Abigail M. Schilling

1. Paul was it?
It an effort to use Craigslist for me instead of against me, I RSSed anything "Joshua Radin" hoping that maybe I could thwart TicketMaster and get tickets for less than one million dollars. Sure enough, the day of the concert someone named Paul posted two tickets for $30. That is a savings of THIRTY DOLLARS off the TicketMaster price. Haha, TicketMaster, jokes on you. Paul, who I immediately started calling Paul The Ticket Guy works for a PR Firm in LA (Business Cat) where I presume he got the tickets for free and Paul The Ticket Guy doesn't like my boyfriend, Josh. Paul The Ticket Guy thinks Josh is too emo. So we played phone tag for a while Thursday afternoon and he wasn't flakey and I met him at a McDonald's where he gave me the tickets. BAM!

2. The Scrubs cast was in attendance.
Seriously, I was in the same room as Zach Braff and Turk and Sarah Chalke who is so the new Katherine Heigl. Like I said before, I've known about Radin since ZB gushed about him on his Garden State blog. I guess he was gushing everywhere because he took Josh's music to the Scrubs set and everyone loved it and they put a song on the show and BAM! Josh had a record deal. So in the encore Josh was all weaving this yarn and the Scrubs cast was cheering back and it was a regular famous people gush fest and Josh played the song that was on Scrubs and they all got so excited and Sarah Chalke whipped out her digital camera and was taking pictures of Josh. For her scrapbook presumably. Josh said they were all going out for drinks later. Those are the drinks I want.

3. I, too, am a sucker for the hometown crowd.
When we arrived at the House of Blues, we saw Josh in the parking lot hanging out with some people. Normal people who must be his token not-on-TV friends (I have a few of those myself). They fell in line behind us to get through security and Josh with his lanyard and badge attempted to bypass the line to get backstage and the security guy TOTALLY DIDN'T LET HIM! Josh was like, "I'm, uh, playing the show?" And the security guy was all, "House of Blues rules, sorry, man," and wanded and patted him down. As he was receiving his nearly-cavity search his friends started teasing him. When he took the stage he swelled with pride at the city of angels and people hollered his name and the names of his band guys and roadies. Because they were all from LA. These people we were standing with in the show were the roommates and the bar buddies of the bands. And so when someone would come out to change the guitars their name would be hollered. When the backup girl stepped into the spotlight she was cheered. Everybody was the star and everybody in the audience knew the star. Josh kept swooning about it. Me too.

4. Buy his new CD, Simple Times, out on iTunes on 9/9 (this Tuesday!) and in stores 9/30. Here is a story about his second album: when Josh finished writing the album and took it to his producing big wigs at Columbia they said they didn't like. Or rather, they liked it fine enough, but they wanted more. They wanted a song that would make it big on the radio. Josh was all, "Um, my songs aren't like that, sorry guys." And they were like, "Sorry, no album til you finish it." So he bought himself out of the contract with Columbia and is putting out Simple Times himself. Cool story, huh? Buy the CD.

You can listen to his music here.