Inspiration
Inspiration for a post is gleaned from a couple of other blogs, as my hedonistic Easter break of laying paving a new patio does not make exciting reading, but I will post pictures sometime, when it's sunny.
Russell mentions this article about how little a band can make when signed.
This got me thinking about the recent article about McDonalds offering royalties to rappers for a product mention.
Fifty Cent's gonna drink Bacardi like it's your birthday is the obvious one I can think of, aswell as mentions of Cristal and the bizzare thought of Puff Daddy and Busta Rhymes passing the courvoisier.
This article states that the rappers will get $5 for every mention of a big mac in a song played on the radio. Serious coinage.
I'm looking forward to hearing and seeing the songs that take advantage of this, how do you make big macs hip hop? Actually having written that my brain just came up with a suitable idea, but committing it to print would show just how in the gutter my humour is.
Stray Taoist's post about the great egg hunt, pulled some memory of Heinz Wolff's great 80's tv show The Great Egg Race from way back in the greay matter.
Theme tune available here, surprisingly I don't remember the tune at all.
http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/2.htm.
The title sequence was surely the inspiration for thon Honda advert based on this.
