nice girls finish last too!

Goosebumps I tell you!
Took these from my seat. That's Jordan up front... very cute.

Some of the girls that went with me. Corina and Stefanie.
corina took this pic. she had seperate seats on the floor and they moved mid floor in the middle of the concert for 3 songs. I didn't take too many pics cause my camera doesn't do well in the dark and it doesn't zoom in well either. My videos on the other hand are so freaking awesome! That is until my memory card filled up and I couldn't take anymore.
stage is behind me but they had some fog machine going so you can't see it.

I did not win my contest. Nope. Some girl who posted 20 comments won. I posted 500+ comments and I lost. I was robbed. Really just fucked in the goat ass robbed. That's how I felt. I waited until 4:30 in the afternoon the day of the concert only to hear some girl named Jennifer take my prize from me. I went in to the arena pretty bummed but by the time New Kids hit the stage I was over it and so excited. They put on a terrific show. I sang along to all the songs and danced and felt like I was a preteen again. I got goosebumps when they came out. I couldn't stop screaming! There was a super creep behind me with his mom or maybe it was his wife. I don't know but he was the oldest guy there who didn't bring his daughter and knew all the lyrics even better than I did and every chance he got he'd scream out "yeah, you guys rock, yeah, you're so awesome!" Kinda scary but he was just there the same reason the rest of us 20,000 girls were so I can't really fault him. We tried our best to get backstage after teh concert but the security were very uncaring and unimpressed with our pleas and in the end escorted us out of the arena.

The next day I told everyone and they all agreed that I got royally screwed out of what will probably be my only opportunity to meet NKOTB. My dear friend Kristian actually emailed the DJ, Chino, at the radio station:

Hi Chino....

I have a friend that busted her butt posting on your blog for the chance to see the New Kids backstage....She clearly had a majority of posts...but it looks like you chose from your page rather from the actual posts to your blog? Maybe this was an oversight She emailed you prior asking for clarification and you said to keep doing what she was doing....and she did....and someone else won.

Do you think you could do some secondary kind of NICE thing by possibly just calling her before the show and mentioning her effort? I would mean the world to her since she is still going to the concert but isn't going to be able to see them back stage.

Nothing came of it so he wrote Chino again:

Hey...I just want you to know that just a few extra minutes of your day could have made a huge difference in someone's life.

Friends of Joana's, along with me, went back to your blog. The "winner" had 20 some posts....Joana had over 500 posts. We can't figure out the rules and how the 'winner' won...but please, if you would, call her just to acknowledge all her work on your blog. If you look, you would have had relatively few posts and energy spent on it at all if it weren't for her.

Yea, it may all seem very juvenile, but what would it hurt to give her some credit as well as making a faithful listener just a little bit happy?

That apparently did the trick because Chino actually did call me and said "wow, you have some pretty great friends chewing me out over here." I told him that I did not put Kris up to it and he said he was sorry that I wasn't chosen the winner but that it wasn't about quantity and that it was completely random and he wasn't even involved in the picking of the winner. Seems silly to me to put your name on it and not pick the winner but I guess it's just a job to him and he does what he's told. My name is on a bunch of shit at work that I don't necessarily endorse or care about so I assume it's the same thing for Chino. He promised me that if I went in and posted a comment on the new blog I would for sure be the winner for the 8x10 autographed photo of the entire group. I did and he did. He called me and put me on the radio and eveything. He posted me as teh official winner on his web page and everything. See far left and also top center of the page.

The next day I drove my happy ass down to the radio station and the receptionist couldn't find my photograph. Lucky for me Chino was just showing up for work and walked by. Corina got his attention and he came over and I thanked him. He knew where my photo was and he handed it over to me personally. He apologized again and was very nice about the whole thing.

It was a silly contest but I took it very seriously. I don't normally care about celebrities like I do in this case. They were a huge part of my adolescence. My first concert. They were everything to me when I was 12 and now they making another impact on my quiet little life again.

confessions of a NKOTB fanatic

This is only a tiny sampling of what I had.


my 7th grade year book photo. had to represent! I loved Joe.

That's New Kids on the Block to you. Just my favorite band and obsession from my early teen years, that's all. Heading in to the 90's this country was hungry for a break from big hair and giant shoulder pads and a group of 5 young singers would come to show us relief. Truly I don't think I was ever so obessessed with anything as I was with NKOTB. I owned tons of merchandise and video taped every appearance they made, which in those days actually had to be done by hand, in real time, gasp. My friends and I were boy crazy and loved cheesy bubble gum pop music. It was a good time to be alive. They disbanded in 1994 or so and by that time I had moved on to alternative music and grunge clothing as most of my cohorts had. In my heart they remained but in secret. Many reunions were rumored but never amounted to much until this last April. They came together again and released a new album and are coming to my hometown tomorrow for a show. I bought my tickets the minute they went on sale. I bought 4 tickets and tomorrow night we are going to be blockheads again. I don't really talk to most of my old friends from back in my youth but one of the girls is coming with me. Wendy and I recently started hanging out again and I am happy to be sharing this with her. I've known her since 5th grade. we lost touch late in high school and then Karin reintroduced us a few months ago and as soon as I told her I bought a ticket for her she flipped! We are so excited. So, the radio station is giving out tickets left adn right and they are also giving out passes to see them in the sound check for a meet and greet. HOLY COW, I need to meet New Kids! clearly. I've never met a celebrity and in general don't really care about many of them. I mean not enough to want to meet them but NKOTB is a different story. They were there in my formative years. That doesn't go away. So the contest on KISS FM is to comment on one of the DJ's blogs about which new kid is the hottest and why. The each comment is a chance to win the sound check passes. Well hell, I can comment. So I did. told all the girls to also. Then I noticed several people left several comments and read a comment from teh DJ himself that said something like "I've got peopel watching this closely to see who really wants this the most" and bam boom that did it for me. I started commenting over and over and over and over again. I have barely left my computer since Thursday night at 5. So far I have left over 400 comments out of 916 and there have been a few girls who have tried to go head to head with me. I have a strategy. The one girl who was my competition all day Friday all of sudden stopped posting. Then two other girls showed up and started posting but I never stopped. I posted up old pictures of me with all my old NKOTB stuff, new pictures of Chloe and other random stuff. I wrote poems, songs, haikus etc. BAsically whatever came to my mind I commented about it. I even made up a brother who antagonized me and I would retaliate against him in funny ways. Most of what I said was true. Old memories of the first NKOTB concert I went to in 1991. These other amateurs were cutting and pasting from other sites. No originality, no heart. Although I started posting pics from google I always put in a cute saying or thought to go with them. When I couldn't post comment I had the girls login and post for me. My eyes hurt. my fingers are absolute jello. my neck and lower back ache. I hope I win. Now nothing is guaranteed. But I am hopeful that I am the very clear winner in wanting it the most. Either way I'm going to the show but damn I'd love to meet them in person. Keep your fingers crossed for me!