I have an unhealthy predilection towards Media. I'm not refering to media as in those who carry news to society, but media as in arts, materials and techniques used by an artist to create a work. Okay I'll come clean: DVDs, video games, music, and most recently, books. Half.com puts all those items several clicks away. And by several I mean two at the very most. After the first time you sign up create a username, password, and fill out your billing and shipping information, it stores that information so you can do what they refer to as a "Speedy Checkout."
We have reached the point in our society where someone such as I (the personification of an impulse buyer) now has even less time to reconsider. I'll see a CD, DVD, or book I could concievably want (Who knows if I even do, but it's cheap) AND THE PRICE IS IN RED! RED MEANS REDUCED! THEY BEGIN WITH THE SAME LETTER! YOU ONLY SLASH PRICES IN RED! Not a threatening red either, like the one a bull charges at. This is an inviting red. This is an every thing is okay don't worry about it red. This is a you need me red. I don't know where they get this shade of red, but they are quite aware of the underhand way they employ it's powers. Pyschologists argue that red is a color that evokes strong emotions, due to its intensity. There must be something to be said about the color red in advertising and marketing (Enter our business guru, Dave).
Back to the speedy check out issue. It's so fast that before I knew it, I bought the show Lost. Not the DVD set, I bought the actual show, the rights and everything. What the hell am I going to do with Lost? I don't even know what it's about, nor do the writers. They just wing it episode after episode and hope nobody stops to think about what's actually going on. Those writers could never write themselves into a corner, they'd just throw in some fog or kill somebody, or fog killing somebody (Think about it) to take the attention off the fact that the plot doesn't make a dogshit of sense.
We have reached the point in our society where someone such as I (the personification of an impulse buyer) now has even less time to reconsider. I'll see a CD, DVD, or book I could concievably want (Who knows if I even do, but it's cheap) AND THE PRICE IS IN RED! RED MEANS REDUCED! THEY BEGIN WITH THE SAME LETTER! YOU ONLY SLASH PRICES IN RED! Not a threatening red either, like the one a bull charges at. This is an inviting red. This is an every thing is okay don't worry about it red. This is a you need me red. I don't know where they get this shade of red, but they are quite aware of the underhand way they employ it's powers. Pyschologists argue that red is a color that evokes strong emotions, due to its intensity. There must be something to be said about the color red in advertising and marketing (Enter our business guru, Dave).
Back to the speedy check out issue. It's so fast that before I knew it, I bought the show Lost. Not the DVD set, I bought the actual show, the rights and everything. What the hell am I going to do with Lost? I don't even know what it's about, nor do the writers. They just wing it episode after episode and hope nobody stops to think about what's actually going on. Those writers could never write themselves into a corner, they'd just throw in some fog or kill somebody, or fog killing somebody (Think about it) to take the attention off the fact that the plot doesn't make a dogshit of sense.
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