Suspect Video Hates Me
I live in Toronto, and there's a video store there, I won't say which, because apparently everybody knows about this blog somehow. But it's quickly developing into a Cold War of sorts.
They show movies on the background, and the first time I went there, they were playing this horrible screeching music. I thought, okay, maybe it'll stop. But it kept on going. It kept on aggravating me. I wonder, what kind of show is this? What madman, or experimental filmmaker or whatever could be making this horrid episode? I remarked this out loud, and I'm pretty sure they heard me. So it keeps going on, I keep desparately trying to find a movie. Finally, I get to the counter, and see the movie.
Only, it's not a movie. It's a dvd menu. They hadn't even been playing anything. I paid, and I run out the store. Literally run, because God that was annoying.
So the next time I come there, it's the same guy - Braceface - stupid annoying teenager - and so, remembering my hatred, try to get out of there as soon as possible. Only, I'm a bit curt. My brother tells me to "cool down." And now Braceface is quickly trying to diplomatically isolate me. Damn Braceface.
And yesterday, when I tried to return the movie, it was closed. 5 minutes early. So now I'm pissed at Suspect Video.
But, because I am a consumer slave, and because they still have the best videos. So I'm going to keep shopping there. Because I am not there for Braceface, or the background noise, or the hours. I'm there for the movies, and my hatred of them has still not overwhelmed my love for rare movies.
Yet.
By the way, movie review - from the trailers of that new movie, Mr. Woodcock - shouldn't it be subtitled, An Oedipal Complex Comedy? I mean, guy is trying to beat the father to please the mother and fight him for his affections, to overtake the stronger male, rather than identifying with him, and I'm sure that eventually he's going to come to terms with it. I mean, people say Hollywood isn't subversive, but to take a 30 year old man and submit that he'd actually fight the man.
Anyway, trailer's here, so you can see what I mean. I'm sucking at the 1.65 billion dollar Youtube teat, of course. I wasn't bottle-trained.
They show movies on the background, and the first time I went there, they were playing this horrible screeching music. I thought, okay, maybe it'll stop. But it kept on going. It kept on aggravating me. I wonder, what kind of show is this? What madman, or experimental filmmaker or whatever could be making this horrid episode? I remarked this out loud, and I'm pretty sure they heard me. So it keeps going on, I keep desparately trying to find a movie. Finally, I get to the counter, and see the movie.
Only, it's not a movie. It's a dvd menu. They hadn't even been playing anything. I paid, and I run out the store. Literally run, because God that was annoying.
So the next time I come there, it's the same guy - Braceface - stupid annoying teenager - and so, remembering my hatred, try to get out of there as soon as possible. Only, I'm a bit curt. My brother tells me to "cool down." And now Braceface is quickly trying to diplomatically isolate me. Damn Braceface.
And yesterday, when I tried to return the movie, it was closed. 5 minutes early. So now I'm pissed at Suspect Video.
But, because I am a consumer slave, and because they still have the best videos. So I'm going to keep shopping there. Because I am not there for Braceface, or the background noise, or the hours. I'm there for the movies, and my hatred of them has still not overwhelmed my love for rare movies.
Yet.
By the way, movie review - from the trailers of that new movie, Mr. Woodcock - shouldn't it be subtitled, An Oedipal Complex Comedy? I mean, guy is trying to beat the father to please the mother and fight him for his affections, to overtake the stronger male, rather than identifying with him, and I'm sure that eventually he's going to come to terms with it. I mean, people say Hollywood isn't subversive, but to take a 30 year old man and submit that he'd actually fight the man.
Anyway, trailer's here, so you can see what I mean. I'm sucking at the 1.65 billion dollar Youtube teat, of course. I wasn't bottle-trained.
posted by Marshall McMahon at 1:44 AM
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