The Holtonian

Wandering to nowhere

The short trip to Macon and back has ended. We went down stairs, as I like to call it, to Macon to visit Wifey's parents stopping in Atlanta to visit her grandparents as well. The food was good and southern so needless to say I'm in desperate need of a diet again. The trip was pretty uneventful. I went to Best Buy with my father-in-law, he wanted to find a TV bigger than they're current 20 incher. The space they wish to put the TV is only big enough for a twenty incher or possibly a 24 incher but as I told him, "Why pay 300$ big ones for four more inches." Especially with the whole digital wave of TV starting to crest. The sales people swooped down on him like crow upon a flatten squirrel in the middle of St. Elmo Avenue. I saw that he was a gonner so I wandered over to check out the video games... hey man its every man for himself when it comes to shopping... The sales vulchers told him this and that about HDTV, Flat Screens, and Plasma Rasma Cachasma Technology they also interrogated him to see if he had a progressive scan DVD player. He turned to me and I shook my head with an almost "I told you so" frown on my face. A few monthes ago I tried to convince my father in law to purchase a progressive scan DVD player so that he would not have to purchase a second DVD player when the switch to digital TV comes, I showed him that they were only about 90$ for a cheapo but he went the way of the 40$ DVD player purchased from a hardware store as a sales promotion. I grimmaced and knew this day was to come. I instructed my father in law to not purchase a TV and to stick it out with what he has because the TV market is setting itself up for a big transition in the next ten years and no one wants to be stuck with obsolete technology that they shelled hundreds of dollars for.

I kept my purchases to a minimum, a few CD-R's which I regretted when I went to Sams and found them for eighty cents more and 20 more CD-Rs and a better brand. I bought the ones from Sams and plan on returning the ones to Best Buy. I also bought a They Might Be Giants cd i think its Flood or something with or to that affect. I realize this band was cool and hip about ten or 15 years ago and that I'm behind the times but I figure its better to go backwards then forwards when it comes to purchasing music. If i go out on a limb with say the new Dave Matthews or White Stripes there is no gurantee that I may like the music. But a band that's had its 15 minutes of fame and made its mark on history and faded into somewhat obscurity i feel is safe. I know what i'm getting, I'm getting songs that were covered by Tiny Toon Adventures like Particle Man and Istanbul songs that remind me, "Hey these songs were so cool that one of my most favorite cartoons thought it appropriate to make a whole episode based on their songs." I guess its the historian in me that likes going into the past and finding those rare gems of music that aren't really good now and weren't all that great back then either, but man if they don't make you feel good. I mean think about all the depressing crap thats out there today "You got me feelin so Crazy right now...," "...I'm not into making sex... I'm into making Love...", and my personal favorite, "...Gonna have you naked by the end of this song..." What the heck is all this apple crappal? All I know is Triangle man hates Particle man and thats good enough for the bird house in my soul.
Another CD i've been tempted to purchase is the soundtrack to Prince's Purple Rain this is partly to blame on Jason Bintz's broadening my musical tastes. Now I know what you're thinking, "Chris isn't Prince a little tiny black man who wore purple and sang with a weird voice?" And yes, but being rather short myself i can honestly say he's sort of a hero of mine. Now I'm not saying i want to date Paula Abdul or make a crappy movie about my music career, I already tried to make that movie but no one was interested in a guy who makes it big playing the Spoons in small bars and alleys for nickels. But think about all the ladies Prince got, and the dude is like four foot tall (rough estimation) and he wore purple, one of the most effeminate colors next to pink. Now I don't want to be Prince or pursue a life as hedonistic and sexually active as his but the fact that he was short and made lots of money gives me hope that I being short can make lots of money too someday. If only I could die for you... I guess I can't but I can still party like its 1999.