Long overdue concert review

So yes I finally saw Duran Duran in concert. What the fuck was I waiting for? I dunno. Anyway...

The Friday before the concert (concert was on Sat, Oct 29) I was running around like a nut trying to find friggin cat accessories. I planned on dressing up for Halloween, so don't think I'm some weird cat woman that eats cat food and takes animal steroids/tranquilizers. Went all over the damn place and ended up spending like $15 at the Halloween store. I popped by my sister's house to discuss times and whatnot. We ended up playing with Mookie R, and playing Texas Hold 'em til 1 am. I needed to practice just in case I decided to wander into the "High Roller" section at the Borgata (where the concert was FYI...)

Oh I forgot to mention an important detail (well semi-important) it was supposed to SNOW. Snow. What the hell? So of course I was a tad bit worried that the concert would be canceled.

Yea so I wake up that beautiful Saturday morn.' Heh right. Get my outfit together: a T-shirt that read "Play the f*ckin bass John!" (which got good reviews from some fans), and my cat accessories. My sister came over to pick me up and I made her wear a holster, a cowgirl hat, and she drew on a fake mustache. She looked like dirty Sanchez.

We get on the parkway, blow all over the road, freeze to death, etc. We arrived at the Borgata around 2:30 and wandered in a circle for a few minutes before realizing where we had to be was pretty much right in front of us. Duh. There was already a line of people forming and since security doesn't like that they gave us a wristband (hehehe...enter SLB line here). My sister and I went off to the Long Bar to have a few drinks where the waitress ignored us completely. We think because my sister was dressed up as a Tex-Mex man. Who knows. Security told us to be back at 4:30 where we would take the escalator upstairs to again wait in another line.

Blah blah blah we go upstairs and we're pretty close to the front of the line. The mega-super-dork fans were complaining to security that it's not fair that they got here first and the numbers on their wristbands don't make sense. Who fuckin cares? Once they open the doors go apeshit and run towards the stage. Oi! We find out the doors aren't opening until like 7:30 or so, so of course I head towards the bar and get a few more drinks. On one of my many trips back to my place in line from the bar I hear someone call my name. It's Maya, someone I talked to on Twitter. She recognized, if I remember correctly, the cat costume shit I said I'd be wearing. We get to talking and I tell her to come cut the line. I also met Nicu72 from Twitter. Nice gals. Anyway....

They finally opened the doors, I grabbed my sister's hand and we speedwalk to the stage. Security told me to slow down. Yea whatever, douche nut. 3rd rowish in the middle.

Concert starts (no opening act. good.) Some highlights:

1) Simon looked GOOD. Ok and you all know who my fave is.
2) JT didn't look AS thin as some of his pix make him look.
3) JT had some kind of technical difficulty...
4) Dom is pretty good looking
5) Barely saw Roger. :(
6) Nick as a unicorn? Priceless!
7) They didn't play Girls on Film :(
8) They didn't chant "play the fuckin bass John." Double :(
9) SLB didn't crack at the end of Ordinary World. And I didn't cry my eyes out. Good thing.
10)Some dork kept saying "happy halloween!" to me when they were doing Notorious.
11) OMG LIGHTS!
12) Ana Matronic and Mark Ronson were there.
13) Nick picked up Maya's "Fear Le Beard" shirt. Just throw it!
14) JT as a cow was umm...interesting.
15) Simon's finger lick/suck thing. Oh Jesus...*dies*
16) Simon stroking our pussies. Again I died.
17) Met some really NIFTY people!! :o)
18) Had my pic taken with Ana Matronic, who was extremely nice and told me that out of the last couple shows she did she was the most relaxed at this one. The pic disappeared :(
19) Mark Ronson seemed annoyed that people wanted a pic with him. Well whatever.
20) Saw Lindsay's ex, Sam Ronson.


If anyone can add some more highlights please let me know! I draw big blanks all the time!

I will add pix soon for those not friends with me on Facebook.

Ok thxxxxxxxxxxxxx