Are You There, Patrick? It's Me, Anna!

I was bored at work today and I decided to look up interviews with Patrick Stump, the lead singer of my favorite band. I ran across an old interview with him from some wonky random Web Site. I nearly fell out of my chair when I got to this bit:

Q. Have you ever met any of your influences?

A. Yeah, the weird thing is that I liked bands that lived down the street from me. The first time I met like Luke Skywalker, was their name, when I was 12. And they were my idol. That was like wow. I did get to meet some of them.

Ok, first of all, that's a typo. The name of the band was Luke Skawalker--ahem-- and it was my buddy Dave's band! I used to hang out with those kids all the time when I was in high school. Of all the bands he could've namechecked he chose Luke freakin' Skawalker? TOO FUNNY!

I wonder if we ever attended some of the same shows back in the day. Could you imagine? Me all snotty and 17 and Patrick all young and 12? I was re-reading the history of the band on their MySpace page and it is bringing back some fond, old memories.

In my casual stroll down memory lane, I came across Luke Skawalker's thank you list from their first 7". Courtney and I are thanked in Dave's liner notes! How awesome is that?

Ok, in case you missed it, Patrick, here is the close up of my name, which is right in the middle:

So, the real question is, will this get me any closer to humping the Stump? Will my liner note shout out by his formerly favorite idols give me any street cred with him? I wanna know!

Patrick, I know you don't date your fans, but come on, this has to get me at least a coffee date. Maybe a picnic? You don't even have to buy me a proper dinner. It's cool.

As a side note, Dave also wrote a song called "Anna Hates Me," because, well, I did for, like, a week one summer. That doin' anything for you, buddy?

[Photo swiped from the BBC]