"Where We Pee" is a weekly excursion into a local music venue's excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls.
Lawrence's Granada has undergone several renovations over the years. It's original incarnation was a movie theater, then was converted to a big venue with an intimate "Aqua Lounge" in front (so named because of the blacklight-friendly fish). Its current status has returned the lounge in front (minus fish), allowing the Granda to host shows smaller than the one that draw hundreds to the main room.
The men's bathroom, once a frighteningly cramped, dirty, smelly, horrendous bit of misery are now so sterile, it seems that they belong in a hospital. They were once covered with fliers, Sharpie scrawls, and mysterious leavings that one hoped were gum. Look at it now!
"Where We Pee" is a weekly excursion into a local music venue's excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls.
Louise's Downtown, on Lawrence's Massachusetts Street, is a bar that it very basic. They have a pool table, and the beer can be ordered in what are called "Schooners." Schooners bring nearly a quart of beer to your table in an efficient fashion, like the cargo ships for which they are named.
The bathroom at Louise's Downtown, however, follows in that basic fashion. The men's room is lit by a single bulb, and features only a urinal, toilet, and sink. The walls are covered with graffiti, and the floor is so slick that even just standing still taking pictures nearly led to me crashing to the concrete. It is a frightening environment, and one that makes relieving one's self a rather expedient process -- due more than a little to the fact that one feels like wetting one's self the instant they enter.
"Where We Pee" is a weekly excursion into a local music venue's excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls.
Behind a door with a version of Magritte's "Son of Man," lies the Jazzhaus men's room. More like a kid's bedroom than the bathroom of a music club with its extensive undersea murals, it's also a bathroom that's is surprisingly free of graffiti.
One would figure that considering what's been done to the Jackpot restrooms, the Jazzhaus' extensive paint job would be totally obscured with typical bathroom witticisms like "Here I sit all broken hearted/Tried to shit but only farted."
Such is not the case -- check out the rest of the pictures to see that the only messages are the ones pinned to the cork board.
"Where We Pee" is a weekly excursion into a local music venue's excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls.
Liberty Hall, as a combination show palace and movie theater, manages to have bathrooms that are pretty much the antithesis of what you expect when you go to a concert. They're clean, they're classy, and the floor isn't covered in what you dearly hope is water.
Aside from a line of fliers at eye level above the urinals when there's a show going on, the bathroom is as you see it: clean, bare of any adornment whatsoever, with a slight hint of sky blue on the stall doors. Marble behind the urinals and tiled floors, too.
Like we said: classy.
"Where We Pee" is a weekly excursion into a local music venue's excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls.
Lawrence's Java Break is familiar to many who've needed a late-night pick-me-up before heading home after a concert at Liberty Hall or the Bottleneck. Best known as the only 24-hour coffee shop in Lawrence, it's a haven for studying students from the University of Kansas, as well as a place where drunk concert-goers and transients alike can slump in a booth and get a little rest before heading wherever they're on to later in the evening.
Of special interest to those killing time while they wait to sober up is the "Graffiti Room," wherein you can scribble on damn near anything you please. A warning for those planning on stopping in post-concert, however: should you venture into the bathroom while on anything stronger than a couple of beers, you will experience an intense barrage of visual stimuli. It is likely to cause a bit of stomach upset. Please clean up after yourself.
"Where We Pee" is a weekly excursion into a local music venue's excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls.
The bathroom upstairs at the Eighth Street Taproom in Lawrence is notable for two things. First, it's coed, meaning you really need to make sure you don't pee all over the seat. Secondly, and most importantly, it features the artwork of one TM2, also known as Travis Millard.
Millard is probably best known as the artist who did the cover for the Get Up Kids' Something to Write Home About, which is a fairly iconic image. His artwork is immediately familiar, and while I think it's a goddamn shame that people have scrawled all over it, he'd probably appreciate the transitory nature of the whole thing.
Image courtesy Fungus Boy. I highly recommend checking out their YouTube channel, Fungus Boy TV.
"Where We Pee" is a weekly excursion into a local music venue's excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls.
Today's installment of "Where We Pee" takes you somewhere few of you have probably ventured: inside the bathrooms of the KJHK studios. Being as how the station will soon leave its longtime digs in the Sudler Annex at the north edge of campus, colloquially known as "the Shack," it seemed worthy of documentation.
After the jump, you can check out close-up on the inane graffiti on the paper towel, as well as some quality music discussion written on the bathroom door.
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