I Don't Want To Live on this Planet Any More

So much wrong with this....

First of all, speak for yourself. The entire “classic rock fandom” does not agree with you on this shit. 

You can find someone outside your age range interesting. You can even find them attractive. In the days of my youth, I found Leonard Nimoy very attractive. He was old enough to be my father. I would never have thought to objectify him this way. I respected him far too much to view him as a piece of ass.

Next, fucking admit it. You’re looking at pictures that are thirty, forty, fifty and more years old. You’re not looking at, let’s say, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger today. You’re looking at Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1969. 

Was I the only girl who fantasized about being in a band with my idols rather than just being a piece of ass? Being a groupie is not something to aspire to. Being in someone’s life for nothing but sex starts to leave a person feeling pretty damn hollow. You aren’t special, you’re one of many. How the fuck is that something to aspire to?

As someone who has been in the “classic rock fandom” for longer than these children have been alive, I find this incredibly disrespectful. I’m over 50, and some of these people are old enough to be my father. I am well aware of the kind of deterioraton that can happen to a person as they age, from having worked with the aging population, from watching my own relatives age and die, and from the things that are happening to my own body,

 I do not find this sort of objectification either flattering or harmless. The person who wrote this and those who think like her do not see these people as human, they see these people as things to be ogled. It’s revolting.

I feel like a piece of me is torn away every time one of these people that I’ve “known” all my life becomes ill and dies. 

B.B. King, who was a blues musician, but any rock fan worth their salt knows that the blues is the backbone of rock--the amazing B.B. King died from complications of Alzheimer’s.

Ronnie James Dio, who I thought would pretty much outlive everyone, died of stomach cancer.

My dear David Bowie--and no, I’m not objectifying him, I always thought of him as a friend I very much wanted to meet--died from cancer.

Lemmy Kilmister--wonderful, tough as nails, amazing Lemmy with his powerful voice is gone from this world. I have a tattoo honoring Lemmy on my left calf. No, it isn’t because I wanted to “be a groupie” for him. It’s because his music meant something to me, and because the more I learned about him, the more I liked him as a person.

Malcolm Young isn’t physically dead, but he’s gone from this world. What I’m going to say comes not from a place of hate but from a place of love. I wish he’d died before the god damn fucking dementia had a chance to destroy him. He is not going to recover, there is no reversing that shit. His brother, the person who he was closest to in this world, has said that Malcolm “isn’t in there at all anymore,” and I know exactly what the hell he’s talking about, and it fucking sucks, and there isn’t a god damn thing anyone can do to change it.

The above examples are just a few of why I find this shit below utterly revolting, disgusting, and disrespectful. Whoever wrote this does not care one iota about the music or the people who wrote it, she’s mooning over pictures of cute boys who are no longer “cute boys” and haven’t been for a long time. 

They are real people.

They are vulnerable.

More and more of them are getting sick and dying. 

That fucking sucks.

You do not speak for the “classic rock fandom.” 

You speak for a small minority faction of ignorant teenage girls whom reality is going to one day come along and bite hard in the ass. Willfully ignorant girls who wouldn’t know respect if it walked up and bit them in the ass.

Don’t you ever purport to speak for those of us who see our musical heroes as more than just pieces of ass.

Here is the bullshit that got me into such a lather. I’m not putting a name with it because a) I don’t want to give them any traffic and b) I don’t want them attacked. I just want to point out why this is so god damn wrong on so many levels.

• Classic Rock Fandom: OH MY GOD HE'S SO FUCKING HOT
• Other people: he's 70 years old no
• Classic Rock Fandom: YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE'S A FUCKING GOD
• Other people: dude stop
• Classic Rock Fandom: I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO GO BACK AND BE A GROUPIE FOR HIM BECAUSE FUCK
• Other people: dude no thats not good
• Classic Rock Fandom: I DON'T CAAAAAAAAAAARE

Stolen Meme About the Infamous AC/DC

I stole this meme from here.

 

Favorite Song - There's this album. It's called Powerage. The whole album is my favorite AC/DC song with Bon Scott on vocals.

