Amazon is setting me up to fail.
The other day, well, Monday, I hopped on to Amazon to buy the entire discography of the band Stars. I saw they are touring now and I desperately need to see them this month. I only had a few of their albums though, so I had some catching up to do. Amazon has this thing where they recommend items to you based on what you previously ordered. I have got Morrissey CD's before, and they recommended that I buy The Smiths - Best Of vol. 1. Well of course I'm not going to buy that because I already have all those songs. However, I think that's a good recommendation for someone that just started listening to them/him.
I was driving around yesterday listening to my newly acquired Stars CD's (and Oasis), and I was thinking about possibly writing music reviews on relatively unknown albums. Since I secretly want to write, and I like some music that quite a few people have never heard of, I thought it would be a good way to combine those things that I'm not good at doing. What bad could happen? Plus, I just finished Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, and I wondered to myself, could life ever be sane again... oh, I mean I thought that I could possibly write something like that. It wouldn't have all those pop references though, but maybe a few. It also wouldn't be interesting, but it would have to suffice.
So what does Amazon recommend to me today? No, not Best Of The Smiths or even Jobriath, it recommends that I should start subscribing to Writer's Digest. Fuck you Amazon! How can you determine my personality so well?! I was thinking about writing Amazon a letter, but I need a better writing style first. So what does that mean? A subscription to Writer's Digest is in store for that me to scribe that letter.
Oh, nevermind, it's $20. Do you know how many Stars songs I can get for $20? A lot, and that's what I got with my twenty bucks.
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