Sunday, January 28, 2007

Best Amazon CD review....ever!

Re: Complete Mozart Collection: The complete Edition 1-19 & 21
Subject: " Only 180 CDs?"
Reviewer: Halfred; (The Heart of Darkness, Alaska)

"I purchased this set in earnest, running down a mountain zestfully with money bristling in my fists. Clenched! "There shall be no others," I thought to myself, "that come close in scale or magnitude to this sonic collection." I decided to listen to it one night at work, for you see I am a lighthouse keeper, in the primitive reaches of Alaska, a land of mystery and intrigue indeed, but also one of interminable boredom and loneliness. For you see a single night yawns for six months, and I do not dare to venture into sleep, for it could cost the lives of precious oilmen and other furtive adventurers. As the sun dove beneath the sea last fall (an extraordinary sight to behold indeed, particularly when secluded in a lighthouse perched upon mountain), I began playing this collection. A mere 13,000 minutes expired before the discs concluded, hardly extending to the rosy side of a fortnight. This is complete? This is all the Mozart they can provide? A mere 220 hours? WHAT SORT OF JOKE IS THIS? I need not tell you that a lighthouse keeper does not enjoy the extravagant riches and baubles of a wall street broker or a heavily mammaried actress. No it is the intrinsic rewards, the glint of a vessel on the ocean, safe in its transport, the soft lull of a dark wilderness, and the life-threatening coyote attacks that lured me to this beauteous profession. Thus this "complete" box set cost me nearly six month's pay, while the playing time only extended for a paltry week and a half. Alas, I sit in my gleaming spire now, alone, dejected, listening to a sonata I heard a mere thirteen days earlier. Godspeed, sweet shopper, and good luck."

*Go here for the proof that I did not make this up.*

2 comments:

Molly said...

Hee hee. Did I tell you the lighthouse-keeper story ever??? Mmm, lighthouse-keepers. ;-)

SL said...

Ooh, what's the lighthouse-keeper story?

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