[kj] Nervous Breakdown

Graeme Rowland crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Apr 22 11:33:42 EDT 2005


A small Syrian informs me that she has been seeing
adverts on TV for the internet with "Nervous
Breakdown" by Black Flag as the soundtrack. 

It does seem odd to advertise the internet with a song
that goes 'my head really hurts.'It would not surprise
me if miserable hardcore hero Greg Ginn earned more
money on royalties from this advert than from every
Black Flag gig put together. Perhaps he could pay
Grant Hart and Meat Puppets (neither of whom are from
DC) some of the dosh they claim SST owes them! 

There are a lot of Black Flag songs he could shop out
to advertisers for more appropriate products.

*Six Pack could be used to sell weak American beer
*Wasted - skateboards
*Spray Paint the Wall - paints for naughty people
*TV Party - more beer or junk food
*Thirsty and Miserable - beer, more beer!
*Black Coffee - coffee
*White Minority - propaganda for Republican party
*Swinging Man - trailer for film about cashcow suicide
Ian Curtis
*I Won't Stick Any Of You - Blu-Tac (TM)
*Scream - Ice cream
*Now She's Black - cosmetic surgery for skin
darkening, in an advert featuring Ari Up
*The Process of Weeding Out - garden tools such as
spades and hoes
*Slip It In - condoms
*The Crazy Girl - Prozac
*Retired at 21 - pension schemes
*Life of Pain - aspirin
*Annihilate This Week - more booze and cigs
*Drinking and Driving - anti-drink driving propaganda
*Paralyzed - wheelchairs
*Sinking - trailer for film about the Titanic
*I'm the One - The Sun newspaper
*I Can See You - opticians
*Gimmme Gimme Gimme - just about anything
*No More - turn off the TV go do something less toxic
instead, like drink a six pack


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