good friends, we had
i hate that i dont update regularly. i hate that because i dont, most of my entries end up being really long updates about what's happened in the past X number of days. anywho, here is my update!
Toilets
i think any guy will agree that we do our best thinking in the bathroom. i dont know why and i dont think i ever will, but something about being naked just makes the epiphanies fly! well, i was in the bathroom when i realized a solution to a problem that's been plaguing me since i was a wee lad, dirty boys who pee standing up. to arrive to this solution, you have to ask yourself "why dont they just sit?" well, the answer is simple, its because they dont have to! do you think kids would actually stop wearing diapers if they weren't made to? of course not! people are always looking for the easy way out, whether its immoral or disgusting. so, knowing this, how do we remove the "easy way out" factor from toilets? in the following picture, you have a common, everyday toilet:
see, theres the problem... the SEAT! anyone who has ever cleaned a toilet knows that the most disgusting part to clean of any toilet is the bottom of the seat. it gets all filmy and grimy and it exsists for only one reason... guys like to stand when they pee. if guys generally sat down, do you think there would be a demand for making a seat that can lift up like the lid? no ma'am. this is my solution:
simple, no? yes!
Friends
its getting harder and harder to make mix cds for people and lately i've been doing a lot of them. it started a few months ago when i made Emily a "happy" cd-mix. then that moved on to making a Rilo Kiley mix for the beautiful miss Jamie. then, my boss was having a birthday and he made me a very awesome mix cd so it was only right that i make him one too. at the moment i'm working on two Radiohead mixes for Jessie and that is extremely hard to do! how do i condense hours of exceptional music into two cds? i'm trying very hard to do the band justice because they deserve it and i dont want Jessie to be introduced to Radiohead in a way that wont show her how awesome they are. after that, i'm making a few mix cds for my friend Shannon! i really have the urge to make mix tapes instead. how long has it been since someone made you a mix tape? i think the last mix tape i received was in 10th grade from Emily! i guess burning killed the audio cassette star.
two of my friends deleted me from their LJ! haha, AWKWARD! i guess i cant blame them, i never update and i never comment and i might have done the same thing in their place. still, its no skin off my nose. i think people should run their LJs however they see fit, even if it means deleting a few folks. people wonder why i'm not quick to add them on LJ when you add me? this is why. to avoid these awkward situations, not because i'm mean. adding is easy, no one gets hurt, but deleting is a bit harder.
while on the topic of friends, i finally had Macaroni Grill with Logan and it was delicious! i've owed her dinner for a while now and now we are totally even and my name is steven. now i just owe Mandy and Laura (Gray) meals! i would also like to thank everyone who came to my birthday party! i had my first drink on that day and although it was disgusting, i can now say that i've drank. will i drink again? probably, but i dont want to become a lush.
Music
i dont know who to blame and i hate to admit to this, but i'm very much addicted to NPR (national public radio). it started the weekend of my birthday and i havent looked back since. the only thing that really concerns me is finding a balance. i dont want to become one of those people who ONLY listens to NPR because i dont wanna miss out on new music. i'm afraid that if i become too adicted to NPR i will only listen to that and my love of music and pop culture will diminish. whats really weird is that this isnt something i suddenly started enjoying when i turned 22, and by "this" i mean "very boring things". i remember being 12 and watching hours of A&E or Discovery Channel and absolutely loving it. i know that if i had turned on NPR then or a year ago, i still would have liked it. its the stories. i love stories, i love hearing people tell them, i love that i dont have to talk, i just listen. its escapism at its simplest and most primitive. stories where passed on in spoken word long before we started writing them down. its like when kids suddenly started buying record players because they were retro. npr is my retro, my way of renouncing a digital age (if only for a few minutes a day) where everything is recorded and reproduced in identical mass quantity. ironic, i know, since you can hear audio recordings of almost any show on npr on the internet, but i like to think that in 50 years, when or if those records are erased or forgotten, the best of those stories i heard as a twentysomething year old in college will live on in my mind and in the minds of those i share them with.
on that note, i REALLY like the new William Shatner album! dont ask me why, it just makes sense. its possible that he is sooooooooooo out that he's actually in! thats the way this world goes. also, Emily, you'll be happy to hear that i'm really starting to like Elliott Smith! its a rare thing when i find a band i can get into immediately, i usually have to wait the right time or place and then the music starts to make sense. a few days ago i had my itunes on shuffle and this song came on: "i didnt understand." beautiful. after i realized how much i liked that song, i put itunes on all-Elliott-Smith-mode and a wonderful friendship was born! another very weird musician i'm into right now: Johnny Cash. again, dont as me why, but "i'm lovin' it".
last, i need everyone's help with something. when i was in South Carolina we used to play this very weird game on the computer. it was very Myst-like, with the prerendered backgrounds and the puzzle solving. you walked around this jungle-like place solving... puzzles, duh. the one puzzle i remember best looked a bit like this:
you had a bunch of random red shapes that you had to somehow fit into a specific area, and once you did a clue would be revealed. does anyone know the name of this game?!!! ok, thats enough for today. later yall.
