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i dislike commercials at a theater or--particularly--a concert. between the 2, though, the second is more annoying. i saw the x-ecutioners a couple years ago brought to you by red bull or another of those drinks that taste like free-based mountain dew. they played a 15 minute commerical between sets made up entirely of clips of skater kids falling on things--railings, pavement, spiky objects. it was very loud. it was interminable. there was no escape.
this might have bugged me so much because i dont watch tv and so when i see newer adverts i find them assaultive. flash flash flash.
the particular commercial is a rehash of the halftime thing that made the 2001-2002 superbowl into a kind of televisual nuremberg rally.
foul then, foul now.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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