Putting the 'happy' back into content
According to today’s news reports, doctors want film censors to be more rigorous with their certificates if actors are smoking.
Experts believe that seeing someone such as Brad Pitt or Uma Thurman smoking, for example, is likely to encourage young, impressionable kids to start smoking.
Oh cobblers! There are many reasons why kids take up smoking and probably bottom of the list is seeing Uma Thurman puff away on a cigarette in Pulp Fiction. Get real!
BT (otherwise known as British Telecommunications) decided that Dragon’s Den entrepreneur and millionaire Peter Jones was a genius fit when they replaced Gordon Ramsay with him in their current Gremlins ad campaign.
The idea, of course, is that if Jones used BT, he’d never have a problem with his IT ever again.
All well and good, but Jones is a multi-miilionaire who flies around in private jets and helicopters. He’s not going to call up a helpline himself – he’d have a flunkey to do it for him.
Equally, I can’t believe he sits an office such as the one above, allowing someone to say “Don’t work too late,” to him as they leave.
As much as he tries to pretend otherwise, Peter Jones is a social tier and financial class above the average business user. Sorry, BT, own goal!
Recently came across a great set of podcasts called Coverville.
Hosted up to 3 times a week by a guy called Brian Ibbott and he puts together a really great show.
He has a great laidback delivery and it’s just a great way to hear new artists.
As the name suggests, every song he plays is a cover version. Some podcasts are themed to tie in with artists’ birthdays, many are just listener requests.
If I have one minor criticism it’s that there are possibly too many American rock covers, but that’s minor. Give it a listen!
And in honour of the podcasts, here’s Candi Staton’s beautiful version of Elvis’ In The Ghetto.