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Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Music stores are filled with equipment that makes you salivate, but they are also filled with people that make you want to vomit, shit, or seize. For reasons I don't really comprehend, I've been drawn back to the 48th Street gear geek district four times in the last two weeks -- always for stupid shit like for patch cords, some adapters, a boom microphone stand, monitor headphones, and a giant humming musical dildo that plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" at such a low frequency that it can be used as a non-chemical abortifacient. Who among you is not helpless before gear?
Music Gear Geeks are not as snobby as Independent Video/Music Store Geeks, but they are sadder, because there's not a real intellectual armature on which to hang their geekdom, and anyway, you just know that the music they are going to make with their shiny new boxes is terrible, like really really awful, soul-crushingly dull, over-distorted and reverbed-to-hell, and rife with the bile-churningly predictable lyrical content that rhymes "fire" with "desire" and "in my brain" with "drivin' me insane." Oh god. The customers and the staff are almost indistinguishable, except that the staff have slightly higher status because of their instant access to all the gear the customers could ever want; for example, they could go down to the storeroom and rub their dicks on a giant mixing board if they felt like it, but the customers would have to pay for the pleasure. I often think about how many geek dicks have been rubbed on the merchandise I purchase -- don't you? It's scary. Anyway, I don't know what I'm getting at, except that somehow these greaseheaded bugs, wearing free promo Peavey or Zildjian t-shirts, still try to make me feel small for buying a cheap pile of nothing. Look, sparky, people need guitar picks. Don't sneer at me -- I don't need a knob-studded crate to make my music sound good. Because I am a genius. BUT WHO CARES? I don't need you to like, respect, or flatter me. I don't even need you to make eye contact. You have no power over me, retail fucktard. NONE! ZERO! Now ring up that three-dollar guitar strap. I'm in a hurry, biotch. 0 comments |
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