Glad that they pulled these. Gotta admit, I certainly was, em, taken with the ad (thank you, thank you) when I first encountered it at the intersection of Hollywood/Prospect and Vermont the other day. Tasteless, to say the least. Strangely tho, the ad was also making me think of 80's metal album covers, like Anthrax's Fistful of Metal...
or (gawd) Quiet Riot...
If you ever find yourself newly broken up with someone (and I hope that you don't, but if you do...), might I recommend the South Park episode "Raisins" (2003). I'm just out of a relationship, feeling pretty down, and seeing this episode tonight for the first time, I don't quite know where to begin. This episode of South Park was so funny, in so many different ways, I laughed so hard, and what made each laugh just that much better was that every written and delivered word rang as absolutely true. From the great Say Anything/Peter Gabriel joke that I knew was comin' but I howled with laughter anyway to the fucking spot-ON fatalism of the Goth Kids, just hangin' out, preying on a lovesick Stan, itself another Say Anything joke. And, then, there is the great joke that is the Raisins restaurant chain itself - which Cartman won't endorse until he gets to try the food, natch. Much needed and appreciated, Trey and Matt, I was a smilin' mofo by the time this one was over. Quoth the Goth Kids:
"If you want to be one of the non-conformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do..."Yeah, man. Yeah.
