"(The first single man's apartment) . . . they're all furnished pretty much the same way. In your bedroom, you have:
* The mattress on the floor, protected by a mountain of dirty clothes.
* Milk crates for night stands.
* A lava lamp with a permanent glob at the bottom.
* A stolen road sign on the wall.
* A blanket for a curtain.
Out in the hall you have:
* The mystery stain on the carpet.
* Budweiser mirror on the wall.
Out on the balcony:
* The rusted out Hibachi grill.
* Plant, with no leaves on it.
* Bike, with no chain on it.
In the den you had the spoon stool. Next to that . . . the $9,000.00 stereo."
I'm a musician, and a humanitairian worker, living in the Balkans, and my first bachelor appartment was in Bosnia, so it looked a bit different. It was actually a small house, that once was a shed and then got built out a house without asking anyone or registering in true bosnian style. It was also in some disrepair. It looked something like this:
In the living room:
-a wood stove, because that's what you use for heating.
-a two part couch, because that's where you sit, sleep and eat, and a small salon table (typical for bosnian appartments, not limited to bachelors).
-A movable computer table with "the machine".
-connected to that, a 28 channel mixer, going out to a pair of 100W active monitors.
-a drumkit
-a guitar amp
-three guitar stands with two guitars and a bass
-at some times, a wealth of mike stands with mikes to record this and that.
Kitchen:
-a fridge
-a microwave
-a lavatory
-a closet with all my clothes in it
-lots and lots of cables and spare parts lying around, waiting to be used
The hallway:
-concrete floor
-occasional snakes
the Bathroom:
-concrete floor, broken
-Ceiling in the slow process of comming down
-bathtub
-WC
-lavatory
-occasional snakes and scorpions
Yeah, I think that's about it. There wasn't anything else in there. Can't remember any mirrors, budwiser or otherwise...
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