{"id":7689,"date":"2014-02-04T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T02:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2014-02-04T21:27:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T02:27:23","slug":"what-you-can-refer-to-yourself-as-notorious-thats-an-ok-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/what-you-can-refer-to-yourself-as-notorious-thats-an-ok-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"What? You Can Refer to Yourself as Notorious&#8212;That&#8217;s an OK Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;da thunk that the <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/im-crying-and-dying-because-of-this-budweiser-commercial\/\" target=\"_blank\">most adorable interspecies friendship of all time<\/a> was only the <em>second<\/em>-best Super Bowl commercial? Not me. But it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Because first place definitely belongs to Jamie Casino.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jr2gdPY-88w\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What a journey this opus took me on!<\/p>\n<p>When it started out, I was all<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.24-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7690\" alt=\"Photo on 2014-02-04 at 16.24 #8\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.24-8.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.24-8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.24-8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>what is happening? He&#8217;s commercialing about his old commercials?<\/p>\n<p>But then, fifteen seconds in, I was like<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7691\" alt=\"Photo on 2014-02-04 at 16.25\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25.jpg 640w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s made a commercial that&#8217;s also an episode of <em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>!\u00a0AND HOLY SHIT, HE&#8217;S DOING PACINO. I DON&#8217;T KNOW IF IT&#8217;S MICHAEL CORLEONE OR TONY MONTANA, BUT HE&#8217;S DEFINITELY DOING PACINO.<\/p>\n<p>It just gets better and better after that. Dude clearly spent some cashish on production, which makes the script problems\/delights all the more glaring: &#8220;&#8217;til one day my little brother Michael and his friend were two of four people whose lives were taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Um, what? Two of four people? We&#8217;re doing fractions?\u00a0Also, &#8220;lives were taken&#8221;? By whom? That brick wall?\u00a0And UGH (EEEEE!) with the passive voice.<\/p>\n<p>And then we hit 0:45, and I don&#8217;t even I don&#8217;t even I can&#8217;t what is<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7692\" alt=\"Photo on 2014-02-04 at 16.25 #3\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25-3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-on-2014-02-04-at-16.25-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S A MUSIC VIDEO TOO?!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>These are my thoughts after that point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So many roses.<\/li>\n<li>DEATH ROSES. (I thought this in a heavy metal voice.)<\/li>\n<li>Fog machine-strobe combo. Mm-hm.<\/li>\n<li>Church. Sure.<\/li>\n<li>Sledgehammer? OK.<\/li>\n<li>FLAMING SLEDGEHAMMER WITH \u00a0A CROSS? MY LIFE IS PERFECT RIGHT NOW.<\/li>\n<li>So many cartoon newspaper pot-shots at the Chief. Probably had it coming. You don&#8217;t go up against a guy like Casino unless you&#8217;re Frank Serpico, which would be <em>Pacino versus Pacino<\/em>, which would be <em>weird<\/em>, and by weird I mean <em>awesome<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Emotional manipulation, heavy metal, hair gel, and fiyaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh&#8212;god, this commercial is everything, <em>everything<\/em>, EVERYTHING!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;da thunk that the most adorable interspecies friendship of all time was only the second-best Super Bowl commercial? Not me. But it&#8217;s true. Because first place definitely belongs to Jamie Casino. What a journey this opus took me on! When it started out, I was all what is happening? He&#8217;s commercialing about his old commercials? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/what-you-can-refer-to-yourself-as-notorious-thats-an-ok-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What? You Can Refer to Yourself as Notorious&#8212;That&#8217;s an OK Thing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149,147,148],"class_list":["post-7689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random","tag-heavy-metal","tag-jamie-casino","tag-super-bowl-commercials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7694,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions\/7694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}