SELL OUT
I felt like puking, and it had far less to do with the fact that I’d run 4.5 miles in just 30 minutes. Instead, it had everything to do with a Kohl’s commercial starring Lenny Kravitz and his wannabe rock anthem: Love Revolution. The Love Revlution was a feature of MySpace’s music tour [that's right, I said MySpace's music tour] called Get On The Bus, which was also the name of a [redundancy alert!] very bad Spike Lee movie.
This is where it gets really edgy [No, not Kravitz's long list of pilfered/mutilated songs]: The Get On The Bus moniker tied into Kravitz’s Love Revolution bus, which toured the nation while plugging his –and I am NOT making this up– Levi jeans and t-shirt collection sold exclusively at Kohls.
The campaign featured other notable rockers [please note the distinct smell of sarcasm]: Avril Lavigne, Plain White T’s, and Vanessa Carlton. Others suckered into pawning Kravitz’s horrid music and clothes inclue: professional skateboarder Tony Hawk and Hayden Panettiere, who is best known for her role as the cheerleader on Heroes.
Boys and girls, here’s how we learn that karma is a bitch: My Name is Earl During the tour, Kravitz was admitted to Miami Hospital suffering from a series of severe respiratory tract infections that developed into bronchitis. If the universe thinks you suck, it’ll give you a warning.
COOK OUT
Michele Humes over at the foodie blog, A Fine Furious Life, just posted an excellent story [replete with fantastic pictures] entitled, So You Want To Go To Culinary School. A highly recommended read.
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