There's this other album. It's called Flick of the Switch. It's my favorite song with Brian Johnson on vocals.

You understand what I'm saying? I cannot choose just one song.

Most Hated Song - I don't hate any of their songs, but back in the 1980's, For Those About to Rock was so overplayed that I changed the station when it came on so I wouldn't end up hating it.

 

Favorite Member - I love them all. But this one gives me a special set of feels. And, apparently, I'd like to give him a special set of feels.

Favorite Video - All the live concert footage or just them in the studio. The ones where they hired some other fucker to direct it are hit or miss. Vomit inducing video vixens never set well with me. If I'm looking for an AC/DC video I want to see AC/DC, not a bunch of scantily clad she-slags.

Merch I Own - Too much to name. I'm one day older than dirt, so I've had plenty of time to collect stuff.

Seen Them Live - Three times, and every time some asshole tried to pick a fight with me and tainted the experience. That's never happened with any other concerts I've gone to.
Fans of this band seem to be kind of assholes overall, at least in the U.S., and I don't understand that, because the band members don't seem to be assholes at all.

 

It Ain't Easy Being DJ Cheesy

Easily Amused: Virtual Car Running around Track

DJ Cheesy and I were amused by this little virtual car running around a racetrack. The buzzing sound freaked her cat out.

~DJ Blooming Psycho~

The South: Second Coming

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2015: B is for Brawn

Watch as this burly fellow uses the "Clean and Press" technique to lift 160 pounds over his head.

Now, watch as DJ Cheesy tries to do the same and is compressed from 5'6" to 0'6" in height like an accordion!

It would look a little bit something like this before my spine folded.

I admire the folks with the strength to lift large amounts of weight. I could watch them all day!

~DJ Cheesy~

Miley Cyrus: The Twinkle Song

Miley Cyrus can actually be very funny. She has a quirky sense of humor. I like her in this video. I'm not so keen on her when she's doing the "brazen sexpot" thing. It isn't sexy, and it isn't ridiculous in an enjoyable way. It's embarrassing.

~DJ Cheesy~

Emily Paulson: Could I Hold the Baby

I know the holidays are over, but I thought that Emily's beautiful rendition of this lesser-known carol was worth sharing.

~DJ Cheesy~

Wordless Wednesday: We Love You Angel

Original Eye in the Sky image credit:

Copyright: zadvinskiy / 123RF Stock Photo

Photoshop manipulation to add Lewy Body Dementia awareness ribbon:

DJ Cheesy

Adam-Chu Dance Crew Dance Battle 2 Outtakes

Well, I could easily do...

What the Miley Cyrus cardboard cutout in this video was doing.

Break-dancing and skateboarding--I love to watch these activities. However, I have always had all the dexterity of a clumsy one-legged horse trying to jump a wall. Back in the days of my youth, when I had enough alcohol in me I'd drop on the deck and flop like a fish. Real skill, however? Not a chance!

~DJ Cheesy~

Visions: The James Thomas Band

Good straightforward blues-rock by the James Thomas Band. Follow them on their Facebook page.

~DJ Cheesy~

Netherworld TV Time: Jimmy Fallon plays Catchphrase

I honestly don't watch a lot of talk shows or late night TV, but Jimmy Fallon looks like he has a lot of fun!

Maybe I'm weird, but for me, one of Neil Patrick Harris' most memorable roles was the creepy Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers.

~DJ Cheesy~

T is for Techno

Once again, my lazy self is ripping the description from Wikipedia. I'm not proud, but I am tired. So, listen to the music as you read my stolen description.

 Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988.

The initial take on techno arose from the melding of electronic music, in the style of artists such as Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Yellow Magic Orchestra, with African American music styles, including funk, electro, Chicago house and electric jazz. Added to this is the influence of futuristic and fictional themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society, with Alvin Toffler's book The Third Wave being a notable point of reference. Pioneering producer Juan Atkins cites Toffler's phrase "techno rebels" as inspiring him to use the word techno to describe the musical style he helped to create. This unique blend of influences aligns techno with the aesthetic referred to as afrofuturism. To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation; essentially an expression of technological spirituality. In this manner: "techno dance music defeats what Adorno saw as the alienating effect of mechanisation on the modern consciousness".

