commercial

This commercial takes place in a locker room. You can see there is a locker that has a jersey and maybe some other items in it, the walls look like a light green sort of tile, reminds me of any other locker room. You can hear people moving around in the background, I would think that since it is a commercial it would have better quality, but perhaps it is meant to be this way. Will Ferrell is dressed up as Jackie Moon owner/player/coach of the Michigan Flint Tropics. He is promoting the product Old Spice deodorant. His hair is in a fro but more of a white fro then the typical afro. He is wearing a head band that has two stripes of orange sandwiching a stripe of white on his headband, he also has two wrist bands in this same fashion. He starts off the dialogue with saying that everyone sweats six liters of sweat a day, and then saying he is not familiar with the metric system but he thinks it is equivalent to three hundred gallons of sweat a day, which of course is not right at all. According to Jackie Moon it is a fact that we sweat this much, so it must be true. He tells people that they need to cauterize their sweat glands. Usually cauterizing is associated with bleeding, but apparently it refers to sweat too. After Jackie is done talking there is a noise that reminds me of a sailor ship, it has that kind of NAVY sound to it for some reason. At the end of the commercial there is an ad for the new movie “Semi Pro” which of course stars Will Ferrell as Jackie Moon, there is a basketball being dribbled in the background, you can hear it but not see it. I want to see this movie very bad, but I have not yet.

When I was listening to the Zaireeka experiment in class last Tuesday I couldn’t help but think, wow this is insane. To me it was just an absolutely crazy experiment but I kind of liked it. I thought it was really trippy and cool when the CD players were in perfect sync with each other at the beginning of the experiment, but even after they became out of sync it was still pretty cool. During one of the songs It really reminded me of the Elton John song “Rocket Man”. Which immediately made me think of the Bill Shatner version and caused me to laugh a little. I did some research and found that the name Zaireeka comes form the two words Zaire and Eureka. The country Zaire was used to symbolize anarchy, and of course Eureka which means I have found it.
I wouldn’t be opposed to listening to this CD (or four CD’s) again because I think that it is something that can be interpreted in many different ways.
I am really impressed with the way that the CD’s did come together to make an amazing sound. I’m no musical expert but the way that they were able to put those sounds together is very amazing. I especially liked in Track 7 the way that the piano and the trap set came together and made an awesome sound. My other favorite part about this experiment was that it was like surround sound in the class room. I really like that because if you turned your head just a little bit, there was a completely different sound.