New apartment

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:18 pm

Well, I got the majority of the move done today. I'm moving from Fort Collins to the city where I work. Mostly due to how it cuts down my commute, and due to the fact that the place I found is really nice.

Random things about said move:

o The big items were the TV, the Crystal Castles game, and the washing machine. The place I moved into has a washing machine, so we had to haul it up a flight of stairs just to put it in storage.

o Moving fucking sucks. I had two people help me -- my brother and Matthew "Bundy" Davis. I really could have used like 10, But moving sucks so much, I hate to ask. Next time I move, I'm hiring some movers.

o The new place has a walk-in closet. I am pretty sure that I have never had one before. It's also got something called "central air." Definitely never had that before. I set it for 54 degrees. It seemed like around 95 outside today at around 3:00pm or so. If this heat wave keeps up, I will set it so that I can see my breath in clouds. This is what civilization means to me.

o The place has a porch that faces south. So it's NFL football for me this year, as I'll be able to continue to have my Directv. ACES.

o There are many more cupboards and shelves that my old place. I have no idea what to do with them. There are a series of them in the main room, so I just put my gray Infocom boxes up. PICS COMING SOON LOL.

o On Friday, I accidently dumped 64 ounces of "Ragu" sauce on my couch. Today, we threw out the couch.

o Across the street from me is a "Safeway." I can see the current prices of fuel by turning my head to the left as I use my computer. I don't quite know what to make of that factoid.

The only other thing is that I have no idea where I am supposed to pickup my mail.

Roody_Yogurt · Post by **Roody_Yogurt** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:15 pm

Sounds great. I want to see that Infocom display LOL.

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:42 am

Yeah, moving does suck. I've never moved more than a couple blocks though - did you get a Uhaul?

And jeez, if it was 54 out you'd be cranking up your heat!

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:49 am

So, are you going to be like Sisyphus dragging that washing machine up an down stairs forever? I don't like to think about it. The thirty year old relic in this place broke down last winter. Huge old thing. Weirdly, they built the house around it - apparently -- or put the doors in afterwards. No way would it fit out the door without taking some wall out. My wife and I had to "dissassemble" the machine a hammer and drag it out piece by piece. Even the pieces felt like they were composed out of the core mateial from neutron stars.

Moving is terrible, though. Now, during my first marriage, I moved a few times and contemplate if you will moving 25,000 books and 15,000 record albums. No, I am not kidding. I can count how many books per box, count the boxes and do the math. Luckily I do not have to worry about moving all that any longer thanks to the divorce courts.

Wouldn't "Moving Day" be a good theme for a game? It involves objects of all sorts, tasks and puzzles.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:56 pm

Jack Straw wrote:Yeah, moving does suck. I've never moved more than a couple blocks though - did you get a Uhaul?

Yeah. Got the 24' one just to be safe. It was probably too big, but it was nice having that auto-lift.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 3:10 pm

Eric wrote:So, are you going to be like Sisyphus dragging that washing machine up an down stairs forever? I don't like to think about it.

Heh. I think that if I move into another apartment after this I'll sell it, but if I move into a home I'll keep it. The guy I lived with the first year in my last place found a crappy washing machine that lasted maybe two years before it died. It had to be 20 years old. It took me, my brother and my friend Fodge two hours to get that thing out of there -- we had it in chunks like how you described your own private washing machine hell.

Luckily, they seem to be much more lightweight these days. But still, I wouldn't want to have to lift one myself.

Moving is terrible, though. Now, during my first marriage, I moved a few times and contemplate if you will moving 25,000 books and 15,000 record albums. No, I am not kidding. I can count how many books per box, count the boxes and do the math. Luckily I do not have to worry about moving all that any longer thanks to the divorce courts.

Wait, because she got them or because the courts ordered them sold off?

Wouldn't "Moving Day" be a good theme for a game? It involves objects of all sorts, tasks and puzzles.

Ah-hah! It really would. Especially if the "diagnose" command stated how much energy you had left for moving crap instead of how many wounds you've taken. Heh.

looper · Post by **looper** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:27 pm

Waitasecond, I just moved too and our new place

-has central air (first time for us too)

-has a south-facing porch

-has much more storage space than our last place

Are you sure you're not living with me?

For me, it took much more energy to organize than to disorganize:

it was draining to put things into boxes, and to put the boxes into the U-Haul.

It was easy to take the boxes out of the U-Haul and put 'em in the new place. And easy to unpack the boxes.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:31 pm

TOPIC CHANGE

I wouldn't mind putting a painting or two up in my living room. Ideally this would mean that I go out and buy a couple of posters from Beksinski (if you run a Google search on his name, you can see why I'd dig him) and put frames on them, but you can't purchase posters of his work -- you'd need to get specific prints made up, and then run about $350 a piece. Maybe some day that'd be an option, but hey, I need to get a couch first.

So anyway, does anyone know of any independent artists kicking about out there on the Internet whose work is really good and can be purchased for a fair bit less than the $350 Mr Beksinski is going to run me?

Adam Cadre has done a Joust painting, which he's displayed here and I am thinking that in a purely technical sense it wouldn't be beyond me to do the same -- if I took a board and plotted out equally-distant squares to represent pixels, I could obviously then paint-by-numbers myself. So that's an option, but I'll make that Plan B. It'd be tough to really know what "scene" or screenshot I'd want to use. There's always Pac Man, I guess, or maybe a board from Crystal Castles, but ... well, let me put it this way. I have a "Mallrats" poster which I hang in my bedroom and not living room. Now that I am 29 it's probably best if I don't have something overtly cartoony on display in the first room anyone would see. So obviously, an original Pac Man board, or a CC or Joust or Robotron one would look nice, but Super Mario Brothers, Q*bert, Mortal Kombat or Killer Instinct or something wouldn't.

