A to Z Challenge 2015: Universal Concepts: S is for Sad Songs

Sad songs: we love them, but we hope we never have to live them.

I'm one of the lucky few who have had a romance that has lasted since my teen years up into my middle years and is still going strong. Most early romances lead to heartbreak, and that's the sad truth.

Listening to and singing sad songs can be cathartic. Sing and cry, if that's what you need to do. Write a sad song or poem of your own. Don't be ashamed! Let your feelings show.

~DJ Sadie~

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

Fun With Language: Bunk House

Familiar words can mean different things around the world.

What they call a bunk house in India appears to be the equivalent of what we call a mobile structure, mobile home, or temporary building in the United States.

I think of a "bunk house" as being a place where field hands or parks and forest service workers sleep.

~DJ Aurora~

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2015: R is for Rave

The above song is representative of the kind of music that is played at raves.
The following is from the Wikipedia entry.

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a large party or festival featuring performances by disc jockeys (colloquially called DJs) and occasionally live performers playing electronic music, particularly electronic dance music (EDM). Music played at raves include house, trance, techno, drum and bass, hardcore, hardstyle and other forms of electronic dance music. The music is amplified with a large sound reinforcement system, typically with large subwoofers to produce a deep bass sound. The music is accompanied by laser light shows, projected images, visual effects and smoke machines.

Rave culture originated mostly from acid house music parties in the mid-to-late 1980s in the Chicago area in the United States. After Chicago house artists began experiencing overseas success, it quickly spread to the United Kingdom, Central Europe, Australia and the rest of the United States.

~DJ Dolly~

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2015: Q is for Quay West

Quay West is a holiday park in New Quay, Credington, South West Wales. Its mascots are a tiger named Rory and a bear named Bradley. It seems like the sort of place that families with young children would particularly enjoy. I thought it would be interesting to blog about when I found the video featuring the odd dancing tiger and bear.

Although I'm a curmudgeon who avoids places teeming with screaming children like the plague, I'd far rather go to Quay West than to Disneyland. Being less well known, it would probably take less of a toll on my pocketbook, and a grumpy old fart like me could probably find activities to occupy myself that involved a minimum of kiddies.

~DJ Rose~

Three Meals a Day

Three Meals a Day is a Korean reality show focusing on cooking and the outdoors. It stars Lee Seo-jin and Ok Taecyeon. It is set in the village of Jeongseon. The show features the two stars utilizing whatever they can find to eat to create a meal. Various celebrities make guest appearances. The show has a fun, upbeat manner.

Full episodes are available at dramatv.co

~DJ Thalia~

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2015: P is for Phone

It's pretty hard to imagine life without phones. They've certainly come a long way in the 160 years since Antonio Meucci constructed the earliest telephone prototypes.

Then you also have items such as the one featured in this video, which I'll probably never own but which look terribly exciting. Who would have thought that one day there would be a phone which was also a camera and a computer? Now, if only someone could invent one that would clean my house for me!

~DJ Naila~

Telephone image source