So I became convinced on buying a Wii a month or so ago. If Zelda wasn’t a launch title I could afford to wait a bit. However, it is, and I’m that easy. I wasn’t loser enough to wait in all those 12+ hour lines for pre-orders just so I could wait in another 12+ hour line with pre-order receipt in hand to pick it up. Although part of me wishes i was a little more loser. Then I wouldn’t have to wait for this prick I bought my wii off of on ebay to send the stupid thing. I tried hitting up the retail stores a day after launch, hoping that they either still had wiis for sale, or they had received new shipments or whatever.

My brain is so dumb…as I drove up to Best Buy after work I was filled with shame. I wanted this thing bad enough I was willing to go into a Best Buy the week of Thanksgiving. Someone shoot me. People are walking out - “are they carrying wiis?” I ask myself. No…looks like samsung or some other toshiba brand or something. Why anyone would want anything other than a wii right now I don’t know…I walk around the store, taking an indirect route to the videogames section. I don’t want the kids working here knowing that they have the upper hand on me. I don’t want them knowing that they have information I need. I don’t want interaction with them at all. If I want something, I’ll initiate. I wish church worked like this. Nobody disturbs me as I saunter through the aisles, but I’m not fooled. They know. They can see my eyes darting here and there, lurking around the empty racks.

Nothing here. It looks like at one time there were wiis but it is as if a strong wind has blown through the newly constructed wii section at Best Buy. I go to Wal-Mart, Fry’s Electronics, Target, all the same. I feel like Ed Norton searching frantically for Tyler Durden but coming up just short at every turn. Wiis were here, I can still feel their presence…

And then I come upon Toys-R-Us. Nothing spells shame like an almost 30-year old male wading through the barbies, play-doh and fisher-price on a search he knows will bear no fruit. But wait! There are boxes! Wii boxes…for display only. I flush red for a second before realizing that this is right before the metal detector of the ‘game zone’ or whatever the hell they call it. So I enter. And there, sitting on the bottom shelf of the wii section, are two wii boxes…for display only. Doesn’t ToysRUs do some stupid thing like you bring them a ticket and they give you your item at the front? A clerk asks if I need any assistance. I’m so close. “Yes…do you have any of these?” I ask in a tone that implies that I know the answer is no. “Yep,” he replies and my heart skips a beat, then “Oh those?….No…no…none of those,” like I should have known better than to even ask.

What’s up with putting display boxes around as if they have stock. Is it supposed to calm the shopping masses into thinking that “all is well, the wii actually exists?” I went to circuit city and they had a full row of display boxes. I began thinking that they may have items that correlate to these boxes, but then I glanced to the adjacent row and it was full of PS3 boxes. Hah! I up and walked out right there. I’ve always hated Circuit City. I even added a totally sarcastic “sure” when the manager at the front asked me if I found everything all right. I wanted to shout “stop preying off my almost 30-year old male insecurities by placing rows of empty boxes on your shelves!!! You’re just making me want said item even more! And it’s working! I hate you!” But the sarcastic “sure” worked just as well as giving him the finger.

I paid 100 over retail for a wii and zelda on ebay last Wednesday. The guy has yet to ship it. I hate him too. If he doesn’t ship tomorrow I’m going to demand he pay me back on paypal. I’m screwing him on the feedback either way. prick.

Aside from geeking out about vapor-wii (damn you ebay user haascrew!) Heather and I went to see The Fountain today. I’m sure it will be a very polarizing movie. I found it to be puzzling and beautiful. I cried near the end while still trying to scratch a couple of nagging itches concerning plot. The whole time I’m trying to dechipher what’s real and what’s fiction while trying to grasp the meanings of the film while getting emotionally involved in the characters, which are really just everyman characters, and then it began to sink in and I was trying to think about optimus prime and super metroid or anything to keep from crying. (for some reason I thought about optimus prime dying in the transformers movie and it really brought the “death leads to awe” plot into sharp focus.)

whether we search for the mythical tree of life or the mythical nintendo wii….yeah that point is lame. Never mind.