On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:20:07 +0900, CL <flothru@yahoo.com> brought
down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Ed wrote:
>
>> or is Japanese television becoming even more brain-dead than usual? My wife
>> just loves watching this show which features a fat guy who wanders around
>> Tokyo eating food. And not even crazy disgusting food, but just... regular
>> food like spaghetti or ramen or rice! And then there's the show which has
>> these two black tarentos who appear to do nothing more than act like
>> complete retards. Not just regular gaijin tarento retards, but true morons.
>> 
>> And I previously thought Dave Specter's hair was a low point of Japanese
>> TV!!!!
>
>Well, now that we've flogged that puppy for week, let's move on to the 
>musical question "Are Japanese advertising people just stupid or are 
>they _really_ different?"  One of my pet peeves is how art directors 
>like to think that music conjures images separate from what the music is 
>actually about. This leads to some interesting juxtapositions,which, I 
>am informed, means that I do not possess enough Wa in my heart to fully 
>appreciate.  I submit for your consideration:
>
>Recent ad for Sumitomo-Mitsui Bank which tries to explain that the 
>institution is solid and upright, possessing an extra helping of 
>niceness while Billy Joel sings "Honesty,is such a lonely word, everyone 
>is so untrue ..." in the background.

Reminds me of driving along in Nashville one day and listening to WSM
radio. They had a request from a couple to play a song for them on
their anniversary: Ray Price doing "For the Good Times"
(http://tinyurl.com/55mfk) Proof positive that people only catch
scattered words from songs and don't actually pay attention to the
lyrics.

Remember the commercial for some diamond company that used "Amazing
Grace" for the background music?

How about a couple or three years ago when they were advertising green
tea with "Coffee Rhumba"? What a fucking brainfart that was!





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Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College