I'm mentally too tired to think of anythinig but simple thoughts right now. I was at the house this past weekend and I was tired. I was trying to think of some sort of topic to write about but just couldn't. Although I have been constantly reminded of the guys. I have some possibly exciting news about this club but I"m not going to say anything because I don't want to jinx it! It isn't one of those freebies unfortunately but it is going to be something you haven't seen on any other site, club, before. I'm only excited because it involves a couple of friends I lost touch of and one or a few of them might be involved in what might be a fun feature on this club exclusively!
It was SO hot these past couple of days. I'm sweltering in 70 something weather...don't laugh lol. All I needed to get by was a lot water, some fatty foods, my summer reading book, and a stack of Beach Boys, All-4-One, and Boyz II Men CDs (the boy bands firsts). I got a bit distracted by things reading like watching Passions, wanting to go online, and breaking out singing "Kokomo," "I Swear," and "End of the Road." I get bored reading easily. When I'm bored on a normal basis I try not to go online and instead I'll lock myself in my room and try to work out all of my boredness by tiring myself out by singing and dancing in front of my mirror or making a phone call to my older cousin Jenn so we can talk and speak the dialogue of Friends for an hour and half. Jenn and Trav are the only first cousins I have that I have never had a fight with (except for physical fight since Travis liked wrestling and thought it would be fun to see me squirm) and actually have a tolerance for. After making up a dance routine and singing to it or talking to Jenn I'm normally okay.
Jenn and I talked about our 4ths and both decided that mine was better. She lives in Concord so we don't get to hang out as much as we want to but when you get the two of us together it's really funny. We've been best friends our whole lives and she was always a big sister and best friend at the same time for me. During our conversation she insinuated she wanted to see what the fuss is about regarding Towsend while we both know she's been dying to get out to an event. She's taking college courses this summer to get more units aside (unlike last year...a whole nother story). I told her that I'd take her to the next one that was here in the city and she was happy (she thinks Nick is "cute" while I really believe she thinks he's classified in her "babe" section).
After I talked to her I got on the headphones to listen to a CD that my friend made me and relax. All I wanted to do was catch up on things that I haven't been able been getting to do like look at pictures and write to Joe and Dan in South America. My friend made this CD for me when I he knew I was upset and sad so he labeled it the "Down Mix." One of the songs was "Not Ready 4 Goodbye" it's one of the best songs I've heard in forever. It's got the little ballads on it and the angry songs like "Just A Kid" by Simple Plan. There's one song he put on it by my one of my favoritest boy bands ever, and it's "I Swear" by All-4-One. It has absolutely nothing to do with being angry, sad or upset but it is the first video of a boyband I can ever remember seeing on MTV.
He also made an really cool mix that has all miscellaneous beats on it. The first song is "Pass You By" by Boyz II Men and right after it it's "Souther Hospitality" by Ludacris. He also put the lamest trance thing on it that I've ever heard in my entire life. There's 2 songs on it that remind me of the guys, "Heaven Sent" and "Beautiful As U." Heaven Sent is about someone wishing for an angel and how they feel so lucky to have gotten to be able to look into someones eyes and know that although the world is crazy that things are going to be okay. The refrain goes "Heaven sent an angel to me/ I'm in paradise when i look in your eyes/ at a time when my heart couldn't see/ thank God sent me an angel to me." And the song Beautiful is about meeting someone and knowing that this person is one of those "one in a million." It's about how this person thinks he's seen everything until meeting someone so special and then making life so surreal that it's hard to believe that something that was in his head is in his life. It goes something like, "From the moment i saw you/ from the moment i looked into your eyes/ there was something about you/ i knew/ i knew/ that you were one in a lifetime a treasure impossible to find/ and i know how lucky i am to have you..." I have officially made a few songs on that CD on my list of the perfect wedding CD. You know what I mean...the fairy tale songs that make you all happy over Mr. Perfect...yeah that one.
But anyways yeah a lot of the songs were from the chronicles of All-4-One. Like I said before, their video "I Swear" is the first video I can remember ever seeing on MTV. I vaguely remember it. It was such a simple video compared to what's on MTV now...and on top of that, everyone remained fully clothed in it too. They were all after one girl and they wanted to find her and she ended up getting on a bus and that was the end of the video. There was no pyro, no genius concept to it, no homies, no bikini clad women, and since they were the Genesis of boy bands....no dance sequence!!! (That's right little ones...there was once a time where boys didn't have coreography...just sideways baseball caps and neon colored clothing with big hair...that's what sold the records.) I wish there was some place I can send all of you to see the video. I think the first dance video I ever saw was "I Wanna Dance With You" by Whitney Huston... (and kids, she had even BIGGER hair back then). That was by far the coolest video ever. How many of you remember it? Oh come on, you've gotta. Whitney wondering the strangest hallway ever looking for someone to dance with.
