Dancing Lessons Seattle
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Dancing Lessons Seattle
I love zombies.
Love them.
Fast ones. Slow ones. Dead ones. Diseased ones. I eat that stuff up like cookies on Christmas.
So just imagine how excited I was when I found out that Max Brooks (Mel Brooks’ son and author of “The Zombie Survival Guide”) had written “World War Z: An Oral History of The Zombie War.”
I picked it up while I was down in San Francisco for John Carlton, David Garfinkel and Harlan Kilstein’s Copywriting Express Seminar. And by the time I landed back in Seattle on Sunday night, I’d devoured the whole thing. And learned a little something about target marketing too.
Because, you see, in the book, Zombies (the dead, slow ones) run absolutely rampant, killing off billions of people and infesting the planet like cockroaches on birthday cake. They swarm. They bite. They moan (actually they moan a lot) and they walk right through all the high-fallutin military tech that the US army throws at them.
Why? Because the military is using the wrong tools for the job. If you’re fighting zombies, shrapnel-throwing land mines, eye-burning tear gas, napalm, silly putty and tactical air strikes are all wasteful and just about useless. The only way you can stop a zombie is to destroy its brain. And the bast way to do that? A single bullet from a single gun. Or a good stab with a sharp stick.
Which is kind of like what happens in the marketing wild. I see all sorts of businesses wasting tons of money on weak, wimpy and ineffective marketing when all they really need is a sharp message and a medium to shoot it from (now that’s a mixed metaphor.)
Mm. Zombies. Is there anything they can’t do?
Chris “Mr. Moneyfingers” Haddad is a strategic marketing consultant and direct response copywriter in Seattle, WA. He spends his days helping his clients make ridiculous amounts of money with well chosen words and his nights out on the dance floor looking for love. You can learn more at http://www.moneyfingersinc.com
Create your bucket list (i.e. things you wanna do before you die)?
I want to see radiohead live,
dance with thom yorke and hug jonny greenwood plus get a guitar lesson from him(dream come true =)
Live alone
Move to seattle
fall in love then
get married in the perfect setting (when its raining at nighttime)
be a drummer in a band
Actually I just want to meet Radiohead, the rest doesn’t matter as much.
OooOooh I have one! =)
1. Attend at least one major sporting event: i.e. the Super Bowl, World Cup, etc.
2. Throw a huge birthday party and invite everyone of your friends.
3. Swim with a dolphin.
4. Go rock climbing, cliff jumping, skydiving, parasailing, and bungee jumping.
5. Have your portrait painted.
6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure I use it.
7. Go skinny-dipping anywhere at anytime.
8. Live in a jungle for a week.
9. Ride a train.
10. Spend a night in a luxurious hotel
11. Send a message in a bottle
12. Explore a cave.
13. Buy a motrocycle
14. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
15. Attend Oktoberfest
16. Be someone’s mentor.
17. Shower in a waterfall.
18. Learn to play a musical instrument.
19. Spend a night in a haunted house — with friends.
20. Sing a great song in front of an audience. nope
21. Ask a random person to dance.
22. Drive across America from coast to coast.
23. Own one very expensive gorgeous dress.
24. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
25. Go to Rio during Carnival.
26. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
27. Scuba dive off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. 
28. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
29. Attend one really huge rock concert.
30. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.
31. Create my own web site.
32. Ski a double-black diamond run.
33. Run a marathon.
34. Dance around naked in the rain.
35. Throw someone I love a suprise party and invite everyone they know.
36. Purposly fall down a waterfall.
37. Visit the Seven Wonders of the world.
38. Set foot on each of the seven continents.
39. Learn to ride a horse.
40. Climb Mount Everest.
41. Learn to tango.
42. Write my own traveling book.
43. Climb an active volcano.
44. Participate in Burning Man.
45. Spend 24 hours alone in the jungle.
46. Attend a film festival.
47. Partake in a Japanese Tea Ceremony.
48. Attend the Olympics.
49. Go to the World Cup
50. Meet Cristiano Ronaldo
51. Jump off a rope that’s hanging from a tree into a lake.
52. Play spin the bottle.
53. Be a lifeguard for a day — or the entire summer.
54. Make a scrapbook.
55. Watch the ball drop in New York City.
56. Iceskate on an actual pond.
57. Catch fireflies on a summer night like when I was a kid.
58. Go to Vegas.
59. See the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.
60. Go to a drive-in movie theater.
61. Ride a mechanical bull.
62. Have my picture in a newspaper.
63. Take a ride on a fighter jet.
64. Take dive to look at the Titanic.
65. Become a secret agent, part time (Incredible-Adventures.com offers such a vacation with combat pistol training and high-speed evasive driving exercises.)
66. Meet Johnny Depp <3
67. Become a black belt in karate.
68. Visit the Black Sea.
69. See the Red Nile.
70. Go water-skiing.
71. Learn how to snowboard.
72. Learn to surf really well.
73. Go backpacking thru europe
74. Fall in love. yes, very corny.
75. become a millionaire. and then help people.
Obama Dance Party in the streets of Seattle
