MTV Sez To Give A Shit While Taking A Shit

It makes me a little sad when I think about how much of my under-21 life I wasted watching MTV. And MTV is also often laughable when they try to become activist. Remember Vote Or Die? I remember picturing Diddy holding a gun to my head and threatening to kill me if I didn’t vote Democrat (South Park imagined it too). But this MTV campaign, ridiculous as it seems, might actually work.

I actually remember Nikki Reed more from the movie Thirteen, but she’s better known to the kids for being in the Twilight movies. The real question that arises: is merely giving a shit enough? Adweek seems to say no. In my view, it may or may not work. But getting people to become aware of issues and to care could be the first step to action.

Verizon Users Won’t Find True Love

Last night, I was brainstorming some potential topics. One that came to mind was that utterly depressing ASPCA commercial featuring Sarah McLachlan. You know, the one with her very sad song “Angel” (which I would love to play on the jukebox at a busy bar, just for the reaction). This one. Later on, I decided to watch the episode of South Park that I recorded the previous night. Lo and behold, the opening scene is a parody of these commercials, with crack babies instead of animals. Dammit! I hate when I’m beaten to the punch!

Very tangentially, this has to do with tonight’s post about time. Watch.

This ad deals with the intriguing notion that everything in life is random, and if we don’t carpe diem right away, our chance might be lost forever. If these two people wouldn’t have met, the future 57th President of the United States would never have been born. And all of this was made possible by the man having quick Internet service on his AT&T phone. Of course, this commercial is more than a year old now, and the 3G service advertised is out of date. So he’d lose out on his woman, and generally be more like this poor guy.