Monday, October 29, 2007

Automatic Advertising Backfires

This little gem came up when I googled the lyrics to Bryan Ferry and co's cover of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane," (which, by the way, I've been listening to nonstop for the past 36 hours.) Here were my immediate reactions to this cartoon man's claim:


1) No you don't. I find it impossible to believe that a website with such shoddy production values would actually have an expansive enough ringtones catalogue to include anything that couldn't be found on "Now Thats What I Call Music Vol. 65."

2) Why are you so excited about the Roxy Music ringtones? Is there someone across the street doubting the actual availability of your ringtones? Is that why you're yelling?

3) [I have deleted this one due to some ignorance on my part toward the Jamican flag. Ben's comment was enlightening to me.]

4) I understand that an "urban" (and I know I'm being euphemistic) look helps sell products to young, white America, but most current fans of this band are quintogenarian Englishmen. If anything, their cell phones ring to the Masterpiece Theater theme song, if not just a simple beeping noise.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That yellow and green landing pad is the Jamaican flag. He's supposed to be a rastafarian. Did Roxy music smoke a lot of pot? Kind of an odd route to Kevin Bacon, regardless.