Excellent idea! :)

I want one of those original cubes that makes that awesome twisting crunch sound as you turn em...

try this

make one color fully done, this becomes the top

then

as the guy said above do the middle row

you can do this by doing the following, choose a middle color
line it up on a corner, bring the top right corner down,
then turn bottom row to the left, then move top back up
bring the bottom row back to the right now, thus putting your
corner back and connecting the middle row color, continue doing
this until cube middle is complete..

flip over

now on the other side you will start seeeing familiar patterns
some known as the fish and big fish, a cross, or completed side.
etc

each move you do correlates to the bottom pattern
you can google for this information as it gets to complex and
it be vague info remembered from 20 years ago hehe

no!!don't have the patience to solve that one...

Not a lot of patience required. After playing around with it for about 3 days, I can solve it in 5 to 8 minutes every time.

Besides...It keeps my mind off things that have me pissed off right now. :)

The first part of your advice is horrible. Doing it by solving one side first is a common newbie mistake. It's ok, I can teach you. Are you available thursday at 3:00? I have a seat open in the rubiks class.

i could do it in about 15 minutes back in Jr High

I dont think i have the attention span for it anymore... too many naked ladies on the internet these days

I bought one, but it was already solved, so I didn't fuck with it.