Toilets
i think any guy will agree that we do our best thinking in the bathroom. i dont know why and i dont think i ever will, but something about being naked just makes the epiphanies fly! well, i was in the bathroom when i realized a solution to a problem that's been plaguing me since i was a wee lad, dirty boys who pee standing up. to arrive to this solution, you have to ask yourself "why dont they just sit?" well, the answer is simple, its because they dont have to! do you think kids would actually stop wearing diapers if they weren't made to? of course not! people are always looking for the easy way out, whether its immoral or disgusting. so, knowing this, how do we remove the "easy way out" factor from toilets? in the following picture, you have a common, everyday toilet:
see, theres the problem... the SEAT! anyone who has ever cleaned a toilet knows that the most disgusting part to clean of any toilet is the bottom of the seat. it gets all filmy and grimy and it exsists for only one reason... guys like to stand when they pee. if guys generally sat down, do you think there would be a demand for making a seat that can lift up like the lid? no ma'am. this is my solution:
simple, no? yes!
Friends
its getting harder and harder to make mix cds for people and lately i've been doing a lot of them. it started a few months ago when i made Emily a "happy" cd-mix. then that moved on to making a Rilo Kiley mix for the beautiful miss Jamie. then, my boss was having a birthday and he made me a very awesome mix cd so it was only right that i make him one too. at the moment i'm working on two Radiohead mixes for Jessie and that is extremely hard to do! how do i condense hours of exceptional music into two cds? i'm trying very hard to do the band justice because they deserve it and i dont want Jessie to be introduced to Radiohead in a way that wont show her how awesome they are. after that, i'm making a few mix cds for my friend Shannon! i really have the urge to make mix tapes instead. how long has it been since someone made you a mix tape? i think the last mix tape i received was in 10th grade from Emily! i guess burning killed the audio cassette star.
two of my friends deleted me from their LJ! haha, AWKWARD! i guess i cant blame them, i never update and i never comment and i might have done the same thing in their place. still, its no skin off my nose. i think people should run their LJs however they see fit, even if it means deleting a few folks. people wonder why i'm not quick to add them on LJ when you add me? this is why. to avoid these awkward situations, not because i'm mean. adding is easy, no one gets hurt, but deleting is a bit harder.
while on the topic of friends, i finally had Macaroni Grill with Logan and it was delicious! i've owed her dinner for a while now and now we are totally even and my name is steven. now i just owe Mandy and Laura (Gray) meals! i would also like to thank everyone who came to my birthday party! i had my first drink on that day and although it was disgusting, i can now say that i've drank. will i drink again? probably, but i dont want to become a lush.
Music
i dont know who to blame and i hate to admit to this, but i'm very much addicted to NPR (national public radio). it started the weekend of my birthday and i havent looked back since. the only thing that really concerns me is finding a balance. i dont want to become one of those people who ONLY listens to NPR because i dont wanna miss out on new music. i'm afraid that if i become too adicted to NPR i will only listen to that and my love of music and pop culture will diminish. whats really weird is that this isnt something i suddenly started enjoying when i turned 22, and by "this" i mean "very boring things". i remember being 12 and watching hours of A&E or Discovery Channel and absolutely loving it. i know that if i had turned on NPR then or a year ago, i still would have liked it. its the stories. i love stories, i love hearing people tell them, i love that i dont have to talk, i just listen. its escapism at its simplest and most primitive. stories where passed on in spoken word long before we started writing them down. its like when kids suddenly started buying record players because they were retro. npr is my retro, my way of renouncing a digital age (if only for a few minutes a day) where everything is recorded and reproduced in identical mass quantity. ironic, i know, since you can hear audio recordings of almost any show on npr on the internet, but i like to think that in 50 years, when or if those records are erased or forgotten, the best of those stories i heard as a twentysomething year old in college will live on in my mind and in the minds of those i share them with.
on that note, i REALLY like the new William Shatner album! dont ask me why, it just makes sense. its possible that he is sooooooooooo out that he's actually in! thats the way this world goes. also, Emily, you'll be happy to hear that i'm really starting to like Elliott Smith! its a rare thing when i find a band i can get into immediately, i usually have to wait the right time or place and then the music starts to make sense. a few days ago i had my itunes on shuffle and this song came on: "i didnt understand." beautiful. after i realized how much i liked that song, i put itunes on all-Elliott-Smith-mode and a wonderful friendship was born! another very weird musician i'm into right now: Johnny Cash. again, dont as me why, but "i'm lovin' it".
last, i need everyone's help with something. when i was in South Carolina we used to play this very weird game on the computer. it was very Myst-like, with the prerendered backgrounds and the puzzle solving. you walked around this jungle-like place solving... puzzles, duh. the one puzzle i remember best looked a bit like this:
you had a bunch of random red shapes that you had to somehow fit into a specific area, and once you did a clue would be revealed. does anyone know the name of this game?!!! ok, thats enough for today. later yall.