Monday Morning Eye Candy

Good Morning! 

Let the week begin! Remember it's christmas time, don't let the overly played pop christmas songs get to you! Use your Ipod and listen to 'Backdoor Santa'!

Memo: The winter has arrived

Well, it's obvious that the winter is there, but I think our roses in the front yard didn't get the memo.

Looks a bit surreal: Blooming flowers in the snow!

Thanksgiving Parade in NYC

Believe it or not, it's the first time in my life I was able to watch the Thanksgiving Parade in New York. I always wanted to watch it, but unfortunately I don't get NBC on TV and I'm not able to watch it live online. No idea why.

So, this morning I started searching the web, I thought somewhere must be a live stream from this parade. Nearly everyone in the US is watching it. 3.5 Million are watching it live in New York. There has to be something online.

After searching almost one hour, I found "Earth Cam". Seems they have placed web cams on well-known places all over the world and that includes....Times Square!!!!!

At least I can watch it, I thought, but to my surprise I had sound as well...and someone who was operating the camera and made sure I got really great pics. I wasn't able to detect the cast of "Memphis", who was part of this years parade as well and I'm pretty sure I didn't get the complete great atmosphere during the parade, but at least I saw more than just a big Snoopy next day on the news.

So, even though I was jumping up and down in front of my screen like an excited kid, I was able to take some snapshots of the parade.

Click on the pics to enlarge them.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the USA. I hope you got all your preparations done and can enjoy this day with your families. Don't eat too much turkey and pie and please cheer for The Saints so that the Cowboys get their ass' kicked in today's game. ;)

Love you

Kris

Bon Jovi performs on Ellen

Here are the two performances from yesterday's show. Enjoy!

New Tour Pics

There are again Tour Pictures avaible on BonJovi.com. I think they would make a really nice gift for x-mas.

Check them out here: http://gallery.tourphotographer.com/g/fall_2010_new_york_ny

My favorite pics:

I think I wanna be a guitar! *sigh*

Short Interview on Ellen

Well, I think we all in for a trip to Red Bank, New Jersey. Gotta love this man!

AMA 2010

Bon Jovi rocked the American Music Awards last night and it seems they really had fun. That's at least the impression I got when checking the video of their performances and the few pictures that are already out.

They played a medley of 'What do you got', 'You give love a bad name' and 'It's my life'. Check it out:



Here are some pics I already found. Unfortunately they all have watermarks. But damn the guys look hot! Enjoy!

Monday Morning Eye Candy

Good Morning! There's only one picture possible for this week.

 

Have a great week! Don't let the Thanksgiving or Advent preparation drive you crazy!

Concert Review or sign of life

Well, everybody, I hope you didn't fall off your chair in shock...yes, it's me...I'm still alive and I'm just trying to get my "online-life" going again. What better way to start than with a concert review?

No, there wasn't a secret Bon Jovi show in Germany nobody knew about...even though I wouldn't mind a little private session...I went to the Scorpions concert last night in Hamburg. 

I've never seen such a diverse crowd in a concert. Of course, there were a lot of older people, - afterall the band is in the business for nearly FOUR decades - but also people my age and even younger. Normally I would say such a mixture of people would cause some little problems, because older people tick a little bit different than parents with children and young people, but I thought "Well, they are all here to watch this one band...it should work..." Guess what....WRONG!!

After the "Edguy" tried to wake up the crowd, the Scorpions took the stage exactly at 9 pm and I jumped out of my seat. About two minutes later I realized that was a big mistake. Apparently those of the 14,000 in the arena, who had a seat really wanted to use it and watch the show sitting. I nearly lost it when a woman in the row behind me...HIT...you can't say it in another way...my shoulder and yelled that I should sit down she can't see anything. It's a ROCK SHOW for Christ sake, not Holiday on Ice, get your lazy ass up!!!

So I sank down on my seat again and tried not to explode because of my now captured energy, while the band tried very hard to get the crowd going.

That's actually something I already saw during the Bon Jovi concert in Hamburg...a lazy, emotionless crowd. The other show I visited, wasn't that diffcult for the band, but Hamburg seems to be a little bit too controlled to let go.

Last night something else seemed to freeze the crowd, well at least those who weren't diehard fans ... The Scorpions themselves. I had the feeling that a lot of people had no idea what they got themselves into. You have to know that even though the band is performing since 1972 in Germany, they never got the huge success like in the USA or other countries around the world. Why is absolutely beyond me. But I think most of the people last night found the Scorpions with the song "Wind of change", which gained huge popularity in Germany at the beginning '90th after the reunion, but unfortunately "Wind of change" is not a typical Scorpions song. It's much calmer than their other songs. So, some were a little shocked, when "Bad Boys running wild", "The Zoo", "Tease me, please me", "Dynamite" or "Big City Nights" were screamed at them.

The show end after two hours with the encore "Still loving you", "Rock you like a hurricane" and "When the smoke is going down" way too early for me. It was a great show when you put the audience aside andI can only recommed you watch them when they come close to your town...it's there farewell Tour.

Here are some video from last night: