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You Brought Two Too Many The opening scene from Sergio...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0100

You Brought Two Too Many

The opening scene from Sergio Leone’s classic western “Once Upon a Time in the West.”

This is the scene I made a reference to in a tweet earlier today. Shortly after I posted it, I started monitoring my page on favstar.fm, and to great befuddlement, it didn’t fare as well as I anticipated. E.g. it should have been on the favstar leaderboard—about to leave the fave-10-tier, and about to enter the fave-50-tier—but as I write this, it hasn’t received a single star.

Which leaves me with only one question: what is wrong with you people?

"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Just a little thought. I’m..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:00 +0100

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By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Just a little thought. I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they’ll take root. I don’t know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourself.

Seriously, though. If you are, do. No, really. There’s no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan’s little helpers, okay? Kill yourself. Seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No, this is not a joke, if you’re going: “There’s going to be a joke coming.” There’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked, and you are fucking us. Kill yourself, it’s the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself. Planting seeds.

I know all the marketing people are going: “He’s doing a joke.” There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend – I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too. “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market, he’s very smart.” Oh man. I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags! “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing now? He’s going for the righteous indignation dollar. That’s a big dollar. Lot of people are feeling that indignation, we’ve done research. Huge market. He’s doing a good thing.” God damn it, I’m not doing that, you scumbags. Quit putting a goddamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! “Oh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill’s very bright to do that.” God, I’m just caught in a fucking web. “Oh, the trapped dollar. Big dollar, huge dollar. Good market, look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar …” How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don’t you? “What did you do today, honey?” “Oh, we made arsenic childhood food. Now, good night. Yeah, we just said, you know, is your baby really too loud? You know … yeah, the mums will love it, yeah.” Sleep like fucking children, don’t you? This is your world, isn’t it?

”

- Bill Hicks, on marketing

He said this back in the 90s, long before the world wide web had its breakthrough, and the commercial interests that naturally followed trashed the place with dreadful ad-networks. If he were alive today, I’m sure he would be pissed.

Bill Hicks, another dead hero.

David Lynch on His Coffee Business

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:31:00 +0100

Evan Smith: The other thing I understand you have, that has just gone online, or about to, is the coffee business.
David Lynch: coffee…I drink a lot of coffee.
Evan Smith: really?
David Lynch: yeah, and…so someone I’m working with said “You know, you should have your own line of coffee”, and…so one thing let to another…and so there it is; David Lynch Signature Cup of Coffee.
Evan Smith: Please tell me that you thought immediately—and discarded immediately—calling it “Damn good coffee”.
David Lynch: Discarded?…I didn’t even think it, it was so bad an idea—But it is damn good coffee, and there is ideas in every bean.
Evan Smith: Is that how it is? oh boy, oh boy!

From a Texas Monthly Talks interview with David Lynch.

“When You Don’t Have Anything Anyone Would Want to...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:14:52 +0100

“When You Don’t Have Anything Anyone Would Want to Favorite to Say, Don’t Say Anything at All”

John Moltz’s mother is a very wise woman.

Telstar cover by Fluff Tadpole Further exploration of the realm...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:41:51 +0100

Telstar cover by Fluff Tadpole

Further exploration of the realm that is awesome. This Telstar cover (originally by The Tornados) features ukuleles and an equally interesting instrument called a stylophone.

If you have been searching for that one thing that would make my head explode with glee, you should look no further—This is it!

Telstar by The Tornadoes An exhibition of pure awesomeness.

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:21:07 +0100

Telstar by The Tornadoes

An exhibition of pure awesomeness.

“Well worth defacing $20.00” — @thejohnblog Well...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:13:36 +0200

“Well worth defacing $20.00”

— @thejohnblog

Well played, sir, well played.

Typographic ‘taches Left to right: Freddie Mercury, Tom...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:07:28 +0200

Typographic ‘taches

Left to right: Freddie Mercury, Tom Selleck and Hulk Hogan.

