Demographic

Excuse me, Amazon.com? I have a recommendation for you. I recommend you take a tasty bite out of my wobbly white ass.

I am tired of seeing “If you liked this, you might want to try …” and “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” and “Oh, you are so boring and unoriginal. Just buy this already…”

I bring it on myself. I go to my favorite artist’s Amazon lists and obediently buy what they recommend. And I like it. And then naturally I go to those artists’ concerts and hear the opening act and buy that music. I think the one time I didn’t follow my demographic was when Gary found the Cat Empire Two Shoes CD because he was listening to all the “C” CDs at Barnes and Noble. But of course then we went into Starbucks two months later, and there was Cat Empire playing on the Starbucks Station. Sigh.

I blame TiVo, for fine-tuning whatever suggestions and recommendations algorithm they use. (Even though my TiVO still thinks I’m a gay Catholic.) Remember when your demographic was based on what mail-order catalog you ordered from? Then that catalog would sell your address to another not-always-appropriate catalog? You’d open up the mailbox and find the Adam and Eve catalog staring playfully up at you. “Gary, you pervert!” you’d scream, “What did you do? Why are we getting a sex toy catalog?” And then come to find out it was because you innocently ordered a bra from Victoria’s Secret. And God help you if you got something from Adam and Eve, then. (And I ask you, what accessories do you need for spanking, anyway?)

So, I need to break out of my demographic, otherwise I’m just going to keep seeing the same movie trailers at the movies that I’ll see later in commercials when I watch one the trailer-movies on TV. But I’m so entrenched in my i-Phone / Trader Joe’s / Sex and the City demographic that I don’t even know what other demographics are out there.

I’m thinking of doing something drastic, like watching Girlfriends or Pussycat Dolls Present Girlicious.