take to long and probably be off topic. There were oodles. Anyhoo... I was oogling at all the celebrities when suddenly I look down at the gap between the right bleachers and the left bleachers and see...Troy. Aka the US guitarist for TATU! I scream his name and he looks up. I ask for a picture and he pretends not to want his pc taken, laughs and then poses for my pic. Him, and their drummer and keyboardist climb the steps to our bleachers and I make small talk w/Troy (I don’t remember much of what I said but I do remember telling him I though he was awesome and how I couldn’t wait until t.A.T.u. performed. I got the band to sign my CD but sadly, Lena and Yulia were no where in sight. The band left and I turned my attentions back to the red carpet. Two punkass chicks stole my spot so I stood in the gap between the two beams and stood on my tiptoes blocking their view. Several celebrities came by before...Matt announced T.A.T.u.’s arrival. I began breathing heavy and moved to the spot where I had put my bear and begged Yulia_r0xx to borrow her pen. I wrote “From: Rachel; www.tatu.us/forum/” on the back of the bear’s little õóé âîéíå t-shirt and prepared my cameras for Yulia and Lena’s arrival. Soon enough, they strolled down (rather briskly) as the media practically fell over the fencing to get interviews from them. They were gorgeous as ever in their black schoolgirl uniforms with their white blouses tied above the stomach. Yulia was sporting her spiky hair and Lena had her red hair unbraided, bouncing around her shoulders. Behind them was the band and seeing Troy again, I yelled his name and he turned, saw me and took a picture of my sunburned face with the camera he was carrying. I grabbed my bear and threw it down to him and he caught it, looked at it, burst into a grin...and walked off. As he was leaving, I yelled out, “Give that to Yulia!” but I get the feeling he didn’t hear me...er...you’ll find out in a bit. Shaking like crazy, I watched the celebrities stroll down the carpet until I heard Zashy scream “TATU!!!” and bolted towards her voice. T.A.T.u. was entering the Shrine through the backstage entrance and after yelling really loud, our powers combined got their attention and Yulia and Lena turned and looked at us and waved. I about burst with glee and snapped photos (which were at a shitty angle and instead got only Ogag’s head and arm as he quickly snapped pics himself...pah.) After watching some more celebs walk the carpet, including Buffy’s own Willow, Allison Hannigan (sp?), we turned to leave and get into the shrine and to our seats. They were pretty decent for 50 bucks and I was prepared to watch the show from binocs when I noticed people starting to move downward...I guess after a certain amount of time, MTV asks the audience to fill in the front balcony seats and basically eliminates the reserved seat assignments. I got awesome seats in the right center towards the front of the balcony. Two seats to the left of me was Matt of Real World fare (er...I think) that I mistook for Dexter Holland (sp?) from The Offspring. Oops. The Movie Awards were kickass but my hands are hurting so I’ll skip forward to t.A.T.u.’s performance. I watched anxiously as the MTV crew moved the drums, keyboard and guitar platforms into place. Troy came out from behind the stage and strolled up to his guitar and amp. In his hand was (oh my sweet Jesus) my BEAR!!! He took a long look at it and stuck it on top of his amp *passes out*. I guess he liked it too much to give it to Yulia. The rest of the band came out and loved over their instruments to make sure they were in proper order. Someone forgot to unplug Troy’s guitar and while Samara was giving her acceptance speech, a few chords blasted out of Troy’s guitar. Samara looked distracted but moved on. Then...it was time for t.A.T.u.’s performance. Amanda Bines and Lizzy McGuire cleverly introduced them, talking about how cute the male celebrities were and how t.A.T.u. weren’t even interested in them *cracks a smile*. Then the music began. Yulia and Lena were dressed NGGU TOTP style (no hand charm though) in opposite ends of the audience and began singing ATTSS making their way to the stage. Suddenly, the music turned into NGGU with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY dances clad in schoolgirl uniforms running down the aisles near the stage. The screen flashed news ‘articles’ such as ‘mothers hide your daughters’ and ‘orgy at t.A.T.u. concert’ as Yulia and Lena jumped up and down singing NGGU live. I don’t know if they showed Troy playing (I couldn’t stop staring at Yulia and Lena) but if they