Anyway, today is the long-awaited release date for the 2 In The Morning video.
Enjoy!
Monday, February 23, 2009
G'Morning, Campers!
Name that song...
Anyway, today is the long-awaited release date for the 2 In The Morning video.
Enjoy!
Anyway, today is the long-awaited release date for the 2 In The Morning video.
Enjoy!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
"Just go to www.ProjectNKOTB.com"
Monday, February 16, 2009
We Are Narcissists
Are you on Facebook? We are. But if we don't know you in "real life" we aren't going to friend you, so don't even bother asking. We do have an I Love Project NKOTB group though, so feel free to join us there!
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we figured that since we haven't written about much that pertains to Kim and Alexis these days (not that the poster flashbacks haven't been awesome), we'd entertain you with our own version of the 25 Random Things That People Might Not Know (or care to know) About Us.
1. Shockingly, we are not lifelong friends. We met on the internets in 2005. Who would have thunk that the crazy girl not currently planning a wedding, but who frequented a wedding planning website would become a BFF?
2. We have spent the last three Thanksgivings together, with our husbands and Alexis's kids. Kim rescued the two kids from a fire in '06, Alexis broke her butt in '07, and nothing tragic happened this past year. Kim thought she was going to go to Fargo for Thanksgiving this year, but Alexis tricked her into having Thanksgiving with her by planning the Los Angeles trip...
3 In 2007, we spent several major holidays together, or at least parts of those days. New Year's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween (? - did we?), Thanksgiving, as well as both of our birthdays.
4. We have several posses. One of our posses is called the Secret Society of Darksider Pirate Hookers. It's a long story.
5. For a couple of weeks in late 2008, we had similar - but not matching - knee injuries.
6. We secretly like the attention we get when we wear matching outfits, although we would never admit it.
7. There was a period of time in the summer of '08 when we didn't go more than 36 hours without seeing each other.
8. Kim is not very good at math. Neither is Alexis.
9. We were cut off at the bars in the Xcel Energy Center at the Justin Timberlake show in January 2007. The supervisor followed us from bar to bar to make sure that nobody served us. After the show, we managed to ring up an $85 tab at the bar across the street, while "waiting for our ride." Kim had the worst hangover of her life the next day, and it was just her luck that there was a water main break on her street, resulting in no water to her house. With a terrible hangover. Kim hasn't had that much vodka in one sitting since.
10. When Alexis announced her faux engagement to Joey McIntyre on Facebook in October 2008, several people actually believed it. Actually, several people still believe it.
11. Believe it or not, our entire fall '08 NKOTB tour only cost us $1,583 each. That covered the Mall of America day as well as eight full concerts, seven of which were out of state. We are awesome at shopping frugally!
12. We just spent $2 on pull tabs and we didn't win. Damn.
13. If Google Ads hadn't screwed us, we could have claimed a lot of our "business expenses" on our taxes.
14. We do enjoy music that isn't the New Kids. We are currently holding tickets for several upcoming shows: Britney Spears, Lady GaGa, Lily Allen, and Flight of the Conchords. Our musical tastes do range outside of Top 40 Pop music though. Seriously. We promise.
15. Jason and Drew don't really miss us when we're gone on tour. We mean that in the best possible way.
16. We taught Baby Barbie how to say "Holla!" when she was barely a year old.
17. We both list Titanic in our list of Top Ten Favorite Movies of All Time.
18. The Barbie thing started last summer, when we thought we were going to be able to write our blog anonymously. Anonymity went out the window when we were recognized (with the dolls) at the Mall of America. Now we just think it's funny. How many people can say they have their own action figure?
19. We don't update our blog nearly as often as we think we should. However, we feel like posts should be meaningful. If we wanted to hear ourselves ramble on about nothing, we would just call each other. Besides, aren't the vintage posters great?
20. Being a Journalism major, Alexis finds it incredibly annoying when people change two words in a sentence [that we wrote] and think that's not plagiarizing.
New Kids Blogs are about CREATIVITY.
And CREATIVITY is not about stealing other people's original thoughts and exact phrasing,
It's about going to happy hour and using all of those advanced writing courses you took in high school and college...
You COPYCATS!
[If you haven't heard from us, we're not talking about you. But YOU... You know who you are. You can suck it.]
21. We're awesome. Just ask us, or just ask any other random person who approaches us when we're out in public. Perfect strangers feel the need to tell us their life stories. We're approachable, I guess.
22. The origins of the Shamrock's Pre-Party were less admirable than you might think. We were sitting around in Alexis's back yard, floating in the pool, discussing how we were going to get to and from the show. Rather than go the obvious route, a $10 cab ride (including tip), we decided that we needed to coerce our favorite neighborhood watering hole into running its shuttle that night. And what better excuse to get the Shamrock Shuttle running than a NKOTB pre-party?
23. We used to worry that we have alienated non-New Kids friends in our daily lives. We admit to still sometimes worrying about it a little bit. But we figure that if people want to hear about New Kids they'll read the blog. In real life, we only speak about the New Kids if spoken to.
24. We get really offended when our jukebox selections are not played immediately. We are even more offended when the songs that are playing include a country version of "The First Noel." And it's February. Also - We must have a death wish. We plugged the jukebox at an Eastside bar with New Kids songs during billiards night. It was followed by a lecture by a guy in overalls, who told us all about how the Best of Bread was one of the best "Parking" albums of the 1970s. Alexis thought he was talking about Bret Michaels. We are awesome (see #21).
25. As we were writing this at the Sherwood Lounge, a woman (Deb) approached us, wondering if we were writing a novel. Nope, no book deals yet. We're available for a reality show though! If Bromance can make it...
We'll leave you with a couple of shots that we took at the house that we rented last month with the Secret Society of Darksider Pirate Hookers. Were we meant to rent that house or what???!?
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we figured that since we haven't written about much that pertains to Kim and Alexis these days (not that the poster flashbacks haven't been awesome), we'd entertain you with our own version of the 25 Random Things That People Might Not Know (or care to know) About Us.
1. Shockingly, we are not lifelong friends. We met on the internets in 2005. Who would have thunk that the crazy girl not currently planning a wedding, but who frequented a wedding planning website would become a BFF?
2. We have spent the last three Thanksgivings together, with our husbands and Alexis's kids. Kim rescued the two kids from a fire in '06, Alexis broke her butt in '07, and nothing tragic happened this past year. Kim thought she was going to go to Fargo for Thanksgiving this year, but Alexis tricked her into having Thanksgiving with her by planning the Los Angeles trip...
3 In 2007, we spent several major holidays together, or at least parts of those days. New Year's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween (? - did we?), Thanksgiving, as well as both of our birthdays.
4. We have several posses. One of our posses is called the Secret Society of Darksider Pirate Hookers. It's a long story.
5. For a couple of weeks in late 2008, we had similar - but not matching - knee injuries.
6. We secretly like the attention we get when we wear matching outfits, although we would never admit it.
7. There was a period of time in the summer of '08 when we didn't go more than 36 hours without seeing each other.
8. Kim is not very good at math. Neither is Alexis.
9. We were cut off at the bars in the Xcel Energy Center at the Justin Timberlake show in January 2007. The supervisor followed us from bar to bar to make sure that nobody served us. After the show, we managed to ring up an $85 tab at the bar across the street, while "waiting for our ride." Kim had the worst hangover of her life the next day, and it was just her luck that there was a water main break on her street, resulting in no water to her house. With a terrible hangover. Kim hasn't had that much vodka in one sitting since.
10. When Alexis announced her faux engagement to Joey McIntyre on Facebook in October 2008, several people actually believed it. Actually, several people still believe it.
11. Believe it or not, our entire fall '08 NKOTB tour only cost us $1,583 each. That covered the Mall of America day as well as eight full concerts, seven of which were out of state. We are awesome at shopping frugally!
12. We just spent $2 on pull tabs and we didn't win. Damn.
13. If Google Ads hadn't screwed us, we could have claimed a lot of our "business expenses" on our taxes.
14. We do enjoy music that isn't the New Kids. We are currently holding tickets for several upcoming shows: Britney Spears, Lady GaGa, Lily Allen, and Flight of the Conchords. Our musical tastes do range outside of Top 40 Pop music though. Seriously. We promise.
15. Jason and Drew don't really miss us when we're gone on tour. We mean that in the best possible way.
16. We taught Baby Barbie how to say "Holla!" when she was barely a year old.
17. We both list Titanic in our list of Top Ten Favorite Movies of All Time.
18. The Barbie thing started last summer, when we thought we were going to be able to write our blog anonymously. Anonymity went out the window when we were recognized (with the dolls) at the Mall of America. Now we just think it's funny. How many people can say they have their own action figure?
19. We don't update our blog nearly as often as we think we should. However, we feel like posts should be meaningful. If we wanted to hear ourselves ramble on about nothing, we would just call each other. Besides, aren't the vintage posters great?
20. Being a Journalism major, Alexis finds it incredibly annoying when people change two words in a sentence [that we wrote] and think that's not plagiarizing.
New Kids Blogs are about CREATIVITY.
And CREATIVITY is not about stealing other people's original thoughts and exact phrasing,
It's about going to happy hour and using all of those advanced writing courses you took in high school and college...
You COPYCATS!
[If you haven't heard from us, we're not talking about you. But YOU... You know who you are. You can suck it.]
21. We're awesome. Just ask us, or just ask any other random person who approaches us when we're out in public. Perfect strangers feel the need to tell us their life stories. We're approachable, I guess.
22. The origins of the Shamrock's Pre-Party were less admirable than you might think. We were sitting around in Alexis's back yard, floating in the pool, discussing how we were going to get to and from the show. Rather than go the obvious route, a $10 cab ride (including tip), we decided that we needed to coerce our favorite neighborhood watering hole into running its shuttle that night. And what better excuse to get the Shamrock Shuttle running than a NKOTB pre-party?
23. We used to worry that we have alienated non-New Kids friends in our daily lives. We admit to still sometimes worrying about it a little bit. But we figure that if people want to hear about New Kids they'll read the blog. In real life, we only speak about the New Kids if spoken to.
24. We get really offended when our jukebox selections are not played immediately. We are even more offended when the songs that are playing include a country version of "The First Noel." And it's February. Also - We must have a death wish. We plugged the jukebox at an Eastside bar with New Kids songs during billiards night. It was followed by a lecture by a guy in overalls, who told us all about how the Best of Bread was one of the best "Parking" albums of the 1970s. Alexis thought he was talking about Bret Michaels. We are awesome (see #21).
25. As we were writing this at the Sherwood Lounge, a woman (Deb) approached us, wondering if we were writing a novel. Nope, no book deals yet. We're available for a reality show though! If Bromance can make it...
We'll leave you with a couple of shots that we took at the house that we rented last month with the Secret Society of Darksider Pirate Hookers. Were we meant to rent that house or what???!?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day!
We hope that you have a fantastic day. May you receive all of the flowers and chocolate that you could ever want. Unless of course you're not really into Valentine's Day. In that case, I hope you can appreciate this vintage video of Valentine Girl for its awesomely bad, in a boy band in the early 90s kind of way, wardrobe.
A hooded gold lame' shirt, combat boots, a bathrobe, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. overalls... It's classic New Kids.
Friday, February 13, 2009
TGIF (even if it is the 13th)
What a freaking week. Layoffs, plane crashes, husbands who buy themselves a 2nd row seat to Michael Franti & Spearhead but forgets that you wanted to go too...
This video is very old, and the subject matter is kind of disgusting (that's all I'll say on the matter), but watching these guys crack up kind of made my day.
I love laughter. There's not enough of it these days...
This video is very old, and the subject matter is kind of disgusting (that's all I'll say on the matter), but watching these guys crack up kind of made my day.
I love laughter. There's not enough of it these days...
Monday, February 9, 2009
The Night of a Thousand WTFs
Let's play a game where we try to imagine what in the world was going on with the wardrobe this day, shall we?
Saturday, February 7, 2009
The Best News of the Day!
We just realized that our route from the Twin Cities to Champaign, IL takes us right past the Home of the Beer Lube!
We are VERY excited about this new development. Maybe they'll be done manufacturing it by now!
We are VERY excited about this new development. Maybe they'll be done manufacturing it by now!
71 Days
It was just brought to our attention that it has been 71 days since we last Twittered, from the Las Vegas airport, on our way home from the San Diego and LA shows.
Has it really been that long? Sad.
To commemorate the occasion, we're having a mimosa party while buying tickets for Champaign, IL. Champagne for Champaign!
We ended up with A19, Row 10. It was hard to pull up good tickets for this show! I think we'll be a'aight though.
