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  • From: Bo Williams <bowilliams AT gmail.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Nike to Minor Threat: up yrs
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:04:04 -0400

Wait wait, aren't we all supposed to be inured to advertising in this
generation? Damn it, who changed the rules and didn't tell me?

Bo

p.s. The day I have significant emotional responses to a Nike ad is
going to be a sad day all around.

On 6/28/05, Fikri Yucel <fikri_y AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Fucking Nike can take its apology and shove it.
>
> Culture jamming and two-way streets and what is or is
> not permissible legally or morally--fuck all of that.
> Everything is permissible. Fine. I get it.
>
> But that ad made me feel a little more dead inside. I
> felt like throwing up when I saw it. So, up yrs too
> Nike. Apology not accepted.
>
>
> --- Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com> wrote:
>
> > A coworker from many years ago taught me it's
> > usually easier to
> > apologize than to ask permission. Maybe that guy
> > works at Nike now.
> > They've certainly already gotten their money's
> > worth.
> >
> > chris
> >
> >
> > 5er (martin) wrote:
> >
> > >NIKE apologizes:
> > >
> > >http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-06/28.shtml
> > >
> > >Really, it was all a big misunderstanding.
> > >They were paying a homage to Minor threat and
> > Discord.
> > >Can you not forgive them?
> > >
> > >-5er
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>The New Left:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/27/technology/techspecial3/27grokster.jpg
> > >
> > >
> > >>Chris Calloway wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
> >>>>http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=5942033#unread
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>wow. despite the crappy photoshopping, some of
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>those
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>were pretty funny. brought back many forgotten
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>album
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>covers, from the days when there were, like,
> > album
> > >>>covers. i really liked the throbbing teletubbies.
> > >>>
> > >>>i somewhat agree with todd. to me the thing about
> > >>>major threat is it will get some folks who would
> > >>>ordinarily be anti-IP to get all worked up about
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>minor
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>threat's IP. And it will put a heavily branded
> > >>>corporation in the position of being anti-IP.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>strange.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>anyway, yeah, the thing about culture jamming is
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>that
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>it works two ways and the "reverse" direction is
> > >>>usually gonna have more horsepower and effect. i
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>can't
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>think of anything about the right wing's pr these
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>days
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>that doesn't draw heavily from avant garde
> > leftist
> > >>>aesthetics of the early 20th century. and i think
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>that
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>was one lesson many latter 20th century
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>post-leftists
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>were trying to impart. culture jamming for the
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>left
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>ends up being just a list of entertainingly
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>detourned
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>album covers. throbbing teletubbies, chortle,
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>hyuck!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>not that minor threat had anything to do with the
> > >>>left. or sometimes they did, if you remember
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>"meese is
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>a pig." it's just all mixed up.
> > >>>
> > >>>talk about the days of album covers, glenn boothe
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>was
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>on the air today.
> > >>>
> > >>>3
> > >>>
> > >>>-- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>alt.music.chapel-hill --
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >>>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >"A boy wants a car from his dad.
> > > Dad says, first you got to cut that hair.
> > > Boys says, hey dad Jesus had long hair.
> > > Dad says, That's right son, and Jesus walked
> > everywhere."
> > >- David Berman/The Silver Jews
> > >
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