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Houston Videos!

First, a few screencaps:

David, great haircut, my friend. Perfect for summer and just in time for the Texas summer heat.

Touch My Hand and Intro (austintexasgirl2465)

Como La Flor (Trudy)

Barriers (Trudy dedicates this to ANDREA C.!)

Don’t Let Go (Trudy)

Works For Me (Trudy)

My Hands (Trudy)

Waiting For Yesterday (Trudy)

A Little Too Not Over You (bell23m)

Apologize (destinbesties94)

You Can (destinebesties94)

Crush (destinedbesties94)

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Little Rock VIP Story from Chelcy!

Thanks, Chelcy!

I had the Time of my Life, Yesterday:) I was a VIP and That means I got to meet him:D He sang like 3 songs for us!!! There was only 15 of Us! Which was really nice:) We had the smallest Group, for the whole tour, they said:D I was super excited, and then I told myself that I needed to be calm when he came in!

He first went to the Piano, and asked us what we wanted him to sing. And I Really wanted him to sing My Girl by the Temptations. I asked him if he wanted to do it. He said that He didn’t know how to play it, I said we can snap, and you can sing. He said o.k. So He started a Beat for us and He sang it:) YAY:D I was sooo excited:) Ahhhh, It was so special:D Then After My Girl, He Sang Heaven Which Was Amazing:D And then He sang Crazy Ahhh, I still can’t believe that I was even In the same room as he was. It feels like one big Dream. I met some amazing People at the VIP, I got to know all of them. After the songs, he got some food.

And then it was picture time:D When It was my turn I asked him if I could get a Piggy Back Ride Type of Picture. And He said he doesn’t even give his sisters piggy backs. He didn’t really know what to tell me. I Still feel really Silly about asking him that:S So After he said that he didn’t even give his sisters piggy backs I just put my arm around his waist. Because I didn’t want him to feel awkward or anything. We only had one guy in our group which, he felt kindof awkward, but he was soooo cool:)

After the Pictures, He left us:( I was sooo sad:( Kristen our host, She is soo soo nice:D She took us to the Shopping for what you wanted. I didn’t buy anything. Overpriced, forsure:S But, we went back down to the room we were in, and Had our Blue Tickets to win something and I won Something!!!!!!!! I was SUUPER Excited:D He signed a shirt that had a piano on it with his tour dates:)

And then It was time to get in our seats for the concert. It was sooooo much fun. So Im like 19 right, o.k. I was surrounded by 12 year olds. They were soooo much fun! They really liked me. They were telling me I wasn’t the typical 19 year old. Haha, Because I really don’t act my age! Haha. So KSM Came on first. and they had a lot of energy. They were really good:D And then GUess What, Now it was David’s turn! Ahhh, I was so excited:) He started with Touch my hand. And I didn’t get to touch his hand:( Oh, well. And then he continued on with the set. I knew every song except for the medley that he did….. But, I knew the Jason Mraz part!

When Zero Gravity came on I jumped up and down like the whole time! It was waaaaaayyyy fun!!!!!! He got in the middle of the stage and he jumped completely around. Too bad I didn’t catch that on camera:S It was soooo much fun, to be in his presence. I put my friend in charge of taking Pictures because I knew I would sooo be in the moment of this! She took as much Video as she could. She told me that one of the Security people told her to not take video:( So I didn’t get to have Zero Gravity and his Complete turn that he did:S But, We got the First half of his performance! I had a great time! I hope david enjoyed his self. Because I know I did!!!!

After his set we had a 20 Minute break and the girls that I met at the VIP Told me they saw me Jumping to Zero Gravity, they said I jump pretty high. Haha:D They said that david probably saw me jumping. LoL:D Anyways, Demi was sooo good!! She seems sooo sweet and A down to earth person:D She Sang This is Me from Camp Rock, and asked a little girl from the audience to come join her. The Girl I was standing by, was like David should do that. We wanted to sing with David!!!! Haha:) I’m sooo glad that I went, But, I was completely tired, when I got home. I can’t imagine how KSM, David, and Demi feel……… I took a nap today too! O.k. I think I’m done.:)

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Little Rock Story from Tina!

Read the first part of Tina’s story here, then click on “Read the rest of this entry” for the rest!

