Bon Jovi: March 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

I'm going to...

GIANTS!!!!!!

OMFG yes, I'm serious. My parents know how to surprise the HELL out of me sometimes -- for my 21st birthday today, they presented me with a ticket voucher to get to any of the Giants shows I want in May. And my boyfriend comped my flight.

Needless to say, I was THRILLED. It involved a whole lot of staring, screaming, crying, screaming again, crying again, and then a general sense of shock that lasted the whole day. LOL. I still cannot believe I'm going. This is a dream come true, and I cannot possibly explain how happy I am or how much it means to me.

AND, my uncle gave me a giftcard for $400 to be used toward the ticket/flight (since he didn't know my parents and boyfriend already had it covered!), soooo I am looking into buying a ticket to another night as well (gotta make the most out of a free trip to New York!) So if anyone has any extra tickets to the 29th and/or any other nights, let me know!!

As for the rest of my birthday, thank you to everyone who made it special. Your comments meant so much to me (my phone was flooded today with messages and notes, thank you!) and I truly appreciate the kind words. After the shock and excitement of finding out I was going to Giants, my boyfriend and I drove back up to my university in LA because I had to take a midterm exam, and we were going to meet my mom and her best friend (who were in LA for the day coincidentally) for dinner at Red Robin.

We met them there around 7pm as planned, had talked on the phone and kept in contact about where each other was, everything...then when we got there, the waitress took us to our table...and my three best friends were sitting there waiting for me.

OMG.

I stopped dead in my tracks and wore, for the 2nd time today, the shocked and stupid look of someone who had just been surprised again, and proceeded to cry...again. LOL it was SUCH a wonderful surprise, as I haven't seen two of them since Christmas! (They all go to different universities.) I was absolutely, completely shocked, and it was a wonderful dinner with all of us; especially since I had my first strawberry daiquiri. ;)

All in all, a beautiful birthday...and the celebrating isn't over. Friday is a big dinner party with tons of family, and then on Saturday my boyfriend is taking me to VEGAS to properly ring in my 21st. I'm having soooo much fun!

Anyway, just had to thank you all and explain a bit about where I'll be the next week or so, in case I'm behind on posts.

And I'll see some of you at Giants!! ;)

Washington, D.C. set list

Here's the set list from D.C. March 29 -- Romeo Bongiovi's 6th birthday! (Yes, he was in attendance, as per Jon.)

Happy Now (pro shot)
We Weren't Born to Follow
Bad Name
Whole Lotta Leavin'
Born to Be My Baby
Lost Highway
When We Were Beautiful
Superman Tonight
We Got It Going On
Bad Medicine/Roadhouse Blues
It's My Life
Lay Your Hands On Me (Richie vox)
Hallelujah
I'll Be There For You
Something for the Pain
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
Keep the Faith
Work for the Working Man
Who Says You Can't Go Home
Love's the Only Rule
Runaway
Wanted Dead or Alive
Living on a Prayer

Giving love a bad name: Bon Jovi fan fined for blasting out band's tracks 'to help cope with divorce'

A heartbroken householder made her neighbours' lives a misery by constantly blasting out Bon Jovi songs during her divorce.

Amanda Durkin, 35, claimed playing tracks including Livin' On A Prayer and Bad Medicine helped her cope with the break-up of her marriage.

Ms Durkin played the tracks from 11pm until the early hours of the morning for six months.

Her stressed-out neighbours eventually installed recording equipment to monitor the noise levels.

Hull Magistrates' Court heard that complaints first began last year on April 14th after Ms Durkin's husband left her.

Council chiefs tried to tackle the noise nuisance by seizing her stereo system twice, issuing fines and eventually re-homing Ms Durkin.

Prosecutor Vincent Blake Barnard said: 'This is a noise nuisance issue over quite a period of time.

'Recordings were obtained and confirmed there was a nuisance by music being played in the early hours.

'We seized equipment from the premises and it was thought that would resolve the problem, but shortly after that there were further complaints.

'She was interviewed under caution and confirmed that she had received all of the warnings, but, due to personal problems in her life, chose to ignore them.

'The council attempted to resolve it, but to no avail and it has been brought to court.'

One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: 'It got worse when her partner left her, and became intolerable. We complained because the noise was making our lives a misery.

'The booming music made it impossible to sleep. We were getting to our wit's end with the noise.'

Speaking at her new address,Ms Durkin said she was 'going through a divorce', adding: 'I didn't know what I was doing.'

Despite a summons being issued, she failed to attend the hearing.

Kenneth Richardson, chair of the magistrates bench, ordered that all her stereo equipment should be confiscated.