I was a Red Special?

Dear reader


During the 6th month of I Am A Red Special I found out blogging is just too hard for me, that's because


-My English is too bad, that makes me struggle all the time
-I have personal problems
-I just don't have enough time to blog every day
-I am not obsessed by Queen anymore
-I just don't have any kind of inspiration


So well, I will not update anymore, but it where 6 months with a new item EACH DAY, sometimes more than just one, so you have enough items to read back! The blog will stay online, maybe after some months I find out I still like Queen and repeat blogging, I'll find out, so, I hope you enjoy reading the older items.


I can only say I feel so sorry, I hope you understand


Love,


Thirza

Edit: I do not give my blog to someone else, just in case I become able to blog again in a few months...

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Freddie Mercury Nyan Cat

Just because it's cool

20th anniversary of Freddies death

I just want to show you guys some inspiring quotes about the 20st anniversary of Freddies death. I hope you get inspired by them. I will post a few other posts today about this! So keep updates

Freddie Mercury truly IS a rock god, adored the world over! RIP Freddie Mercury - 20 years ago today the world lost one of the greatest performers it ever saw. And one of the best moustaches  It's amaznig how Freddie always stayed strong, no matter how ill he was. He kept fighting, right until the end. RIP Freddie Mercury <3 20 years since your passing and we love you and miss you more than ever. Freddie Mercury you are and always will be our star in heaven.Today we remember Freddie Mercury. Died 24 November 1991. Legendary artist. RIP Farrokh Bulsara. It was 20 years ago today that the world lost the magic of Freddie Mercury, an extraordinary guy 20 years since Freddie Mercury left and still the best voice ever... thanks for inspiring us! After 20 years, he still lives in our hearts....we still love you too Freddie Mercury <3 I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs

Rest in peace, Freddie Mercury  It's the 20 year anniversary of the death of Freddie Mercury. Listen to him today!  Today's 20 years since Freddie Mercury passed away. Long live the Queen. 20 years since Freddie Mercury died. I wonder how different music would be today if he lived longer? Or even if he never existed. Freddie Mercury died on this day 1991. The greatest front man ever to grace the music world  Rest in peace Freddie Mercury, gone but never forgotten. Is it really true that Freddie Mercury died 20 years ago today!? God, that makes me feel old! And I can remember exactly where I was. RIP Freddie Mercury needs to trend above thanksgiving, its not even a proper word RIP Freddie Mercury, you absolute legend!!! 20 years ago today Freddie Mercury passed away. I was only a one year old at the time

Queen- Guitar Rhapsodies

While searching for the song nevermore on Spotify I accidentily found this CD by Carlos Bonell, he -a guitarist- and an orchestra are playing 17 Queen songs. I can only say; this is magnefique. Fantastic. Amazing. I am not a lover of orchestra music and acoustic guitar, but this is just amazing. I say: check it out,

Highly Sensitive Music Lovers

As a highly sensitive person, I can't go to concerts and parties, it's difficult for me to feel comfortable at places where insecure people are, where flash lights are, deep basses etc. etc. But... I'm a music lover as well, I love music, but I can't listen it live, I can't play it too long, I can't play it too loud and I can stop feeling the rythm of what I've listened or played, it's like a pursuit in fact.

It's not that being HSP is all bad, it also has it great sides. I enjoy the music I listen like no one does. I can feel the emotion in songs like no one normal. But that still makes it difficult, I just want to write this item to tell other HSP's how I deal with it (that doesn't mean you have to deal with it the same way I do) , and maybe we can share tips, if you're sensitive in another way, or just very interested in HSPeople, you're free to read.

HSP and live concerts

My personal experiences with going to live concerts: ONE. BIG. DISASTER.  The only thing I can do is freaking out because of all those people around me, because of the loud music and the lights. I want to stay healthy and to live as happy as possible, so the only way for me in that way is skipping the concerts. Even if they are really small, like a concert in a pub or on street. I just skip them, I don't know how it feels to enjoy a concert, so I don't really miss it (at all), of course I want to be like others, but I just know I will never be like ''normal people''.

HSP and playing an instrument.

I tried many things just a couple of times, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, zills, saxophone etc. etc. I really enjoyed playing those  instruments, it made me calm and forget my problems. But performing.... well, being on stage is for me the same like being at

Picture of the week

Brian and the Red Special are sleeping. Do not disturb please.

Queen and love

Love, who doesn't know it? That great feeling, you can't stop being happy and watching him/her. Even the toughest people turn into sweethearts when they're in love. So do I. I can't deny I am very secure about myself, but when I'm in love I turn into a shy girl, I start stuttering and saying weird things. But love also has great sides, doesn't it? You feel happy all the time, you can't stop smiling and thinking of him/her. You want to tell everybody you're in love! You are singing love songs on your bike with your horrible voice, you are making romantic scenes in your mind, it's unstoppable. But you as a Queen fan also love something else -in another way- and that's (surprise) Queen!

