When Marketroids try thinking for themselves, bad things happen.

[hirez]

That didn't take long... [ Via BoingBoing]

Of course, I'm with the truly inspiring and god-like Bill Hicks on this one:

"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags!

Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web! "Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"

(Tonight I think I shall re-plumb the video and watch B-H until my eyes bleed.)

Comments

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

*Chuckle*

I was wondering how long it would take big business (tm) to get in on the blog/lj act. Between this and the google/pyra thing I suspect the honeymoon is over.

OTOH I think the Dr Pepper stunt is likely to backfire badly. The only long term effect i can foresee for this would be the term 'raging cow' (the drink they are trying to flog) entering popular blog/lj parlance as a term for a spectacularly bad move which shows no understanding at all of what it is trying to achieve :o)

[jackketch.livejournal.com]

The thing is, it's like Punk or Goth or nature or anything. One of the basic rules of magic as thought of by the primitives we desperately try to emulate. Name a thing and you can control that thing. When the ever so clever Web log became a blog (and simon started writing bofh for the fucking Register) and became hip it became a razeable and largely risable commodity waiting to be inexperty reaped by the first corporate who could figure out how. I gave up when, years ago, Burger King used Tainted Love in an advert...it was the first eighties alterna-song used to shill. Just wait for the Ballad of Bodhmin Pill in a Mars ad. I can't feel surprised.

You know how I feel about Mr. Hicks. "Sucking Satan's pecker..un-huh! It's only your dignity, suck it."

[squiddity.livejournal.com]

Bill Hicks is in my CD drive, in my video, in my DVD player and in my soul. Oh, and in my MP3 collection, which I think he would approve of from it's anarchistic anti capitalist viewpoint and slag me off about for costing him royalties. Ah, Bill.

The 'we hate people party'. 'Son, you still doing the 'suck your own cock' piece? Me and your mother are soo proud seeing you up there on stage, using your god-given name, doing the suck your own cock bit.'

And, my personal favourite, the sketch about crime in the UK. Known by me as 'the scalliwag sketch'. Ahhh, genius.