I got some cool stuff over the weekend. One thing was the new issue of ESPN. This was the NFL preview issue, which is always fun and loaded with writing on stuff I want to read (as opposed to most other sports). There was an ad for Rain 5 chewing gum. It made some claim about being like 50 cell phones on vibrate beneath you or something. I thought it might be a good energy gum or something super tingly. Anyway, less than 30 minutes later I was in the checkout line at the store and saw a pack for 1.29. I bought it. The ad worked that immediately. It's good gum, strong spearmint taste. Nothing extraordinary, though. The packaging is new and different, featuring normal long slender sticks of gum in a fold-up box.
Some very cool music hit me this weekend, too:
The new HIM album, which I'm kind of disappointed in. It's good, but not immediate. Slow, but not real doomy. Melodic, but not real memorable.
The new Shiny Toy Guns, which I dig quite a bit.
The new Thrice album, Alchemy Index, Vols I & II (Fire & Water). This one I couldn't play on my car stereo, as it was one of those advance CDs with anti-copy code written into it or something. I'll be playing this now.
I've got to finish the new issue of Heaven's Metal Fanzine today. It'll be a special "double flip" cover like the last one (and also like the current issue of HM).
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at September 3, 2007 10:45 AM