My Two Days In The City That Thinks That The Buddah Was Annoying

Per certain comments from a previous post, I am morally obligated to have a poll; SOME people seem to think that the sound clip that loads every time you open my page, while very cool, gets a tad annoying. While I am the type of person who thinks that things get funnier/cooler every time I hear them, I guess I may have to make an allowance for those of you with shorter attention spans. SO, in that spirit, if enough of you comment and think I should lose the Ministry sound clip, I will duly and dolefully turn my page into a silent loader.
Anyway, Budapest is okay... There are alot of statues here. A LOT. In fact, they have a whole park, called Statue Park, which is a dumping ground for Hungary's communist era memorial staues. (They had a great gift shop; I bought myself a pair of red CCCP Lenin socks, but at the last minute decided not to get the cd of Songs of the Revolution, although I really wanted it.) When I finally get around to opening my Budapest gallery on Smugmug, I'm afraid that all of my pictures are pretty much going to be of statues. I haven't yet decided if that's because the only photograph-worthy items in Budapest are concrete or metal busts of dead authoritarians, or if that's just the frame of mind I'm in. I wandered around the very gloomy (and, if I may be so bold, Hungarian) inner city park this afternoon, listening to the album "The Black Rider" by Tom Waits on my mp3 player, and that was kind of perfect.
Another thing I've decided about myself is that I am no longer a hostel kind of traveller. There are two reasons to stay in hostels rather than hotels: 1) They are slightly cheaper, as you generally share a room with a few other people and the also-shared bathroom is across the hall. And 2) it's a good way to meet people. Well, after staying at this tiny little hostel here in Budapest, I've come to the realization that A) I don't really mind paying the extra 10 or 20 dollars to have my own room and for not having to wait for other people to finish using the shower because B) I really don't like people and therefore have no desire to meet them for the most part, anyway. Don't get me wrong, meeting people on a train or a plane, or in a bar or at work or something like that is totally fine, but meeting them in the hall while trying to keep your towel wrapped around your loins on the way back from the shower, and then having to fend off the 1 or 2 Betty or Bob granola's (which are a staple of hostel travel 'round the world) while passing the kitchen is not my cup of coffee. When I meet up with my Comrades in Munich on the 4th, we will be staying in a hostel, but that's ok because since there are a bunch of us we booked our own room, so at least I'll be sharing with friends whom I 've already met. The whole shower thing will still be uncomfortable, though. I enjoyed staying at hostels very much back in my early days of European travel, but it seems I've gotten quite a bit older, crankier, and snobbier since then. Also, I wanted to insert a picture I took at Statue Park here, but the hostel doesn't allow you to plug things into their hard drive, so you'll have to settle for a description: It's a black & white shot of this statue, right, (because pictures of statues in Eastern Bloc countries always have to be in black & white) only I'm standing in front of it and making the exact same pose that the statue is in! It's hilarious, dude, you guys are totally missing out. Well, you have my stupid hostel to thank for that.
Right. So after two days in Budapest, I feel that I've squeezed everything out of it that I want to, and tomorrow I will be flying to another city that I never got around to visiting while I was living in Germany, but really always wanted to: Rome. I'll have three days there and then it's off to Krampus!

Comments

[hooligan]

Hell no, you're not changing that noise! I say, make it play two times.

[Dad]

I also kind of like it... partly because other people in the house get annoyed by it and turn it down! I suppose you could, every once in a while mind you, change it. But I wouldn't get too radical about it. PS: The description of your B&W photo of the statue and you imitating the statue was pretty hilarious....

[messiestobjects]

Ok, that's one for keeping and one rather ambiguous; I'm not sure how to score someone for keeping it just to annoy other people with...
I know more people read this thing, I've got a Site Meter. So don't be shy, stick it to me!

[Gary]

Well if Heather is for it then I'm doubly against it. I'd like if it only played on the front page and not on every page. But actually I don't really care. It's your page to do with as you wish. But I will say that it does kind of announce that you're a bit of a nOO3 - ya know? "Hey check out my page! I even figured out how to make it play a sound clip when it loads!" You should have flashing text too. It's very '97 of you. NOOB NOOB NOOB!! ;)

[hooligan]

Dude, if Gary is doubly against it, I am thrice in favor. Lo! Thrice!

[messiestobjects]

What the hell is a nOO3? Is that some sort of too clever internet junkie lingo that all the kids are typing these days? See, maybe I am one of those... whatever the heck that is, but see, I don't have a sweet little computer set-up in my house which I never leave... I've been out of the US for the last ten years and haven't had a whole lot of time to blow learning about what html all the cool kids are doing these days. Honestly, everything I know about html, I've learned since I started this blog, about a year ago.
And hey, break it up you kids; if you wanna kick sand at each other, well, okay I guess it's more fun to watch than to break it up. Have at it!

[hooligan]

He started.

[Gary]

All Hands On The Bad One...

Ok where's the flashing text then?
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_BLINK.html

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/sounds/_BGSOUND.html

[Christy]

I like it.

[messiestobjects]

Discouragement Kitten totally trumps GoDrex in matters of cool. The only way I'm takin' it down now is if like, Al Jourgensen writes me and says, "Jerkface, that's copywrite infringement and I'm suing your ass."

[Gary]

Yeah I suck at cool and life. I'm aware of this.

I was just trying to help you out maaaaaaan! Never said the clip wasn't cool. It's not about the clip itself. :P

btw - it's no surprise that someone with a myspace page AND a song that plays automatically on it (like everyone and their brother) is going to vote in favor. COOOOOOL!! ;)

Make people jump for the volume/mute button! See if I care!! HAHAHAHAHAA

[Al Jourgensen]

"Jerkface, that's copyright infringement and I'm suing your ass."

[messiestobjects]

Har har. Too bad it´s a sample from a section of a song that itself was sampled from an old movie...

[hooligan]

Yeah, but don't you see his email address? COMEDY GOLD! You know it is.