Just like some sketches on SNL, sometimes the funniest commercials are the ones that don’t make any sense. I was watching something on the Hulu and ended up laughing more at the commercial. Just when I thought Skittles couldn’t top their Midas/Skittles touch, they did:
To keep with the conversation of hilarious commercials, Mike alerted me to the newAllstateCommercials for the “Mayhem is Coming” campaign staring my boy, Dean Winters. I loved this guy on 30, he was in the first season of SVU, and was great as the brother in Rescue Me. I was thinking about renting OZ, apparently is biggest and most popular role that I’ve never seen; has anyone seen this? Worth it?
On a second watching, “Be-Weave” was not that funny. Here are a bunch of attempts to make up for that.
Via PRI’s The World, check out this retro-soul band from Australia called The Bamboos. Most of their songs are pretty good, but on their current album one of their songs is sung by a guest singer who calls himself King Merc. The story behind him is amazing (if it’s true): He was mistaken for a soldier of fortune and was imprisoned on a Pacific island stockade for 20 years where he passed the time signing in the prison church and listening to the only record available, Al Green’s “I’m Still In Love With You.”
More music that is on heavy rotation lately is Big Boi’s Mixtape For Dummies. It’s basically a bunch of previously released Outkast stuff mixed together to promote his new solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot, the Son of Chico Dusty.
