Tuesday, October 03, 2006
the beatles were totally satanist
i just saw the worst commercial ever. maybe even the worst thing ever. but probably just the worst commercial ever. i searched and search and searched (for like five minutes [and i don't mean like minutes the way rappers do where a minute means a long period of time but literally five minutes]) and couldn't find a video clip of this commercial online. i guess i have to try and describe the commercial. i hate that.
this is our country: a description of the new chevy silverado commercial in paragraph form
it opens with some john (cougar?) mellencamp song that repeats the line--and you have to imagine this in a john (cougar?) mellencamp voice--"this is our country" over and over some cliched contemporary adult rock song. that sounds bad enough, but it gets worse. there's a shot of john (cougar?) himself strumming away on his guitar and singing his little heart out. bad, but it still gets worse. then, over the backdrop of the hypno-patriot music, we see some of the most famous american images of the last fifty years including, but not limited to, rosa parks, vietnam war protests, nixon doing something, the aftermath of hurricane katrina, a nighttime skyline shot of new york city with two beams of light where the twin towers used to be and firefighters. then we see the new chevy silverado truck somewhere in rural america. the commercial closes with a catch-phrase that i may be paraphrasing: "our country. our truck."
when i saw this, i became physically ill. i saw when the levees break last month so the inclusion of hurricane katrina seemed unconscionable. but rosa parks!?! come on! what the fuck does any of this have to do with a fucking truck? total bullshit. this is worse than the commercial subway ran right after september 11th, 2001. this is so bad it must be satanic.
but is being satanic that bad?
my roommate is a sometimes satanist and a really great guy. plus, i generally think that satan and satan-worshippers unfairly get a bad rap. if god created everything, didn't he create satan? so can satan be all bad?
my point: if you're going to buy a truck make it a silverado. unless you hate the beatles.
oh yeah, an earlier version of the add featured a mushroom cloud. guess what country is the only country to be attacked by nuclear bombs? and guess what country has the most successful car companies?
this is our country: a description of the new chevy silverado commercial in paragraph form
it opens with some john (cougar?) mellencamp song that repeats the line--and you have to imagine this in a john (cougar?) mellencamp voice--"this is our country" over and over some cliched contemporary adult rock song. that sounds bad enough, but it gets worse. there's a shot of john (cougar?) himself strumming away on his guitar and singing his little heart out. bad, but it still gets worse. then, over the backdrop of the hypno-patriot music, we see some of the most famous american images of the last fifty years including, but not limited to, rosa parks, vietnam war protests, nixon doing something, the aftermath of hurricane katrina, a nighttime skyline shot of new york city with two beams of light where the twin towers used to be and firefighters. then we see the new chevy silverado truck somewhere in rural america. the commercial closes with a catch-phrase that i may be paraphrasing: "our country. our truck."
when i saw this, i became physically ill. i saw when the levees break last month so the inclusion of hurricane katrina seemed unconscionable. but rosa parks!?! come on! what the fuck does any of this have to do with a fucking truck? total bullshit. this is worse than the commercial subway ran right after september 11th, 2001. this is so bad it must be satanic.
but is being satanic that bad?
my roommate is a sometimes satanist and a really great guy. plus, i generally think that satan and satan-worshippers unfairly get a bad rap. if god created everything, didn't he create satan? so can satan be all bad?
my point: if you're going to buy a truck make it a silverado. unless you hate the beatles.
oh yeah, an earlier version of the add featured a mushroom cloud. guess what country is the only country to be attacked by nuclear bombs? and guess what country has the most successful car companies?
