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Moonlight
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Tue, 08 Jun 1999 19:56:13 -0700
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Re: (idm) Re:the ads thread
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quoted 1 line that *sad* story about Jello Biafra and Nike. Yikes!>that *sad* story about Jello Biafra and Nike. Yikes!
Again, i'm prob just square, but could someone relate this story to me?
quoted 1 line This brings me to a thorn in my side re: Stereolab. Did that Volvo deal>This brings me to a thorn in my side re: Stereolab. Did that Volvo deal
close >well? I can't imagine what Volvo paid them but I'd guess it could buy them a >*fleet* of new Farfisas. Hopefully dropping socialist ideology from their >oeuvre worked for this ad I haven't seen this ad yet (though i have seen the VW ad, which i thought you were referring to at first). However, i doubt that Volvo would have even noticed a socialist agenda.
quoted 4 lines If say, Hunts Ketchup decided to use>If say, Hunts Ketchup decided to use >say, a Ryoji Ikeda track with a music credit *on screen* it would most >likely result in a syndrome known as "target market product placement >confusion". It might lead to a skyrocket in Ikeda sales : ) but more
likely >leave you forgetting about the ketchup. LOL. This example is so ridiculous, it needs to happen. Maybe the credits for commercials should just be made available, like via a website or something like that. So rather than say "Hunts Ketchup, soundtrack provided by Ryoji Ikeda", ther would just be a little www.hunts_ketchup.com URL on the botom, which has a link to the commercial's credits. np: v/a "ColdKrushCuts" West Disc _________________________________ Adam Roesch / roesch@augsburg.edu Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "Because success needs killing" TRICKY