There's a decent-ish way to do it, which I don't know if I'm a good enough writer to describe. I'll have a go: Assuming you're right-handed (which assumption may not be politically-correct these days, but oh, well), start with any corner, wrong side out. Stick your left hand into it, so your index finger hits the very tippy-tip of the corner seam. Find the corner to the right of that one, make sure it's wrong side out, and stick your right hand into it the same way, with the index finger in the tip of the seam. Bring your hands with the sheet corners on them together so the tips of the seams touch. Not the whole seam, just the tip. With your right hand, flip the right corner over the left, so the right corner is right side up and the two corners are nested together, supported by your left hand. Transfer the nested corners to your right hand. Keep it poked into them. With your left fingers, follow the edge of the upper layer of sheet (the one away from you) down till you find the next corner (standing up helps). Pull up that corner. Fit it wrong side out over the two corners you have in your right hand, so the 3 seams align. Find the remaining corner, and with your left hand pull it right side up over the three corners you have in your right hand. Give the sheet a shake to make sure it's not caught up anywhere or has lost socks or cat toys in it. Lay the quarter-folded sheet down on a bed or other flat surface. The foot and head of the fitted part will be on your right, and the sides of it will be away from you, at the top. Straighten them up as needed. Fold the sheet into quarters or sixths or whatever fits your shelf. There ya go. It's pretty fast once you get used to it. I learned how to do this only in the past five years or so. My mom swears she taught me it when I was a kid, but if she did, it didn't take. I told her, if I'd known how to do it since then, would I have gone through that frustration all those years?
Nope. My takeaway arrived like that, and it was all stuck to the foil. All the cheese came off the bread.
I'm going home on Sunday, which is great, but it means that tomorrow will be my last night of my uni evening routine, which involves listening to music for two hours between dinner and bed. Because I'm kind of embarrassed about my eclectic music taste (which is irrational, I know), I don't do that at home, so I've just realised that tomorrow is my last two hours of music before I go cold turkey for three whole months (nearly four, actually).
Yep - my headphones are my best friend. But I still don't like the thought of listening to all that stuff when someone could come in.
That's the dumbest thing: it's all perfectly ordinary stuff. A lot of it is old music that I've sort of filed away as "Mum and Dad's music", as if I'm not allowed to like, say, Blondie. Or some of it is really explicit rap that's trying so hard it's actually funny, or cringey meme music (Runnin' in the '90s, anyone?), but "I was listening to it ironically" just sounds stupid. Or pop that I sniffed loudly and obviously at in my younger days. All sorts of things that realistically they wouldn't judge me for listening to. I think it might stem from a time a few years ago when I was playing Breakfast in America on my speakers because I had it in my head (which is why I listen to most things I listen to) when my mum knocked on the door. She laughingly said "I didn't know you were a Supertramp fan!" and I know she wasn't trying to mock me or anything but I still felt embarrassed.
There is nothing wrong with liking some of the same things as your mum. I still like a few oldies, and my parents accepted the fact that I got into the hard stuff like Cannibal Corpse, Korn, Slayer, and what not. My mother left her record player here, so I could listen to Take A Look In the Mirror album by Korn on vinyl. You shouldn't be ashamed of like a song(s), just because it is something your parents like. Besides we all have those guilty pleasure songs, that we will never own up to, to anybody.
I will own up to anything in my record collection. I actually like Roger Whittaker. The only thing I'm embarrassed by is that the first album I ever bought was a Bobby Sherman record. But I was eight years old, I think, and hadn't discovered music yet.
I'm embarrassed to lay naked my musical collection because it's nearly conflicted. Love the monstrous stuff like Rage ATM, STP, Rob Zombie (who looks like my brother), Marilyn... then there's Nina Simone, Chicago, Journey, Scorps... Cathedral organ performances, Mongolian chant, Tibetan throat singing... New Age like Eno, Robert Rich, Vangelis... screaming Puddle of Mudd, Zepp, Joplin (both), Ministry, Ogre... No rap or showtunes, please
Here's the true formula: Req'ts: one set of sheets from dryer. Steps: hold one pillowcase and shove everything else in it, the shove it in the closet before it cools so it will keep shape and allow other items to be shoved next to it. (gotta add this to my urban survival guide)
My parents are the reason my musical taste is so eclectic. I heard everything from The Beatles to Boston to Leonard Cohen to Eva Cassidy, John Denver, Queen, Vanessa Mae, choral, pan pipes, etc. I think the only music genres I didn't hear growing up were metal, techno and jazz. I don't think there is any song I wouldn't admit to liking.
I too got my start in music from my mother. She was born in 1950, so she got that good 60's music when it was first out, and some of that got passed down to me. She's where I got the militant conviction that the Stones are better than the Beatles, as well as an appreciation for the Kinks and the Small Faces and such. The only music that we both really like is Leonard Cohen, but that still counts! It's still a frustration of mine that she is almost entirely ignorant of Led Zepplin and Black Sabbath and the 70s bands, which to be honest I'm still not a massive fan of but at least I listen to, but such is life. And she saw Hendrix play live in 1968, which gets you a lot of credibility. It's funny to think how music will work for future generations. At this point all the music from all of time is available all in one place, and things that play back music are ubiquitous. Whatever era of music you want to live in, you can just do that, and you can just google to find new stuff. Even when I were a lad, you mostly found music through word of mouth. These kids today, with their music! Now that's a proper first world whine.
Showing my age, and the age of everyone who knows what I'm talking about, but my music collection is the result of a decade or so worth of whatever the CD of the month was from the Columbia CD Club, with the occasional flyer ( e.g. Hank Sr. and Indigo Girls).
That's what annoys me so much about the "I was born in the wrong generation!" brigade. Bohemian Rhapsody hasn't disappeared just because it's not number one anymore! In fact, I think this might be the best generation to live in for music, because like you said, you can just bring up anything you want and listen to it there and then. It also annoys me when people say things like "Oh, this is so much better than the shit you get today!" I think every era has produced great songs, including today. I can't remember who pointed this out (probably my mum), but people can be biased towards the past not only because of nostalgia but also because unpopular songs tend to get forgotten. And the same goes for genres. If you dismiss an entire genre, you could really be missing out on something. I'm not much of a fan of country, but I really love This is the Life by Amy McDonald. I think I just prefer upbeat music, which can be found in any genre. And of course, despite my youth, I have some nostalgia-inducing stuff too.
You're exactly right, especially about the bad stuff being forgotten. In the present you always see a mix of good and bad, and perhaps most importantly you have to deal with a lot of popular music that you think is bad. There are a great many number 1 singles that are totally forgotten, but if you lived when they were around then boy you heard them a lot and that really reduces your perception of quality. I do think the internet has had some negative impact on the quality of music that's around though. All the bands that I listed to today are bands that were around before the internet changed everything and they continue to be good, but I have yet to find any bands that are products of the internet era that had staying power. Of course some of that's because my style of metal is out of fashion; for reasons I have yet to understand even most metalheads seem to agree that 2000's era nu-metal and it's various forms was some kind of aberration and that really what we needed in our lives was a mix of metalcore (which is shit), power metal (which is laughable) and black metal (which is incomprehensible). And that is a first world problem, but seriously it pisses me off.
