7" of Separation

Busy, busy, busy…

Sorry about my lack of commitment to the blogosphere the last week or so. ellyn comes home next Wednesday (!!!), Christmas is here, work is busy…

lots going on.

Blogging to come soon.

I had a propaganda and media class in college that I really enjoyed. The teacher gave us the textbook by putting it in the library and telling us to copy it. (Killing trees, either way. Might as well be free. – his argument.) One presentation of mine was on the Dove Real Beauty campaign, which has a great message, but at the time was still selling soap with good intentions.

Anyway, I came across this video, and it looks like they have moved toward really exposing some of what we knew was happing all along.

Crazy stuff, we do to ourselves:

Good rhetoric.

Update:

So, after clicking on my own link and exploring the Dove Web site, I found this one:

I’m totally on board with their message. In fact, this video effectively sums up my entire “Sex and Gender in the Media” course. Haunting world. Haunting.

The Grammys are such a bunch of crap. No surprise. Just a statement.

So my new blog opened with a little splash in a large sea yesterday. I had 150 visitors from 24 different countries. Of those who came, 26 left with the Smashing Pumpkins demos and 14 took home a new Arcade Fire 7″. Good deal.

Now, hopefully the RIAA wont shut me down. Or Billy Corgan, that guy can be rough.

I’m stacking up some great music to post over there now. I have some live Neko Case, Elliott Smith demos, rare Radiohead and an early, live Sigur Ros album all coming up.

I’m having fun sharing my music. What’s the point of stuff if you can’t show it to people?

Hey… check out a rough draft of my new blog. The working title is “Insert Media.” You can get one of my favorite Arcade Fire 7″s over there right now. Tell me what you think.

I’m toying with this new music blog, and I finally found the perfect music player/host site. Check it out. Below, it’s playing a great track by Xiu Xiu (pronounced “shoo shoo”).