Last night I accompanied my step-mom to the Bon Jovi concert at HP Pavilion in San Jose. The show in its entirety was mediocre, to say the least, so I found myself pretty much bored the whole time. What a bummer! Good thing there were plenty of people to study! I did learn the rule about staring when I was a child, but when it's dark and every one is looking in the same direction (i.e. the stage), staring can be performed without causing a fuss.
Read on as I recall the most memorable parts of the evening...
- the lack of scantily clad women that I would normally take notice to and chuckle at during a concert...
- single guys, sporadically seated around the arena, each by themselves, eating hotdogs and drinking beer...
- the $8 margaritas we drank within 30 seconds that were 80% ice, 15% margarita mix and 5% Jose Cuervo... RIP OFF!
- the couple 3 rows down that stood, cuddling, the entire time, thus blocking my view of Richie Sambora...
- the quiet, buff guy to our left who had a picture of an older gentleman on his cell phone screensaver. It really was cute. His dad, perhaps?
- the teenaged girl to my right who said "WOO, WOO" after EVERY song was played...
- the two couples a row down whom were on a double-date. The women were very drunk from early on and didn't notice their husbands for most of the night. They hugged, went to the bathroom, and hugged some more, then again to the bathroom, then back for more hugging. At one point, one of the husbands had to step in to break it up! Then the woman who wasn't his wife thanked him with his very own hug! It was very bizarre...
- the Japanese boys in front of me were the most fascinating - I couldn't stop watching them. Before the show, one of them was reading a comic book, thick as the phonebook, written in Japanese. I was reading it too. Well, looking at the illustrations trying to figure out the story. I was unsuccessful. Mr. Comic Book was about 20 years old. His friend, dressed in a suit, was around the same age, I'd say. He was chatting on his PDA most of the time, but I couldn't be nosey and read the dialogue because, it too, was in Japanese. His service provider, however, was AT&T because I saw the logo. That was written in English =) .. The auto-correct/suggest feature was amazing. He would type a character, and it would auto-suggest for him just like on my iPhone, only with characters. I was very curious what he was typing. He also carried a flip phone and a tiny, edgy looking handheld camcorder which he used to record the show's high points. The most mesmerizing part, though, was that these two "friends" didn't say one word to eachother the entire time! It was pretty obvious that they came together, so maybe they're just anti-social? Who knows. All I do know is that I have a new-found urge to learn the Japanese language...
Next time Bon Jovi is in town, though, I think I'll pass...
