Please allow me to make your day.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I… actually don’t have anything to add to that.
Oh, except this: Jonny’s got a MySpace, too.
Archive for the ‘the talkies’ Category
Pictures of Science!
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Being unemployed at the moment, I’ve had the time, between frantic bouts of throwing away everything I own, to do some intense and serious internet research. And by that, I mean that I smash the crap out of my StumbleUpon button for a good bit of time every day.
Couple of weeks ago, I came across the videos of this woman, Sarah Haskins, on current.com. She does a bunch of things, but she has a series, her own little segment, called Target Women. It’s a whole bunch of short videos about advertising targeted at women.
Now, being a woman, and being the target of said advertising, I can’t say I’ve ever really thought about the particular marketing genius that goes into making women in particular want to buy things, but after watching a few of Sarah’s videos I can tell you two things:
1. Marketers have most likely never met an actual woman and
2. This shit is hilarious.
The videos are funny, and there’s one video in particular, the Target Women Special – it was the first one I saw – that combines segmnets from all of her best videos into one long epic on How to Be a Perfect Woman. I laughed out loud so many times that I watched all the rest of her videos as well.
But while Sarah’s scripts and tones are obviously meant to be humorous, at the same time they manage to make you realize how ridiculous marketing towards women really is. I have thought “Wait a second – this is the shit they sell to me, and THAT’S how they choose to sell it?” so many times since I’ve started watching her videos. But I also can’t think of a way to improve it. I mean, if I was a guy – show me electronics or women or beer or sports or some one getting hit in the nuts, hey, hilarious, I’ll buy that product. But as a female, not only do I find these commercials ridiculous (now that I’ve thought about them – it really never occurred to me before), I’ve realized that marketers must have a tough job because I can’t tell you what I want to see, what is likely to make we want to buy a product, but I can tell you that it’s certainly not PICTURES OF SCIENCE!
Anyway. Make sure you check her out for the pure hilarity factor, along with the “Holy crap, I never actually thought about that!” factor as well. And since I’ve been puzzling over it for a while, since I started watching her videos, I would also like to know what women (that would be some of you guys) think WOULD work for them as far as advertising goes. I suppose that somewhere some demographic research or something like that has indicated that I respond well to “sciencey words” and pictures of women laughing with their friends because their yogurt is so good. BUT DO I? DO I REALLY?
Some of my particular favorites:
The View
Number Two
Sarah Palin
Yogurt Edition
There are a whole bunch more, though. Check them out, Internet. Have I ever steered you wrong? Don’t you remember how I directed you with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer towards Julia Nunes? Trust me!
Using my daily post for a gooder-er thing.
Friday, November 7th, 2008HELLO, INTERNET.
This is Lindsay. She is better at talking than I am.
Anyway, I know a lot of you use Twitter, some more than others, but how long does it take to write 140, or, in this case, 160 characters, for a no cause, let alone a good one? The goal is 1,050,200 messages and they’re not even at 12,000 yet as of this posting, so to get that done by Thanksgiving is going to take a lot of [thoughtful] keyboard mashing. So stop by The Big Thank You Project when you get a chance – stop by a lot of times, if you get a lot of chances – and pass the link around through your various internetly connections.
I don’t really have a good concept of what 1,050,200 is, as a number, but it sounds pretty huge, so every little bit will help.
Your Pal,
TJ
You may want this 10 minutes of your life back.
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Please fill out this form in triplicate and form a line to the left.
5 Things – 9/25 from Temerity Jane on Vimeo.
Cover songs.
Friday, September 12th, 2008I know Dammerung hates it when I post videos, but the Internet needs to know this stuff.
So, as probably evidenced in part by my love of Julia Nunes, I have a thing for cover songs. Not just some other band singing a different band’s song, though. I like cover songs that make a distinct change to the original.
For example of what I’m not a huge fan of – one of my favorite bands when I was in college was The Ataris, and they kind of operated under the radar a bit until they put out their cover of Boys of Summer:
It’s good, I like it. I’ve always liked The Ataris. However… they didn’t really DO anything with it, now did they? The original was a good song, thus this is also a good song, but… it’s kind of the same song, just in Kris Roe’s voice instead of Don Henley’s. So, I liked this one just because I like The Ataris.
But then you’ve got a different kind of cover all together. A band I really love, I have a tattoo of their logo even, is Alkaline Trio. They came out with a new CD this year and I got a chance to see them live, and it was awesome. They sound fantastic live, their new album is fantastic, I’ve really been continually enjoying it. And today, on a friend’s myspace page, I stumbled across this video. This girl takes my favorite song from the album and covers it, changing it just enough that there’s enough of the original song to remind me of why I love the song, and enough of her own twist on it to make it a new and different listen:
And then you’ve got these guys I found on YouTube a couple of weeks ago and kept meaning to tell you guys about. They’re called Tennessippi and they at once crack me up and seriously impress me.
This is their copy of Chris Brown’s Kiss Kiss:
Obviously, if you look at the original here, they’ve definitely put their own… er… spin on it.
And they’ve done it again, as well, with Baby Bash’s Cyclone. I LOVE this one.
So hopefully that makes it clear what I mean about cover songs – I like them, with specific qualifications:
1. That the new artist put a distinctive spin on it, and
2. That the new artist not make it suck.
So, what I want to know from you, Internet, is if you’d mind pointing me in the direction of interesting covers. To make it more difficult, let’s assume I am completely aware of Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies and things of that nature, such as NFG’s “From the Screen to Your Stereo” albums.
What can you come up with for me?
Settle This IV
Sunday, September 7th, 2008We need your help, Internet.
The question comes towards the end.
5 Things from Arizona
Saturday, August 30th, 2008“if you
