Monday Afternoon Best Buy
For some crazy reason, I agreed to accompany two co-workers on an errand to Best Buy this afternoon--oh, wait, I know why I went: I was bored.
I've been to Best Buy before and never particularly enjoyed it. But today I realized that hell is actually Best Buy. That's where you go when you die and you've been bad. Best Buy. It's information overload city: 2,000 super-size flatscreen monitors visually blaring snippets of shitty blockbuster movies, music videos, and sitcom advertisements. Soundtracks from at least 50 different video games, DVDs, radio stations, and television shows. You can't hear one continous strain of sound in the whole place--it's a barrage of crap, crap images and sounds. They had these $140 power strips so you can plug your satellite, TiVo, TV, VCR, stereo, DVD, gas grill, cell phone, and god knows what else all into one MEGA-strip.
I got depressed. What was I doing there? I'd rather be bored at work dicking around at my desk than cowering from American middle-class media explosion at Best Buy. I think it's good for me to dip my toe into this stuff, though. Reminds me what life is like for so many people, compiling all of this electronic shit on their credit cards and tacky living rooms.
I also saw the first season of ALF on DVD. (?!) I guess there are those who fondly remember ALF. If I ever actualy write a manuscript and it gets rejected, remind me that ALF is available on DVD so I can go kill myself.
I've been to Best Buy before and never particularly enjoyed it. But today I realized that hell is actually Best Buy. That's where you go when you die and you've been bad. Best Buy. It's information overload city: 2,000 super-size flatscreen monitors visually blaring snippets of shitty blockbuster movies, music videos, and sitcom advertisements. Soundtracks from at least 50 different video games, DVDs, radio stations, and television shows. You can't hear one continous strain of sound in the whole place--it's a barrage of crap, crap images and sounds. They had these $140 power strips so you can plug your satellite, TiVo, TV, VCR, stereo, DVD, gas grill, cell phone, and god knows what else all into one MEGA-strip.
I got depressed. What was I doing there? I'd rather be bored at work dicking around at my desk than cowering from American middle-class media explosion at Best Buy. I think it's good for me to dip my toe into this stuff, though. Reminds me what life is like for so many people, compiling all of this electronic shit on their credit cards and tacky living rooms.
I also saw the first season of ALF on DVD. (?!) I guess there are those who fondly remember ALF. If I ever actualy write a manuscript and it gets rejected, remind me that ALF is available on DVD so I can go kill myself.
posted by Lefty at 3:47 PM
1 Comments:
Did you find the Pete and Pete DVD? Best Buy is digusting, as is most American super-stores. Sick. I have not been into a Wal Mart for 7 years, I won't go into one. They all smell like maple syrup and plastic.
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