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Target (Indie) Rocks!
By Chicago Shrug, Section Entertainment Posted on Mon Sep 3rd, 2001 at 12:50:09 PM PDT

I mean, I just now got used to Spiritualized hawking Volkswagen. Now this: Was sitting at home, watching television, when a commercial for Target came on. They were hawking leather jackets. The song they used as background music? "Speedy Motorcycle" by Sacramento-born, manic depressive indie-rock stalwartDaniel Johnston. It wasn't the original -- it was a female vocalist copying Mary Lou Lord's version. It could have been MLL, but it didn't sound like it. For those of you unfamiliar with Johnston's work and why this strikes me as strange, this would be like asking Wesley Willis or Jandek to be your commercial spokesman. Oh, but wait -- Wesley does product endorsements anyway for free. Take the poll.

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Target (Indie) Rocks! | 6 comments (5 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

You know, I've just got to tell you- (none / 0) (#2)
by ceruleannina on Mon Sep 3rd, 2001 at 04:43:10 AM PDT
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Target does NOT rock! I don't care if your title was just a clever play-on-words!

I'll admit, I'm not familiar with this guy or that song, but I am all too familiar with this corporation and their 125% marked up leather jackets, as I get up close & personal with them (in passing) 5 mornings out of 7. I'm also well acquainted with their sneaky marketing ploys, languange-bending brainwashing tactics, and dastardly use of red & white emblazoned propoganda, as well as their near constant attempts to destroy what's best within me, on a personal level (and I do take it personally, just for the record) by paying me just enough to barely survive, but far from enough to at all prosper.

Not only do they subject their employees to a drug screen--- beginning September 14th all prospective new-hires will also be forced to consent to a fucking background check! Since when did doing a job a monkey could quite easily perform (such as pressing buttons on a phone or a cash register, picking up trash, and smiling & nodding), for minimum wage, become such an elevated vocation, on par with filing for the FBI??!!...

I'd really like to know! And if any of you here ever had to wonder why I seem to be such a pathetic drunk, it's only cuz it's legal. If I were shooting up or something & I happened to have a little spill down the stairs, they could hand a nurse a plastic cup & fire me in an instant. Not as if that isn't 2 steps away from happening anyway...

TARGET SUCKS!

And I'm done venting, though I could go on and on.

ceruleannina I am ashamed of you... (none / 0) (#3)
by Dead Air (deadair3@lycos.com) on Mon Sep 3rd, 2001 at 07:12:15 PM PDT
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...for not knowing about Daniel Johnston. If you did, and I hope you follow that there link Paul was so kind as to offer, you'd realize how truly beautiful and post-modern it is that your bright red Nazi corporation would use this song.

Oddly, I do things other places.
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Yeah... (none / 0) (#4)
by ceruleannina on Mon Sep 3rd, 2001 at 10:38:12 PM PDT
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I suck, too.

But it sure was nice to live in denial for a while...

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Damn This Faceless Expressionless Internet! (none / 0) (#5)
by Dead Air (deadair3@lycos.com) on Wed Sep 5th, 2001 at 03:57:44 AM PDT
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Argh! I can't tell if you are being totally sarcastic and flip, or if my comment struck an actual nerve and hurt your feelings. If it was the latter, please accept my sincere apologies, because I hardly think you suck and never intended to imply anything of the sort. I do really think you should check out Daniel Johnston though, because I think he's right up your alley musically and artistically in general (those pictures on the website are some of his drawings.)

It is a really strange time when a company that would probably have security tailing someone immediately just for walking in their store pays that individual royalties to use a song in one of their commercials. I'd imagine Daniel will get more money for this than for all of his album sales to date. Of course when you think about it, who would be working in ad firms these days other than creative, cynical, former acid-heads in their late twenties and early thirties? It figures that people like that would want to make a few bucks for people like Daniel J. Still, this blows the Smiths and the Buzzcocks being used to sell SUVs out of the water.

Oddly, I do things other places.
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D.A.---I hardly think that YOU suck either! (none / 0) (#6)
by ceruleannina on Thu Sep 6th, 2001 at 03:04:43 AM PDT
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I was just having one of my own manic depressive quarter-of-a-moments up there (that particular comment was posted a matter of minutes before I began my Yahoo! "how to NOT kill yourself" search...So it was a combination of sarcasm AND oversensitivity, which had very little to do with your particular comment, just so you know...

Bad days,in groups of 3s--- unlike sneezes--- suck.

I did indeed, utilize Paul's link. And I do plan on checking Mr. Johnston out, as it seems like a multi-faceted, synchronistic sort of thing to do AND I'm all over anything like that, as you know...

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