This past month, I have been noticing commericials quite a bit. I've seen a few that I really like ... and one that is particularly weird, in my opinion.

This first one stars Nick Lachey in an ad for Clix, the new frangrance by Axe. I had a big crush on Nick Lachey when he was a member of 98 Degrees, and I still think he's really handsome. Also, I think the ad is pretty funny.



This next one, for the Nissan X-Trail Bonavista, is sort of a tribute to my boss and the company that I work for. Before I got my job with the Salvation Army, I had never met anyone from Newfoundland. I still haven't met anyone who talks like this! When this ad came on, I could not understand the salesman at all. After watching it a few times, I can now almost make out what he is saying.



Another car ad that I really liked, which was airing a few months ago, was the "Then and Now" GM ad. Part of the appeal was that the background music is a song I already like: "AM Radio" by Everclear.



I am still looking for the Salvation Army ad which I saw today, where a real estate agent describes living on the street as if she was showing a house. I know that the point is irony, but they can make anything sound good, can't they? Once example is "gaze up at the enormous skylight as you lay on your heated bed" (the "heated bed" being a grate on the sidewalk).

The ad that I find weird and disturbing is the myGodPod.com commercial that has been airing on The Christian Channel. It is advertising daily devotions that you can download to your I-Pod, which I think is a good idea - but, the ad seems downright creepy. It features a man who stalking around in a trenchcoat, distributing I-Pods to unsuspecting people in the process of their morning commute. There is also a woman, who appears to be fleeing something more than hurrying somewhere, and at one point, she wipes out - hard - possibly after tripping over a free I-Pod on the stairs. I wasn't able to imbed this video, but you can see it here.