Like a sad loser, I regularly look at my site statistics to see how many people have visited, what they’ve looked at and where they’ve come from. I just love seeing how people discover the blog. But I don’t know how anyone found the blog from this search term!?
I think it comes from a typo on my blog - because drivvel is actually spelled ‘drivel’! Someone else must have the same literacy issues as me. Poor sod.
I saw a talk with Messrs Weiden and Kennedy last year where they said that they started up the ad agency as two guys who hated advertising. Looking at the stuff on the TWA site, I understand their point of view a lot better.
You see, TWA stands for TV’s Worst Adverts - and there are some real stinkers on here. I don’t think any of them are mine - but I haven’t given it a thorough check yet! Here’s a painful piece of advertising crap to whet your appetite:
I never really got into the whole twitter thing. I did about a dozen updates before turning my back on it and admiring some newer shiney internet bauble. But I’ve just discovered a great site that trawls the twitter-sphere for profanities. It’s simple, entertaining and utterly useless.
Experience the swear-a-thon at twittertale.com
I’ve just been sent a link to The Overdub Tampering Committee’s website. It is absolutely genius.
They are a group of musicians who download early or leaked copies of albums, subtly overdub their own instrumentation over the top and then redistribute their work on file sharing networks. And they’ve been doing it in secret for 3 years. Which means that anyone with some dodgy mp3s in their collection probably has some of their music!
This is what they have to say:
We imagined a scenario where someone would get in a car with their friend, he would put on the new _____ album, and you would say, “Where’s all the piano parts?” to which the driver would say, “What piano parts? This album is all guitars and drums.” Finally, you would scratch your head and say, “Not my copy!”
Wish I’d thought of it. Brilliant!
Read their manifesto at the Overdub Tampering Conmmittee blog.
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