Cotton Commercial: The Fabric of Zooey Deschanel’s Faultless and Fashionable Lifestyle

Posted: January 17th, 2010 | Author: Street Dude | 3 Comments »

Lately, we at 30 Seconds of Hell (Comrade Teargaskov, Street Dude, and Urban Pal) have been excessively soft with our reviews — too soft — and this cute and cottony commercial, featuring the adorable Zooey Deschanel, further perpetuates our pussy-ness as television commercial advertisement reviewers. Well, truth is, the big advertising firms slip us cash, and in return we praise their commercials; hey, we gotta pay the bills somehow. Blogging 4 cash is the best way for us to buy alcohol, and with that alcohol we drink away the regret we feel for accepting those bribes. This is the bane of our blog, we are scum, and you can pay us to just about anything. We will rake your yard or clean your rat cage on a daily basis if the price is right. Read the rest of this entry »

Sofia Coppola’s Miss Dior Chérie Commercial

Posted: January 1st, 2010 | Author: Street Dude | No Comments »

The good, the bad, and the ugly rule certainly applies to directors of television commercials. Sometimes film directors regress back to directing the television commercial.  An exemplar of the bad and the ugly is McG, a director whose work includes commercials for MLB Baseball, The Gap, Coca-Cola; music videos for Smash Mouth, Korn, Sugar Ray, The Offspring; and, unfortunately,  McG’s success in with music videos and television commercials lead to his ugly career as a film director, namely directing the atrocity that is Terminator Salvation (2009), and McG plans to deface the Terminator franchise futhermore with his pending release of Terminator 5 — moreover, McG failed at life when he decided to go by the name “McG.” WTF, does this guy wear a Slipnot mask on-set or a KFC bucket on his head like Buckethead? Read the rest of this entry »