November 2006

Bank of America: Advanced?

According to , maybe so:

"Today's features the behind-the-scenes story of Bank of America's version of U2's "One" performed at a corporate conference celebrating their merger with MBNA. Watch it now, then read on.

.. This clip could have come right out of an episode of The Office, but it is no fake - proving once again that The Office is closer to reality TV than any of those 'reality' shows could ever hope to be.

That really is the BoA brass, and the song is performed by , Manhattan bank manager by day, by night (favorite band: Counting Crows).

"The video is a hoot, and works on so many levels. It shows the crassness of corporate culture (especially those inspirational conferences) while simultaneously reminding us that artistic expression is such a hard-to-control beast.

I'm no U2 fan (okay, maybe once, long long ago), but I'm pretty sure they had no intention of their song being co-opted to represent bank mergers, NASCAR, office teamwork, or dissing Capital One."

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have a problem with it.

Ricky Gervais Joins Bob Dylan, Beatles on iTunes, High Fidelity Overtness, Ron Wood Can Stop Painting for a Living

• Ricky Gervais will be appearing on . It would be pretty fun to watch "The Office" on DVD with Dylan.
• The Beatles .

  I hope they'll put the twenty-whatever-minute-version of "Helter Skelter"!

• See if you can figure out the top five reasons about the High Fidelity musical is Overt.
• The Rolling Stones' current tour is the , while the Butthole Surfers hold the title for the grossest tour ever.

• It's nice to be back, even if blogger still won't let me put up pictures! (that's better..

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Prince in Vegas, De Niro and 50 Cent, Dolly Parton a Day Late for Handsome Me, Kerry Doesn't Need a Weatherman, the Voice and CMJ

• Prince is opening a club in , Las Vegas.

  Will it now be the funkiest city too?

• Robert De Niro will be . He just keeps getting more awesome, doesn't he?

• Dolly Parton says to be a songwriter. I wish someone would have told me that before I abandoned my dream.
• John Kerry was the other day.

• Can you think of anything more worthless than the Village Voice's " " feature? A formless wall of scuz indeed!

Britt Bergman and I invented the advanced theory in 1990 at a Pizza Hut in Columbia, SC. What is the advanced theory? As Chuck Klosterman put it, " When a genius does something that appears idiotic, it does not necessarily mean he suddenly sucks.

What it might mean is that he's doing something you cannot understand, because he has Advanced beyond you.