Boom Ba Boom Boom
My favorite show on TV these days, Chappelle' Show, recently did a hilarious skit on how different races enjoy different types of music. I couldn't agree with you more Dave. This idea touches my life very deeply. If you've read some of my previous postings I've mentioned that our apartment isn't conducive to having a dog. The reason it isn't conducive is two-fold. First, our font yard is an asphalt parking lot. Our back yard is a 2-foot-wide strip of asphalt connected to a fence topped off in barbed wire. In short, this is no neighborhood in which I want my girlfriend, or even me to be walking a dog, or anything else for that matter.
Secondly, my neighbors are Latino, and oh my do they love their music...at ALL hours of the day and night. When Guinness does come over to visit he gets all nervous and upset from the noise that constantly comes through the wall. The neighbors listen to, what I guess I will call Latin music, almost constantly. I guess it's Spanish language techno. While I'm sure it's "good" music from that genre, all we hear on this side of the wall is the constant thumping of bass. No words, no other instruments, just the constant and unbelievably annoying thumping of bass. The thing that boggles my mind is that there are really only two or three bass lines to ALL the songs they listen to. One song ends and the next one starts - I know that because it gets quiet for a second...but then it starts again...boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom...over and over and over...
The Chappelle's Show skit hit home because, while my neighbors seem to enjoy this music a whole lot, it damn near drives me out of my skull. People often say things like "if he does that again I'm going to kill him." But, they don't actually mean that they are going to kill anyone. It's just a figure of speech. However, after hearing that awful, annoying thumping over and over at all hours of the day and night...I think I'm getting close to being able to actually kill someone. Sure, the police come out when we call and tell them to turn it down, but even turned down low I can still hear it. Sometimes I think I hear it when I'm not home. God, I hate it so damn much.
It's just funny how something one person takes absolute pleasure in can be another person's abject hell. But I guess the whole trick to living together as one human race is all about tolerance, right? Or maybe it's time to buy a serious stereo system and start cranking some Megadeth and Rollins back through the wall...
Secondly, my neighbors are Latino, and oh my do they love their music...at ALL hours of the day and night. When Guinness does come over to visit he gets all nervous and upset from the noise that constantly comes through the wall. The neighbors listen to, what I guess I will call Latin music, almost constantly. I guess it's Spanish language techno. While I'm sure it's "good" music from that genre, all we hear on this side of the wall is the constant thumping of bass. No words, no other instruments, just the constant and unbelievably annoying thumping of bass. The thing that boggles my mind is that there are really only two or three bass lines to ALL the songs they listen to. One song ends and the next one starts - I know that because it gets quiet for a second...but then it starts again...boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom...over and over and over...
The Chappelle's Show skit hit home because, while my neighbors seem to enjoy this music a whole lot, it damn near drives me out of my skull. People often say things like "if he does that again I'm going to kill him." But, they don't actually mean that they are going to kill anyone. It's just a figure of speech. However, after hearing that awful, annoying thumping over and over at all hours of the day and night...I think I'm getting close to being able to actually kill someone. Sure, the police come out when we call and tell them to turn it down, but even turned down low I can still hear it. Sometimes I think I hear it when I'm not home. God, I hate it so damn much.
It's just funny how something one person takes absolute pleasure in can be another person's abject hell. But I guess the whole trick to living together as one human race is all about tolerance, right? Or maybe it's time to buy a serious stereo system and start cranking some Megadeth and Rollins back through the wall...
Hi, I'm Josh Katinger and this is my personal weblog. I'm an Internet Business Analyst living and working in Southwestern, CT. When not at my full time job I also do some 
2 Comments:
Poor Katinger. But you're overlooking one simple solution to your problem that doesn't involve homocide. Give your neighbor some good old AC/DC lovin' and "shake them all night long" at volume 11. -sox
By Anonymous, at 4:31 PM
Put your headboard extra close to the wall and "shake them all night long" in a different way. Let em have it.
By Anonymous, at 11:34 PM
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