Hi guys! I love reading everyone else’s concert reports so I thought it was only fair that I write mine up even though nothing really extraordinary happened compared to some if the stories I’ve read. It was extraordinary for ME though, so I thought I’d share anyway

First, a little short bit about me because I don’t think a lot of FOD peeps know me yet. I’ve been a lurker for quite a while but just worked myself up to posting. From being a lurker I feel like I know many of you already so, to be fair, here is a little bit about me: My name is Tina and I live in Mtn. Home, AR. Pretty small town (pop. around 10,000) and I’ve lived here all my life except for 4 years when I was in college. I’m 30 (turning the big 3-1 next month, lol) and I’m a librarian at a college in town. I have a 15 year old niece named Tasha who I took to the concert with me – don’t have any kids of my own so she gets seriously spoiled, lol. My shocking secret: I’m a HUUUUUUGGGEE David Archuleta fan! Gasp!! :-p

Now back to business: the concert! When I heard that David was coming to Little Rock I was sooooo excited. Now I have my chance to see him in person for the first time! I bought tickets the first day they went on sale through that goofy Demi fanclub thing – I won’t even say how much I had to pay for that because I’m sure some of you are aware! I really wanted good seats, though, so I was willing. I did not get VIP tickets for that show because I got VIP for the upcoming solo concert in Rockford and I really could not afford to do it twice since I was paying for two.

My seats were to the right of the stage (not on the floor), first section, first row but at the far side of the section from the stage. Nothing to sneeze at but I really would have preferred a seat on the stage. Maybe on that little stool of David’s??

Anyway. The big day: July 2, 2009!! Left home about 8:30am heading toward Little Rock. 20 minutes later arrived back at the house to get my hotel confirmation, ticket information and map to the hotel. 15 minutes after that, arrived back at the location where I made a u-turn when I realized I had left my paperwork behind. Sheesh! Funny: we passed this same watermelon selling guy three times and the last time he smiled and waved. Making friends! Friends with watermelons, woot!

Without further incident, we got to North Little Rock around 12:30. Spent a couple hours at the mall and saw a tweet from David that he was at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart?! I knew we should have gone there instead of the mall! Good luck on figuring out which Wal-Mart though – there’s seriously one on like every corner in Arkansas. As David informed all of us, Wal-Mart started in Arkansas! Lol

Lunched at the Olive Garden (yum!) then checked into the hotel just after 3pm. We could see the arena from the hotel and I was embarrassingly excited by the thought that David was inside there! ;-p

Since we didn’t have VIP, we just hung out at the hotel until 6pm then took the shuttle over to the arena – thanks to the best shuttle driver ever, Sylvester. Another funny: when I first went to check in to the hotel, Sylvester was standing at the front desk chatting with the attendant and the group checking in ahead of me. They were talking about the concert. I just caught the end of it but here’s what he said: “Yeah and it’s not just her in the concert. You’ve got this Archuleta kid too. He’s really good! Remember him from American Idol? That boy can sing.” Why Sylvester, I agree with you!! Shout out to Sylvester if you’re lurking on the FOD!!

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ArchuRandomness

Today’s installment comes from Emily!

Oh k so I play this sport called disc golf. It’s like ball golf except you throw frisbees on a fairway and into a large metal basket with chains. Anyway I have been playing for 3 years, and i am always looking for new discs. Well while shopping for a new driver I came across this! A distance driver called “ArchAngel” i was freaking out when I saw it, I don’t even know how it flies or what it does, but I told my dad i needed to get it! He didn’t have enough money so I could not get it. But i will get it! The minute i get money I am buying this disc!

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The Short Hair/Long Hair Debate and the Hair Poll!

Evidently I started quite the controversy with my hair poll, haha!

Results so far: 2,010 votes, with Finale Hair winning by a long shot.

GG likes short hair, and so I do I. She send us this picture from Charlotte during the AI tour:

And the pictures below are the ones I always take to my hairdresser when she’s cutting my son’s hair:

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More Robbie Reader

I’m thinking I need to order this book. How cool would it be to get David to sign it, and then auction it off for charity?

Thanks, Jessi!

I pre-ordered (actually my friend did as a present) it mooonths ago from amazon, and it got here today! The David Archuleta Robbie Reader.
Anyway, it’s hilarious, I suggest you all buy it. It is full of thud-worthy picks and size 50 font. It’s for little kids you know, so it has “hard” words (like audition) bolded and sounded out in paranthesis. It’s really funny. The book itself is really short and is just a very Wikipedia style simplistic biography that I could recite by heart. But it still worth your money to own a David Archuleta book.

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I liked David’s longish hair. How long before it grows back?

Credit to Tony

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Houston Updates and Videos!

The videos will show up eventually…hopefully.

Como La Flor:

(tlrouleau)

I wanted to get this over to you first..other videos and pictures are downloading as I type this..but had to get you COMO FLOR — OMG — that David sure keeps us surprised all the time. Someone had asked him to sing it at the M&G…but he asked us if it was okay to sing on stage for everyone! So exciting. I’m still on a David Archuleta high!!!!

Trudy

Houston pictures from Trudy:

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John: David just finished and he was just great. The crowd went nuts, did we expect anything less! About half way through David looked wilted because of the incredible heat but by the time he reached Zero Gravity & Crush he was back to normal. He is just amazing & I really love him.

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David Tweets!

I’m really beginning to love Demi:

And Brooke!

