2004-09-23 - 3:04 p.m.
“I used to be cool. Then, they changed what cool was….” Grandpa Simpson.
My friend, let’s call him Collin, writes a music column for a New England newspaper and is quite the bizarre, eccentric, very talented extremely creative, funny, and all around cool guy. Collin gave me a couple of Newbury Comics gift certificates a while back for my 40th birthday. He’s cool like that.
Well the Star Wars Trilology was just released in a DVD Box set this week and I figured it would be great to use the cool gift certificates that Collin gave me and go out and get the Star Wars box set. Visions of high quality digitally re-mastered Wookies in high quality THX surround sound dancing across my home theater system filled my head.
So yesterday, after work I went over to Newbury Comics.
For those that may not be "in the know", Newbury Comics isn’t a comic book store. (Yea, I was just as surprised), it seems that Newbury Comics is the hip place to go for DVDs, CDs, and pop culture paraphanila. For the over 40 crowd, I'd described it as Spencer Gifts meets Strawberry’s Records and Tapes. Except it’s 25 years later, where everything is completely different and strange.
These days, I usually do most of my shopping via Amazon.com.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Newbury Comics is filled with pretentious, snot nosed, young, teenage slackers?
I walked in and the cold, withering hand of middle age bitch slapped me across the face.
Funny, I could have sworn this was the same hand that only a few years ago was feeding me beers and having me wank off every free second. Damn you oh fickle hand of fate.
Enough of the crappy metaphors….
I hate Newbury Comics.
They made me feel old.
I even had to ask for help. I couldn’t find the Star Wars DVD box set in the store. I was looking for some big huge display…You know, maybe a huge cardboard cut out of Princess Leia and Han Solo or big signs right out front pointing me to the DVD box set release of the decade. Nope. Not an Ewok or Jawa in sight.
Turns out they were all out of the Full Screen version and I had to listen to some young snot nosed pretentious, disingenuous, dressed all in black, hipster, slacker, hippee wanna be, young sales clerk remark on why anyone would even consider watching it on anything but a wide screen.
Bastard.
I was wanking off to Princess Leia before you were even born. And now I've got to listen to you preach to me about my TV? Bastard. Bastard. Bastard.
Anyone want a gift certificate to Newbury Comics?
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