HES GOT THE BONGOS
My thoughts exactly! This man is living the dream!
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is amazing
I guess I am too old, my first thought when I see this picture is “my poor back”. 😂
Yeah, my response was “needs a comfy seat, something to put the TV on so it’s eye level, and something to put the pizza and drink on so they’re within arm’s reach”.
But otherwise this is peak. I had a space in my parent’s basement like this with an old couch and dresser that had been headed to the dump, along with the big family CRT when they upgraded to LCD. Add some Bionicle and other Lego to fidget with and inject that nostalgia into my veins.
Well, that’s just showing our mileage.
My current setup holds this spirit but does add some back support.
That’s usually my first thought after getting out of bed!
You should stretch before getting out of bed.
I’m only in my 30s but I have joint issues and since I started stretching before I get out of bed, I have had less back issues, particularly my lower back.
Haha, I was half joking! I seldom have actual back pain thankfully, but being in my late 30s I definitely have to put in some effort to keep it that way
My body reminds me very painfully whenever I forget to stretch out certain muscles.
I don’t look forward to the next 30 years and want to go back to a time when I could fall off a 2nd floor balcony and just walk it off.
Actually that might explain some current issues…
How do you even stretch while in bed?
Any stretches you can do sitting on the ground, you can do in bed.
Stretching torso muscles specifically, twisting, leaning, honestly any standing ones you can do from the waist up, and you can even stretch out legs before getting out of bed, too.
By the time all that is done, you can spring up and do the standing stretches without worrying you’ll pull a muscle getting out of bed.
And if you laughed at the idea of someone pulling a muscle simply by getting out of bed, you just aren’t old enough yet. You’ll get there. I’m only in my 30s and I’m already there.
I’m recoiling from the greasy pizza box on the carpet
Man, I wish my life were that simple again.
That looks so fucking relaxing, like I have nothing to do for the rest of the evening, and no pressing concerns as I sip my chocolate milk.
Only thing I would change: out that TV on a milk crate so your neck isnt strained even more than it is from sitting on the floor.
That was exactly my setup when I struck out on my own.
GameCube, wavebird, bongos, Twilight Princess. PS2, Guitar Hero, mod chip, case full of burned games. Single twin size mattress on the floor.
Those were the best days of my life.
I had two DVDs. Napoleon Dynamite and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
No internet, no telephone. I wanted to be creative and I didn’t want distractions. I wrote most of my songs in that little window.
Screw it. I never share my music. Here’s one of the songs I recorded.
https://mega.nz/file/MwdwTaAC#ZkyRIAnntCA6tq_sw06y64A2ljX7sldMhKKY0A3a0Bs
This song slaps, did you do all the parts yourself? Are you still making music?
I really do appreciate your comment. You put this stuff together and think it won’t ever be heard, so it feels good when someone likes it.
Yeah I do. Not as much as I did then. I really appreciate the comment.
I did do all the parts, but I had originally recorded the drums on an old cheap Yamaha electric pad thing. I met someone online years ago who remastered the recording and redid the drums.
I’ve shared my music like 3 times in the last decade. I mostly just do it for me and for my people when I kick the bucket, in case they want it. I know my son does. He wants everything, even all of the hours and hours of recordings where I was trying to come up with something.
I’m really glad you like it. I’ll share a few more.
https://mega.nz/file/E00nzD7C#DGOB4O51EalvIREhqAepIe98jvrVIeagR8jcPbmNGgk
https://mega.nz/file/100ShDoD#j5iFTXWk8sSQLVVs1LO9g_ovWoZnslB2sdIbe3x5mk8
And here are a couple more recent songs.
Can you post the rest to YT? That second YT one reminds me of like a sea sick steve with grunge, shits awesome.
I think I’ll do that tonight. I haven’t posted my stuff seriously since 2010ish.
I made videos and everything but I lost them all.
Heck my mom saved two but they’re not in the quality I put them in. My ex called her and said I was deleting them so she rushed to save what she could and got those.
I was in a very bad place back then. Actually ended up being diagnosed with cannabis induced psychosis by the time it was all over.
Here are those two. I don’t care for the one where I did the ghostly images. The song could have been good but it was too long.
Thank you guys for taking interest in this stuff. I might let my brother put it all on Spotify haha. He’s been trying to get me to for a while.
Hell yeah man, good stuff! If you do end up putting your stuff on the streaming services, don’t forget about all the stuff you gotta do to collect royalties, this is what’s holding me back from releasing my music lol
Thank you for this.
Just coming to add a +1 on the YouTube links, I don’t download random files from mega, but I’ll listen to anything you have on YT, Spotify, or any FOSS counterparts.
Those YT links you’ve posted already sound great! This definitely would have been my exact vibe in 2010, but it’s definitely going into the car Playlist now.
