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rays of light eminating from his head...
cincinnati, oh 8.25.01

sorry kevin fans, but he needs to die... the man GAVE nick a towel which nick then proceeded to WEAR OVER HIS HEAD for the next five minutes as he did his bit introducing band members.

of course, maybe this is good, because otherwise we might not have been able to contain ourselves as that boy is so frickin' hot! *sigh*

first of all, they did not do Drowning. nor did they even talk about it. i am starting to believe the song doesn't actually exist but a figment of our collective imaginations. brian did ask if we wanted a new cd after he did his
little speech about whether we all have all their cds or not. damn, they had a month and half off to figure out new between song banter. we have determined that nick is the best at his little solo segment but that's just because he's not smart enough to prepare ahead of time, so he just talks out of his ass every time. i like that, he has a cute ass.

(warning, it is 2am and we are loopy! take everything contained herein with a grain of salt. sea salt. like that which sea grass grows in. lol!)

nick used the phrase 'stipulation in the contract' correctly. and he looked oh- so proud of himself, too! yes, we love him toooooooooo muuuuuuuuuch!

did i mention he was hot? and tan. and the earrings are GOOD. they pick up the rays of light emiting from his beautiful head. ;-)

what else? hmmm.... aj has not gained any weight. sorry, he's skinny and looks like he hasn't been working out much. i mean, don't get me wrong, he's still hot as ***k. *sigh sigh* biggest scream of the night was when he took his shirt off - during the call, not GAB. ????

i think the roadie who runs the hydrolic lift at the beginning needs to be fired. not only did howie get stuck 1/2 way up in the beginning of Everyone, but then both howie and kevin got stuck coming down. howie was too darn cute jumping up and down on his platform trying to 'unstick' it. i thought nick wasn't going to be able to sing, he was trying so hard not to laugh at them. ;-)

during aj's speech he thanked everyone for their support and said today he'd been 52 days sober. now, i have a question about this. NOT that i'm not really proud of him for being sober, that's a given... but by my recollection, fans saw the man drinking in boston and in philadelphia. if you look at a calendar, isn't it 49 days from 7/8 to 8/25??? of course, we don't know everything, and this must mean that he stopped drinking BEFORE leaving the tour. hmmm... another piece of that weekend puzzle?

back to amusing things... during 'yes i will' nick (have i mentioned he's CUTE?!?!?!?) threw up his sparkly cane (which, yes, does capture the light eminating from his head very well, too.... there is a theme in tonight's review!) but was not able to actually CATCH it on the way down. what a dork! it kind of richocheted off his fingers and i don't know where it went from there because i was looking at him through binoculars (yes, we were in the 13th row
and still using binoculars... yes, we're obsessed, wanna make something of it?). i did see this complete 'oh shit!' look cross his face, but then he had his big part and then had to kinda mime the cane thing through to the end. it
was so cute. and howie kept laughing at him.

speaking of nick and howie (great hair on howie, btw!!! i like it short and i'm not a howie fan!). during the medley thingie when they all sit together in the blue suits (sorry those damn ballads run together after a while!). nick and
howie were making fun of the beginning of whatever the first song is by playing 'air flute' and 'air violin', kevin turned around and gave them such an evil eye. of course, nick gives him the cutest faux innocent expression, all
wide-eyed and cute, like 'who me? dad, i didn't anything wrong, it was all howie. you know you still love me. how can you not love me, i have rays of light eminating from my head. sheri and e.beth say so!' lol! oh! and then aj
turns to nick, pats him on the knee and tells him to 'cool it.' ooooooohhhhh chastised by aj! that never happens!

of course, we were right under the walkway and they spent most of 'time' right over our heads COVERED in silly string. (in fact, when kevin was sitting on the back stage, the fans ATTACKED him with silly string. ohhhh.... not a good move, folks! he did take it better from them than he would have from... hmmm... say, nick!) aj got TWO zebra striped hats - one a cowboy hat and one a hat that e.beth bought at target last season, oddly enough! he wore that one for a couple of songs (we didn't give it to him, btw). we had NOTHING to throw, not thinking we'd be close enough. teach us to think that way. from now on, the huge bag comes with - camera, much film, fugly shirts, silly string and stuffed animals to lure the blond one to us.... (or do you think that oreos would work better?)

on that note, i think that's the highlights. no songs have been changed. no dances have been changed. no costumes have been changed (oh, except nick wears a white sleeveless shirt for TATOL and SS - sleeveless shirts are a good thing!).

good night...

the obsession begins... Philadelphia, PA (07.03.01) Hotel

concert reviews... Cincinnati, OH (08.25.01)
East Rutherford, NJ (09.06.01) |East Rutherford, NJ (09.07.01)
Las Vegas (10.19.01)

misc. sightings... Nick at MTV Rock&Jock Game (02.08.02)
Nick in NYC (08.16.02)

updated: 08.17.02

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