Job search gone awry

__2004-08-10 @ 8:05 p.m._______ So here I am, looking for some kind of permanent work here in the bay area, having very little luck. In the meantime, I've been applying for random temp jobs/part-time jobs just to get the ball rolling until something better comes along. So I figured, what the heck, I'll apply for some record store jobs- I love music and I think I qualify for music geek- in the experience and taste categories. You would be very, very wrong to think you could drop off your resume and chat briefly about how you love the store and think of yourself as a good fit. No, along with the application one must fill out (with resume attached), provide a list of your top 5 albums of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (so far) along with a list of 10 or so "recent discoveries." Two of the four record stores actually precisely asked for this. It may be a little tedious and pretentious, but after thinking about it, I guess it's just a weeding out process so they don't waste time interviewing people who are clueless and tasteless and could possibly misrepresent the record store and its values as an independent record store...and all of that jazz. In any case, here's the idiotic list of elitist bullshit- Top 5 albums of the 1970s 1.Led Zepplin- Houses of the Holy 2.Marvin Gaye- What’s Going On 3.Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here 4.Miles Davis- Bitches Brew 5.Velvet Underground- Loaded Top 5 Albums of the 1980s 1.The Smiths- The Queen is Dead 2.The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses 3.Guns ‘n Roses- Appetite for Destruction 4.The Cure- Disintegration 5.Echo & the Bunnymen- Heaven Up Here Top 5 Albums of the 1990s 1.Radiohead- OK Computer 2.My Bloody Valentine- Loveless 3.The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream 4.Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand 5.Yo La Tengo- I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Top 10 of the 2000s (so far) 1.Appleseed Cast- Low Level Owl Vol.1&2 2.Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticism 3.Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights 4.Josh Rouse- 1972 5.Pedro the Lion- Control 6.The Pernice Brothers- The World Won’t End 7.Wheat- Hope and Adams 8.Boards of Canada- In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country 9.Andre 3000- The Love Below 10.Rainer Maria- Better Version of Me Recent Discoveries 1.My Favorite- Happiest Days of Our Lives 2.Frou Frou- Details 3.Whiskeytown- Faithless Street 4.Sun Kil Moon- Ghosts of the Great Highway 5.John Vanderslice- Cellar Door 6.Ambulance LTD- LP 7.Guided By Voices- Half Smiles of the Decomposed 8.I Am The World Trade Center- The Cover Up 9.Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter- Oh, My Girl 10.The Smashing Pumpkins- Machina II These lists are in no particular order...that would be like trying to invent a time travel machine. << | >>