MySpace::Intellectual Genocide as Blog::...

     This is what happens when I sit at work for seven and a half hours and have absolutely nothing to do.
     This is what happens when I choose to not go to the bars and instead opt for a leisurely night at home.
     This is what happens when my friends DO go to the bars and find themselves sleeping the Sunday away while I'm murdering brain cells at work perusing the same goddamn MySpace pages over and over and over again.
     Repeat.

     A few months back I started listening to Youth Group and Rogue Wave. I had to pick their CD's up at Atomic for full price because Best Buy wasn't on the ins yet and didn't carry the bands. At some point this season THE OC started playing Rogue Wave every now and then, and honestly one of the things that got me hooked on the show was their fondness for dropping references or clips from bands like Atom & His Package, pre-billboard topping Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley, etc... so I wasn't terribly surprised at their showcasing. But not two weeks later I'm sorting through the restocking shipments at Best Buy and what do we now carry? Oh of course, Rogue Wave. Not only that- here, sure, let's get in 45 copies of a disc we never even considered worthwhile to carry a lone representative copy of before. I'm not really sure who I'm irritated with here: Me, for always thinking I've gotten into something unique when really I'm just slightly pre-empting complete trendiness, shows like THE OC for essentially oil-drilling counterculture for bands that deserve popularity but assholes like me pretentiously hope against, or companies like Best Buy for carrying 750 copies of the new Mary J Blige but not finding it worthwhile to give smaller bands a mere inch or two of shelving space until various Teen Angst mediums give them the hot tip.
     Probably Best Buy.

     This is the most bored I've been in a while. We have had like four customers today. I hate MySpace. I almost wish I had a survey to fill out. This is why I drink. Speaking of which- Trivia tomorrow? I think I'd be in.