bio-diesel? ha! mine plays the new shaggy single
ok, so i am irrationally CREEPED out by the new toyota yaris.
i have it pretty much nailed down to the fact that the commercials are part-cutesy/playful. part-unnatural. and part-evil.
math majors, solve for X:
(cutesy/playful) + unnatural + evil = X
that's right, X = creepy. i cant' explain it, but math doesn't lie.
my real problem, though, is the extended advertising. i noticed an ad banner on yahoo just a few minutes ago and the flash-animated car was zipping around. part of the text read: "mp3 compatible."
i thought to myself, "now, that's clever. they laundry-listed some specs that are hip and trendy and the 'mp3' one must have been the last one. that's kinda funny."
no. that WAS the list. "mp3 compatible." i watched the animation loop back around and, sure enough, that was the selling point. along with the tag line: "earbuds are for pedestrians."
so, just so i got this straight, i have about 6,000 mp3s on my desktop. i have no idea HOW to listen to them. maybe i should buy a $12,000 car? who cares what it's crash rating and miles/gallon numbers are. IT PLAYS MY MP3s!!! sold!
a little TOO target-specific, don'tcha think?
incidentally, the accord is also mp3 compatible. as was the lumina. it's called a modified face-plate. average cost: $200.
i have it pretty much nailed down to the fact that the commercials are part-cutesy/playful. part-unnatural. and part-evil.
math majors, solve for X:
(cutesy/playful) + unnatural + evil = X
that's right, X = creepy. i cant' explain it, but math doesn't lie.
my real problem, though, is the extended advertising. i noticed an ad banner on yahoo just a few minutes ago and the flash-animated car was zipping around. part of the text read: "mp3 compatible."
i thought to myself, "now, that's clever. they laundry-listed some specs that are hip and trendy and the 'mp3' one must have been the last one. that's kinda funny."
no. that WAS the list. "mp3 compatible." i watched the animation loop back around and, sure enough, that was the selling point. along with the tag line: "earbuds are for pedestrians."
so, just so i got this straight, i have about 6,000 mp3s on my desktop. i have no idea HOW to listen to them. maybe i should buy a $12,000 car? who cares what it's crash rating and miles/gallon numbers are. IT PLAYS MY MP3s!!! sold!
a little TOO target-specific, don'tcha think?
incidentally, the accord is also mp3 compatible. as was the lumina. it's called a modified face-plate. average cost: $200.
posted by cade at 2:27 PM
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I was just looking at your CD descriptions on Half.com; I want my 5 minutes back! Never mind, I'd probably just waste them anyway...
Does plugging a tape adapter into a vehicle's cassette deck count for being MP3 compatible? Cause that's what the veggie car uses. Cost? About $12.
6000 mp3s?
weird, the stereo i put in my truck came with the little plug in for my mp3 player - standard. and my truck is a piece of shit.
maybe if i sell it i could ask for more cause it is mp3 compatible.
it also has a working cigarette liter, does that make it cell phone charger compatible?
dones- are you telling me that my wit and candor is a waste of your time? words, man. we will have words.
zig- i suppose it does, however those little devices were invented for cd players. so, i guess the hippie-mobile is "compact disc compatible with an option for mp3s."
beck- and growing.
mike- that's what i have here. it came standard on your truck? man, i love california. as for the cig lighter, we call that "mobile technology compliant."
Are the Yaris commercials the ones with the piggy bank that gets exploded and the metallic ant that gets exploded to siphon off the gas? Yeah those are creepy.
that would be them.
Where did the chatterbox go?
Hey, I hear you have a screenplay. I'd like to read it if you don't mind!
hey marc-
the chatterbox was being woefully underused and i just let it slowly fade off into the distance.
as for the screenplay. it's less a screenplay and more a means to fulfill an experiment in film making. all that to say, sure. you are welcome to it. i think james has a copy he never read, so...
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