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Set your VCRs, Tivo’s whatever!
April 2nd, 2008
The New Kids on the block will be performing on the Today Show on Friday Morning! It turns out that their breakout album is turning twenty years old. And Hey You now feels old.
Y’all, I was so going to marry Joey McIntyre. We were going to have babies, and live in a pink mansion that had huge stables for all of my ponies. He was going to write song after song about ME. MEEEEEE!! I had no interest in any of the others, especially that bad boy Donnie, just my Joey.
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Both Pictures are circa 1990.
Sigh. Mrs. Hey You McIntyre. Anyway. Where was I? Oh, yes. Well, it turns out that I never met Joey, and the closest I came to birthing little McIntyres was kissing the shine off of my life size poster I had tacked to my pink walls. My Hangin’ Tough tape had to be replaced after two months because I wore it out. I would pretend swoon every time “Please Don’t Go Girl” came on. I wore my NKOTB t-shirt to school three days a week, and my pink Jansport backpack had a huge I*heart* Joey pin on it.
I will be busy on Friday morning, and do not know how to work my VCR, so someone tape it for me, m’kay? So who was your favorite New Kid? Or Beatle? Or Hansen, or whomever?
Filed under Boy is my face red, Time Suckers |6 Responses to “Set your VCRs, Tivo’s whatever!”
ELVIS! One wall of MY pink room was plastered with anything Elvis. This included posters, album covers, newspaper articles, magazine covers, etc.
I watched every one of his movies, and admittedly do today, whenever, I run across one when surfing channels. Of course, I knew many of his songs and still think his pure voice is unsurpassed.
I was so jealous when he married Priscilla. Everything that was printed about him, her, and Lisa Marie was devoured trying to learn as much about his life as I could.
He came to Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky, in concert after I moved away and I was so disappointed that I wasn’t there to see him live.
I still remember the circumstances of where I was when I learned of his death. I was working at the VA Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma, when a friend came in late and in tears. She announced he died and we all cried. The outpouring of emotion of the fans, who flocked to Memphis, is of course well known. It was absolutely true, he was so well loved.
How sad he died at such a young age. What a loss of his marvelous voice.
Don’t know why but I was all about Donny. Seriously? What was wrong with me? I think it was actually because each of my main friends each had one as their guy, and I came in late so I got stuck with Donny. I remember wearing my new kids t shirt (it had read hand prints on the back) while wearing electric youth purfume (or sometimes exclamation), some kind of black stretchy pants and a hat. I really wished I had a picture because it must have been funny.
I have a new kids tape, so I might pop it in today.
I swooned over Danny, the old thug wannabe. I still don’t know why I obsessed over HIM! I had NKOTB shirt (white with pink letters), sheets for my bed, tapes, posters, and the behind the scenes NKOTB book. I too remember wearing my t-shirt with black stirrup pants and sneakers. My school didn’t allow hats. I’ll have to check my pics, but I’m pretty sure I don’t have any damning evidence of this, thank goodness. The 90s were AWESOME!! Unfortunately, I don’t want to waste 4 hours worth of my DVR memory to record The Today Show just to watch a blast from the past. Someone will probably post it on YouTube anyway.
Hey You…I searched my house this morning all because of you. Somewhere hidden beneath layers of t-ball pics, prom photos, really old wedding pictures and random snapshots, there is the funniest picture ever of me. I’m wearing my purple tye-dyed NKOTB t-shirt with the full band on the front and their autographs (fake of course) on the back…along with matching purple tye-dyed shorts, purple tye-dyed socks and white Keds with the big blue Keds plastic thing tied to the shoelaces. I’m also holding a really tacky rainbow striped umbrella…not sure why.
But, what I do remember is that when NKOTB was cool, I was going to marry Jordan, because I loved his curly hair. Plus, I’d get to sneak peaks at his older brother Jonathan, on whom I also had a bit of a crush.
I had the massive pins, lots of t-shirts, a pair of pajamas, a denim jacket adorned with their pictures, sheets, tapes, etc. But my mom wouldn’t let me put posters on my walls at that point in my life. I resented the crap out of her. It wasn’t until I was in 6th grade that I was allowed to put a poster on my wall…and guess who I immediately pinned up? That’s right…Jason Priestly from 90210. I don’t think any of us will ever forget the Beverly Hills zip code.
By the way, my purple ensemble that I described above was a mommy original. But, it was so well-made and so cute that all my friends wanted the same outfit. I was the only one lucky enough to have it.
By the way…who needs to tape it…their performance on the Today Show? I’m thinking that you could probably…make that most likely…watch it anytime on YouTube. Just saying.
Ooh…Ooh…Ooh…I forgot…I also had the Joey, Jordan and Jonathan dolls who made great dates for Barbie. They were way hotter than Ken. Seriously!
Your feeling old? If that is a pic of you in 1990 now I am feeling old! That was the year I started college and New Kids were the furthest thing from my mind! Never been a big crush on musicians or TV people but I did love Kirk Cameron, Michael J Fox, Mathew Broderick (aka Ferris) and Tom Cruise. That sums up 35 years of movie start type crushes… (I did have a dream about the lead singer of Green Day a few years back and he was my boyfriend… but I don’t really have a crush on him so I am not counting that!)