Ryan Dixon, a member of Creative Review, has made a series of posters (3 posters so far), depicting famous mustaches using various typographic symbols, such as brackets, curly brackets, and parentheses.

Via We Love Typography.

As I said on my twitter-feed yesterday (#4843050616); always,...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:08:24 +0200

As I said on my twitter-feed yesterday (#4843050616); always, always wear pants when taking photos of shiny objects. Click the image for more examples.

A word of warning: If you do click the image, you will see shiny objects…and reflections of male genitalia.

Bat-ta-ray! van Canto, a German a cappella group, has made this...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:36:12 +0200

Bat-ta-ray!

van Canto, a German a cappella group, has made this cover of Metallica’s 1986 classic ‘Battery.’

Needless to say, this one made me laugh so hard it made my stomach hurt.

It’s Party Time! The Microsoft infomercial, that tells...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:14:23 +0200

It’s Party Time!

The Microsoft infomercial, that tells you how to go about throwing your own Windows 7-release-orgy.

This video (the original video can be found over at youtube) has been slightly modified by Panic Inc.’s Cabel Sasser.

Bloodhail by Have a Nice Life

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:46:00 +0200

Bloodhail by Have a Nice Life:

This is the moody/emo Have a Nice Life song I made a reference to in #3976868185.

It’s gloomy shoegaze/industrial, and did I mention that it is aptly tagged ‘Arrowheads’?

Arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads…thank god that’s over.

We are Apple! (what a feelin’!) It is dangerous to go...

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:41:19 +0200

We are Apple! (what a feelin’!)

It is dangerous to go alone, take this Flashdance-inspired Apple anthem. First used at a corporate meeting back in 1984, today I will use it to get myself pumped for the upcoming Apple announcement, and you should to.

I once fell asleep during this movie Movie trailer remix made...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:51:27 +0200

I once fell asleep during this movie

Movie trailer remix made by YouTube user TheHappyKaufman. The changes are subtle, but would without a doubt keep me awake if they made their way into the movie.

"David Manning” was a fictitious film critic, created by a marketing executive working for Sony..."

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:05:17 +0200

““David Manning” was a fictitious film critic, created by a marketing executive working for Sony Corporation around July 2000 to give consistently good reviews for releases from Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures. Several blurbs posted under the name “David Manning” were written for the medieval action/drama A Knight’s Tale (citing Heath Ledger as “this year’s hottest new star!”) and Rob Schneider’s comedy The Animal (“Another winner!”) the latter of which generally received very poor reviews by real critics.”

- Wikipedia article on David Manning

Without You, by Mark Gormley How an artist like Mark Gormley...

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:41:50 +0200

Without You, by Mark Gormley

How an artist like Mark Gormley can fly under ones radar for so long is a mystery. ‘Without You’ is an intense song about heartbreak and loneliness; Director of the music video, Phil Thomas Katt from The Uncharted Zone, took the challenge, and produced an equally intense video.

via Codepo8 on Delicious

The Final Countdown (Live) So bad it must be christian rock.

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:43:00 +0200

The Final Countdown (Live)

So bad it must be christian rock.

Mac vs. PC Made from bits and pieces of the original Apple “Get...

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:04:44 +0200

Mac vs. PC

Made from bits and pieces of the original Apple “Get a Mac” commercials, by youtube user Jeremy Mess.

stevenf’s loving homage to every breathless unboxing video...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:19:00 +0200

stevenf’s loving homage to every breathless unboxing video ever made.

Watch as the co-founder of Panic Inc, Steven Frank, ‘unboxes’ the brand new iPhone GS. Breathless.

Dramatic Dug! Lineboil posted this variation of the classic...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:49:00 +0200

Dramatic Dug!

Lineboil posted this variation of the classic Drama Prairie Dog video on youtube, placing Dug from Pixar’s Up (warning, flash site) in the role of the dramatic prairie dog.