I always wanted be a rock star.
Picture a suburban living room in Brisbane, Australia, ca. 1987. A gawky 12-year-old passionately croons along to a Billy Joel (something really dated, like Pressure or Running on Ice) or perhaps Paul Simon (maybe Diamonds on the souls of her shoes) song, taking shredding solos on electric tennis racket [...]
Scott Spiegelberg, of Musical Perceptions and DePauw University fame, has posted a fabulous Australian beer ad on his blog. Aussie beers have been competing in the ad market with more and more bizarre (”creative”?) approaches to selling the amber brew in Oz.
The inventive commercial below, for Vic Bitter (which, unlike Foster’s, really is “Australian for [...]
The good Mr Geelhoed, of DecSimple fame, has given this blog a promo in the latest issue Time Out Chicago. Marc picked four classical music blogs that “raise our city’s scene to national prominence”, and also included TonicBlotter, Wellsung and Brian Dickie’s COT blog.
He seemed particularly taken with this popular recent post, detailing my recent [...]
