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2001-11-20 - 10:10 p.m.
let me start off by saying that i am extremely excited for the thanksgiving holiday and the long weekend to follow. i am holding onto the anticipation like a long lost love.secondly, i am ferociously upset. something so minor should not make me so upset, but i am. I screamed, "you fuckin suck!" Why can't you buy quality products when you think you are getting quality products? grrrrr.
i bought a product. 50 bucks, no biggie. whatever. i thought it was well worth it. so i spent time comparing manufacturers and decided on one and purchased it on my lunch break. ok. wonderful. (i will not inform you of the specifics of this item, for the detail does not matter.)
i brought it home with pride. a project. yay! installation. well, as it turns out, it will take me about a half hour to install, since i do not own one of those nifty little makita drills. ok. "i will do it," i told myself. it will be worth it. i grabbed a beer and settled into the instructions. After matching up parts B and F, with hardware C and A, i managed to get to the second to last step. ooo, things were getting exciting, i was feeling a premature sense of accomplishment and eagerness to test out the new addition in my world. suddenly, due to a manufacturer (the one that had sold me so well in the store) defect, one of the mismatched parts was not correctly joined with the main part, so it broke off. a part which could not be fixed without that tool that melts metal to metal, a soldering iron.
grrr. suddenly, i faced defeat. it would have to be returned to the store. damnit! another task in the list of to do's. plus, time spent trying--- gone. at least i will know how to install it once i have a new one... which pisses me off even more. now i don't want that "manufacturer" to have my money. poor assembly, lack of attention to detail.. nafta! but now that there are holes drilled, i must get the same item to replace this faulty one. see? see how this works? i know you have experienced this. i know everyone does, because there are shit products out there in the world and we all buy them, no matter how good a shopper you are, you know you have had things that simply won't work, though the packaging sold you, the idea was great, at the time.
i think what this leads into is this: the picture can be so very different from what is inside.
you can be sold on something that looks so cool, sounds so very wonderful, and the idea of it encompasses you, and then, you buy it. you believe it, you love it, and hold great expectations for it... and lo and behold it is a lie. it is glossy words and fantasical pictures. i feel cheated. i am upset that boys and girls cheat on one another. i am upset that lies are so blatant in the marketing world. and when the truth is revealed to you, full view... it is upsetting. you have been lied to.
this is not just about a product. i think this is about consumerism. i also think this is about people. i live here, in hollywood, where, for the most part the entire city is made up of pretty packaging and horrible insides. the city is dirty. people are swarming. the stereotype of this place is far from the truth. sure, there are cool places and cool bands come here to play... but truthfully, it is not all that it appears to be. there is no soul here. its all a fake flash in a pan. a music video, shown for a day.
and yes, this is also about words and pictures. selling. selling out, selling yourself. "the drones work hard for pretty little homes..." lies. i can't stand to be lied to. i can't stand to be part of a lie and i am no good at lying.
this is all.
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