So the Project NKOTB mini-tour, Spring '09 will consist of Champaign and Des Moines. We will be a Party of Five, consisting of the two of us, our friend Amber, and our friends Tiff and Lisa. We're still trying to decide who gets to be Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Nobody wants to be Matthew Fox, since Jack is kind of a douche now.
Holla!
xoxo, Kim and Alexis (and Amber)
Has it really been that long? Sad.
To commemorate the occasion, we're having a mimosa party while buying tickets for Champaign, IL. Champagne for Champaign!
We ended up with A19, Row 10. It was hard to pull up good tickets for this show! I think we'll be a'aight though.
So the Project NKOTB mini-tour, Spring '09 will consist of Champaign and Des Moines. We will be a Party of Five, consisting of the two of us, our friend Amber, and our friends Tiff and Lisa. We're still trying to decide who gets to be Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Nobody wants to be Matthew Fox, since Jack is kind of a douche now.
Holla!
xoxo, Kim and Alexis (and Amber)
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Baby Daddy Bus, v.0.1
Did they all travel on the same bus back then? Or do you think they just got together for a slumber party / photo op?
Sunday, February 1, 2009
A New Recurring Feature
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Kim. She really, really liked the New Kids on the Block. She spent most of her babysitting money on teen magazines with strange names, like "Bop" and "Tutti Frutti" and "Teen Beat." Those magazines held inside of their pages bright, colorful posters of those aforementioned New Kids.
Kim decorated every inch of available space in her bedroom with the posters. When she ran out of room on the walls, she moved on to the ceiling. When they started falling off of the ceiling in the middle of the night scaring the crap out of her, she moved them onto the rec room walls. When she ran out of room on the rec room walls, she thought about the hallway and/or the bathroom, but she's pretty sure that never actually happened.
When the day came to finally take the posters down, Kim was unable to part with them, having spent hours upon hours gazing at them while playing Super Mario Brothers 2 with the sound off... while Hangin' Tough (and sometimes Blame it on the Rain and Forever Your Girl) played in the background.
She carefully removed the tape and poster putty from each one, and stored them all in 3-ring binders, for that day - someday - in the future, when they would again bring her hours of amusement.
And so now, seventeen years later, I'm about to share them with all of you.
Welcome to the first installment of what will hopefully be a recurring series: the Pullout Poster Panacea.
As the Random House Webster's Collegiate Dictionary tells us, a panacea is 1. a remedy for all ills; cure-all. 2. a solution for all difficulties.
While it may not actually provide a cure for ALL, we hope that this poster series will make to your day just a little better - in its own little way.
I chose this one as the first poster to be featured, because I tried desperately to recreate Donnie's outfit for much of seventh grade. Except my vest was purple with black polka dots, and I didn't have wing tips; just patent leather shoes. Yeah. Major dork here.
Hope your team wins the Superbowl!
xoxo, Kim
Kim decorated every inch of available space in her bedroom with the posters. When she ran out of room on the walls, she moved on to the ceiling. When they started falling off of the ceiling in the middle of the night scaring the crap out of her, she moved them onto the rec room walls. When she ran out of room on the rec room walls, she thought about the hallway and/or the bathroom, but she's pretty sure that never actually happened.
When the day came to finally take the posters down, Kim was unable to part with them, having spent hours upon hours gazing at them while playing Super Mario Brothers 2 with the sound off... while Hangin' Tough (and sometimes Blame it on the Rain and Forever Your Girl) played in the background.
She carefully removed the tape and poster putty from each one, and stored them all in 3-ring binders, for that day - someday - in the future, when they would again bring her hours of amusement.
And so now, seventeen years later, I'm about to share them with all of you.
Welcome to the first installment of what will hopefully be a recurring series: the Pullout Poster Panacea.
As the Random House Webster's Collegiate Dictionary tells us, a panacea is 1. a remedy for all ills; cure-all. 2. a solution for all difficulties.
While it may not actually provide a cure for ALL, we hope that this poster series will make to your day just a little better - in its own little way.
I chose this one as the first poster to be featured, because I tried desperately to recreate Donnie's outfit for much of seventh grade. Except my vest was purple with black polka dots, and I didn't have wing tips; just patent leather shoes. Yeah. Major dork here.
Hope your team wins the Superbowl!
xoxo, Kim
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