6:30 - Leave Misti's house.
6:37 - Arrive at Training Table and join Sara in a booth.
6:45 - Order mushroom burger.
6:47 - Run across the street to see if cameras are aloud inside. (They are)
7:15 - Receive and enjoy mushroom burger.
7:32 - Leave Training Table and head for the E-Center. (This process involves getting pictures and shimmying at passing traffic)
6:37 - 7:32 - Receive mildly amused looks and stares from the abundant patrons of the Training Table.
7:38 - Find seats in the second row of the second box on the floor.
7:40 - Discover oversight in seating arrangements and inform logistics crew.
7:46 - Seating oversight is, in fact, a seating misunderstanding. All is right with the world.
8:00 - Cue Lady Gaga.
8:23 - Lady Gaga bestows mercy on the assembled guests by leaving the stage.
8:30 - Enter Natasha Bedingfield
8:37 - David Archuletta enters the box next to ours. Everyone stops paying attention to Natasha and starts flashing pictures of David.
9:00 ish - Natasha Bedingfield leaves the stage. David Archuletta and Co. leave their box.
A little after 9:00 ish - Lights up, screen flashing, music playing
Moments later - A deafening cheer.
Moments later still - Enter New Kids On The Block. (More deafening cheers)
A little after 9:00 ish until 11:00 ish - An almost sad display of washed-up, has-been, middle-aged men trying to recapture their youth. Though I'll admit I did rock out to some of their old-school stuff. Joey and Donnie were having fun. Jordan seemed to be hating every minute of it. Danny did some dancing, and Jonathan remained obscure through the whole show.
11:00 - The official show ends, the stage goes dark, deafening cheers.
Moments later - NKOTB comes back to the stage for an encore.
11:04 and a few moments - Encore 1 ends.
11:05 - Cue encore 2.
11:05-11:18 - Encore 2 followed by acknowledgments of dancers, band members, warmer-uppers, and the middle aged men milking the applause for as long as they possibly can.
11:19 - Exit E-Center while wondering when my hearing will return.
It was a rockin' good time, don't get me wrong, but I think I've discovered I don't really like big concerts like that. They're loud, long, filled with drunk people, and my ears ring for at least one entire day following the event. Nevertheless, being the "B" in NKOTB was pretty much the best moment of my week.
2 comments:
I saw a NKOTB music video at the gym yesterday, and I think I caught onto the idea of the producers: "Okay, there may be some middle aged women who want to relive their crushes on the band. But how are we going to get any guys to actually sit through an entire, poorly written song? Wait! I have it! Bikinis! Boobs! Cram as many of them into the video as possible. We're gold."
I think it's hilarious that David Archuletta went to NKOTB, how fitting!
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