Brilliant! Cheers! is going on a sabbatical. By that I mean I won’t be updating it for a bit until I decide what I’m doing with the site. I appreciate all the comments and all the visitors I’ve had but I feel like my blog has been sadly scattered over things I find interesting without [...] Read Full Story

I just got done watching ‘What We Do Is Secret’, the movie about one of my favourite bands: the Germs. It kinda blew. There are many, many great documentaries on bands and music that I love. For some reason whenever they attempt to make a movie about a band they seem to lose the plot. Perhaps [...] Read Full Story

There seems to be a lot of coverage on the news about a job transition, sadly mine seems to be overlooked. George W. Bush and I have a few things in common; we both have the same middle initial and we both left our jobs on the same day. The differences are that nobody calls [...] Read Full Story

Coffee is one of the wonders of civilisation but there is always some buzzkill trying to find ways to make it scary. Now too much caffeine might induce hallucinations. I doubt this will deter us hardcore addicts; indeed it might open up a new market for Amsterdam coffee shops. To be honest, I don’t put much [...] Read Full Story

After Johnny shilling butter it’s about time another punk got a piece of the pie. Carnival Cruise lines has already used Iggy’s drug fueled anthem to sell cruises to pensioners and families but now Swiftcover uses the man himself to sell… insurance. Sadly with the death of Stooges guitarist, Ron Asheton, insurance policies are probably something Iggy actually [...] Read Full Story

I´ve been on a bit of a blog hiatus. At first it was because of a lot of traveling to Denmark and the States and then there was a bit of a forced blackout. I was interviewing for a new job and didn´t really want to be discussing that. Now I have a new job [...] Read Full Story

Greenpeace has reanimated a famous dead president to push a sustainable energy message for conference in Berlin. I’ve never liked these kind of CG Lazarus treatments because they always end up looking rather creepy. Given that it’s Halloween, perhaps that’s appropriate. I don’t think these are a great idea because they tend to unsettle people. We [...] Read Full Story

There is a time, usually around 3 am, that many people who work in advertising wake up in a cold sweat. A panicky thought flits across the conscience; Maybe I’m doing something that is less than noble. It’s happened to me: ‘Perhaps these people’s lives won’t be complete and free from discomfort, pain and inconvenience [...] Read Full Story

In times of financial turmoil, upheaval or armageddon—you’re outlook depends on whether you just read the news, know somebody who got made redundant or lost your own job—it helps to remember we’ve weathered storms before. I came across an archive on CNet of the Top 10 dot com flops and one of my old employers there. [...] Read Full Story

I wasn’t a huge fan of Coke’s Oasis Cactus Kid campaign because it seemed a bit heavy-handed in the “look at how wacky this is” to ensure YouTube virility. I do give them props for trying to create deeper content than a simple flash in the pan and will say that it appears to have [...] Read Full Story