I wonder what the finished product of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is going to look like. I've heard the concept and heard about who's going to be in it but i still don't know. I understand what they want to do but it's hard for me to formulate in my head the whole thing materializing. They're supposed to wrap by the 27th and then after that Dom has to lay off that knee. I know that the guys plan to premiere it on MTV's TRL. For me, I'm going to back into memory and realize that things have changed since chasing after girls in buses and Whitney wondering down a hall in a mini and leather high heels with a bow tied to the side of her head. I've re-run what I personally think the video's going to look like. When I get bored I do that while laying in bed. I'll take some random song without a video and put together some clever little concept in my head for a video. I think I've been bored enough since March and I've come up with a concept for EVERY song on the Townsend EP. What are they? haha I won't say. Okay well maybe I will someday.
I don't know if there was ever a video for Def Leppard's version of PSSOM. Maybe I'll look around for it. Neither of my parents can remember if there was one for it so I'm going to have to look around. I wonder how Def Leppard would do it if they had to do the video. In my head the beginning of the video is one of those talking sequences with all 5 of the guys in this dope Escalade laughing and talking about something normal for guys like last Friday night or something (haha did I juse use the words "dope" and "guys" in the same sentence with "Escalade"? lol) pulling up at a stoplight at these railroad tracks (i don't know why I'm thinking railroad tracks) when these girls (like their dancers) pull up in a convertable next to them and catches their guys attention and then go full gas ahead and the stop light goes green and the guys chase after them and they drive into the video full of dance sequences, hot clips, and cameos by familiar faces. No neon hallways, no girls on buses, and I'm sure that the only one in high heels and minis will be the girls...I hope...haha.
My whole concept would probably cost a lot of money though. I'm talking pyro, on location filming in Florida and/or Cancun, hot clothing, expensive cars, big open land, a private jet, some green screen work, and the works. The most expensive exursion of filming this video? Flying ALL of the Townsend fans to the location to be in the video. The video would also require a lot of acting on the guys' part. This means that they would have to act like the sex symbols they are deep deep down inside. But I have a feeling it would come naturally. It would also require acting on our part. This means we'd actually have to pretend we like them...haha just kidding. I'm thinking in my head that all the fans run to the stage and pretend to go crazy...no wait...that's been done...nevermind. Then the fans would have to do something like the Backstreet Boys' Sears commercial where they chase after the guys. Both parties would get a work out and on top of that in my version of the video the guys would have to run in disguises to their dance sequence.
What would YOU disguise the guys in if you could pick one? I think I'd put one of them in a dress just to have a good laugh. But when I brought this conversation up with my friend she said that she would vote the video on TRL if the guys were wearing like animal costumes like those giant chicken costumes that people rent to pass out flyers at that chicken place. Haha can you imagine them dressed up as animals? I think it would be cool to see Matt in one of those gorilla costumes, Nick would look cool in the lobster costume, Todd would definetly have to be a bear, Dom would be funny in the chicken one, and Rye would look good as some sort of reptile like a dinosaur or something. Haha I wonder how much begging, pleading, and money it would take to get them in costumes and running from all of us...just a thought.
I don't know, part of me is in denial accepting the fact that the guys are actually filming a video! When did this happen? Well, we all knew it was coming but geez! Seems like yesterday there was a ticket crisis...but that was many moons ago. In fact I've been in denial for a long time, when they told me they were going to have their first performance in Sac i said "cool." They did it and i neglected to inform myself even though i informed probably the whole world that they were becoming famous. Then they did some meet 'n greets and went through enough trials and tribulations for a the teenager's generation of the world put together...and I still thought that they were just a couple of cool guys with some interest in music. Then I saw their name in a newspaper...cool, that's really cool. Then, then they decide to do some music video that's going to air on MTV's very own hit TRL...okay...whoa. I must admit...whoa. MTV? When and where in God's holy name did this EVER happen? Geez I don't know if I weren't in denial I'd realize that this is about 2 years in the making.
For so long I've been daydreaming of a day that for some reason never seemed to have come, never seemed to quite catch on. But if I really thought about it...it did, it did and i kept saying it did but it never sunk in enough for me to realize it. If I had a nickle for everytime that I shut out of my mind that the guys were achieving celebrity status...and really let it sink in...I'd have about twenty bucks in my pocket and a new corvette.
The guys' new video is going to break that "new band" ground. All new bands have at max probably one big cameo on average. Why? It's one of the 10 commandments of a boy band. Too bad the guys aren't you're average quote "boy band." Another thing that people won't expect, high support. For about a week now I've been reciving emails on the "rude fan" topic. What's done is done, cry us a river, build us a bridge so we can get over it. I know it seems highly unsensitive to the subject but I think if we stew in this any longer not only will I explode but I'm going to run out of room in the email INBox. I'm not going to play hero here and use this chance to get up on a soap box and preach to you my feelings on it since Holly and I have burnt out the topic on casual talking alone. But really if you came to a party I threw and I punched you hard as heck on your arm, would you let me get away with it and not hold a grudge because it was my party? That's what I thought.
The guys have always been an asset to us, the fans have always stepped up so now it's our turn to be an asset to them on MTV. There's no doubt in my mind that seeing them on MTV will be a huge success, regardless of whether or not I directed the video...haha.
Stay Safe & Stay You
Love Always,
Kristen
Townsendette_Kristen@yahoo.com
xoxoxo