Hiya. I'm just getting back into the game after a 2-year break, and the same struggles are following me. The main one right now is splitting time between the Old World and New World. I tend to hyper focus on one, then the other one lags behind. Or even just focusing on one island for a while - at the expense of all the others. It's a bit daunting. How do you guys manage your time between worlds and islands?
I know, this one is a bit weird. But, I want to invest in a quality pair of headphones. I have pixel ear buds, which are great, but I have weird ears and they fall out frequently and make my ears itchy. So, I want over the over the ear kind.
I do have a pair of those, but they're cheap ones from Amazon. Where it becomes Queen related is I'm looking for recommendations that would be good, and sharp (?) - my favourites to listen to are take tracks with them talking, but I find that the over the ear ones I have, you can barely hear them or it's muffled. Does anyone have any recommendations?
So, it's been 2.5 years since my husband passed away. At first I had fairly regular contact with my brother-in-law, his wife and his two children. They really stepped up and helped me get moved, etc. But relatively gradually, I've lost pretty much all contact with them except the invites to the obligatory family dinners that they do - Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas. Even when my husband was alive, we never did socialize much, beyond the occasional gathering of friends. I've tried reaching out to go for coffee with my sister-in-law, but it's always a story of how busy she is.
After my husband passed, I kept up with his traditional gift giving - birthdays for all four of them, and Christmas. He wasn't cheap, either. About $200 a pop each time. It was just my nephew-in-law(?)'s birthday, I passed a long a card with gift certificates though my mother-in-law (I do see her fairly regularly) because it's not worth the trouble to try and coordinate dropping it off (it becomes a whole production). I never got a thank you or acknowledgement.
It feels kind of silly to be posting this, but I just want to stop giving them gifts - at least these birthdays. My niece-in-law just turned 18, and she was the youngest so I feel like maybe that's a good lever to use to break it off. I've given 3 of the 4 of them birthday gifts this year, just not my brother-in-law whose birthday is next month. But I have the least amount of contact with him. Like pretty much zilch. Do I need to get him something and start with no gifts next year? Do I need to address it or do I just stop? Am I being petty? They do give me a birthday gift each year - pretty much the only one I get since I have no family left.
I just don't know how to extricate myself from this because it's expensive, hard to buy for people you barely know at this point, and it's awkward to give them stuff. But at the same time I don't want to offend? Anyone had a similar situation?
I visited a used record and collectables store today and found the above...cost me $115 total. I feel like I did well?
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Does anyone know anything about the blue interview record? Side 1 is "Roger Taylor interview, Germany 1991".
My first day in Montreux was Queen-filled! I did the extended Freddie Mercury walking tour (2.5 hours), and it was so, so well done. And respectful. They really should call it "In Freddie's Footsteps" because you literally and figuratively do that. There were lots of really interesting tidbits, too, about the whole band and Mountain Studio. Peter Freestone was there at the end to greet us.
Also, the boat that famous party was in is still floating around. And the other picture was the entrance to Mountain Studios back in the day, but it's now the tribute thing.
Still have to do the Queen Studio experience, and then an afternoon and an evening with Peter.
If you've been thinking about doing the trip - just do it! Worst case scenario you have a lovely little trip to Switzerland... Best case you can fully nerd out on Queen AND have a lovely little trip to Switzerland!
I just have to say that I am absolutely obsessed with the Queen I and II take tracks - listening to them argue, fuss and laugh (sometimes all at the same time) while recording is my happy place. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke takes 4 & 9 is absolute gold.
I really, really hope we get more of these going forward.
Anyhow, just thought I'd post this. It's hard to come up with original stuff to post here, when you have a band with such loyal fans that have been around for so long. So apologies if I'm being redundant.
Is gone from Disney Plus? I just watched it the other day. FFS.
I'm traveling internationally in June with a long overnight flight, and I'm wondering if anyone has found a place in town that rents travel CPAP machines? I don't have the extra $1400 to drop to buy one.