one last thing before I quit

Just saw this the other day. It's a public bathroom in China. It looks fairly nice, and is apparently really busy every day.


Now, I'm very open to new ideas and directions in advertising and awareness. Taking chances are how some of today's best works have been made. But the signage that they use in this bathroom just throws me right off.

I was one of the lucky people to see Arcade Fire play here in Winnipeg back in 2005. I paid $20 for something that I would now pay $100 for. I knew very little about them going in, but they easily won me over right away. I've never been to such a high-octane show before. I was also then introduced to much loved Wolf Parade and Bell Orchestre. It was awesome.

Their 3rd album comes out sometime in the mid - to - late year and they just came out with a teaser for their first single Suburbs as well as it's b-side Month of May. I wouldn't really call this a teaser more as a crumb of a teaser. Click play to enjoy and the song names to switch tracks.



I remember in 2007 when my beloved Foo Fighters covered them. It just melded worlds of awesome together. Good on ya boys!

Happy birthday... YouTube!

5 years ago today, the 2 billion daily user site was born. It's certainly changed all of our lives making the dumbest things ever popular. Here's the first ever video that was uploaded from co-founder Jawed Karim.



Fortunately, it also allows us to see rare gems, like this Pearl Jam cover of a Van Halen song. In all of their cover song glory, I don't know any other time that they've done VH.

The beloved Ronnie James Dio has passed away this morning after a struggle with stomach cancer. It's very sad.

Despite my utmost respect for the man, I don't have a lot to say about the man. If you enjoy yourself some heavy metal music, than you know how he is. He was a marvel of a man that sang about the heavens, demons and medieval ways, all with a bunch of different bands. He'll also leave behind the legacy of the devil horn. His balding-curly-mullet hair cut was something as scary as some of his songs. His lyrics always had such a colorful description that painted such a clear picture of tales. But despite all of this, he is always describe as a humble man, that offers nothing but kindness to all.

I was introduced to him though the wonderful Tenacious D many years ago, and he hasn't left my playlists since. I was fortunate enough to see him play during his 3rd trek with Heaven and Hell (really Black Sabbath). I certainly won't forget that show. I firmly believe that the rock world just lost one it's best voices.

I don't quite know how you'd describe JJ Abrams these days. I'm one of those mass amounts of people that believe he can do no wrong. I seem him as an adult geek that tries to always treat his audience as a very intelligent breed, and I appreciate it.

Even though his beloved Lost officially wraps in a a mere couple weeks, we'll continue to see his name everywhere. He has a new TV series that NBC picked up. It's called Undercovers, and it follows a married couple of retired FBI agents that have to go back to the job. I'm not quite sold yet.

But his other new pet, is a movie called Super 8. There was a teaser that came out during the previews of Iron Man 2 this weekend. It's the same sort of release that he did with Cloverfield a few years back. I've watched it a few times now, and I'm sure we all can't stop thinking about how this looks like it'll be a Cloverfield sequel. Little is known about Super 8. Abrams won't leak any info and he's just letting the buzz grow and grow. But the one thing that he has stated is that Super 8 is NOT a sequel to Cloverfield. He has not denied it being a prequel though... Start the countdown to 2011.