Know Your Product

Weird juxtapositioning of the week, spotted on a large billboard just to the right of the door of a youth hostel used by German and French twenty-somethings on Manhattan's Upper West Side: the image is supposed to be a post-card depicting a rather curvy, teeny-bikinied woman reclining on a beach, with the caption "Greetings from Brazil" printed in script. Marring this soft-porn fantasy are the spray-painted words "Turistas Go Home" (the title of this nasty organ-stealing horror movie).

I guess the movie marketers are writing off the international market on this one...

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"Know Your Product" is a great song from the Aussie punk band The Saints. Here's a sample:

I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air
Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel allright!"
"Got some great new brand of smokes
"Cool your head and clear your throat
"Keeps you young and so in touch."

Cheap advertising, you're lying
Never gonna get me what I want
I said, smooth talking, brain washing
Ain't never gonna get me what I need