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an e-old, but still good rant. makes me laugh to think of advertisers as aspiring inner eyelid tattooists.

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Market Target
by Mark Driver

http://www.blindwino.com/driverjunk15.html

I've been targeted right out of the market.

I've had it. I can't take any more advertising. Television, radio, magazines, billboards, even the Internet for Christ's sake. Everywhere. Why do they keep targeting me? I never did anything to them. I don't even buy anything! They're wasting their time! Fast food makes me feel like shit, soft drinks make me dizzy, candy is disgusting, chips make my stomach hurt, I don't smoke, and any band that has ever been advertised anywhere sucks unequivocally. I eat tortillas and vegetables, I drink tap water. I ride my $40 bike for entertainment. I buy a new pair of Dickies at the army navy store every year and I get all my other clothes at Costco in 3-packs. My car works fine, I use my Internet connection for long distance, I've had the same boots for three years and re-sole them when they wear out. As far as booze goes, well, as long as it's wet.......

So why do they keep attacking me? Why are they filling every square inch of every available space in my life? Above urinals, on concert tickets, underneath the ice at hockey games, on blimps, in video games, as props in movies, plugs in rap songs, on shitty Web Sites (No, I will not visit your motherfucking sponsor. If you're not in it for the love, and you can't figure out any better way to pay for your site than by slapping some ugly, corrupted banner across the top of your pathetic work, then fucking close up shop, kill yourself, and leave the Web to non-polluters). They'd advertise on the backs of my eyelids if they could get away with it, and I can't hack it anymore. They win. I lose. They succeeded. I failed. Like Brian Wilson, I just wasn't built for these times. I fold. Here are all my cards. Keep the pot, keep my ante, keep the goddamn jacket on the back of my chair for all I care, I can get another at Costco. I'll be out in the parking lot getting drunk and yelling at cute girls because I can no longer stand the taste of tentacles. Marketing has poisoned everything worthwhile under the sun, so I'm giving it all up. Everything.

But the way I figure it, there's no real loss. I've seen all of the episodes of the Simpsons 200 times each. Most of the good writing was done 100 years ago. I haven't listened to FM radio in years. I could play all my records beginning to end alphabetically and I'd be 76 years old when I got to the Zeni Geva. Online culture is a fucking yawn, only good for buying stuffed goats on Ebay and getting cracked copies of $1000 software. Movies always end up at the 99 cent video store across the street eventually, and you can fast forward through those commercials. My girlie's cute and the corner bar has Pabst on tap. What else matters?

True, by shutting myself off to everything, I'm probably limiting my future potential as a 'community building' or 'bleeding edge' cog in someone's nightmarish vision of Internet profitability, but fuck, a simple read through my writing should've cured that anyway (Note to potential employers: The bidding starts at $120,000 a year with full dental).

So I'm out. No more.

I just feel bad for those of you I'm leaving behind. You'll be wearing your Slave Labor Nikes, sweating under a Third World Vest, listening to Everqueer or Fratboy Slim, your hair styled stupidly with gasoline and aborted pig placentas, trying to choke down a Double Meat Fuck Splattered Cow Testicles On The Slaughterhouse Floor Pus Coagulated Lactacious Secretion Yellow Dye #2 Deluxe. Man, will you be looking dumb. It makes me want to cry. You poor, oversugared demographic you. You're filling your apartments, your bodies, and your minds with useless junk. You stagger under your own weight, throwing money in random directions until you collapse and die, buried by a bunch of people who you fa

Mark Driver also has a good article on online advertising

Fuck advertisers, fuck consumerism, fuck TV.

Ok, since you asked: fuck

Regardless, I'm all for diversifying radio and television. Around the Minneapolis area, radio is an absolute joke. Literally ~90% of all radio stations (guesstimate) are owned by Clear Channel, and as a result, we only have one station for each major format in the metro area. Each station is plagued by at least 15 minutes of commercials each hour (more like 20-30 in actuality), and a playlist so limited it'd make your 12 year-old Britney Spears-loving daughter's winamp playlist look diverse. Pretty much we're left with one alternative station that advertises that they're "NOT owned or operated by ClearChannel Communications", and a handful of public access and AM stations.

