Mere days after deciding to make the plunge and go on this crazy road trip for a band whose music I didn’t know, I find out that the same band is shooting a music video in LA not far from me and was calling for fans to come be in the video. HIM was doing a 2nd video for their song, “Killing Loneliness”.

Ms. M, of course, was the one to tell me about it and we were sad because she was really the one who should go but she was half a continent away. So I decided that I would cast my name in the hat to be picked and if I was, go as her “proxy” and report the experience back to her. So I wrote up my letter and sent it in. Needless to say I was vague about the fact that I wasn’t actually a HIM fan. I didn’t feel guilty about it because I was already planning to go to 4-5 concerts in mid May and by the time that’s over with, I know that I WILL be a fan.

I got an email response almost right away that indicated to me that I had probably been picked to go. But it wasn’t til a couple days later, that I got the official email telling me to watch for the next one which would contain all the info we needed about the shoot. The email was supposed to arrive either Friday or early Saturday. The shoot was Sunday, April 2nd.

The email didn’t actually come til around noon on Saturday and contained all kinds of instructions about what to wear and what kind of makeup. I was annoyed because it didn’t leave me much time to get ready. Fortunately, I didn’t actually spend TOO much time trying to figure out what to wear because they turned out to be much more relaxed about it all then their emails made it seem.

More on the Video Shoot experience coming soon. To date, KL is the only song I’ve heard by HIM and I’ve heard it about a dozen times now including once at super fast speed.