SLAUGHTER ZONE II

A fun, safe place to just get away from it all...

Welcome to SLAUGHTER ZONE II.
July 8

Sweet clappin’ with Earl T.

May 31
I don’t know if any of you have seen the way that MTV is going about marketing the upcoming 2009 MTV Movie Awards (which broadcasts tonight), but it really freaks me out. I’ve turned on the Viacom-run, non-music channel a couple times in the last few days and have been utterly shocked by the seemingly oxymoronic “blatant” subliminal advertising. I first noticed this method while I was watching the new Justin Timberlake-produced game show, The Phone, at a friend’s house. At 2 different moments of high suspense, which were unbearably suspenseful if you can imagine, (*wink*) MTV continued playing the audio of the show while cutting to a 5-10 second visual shot of an advertisement for the award show. After my brain felt insulted and the commercial was over, they simply cut back to the normal programing as if it hadn’t stopped, because, well, it hadn’t. They simply intertwined the commercial with the show. I personally will be not watching this piece of trash due to their marketing scheme, not that they need me as a viewer anyways. However, I wouldn’t be suprised if this post just ended up defeating the purpose of itself and went on to promote the show more than anything. Oh well, fuckin’ Viacom.

I don’t know if any of you have seen the way that MTV is going about marketing the upcoming 2009 MTV Movie Awards (which broadcasts tonight), but it really freaks me out. I’ve turned on the Viacom-run, non-music channel a couple times in the last few days and have been utterly shocked by the seemingly oxymoronic “blatant” subliminal advertising.

I first noticed this method while I was watching the new Justin Timberlake-produced game show, The Phone, at a friend’s house. At 2 different moments of high suspense, which were unbearably suspenseful if you can imagine, (*wink*) MTV continued playing the audio of the show while cutting to a 5-10 second visual shot of an advertisement for the award show. After my brain felt insulted and the commercial was over, they simply cut back to the normal programing as if it hadn’t stopped, because, well, it hadn’t. They simply intertwined the commercial with the show.

I personally will be not watching this piece of trash due to their marketing scheme, not that they need me as a viewer anyways. However, I wouldn’t be suprised if this post just ended up defeating the purpose of itself and went on to promote the show more than anything. Oh well, fuckin’ Viacom.

May 30

And Here's To Many More...

Alright well, I must say, as I type this, I’m reminiscing back to my LiveJournal days which were indeed glorious. It’s been ages since I’ve blogged, but I’ve got a bit of a spark in me again and I’m ready to get back at it. I’m not really quite sure what what this blog will entail or who this blog will even appeal to, but I can imagine it will largely include politics, music, my life, semicolons, and other random things that catch my interest. So on that note, hell yeah, here we go.

Darren