I was looking for… what was I looking for?
Kate and I are in Best Buy Sunday night with a primary mission to get the last two seasons of Gilmore Girls so that we quit watching them out of order when our TiVO randomly decides to record one. And yes, I like Gilmore Girls… you can impugn my manliness as you see fit, but it is an excellent show.
The super-secret secondary mission is for me to go and get my monthly PC game purchase. I’ve got my sights on a box-set of Oblivion and I’m heading to the PC gaming section when I walk by some youngsters playing the song “Should I stay or Should I go?” by The Clash on the floor demo of Rock Band.
Instantly, I’m humming along with the song and standing in front of a row of games with absolutely no clue as to why I am there. A blue-shirt asks me if he can help me and I tell him I’ve forgotten the name of the game I came here to buy. I say “It’s the most popular off-line computer role playing game of 2007” and he replies, “so is that the title?” That one caught me a little off guard. “Um…. no, I’ll work it out. Thanks for your time.”
I browse the titles and my head is filled with nothing but The Clash. I might as well be blind. I go back to find Kate and ask her to tell me what I was thinking when I walked into the store. She’s my ace, and when we arrive back at the PC games, the song is now Nirvana. I’m only perhaps 75% engaged by it, but still cannot find what I’m looking for. Kate picks it up from somewhere directly in the center of my vision and we leave the store with a pile full of Gilmore Girls, midevil RPGs and some $10 James Bond movies. Success!
Oh Markie Mark!!! You were soooo in the “Mark Zone”….Glad you were saved by Katy. Hope you’re “back” safe and sound.
xoxo
You know what the best part is? You told us about it. That’s awesome. That’s why we love you!
I know exactly what you mean. Reptilla from the Strokes is another excellent melody. It just gets lodged in your lobes. That song draws me in like Odysseus to the sirens. Any evening where Rock Band makes an appearance at my friend’s house, I insist on playing it. If it wanders through my iTunes shuffle, I stop working and turn it up. Actually, there are quite a few songs like that, (Still Alive, My Brilliant Feat, …). I suppose it is a pretty low hurdle to jump for a song to be better than yet another work email. However, these songs clear the bar like a Kryptonian jackrabbit.
-Bruce
Oh yeah! Don’t feel bad, I don’t even need a shocking distraction like something fun like Rock Band…sometimes just *walking into* a Best Buy or similar is enough to wipe my memory of what it was I wanted in particular.
I think it has to do with the vents that are right above the entrance doors…I think they blow some psychoactive gas on you. You get a little feeble, your mouth hangs open, then you’re wandering back and forth in the DVDs with your mouth hanging open, just looking at shininess and colors. Yep.