Have you seen the tv ad. what a load of tosh, as if we needed more proof of the almost total irrelevance of 90% of tv advertising (unless the ad was made by Apple to make their competitor look bad). Vista is supposed to be part of new media, a tool, but the launch has a real old media smell. Microsoft (ok MSN) boo-ed me off for a job too so double stuff you to them.
Then you've got to laugh at this motley crew...waiting for the wow to start.
enjoying this little bit of ugc.
take any song, edit and reduce it to sixty seconds or less.the winner gets a load of free records and that.
It works best with really long songs, my current fave is A Really Quick One (The Who) by a fella called Tim Scullion
Nice one Craig Brewster, signed on for the reds at 40 - comes on as sub in the cup v Hibs scores one and sets up the last min equaliser. Despite being twice the age of half of the rest of the field he shows how its done. As Oscar Wilde said 'Youth is wasted on the young...'
You've got to love it. The big question is - how can they make and design such good looking, innovative stuff but still not know how to dress themselves in the morning.
Did you see the state of Jobbs' shirt and trousers...
Saw this article which i thought was worth sharing. More on the slow death of marketing but written with a degree of panache!
sample quote - 'We’re so niche, it’s hysterical. Don’t spend all those marketing dollars, for you’re burning out your core audience. And your only hope is that this core audience will revere you, adopt you and spread the word to others. Because you can’t REACH the others!!'
Been away for a bit so so posts for a while.
Ive got some pics of our Venice trip which I'll get up once I get near a PC.
Went to see this at the weekend with M. Laugh out loud from start to finish.
To be fair I hate musicals and was dragged along under duress but glad i went.
Go see it if you get the chance.
Lack of updates here recently due to not being arsed. In case anyones interested the chilli harvest was a bumper one. One homegrown pepper in a pot of chilli blows yer head off. Never buying supermarket crap again. Same goes for the tomatoes, ended up giving loads away as theres too many. Had a bit of a duff year for grapes though...need to buy a book or something.
This is great. Graffiti/street artist Banksy and DJ Dangermouse (of the Grey Album and Gnarls Barclay fame) got together and messed with Paris Hilton's album.
Banksy doctored the artwork, mouse tweaked the music and then they printed them up and dumped 500 in HMVs all over London.read more about it here
or see the movie of them at it here
Bring me the Heads have kindly posted the whole package here
Rapidshare have deleted my files so I've bit the bullet and done a myspace.
Its in prog but the tunes are up there.
'Pricks' and 'Saigon' at the moment.
heres the link
I'm a little bit late with this one and the whole 'consumer generated content' thing
but did find this very curious.Sponsored by Wendys and produced by Bolt media its taking the whole manufactured pop to the next level.
the 'band' is called Orangeblood' and the track 'Gunshy'
Produced entirely via Web collaboration with audience participating and voting on every aspect - from the band's name to choosing members and the tune distributed via MySpace etc.
Got this from the excellent JaffeJuice.
Tried to embed the audio but bloggers not having it so heres the link
Here's 'Zed's Dead Baby' the original 'A' side of the Pricks EP in an earlier post
This one continued the Pulp fiction theme. There was a few tunes around shortly after this was released in 95 that used the 'path of the righteous man...' sample
but my ones used less obvious bits of dialogue. By the way Pricks pre-dated the Fun Lovin Criminals by about a year in case you were wondering.
This was the UK A-side but DJs were playing the Pricks track so it got flipped round for the Belgian and Italian releases.
I ripped this from the State of Play vol 1 cd which I had to buy off ebay. I had about 10 copies but ended up giving them all away, luckily someone had one for sale. £2.99 was a bit cheap I thought. I also got a copy of my first single for Hook, as Party on Plastic, for 50p - an disgrace , it should have been on there for £10 at least.
I'll post that one once I figure out how to record from vinyl into me computer.
Zeds Dead Baby here
My certificates arrived yesterday (2 in the book, count 'em).
Xbox thing for New uses of broadcast and Smirnoff thing for interactive advertising.
Couldn't help being slightly underwhelmed by the cheapy paper and rubber stamp.
For eighty squid a pop I think I was expecting something a bit better. I wonder if the pencils are rubber?
I just got the Feelgood's first lp again, its been reissued with extra tracks.
Theres a 2nd cd with stereo versions (the original '74 lp was mono) butI prefer it in mono, anyway.
As a kid I marvelled at Wilko's ability to play lead and rhythm guitar at the same time (and with his fist!).
Next thing the Ramones came over and the rest is history...
Little known fact, Wilko Johnson's real name is John Wilkinson.
Speaking of bikes...
This is a great book. Ex Clash roadie Johnny Green (immortalised in the Dr Feelgood classic 'Take a Tip') gives a grass roots fan's eye view of the Tour de France. Plenty of 'on the road' rock'n'roll anecdotes thrown in as they stalk Lance Armstrong and co around France. JG's enthusiasm is infectious and its a great intro to the Tour if, like me, you've not got a clue what its all about.
We had a few quid to spare last week so went and blew it on bikes.
A final tribute to Syd after listening to 'Piper' all week maybe. I got a minimal black Marin and M got a Trek with a comfy seat. The first bikes we have ever had! Theres no gym or anything round by us in leafy Hampshire, so it seemed like a good investment from an exercise point of view. A new hobby!...and safer than crack.
Next week a cloak.
