A big black wild gorilla!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This month's Pitchfork column. Written very quickly and drawing on some of last week's conversations on poptimists, this was going to be a much more involved column roaming into some wider places but i. I didn't have time and ii. The connections were rather forced. Actually I'm quite pleased with how it turned out! (Thanks to, IIRC, lockedintheatti for alerting me to the ad in the first place)

Comments

VOLVO!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

dude, the new volvo advert with real actual stephin merritt on it!!! singing a song (a versh of wheels on the bus) written esp for advert...

nice column though, quite koganbotty in parts ;)

Re: VOLVO!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Aargh totally shd have included that - I saw it the day before I wrote the column. Mind you it wasn't as much of an OMG moment as the Arthur Russell ad.

Re: VOLVO!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Arthur russell?

having said that, THE SNAKE is on the new lambrini advert (which appears to be an attempt to start a hella-annoying dance craze (http://www.dothelambrini.co.uk/)) and kill this great song forever...

Re: VOLVO!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"I'll get the 25-34 ABC1 female demographic with this beast."

Re: VOLVO!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Dude?! Srsly? I clearly haven't been watching enough tv recently.

Tom I think this might be the best one yet - well done!

Re: VOLVO!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i saw it and thought "cuh, i can't believe they've got a stephin merritt impersonator in, how weird" and then like the next day maura pointed out it actually was actual stephin...

Re: VOLVO!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

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