Don’t be afraid of longer songs, if they’ve got focus and purpose, they’ll hold up. One of my favorite songs back in the day was 22 minutes and 20ish seconds long. Unfortunately it’s a religious Christian song (that all the old people assumed was satanic because they couldn’t be bothered to try listening to lyrics) so I don’t care for the words much anymore, but the guitar is still banger.
Been uploading while I can today. I have a ton more stuff to dig out so subscribe and you’ll know when I add more.
Thank you for liking it.
It’s been 15 years since anyone has heard a lot this stuff. Most of it was family just being nice.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7VvSMc--JUA
https://youtube.com/shorts/6JDCnT1wiQo
https://youtube.com/shorts/CEqF2itM9TM
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fo7OxntTySM
https://youtube.com/shorts/-b1EuBlsPEk
Get the royalties stuff figured out and put it on Spotify. I’d love to add these to my playlist there.
I put a bunch on YouTube. I have so so so much more I need to dig out and upload.
I can’t believe I’m doing this haha.
Subscribe to my channel there and as I upload them you’ll see them.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7VvSMc--JUA
https://youtube.com/shorts/6JDCnT1wiQo
https://youtube.com/shorts/CEqF2itM9TM
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fo7OxntTySM
https://youtube.com/shorts/-b1EuBlsPEk
I added some to YouTube. Will be adding more.
Y’all have no idea how much it means to me that people like this stuff.
I suddenly have all of this motivation to record all my newer stuff that I just sit around and play to relax.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7VvSMc--JUA
https://youtube.com/shorts/6JDCnT1wiQo
https://youtube.com/shorts/CEqF2itM9TM
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fo7OxntTySM
https://youtube.com/shorts/-b1EuBlsPEk
Hell yeah these are great! I’m a particular fan of Stone to Throw, Untitled Noise 2, and Hallelujah Further Down. Special shout out to Flip-top PS3 that one’s the panty dropper. But for real I’ve enjoyed myself at shows that aren’t this good. I’m excited to have gotten to listen to your music
:p I love you haha.
I really thought I was leading the way for next gen mods when I put that together.
One other guy did it and he gave me a shoutout. :p
And for rest of your comment. Man, I wish I could tell you how you’ve made me feel with that. I really do.
Your comment and a few others here have brought me back to life, you know?
Especially yours.
Thank you!
But when we were young and had set ups like this we also had invincible bodies.
Or rather, what felt at the time to be invincible bodies. Now I’m at the part of life where the bill for that comes due.
I threw my back out the other day… By turning over in bed.
The old joke about wondering how you can “sleep wrong” and then finding out.
Dude sprang for the WaveBird and what I assume is delivery pizza, how many more luxuries should he have?
That looks like a Little Caesars box, so definitely the low end of to-go pizza.
Also, he took the time to decorate with the Konga drums, so its totally luxurious!
People mocking other peoples happiness & low environmental footprint is weak af.
OOP missed the mark on this one. This is serene. Like you moved out either for the first time or transferred to a new city and brought only the things you love before you fill your house up with trash
Ah. Triumphant beach-head phase. Legend.
+1 for Pokemon Colosseum.
Isn’t that like the black sheep of Pokémon games? And one of my favorites: I’m feeling majorly nostalgic RN.
Another +1 for a wireless GC controller. This is a man of sophistication and culture.
Colosseum was great. Maybe it was a different version but I remember you could import your pokemon from the gameboy games so it was just gym battles with much better graphics. Also yeah. The (wavebird?) controller was the shit back then. Your friend having one meant they had rich parents.
It’s funny he sprung for the wireless controller despite his clear intention to sit 2 feet from the TV lol
ITT: A lot of guys going “Ah man this was first days in my first apartment out on my own. Good times.”
Chocolate milk, GameCube, and me!
There is remote controls for game cube?
Yeah, I loved my wavebird back in the day.
The wavebird!
Look up the advertisement for it. It’s hilarious enough to make you shit your pants.
Ok i just did. I wouldn’t say shitting-pants-hilarious but they are indeed amusing.
I just wanted to sneakily reference the toilet one.
I see
That’s some clean carpet.
My bro got out of army and moved 6000km to a new job in a new city in a new country. His setup was:
- clothes
- couch for sleeping
- monitor on cardboard box
- keyboard on smaller box
- back to the wall
He worked like that until the Stuff arrived.
I’m in my thirties so I too crave this scenario but what I really wanna talk about is the amount of people mentioning sitting on the floor hurting their back. Sedentary lifestyles and/or the constant push for more labor has wiped out something humanity has done for thousands of years.
I feel weird for fixating on this but it’s a little sad a lot of people are losing the ability to just sit on some grass and exist
It’s more the TV won’t be at eye level so you’ll naturally hunch your back which tends to be poor sitting posture.
Looked into ergonomics about 10 years ago after an injury, changed my life.
my first thought when seeing this, before reading the caption, was “hell yeah im jealous as fuck”
Stop posting pictures of my college apartment.
Yeah pizza and chocolate milk sounds fucking gross.
Don’t knock it til you try it.
Gotta find your limit on lactose some how.
