Sunday, March 13, 2005

Sell Sell Sell

'Do a commercial, you're off the artistic roll call, every word you say is suspect, you're a corporate whore and uh, end of story.' -- Bill Hicks

Buy This! You'd be stupid not to! - read an advert for online poker on the tube. How low can the advertisers stoop? Is anyone really concerned about their density because they fail to burn their virtual money with online strangers? More and more the adverts rot my soul, and more and more I am filled with contempt for human life. I'm not quite at a Bill Hicks' level of rage yet, although I think his comment on the Ad Agencies is quite on the money, 'You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously'. And why would it ever be that countless famous face-lifted faces, with more money than Bentleys, who try and sell me face cream to make me look younger, are ever going to convince me to part with my green? I'm 24! I'm quite happy with how young I look. So just leave me alone, I don't want to buy your shiny things, I want bread and water and no more.