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That’s Not Exactly What I Want—

  • A. D. Jameson

    • —namely, a Taco Bell commercial that includes a snippet of the Flying Lizards’s brilliant cover of “Money”:

    The commercial excerpts a few of the “That’s what I want” bits. I guess the song’s ironically naked avarice was lost on Yum! Brands?

    There’s also an official video for the song, but for some reason the volume is super-low:

    • A. D. Jameson is the author of five books, most recently I FIND YOUR LACK OF FAITH DISTURBING: STAR WARS AND THE TRIUMPH OF GEEK CULTURE and CINEMAPS: AN ATLAS OF 35 GREAT MOVIES (with artist Andrew DeGraff). Last May, he received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at UIC.

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