I just saw a bit on the Today show that annoyed me. Oh there's a shock, something's annoying Courtney again. The bit was titled "how to decorate a bookshelf" which doesn't sound as ridiculous as it really was. It was how to place items on your book shelf to make it look as pretty as possible, which meant adding useless decorative boxes and bowls that serve absolutely no purpose. Why does this annoy me? Hmm, let me explain:
The purpose of a bookshelf is to place your books on it, right. You can order them however you see fit (I personally normally put books on my shelves according to size, but whatever you fancy is fine). What a book shelf doesn't need is useless crap that is just going to block my way to getting to my books. I don't need a bowl of potpourri sitting on some of my books that I laid sideways because they were to big to put upright. My books don't need to smell like country apples or fresh linen no matter how much i like those smells. I also don't need fabric colored boxes taking up precious book space. I have many books, all of which I would like to get to should I choose to read them again.
My bookshelf is not there to please your eyes, its there to hold my books. If books aren't pleasing to your eyes just the way there are then why the hell do you have a book shelf at all? I actually need several more book shelves for all the books I have and I don't plan on squandering any of my space on a decorative misshapen bowl just to make my guest visually appeased.
In other words, kiss my butt you silly decorative bowl people!!!!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Regina Spektor
I'm not huge on concerts. In most cases I couldn't care less about seeing a person live. I usually only go to concerts if someone asks me, someone buys tickets as a gift for me, or I'm just at a bar and some random band decides to start playing and interrupts my conversation. It's not that I'm against going to concerts or anything, obviously I've been to a few, I just don't get into it as much as some people. If I have their CD or if they are on my iPod that's good enough for me. If I can sing along with them in my car I'm happy. On the other hand when I'm at a concert and the entire mass of annoyance begins to sing along with the person on stage I get pretty annoyed. I came to hear them sing, not you, asshole. On top of that you are bound to have some Sasquatch with an over-sized head and obnoxious Friends standing right in front of you. Another thing I dislike is the fact that the people who price everything at the concert halls apparently come from the future where priced have inflated to twice their normal price. A shot glass sized drink of mostly cranberry juice and very little vodka can set you back $4 to $5.... which is why I choose to go thirsty. I'd rather pass out from dehydration and sue the hall later if it comes to that. Same goes for the concert tee's. What planet do these people come from that $30 for a plain tee is reasonable? Especially when I can easily go online and get the t-shirt half priced. And who's really wants to argue with me about whether or not I got a band tee at the actual concert or not? Putting all my insanity aside for a moment I enjoyed the Regina Spektor concert this past Friday.
My roommate asked me a few weeks back if I was interested in seeing Regina Spektor at Sokal Auditorium on Friday October 5th. I said sure and immediately forgot about it. She reminded me about a week before the concert which was nice because then I didn't overlap any plans. My first course of action was to make fun of the tickets. Since she ordered them online you have to print off an e-mail ticket. It says on the ticket present this whole page to be scanned which I thought was amusing because how many people are actually cutting up their print off before they go to the concert? Seriously, guys? But they had to print it on there so I assume there is more than one moron in this world.
Next we got there only a tiny bit early and we had a chance to check out the merchandise which induced the rant about about the $30 concert tee. There weren't any specifics on the tee to warrant the high price. It's not like it said 'bad-ass concert at sokal auditorium 10/5/2007'. Nothing even close. Just an imprint of the CD cover on the front of a black or white tee. No thanks.
So, we piled into the mass in front of the stage and the opening act came on a few moments later. He was okay. Nothing note worthy. There was no back-up band for either the opening act or Regina Spektor so the opening act used his iPod for the drums and other instruments that he didn't have. He then proceeded to have a conversation with his iPod which can apparently speak. It was cute the first couple of times, but it just got annoying towards the end and a few in the crowd agreed since they decided to heckle him about it. Then he was done and we all just milled about for a half an hour waiting for the reason we all gathered together in the apparently non-air conditioned building.
I thought I had a pretty good view of the stage since I had been able to see the opening act just fine and I had a pretty good view of the piano set slightly off center. But anyone who's been to a concert knows that you are bound to get at least one asshole standing somewhere near you to ruin the whole experience for you. My roommate and I were lucky enough to get three of these special people directly in front of us. The girl to our left had so major 80s perm fro going on only secondary to the fact that her head was already massive. She was about my height, but with the frizz she was quite nicely blocking the whole stage. The special ed in the center turned out to be the most obnoxious when a moment after Regina Spektor asked people to not be so loud she started talking as loud as possible to her two friends, asking them if she thought it was a joke, because she was positive that it was just a joke. Her friends quickly pretended not to be with her and scooted in opposite directions. The third one was probably the best of the three because she was a little too far away from me to block my view or annoy me with loud talking during quiet songs.
