Comments on: Ga-ching-a-ching-a-ching

By: avacado

avacado — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:06:51 +0000

oh, consumerism.

By: lesser

lesser — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:20:14 +0000

Now you can buy MIA brand rubber flip flops! wheee.

By: Jai Singh

Jai Singh — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:55:08 +0000

Don’t forget the occasional wild and unconventional type who decides to really live life on the edge by splashing out on a Lexus

By: DesiDancer

DesiDancer — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:14:45 +0000

true, Snapdragon. Just check out the parking lot at any mandir and it’s Honda, Toyota, Toyota, Honda, Honda, BMW and Mercedes (a few), Toyota, Honda, Toyota, Toyota, Toyota, Honda. Bas.

By: Snapdragon

Snapdragon — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:05:49 +0000

I was at her concert in Toronto on Sept 26th and she made a formal announcement to the crowd of her new ad to a raucous of boos.

Composed yet a little taken aback she said something like this "Well there are 200,000 Tamils in the Toronto area & at least 100,000 of'em drive a Honda."

Too true. She's not being defensive. She's being honest. And you have to respect the lady for that. Well that and it was pretty damn funny.

By: Bear

Bear — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:56:23 +0000

I don’t get waht being on iPod commercials has to do with helping Africa. Am I missing something? Bono’s been doing the humanitarian aid thing for years. I clearly remember articles on him being the rock star politician back in the late 90′s.

By: Deepa

Deepa — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:19:22 +0000

Selling out is the very basis of my being. How can you all just reject it out of hand without trying it?

Heh, maybe only those who haven't sold out at all are allowed to criticize sell-outs.

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:27:47 +0000

Regarding selling out, I always remind poeple:

"No buck, no Buck Rogers"

From "The Right Stuff"

There is no circus, if there is no one willing to buy tickets. Sure, in personal life I do things that go against grain of conventional wisdom (like not working in oil industry in a $70/ barrel climate) but that is my personal choice for now (i repeat for now).

By: pree

pree — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:46:38 +0000

Yeah, there is this whole hipper than thou posturing connected to the phrase "sell out"...

but that doesn't rule out the validity of critiques about selling out. There is a difference. I know people drop band X like its got genital herpes as soon as the "sell out" label is used...but its also used in non holier/hipper than thou way that has nothing at all to do with the whims of pretentious wannabe hipsters, etc.

ok, I'll shut up now.

By: MD

MD — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:38:57 +0000

You know, here's why I can't stand the sell-out epithet. And it all comes back, naturally, to me. Yes. I am that shallow, but you knew that. I mean, my whole life as an Indian-American Princess is a sell out, so quit throwing that label around! It hurts my feelings.

Litany of sell-out:

Go to medical school: check.
Marry nice Indian boy: check (and then unchecked, but I still get points for that, okay).
That's about it, but I'm sure I could think of others.

Selling out is the very basis of my being. How can you all just reject it out of hand without trying it?