So I decided to have my first ever house party since I never had.. and in my fashion I have to do something funky! I'm making the living room a dance floor and was worrying about the cops showing up since the city I live in is pretty quiet. So I got to thinking and finally settled on getting some parabolic speakers to direct the sound downwards from the ceiling. Hopefully and it seems so far is that under the speakers it's REALLY loud but you come from under them and it sounds like a regular stereo at a normal volume.. step outside and I can't even hear them. I decided on building them since they were too expensive to buy and who knows how powerful they would be.
So I went to a junkyard called APEX and found these:
Got some bolts and crap and a stud finder (cheap one so I drilled some holes that led to nothing :| ) and mounted them to the ceiling:
Then I went off to downtown not too far from the fashion district where they sell tons of audio stuff and picked up some Kenwood 6 1/2" three way speakers and had gotten some threaded nylon from APEX and got them up and mounted: Figuring out how far the speaker from the dish really didn't take too long and since the nylon is threaded I just had to move the nut around on it to adjust the height.
From there I got them wired up to the home audio system and.. they hummed horribly. So I went off to Radio Shack and bought a worthless ground loop isolator that took the hum out but also made it so even with the volume at max I could barely here anything :| . Bought a Xitel ground loop isolator off of Amazon and it fixed everything and they sound downright perfect now :D.
All in all think I spent about $200
but I couldn't just stop there! had to have some lights so I got a sound activated laser:
and a sound activated LED light that moves around :
Oh oh and some alcohol:
and I'm gonna drag my street fighter arcade game in the house and am getting some evil thing that sprays shots into peoples mouths :D
I feel like Patachouli at the bottom there now not that I really know.. uh what that is. Friday started off with me meeting my friend for some Mexican food and drinks for his birthday. Only me and one other friend showed and the rest of the people there were his girlfriend's friends. Then from there I went to a friends housewarming at his apartment.. I had to park a block or so away and walk down the street with a 12 or 16 pack I don't remember. I get to the buzzer where there is a couple looking going to the housewarming also. Were all confused looking at the names for the buzzer because we don't see the right one or even the number. We spend probably 5-10 minutes trying to get buzzed in and finally call my friend and he tells us were on the wrong side of the apartment place! We goto the other side and get buzzed in and I walk in put my beer down and look around.. I know no one that I can see. So I walk outside and make sure I'm in the right damn apartment and I am. I have no idea where my friend is or any of our other friends but then I hear out of the second story window my friend upstairs. I grab a beer and make my way upstairs.. I barge through a bunch of people to get in my friends room since he's the only one I really know besides the people that went to the wrong side of the apartment place with me. Got introduced to all his friends and just drank and talked a bit. Walked down stairs and grabbed some more beer that I brought for us. Went back to talking and drink then we all emptied out of his room and went downstairs to find something like 60 people all downstairs and all of my beer gone :(. Then one of his friends who's stoned and a bit tipsy starts talking to me and can't hold a conversation for anything. I actually feel a bit bad as she's talking to me because she really trying to talk but keeps going off on tangents over and over just making it strange yet funny. My friends re-introduces me to a friend of ours when we were younger and for the life of me I can't remember him at all which made me feel bad as he remembers me clearly. I talk with him and my friend while drinking for most of the night and leave at around 5am. I drive home and go right to bed.. Saturday I wake up in the afternoon sometime and head to my friends apartment for his birthday.. the same friend from Friday. My friend takes a Canadian shot that he promised to and had no idea what it was and actually does it! Snorting the salt: Taking the tequila shot: Squeezing lemon in his eye (we had no limes): Then he ran into the bathroom saying oh my god it hurts!! We spent the night drinking and playing battle of the sexes with three guys and three girls. Me, my friend, and theirs roommates boyfriend vs. my friend's girlfriend, friends roommate, and a friend of theirs. It's just a game where like you ask the girls a question only guys should know. Lots of stuff it turned out no one knew at all so it was full of a bit of fail. The cooking questions the girls however hated because I knew all the answers :D. Eventually their friend left and people started getting sluggish and passing out. My friends girlfriend went and passed out and I left her completely alone and was good and did nothing. I went to sleep on the couch and everyone else went to bed. Then in the morning I woke up to "WHO PAINTED MY FACE" :D. From there I went and picked up my fiancee, changed, and showered. Then we drove up to Solvang to meet my friends for wine tasting which was nice but we didn't get to eat and of the neat food they had up there because it all closed so early. ..I'm now a bit sick I think from just doing too much
and sure these music videos most of the time are a bit different but what fun is it to watch a band just play..?