do, look for the white bear on the top of his right amp behind him. No kissing between Yul and Lena but the dancers sure as hell did and Yul and Lena did get pretty damned close a couple of times and looked really into each other and the performance. Then, towards the end, the dancers ripped off their tops and twirled them around like helicopters...somewhere along the line the lost their skirts as well but I was too busy watching Yulia and Lena skip around stage, looking really happy and obviously enjoying themselves. At the end, Yulia and Lena did a choreographed dance number with the dancers (seamless and way too awesome) and then hopping up and down they finished up and left, but not before Lena shouted (in her cute Russian accent) “thank you” and Yulia gave her this cute smirk and they strolled off. The crowd cheered its loudest after their performance and NO one can argue that they didn’t steal the show. People around me who before were like “Oh, those are those lesbians...that’s disgusting,” were suddenly like, “Wow, that was amazing...” I hope that performance opens the myopic little eyes of some people who dismissed them as lesbian ‘paedo-pop’ and gets t.A.T.u. the recognition they deserve in the US. As the band made its way offstage, Troy grabbed the bear and was making dance, showing it to his bandmates and rushing after Lena and Yulia (hopefully to show em’ my bear?). I can only hope he showed it to Yulia and likes it enough to bring it along with him when they travel...here’s to hoping that bear makes more appearances like ogag’s cool ax beanie he gave Yulia. The MTV Awards finished up and a couple of celebs commented about t.A.T.u.’s jaw dropping performance. All of us left the shrine and ogag, k1n3t1k, Zashy, Yulia_r0xx, Alerg and I made our way back to the hotel for some much deserved partying. And yep, that’s about it. Sunday morning Zashy was kind enough to drive me back to the Greyhound Station and I left, bound for home.

Yulia_r0xx ::author:: What an awesome way to wrap up the weekend! 05.31.03 Again it starts out not looking so great for many, many hours. But then within the span of less than an hour we went from standing on the street to bleacher seats and MTV:MA seats. We did end up seeing tatu’s black van enter again. I was waving around a tatu poster that nunzilla had printed out for me (thank you!). The poster was the one of Yulia and Lena in red shirts resting on the bed. I was just holding it up, hoping that they would see it. We were all just standing there in a line with our cameras ready, but again we didn’t see much of anything. Back to the good stuff – Blue wristband on my right wrist made me feel all cool, talk about a ego booster! For once we had somewhere to go and not get kicked around back and forth between staff. Big thanks to Eric and also the guy who let us get in line! The bleachers for the Pre-Show were fun and we got to see lots of celebrities walk by us. I didn’t have too great of a view due to my height, but apparently once in a while I was able to muster enough vocals to catch people’s attention. Wilmer Valderrama and Tom Lenks both turned around when I called them. I even got the chance to tell Tom that he was a great actor, my roommates love him, and that I’m still a fan of B:tVS. We were also in luck when we saw the t.A.T.u. band members, Troy, Sven, and Roman walking in the back of the bleachers. I called out to Troy and he actually turned around. A couple of us got them to sign our stuff and take a few pictures before they had to leave. I got the drummer to sign my Russian taty album, which was cool because I always thought he was pretty cute. When I finally saw t.A.T.u. walk by, I was completely not ready for it. I again tried to wave my poster and get some good looks at them. (They both were looking as amazing as ever!) I didn’t even have my camera ready. Not to mention I was pretty sure Yulia and Lena noticed I was holding the poster upside-down because they were laughing. Egh, well it was still fun to watch them pass by; they are both very very beautiful. When it was time for the actual awards show, I had to run all the way back to the car to put everyone’s cameras away. I then had to run all the way and look for the others inside. Sometime in there, I realized I lost my hat. Sadness. Well, anyway, I had a hard time finding anyone at the balcony seats. At one point, some guys with long blonde hair offered me a seat between them, and the MTV usher even tried to tell me they were famous. I had no idea who they were, and even if I did, I still declined. Finally, I spotted Ogag waving at me so I went and sat in the seat in front of him, next to one of the huge spotlights shining down at the stage. 