Archive for 2010
November 23 2010
Dear John…
posted by Ana Samways at 10:57 amRemember this 1980s ad for a bygone technology? This Kiwi classic for BASF cassette tapes used a catchy tune performed by NZ jingle king (and former member of The Underdogs) Murray Grindlay and ad industry diva Jacqui Fitzgerald — an adaptation of the 1953 Jean Shepard/Ferlin Husky hit “A Dear John Letter”. Pioneering NZ filmmaker Tony Williams directed, creating a Korean War/M*A*S*H* setting and using a Wellington quarry as a stand-in…
November 23 2010
Comply With Me
posted by Ana Samways at 3:31 amA delicious parody with all new lyrics for “Come Fly With Me,” following the much criticised US airport security “enhanced pat downs”.
(Via Boingboing.net)
November 19 2010
Gig Guide 19 — 25 November 2010
posted by Steven Shaw at 12:54 pm
The New Pornographers
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November 17 2010
Three Pigs and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:29 am
Three Little Pigs reworked: A new, less likely to offend version of the popular story has made its way into US classrooms….
More after the jump…
November 16 2010