But yeah, I guess if I had to pinpoint down exactly what I am looking for, it'd be something dealing with night, space, planets, stars -- that sort of thing. My current view across the way is that of a well-lit supermarket and plaz, so it's unlikely that I'll see a star for the entire time I'm there. There's got to be a hundred not-yet-famous artists out there on the net who are criminally underappreciated, I just need to find a few of them.

Anyone you guys recommend?

Roody_Yogurt · Post by **Roody_Yogurt** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:44 pm

I like art by a musician I dig, Stephen Tunney ( http://www.eyeballplanet.com/tunneycentral.html ). For a while, I think he was selling prints of some of his stuff for like $50-$100 but I never bought one in time. Not sure if he still is, as it's no longer advertised.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:48 pm

http://www.nasosov.com/n/
http://alchemicalwedding.com/
That's pretty much all I know. It's better and cheaper* than what Marylin Manson paints I think.
That's uhh if they sell any of it.

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 7:24 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
Eric wrote:Moving is terrible, though. Now, during my first marriage, I moved a few times and contemplate if you will moving 25,000 books and 15,000 record albums. No, I am not kidding. I can count how many books per box, count the boxes and do the math. Luckily I do not have to worry about moving all that any longer thanks to the divorce courts.
Wait, because she got them or because the courts ordered them sold off?

You haven't been divorced have you?

Sorry..obligatory .knee jerk sarcasm there.

Actually I got to keep the house, which is unusual, but only because it had just been purchased, had already started losing value even though none of the principal had been paid -- city of Rochester see -- and so was no use to the ex who couldn't have paid the mortgage since she didn't work and didn't intend to. Everything else though, forget it. My lawyer actually tried to explain to the judge that this record and book collection had some value and ought at least to be figured as an asset she was getting in dividing up the property. Ever try to convince a judge that books and record albums have value?

Mind you, I do not exagerrate the numbers, but you can accumulate a lot of books and albums at thrift stores and yard sales for very little.(Not that she didn't keep the Bop Shop in business too.) So most of the stuff was really no loss, but, needless to say, from time to time, even more than a decade after, I find myself thinking "Damn...I wish I still had...uh...Golden Earring with P.J. Proby." (No, actually, I'm lying about that.)

One thing, though, I can download, in good conscience, practically any music you want to name up to say 1990 because, one way or another, heck I already bought it!

Of course it would help if I ever got a CD burner. I suppose CD burners'll be illegal soon, like drug paraphernalia. Well, if you can fill up half the jails with people who like the wrong varieties of drugs why not incarcerate music fans? And If -- that's weird. Anyone who likes whatever the hell that stuff is must be a danger to society. (Wait...I'm segueing here -- are you ready for this - thought Id lost the thread, right?) So next time you move it might just be to a cell and you won't have to worry about the refrigerator!

(Trying not to wander off topic here)

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:58 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Beksinski

Ho-leee FUCK.

These paintings give me EXACTLY the same feeling that reading Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" does. Wow. I want one too now.

Bruce

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:33 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:...a couple of posters from Beksinski (if you run a Google search on his name, you can see why I'd dig him...

Mmm.... Polish surrealism...

Violet · Post by **Violet** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:06 am

You want to put these up in your living room? You know that a living room is a place where people live, right? Having something like that staring at you, right as you walk into the house is kind of creepy. I'd rather see happy little pac man or any game character for that matter.

I would think you'd want your living room to warm and friendly. Not like you got it decorated by Otho from beetle juice or maybe the joker from batman. You should rename the room the dying room instead.

I guess it would make a nice conversation piece though.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:15 am

Not that I'm much for decoration or anything ... but if I wanted to spruce up my walls I'd learn to do grafitti then every time you got bored with ROBB WUZ HERE 03 sprayed on your wall you could just go over it and write that some chick gives bad head.

Otho fan · Post by **Otho fan** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:22 am

Whee!

Not like you got it decorated by Otho from beetle juice

By fucky we need more Otho references in pop humor.

loafergirl · Post by **loafergirl** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:11 am

Again Jonsey neglects the local artisans...... but he probably wouldn't dig my paintings/drawings/sculptures/etc anyway, so i spose that doesn't really matter.

-LG

Violet · Post by **Violet** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:27 am

I like the grafitti idea as well as the joust pixel picture. That's awesome. Those painting selections are bound to get you laid by a girl. Death is not so sexy. You don't want that kind of girl, one that says she wants a plastic bag over her head while she screams your name.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:46 am

looper wrote:Waitasecond, I just moved too and our new place

-has central air (first time for us too)

-has a south-facing porch

-has much more storage space than our last place

Are you sure you're not living with me?

The moving boxes are coming from inside the house!!!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:53 am

bruce wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Beksinski
Ho-leee FUCK.

These paintings give me EXACTLY the same feeling that reading Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" does. Wow. I want one too now.

The guy is as old as a leather ballsac, and really needs a new agent. It's unfortunate that he's not more famous. I mean, I know -- if I were truly serious and really wanted a piece I could get one of three different ones nicely done, rah bah bah... but putting a cheap print in a poster and behind some glass is fun. I don't mind doing that myself. But for a $350 print, I shouldn't have to "settle" for having a choice of three paintings that he's done. The ones I really want aren't available.

Most surreal paintings are either really stupid or have too much to do with goths, vampires, and succubi. Beksinski, being a pro and all, manages to just come up with things that are just plain wrong. I love it.

New apartment

New apartment

A-ha