ROCK INTO SPRING PARTY

SATURDAY at T.R.A.C.S

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Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth. The specific definition of the exact timing of "spring" varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. At the spring equinox, days are close to 12 hours long with day length increasing as the season progresses.

Spring is seen as a time of growth, renewal, of new life (both plant and animal) being born. The term is also used more generally as a metaphor for the start of better times, as in the Prague Spring.

"Here Comes the Sun" is a song by George Harrison from The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road.

"Here Comes the Sun" is one of Harrison's best-known Beatles contributions alongside "Something". The year 1969 was a difficult one for Harrison: he was arrested for marijuana possession, he had his tonsils removed, and he had quit the band temporarily.

Harrison stated in his autobiography:

"Here Comes the Sun" was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'Sign this' and 'sign that'. Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever, by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote "Here Comes the Sun".

Here Comes The Sun Lyrics

Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo

Here comes the sun, and I say

It's alright

Little darling

It's been a long, cold, lonely winter

Little darling

It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun, and I say

It's alright

Little darling

The smiles returning to the faces

Little darling

It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun, and I say

It's alright

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling

I see the ice is slowly melting

Little darling

It seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun and i say,

It's alright X2 

DRAG QUEEN PARTY in SWEETGRASS

Yesterday

Have never you been a bit crazy? Haven't you thought of breaking ever rules and becoming hot and glamorous? Don't doubt it! Make up, seize your high heel shoes, dress the bodice to show off your figure and more, look for your more sexy skirts, grab your broad-brimmed hat, wear your silk tights and come to the 
Hottest Drag Queen party at 

Sweetgrass Pool & Disco with DJ Xon.

Miss DJ Xon and Liam

 Miss Aita

Miss Norbie

Miss Ellbee

Miss Pietro

Miss Elijah

 Miss Robin

 Miss Ellbee and guard Cedric

 Miss Christo

 Arrival of Maartin

 Miss Jenna as herself

Gandalle

ON THE CAT WALK

 Ellbee

 Frankie

Christo

Norbie

Picture of the winners is made by Norbie

Someone Like You

There are songs that give me goosebumps and shivers down the spine.

One is "Someone Like You" performand by Adele.

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele, is an English recording artist and songwriter. Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on MySpace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK. 19 was certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

"Someone Like You" was written by Adele and Dan Wilson for her second studio album 21. The piano and blue-eyed soul ballad was inspired by a broken relationship of Adele's, and lyrically it speaks of Adele coming to terms with it. XL Recordings released the song as the second single from the album on 24 January 2011 in the United Kingdom and on 9 August 2011 in the United States. Accompanied only by a piano played by co-writer Wilson, Adele sings about the end of the relationship with her ex-boyfriend. The song received positive reviews from music critics who chose the song as a highlight on the album and praised its simple sound. The lyrics and Adele's vocal performance in the song were also praised.

At the 2011 Q Awards, "Someone Like You" was nominated in the category for Best Track. The song was also nominated in the category for Best Song at the 2011 Music of Black Origin Awards. "Someone Like You" received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards, on 12 February 2012. http://www.adele.tv/home

"Someone Like You"

I heard that you're settled down

That you found a girl and you're married now.

I heard that your dreams came true.

Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?

Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.

I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you too

Don't forget me, I beg

I remember you said,

"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, "

Yeah

You know how the time flies

Only yesterday was the time of our lives

We were born and raised

In a summer haze

Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.

I'd hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you too

Don't forget me, I beg

I remember you said,

"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."

Yeah

Nothing compares

No worries or cares

Regrets and mistakes

They are memories made.

Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you

Don't forget me, I beg

I remember you said,

"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you too

Don't forget me, I beg

I remember you said,

"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."

Yeah 

Even Apeldoorn Bellen

The phrase "Even Apeldoorn Bellen" now belongs to our national heritage. We are now to the 52nd  commercial in the series from Central Administration Achmea. This time it's about two guys who go, with their classic car, to a car show. This commercial was filmed near Miami, in an area that is often used for dragracing. For car lovers: the lowrider is a 1965 Ford Thunderbird.

In this new comercial two guys go to an American car show.

Actually it's a thankless task to devise a new commercial for Centraal Beheer Achmea. The level has been raised enormously high, thanks to the success of some of the previous commercials. This new commercial delivers not more than a smile on me. 

What I like, is that there are many small jokes are processed before the final joke in the movie appears. The flirting, the almost-arguing with the other car owner, lowering the car when parking, the billboard with the text ' When it's not Bob's it ain't a wiener ' . Compared to those little jokes I found the final joke quite predictable. I find ' Birdie ' not a bad commercial, but also not one of the better in the series.

Centraal Beheer is an insurance company sited in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. It is part of Achmea, the largest insurance company in the country. It is usually referred to as "Apeldoorn". Their Offices are well known for their architecture by Herman Hertzberger.

Commercials

Centraal Beheer is famous for its campaign of TV commercials that has lasted for over fifteen years now. These are short humoristic spots, generally without dialogue, in which something goes horrendously wrong, followed by the catchphrase "Even Apeldoorn bellen" ("Just call Apeldoorn"). This phrase is sometimes used as a general saying, in meme-like fashion to mean something like "oops" or "D'oh", and it is for this reason that the company is generally referred to with the metonym "Apeldoorn" rather than its proper name. On the international versions of the commercials, the catchphrase is "Just call us".

