Beany Babies

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE

Japan is alive...

...and I will stop trying to decipher your commercials.

Little Dragon

gets with some chocolate company for a sweet spot. 




Here's the music video for the song "Fortune".

What I've been watching all week

Really, you can only take Tim and Eric in small doses. The show is so dumb and over the top that it gets me every time. It's like you're falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, and you have a fever dream that was shot with a tube camera. Oh, and then someone went apeshit with photoshop filters and clip art.

Link to loads of Tim and Eric clips.

Will Forte's "Lazy Horse" mattress commercial

More of the "Lazy Horse" nightmare sequence

Cinco "Facts" machine "Makin' it E-Z!" Why send faxes when you can receive FACTS!

Volvo thinks you're a dumbass

Is there really any way that an intruder can discreetly break into a modern car with a modern security system and wait in the back seat to strangle you? No. The truth is that Volvo can't market this invention the way it is used in real life (e.g. forgetting your baby in the backseat while you get a mani-pedi) because it would imply that people who buy Volvos are jackasses. A couple people have hit on this in the talk around the web too.





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Awesome Burger King commercial

Thanks to Kyle for bringing this awesome Burger King commercial to my attention.

Battle Beasts

I really want to see the video from the voice-over session for this commercial. Including the male singers.

Charles Bronson and Anthony Geary commercials

Charles Bronson selling some cologne called "Mandom"...


...and Anthony Geary selling Member's Only jackets...


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David Lynch's cigarette commercial

There's nothing strange about cigarettes....until you let David Lynch direct a commercial for them.

The Century of the Self

The Century of the Self is a 4 part BBC documentary and is an eye-opener.
It describes the birth of public relations, marketing, focus groups, etc...and frames these as ways to control democracy. Although it's a fairly one-sided view of the history of psychology, and doesn't mention the role of religion as a factor at all, it's pretty damn powerful. It's sobering to think that all the world turmoil of the 30s is right around the corner when the economy collapses again.

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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Mac’s Convenience Stores

I can't imagine seeing these on the air...it's like David Lynch on Salvia. If you got some time to kill, I recommend watching them all...there's something here to confuse and upset everyone.

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