My favorite VW ad of that series though is the Son Volt one
Mine was the Spiritualized one, but there was a ton and a half of meta on my love for that (first and foremost for seeing Spiritualized without knowing diddly-squat about them because Mistle Thrush was opening for them and Spiritualized blew me AWAY!!!; secondly because MT basically did the most free-form show I ever saw them do including massive amounts of Theremin; mostly because Spiritualized played 90% of LADIES & GENTLEMEN... which is a FUCKING awsome disc).
Because it's all about MEMEME, did you know that Valerie from Mistle Thrush played in the Lothars for one gig?
BTW, Jon, Bob Bob is like a huge fan of your existence. I saw what may be the first of the White Castle ads in what I'm assuming is the series you are in -- a limo driver talking about taking people to White Castle-- and I told Bob Bob about how you got the ad job. He was like, "he plays the THEREMIN! And is an ACTUARY! I love those things!" I just told him about the VW ad thing and he was like "I love advertising!"
I'm... flattered?
There definitely was a "limo driver" ad in the new series. The latest I've heard is that my ad would run over the summer. Supposedly, they're still tweaking it.
Oh, I hadn't even realized that the limo ad must be part of that series.
(I like the Trio "Da Da Da" vw ad.)
j got to realize a teenage drem tonight and only those on the music thread wil appreciate this. He was talking to an older guy and it turns out this guy was lead singer of Manfred Mann back in the day. An important thing to know is that the Lead Singer Guy , whose name is Chris, was a horrible, bitter, cranky dick to everyone at the party. So, Chris was quoting lyrics to explain to someone also in the conversation what songs he sang on and said "wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night." This is a lyrical idiocy that has bothered J ever since he first heard the song when he was 13.
Now, he did NOT make fun of the dude for singing "Like a douche" although that's totally what the song sounds like, because that would be making fun of his accent and J had much bigger things on his mind. No, he said to Lead Singer Chris, "You know, it should be revved up like a deuce, not wrapped up. The 'deuce' is a deuce coupe, which is a car." The guy said "I sang it, don't tell me what it means." We got home and looked it up on wikipedia and you may read for yourself: [link]
Great story, Robin and yay for J.
(And Chris? You may have sung it, but Bruce wrote it and also recorded it, so we
know.
So there.)
Sounds like a dick then and a dick now.
Because it's all about MEMEME, did you know that Valerie from Mistle Thrush played in the Lothars for one gig?
Oooh. Cool. I know she (with the help of her dad) built her own Theremin. She didn't play it nearly enough, though. That one show before Spiritualized, they did a little more of a free-form show and that time it got a pretty good workout, but usually it just got used on the closing song (almost ALWAYS "I Scare Myself"). I miss MT.
"You know, it should be revved up like a deuce, not wrapped up. The 'deuce' is a deuce coupe, which is a car."
There was a whole sketch about that song's lyrics on a long-ago Comedy Central show The Vacant Lot.