For instance - a nervous man is offered a place in a secure witness protection program if he will testify against a mafia leader. He accepts and testifies. Then he packs his bags and drives off to an idyllic, friendly town in the middle of nowhere. Unpacking and settling in, he breathes easily once more. Then the doorbell rings. He opens the door ................

Many of their commercials have won the Gouden Loeki, the so-called Academy Award for Dutch commercials. 

PYJAMA PARTY at T.R.A.C.S

For us Europeans it would be a short night. To save time, everybody could come in there sleepwear.

No matter if people would sleep in PJs, shorts, long-johns, sleepshirts, cotton, silk, or even NAKED....

DJ Monkey Dean and his sexy host Sinny did rock the beds.

We had a great party.
Here some snapshots.

Sinny and DJ Dean

Phyxle

Rod and Norbie

Beef and Lexzia

Curtis

Ellbee

Aita

Curtis lost some buttons

Jace

Sabin

Lexzia and Apuh

Jenna and in the back Guy

Christo

Blob, Sabin and Norbie

You're Not You When You're Hungry

Snickers is a brand name candy bar made by Mars, Incorporated. It consists of peanut nougat topped with roasted peanuts and caramel, enrobed in milk chocolate. Snickers has annual global sales of $2 billion.

In 1930, Mars introduced Snickers, named after the favorite horse of the Mars family. The Snickers candy bar consists of nougat, peanuts and caramel with a chocolate coating. The bar was marketed under the name "Marathon" in the UK and Ireland until 1990, when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name. Snickers traditionally have around 16 peanuts in each bar, and more than 99 tons of peanuts go into making over 15 million Snickers bars each day. There are also several other Snickers products such as Snickers mini, peanut butter, almond, dark, white chocolate and even ice cream. 

In 2008 a Snickers commercial starring Mr. T was been pulled in the U.K. In the commercial, Mr. T shoots Snickers bars at a speed walker in the "Get Some Nuts" ad campaign.

Complaints were filed over the Omnicom AMV BBDO London-created ad, calling Mr. T's actions homophobic and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation began talks with the candy bar manufacturer. Mars issued this statement about the Snickers brand commercial, saying, "This ad is the second in a series of U.K. Snickers ads featuring Mr. T which are meant to be fun and which have been positively received in the U.K. However, we understand that humor is highly subjective, and it is never our intention to cause offense. Accordingly, we have pulled the Mr. T Speedwalker ad globally.

It was just the year before that another Snickers ad faced controversy. During Super Bowl XLI, two mechanics accidentally kissed and had to do something "manly" to make up for it. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and the Human Rights Campaign complained about that commercial and it was pulled from TV and the Internet.

In 2010, Betty White and Abe Vigoda appeared in a Snickers commercial, playing American football. The commercial was ranked by ADBOWL as the best advertisement of the year. Later that year, Snickers commercials featured singers Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli, and comedians Richard Lewis and Roseanne Barr A 2011 commercial featured actors Joe Pesci and Don Rickles.

In 2012, a new advertising campaign was launched, based around men turning into different things when they're hungry, depending on the commercial's location or what variety the commercial is showing. The UK version featuring men in a changing room turning into Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham.

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Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), best known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and television personality. With a career spanning over seven decades, she is best known to contemporary audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls.

Abe Vigoda (born February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor who appeared in such movies as The Godfather and Good Burger.

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as the Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock.

She won 18 competitive Grammys and two honorary Grammys. She has 20 No.1 singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart and two No.1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967) and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987), a duet with George Michael.

Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli.

Already established as a nightclub singer and musical theatre actress, she first attracted critical acclaim for her dramatic performances in the movies The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970); Minnelli then rose to international stardom for her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Richard Philip Lewis (born June 29, 1947) is an American comedian and actor.

He achieved moderate success in films, appearing as Prince John in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, as a frontier doctor in Wagons East!

Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer and director. She was gaining fame for her role in the sitcom Roseanne. The show was a hit and lasted nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997.

Joseph Frank "Joe" Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for playing a variety of different roles, from violent mobsters to comedic leads to quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films including Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, JFK, Home Alone, and the Lethal Weapon series.

Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (born May 8, 1926) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic.

In 2011, Rickles joined Joe Pesci in a Snickers advertisement highlighting the actors known for their "short fuses."

Joan Henrietta Collins, (born 23 May 1933), is an English actress, author, and columnist.

Collins landed Alexis Colby, the role for which she is perhaps best known, in the long running 1980s prime time television soap opera Dynasty.

Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is a British television, film and theatre actress. Making her film debut in 1971's The Nightcomers opposite Marlon Brando and becoming more well-known on British television in the BBC series Tenko (1981–84) and the ITV series Connie (1985), her worldwide breakthrough came as a result of playing the very bitchy and very rich Sable Colby in the ABC series The Colbys (1985–87) and in the final season of Dynasty (1988–89).