Willy Wonka, Seer

Still kicking, Webmonkey posts a rather insightful and unique juxtaposition between the dot-com days and every kid's favorite chocolatier – just in time for the Burton Wonka remake:

Willy Wonka could form the soundtrack to any retelling of the early dot-com days with telling lyrics, “who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream/separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream” and “the world tastes good 'cause the candy man thinks it should.” In the opening scene, children run from school into the candy store and the Pied Piper candy store man serenades the kids as they run rampage, eating candy by the pound.

And if you turn down the volume and (instead) play Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, it synchronizes almost perfectly. Having experienced the dot-com bubble from the outside, it played more like Little Shop of Horrors. Me, Seymour Krelborn (duh). My computer, Audrey II. The Small Business Center guy who didn't know what I was talking about at the very beginning, Mr. Mushnik. It all worked out in the end, though. I finally have my Audrey in Ponzi, especially when she dyes her hair blonde (not this week). That, and my computer just ate Wicket.

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