50 cent’s performance wasn’t bad, but somewhat lackluster in such a big auditorium. A few of the audience got up to dance, but it was actually pretty tame. I thought Pink’s performance was rather good, and the audience had a somewhat better response to it. But there were still quiet moments. Taking note of this, I was mentally calculating when I could yell out to them. I was thinking during the instrumental segment of NGGU I could possible get a shout out to Yulia and Lena. I was very wrong. As soon as the music started, the crowd already went crazy. The music was loud, the audience was loud, everything was just loud and bright lights. My heart was pounding, I’m sure, but I felt the bass and their singing more! I had a hard time tracking Lena and Yulia in the beginning when I heard the first few lines of ATTSS, but then I finally saw them walk up to the stage from the audience section below. I got very spectacular views of the two of them through my binoculars. They were extremely energetic; the whole performance just stole my breath away. I didn’t pay too much attention to the back-up dancers because I figured I would get to see it all on television later. Most of the time my binoculars were following Yulia. Everytime I tried to yell out to her, the audience was in an uproar continuously. I still tried to though since it seemed like the thing to do. I'm proud to say that their performance was so loud that I was temporarily deaf for 10 minutes or so after their 5 minute performance. When I tried to talk to Ogag, I could barely hear my own voice. It was definately worth it though! Ah, how I love them so... =)

Zashy - author Day 3 to be continued DAY 3 Saturday Part I - Daytime We crash Friday night at about 3:30 almost 4, again the night before we decided we would be getting up at 8am again. This time around I woke up a couple minutes before 8, at 7:53am. Yet again I was the first one in the shower and had to wake those sleepy heads up again. We were out of the room at exactly 10am because the room service people would be coming to clean our room at 10:15 as I requested. This time around we took two cars to the Shrine. I had my car and Yulia Roxx had hers’. She followed me to the Shrine and of course we blasted taty on the way there. Once there it was about 10:45am, we parked our car where we weren’t suppose to, in a grocery parking lot. We left our bags in the car. After that we walked to the Shrine and saw there were a few people already there waiting behind the barricade set up. We scoped out the place to see where would be the best place to set ourselves up. Once settled, I think it was Ogag and Yulia Roxx that went over to the casting tent too see what was up for later on today. They came back not looking too happy. It turns out everyone apparently shown up, at least that’s what we were told. So we were disappointed with that, but we thought what the hell we can still get spot along the barricade. We set ourselves up, well I did and so did K1n3t1k and Ogag, seeing what they could do to capture pictures and videos. They kept moving back and forth. Nunzilla and Yulia Roxx were talking to the same Traffic dude from the day before getting a little bit of insight. I call up PacmanGirl and MadSquirrel to see where they were at. They inform me they are pretty close. Then Ogag suggest to me that we should use the tripod, only thing is its back at the hotel and we would have to go back and get it. So I say hey what the hell, we got time to waste until the show begins. So Ogag and I ask the gang if they want anything before we leave, like munchies and such and such, they tell us and were off back to the hotel. Unfortunately we got lost yet again on the way back to the hotel .bloody LA, I hate YOU! Anyways, at the hotel Ogag runs up to the room to get the tripod and I park in the hotel circle thingy. He comes back and I tell him we need to get gas so we pull over at a TEXACO and I fill (Whitey) my car up. And go inside and buy 2 Redbulls because I sure as hell needed the energy boost and buy some peanuts while Ogag buys some water, coke and chips. While in TEXACO, I get a call from Pacmangirl telling me they are closing the roads and the parking down at 1pm so we need to hurry up and get back. That wasn’t the greatest news because it was 12:45 and we were at least 40 mins away. So we book it back to the Shrine, I blare Katya as we drive. Like 2mins away we see some of dancers in a line waiting on something. Ogag hollers at them. We get back to the grocery parking