I need a waffle! (-Joe Jonas)

Yesterday, November 14th, the Jonas Brothers performed in Antwerp. I was there, and I was just blown away.

The concert was nowhere near to sold out, but the lower area was pretty much filled up. According to the news, 15.000 tickets were sold. We (my best friend and I) had balcony-‘seats’, and when JB was about to start, someone from security came to tell us we could go sit down because there were so many empty seats.

The opening act, Valerius, was pretty good. They’re originally from Holland, and I was a bit disappointed that there wasn’t a band from Belgium performing. The crowd got really excited, and screamed every time the boys from Valerius mentioned the Jonas Brothers. It was pretty funny: Jonas Brothers – Scream. Blablablabla Jonas Brothers – Scream.

When the opening act closed up, and the crew got on stage to prepare everything for the JB, things got pretty hilarious. The JB logo appeared – Scream. Jack started testing his drums – Scream. The lights changed colours – Scream.
It was awesome – and quite deafening. I think my ears are now permanently damaged. Hearing aid in 40 years instead of 50. Thanks for that.

All of a sudden, Bounce starts playing. Images of Joe and Nick in their outfits come to mind, and I start giggling incontrollably. After Bounce, We Will Rock You starts playing, and I think the Jonas Brothers came out during that song. Or Bounce. Can’t remember clearly.
It was quite the anti-climax though. The lights didn’t even fade, music didn’t stop playing and the guys just walked from backstage to the stage and disappeared there.
I was expecting some dramatic entrance, but alright :)

Okay, so the band starts playing, and then the boys appear and play Paranoid. THEY WERE AWESOME. They looked so happy to be performing, and you could see they were really enjoying themselves. Great thing to see!

Joe was acting silly all night. He was involved in a teddy-bear war with Ryan (keyboard), he took over someone’s camera during Video Girl, he changed the lyrics to Gotta Find You (I need a WAFFLE).

The crowd was so incredibly LOUD. (my friend was wearing ear-plugs. No joke) They sang all the lyrics, danced to all the songs. It was amazing.
During ALBL, some of the girls in the crowd put up the Diabetes-logo (blue circle) and they were filmed and put up on screen for a bit.
Surprisingly, Nick didn’t change his speech to World Diabetes Day, but it was moving none the less.

My best friend (who’s not a JB fan, but can appreciate their music) actually said that with his way with words, Nick could run for president. Earned a chuckle out of me :)

(Also, I’m watching Aladdin now, and it’s a pretty scandalous movie. I mean, Yasmine and he totally kissed on the first date!…Alright, sorry, back to the matter at hand)

Let’s talk about the band, shall we. Garbo was looking F.I.N.E. And he seemed to be having a great time too, he walked around on stage a lot, joked with the boys. Awesome.
Ryan was, as I mentioned before, involved in a teddy-bear-war with Joe, which was pretty entertaining. :D I couldn’t really see him, because he was at the other side of the stage.
John was rocking out on the guitar. Guy has skills, let me tell ya. He was goofing off with the boys too, pretty funny.
I couldn’t really see Jack, since he was rocking the drums all the time.

Christa and Caroline are my new favorite people. No joke. Several reasons for that:
- They have mad skills.
- They looked absolutely gorgeous.
- Christa liked her waffles straight up (Joe asked everybody how they liked their waffles)
(I’m up to the part where Jafar has turned into a snake. Thrilling stuff)
- They danced so much, and interacted with the crowd so much. They’re awesome.

And the HORNS!!! They’ve got dancing skills!! :D They add so much to the music, it’s amazing!

I’m going over the concert in my mind, and I don’t think I missed something. The concert was AMAZING! I think they blew a lot of people’s minds with their skills and live music.

The other concert I went to was Britney’s, and while that was amazing as well, I totally prefer the JB. They sang live, they connected with the fans a hellovalot more then Britney did and while the show aspect wasn’t up to par with Britney’s, it didn’t bother me one bit.

Concerts should be about the music, and the live performances. Not about the dancing and the show around it.

I had a lot of expectations about the Jonas Brothers show, and boy, did they live up to it!!!

The teacher in me is taking over, and if I would have to grade this it would definitely be…

A+ – with a pat on the shoulder of the teacher.

Also, I still believe Garbo was totally flirting with me. If Fia is reading this: the boy is mine. ;-)
Okay, he couldn’t see me. SO WHAT?!? Details, woman.

Okay, off to watch the end of Alladdin. Sigh. Memories. :)

LOVE YA! :)

Jack of Hearts

I don’t do dates. Never.

They’re awkward. There are too many expectations and they never turn out the way you want them to.

Yet, last week, I found myself on a date.
I know. How the heck did this happen?

Well, my best friend thinks that I have 5 ‘secret admirers’. I don’t, I promise. I would know about this, right.
Anyway, so she claims that I do. And when she listed these guys (with me interrupting her with every protest known to man-kind), she listed Date-boy.

Let’s call him Jack. Because his name isn’t Jack.

So, Jack, whose name isn’t really Jack, is a guy I met in college. He studies in a different city then I do, but we study at the same ‘institution’, so to speak. We’re both in the Student Body Council at our school (see last blog) and we met at one of those meetings.

We immediately connected. Our personalities are pretty much alike. Both very outgoing, same kind of humor,…

When we met again later that week, at a party, Jack was a tad bit flirty with me. I didn’t notice (I never notice these kinds of things, but hey) but my friend told me when we were driving home.

ANYWAY…When I told my best friend about this, she immediately added him to the list of secret admirers (that are not really admirers, keep up!) and went onto Facebook to see a picture of him. She immediately gushed about how cute he was, and that he looked like Keane or something…

The next week, she kept talking to me about Jack, gushing how great it would be if we would go out, stuff like that.

So I decided to give it a go. Not because I liked the guy (at least not in the necessary way to go out) but because I liked the idea of going out. Having a relationship. Being in love.

And we had a good time. It was still slightly awkward, but I did enjoy myself. But when I came home, I didn’t feel the butterflies I thought I would be feeling.

In no way am I saying that this is somehow the fault of my best friend. She’s looking out for me, even when she’s seeing admirers that aren’t really there.

I fell in love with the idea of a boyfriend. Not Jack. And I kind of feel horrible about that. I mean, it seems so shallow, you know?

So, I told him about all of this. Not exactly me wanting a boyfriend desperately (a bit too embarrassing, don’t ya think?) but about me wanting to be absolutely sure about something before throwing myself in there. Which I do. It’s not a lie, it’s a part of the problem here. I’ve had too many relationships where I wanted to give the guy a chance and then get disappointed in the end.
I’m done with those.

So, that’s something that I had to get off my chest. :D

(Oh, and I had the idea for the title from Becks. Or Bexhs. Seemed perfect for this entry.)

Love you!