Fangirling

Like every other normal girl, I go through fangirl phases in my life. Urban dictionary defines fangirling as, "The reaction a fangirl has to any mention or sighting of the object of her "affection". These reactions include shortness of breath, fainting, high pitched noises, shaking, fierce head shaking as if in the midst of a seizure, endless blog posts, etc." A fangirl phase for me is when I become slightly obsessed with a famous guy, and yes, it seems that I am writing a blog post about it. Well played Urban dictionary. My first real fangirl phase was back in 2003 over Jeremy Sumpter when he played Peter Pan in the 10 millionth remake of that movie. I remember lying awake the night after I watched the movie hoping against all hopes that Tinkerbell would take me away to meet Jeremy. Never happened. I got over that phase as soon as he got slightly fat in some random baseball movie a couple years later.

The next fangirl phase I can remember embarrassingly enough was Taylor Lautner. Confession: There's a picture of him in one of my old diaries. Like a "Sharkboy and Lava Girl" picture. Forgot that he did that movie, did you? Yeah, I'd like to forget that too. And I'm sure he would also agree. There's a karate dance scene he does that's more than horrendous. Now I'm kind of appalled by the fact I liked him that much. Twilight pretty much shit on the reputations of all those actors. Except Kristen Stewart's. Having one emotion during a movie doesn't really make you an actress so....

After those two fangirl phases, I went through a lot of small celebrity crushes. Zac Efron, Adam Levine (before the awful blonde hair), JGL, Shemar Moore, Ryan Gosling... the list goes on. I have a Pinterest page for all of the men I like, so visit that. My point is, it's been awhile since I've gone through another hardcore "fangirl" phase.

Until Matt Hires.

I know that's not a big name at all, but believe me he's worth a check out on iTunes. He deserves to be more well known.

But in all seriousness... I'm obsessed. I recently went to his concert, which was more like 30 people standing around listening to music than an actual concert, but hey! That's what you get from a not-so-well-known artist. And it allowed me to be closer to him, like nothing-separating-us-but-air close. I'm actually not that obsessed (or maybe I'm just really good at hiding my "high pitched noises and fierce head shaking as if in the midst of a seizure" as urban dictionary would claim) but I do truly love him as an artist and if given the chance would marry him. I will come to my senses soon and realize the absurdity of what I'm saying but until now, I am allowed to go on and on about how much I love Matt Hires. Because I'm fangirling.

After the concert, Lanie and I and two nice guys we met there, talked to him and his band for about an hour. I was literally quivering in excitement when he let us take 2 failed photos with him before we actually got a good one. I'm also pretty sure I made him giggle about our incompetence over taking pictures. Don't care if he was laughing with me or at me, I heard a tiny giggle and I pride myself in that. He was also like, "Sorry I'm pretty sweaty after being on stage" and I'm all like, "Sorry I'm pretty shaky after being in your presence" (I didn't actually say that to him, but I was thinking it). I did let out some high pitched noises when I was notified later that night that he favorited all of my tweets that mentioned him even if I didn't tag him in the post. It's the little things for me.

Well, I guess for now that's enough of my fangirl emotions spilled out into a blogpost for the world to see. I will definitely be a fan of Matt long after my fangirl phase is over, but for the moment let me have this.