lot and actually get a better space then before. Turns out just the road the show is on was closed. Once settled we grab the tripod and munchies and of course my backpack and head back out to wait. We get there and give everyone their munchies, and I walk over to where Pacmangirl and Madsquirrel are and the wait begins. The rest stay over by the traffic dude talking yet again about stuff I have no clue. We wait and we wait and we wait some more. More people begin to show up. We see Luduris or whatever his name is, Jessica Simpson and Suchin Pac practicing before the show. We snap a couple photos of them. Then Yulia Roxx and Nunzilla become very antsy and start walking back and forth. They meet this girl and walk with her to the casting tent and then back over by the bleachers. During that I had no clue what was going on, I was just watching. About this time Alerg shows up with some Vodka He remained over by the traffic dude, sipping his vodka and eventually Nunzilla and Yulia Roxx joined back up with him. Then the waiting resumed. Mike walked by us and saw that we were still determined too see them again. He later on told Ogag that if we didn’t get into the bleachers that he would have a camera crew come up to us and film us and ask questions. Which I thought was very sweet of him to do. At around 2 or 3 it started to get hella hot. I started to get burned and MS and PMG were already turning red. I didn’t like that, I never get burned. So those two went and sat in the shade. Then some stupid girls showed up and started invading my space trying to take our places along the barricade. It really ticked me off, (I get mad easily when I haven’t slept that much) when I went for a smoke, trying to be nice and back away so my smoke didn’t effect anyone they inched into my spot (bitch). Anyways, back to waiting. We wait and wait some more, some little boy got a bloody nose. Poor kid, we didn’t have any napkins so he suffered. Then some dude came by and told us they still had seats left that we could buy, I really didn’t pay it any mind. I just kept on waiting and waiting some more. Finally, a little later into 3 around 3:30 almost 3:45 we got the signal that taty was going to arrive. So we booked our butts over to where they would be. We had our little miniature poster out along with our cameras. Unfortunately we didn’t get any pictures because they were too far away and we didn’t go across the street this time. After we found out they were already there we chilled for a bit. Ogag got some pictures of the school girls that were outside A bit more relaxed. Everyone went back to where they were. Then Ogag came up to me and told me they were selling tickets for the balcony for $50. I pulled out my money and was like shit I am short $5, lucky Alerg had my back and spared me the $5. I went and bought my ticket with him. Then I asked PMG if she was going to go. She was debating back and forth because they were originally suppose to go some place else after watching taty arrive on the red(blue) carpet. Finally, she gave in and off those two went to buy their tickets. When they came back they both were laughing a lot. I was like what’s up. They told me they were almost ran down by Ivan who was picking up these chicks. Ay yay yay on Ivan. So back to waiting again. I went over to Alerg to see what was happening over there and he said not much. Then as I was coming back I saw this dude picking out people by us and putting wrist bands on them. I was like wtf, that’s whack, we’ve been here long. Why are you choosing them it was really making me mad. Then I mentioned it to Ogag and K1n3t1k and they disappeared. Then across the way we saw the people that were in the bleachers. A bunch of blonde hair blue eyed big ole boob girls in the stands. So I was like..shesh apparently were not pretty enough. At that point I was really starting to have distaste for MTv you can ask PMG and MS. Then out of no where I got a call and it was Ogag only I didn’t hear his voice I heard someone named Erin.. weird I know. So hung up and then looked around for Ogag then I saw him standing in the line where people with wrist bands were. They were going to be on the bleachers. So I called him up and was like whats the deal. He’s like come here and say Steve sent you. I was like alright and PMG, MS and I walked down the path towards them and then crossed the streets. We went over to the gang and talked to them trying to get things straightened out before we made a fool of ourselves. Then we went over to Steve and he automatically hooked us up because he realized we were with them. He’s like if MTv knew