Monday, May 25, 2009

ATTENTION: AMAZON.COM

That I liked Firefly does not, in fact, imply that I would be interested in a wormy turd shat onto a greasy paper plate by Joss Whedon.

Really.

Also, that I confessed to having enjoyed Akira should not suggest my interest in watching big-eyed anime schoolgirls being sodomized by tentacle monsters. Though, I admit some culpability here. I never should have told you about Berserk. How was I to know that it would cause hundreds of seemingly identical DVDs to appear in my recommendations with unwieldy names and featuring box art of freakish, wide-eyes pixies with improbable hair colors? It was my assumption that positively rating a show in which a man cuts a horse--and its rider--in half with an unreasonably large sword would attract similar programs.

My mistake, perhaps.

However, it was no mistake of mine when I told you that I enjoyed Mastodon's Crack the Skye, and you accosted me with aural abortions like Behold... the Arctopus.

(Honestly, I don't know what you were thinking in this case. I can only assume that you are now--and perhaps always have been--deliberately fucking with me.)

Finally, my interest in television shows such as The Wire does not--in any universe--lead to an interest in the entire run of Everybody Loves Raymond. Similarly, that I individually purchased all six season of The Sopranos does not mean I have the faintest interest in purchasing all six seasons again in one bulk purchase for a sale price of $278.

I ALREADY FUCKING OWN THEM, YOU SEE.

All is not piss and vinegar, however. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a fine suggestion for someone who enjoyed The Searchers. (Unfortunately I already own that movie, and thus your recommendation was no fucking help whatsoever.) I will even admit a strange sort of accidental logic behind suggesting El Dorado based on Rio Bravo (as they are--despite Howard Hawk's protests to the contrary--the same fucking movie).

In conclusion: HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES AM I GOING TO HAVE TO CLICK "NOT INTERESTED" ON A DRAGONBALL Z DVD UNTIL YOU GET THE FUCKING MESSAGE?



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