This ad was on the side of facebook while I was browsing it yesterday. Apparently nowadays Santa likes his Palm Centro and also likes to remix music… or at least host it on his “page”. What the fuck?… This ad makes absolutely no sense at all. In fact…the picture in the ad looks like they threw santa’s head ontop of some teenage girl texting her girlfriends. And what kind of background is that? StormySkyStockphoto.jpg? Sitting on what appears to be a shopping cart. My mind doesn’t know how to process all of these seemingly unconnected things as a whole image.

Btw, Santa’s remixes suck…

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So I’ve seen the ad a few more times since then and I decided to click on it…

That’s the ad on the side of Digg. Apparently here he’s playing with his turn tables on the top of some building in a city. He does this type of thing. I don’t see a phone in this advertisement so I’m not really sure they’re appealing to people who may be looking for a new phone.

Since they’re ads make absolutely no sense in promoting a phone and I think it’s hilarious that they metrosexualized santa into this young guy who wears rings on all of his fingers and tight tapered red jeans and an old navy vest…I decided to have a little fun in photoshop and see if I could make them “better”.

I watched the Utah Saints video for Something Good the other day and thought it was simply the coolest fucking video I’ve ever seen… After watching it once or twice more I realized that what I liked most about the music video was the music itself. So I set off on a journey to download this track. The more I looked for it (and eventually came across their myspace page) the more I realized I wanted the whole album and not just this one track… I assumed it’d be no harder than opening iTunes and searching for Utah Saints. Turns out since I’m in the US I can’t download the album. WTF…

It should at least be an option to turn on or off the UK store if they’re worried about making finding your favorite artists difficult or meshing together the top 10 lists…or most popular downloaded tracks. I can kind of understand the separation, but not allowing me to buy it at all? Seems dumb. More money for them…more money for the Utah Saints. Everyone wins. I wonder why they don’t allow this?

Anyone know of any place else that I could snatch this up for a decent price? I’d hate to turn to “alternative” methods of obtaining this…because I really like the artist and with them churning out stuff like the Something Good video, I’d like to support them and keep them going.

Robbie Watson - Paris 12.mp3

Robbie Watson - Paris 13.mp3

Robbie Watson - Paris #9

Robbie Watson - Paris #11

Click here to read about what the Paris Mixes are.

Robbie Watson - Paris #7

Robbie Watson - Paris #8

Sure I love their products and their savvy design. I like how it works just as they inteded it to because it doesn’t rely on one company making the OS and a completely different company making the hardware. But the real reason I love them is that I feel like I’m cared about as a customer. Here’s why.

I bought Katie a 13″ Macbook for our anniversary at the end of September. On October 14th the new Macbook came out and replaced the upper end 13″ MB’s and the lower end ones dropped in price. When I bought my iPhone the prices soon came down and Apple let me know I was eligable for a refund covering the difference. That was awesome. When they released the new iPhone users who had recently purchased one were able to swap it out for the newer model. Very cool.

I went to our new local Apple store here in Ridgeland, MS and inquired about my options. I had bought it 3 almost 4 weeks ago. Their usual replacement/refund policy covers products bought 2 weeks before the new versions come out. He asked if I had bought the higher end model or lower end model. If I had bought the lower end model - they hadn’t been replaced, just gone down in price. I could just get a refund of the difference. Seeing as the upper model had been entirely replaced he said he would allow me to trade it for the new model.

This manager didn’t know me. He didn’t know that since I bought my iPhone I’ve purchased several thousand dollars of Apple products (Laptops, software, iPhone…). I didn’t beg for an upgrade - he said “does she want the new model?” This was genuine customer care at it’s finest. He saw I had just bought one, loved the replacement, and went out of his way to see that I could trade mine in for it. I’d just like to say thanks to the guys at the Ridgeland, MS store and props to Apple for putting emphasis on keeping customers happy. The best form of advertising is word of mouth…nothing can convince you to buy something like your friends and family. It’s definately a story of good public relations that I’ll continue to tell people about.