Holy crap

If you do a google search for "Verizon Envy commercial" my blog is the first site that pops up. It's nothing huge, but I still think it's pretty cool.

Did you think I wouldn't notice HP?!

I'm referring of course to HP's most recent "Making the Computer Personal Again" commercial. During Christmas they aired a commercial showing the torso of Santa Claus, and the voice discussing what he does with his laptop was supplied by Tim Allen. This was likely done as a little cross promotion for The Santa Clause 3.

But now the commercial has the same visuals and supplies another generic Santa voice. Why not keep Tim Allen? He's a good VA, better than generic dude that does it now.

Can I be honest for a moment?

I hate the idea of dating.

There, I said it. I hate the idea of dating.

Now, there are plenty of women my age who I'd like to have a relationship with. It's just the whole developing the relationship part that sucks. These days it seems like dating is a competition, that I'd have to constantly be coming up with new fun stuff to do for a least the first few months so I could keep her attnetion.

But the problem is, I'm boring. I don't just go out and do new things, I'm not creative enough to come up with fun date ideas. I can always ask friends for advice, but that only carries you so far.

Now, I know not all women need to be constantly impresed, and that it possible to find someone who's just interested in doing something that lets us spend time together, but in my overactive mind, things never play out that way. Now, I'm not so full of self pity that I think no chicks would ever want to go out with me, but I can't help but forsee disappointment, simply because I can't keep her interested.

I know I shouldn't be such a pessimist, but I just needed to get some of this BS off my chest. Prehaps as a build up to actually asking someone out in the near future? Prehaps, prehaps not.


(Dating was so much easier in high school, simply because it was more limited. For me, dates consisted of simple stuff like movies (in the theater or at someone's house) or bowling (followed by parking the car somewhere and making out for 30 or 45 minutes).)

The most confusing commercial on TV

is also one of my new favorites, simply because it features Bruce Campbell. It's a comercial for Old Spice.

The next time I see it on, I'll pause the old Tivo and proide a transcript so you can see how confusing it is. It literally makes little sense, but it's still great, just because Campbell is so awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af1OxkFOK18&eurl=

Forget a transcript, we have the every loveable YouTube to show us the wonderfully delightful comercial. Watch it, scratch head, buy Old Spice.

As a guy, I know pretty much all there is to know about bacon

This has been a great year so far for commercials that appeal to me. Next up is the current Sonic commercial, in which a man and a woman in the car discussing a new sandwhich of some sort with bacon. As a person who loves bacon, the guy insisting that pretty much everything there is to know is encoded on his DNA cracks me up.

So it works as entertainment, but as an ad it fails because I don't remember what it's suppossed to make me want.

My next favorite commercial of 2007

And again it goes to LG and Verizon, the same people behind the last commercial for the Envy phone I discussed.

This phon starts in a nicely lit kitchen, with a father, daughter, and son standing in various spots. The dad talks about the Chocolate phone his daughter got, and the Envy phone his son got, and how they both got "The Network." With his shilling done he moaps the line "What did dad get?" "Aftershave?" his daughter helpfully entones. "Noooo.. dad got hosed!"

How true! Dad's probbaly frequently feel like they got the short end of the stick when it comes to Christmas gifts, and just gifts in general at various times of the year. honestly, when was the last time you sent your dad something for fathers day? Now when was the last time you sent your mom flowers and a card for Mother's Day? I'd say this ad pretty accurately gauges the post-holiday feelings of many fathers.

Kudos to Verizon and LG's current advertising agencies. Right now they have my favorite ads on TV. We'll see if they can keep it up. Eventually al companies stumble.

Worst products of 2007 (so far)

I have seen 2 terrible commercials for 2 rotten products. I'm sure by now you've seen a commercial for the Kidz Bop CD's (now in their 11th iteration), which take popular music from the radio and make it "kid friendly" by having children sing them and changing some lyrics.

These discs usually sell pretty well, and it is only natural that there would be copy cats (such as last year's reggaeton disc for kids), but this year so far the franchise has spawned two evil offspring, which will likely replicate like a wet Mogwai.

First we have a country kids disc. I don't remember the exact title, as my brain mercifully blocked out parts of the commercial. but some things get burned into your memory. Like seeig a bunch of kids in bright colors line dancing to kids singing "Boot Scootin' Boogie." I'm no country fan, and seeing kids subjected to it is horrible. The birght point in the commercial is seeing this mass of little white kids, and one solitary asian boy. He sticks out like a sore thumb.

The next evil is Kidz (why the Z?!) Rap Radio. Now this one takes popular rap songs, and drastically changes the lyrics to songs and has ostensibly famous child rappers (I didn't know any existed, but they do, according to the commercial and a small article I saw in a music magazine) sing the songs. I'd like to hear this disc, just to hear the rewrites of the songs. In the commercial (which has a nicely multi-ethnic gang of kids doing retarded dances in the background) we hear smal snippets of rewritten songs, the most memorable (t0 me) being the rewrite of "Laffy Taffy." If you haveb't heard the song... I envy you actually, as it sucks. But the lyrics to the chorus go "shake that laffy taffy, that laffy taffy" (Deep and thought provoking, right?) and since we can't have kids singing about shaking bottoms, the lyrics get an obvious change "We like lafy taffy, that laffy taffy."

I looked for a torrent but didn't see one. If I can get my hands on this disc I'll give it a thorough review. I don't see it selling well. Most kids who seem to listen to rap have parents who don't care about that little PA sticker on their new E-40 cd.

Best commericals of 2007

I'm starting early with my list of my favorite commercials. I'm gonna update it as I see good commercials, and if I get sick of a commercial it will be stricken from the list. (or added to a spearate post of commercials I am sick of prehaps)

1) Verizon's Envy commercial.
It starts with an attractive blonde staring into a mirrored window, and the word "Vanity" appears ont he screen, in gothic lettering. Dramatic music begins, as the camera focuses on a guy in car, who is staring at the girl, and the word "Lust" appears. A slight pan across to another woman, apparently the guy's girlfriend who has a furious look upon her place, and the word "Wrath" appears next to her.

Then the revolving door on the building they are next to spins open and a woman walks out texting and as all three of the former indivuduals look at the the woman, we get a shot that focuses on the phone and the three people looking at it, and the word "Envy" appears on the screen.

I like this commercial because it's just so simple. The music catches your ear, and the set-up to the reveal of the phone is clever. The theme of the commercial actually fits the product. Kudos Verizon!