Regina Spektor was absolutely fantastic. She was friendly with the crowd, but she didn't waste too much time talking between songs. She wanted to sing as much as we wanted to hear her sing. She got through quite a bit of her two CDs, but had managed to miss two of my favorite songs; Fidelity and Samson. I wasn't too upset though since I did get to hear both On the Radio and Better. There were a few songs I could have done without, but I;m sure someone else enjoyed them so I won't bitch too much on that score. Then she was leaving already. I really wasn't going to hear my two songs and that really sucked. Of course there was the encore and as long as Regina wasn't as much of a bitch as Liz Phair was (who walked out after her sent and never came back out even though people were cheering for a good 5 to 7 minutes for her) I'd get another chance of hearing one of them. She sang three more songs, but no luck and I figures that was it.... who sings a whole other set for their encore? Well, that wasn't it because finally! I heard the familiar start to Fidelity. Sweet! At least my roommate got to hear her favorite song. Then she impressed me even more with two more songs the last being my all time favorite: Samson and that made the night for me.
I bitched about massive head girl in front of me for most of the way back to the car, but felt better after I was done. And that was it. A good concert overall with my few complaints about concerts in general. I guess my annoyance boils down to that whole problem with me hating people again. Since I hate people so much it's hard for me to be in a mass of them and not get annoyed by at least one of them. Working in service related jobs made me the way I am so you can all blame yourselves if you were ever the asshole or bitch at a restaurant or retail store for people like me.
My roommate asked me a few weeks back if I was interested in seeing Regina Spektor at Sokal Auditorium on Friday October 5th. I said sure and immediately forgot about it. She reminded me about a week before the concert which was nice because then I didn't overlap any plans. My first course of action was to make fun of the tickets. Since she ordered them online you have to print off an e-mail ticket. It says on the ticket present this whole page to be scanned which I thought was amusing because how many people are actually cutting up their print off before they go to the concert? Seriously, guys? But they had to print it on there so I assume there is more than one moron in this world.
Next we got there only a tiny bit early and we had a chance to check out the merchandise which induced the rant about about the $30 concert tee. There weren't any specifics on the tee to warrant the high price. It's not like it said 'bad-ass concert at sokal auditorium 10/5/2007'. Nothing even close. Just an imprint of the CD cover on the front of a black or white tee. No thanks.
So, we piled into the mass in front of the stage and the opening act came on a few moments later. He was okay. Nothing note worthy. There was no back-up band for either the opening act or Regina Spektor so the opening act used his iPod for the drums and other instruments that he didn't have. He then proceeded to have a conversation with his iPod which can apparently speak. It was cute the first couple of times, but it just got annoying towards the end and a few in the crowd agreed since they decided to heckle him about it. Then he was done and we all just milled about for a half an hour waiting for the reason we all gathered together in the apparently non-air conditioned building.
I thought I had a pretty good view of the stage since I had been able to see the opening act just fine and I had a pretty good view of the piano set slightly off center. But anyone who's been to a concert knows that you are bound to get at least one asshole standing somewhere near you to ruin the whole experience for you. My roommate and I were lucky enough to get three of these special people directly in front of us. The girl to our left had so major 80s perm fro going on only secondary to the fact that her head was already massive. She was about my height, but with the frizz she was quite nicely blocking the whole stage. The special ed in the center turned out to be the most obnoxious when a moment after Regina Spektor asked people to not be so loud she started talking as loud as possible to her two friends, asking them if she thought it was a joke, because she was positive that it was just a joke. Her friends quickly pretended not to be with her and scooted in opposite directions. The third one was probably the best of the three because she was a little too far away from me to block my view or annoy me with loud talking during quiet songs.
Regina Spektor was absolutely fantastic. She was friendly with the crowd, but she didn't waste too much time talking between songs. She wanted to sing as much as we wanted to hear her sing. She got through quite a bit of her two CDs, but had managed to miss two of my favorite songs; Fidelity and Samson. I wasn't too upset though since I did get to hear both On the Radio and Better. There were a few songs I could have done without, but I;m sure someone else enjoyed them so I won't bitch too much on that score. Then she was leaving already. I really wasn't going to hear my two songs and that really sucked. Of course there was the encore and as long as Regina wasn't as much of a bitch as Liz Phair was (who walked out after her sent and never came back out even though people were cheering for a good 5 to 7 minutes for her) I'd get another chance of hearing one of them. She sang three more songs, but no luck and I figures that was it.... who sings a whole other set for their encore? Well, that wasn't it because finally! I heard the familiar start to Fidelity. Sweet! At least my roommate got to hear her favorite song. Then she impressed me even more with two more songs the last being my all time favorite: Samson and that made the night for me.
I bitched about massive head girl in front of me for most of the way back to the car, but felt better after I was done. And that was it. A good concert overall with my few complaints about concerts in general. I guess my annoyance boils down to that whole problem with me hating people again. Since I hate people so much it's hard for me to be in a mass of them and not get annoyed by at least one of them. Working in service related jobs made me the way I am so you can all blame yourselves if you were ever the asshole or bitch at a restaurant or retail store for people like me.
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