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Storyx-tra read all about the x-fever dabitch129 years 38 weeks ago
Nissan Xterra on Heroin jtwyford39 years 41 weeks ago
StoryBattling the New Prohibition claymore29 years 51 weeks ago
  • So, I saw this commercial again last night. It*s the one where a group in an xTerra pulls up to a rockface, it*s night time, and they point the lights at the rock, and start climbing. Well, it*s no longer accompanied by the opening bars of "Heroin", it*s now a generic sounding guitar piece. I wonder if there was some negative feedback?
    Posted: 9 years 44 weeks ago
  • I*ve seen a new Nissan Xterra spot where the soundtrack is the opening bars of "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground. Great song, but kind of a strange association. Wonder if the suits at Nissan know about it? grin
    Posted: 9 years 50 weeks ago
  • Back in the day, when tobacco ads were the backbone of advertising on TV, many thought that the industry and the medium would not stand the shock of withdrawal. They did, and they will again, as alcohol advertising is phased out. The handwriting is on the wall, it's only a matter of time, insert your cliche here. Wait until a drunk driver kills a legislator's child, and the "official spoonsor of boy's night out" will be as dead as "a thinking man's filter, a smoking man's taste".
    Posted: 9 years 52 weeks ago
  • William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer" and coiner of "cyberspace" says that the modifier, "cyber-" is becoming as dated as "electro-". When everything is electric, electro- just sounds redundant and silly. Cyber-, in its ubiquity, is getting pretty hackneyed, too. Electro-Jimmy T
    Posted: 10 years 1 week ago