Every Cup of Starbuck’s Kills Music
By now most of you have heard about the $400 million that 50 Cent got when Coca Cola bought Vitamin Water for $4.1 billion. Not a bad pay day, hope he doesn’t go MC Hammer with that wad. I was surfing the interweb and came upon this disturbing page:
“Another of those early investors was the uncle of easy-listening saxophonist Kenny G, who became a goodwill ambassador for the chain. Schultz writes about how G’s music perfectly matches the image of Starbucks’ stores (an image now identified with Seattle as a whole, thanks partly to Starbucks’ PR influence). No other Seattle music personality is mentioned in the book, not even Schultz’s former Viretta Park neighbor Courtney Love. Schultz writes about being “shocked” to learn from market research that Starbucks’ stores were considered squaresville by many “twentysomethings,” even though the stores were planned around the bland pseudo-sophistication most local rockers were rebelling against.”
So there you have it. Kenny G perfectly matches the image of the bland, soulless, lowering the bar of American culture. Drink Up!
StarCrossed came and went without me last weekend. Looks like Bart Mang and Ali G threw down. The Utah Series kicks off this weekend without me as well. Stupid job. At least it give me another week to work on my non-existant form. Hopefully mad skills will make up for lack of horsepower and I can stay in front of Turbo…
