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Bon Jovi have a new album! They are still my first epic love.

( Thoughts. Warning: SO MUCH BABBLE AND INCOHERENCE )

Verdict: Oh Bon Jovi, never change. I am kind of curious to see where they go after 2010, 'cause their sound tends to change ever decade, but I think I'm getting some flashes here. There's so MUCH to every song, but this is so MELLOW. IDEK. I feel like Jon has hit this point where he's CONSTRUCTING songs, he's not just writing shit down and finding something for everyone to do. Like, idk, they've never been unpolished or half-ass but there's something about this that is SO MUCH MORE than they have been, like everything's so...full, idk. I AM SO NOT PUTTING THIS RIGHT. Whatever. I LOVE THIS SHIT my carpool buddy is gonna be so sick of it by the end of the week.

1. I uploaded these ages ago for

darkgothgirlie and completely forgot to actually, y'know, give her the links.

Richie Sambora - Stranger in This Town
Richie Sambora - Undiscovered Soul
Richie Sambora - Assorted Non-Album Goodies

2. Uploaded yesterday for

sidewinder

Bon Jovi - February 28th, 2008 Set List

3. Uploaded last night for

mayqueen517 and highly HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended (highly x 15, for srs)

Flogging Molly - Float

I've always been a bit of a celebrity gossip addict. I suppose it started back with my Hanson obsession (notice I don't say "former obsession"...Tay-Tay, call me! Er...*nervous laughter*), when I would voraciously gobble up anything to do with my beloved Taylor and his less-beloved-but-still-beloved brothers. I used to know everything about them (Tay's favorite bands included the Counting Crows and Spin Doctors *nods*). Same thing a year or so later when I moved onto Backstreet Boys (beloved Brian and Howie <3) and *NSync (beloved Lance and JC). Everything I could find out about them, I had to know. Had to.

A few years ago my mom got a subscription to Us magazine, a freebie or something. I was the only one in the family who read it, and I tore through it. I knew all sorts of useless little bits about the A-Z lists, including who went on which list. Most of these people I cared nothing about, past the fact their sagas - and by sagas I really mean "mundane bits of everyday life, like who they dated and where they shopped" - were fascinating.

The free subscription lapsed, my interest waned. Until someone linked me to The Superficial. It founds its way into my daily blog routine, but it wasn't until Richie Sambora and Heather Locklear separated that I got rehooked. I shouldn't even say re-, because I was hooked like never before.

A few days ago I decided to quit celeb gossip again, for a few reasons I'll get into in a bit, and man. Cleaned five blogs out of my bookmarks, dumped one LJ feed and one community, took three gadgets off my Google homepage, and while I didn't have any subscriptions to cancel, rest assured if I made a list of magazines I need to avoid in the future, it'd be massive.

( Why am I mentioning this? )

(And this is the part where I say if you're a gossip hound no offense is meant; my moral objection is no one else's behavioral guideline [nor is it even anyone else's moral issue])

A post linked from

metafandom tonight, a post that had very little (if anything) to do with RPF, had me thinking.

We, and by we I mean RPFers (although maybe I should specify sane RPFers ;]), do have a fourth wall. It isn't necessarily as pronounced or obvious as the fourth wall in FPFandom, but it's most certainly there.

Because at the end of the day, anyone who writes about a public person is writing about a fictional character. To varying degrees, everyone who makes their living in the public eye acts. The Jon Bon Jovi on stage is not the same as the John Bongiovi who goes home to his wife and kids (but just take a minute to savor the image of JBJ, mid-coitus, spouting off one of his favorite stage phrases..."How we doin' so far, okay?"); the Gerard Way giving a magazine interview isn't the same as the Gerard Way hanging out with his friends.

( There are fans who don't get this, certainly. )

Our fourth wall is more of a fence and our respect issues have some pretty significant differences; but we have a fence and we understand respect. The difference between fantasy and reality is less pronounced, but it's there, and the smart ones know that.

I has Christmas music for yooooou.

1. Christmas is Srs Bzns

( Tracks )

Download the zip file or pick and choose
If you only take one: O Come All Ye Faithful - Richie Sambora

Even back when I really really did not like Richie, this sent me into fits of crazy fangirl Richielust.

2. It is to be Christmas (and Chanukah) funtimes nao?

( Tracks )

Download the zip file or pick and choose
If you only take one: R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas. - JBJ (as John Bongiovi)

Seriously. Download R2-D2 even if you hate JBJ and/or Star Wars and/or Christmas music because SERIOUSLY. BEST SONG EVER.

I've spent the day reminding myself why I love Jovi so much. Goddamn.

And I can't believe I let myself forget how FUCKING AWESOME the Blaze of Glory album is. Fucking fuckity fuck. Santa Fe is just so MOTHERFUCK. I LOVE the way he sings "I swear I'm gonna live forever" because FUCKING SHIT you BELIEVE it. Fucker IS gonna live forever. Goddamn.

Yeah. Whoo.

Also: Someday I will write Richie/Cher. Because I imagine they were just TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE.

Man I love This Ain't A Love Song

Sambora's back in rehab. With Lindsay Lohan. Whee.

Man, reporters are stupid.