Stylistically, techno is generally repetitive instrumental music, oftentimes produced for use in a continuous DJ set.

Music journalists and fans of techno are generally selective in their use of the term; so a clear distinction can be made between sometimes related but often qualitatively different styles, such as tech house and trance. "Techno" is also commonly confused with generalized descriptors, such as electronic music and electronic dance music.

~DJ Cheesy~

Q is for Quan Ho

I'm tired but not proud, so I'm admitting to swiping the description of this beautiful style of Vietnamese music straight from Wikipedia.

 The quan họ style originated in what is now Bắc Ninh Province and was first recorded in the 13th century, and has traditionally been associated with the spring festivals that follow the celebration of Tết (the Vietnamese New Year). Historically, the singing began on the evening before the festival, but today it is much more common for the singing to occur on the main day of the festival. In general, an initial "challenge phrase" (câu ra) from the known body of songs is sung by a pair of female singers, following which a pair of male singers will respond by selecting and singing a "matching phrase" (câu đối), which must repeat the melody of the challenge phrase. Once they are finished, the order is reversed, and the men will issue their own challenge phrase with a different melody. While in the past the singing was unaccompanied, it is common today for the singers to be accompanied by instruments, whether traditional Vietnamese instruments or modern ones such as electric keyboards.

~DJ Cheesy~ 

N is for Neoclassical

From the Wikipedia entry:

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint. As such, neoclassicism was a reaction against the unrestrained emotionalism and perceived formlessness of late Romanticism, as well as a "call to order" after the experimental ferment of the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Neoclassicism had two distinct national lines of development, French (proceeding partly from the influence of Erik Satie and represented by Igor Stravinsky), and German (proceeding from the "New Objectivity" of Ferruccio Busoni and represented by Paul Hindemith.)

If you don't have ad block (which I do at home, but not on the computer at work) all the ads in the video above are really annoying. Interrupting the Rite of Spring with advertising? Blasphemy!

~DJ Cheesy~ 

K is for Krakowiak

Krakowiak is both a style of joyful, fast-paced folk music and a style of dance which originated in Krakow, Poland. If I attempted it, it would also be the sound that was made as I stepped on my partner's foot. 

It has nothing on the Lithuanian towel-snapping dance. Yes, that's a thing!

Just messing with my blogging teammates, several of whom are Polacks. 

I may be getting my trouble-starting Lithuanian ass towel-snapped in the not too distant future!

~DJ Cheesy~

F is for Folk

 A few Folkers from the 20th century Folk Revival period. I could listen to this stuff all day!

The following comes from the Wikipedia entry:

 Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music.

Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time.

Starting in the mid-20th century a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms.

~DJ Cheesy~

I found a blog with a blog hop called Monday's Music Moves Me, and opted to share this post! 

~DJ Tempest~

An American Snoop Dogg in Paris

This reminds me of a little tale from many years ago in the mid-nineties. It probably won't be of much interest to anyone but me, but I'll tell it anyway. I went to see Public Enemy and U2 in concert. Before the show started, I was standing near the back entrance to the arena and who but Flavor Flav should walk by with his three older kids and their mother. I decided against saying anything to him as I didn't want to bother him when he was with his family. 

It's really too bad that Flav screwed things up so much between himself and his older kids. Guy's got issues. Regardless, Public Enemy always puts on one hell of a show, and I try to see them whenever they're in town. To be honest, although I love U2, I really thought that all the props they had onstage was overkill. Bono also seemed to really distance himself from the audience. Music-wise it was a push. Performance-wise, I actually preferred Public Enemy's performance. They seemed much more accessible.

About ten years later, my son and I went to a talk given by Chuck D. We went up afterwards and got his autograph. He's a true gentleman and really seems to have it together. 

Just a couple fun memories from back in the day. I enjoyed the recollection.

~DJ Cheesy~

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