Just had my eyes scalded out of my skull by a Swiffer commercial set to the tune of "Whip It" by Devo.

if there's dirty floors around/ you must swiff it

I fucking hate capitalism. Sweet, delicious capitalism.

Capitalism brings us machines to dehumanize.

And machines to save our lives.

It's like a new and improved Catch-23.

At least they weren't ruining good music.

In Response to zamphir (#8903):

As a long time Devotee I found it extra creepy that (at least to my ears) Devo was actually singing the jingle.

And that's 'catch 22'. Unless you were making a joke. In which case 'Catch 22-Gold Edition' would have been more cleverer.

(Scribbles two more lines into his 'why I dislike Zamphir' notebook)

In Response to lemur666 (#8953):

I do hope "more cleverer" was your own attempt at a joke.

I don't think you know me well enough to dislike me.

In Response to zamphir (#8957):

But you don't know enough about evil lemurs to dislike them, yet you do [goats.com].

In Response to unFalln (#8961):

They're lemurs, they're evil, what more is there to know?

In Response to unFalln (#8961):

I didn't say I disliked evil lemurs.

Just that I hoped there was only one.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. It could be that I treasure evil lemurs, and was very distraught to here that what I thought was something unique and special in this world was just another replaceable evil animal.

Sides which, you don't know how well I do or do not know evil lemurs. Or even either of the evil lemurs here. We could all be great friends, who regularly get together for drinks, and are putting on a little show for the rest of you untalkative bums and lurkers. (Nice to hear from you again, Moosie!)

So nyahhh!

what about the royal carribian commercials using Iggy Pop's song "lust for life" (about heroine use)

or Nike using "revolution"

or that car company using "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake (a song about suicide)

or that OTHER car company using one of my favorite modest mouse songs...

In Response to zamphir (#8970):

Just because I have "666" in my handle you assume I'm evil?

Witness the cruel intolerance of Zamphir!
Witness his pidgeon-holing of a minority based merely on his own narrow viewpoint of numerology!
Witness how the Judeo-Xian-Islamic juggernaut assails all those who fall outside their dogma-controlled sphere of mind-control!

The horror! The Horror!

Ahem.

Well, actually I am evil (as evidenced by my weak attempts to get a good hate-fest going in here), but that's completely beside the point.

Zamphir is an opressor! Shun him! Shun him!



The preceeding image was included for the sarcasm impaired...

In Response to lemur666 (#9241):

Is that a... vending machine?

Dear god.

In Response to unFalln (#9252):

I have seen one of those. It was while I was visiting my friends in Westchester, which doesn't seem like a live bait mecca to me; although the best part was that it was nowhere near a body of water, in a parking lot next to a car dealer. Maybe more people are fishing in the Hudson than I assumed.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#9278):

that is not as strange as the used panty vending machines in Japan...

like this one [photomann.com]

Begin rant.

Yep. Everytime I hear Fleetwood Mac's "Man of the world" I'm forced to envisage a small kid getting squashed by a car.

Way to ruin a perfectly good song and take it completely out of context.

End rant.

I fucking hate capitalism. Sweet, delicious capitalism.

While flipping through all three channels that my rabbit ears pick up last night, I saw something as equally disturbing; the cure 'pictures of you' was playing for an HP digital photography ad. I mean, longing for a lost love through old photographs doesn't exactly make me want to go out and buy a bunch of electronics. Even if they didn't strip all meaning from such a great song just because it talks about pictures in the chorus.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#9383):

the cure

great song

I don't get it.

my favorite is those zoloft (at least i think it's zoloft) commercials. you know the ones with the little round ball that's depressed. particularly the part where they try and explain why depression happens through animation. i just cant get over the fact that they need to write "dramatization" at the bottom.

In Response to zamphir (#9384):

I don't get it.

Just when you thought the Z man couldn't get any wittier ;)

So what's in your CD player right now?

In Response to jettaboy20 (#9397):

My current sig is a clue for those in the know.

(And I think you're crediting me for a joke I don't know I made.)

But actually, these days, my CD player is an iPod. So, *everything* is in there, all at once.

In Response to zamphir (#9401):

And I think you're crediting me for a joke I don't know I made

Sorry, I'll try to be more careful next time...

If anyone can give me the names and addresses of whomever approved the selling of Hendrix songs to play during car commercials, I would be very happy.

Not to say I would do anything bad to them. I would just go and beat them with a baseball bat until their eyes pop out of their head and they scream in agony and...um, I mean...like I said, nothing bad to them. Yes.

not so much a problem with a song in a commercial...just the commercial itself.
Some skin care product..The biggest problem facing most men and women today....is wrinkles
funny...I thought the hundreds of people dying in Irag was a problem. Or that I didnt even know it was election time...that could be a problem. Or that Pathmark stopped selling pour-over movie theatre-style butter microwave popcorn...that is a problem!