One of those "guys" was Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora. The pair were brought together by Turn It Up's producer Luke Ebbin, who had restored Bon Jovi to the top of the charts with the single It's Too Late and his Crush album.

It's Too Late? For serious?

Fun fact: There has never been a Bon Jovi song ever with the word "late" in the title

BUT slashy goodness is somewhat redeeming.

He was telling me that Jon is pretty protective of him when it comes to working with other people.

Ahahaha possessive. Little bastard <3

I want my action figuuuuuuuures.

EEEE I ordered my JBJ and Richie action figures.

I'm so so sad there aren't David and Tico ones because enh.

But.

New toys. Eee.

(If anyone's wondering, as far as I can tell the best price is spawntoys.com, $11.95 each. Shipping is redonkulous, but eh)

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs.

1. Hallelujah - Freshman Fifteen
I wasn't all that into this song until I heard this version. And then I went through a period of maybe a week or so where this was almost all I listened to.

2. Hallelujah - Bon Jovi
Oo, two Hallelujahs. But...yeah. For a good chunk of the song it's just Jon and David and *dies*

3. Heaven Help Us - Richie Sambora
I have no idea why I like this one so much. Maybe it's Jon going "Oh, they want the other one"in the beginning. Or the fun little plinky piano. Or the fact that Richie's voice is just aural fuck.

4. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk - Trace Adkins
Soooo many Hs. This is a masterpiece of deep, insightful songwriting. Whoo-ee, shut my mouth, slap your grandma. There oughta be a law, get the sheriff on the phone. Lord have mercy, how'd she even get them britches on?

5. Mine - LazyTown
If you don't like LazyTown your inner child is dead.

6. Whistles the Wind - Flogging Molly
Prettiest song ever.

7. Spooks in the Attic - Edguy
OMG Fun. Gets stuck in my head like a motherfucker

Item the first, from perezhilton.com, take with tablespoons of salt:

Bon Jovi's MTV Disaster

Highlights:

"'They had a whole bunch of musicians on stage for most of the night to cover his mistakes on the guitar and would turn his mic off so he couldn't be off key,' a spywitness tells us."

"A shocked source reveals, 'As Wanted Dead or Alive started, Richie couldn't play along! During the song Jon stops and makes Richie start again and after the second take was finished the show was supposed to be over but Jon had the whole band come on stage to re-record the song a third time so Richie couldn't mess it up!'"

Item the second, from People, and thus trustworthy:

Richie Sambora Enters Treatment Facility (originally titled "Richie Sambora Enters Rehab")

Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora entered an undisclosed treatment facility on Wednesday, a rep for the band tells PEOPLE exclusively.

"Richie Sambora has entered an undisclosed treatment facility in Los Angeles," the rep said in a statement. "He asks that you respect he and his family's privacy at this time."

The specific nature of Sambora's problem was not disclosed....

Hnh.

Better than "Sambora Booted from Bon Jovi" or "Sambora Found Dead on Toilet", at least.

I've been meaning to do this for a couple days.

( Review of Lost Highway )

stolen from Captain Smellyhead, aka

sunomabitch:

First, list your 10 favorite bands/performers:
1. Bon Jovi
2. Def Leppard
3. Flogging Molly
4. Edguy
5. David Bryan
6. Billy Joel
7. Richie Sambora
8. Rod Stewart
9. Marty Casey & the Lovehammers
10. Winger

What was the first song you ever heard by #6?
Piano Man is the first I was are of it being Billy Joel. But his music from Oliver & Company was the first-first.

-What is your favorite song of #2?
Two Steps Behind, I think.

-What is your favorite lyric of #5?
"Easy,
Love has never been easy
And I've been searching
Trying every door
'Til I finally found what I was looking for"

-How many times have you seen #4 live?
None. Hopefully this tour.

-What is your favorite song by #7?
Oh God. In It For Love. It's so...mellow. And deceptively catchy.

Is there any song by #3 that makes you sad?
Far Away Boys, Grace of God Go I, and Whistles the Wind (liek whoa)

What is your favorite lyric of #2?
"You could be king of the jungle
Or you could swing in the rain
But she don't need no monkey, not my babe
'Cos I'm her Tarzan and she's my Jane"

(okay not really. I just couldn't think of anything else right now :D)

What is your favorite song by #9?
Clouds

When did you first get into #1?
Went to Orlando, at Universal Studios the wolfman in Beetlejuice's Rock'N'Revue (or something) sang One Wild Night, it got stuck in my head all week, when I got home I looked it up, realized these were the "It's My Life" guys, downloaded more.

How did you get into #3?
Chrissy's incessant babbling ;)

What is your favorite song by #4?
Uhhhhh. The ballad version of Superheroes. Or Holy Water. Or Life and Times of a Bonus Track.

How many times have you seen #9 live?
Once.

What is a good memory concerning #4?
Uh

Is there a song by #8 that makes you sad?
Maggie May makes me kinda sad, oddly enough.

What is your favorite song of #1?
This Ain't a Love Song. Price of Love. ooh, and Make A Memory. And I like the TLFR version of It's My Life

How did you become a fan of #10?
I...don't even know.

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