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Post by Angel on Apr 26, 2009 8:09:13 GMT -5
Hell, it only takes a couple hours. Do it one day when you're sick.
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Post by Vito The Don on Apr 26, 2009 13:07:18 GMT -5
Man, I just went back and looked, This thread started in the 07 when I was in Italy, this is freaken old!
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Post by Angel on Apr 26, 2009 14:31:58 GMT -5
No shit Vito.  |
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Post by Vito The Don on Apr 26, 2009 16:43:37 GMT -5
Here's one: What kind of music do you guys listen to?
I'll listen to just about anythings, My favorites are: Weezer, The Format, Anamanguchi,Reel big fish, Arcade fire,Bad religion, The unicorns, the islands, Beck, bright eyes, Cold war kids, The decemberists, Dispatch, Flogging Molly (Who I've seen 3 times and met twice) The fire theft, Rush and sufjan Stevens to name a few.
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Post by Noah on Apr 26, 2009 17:38:43 GMT -5
I like elevator music. Not just the kind of music they play in them but the actual music in the elevator. I stand in elevators all day listening to them. I go downtown and wander from hotel to hotel. I know all the best ones.
Sometimes I act like I'm a hotel patron just riding the elevator to a particualr floor like everybody else. I push a button on the higher levels and just head up. I switch to a different elevator and head down, so on and so forth. I act exasperrated and look at my watch whenever someone comes on or I'll scoot really close to the wall like I have some fear of touching them.
Other days I just feel like relaxing in them. I bring a lawn chair and a good book and sit in the same elevator all day long. I'll try to start a conversation with interesting people when I don't feel like reading. It disturbs them for some reason.
When I ride them I like to jump. If you hit that one sweet spot just as it starts to move you can get mad air time or very little depending on the vertical direction. A friend once said he smacked his head on the ceiling of one going down. I don't believe him. That doesn't stop me from trying it myself. I've gotten my hand to touch a bunch of times, but I can do that without having to use the elevator's movement so it doesn't really count.
I know all the public elevators in my city like the back of my hand. The ones at the Mariott and Hilton are fancy with rich, maroon carpet and classical or big band jazz playing. Sometimes they even have an operator in them. These are my favorite but they are also the hardest to linger in. The patrons tend to report me and I get kicked out. They once asked me why they kept having to kick me out of the elevator. I simply answered, "I like the ambience." The elevator operators they have on fancy days can be a blessing or a curse. Sometimes they like someone there to talk with all through the day. I'll leave once in a while and get us snacks from the corner store. Most of the time they just yell at me to get out and I have to leave.
The ones at the mall are really interesting. They have large glass windows that let you look at all three floors of the mall at once. I can sit and observe the patrons scurrying about like ants, searching for their consumerism nectar. The security guards are usually cool and let me stand in the elevator but they don't like it when I bring the chair. I found I can get around this by acting like a cripple. No one yells at cripples for having wheelchairs in the elevator. The setback though is that the music quality is sometimes poor. It has classical and jazz interspersed throughout but usually it just plays new pop music which just doesn't fit when you're reading Poe, Doyle, or Shakespeare.
The one at the library has great music and easy access to new books if need be but it's so small. Six people makes it crowded. While this is fine when I want to get the real elevator feel when I just want to relax it just feels awkward. Plus it always smells like bananas. Don't ask me why, no one knows. The only thing we know is that trying to put air fresheners up just makes the elevator smell like air freshners and bananas.
Probably the easiest elevators are the ones in the Days Inn and Red Roof Inn. These are so easy to get into and just hang. The patrons are usually business people who leave early and come in late so I don't bother them. I can ride up all 17 floors and back down without ever having to stop at any floor I don't want to. But the radios are broken a lot and they tend to play easy listening Muzak, not all that bad but see the remark on the mall.
A elevator that intrigues me is the one in the tallest building here in the city. I can ride it up 49 entire stories and back down. My goal is to one day do all 49 stories up and down without stopping at any floors. I haven't been able to yet, although I've gotten really close. The elevator is quite ornate, with gold inlay and what I think is real mahogony paneling. It smells like cinnamon and some other spice I just can't quite make out.
People ask me why, if I like elevators so much, don't I get a job as an operator in the Mariott or Hilton? The answer is that it would take the magic out of it. I would HAVE to take someone somewhere each time they came in. I like the freedom to go to this floor or that. If I want to go to the tip top, I can. The middle, I can. Ground Floor, I can. No one tells me where to go or what to push.
So, does that answer your question?
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Post by Vito The Don on Apr 26, 2009 18:49:22 GMT -5
DAMN YOU NOAH! DAMN YOU!!! jk  |
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Post by Angel on Apr 26, 2009 19:06:36 GMT -5
Yes, yes it does. It also makes you seem even more like one of the family. We've all got our odd habits. Yours isn't as odd as some though, so don't feel too much like a black sheep. |
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Post by Vito The Don on Apr 26, 2009 19:09:00 GMT -5
I'm a horrid caffine addict among other things. I will litteraly drink 2 pots of coffee a day by myself, plus a sugar free redbull or two.
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Post by Noah on Apr 26, 2009 20:12:54 GMT -5
I should start posting more of my stream of conscience writing. That elevator thing was kind of written in the recesses of my computer, I just polished it.
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Post by Vito The Don on Apr 26, 2009 20:35:14 GMT -5
Hey it was really interesting, you're not a bad writer by any means, I'd enjoy more of them.
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Post by Angel on Apr 26, 2009 20:46:10 GMT -5
Aye, much better than say, Virginia Woolf. Blech.
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Post by Noah on Apr 26, 2009 20:53:10 GMT -5
I think throwing a rock at a keyboard write better stuff than Woolf does.
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Post by Vito The Don on Apr 26, 2009 21:06:17 GMT -5
Dan brown writes better than Woolf, which is amazing!
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Post by winka on Apr 27, 2009 9:19:20 GMT -5
I should start posting more of my stream of conscience writing. That elevator thing was kind of written in the recesses of my computer, I just polished it. Elevator music... Entertaining ...as always Noah Keep digging through those recesses of your computer |
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Post by Argo on Apr 27, 2009 12:56:32 GMT -5
Somebody should have heavy metal music in an elevator one morning to wake everyone up. Raining Blood might do the trick.
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