This One's For the Children

that turned into hot girls that are coming to see our reunion show!!! NKOTB

At my best friend Denise's request I am writing about New Kids on the Block. If you haven't heard from me yet about this I will tell you now - yes I am super excited to see them again! How excited you ask? $175 for a ticket in the first 20 rows excited. Yup you heard me... $175 and there are 8 of us going together. Say what you will - but if you were in the Boston area when those 5 guys hit the scene back in the day - you were a FAN!!! Maybe it was the accessibility that helped fuel the fire - knowing that maybe you'd be in Faneuil Hall & run into Jordan was enough to make any girl smile in her sleep. And it took a real strong man back then to admit that he was a fan - I remember Brian S. getting a boatload of crap for listening to them on his walkman on our DC trip in 7th grade. I say - good for him!

I am excited to see what the demographic is going to be. I mean those girls that were my age then are now rapidly approaching 50 (I was 12 when hanging tough came out), do they drag their kids there as a buffer? Most of the girls that are going with us are in that 30 range and that's what I imagine a majority of the audience will be. But let's face it - we can now drink! That's where I get nervous. Denise & I have had conversations about this already, how neither of us want to get belligerent at the concert cause it's an expensive ticket to spend the entire time in the bathroom.

I remember when I saw them when I was 12. My Dad & stepmother, Lois, took me to see them at Great Woods and we sat at the front part of the lawn (a great spot in my opinion). Well I sat next to this girl that was hysterically crying for about 90% of the show and those that weren't crying like her were screaming so loud that I could barely hear them. I looked at Lois & said "what is wrong with these girls, do they have mental problems?" Well after bringing up that story to one of my friends I found out that I might be the one that was mental for not crying. In fact she even said that she might do that again. Thank God we aren't seeing them around Christmas cause if she heard "I Still Believe in Santa Claus" live... I would probably get my arm torn off in her excitement & lose hearing in both ears from her screams. (You know who you are & I love you dearly for that.) And you know we'd all lose our voices singing along to "Funky, Funky Christmas", hell we almost did Friday night at TJ's when we busted it out...

So about once a month I will post about the anticipation of the concert as it approaches (it's 4 months and 12 days away). 'Til then I will be "hangin' tough"

Across the Universe

This movie is a story intertwined with 32 songs from the Beatles catalog and I am sure that most have heard about it by now. The first time I saw this movie was when I was on vacation with my mom in Florida. Now I think that the most interesting thing was that she had lived through "Beatlemania" and seen them live in concert - so her perception of the songs are deep-rooted. My vision of the songs comes from listing to them on vinyl in my childhood home, singing and dancing in my glitter-speckled ceiling in my old living with my brother, Micah. Obviously as I have gotten older I have found more meaning in the songs and managed to not get jaded by the perversions done by certain American Idol performers... This movie brings their music to light in a way that dazzled both a seasoned fan and younger, well-versed fan.

I am not going to go through person-by-person or scene-by-scene on here as I hate to be a "spoiler", but I will share what I enjoyed.

The most moving scene to me is "Let It Be". This song has grown increasingly more important to me as I have grown up. Everyone sees hard times and this song speaks true to people in different ways. Seeing this song brought to life in this movie is hands down one of the most amazing scenes. It occurs during the Detroit riots in 1967. At first when you hear the voice you don't think that it would be a young child singing. The soul in this boys voice is chill-inducing. As the scene unfolds & the choir comes in with the full-blown version of this song, a simple singer/piano tune suddenly hits you in your bones. It's one of those moments in a movie that if you don't get emotional at this you might want to check your pulse. I have this song on my Ipod and can tell you right after watching the movie I was holding back tears when listening to it again.

I highly recommend watching this movie - preferably with someone that isn't going to sing-along (I enforced this rule with my own mother!!!) so that you can really enjoy the voices of these exceptionally talented actors. And lastly, I am not impressed by Bono's appearance in this movie (might be the overexposure of him in general that aggravates me) but I never noticed 'til this movie how much he looks like Robin Williams... Enjoy!

Who I am & what this is about

Hello! I am Amanda. I am a 30 year old femme living in MA. I have opinions on everything and years ago I had a site that I voiced them, but didn't know how to keep it up with a techie on my side. So here I am, blogging on here to voice my opinion, give insights into what goes on with me and pretty much just have my own soapbox in my little corner of the internet. I hope you enjoy & if you don't - don't read it...