For me, combining love for a boy with my ''love'' for Queen, is very simple: I can't stop listening their love songs! I dance trough the room on the music (it must look really weird, a bellydancer dancing on Queen music, but hey, it's me). My favourite songs:

• Seaside Rendezvous! (I feel so romantic can we do it again?)
• The Millionaire Waltz (give a little love to me, take a lotta love from me )
• Las Palabras de Amor (What else can I say?)
• You're my best friend (Ooh you make me live now honey)
• I want it all (I want it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (his love, hugging him, kissing him, going to the cinema with him etc etc etc etc etc, I can only hear the words ''I want it all'', I don't care about the rest, I just want it all!)

This ones are my favourites. So my question for you, when you're in love, do you do anything special in relation to Queen?

23 Queen songs in 9 minutes

This is Gregg, Gregg is 34 years old and loves singing. He is a Queen fan as long as he remembers and he calls himself a 'human jukebox''. That's why he decided to record his performance in remember of Freddie and to ''celebrate for his 20th anniversary of Freddies pass''. It are -just what the titel says-  23 Queen songs in 9 minute. I'll be honest, I am not a lover of this style of performing, but I do love this. Great voices and I can say the way of putting so many lyrics and rythms together is just amazing. I love the way they're looking at each other at 1:55. Great performers, absolutely!

You can find more information about Gregg (and his band) here:

http://www.thesunchase.net/

http://www.onemonthonesong.com/ (French)

What do you think of this medley?

 

Never shown before Queen videos!

Because it's almost 20 years ago Freddie died, Een Vandaag shows us some never shown before videos about Queen. I hope you enjoy, you can find the link

here

http://www.eenvandaag.nl/buitenland/39014/freddie_mercury_de_definitieve_biografie#video99156

I've written the translations down the page for you.

Translation titles:

Uniek materiaal, Toppop Ahoy 1979- Unique material, Toppop Ahoy 1979

Uitreiking gouden plaat in een trein, 1982- Distribution ''golden plate'' in a train, 1982

Hij werd geboren als Farrokh Bulsara, scoorde samen met zijn band de hits Bohemian Rhapsody, I Want To Break Free en We Are The Champions, kwam openlijk uit voor zijn biseksualiteit en overleed bijna twintig jaar geleden aan Aids: Freddie Mercury. Deze week komt dé biografie over de Queen-zanger van journaliste Lesley-Ann Jones uit.

Jones sprak als enige met intimi van de zanger die tot nu toe gezwegen hebben. Haar biografie vormt de basis van de verfilming die in 2012 in de bioscoop te zien zal zijn. De rol van Mercury wordt vervuld door Sacha Baron Cohen.

Jarenlang volgde Jones voor de Britse krant The Daily Mail de tournees van Queen. Haar biografie, Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography, wordt tussen 2011 en 2012 op vijf continenten gepubliceerd. EenVandaag interviewt de biograaf en blikt terug op het kleurrijke leven van de Britse zanger.

Translation:

 

He was born as Farrokh Bulsara, ''scored'' with his band hits like Bohemian Rhapsody, I want to break free and We Are The Champion. This week is the release of THE biography of Queen's leadsinger, written by journalist Lesley-Ann Jones.

Jones was the only one who wrote with the friends of the singer, who didn't want to say anything about him yey. Her biography is the base of a movie that will be released in 2012. Sascha Baron Cohen will play the role of Freddie.

Jones followed the tours of Queen bu reading ''The Daily mail''. Het biography, Freddie Mercury: the Defenitive Boography will be published between 2011 and 2012 in 5 continents. EenVandaag interviewed the journalist and looks back to the colourful life of the British singer

Picture of the Week

Freddie, Mary and Mary's baby

Grundig Earphones

I almost eat earphones, I have to buy new ones once a month. Okay... I'll be honest, I always buy them as cheap as possible, maybe that's the reason they break so fast. This time I just wanted a better quality of earphones, That's why I bought this in-ear-stereo-earphones. I bought them for €8. And why pink? I just love bright colors, and this was the only bright color they had (For the Dutch, I bought them at Xenos).

Bad things about this earphones

-THE EARPHONES JUST BROKE WHILE I WAS GETTING THEM OUT OF THE PACKAGE. Lucky it was easy to repair.

-You can change the earbuds. For undentified  reason only the ones that doesn't fit on the speaker are my size.

Good things about the earphones

I Am A Red Special updates

Dear readers,

I am not someone that likes to share everything on the internet. But I am sure you have seen I don't upload that much anymore, but I tweet a lot. I just want to explain you why.