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The Campaign for “One!”

Just in case you want to post this on FOD’s front page, it’s a link to where fans can write a letter to David, telling him how much they want him to sing the full song, “One” by U2. The letters will be printed and taken to an upcoming show on the summer tour. Hopefully fans will be rewarded for their efforts and David will oblige and sing the entire song.

http://campaignforone.wordpress.com/

Thanks!

Bebereader

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Archurandomness!

Hello! Here is a bit of archurandomness in case you need a little something extra to post…ha, I doubt it since it’s tour season! But here ya go…just post it if there’s room please

So David’s infectious goodness has led me to volunteer at a local shelter for cats Today was my first day going, and I was delighted to find a cute little kitty named Archy! Not the exact spelling, but still awesome Archy has a little infection in his left eye, but he’s still adorable! Here is a picture…

Can’t let the music stop…until I touch your haaaand…

If anyone relatively close to the northern Virginia area wants to adopt Archy, he is looking for a loving owner! Just fyi And also there are a ton of other cats and kittens who need homes! They are a very good price too…I think fixed they are like $150. I THINK. You can contact me at maurineanderson@cox.net or just visit www.commonwealthcats.com if you like. I think the website needs to be updated though.

Maurine Anderson

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Ever wanted a really cool David related pool game to play? We have the perfect idea!! The underwater talking/singing game!!! We started talking underwater and having each other guess what we were saying but then we decided that singing/naming David songs and using David quotes could improve the game and make it fun!! So we started singing!
we did phrases of songs like
“some days are cold but together one day we’ll both change the weather”
and someone would guess a phrase like
“if anyone can make me fall in love you can”
so the response is wrong phrase,wrong song
then for example the next guess would be
“ooohhh don’t let go”
wrong phrase,right song and we keep going like this!
during the process we had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs because we noticed we sounded like chipmunks and a lot of the ideas for the answer were ridiculous!
the next round we played were quotes for example
“dang it” and someone would have to guess for example “gosh”
if you get really stuck it might be a good idea to say if it came from a (v)blog he said it in concert on idol in an interview something that might give you a clue! it can be a lot of fun and a lot of laughs because half the time it sound like you heard something you know he never said!
the last round we played was naming songs like
“zero gravity” and you would have to take a guess if you need hints try things like idol song,album song,song covered in concert, bonus track, give hints about writers (or just say their names) this game can be a lot of fun to play with the family and of course there are not as cool versions where you don’t use David but we don’t like those!

Another really fun part of the game was with every quote/song that some had actually said or guessed we found our selves squealing at them. So many great memories. We were remembering all kinds of great stuff through trying “Desperate”ly to come up with what the answers were. Everything was surrounded by a truly great David memory we had to stop and reminisce about!!!

Thanks for listening hope you enjoy the game!!!!
Brianna (Archieluver) and Kaitlyn (davidafan4ever)

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Honestly, I have no idea when I became so cheesy….that post title…I’m embarrassed.

David in Atlanta

credit to Cassi

Houston Updates!

TrudyFOD is there and tweeting.  Victoria is there and tweeting.  Gwen is sending pictures! There was a flat tire and hair cuts and other road adventures today.  Oh, and he’s singing “Como La Flor” tonight.  So ya…Good times.

THE HAIR!

Credit to jonasgirl4lyf and frogcooke for the find!

Gwen’s pictures:

TrudyFOD tweets:

• David sang  “Falling” a capella during M&G
• David is going to sing Como La Flor during the concert

• David got short haircut like had on AI tour -looks good

• Fans are already crowding stage for Davids opener

• singing Apologize- poor David is really HOT on stage – sweaty

Band helping with the “question asking drawing thing.”  There’s Mike and Dave.

Victoria

Girl’s a Twitpic queen!

• Absolutely stoked!

• We moved to the catwalk i can probably reach his hand later

• Touched h4s hazmtnn (Becky says, “AWWWW!  She’s beside herself and can’t type!!”)

• Hes goregeous. His voice got deeper

Laura’s Twitter Badge!

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TMH #1 in the Philippines!

WOW!  Thanks to Pat for the head’s up.  Touch My Hand is currently #1 on FIVE music charts in the Philippines!

David Archuleta’s Touch My Hand is currently Number #1 in FIVE of the Philippines’ music charts…

MYX Hit Chart
MYX Daily Top 10
MYX International Top 20
Mobile MYX Top Picks
MTV Gimme 10

MYX is a music television channel in the Philippines.

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MORE Atlanta pics

Cassi is the bomb, which no one says anymore but I’ve been one step behind my entire life, so saying it is par for the course for me. Enjoy 5 more pictures from this gifted girl.

Say goodbye to this hair, BTW.

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Fan Stories!

Emily’s Uniondale NY experience!

Emily blogged about her concert experience.  Click HERE to read her story.

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