Video: Bill Hicks on Marketing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj 2K0wo Going for that riotous indignation dollar!

Seventeen years ago today Bill Hicks, a legend and visionary of comedy, died of pancreatic cancer. He was 32. His ribald comedy style was unfiltered with a sniper's aim on the heads of politicos and pop culture puffs. Hicks viewed the comedian as the "antithesis of the mob mentality" whose job is to say "wait a minute" and bring everything back to the moment. Had Hicks lived, continuing his impassioned despise for Billy Ray Cyrus ("I will be hosting, titled 'Let's Hunt and Kill Billy Ray C...

DOWNLOAD: Bill Hicks - "Please Do Not Disturb" Skit (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Bill Hicks - "Turn Your Mind Over To Your Heart" (MP3) William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 - February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, satirist and musician. His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, aiming to "enlighten people to think for themselves." Hicks used a ribald approach to express his material, describing himself as "Chomsky with dick jokes." His jokes included general discussions [...]

• Bill Hicks - Please Do Not Disturb
• Bill Hicks - Turn Your Mind Over To Your Heart

Billy "Billy's Balls" Marks was the best of us. With just a ball, a cup and a his own ingenuity he single-handedly changed the way people thought about throwing stuff into things. But now the everman hero Billy "Balls" Marks has decided to follow the example of so many professional athletes, musicians and movie stars and has sucked a fat corporate cock. Find out how he sold out here.

I hang my head in disgust. While I would normally be the biggest cheerleader for the promotion of South African music, this nonsense gets us nowhere. What am I talking about you ask? Well... Last week the geniuses at Absa/Absa's overpaid marketing firm decided that in order to engender a little more hipness in their corporate image they would commission Danny K and Kabelo to produce a corporate anthem (jingle?) and subsequently press the single and distribute it to all their staff. (side note, it took me a little while to figure out how to rip a CD, [...]

"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself."