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11/06/05 - PROMO: BORDERS BOOKS, DALLAS, TX

Review by Teresa:
It started when my sister (baddie Alicja), our friend Margarette, and I had a last minute opportunity to go see Bryan at his book signing in Dallas. We knew it was going to be an experience after we found two of Bryan’s songs on the stations on the plane; moreover, the feature film on our flight was “Racing Stripes”! (Highly recommend to everyone, the story line was touching and the dialogue was hysterical).

We arrived at Borders a bit after 11am to find about 12 people on line already. What a pleasure to meet up with fellow baddie Nancy, who was right in front of us. We had a few laughs while waiting, listening to only BA playing in the store, bringing back some memories from our past experiences, and I even helped straighten out the books on the shelves…lol

Right before Bryan came in, we were interviewed by the morning crew from one of the radio stations, who had interviewed BA a few days before. They were very impressed by Bryan and were overwhelmed by the people who traveled to the book signing. There were people from San Antonio, Houston, New York :) , San Francisco….

So, Bryan finally comes in and takes some photos with some Vip’s and then sat at the table. (This is one of the areas the DJ’s were impressed with when we spoke to them. They mentioned that he is very professional and such a down to earth person when dealing with people from the industry). After a few signings, they switched his table from a big rectangular one to a small round one. Don’t know why, but it definitely gave us the opportunity to cuddle up to him for pics {sigh}. During the switcharoo process, BA did a little shake your booty dance for us. He seemed well rested, in a good mood and all smiles :) Jody was there as well, who smiled and gave us a wave while we were on line.

It was so sweet to hear Bryan say that he remembers Nancy and actually got up to take a pic with her, where the staff told us that Bryan was not going to pose for photos. (Nancy please email me your email address so I can fwd you the pic… it never hurts to have one more).

Now it was our turn…the “THREE TROUBLES” as BA put it, hahaha. Bryan was very sweet and took his time. He pulled each one of us separately to take a photo with him and we chit -chatted a bit. Half the conversation I don’t remember as I was psyched. I do remember asking him if they celebrated Mickey’s b-day, he said “of course”. The tour was mentioned where he said it is going very well. Alicja had a book as well for a baddie in Poland who asked Alicja to get it signed for her. That is when Alicja told him that the Polish fans are anxiously waiting for a gig there since it’s been a while. So I said “yeah and I’ll go see you there too”. Bryan surprised, stopped what he was doing and responded “really! So you can be my personal translator?” and I was like hell yeah!!!

(Left) The queue to see Bryan reaches down the stairs and 'round the corner!

We thanked him and that was it. Margarette thanked him in Polish and Bryan said something in a different language, but we all missed what he said (could he know a few words in Polish?). We hung out a bit to observe Bryan and the crowd. You could tell that Bryan was relaxed a bit more later on. Poor guy was probably nervous at first (don’t worry Bryan, we were nervous too). There were about 150 peeps. When we were leaving they closed off the line, which was about 2:40pm.

I must say that it was well organized which lead for the whole process to go by very smooth. The staff and DJ’s were very pleasant and helpful – there even was a lady taking pics for everyone from their cameras. One of the Borders’ book signing organizer (really nice guy) offered us 3 tickets to the show that evening, but we couldn’t go :( It was very, very tempting, but we were happy to just have made the book signing. We didn’t wait ‘til the end, cause there was still a pretty long line and we had a flight to catch, plus we didn’t want to cause any more “trouble” (wink, wink).

Teresa with Alicja

Thanks to Teresa for the photos

Poster for the event

Bryan walks up to the table with a big smile on his face to sign for the fans

Bryan and Teresa

Bryan and Alicja

Margarette getting her book signed