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There's a good reason I don't go to bed at 9.30 even when I need to get up ridiculously early to haul my cookies across town for lectures. And that's because I wake up a little over an hour later feeling like I've been asleep for hours, have a heart attack that it's morning and I'm running later, and think I've missed two very important phone calls.
Now of course I'm awake and grumpy *giggles*
ALSO. I've re-evaluated my declaration of the world's MOST TERRIFYING ADVERT.
No longer do I agree with Sarah that it's the advert of the dead girl against a tree and that horribly childlike voiceover of "If you hit me at 40 miles an hour, there's an 80% chance I'll die" which is horrifying [unless you're a sick twisted fuck like my darling love and find it funny.....why am I dating him?].....but that has lost the crown of most terrifying.
For some reason when I go to describe this next advert I find myself thinking of Xander's lines in Once More With Feeling when describing Sweet's effect on the world - "disturbing, and not the natural order of things [and do you think it'll happen again?]".
This advert has shaken my perception of the world, and to be honest I feel quite...'violated' by this advert [not really the word I want to use, but it's the only one I can think of].
This is a really strong reaction and it's going to seem SO stupid when I finally get round to saying what the advertisement is...but...to go from being asleep to seeing this has confused me and left me feeling very hurt and almost betrayed by life.
Some car company has decided that to advertise its product...it needs to use the clip of Gene Kelly's fantastic, classic and infamous dance sequence from Singing In The Rain. Fine. But they've doctored it to make it 'more hip'. Gene Kelly [obviously via a merged body double] now break dances his way through the song.
You're now all sitting there staring at the screen [if you've even bothered to stay with my rant this long] going "What? That's what Kat's going on about? Some stupid bit from a musical?" but I love that sequence. It's part of my youth, I grew up with Gene Kelly playing in puddles and to see someone now do *that* to it...Well it'd be like someone taking Mrs. Moss [my cuddly rabbit] and piercing her nose and putting her in a dominatrix outfit. [If any of you try it, you'll lose limbs].
I swear if anyone EVER does anything like that to the Somewhere Over the Rainbow sequence from The Wizard of Oz someone wil die. Infact, the entire advertising agency responsible would die. It's bad enough that other people do covers of it. Bad ones. All of them. *hisses at anyone who ever makes the mistake of covering the glory that is Judy Garland*
Now of course I'm awake and grumpy *giggles*
ALSO. I've re-evaluated my declaration of the world's MOST TERRIFYING ADVERT.
No longer do I agree with Sarah that it's the advert of the dead girl against a tree and that horribly childlike voiceover of "If you hit me at 40 miles an hour, there's an 80% chance I'll die" which is horrifying [unless you're a sick twisted fuck like my darling love and find it funny.....why am I dating him?].....but that has lost the crown of most terrifying.
For some reason when I go to describe this next advert I find myself thinking of Xander's lines in Once More With Feeling when describing Sweet's effect on the world - "disturbing, and not the natural order of things [and do you think it'll happen again?]".
This advert has shaken my perception of the world, and to be honest I feel quite...'violated' by this advert [not really the word I want to use, but it's the only one I can think of].
This is a really strong reaction and it's going to seem SO stupid when I finally get round to saying what the advertisement is...but...to go from being asleep to seeing this has confused me and left me feeling very hurt and almost betrayed by life.
Some car company has decided that to advertise its product...it needs to use the clip of Gene Kelly's fantastic, classic and infamous dance sequence from Singing In The Rain. Fine. But they've doctored it to make it 'more hip'. Gene Kelly [obviously via a merged body double] now break dances his way through the song.
You're now all sitting there staring at the screen [if you've even bothered to stay with my rant this long] going "What? That's what Kat's going on about? Some stupid bit from a musical?" but I love that sequence. It's part of my youth, I grew up with Gene Kelly playing in puddles and to see someone now do *that* to it...Well it'd be like someone taking Mrs. Moss [my cuddly rabbit] and piercing her nose and putting her in a dominatrix outfit. [If any of you try it, you'll lose limbs].
I swear if anyone EVER does anything like that to the Somewhere Over the Rainbow sequence from The Wizard of Oz someone wil die. Infact, the entire advertising agency responsible would die. It's bad enough that other people do covers of it. Bad ones. All of them. *hisses at anyone who ever makes the mistake of covering the glory that is Judy Garland*