| I guess if my business was selling computers I'd like them to seem less stupid, less prone to malfunction, less of a mortal pain to hassle with -- I'd like to suggest to people that they are simple and they produce results seamlessly, transparently, and without effort.
Anyone who has spent any time at all with computers knows that's a pile of bull**** you can smell from 10 miles away. And I say that as a computer guy!!
I'd like the computers to seem less UGLY-ASSED and COMMERCIAL and more BEAUTIFUL. Like, say, those big bass things!! Aren't they cool?
So, this guy's finishing off a report while he gets a soundpost adjustment? Writing the tuba part for his Low Down Concerto?
Maybe he's a luthier, and he's so busy with his INVESTMENTS that he can't set that post, he can't even set the laptop level, he's gotta DO IT NOW!
This ad is such a spun up, unauthentic pile of crap... I know I shouldn't be, but I *am* offended. This is the crassly commercial using the beauty and authenticity of music like a cheap whore.
If you can't tell by now, I can get worked up by ads. If it's a real shop, I hope the guy got paid.
One more thing: do you think the ad sells even ONE extra HP computer? In advertising there's an old saying "we know that half of all advertising is extremely effective; we just can't tell you which half." Then they yuck it up a bunch and one of them spills expense-accounted rib sauce on his pants. More hilarity ensues as the expenses mount!
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