I Suck At The New Kids Concert

last night, i am almost embarrassed to say... was fun.

for those who are not aware, the late 80s/early 90s boy band known as the new kids on the block are back together after fifteen years. they had a concert this weekend at the "gahden". it's too bad i suck at the new kids concert.

growing up, i was never a new kids fan. unfortunately, my better half (karen) was. karen remembers seeing them play at a club before they were even famous. so needless to say, when news about the new kids returning for a concert came up months ago, karen wanted to go. she thought it would be fun to get a bunch of friends together and attend the concert... to at least see if these grown men could pull off those high notes now.

anyway, my friends (carlos and hot amy) had worked together to get enough tickets for our group of friends to attend. karen was so excited back then. my favorite sister-in-law (janine), who was also going to attend with us, even came up with an awesome idea to create a t-shirt for karen that said "new kid on the block" with an arrow pointing down to karen's stomach. obviously, that was before my son (braden) was born extremely premature. his original due date was january 2, 2009.

it's too bad braden couldn't have attended the concert because he probably would have liked it. after all, what's not to like at a concert entirely full of screaming women... and me and carlos.

with braden's birth, life, and passing, karen and i had debated on whether we should still attend the new kids concert yesterday. after all, braden's passing is still fairly recent and we weren't sure if we would physically and mentally be okay to attend. truth be told, i actually almost broke down in tears when carlos praised me for being strong with everything that has happened with braden... which would have been amusing for other people i'm sure... to see the only two men at the new kids concert at the concession stand, with one of them sobbing uncontrollably.

anyway, karen and i obviously decided to go to the concert and have some fun... and it was fun. in addition to carlos and janine, my bff (kerry), and my friends (jen and hot amy) went. hot amy's boyfriend also attended, although i'm not so sure he even knew who the new kids were because he was like 5 or something when they first came out... which i suppose doesn't matter because hot amy doesn't really know who the new kids are either... unless of course that was due to the three martinis she had at dinner at the green dragon. (by the way, i finally tried the green dragon brew... not exactly what i imagined it would taste like.)

as it turned out, my friends (aimee and angela) also were in the audience that night too. they had better seats than us (we were in the nosebleeds). it was cool because i got to wave down to aimee and angela below. for anyone curious, aimee waved back. it probably wasn't too hard for her to find me as i was one of the only guys at the concert.

(because i didn't bring my camera to the concert as karen was against it... the video below is a new kids cartoon.)


all in all, it was a fun time and i'm glad karen and i decided to attend the new kids concert and spend the night with friends. and as sad as this is going to sound... with the new kids performance, i might even be a fan now... love that "twisted" song! but yeah, it was good to be with everyone.