Of course television is no different, and neither is the printed press. For newspapers we have 2 clones that are carbon copies of whatever is on Fox News or CNN, and the only other option is a few alternative papers aimed towards the hipster grassrootsy types. And as far as tv's concerned, forget it. Time Warner rules supreme for cable in my area, and local stations follow suit with every other conglomerate-owned local station...they report on "issues" that seem more like advertisements for the latest and greatest drug of the week, depending on who their sponser is at the moment.

The internet is my only reliable source for news and entertainment that doesn't leave you feeling like you're brainwashed by Pepsi and pro-nuke-the-brown-people shit that's ubiquitous(sp.) everywhere else. Thank god for sites like the BBC where you can learn what the rest of the world ACTUALLY thinks of the US, as opposed to what some Whitehouse PR skank tells me I should think, and for p2p apps like kazaa that let me dig up episodes of tv shows that aren't deemed "worthy" by Time Warner & Co.

I've posted this link on here before, only because it's so descriptive of how commercial our media is in the US. It's by a guy named Mark Driver and it's so true it's scary.
Enjoy... (forgive me if the link doesn't work, but the proxy at my work won't let me to the actual site. It's considered "Mature Humor" by my employer)

Regardless, I'm all for diversifying radio and television. Around the Minneapolis area, radio is an absolute joke. Literally ~90% of all radio stations (guesstimate) are owned by Clear Channel, and as a result, we only have one station for each major format in the metro area. Each station is plagued by at least 15 minutes of commercials each hour (more like 20-30 in actuality), and a playlist so limited it'd make your 12 year-old Britney Spears-loving daughter's winamp playlist look diverse. Pretty much we're left with one alternative station that advertises that they're "NOT owned or operated by ClearChannel Communications", and a handful of public access and AM stations.

Of course television is no different, and neither is the printed press. For newspapers we have 2 clones that are carbon copies of whatever is on Fox News or CNN, and the only other option is a few alternative papers aimed towards the hipster grassrootsy types. And as far as tv's concerned, forget it. Time Warner rules supreme for cable in my area, and local stations follow suit with every other conglomerate-owned local station...they report on "issues" that seem more like advertisements for the latest and greatest drug of the week, depending on who their sponser is at the moment.

The internet is my only reliable source for news and entertainment that doesn't leave you feeling like you're brainwashed by Pepsi and pro-nuke-the-brown-people shit that's ubiquitous(sp.) everywhere else. Thank god for sites like the BBC where you can learn what the rest of the world ACTUALLY thinks of the US, as opposed to what some Whitehouse PR skank tells me I should think, and for p2p apps like kazaa that let me dig up episodes of tv shows that aren't deemed "worthy" by Time Warner & Co.

I've posted this link on here before, only because it's so descriptive of how commercial our media is in the US. It's by a guy named Mark Driver and it's so true it's scary.
Enjoy... (forgive me if the link doesn't work, but the proxy at my work won't let me to the actual site. It's considered "Mature Humor" by my employer)

http://www.blindwino.com/driverjunk15.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=I%20didn%27t%20just %20turn%20that%20TV%20off.%20I%20unplugged%20the%2 0motherfucker.&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&sta rt=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I suggest you go here: http://www.blindwino.com/driverjunk15.html - thanks to twisted_pickle for the heads up on that.

This seems amazingly appropriate right now after just reading that disgusting article (the article itself isn't disgusting, but Acclaim's advertising intentions are):

I've been targeted right out of the market.

I've had it. I can't take any more advertising. Television, radio, magazines, billboards, even the Internet for Christ's sake. Everywhere. Why do they keep targeting me? I never did anything to them. I don't even buy anything! They're wasting their time! Fast food makes me feel like shit, soft drinks make me dizzy, candy is disgusting, chips make my stomach hurt, I don't smoke, and any band that has ever been advertised anywhere sucks unequivocally. I eat tortillas and vegetables, I drink tap water. I ride my $40 bike for entertainment. I buy a new pair of Dickies at the army navy store every year and I get all my other clothes at Costco in 3-packs. My car works fine, I use my Internet connection for long distance, I've had the same boots for three years and re-sole them when they wear out. As far as booze goes, well, as long as it's wet...

Read the rest here.

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