It's me and Sour Cream today. She's so stuffed up that she sounds like she's breathing through a respirator.
17 thoughts on “November 13, 2011: Sick Kid”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA
I knew what that was from just seeing a link in the sidebar.
Yep, still one of our most annoying animals.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkw6-iOR-U
That's for extra-inning West Coast games.
I just decided to look at how the NHL standings look. Based on total points (instead of points per game played), the Wild are in a six-way tie for 4th in the West, with 19 points. Conference-leading Blackhawks have 23 points (in one more game played). The distance in points the Blackhawks and the two teams tied for second-last is the same as the distance between second-last and dead-last Columbus.
Converting things to baseball-type games behind (where OTLs are a half-win and a half-loss):
Wild are 1.5 GB Dallas (and Chicago, points behind) for top seed, which is tied for 7th with Nashville. They are only 2 games ahead of second-last. However, they are only 0.5 GB division-leading Edmonton.
It appears to me that I can't reject the null hypothesis that all teams in the western conference except Columbus is equally talented. Or something like that.
How can they tell me to "be very still", then immediately zoom in and move the effing camera all over the place? Make up your mind, dude!
i just saw a zales commercial featuring "you ain't alone" by the alabama shakes. pfft. sellouts...
I can't begrudge a talented young band getting a paycheck. Someone at their ad agency has good taste in music.
(Didn't Zales use Cat Power a few years back? )
just to be sure, was joak. i say good on them now for generating some noise.
Yeah, they got here to cover a Cat Stevens song, right?
Here it is:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jOjK003Yk
"How Can I Tell You?" (I couldn't remember the title, but I was pretty sure it was the ballad off Teaser and Firecat.)
I started to get over it first when the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" was used to sell VW Beetles, and then Fila Brazillia licensed the intro to "Extract of Pineal Gland" to some financial services company in 1998 or so. Off the very same album that samples Bill Hicks ranting: "By the way, is there anyone here who works in advertising, or marketing? Kill yourself."
I can't believe I found the commercial. I only saw it once myself. It's for Qualcomm. Starts at 5:26.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAijltk0xXY
I still don't get why that was necessary, my least favorite track on the album, and before anything really interesting happens in the song. Might as well have gone with Seefeel's "Utreat"
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QbZHRTitw
OK, no. I take that back. That only works if the surfer guy in the Qualcomm commercial instead took Hicks' advice.
Here's the Orb commercial. It's still got Ricky Lee Jones's voice and Pat Metheny's guitar (playing Steve Reich), and the harmonica sample from Ennio Morricone. But they replaced LeVar Burton's voice with another.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b3kx8-74GM
There's also this cologne commercial (which is only shown in December) which uses five seconds of a song from Oval off of Systemisch. Totally grabs me every time in a way that I doubt they were intending.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVAGPjFo9Y
0:26, the song is "Textuell". It's probably even more identifiable to me because that's the sound the whole album starts with.
I've never before heard that the rest of the commercial has Oval's skipping CDs under the regular commercial music, but now that I'm paying attention, it's there the whole time.
Back in the day, there was a problem. (Think Phil Collins)
Times is changed, boyo. File sharin' and MTV gone reality making the day-to-day workin' band a hard way to earn a living.
Ha Ha Tonka got paid by Rolling Rock to record a cover of Big Country's "In a Big Country" and the beer later decided to use a different song for the commercial. But the cover's pretty cool, plus they got paid.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA
I knew what that was from just seeing a link in the sidebar.
Yep, still one of our most annoying animals.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkw6-iOR-U
That's for extra-inning West Coast games.
I just decided to look at how the NHL standings look. Based on total points (instead of points per game played), the Wild are in a six-way tie for 4th in the West, with 19 points. Conference-leading Blackhawks have 23 points (in one more game played). The distance in points the Blackhawks and the two teams tied for second-last is the same as the distance between second-last and dead-last Columbus.
Converting things to baseball-type games behind (where OTLs are a half-win and a half-loss):
Wild are 1.5 GB Dallas (and Chicago, points behind) for top seed, which is tied for 7th with Nashville. They are only 2 games ahead of second-last. However, they are only 0.5 GB division-leading Edmonton.
It appears to me that I can't reject the null hypothesis that all teams in the western conference except Columbus is equally talented. Or something like that.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHm1xvno0xs&feature=related
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XHXdmSMBog
How can they tell me to "be very still", then immediately zoom in and move the effing camera all over the place? Make up your mind, dude!
i just saw a zales commercial featuring "you ain't alone" by the alabama shakes. pfft. sellouts...
I can't begrudge a talented young band getting a paycheck. Someone at their ad agency has good taste in music.
(Didn't Zales use Cat Power a few years back? )
just to be sure, was joak. i say good on them now for generating some noise.
Yeah, they got here to cover a Cat Stevens song, right?
Here it is:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jOjK003Yk
"How Can I Tell You?" (I couldn't remember the title, but I was pretty sure it was the ballad off Teaser and Firecat.)
I started to get over it first when the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" was used to sell VW Beetles, and then Fila Brazillia licensed the intro to "Extract of Pineal Gland" to some financial services company in 1998 or so. Off the very same album that samples Bill Hicks ranting: "By the way, is there anyone here who works in advertising, or marketing? Kill yourself."
I can't believe I found the commercial. I only saw it once myself. It's for Qualcomm. Starts at 5:26.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAijltk0xXY
I still don't get why that was necessary, my least favorite track on the album, and before anything really interesting happens in the song. Might as well have gone with Seefeel's "Utreat"
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QbZHRTitw
OK, no. I take that back. That only works if the surfer guy in the Qualcomm commercial instead took Hicks' advice.
Here's the Orb commercial. It's still got Ricky Lee Jones's voice and Pat Metheny's guitar (playing Steve Reich), and the harmonica sample from Ennio Morricone. But they replaced LeVar Burton's voice with another.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b3kx8-74GM
There's also this cologne commercial (which is only shown in December) which uses five seconds of a song from Oval off of Systemisch. Totally grabs me every time in a way that I doubt they were intending.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVAGPjFo9Y
0:26, the song is "Textuell". It's probably even more identifiable to me because that's the sound the whole album starts with.
I've never before heard that the rest of the commercial has Oval's skipping CDs under the regular commercial music, but now that I'm paying attention, it's there the whole time.
Back in the day, there was a problem. (Think Phil Collins)
Times is changed, boyo. File sharin' and MTV gone reality making the day-to-day workin' band a hard way to earn a living.
Ha Ha Tonka got paid by Rolling Rock to record a cover of Big Country's "In a Big Country" and the beer later decided to use a different song for the commercial. But the cover's pretty cool, plus they got paid.
That's good money. Seriously.