I have personal problems, I am just not fine at the moment, and we're working really hard to make it better, that just takes time. So you may understand my inspiration level is really low on the moment. I hope you understand.

And now another update, I want to make I Am A Red Special a little but more a lifestyle blog! But don't worry, I will keep talking about Queen. I just want to share another things too, like what the best earphones are, maybe some little lessons by other bloggers to teach you how to play Queen songs on your instrument or somethings like that.

I also have another interest, that's Tribal Fusion Bellydance. I will start another blog about that because it's something I really care about. So I will not be fulltime on this blog anymore. But I keep updating 3x a week of course!

I hope you understand.

Thirza

Queen fan stories: Thirza from the Netherlands

Hello guys time for my own Queen fan story!

First a little introduce, I am Thirza, 16 years old, Dutch school girl and Queen fan for six years.

In fact I can start this story at the age of 5, it must be around that age that it begun, but I don't want to bore you with it, so we're skipping to the age of 9. When I was 9, I began to discover the internet more and more, I learned myself how to type perfectly (in Dutch) and I learned fast and loved to discover new things, in that way I discovered the site http://www.stardoll.com/, stardoll is a site for dressing celebrities, a thing I really liked on that age. I was just clicking around and than I saw a doll named Freddie Mercury. I had no idea who it was, but I heard my mother talking about him sometimes, and I really was interested in to find out who it was. I dressed the Freddie doll with the most outrageous outfits, I really loved outragous outfit, I still do. I started to read the discription bar

Name: Farrokh Bulsara

Hobbies: Collector of Stamps
Proffesion: Singer

I just didn't understand why his name on the screen was Freddie Mercury, and his name in the discription bar was Farrokh Bulsara, so I started to google. I've seen a lot of pages about him at the time, and I discovered the music this man made, it were songs I remembered from the times I danced trough the living room when I was younger. I started to discover the other band members, but hey, it didn't get really fast, my bad English was (and still is) a big struggle for me.

A few months after that happened, there was a documentary about this man on the television, I didn't know that before, I just dropped down in the living room because I was bored. My parents said I had to be silent, because they were watching tv. Well, I didn't know what else to do so I just watched tv along with them. In fact, I was really dumb at the age of 9, I just didn't realise it was the Freddie Mercury I read about so much who was on television. But the documantary was really impressing, I still remember most parts of it. The day after the documantary I realised it was the same man.

But, we're still not at the time I became Queen fan. That was one year later, the same documantary was on tv, and this time I watched it
 myself, I was absolutely impressed by this documatary again, and I understood more what they were talking about, because I learned more about this band in the previous year. Now I knew who Brian May is, why Kashmira Bulsara was talking in this documantary, it was like a solved puzzle.

After watching that documantary, I just couldn't stop listening to their music, I discovered new songs, listened to my parents' Queen CD's, and started to kn

WIN!

Hello guys!

You remember the last championship? The winner removed his account, that's why I start a new championship. But now, we do a little different. YOU can choose what to win! I can't send you stuff, shipping costs just too much. Some examples

* A weekly item about your blog, tribute band or whatever you want for 4 weeks
* A banner with a link to your site for 6 weeks.
* Posting some of your items on my blog with a link to your own site where the item is from.

Just whatever you want, but remember, I just can't send things to you guys.

How can you win? Click ''read more'' to find out!

Do you look like the Queen members?

I was reading an old issue of Psychologie Magazine (psychology magazine, Dutch magazine) and I read a very interesting story. People always have anything in common with their hero! So I have a question for you guys, what do you think you have in common with the band members?

Well, I think I have in common with Freddie I am shy AND outrageous, what about you? Do you have anything in common with Freddie, or the other band members?

Picture of the week

Cutest Freddie cartoon ever

Sex with Brian May

Stay calm! Stay calm! I don't want sex with Brian! Haha, I don't.....

I ''infilrated'' into the tumblr world. And I found out an extremely high number of fans want sex with Brian May. I am not kidding! I just want to know what you think of this. My opinion is clearly enough:

!!!!!!!!!YUK!!!!!!!

It's just dirty, it's some kind of watching p_rn in your head. It's just... yuk. No words for it. No, I would never do this.

How about you? Be honest, you can comment anonymous ;)

Lady GaGa Queen's new leadsinger?

Already heard the news? Brian and Roger are thinking of letting Lady GaGa being Queen's new leadsinger!

What do you think of it? I personally think it sucks, to be honest. It's just a try to get a new Freddie, but Freddie is irreplaceble, so why take a try?

What am I doing here?

A friend of me had a picture of Justin Bieber in her diary, and I drew a mustashe on him because of fun.

girl:  I'm going to draw a mustashe on your idol too!

Thirza: But Freddie Mercury already has a mustashe

Girl: Who's Freddie Mercury?

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