I was doing this they wouldn’t be too happy. So I thanked him a bunch of times, same with PMG and MS. Then we went and got in line with the gang. Once in line we all sorta freaked like wow this has paid off were going to get some fantastic shots of the girls and were going to see them perform live NOW. It was awesome. Then the other dude announced who would me appearing on tonight’s show. After waiting a good 10minutes or so we were ushered over to the bleachers. Were we were told a bunch of nonsense in which no one really listened. Once on the bleachers we freaked again, no one could be believe it still. Mike started talking and teasing us, encouraging us to cheer etc…When finally the show began. There were big gaps in the bleachers because everyone moved forward. I kinda got tired of almost falling so I moved back a little. The JackAss crew walked by, Kelly Osbourne…and the Firestone dude..some other people I really didn’t care for. Then all of a sudden out of no where I decided to look behind me. AND YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHO I SAW..ok you might but yea I saw the TATY’S BAND…SVEN, TROY and ROMAN. That’s when I freaked and said the first name that came to my mind. SVEN. When I said that all 3 of them turned around like wtf. Then I waved them over to us, and they came willingly. I told the gang and they came booking there butts to me to get autographs as well. I could think of anything I could get signed because I didn’t own anything that they had been in or on. Plus, I was hella nervous for some odd reason and my brain wasn’t functioning. So I got all three of them to sign my picture of Yulia and myself from Thursday night. Sven looked at the picture and was like where was this taken and I told him he’s like oh I wasn’t there. HAHA Then he called on his cell phone and was like shoot we should be recording this. Some dude next to me was getting their autographs and had no clue who they were. He’s like who are you Puddle of Mudd? their like NO! WE’RE TATY’S BAND! That’s right you tell him. When Roman was signing my picture he dripped his water on it, so his autograph is a bit smudged. And Sven signed my picture twice because the pen wasn’t working to well hehe. We got a couple more pictures of them and they were off to go some where. I have no clue where though. Then we all stood in the stands a bit anxious, simply waiting for the girls arrival. I was simply taking pictures of Famke Janseen, Jennifer Garner and David Beckham with Victoria while waiting a little bit. Then I turned around again and saw Troy walking back by. So I said hey could you smile for my camera, he’s like no, then he smiled. Then a few moments behind him were Roman and Sven, they did the same. Then we said see you at the show. And that was that. Then the wait began again. Maybe 15minutes late Mike announced the ARRIVEL OF TATY…we went bonkers. I told the dude next too me that I would be squeezing in between him so I could try and get some photos. He’s like no problem. So I stood there for I think what seemed like 10mins when the girls walked by hella super fast, I barely got any pictures, that’s how fast they moved. Luckily Nunzilla and Yulia Roxx were up close taking pictures. Once they disappeared I looked at PMG and was like dude we need to go to the other end to get some pictures of them entering into the Shrine, she agreed and we dashed off across the bleacher.(forgot too mention the bleachers began to break at this time too much weight on the front) So we both wait over on the last bleacher, and wait some more. AND finally we see them. We start going mad screaming. Lena got distracted by some other girls saying her name. She looked back at them smiled, so did Yulia. I think they were surprised. Then I just keep screaming. First I was screaming Yulia, then screamed Lena, Lena, LENA.(PMG was doing the same while taking photo with my other camera).she finally noticed us and smiled. Then after that I screamed YULIA, YULIA YULLLLLLLLIA, finally she turned around. I don’t think she could hear us much. She saw me and waved all smily…I was like holyshit..and she smiled, I am not sure if she remember me or what but it was an awesome feeling. After that, PMG and I were never the same. She was shaking because she couldn’t believe that all just happened. It was an simply WOW to feel recognized and waved at by the two girls in which you came too see. After we all settled down we didn’t care too much about the rest of the arrivals. We were chill. Then we asked the women what time we should head inside since we had tickets and she’s like now... so we booked it.