OK. So admittedly the NYPL card wasn’t the highlight of my weekend. I know…what could be better?
Well, how about a free Bon Jovi concert in Central Park? Yep…I got to see one of the hair-bangers from my childhood perform on the Great Lawn Saturday night.
Now…I’m a huge Bon Jovi fan. I dished out way more money than nothing to see the guys perform at the Staples Center in LA. Oddly enough, two of my fellow concert companions weren’t quite as big of fans of good 90s bands as I was (one admitted to wikipedia-ing the group before the concert).
Still…we all had our own BJ memories from childhood (and college…and adulthood). I mean, who doesn’t? Even an Eastern European dude I dated a few years ago used to rock out to them.
And who hasn’t windmilled a tennis racket or air guitar to “Blaze of Glory”?
And when one of the group’s ballads pumped across the sea of 60,000 concert-goers, I’m sure many other US-raised peeps my age were smacked with memories similar to mine — at the first middle school dance, doing the stiff two-armed sway as both kids quietly sing the song under their breath because they’re so nervous about being thisclose to someone of the opposite sex.
Yep…pretty crazy how a few songs can take you back so quickly.
But just out of curiosity…
OK…can I just say that for the number of people who have viewed this blog since the poll was posted, four votes is a very sad number of voters? I think there must be many more of y’all who aren’t owning up to some air guitar antics…