hi witty ones, An inevitable end to my bad day yesterday was this: On TV, the opening throes of The Smiths sacred "How Soon Is Now" began to play. I ran from the kitchen to see what was up. Turns out Nissan is using the song in their commercial for the new Maixima 2000. Johnny's reverb went on as a camera panned around the curves of the automobile. So that was pretty sad. But THEN I thought about the fact that the commercial ended sweetly enough EXACTLY before Morrissey's vocals were about to cut in. Now this gets me thinking: either they sampled and looped the guitar bit (see: SoHo's "Hippiechick", for which Moz/Marr recieved a whopping %75 of royalties for illegal use of the sample), OR...the ever money-hungry Moz/Marr wrote it out back in the early days so that they might be able to do such commercialism later on? Can you imagine Moz and Marr writing and playing along "I aaaaaam humaaaaan and I need to be riiiiiichhh...ER...I mean...lOOOVEEED..." ??? Being a Smiths affecianado, my trained ear told me that the music was NOT an afore mentioned "sample and loop", but in fact the real deal. If anyone's ever read the unauthorized musicology "Morrissey & Marr:The Severed Connection" by Jonny Roghan (whom Moz was quoted as saying "I wish he'd get run over by a bus."), they will read about how much grief the band has gone through regarding money.(see: court battle with ex-Smith members over royalties, in which the judge called Moz all kinds of nasty things like "vile" and "despicable" for his stinginess about turning over royalty money...hmmm...perhaps that's where "beware, I bear more grudges). But I digress...as anounced. The point is, the world is going to pot, no? Will there be a day 10 years from now when I hear B+S on TV supporting Hanes terrycloth underwear (pardon the pun back there)? I dunno. Maybe Electronic Renaissance could be used to sell stereos in stores or something. And I'm getting old. The crap softie music station at work here just played "Blister In The Sun" by Violent Femmes and "People Are People" by DM...mixed between a bunch of top 40 garbage. Then "Good Vibrations" came on, and my Lobster Bisque tasted much better. E.A. and I will be meeting some of you shortly at El Rancho Relaxo later tonight, so I can't wait for that. If anyone wants to make it up to North York after, There's SEVERAL bottles of wine chilling, and a fridge full of beer! HUZZAH! Let the naked twister games begin! Nice 2 luv u baby! (sorry, I sawe 54-40 the other night for retro-kicks.) Jason D. "Panic on the streets of Toronto" Scott a.k.a. Barfly ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+