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people love to be paranoid, fear is tasty, it has merit, its not sidewalk carton of beefy kid like gestures, it has real substance. People live to be feared, freaked out, fondled even.
I recently took the vacuum hose of doom to one of my oldest email accounts. In the root of it now I just sit back and watch the spam flow. Carefully i weed out the good ones and sending the bad ones to their dreaded SPAM folder so that they can be re-issued into the spam-assassin engine. Its funny though. Spam lately isn't really aimed at me any more, or any human for that matter. I mean you need to be an alien to understand I think "Hey Dudes - staid stalk feed abstracter wonderland traversal told wastrel asymmetry bank context!" Nice wtf is that? How does that make me wanna buy? Maybe Spam has evolved from selling something anything
to a new kind of communication: alien abucution.. or something. It just doesn't make any sense.
"Foreman, Govenment don't want me to sell
UndergroundCD !Check Your spouse and staff
Disappear in your city
fuji,i beg your."
How'd this copy get past any marketing department? I see meetings where someone, probably an alien, double checks the copy and reccomends the addition of "disappear in your city!" that'll get the sale for sure. By now i forsee generators of spam, apps run by other apps to to create apps to generate alien spam. Heck by now it could be controlled by some terroist network attempting to remind america, not the world, pay the price of the net, fear our alien spam! We all need punished for our acceptance of this piss poor communication device.
What if telemarketers called me at home and said:
"Govenment don't want me to sell, check spouse and staff!"
Maybe I'm supposed to reply with:
"fuji, disappear in your city"
And then I get something cool!
Seriously is SPAM really marketing at all any more? What marketing organization would align themselves with the horrible tag line SPAM has for it now? Who would actually get up on the podium and say "after our initial spam campaign we then hit the local media markets etc,.." Its like suicide. No. Marketers are'nt spammin. Least not the smart ones. If anything its assured brand destruction. Why haven't any of the spammers false positioned themsevles as notable or recognizable brands? Why aren't I getting fake Nike shoe emails that are in fact alien communication? Pissing off the end user is one thing, but dissin Nike? Oh thats a can o wooopass there. Apparently Spam does have something to fear, not consumers, we're fodder for the endless engines that spit out spam, but u drag a notable brand down in the dirt with ya, and they will find you.
Course I'm convinced that nearly 95% of all spam isnt from the states. Its sooo much of a plague here, I can't see it originating from here. It'd be interesting to set up walls that sealed off the states. Just to see what effect it would have. True the net is boundless, limitless why constrict it, for sake of study i say. Start messin with the lines where spam travels. Ideally I'd want a bounce back system. I want my emails to bounce back at them like reflecting nuff said notices. I want my account off the network, pooof.. or at least appear that way.
Still I think Spam has really evolved, it started in print, went to telemarketers, then with the net evolved into a beast. At first, it was annoying, then it made me angry, now it makes me laugh. I keep thinking, what could I do with the worlds spam. I thought about creating a line of pillow covers and bed sheets with nothing but subject headers of classic spam. Who'd buy that? Hell its spam man, someone would. Then I thought what about maybe wall paper, or maybe radio.. actually ive seen spam radio done before. Even spam radio talk shows where its nothing but spam fed into a pc language bot speaker and its like someone reading a story over the radio, course its an alien story.
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ya know another thing people i think fail to factor in sometimes is whether or not yer name is google friendly. Say ya got a new nightclub, ya yer all randy, hell yer kick ass, whats the name of it?! Penetrate! Thats awesome, yer the one, hell yer rockin! Except for a tight knit audiance of folks that know you, forget about web advertising. Is it a death wise to close yerself off from adquate net activity? I mean the world is wired. Why cut yourself off from the one the cheapest means of generating hype. I know the club has an online presence, they all have one.. sadly I'll never find it via word of mouth, someone tellin me the clubs name does me nada, i can find "shemale sex orgy!" but nuthin to suggest that Penetrate actually exists. Ok maybe i wasnt go anyways but I was still curious, and if you were sportin some branding image on the front door there, or had redbull sponsoring yer club with free juice, i never knew, never saw, never cared, never went "coool" all cause u had to name yer club Penetrate. I hope yer frickin happy man! Sure yer cool to me I see it as yer stupid. The name is one thing it just limits you, ok maybe u want that, but then you dont knuckle down and be assured that Penetrate columbus, rings a bell in ole google. Its not smart, its not savy, its a loss. Could of been done better. Yer so elite that you can only sell to your core audiance, god forbid if they ever leave, yer boned! I see that and i say to myself you deserve to fail, yet they may not.. its just one factor of many. But with so many factors these days, wouldnt you want them all on yer side?
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My brother Paul says theres isn't a problem that horsepower can't fix. I'd say the same thing about music. Regardless of what is happening the right tune and infuse the moment and get things goin again. Course I could use a redbull right about now.
Ya know I've always wanted to attend: http://www.wmcon.com/
I think that'd be a blast. I miss my shows. I need to do that, E3, NAB.. some cool design gigs.