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Princess Anna

0 comments on this article Posted by Mike in Anti-Branding, Pop Cult on February 17th, 2007 , tagged with , .

Ok, so I heard someone compare Anna Nicole to Princess Di. How have we arrived at this? Who is in charge that cable news, without anything better to report, used 50% of its air time to the death of Anna Nicole for the two following days? What is our obsession? I think it harkens back [...]

Borat, the Marketing Phenom

0 comments on this article Posted by Mike in Uncategorized on October 23rd, 2006 , tagged with , , , .

This November, the world will change. We saw the buzz from Snakes, and the movie performed well and made its budget easily. It was not intentional marketing that let to the frenzy, but a title. Campy enough to cross the threshold from bad to fun, the movie was exactly what it said it would be…Snakes…on [...]

On The RIAA

0 comments on this article Posted by Mike in Anti-Branding, Other on August 1st, 2006 , tagged with , , , .

Why is the RIAA scared? Because the recording industry has been shoving pasteurized, homogenized, shitty music down our throats for at least 50 years. Bands are “made” and music is created to be catchy and annoying, simultaneously. Radio stations have been taking some form of “payola” for that long as well, to play the big [...]