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!"
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
bon bon - Apr 14, 2007 10:06:22 am PDT #5556 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Jon B. - Apr 14, 2007 11:00:15 am PDT #5557 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
sumi - Apr 14, 2007 6:45:31 pm PDT #5558 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
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.)
Scrappy - Apr 14, 2007 9:45:21 pm PDT #5559 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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]
Topic!Cindy - Apr 15, 2007 1:58:36 am PDT #5560 of 10003
What is even happening?
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.)
Theodosia - Apr 15, 2007 2:01:39 am PDT #5561 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sounds like a dick then and a dick now.
Jon B. - Apr 15, 2007 4:59:54 am PDT #5562 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Don Ho R.I.P.: [link]
Frankenbuddha - Apr 16, 2007 2:41:20 am PDT #5563 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Tom Scola - Apr 16, 2007 5:35:55 am PDT #5564 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Metafilter thread asking what bands put on the best live shows.
DavidS - Apr 16, 2007 9:06:47 am PDT #5565 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On the way home from dropping Emmett off I heard Dave Edmund's cover of "Girls Talk" and was wishing for a comprehensive Rockpile compilation with all their backing work on the Lowe and Edmund's solo albums plus Billy Bremner's singles plus that great live bootleg of them playing in DC with Keith Richards.
They understood the verities.