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Christmas Room Spray & X-E on TV!

It's pouring out and I couldn't be happier about it. Pouring rain, bright lightning, thunder that I swear is trying to form of coherent beat...I LOVE it. The rain tacked on about an extra 25 minutes to my already hideously long bus ride home from work, but for what I'm experiencing now -- an open window with wet wind blowing at my head -- it's totally worth it. Because storms mean holidays in some roundabout way, I couldn't resist the temptation to steer my filthy car towards a pharmacy before heading home, because only during Christmastime can a person like me conceivably spend half an hour browsing a pharmacy.

I picked up many fine items that will be covered in this very fine blog on a regular basis between now and whenever I get sick of Christmas, but it seemed fitting for no specific reason to give the first nod to Glade's Glistening Snow room spray. The can's been done up all purdy with snowy pinecone graphics and whatnot, but even when I bought it, I couldn't help remarking to the 94 yr old woman standing behind me on line that "there was no way this shit smelled like fucking snow cause snow don't fucking smell like anything," to which she replied, "snow smells like water." This situation may have played out more in my head than in real life, but that's immaterial: It doesn't smell like "snow" at all. It doesn't even smell like anything the part of my brain most familiar with my nose might make up as a "snowy smell." It doesn't even smell Christmassy!

Though it does sort of remind me of Macy*s, and Macy*s reminds me of Christmas. I hate to go all Six Degrees of Santa on your asses, but considering the 2-for-1 special price, I'm giving Glade's holiday effort an A+ with absolutely zero notes reading "you'll spray your eye out."

In other news:

I don't have an encode of it made yet, but my latest spot is a sweepstakes tying in with that Zathura flick. Note the name of the shuttle -- "X-E 79." It's spoken in the voice-over, too. Finally snuck a reference in!

EDIT: Here, now you can download it. Video is choppy and low rent, but it's the best I can do at the moment. You'll get the idea.

Posted by Matt on 11/09/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 74 comments

the hell?

Chestnuts roasted by Goolump @ 11/09/2005 8:19 PM

nice reference sneak. great website

Chestnuts roasted by ikenstein @ 11/09/2005 8:20 PM

First of all, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one who A) has an insanely long bus ride to and from work, and B) spends a half-hour or more browsing in pharmacies during holidays. For some reason, they always have great seasonal items. In fact, I was going to stop by the CVS in Wildwood on Friday to see what their Christmas section is like this year.

Second, nice job with the reference. Next time I’m at my parents’ house, I’ll point it out and grin like a fool when the rest of my family doesn’t get it. ;)

I love rainstorms, too. They look nice, smell nice, and give you an excuse to sit inside and read mysteries. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/09/2005 8:28 PM

Christ, I forgot how much I love the X-E blog during the holidays.

Chestnuts roasted by Jon @ 11/09/2005 8:32 PM

Pretty sneaky, sis.

Chestnuts roasted by Wyatt @ 11/09/2005 8:44 PM

oooh one of the first comments.

yay for christmas stuff already!

Chestnuts roasted by lindsay @ 11/09/2005 8:45 PM

gonna put up a video of it?

Chestnuts roasted by gib @ 11/09/2005 8:49 PM

How long until "X-E 79" becomes the new "See you next Wednesday"?

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 11/09/2005 8:52 PM

Gib — I’ll make the vid by the weekend.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/09/2005 8:54 PM

Oh my gosh that is so awesome about the Zathura spot!!! My heart leaped when I read the "X-E on TV" headline up there! Hope I catch it.
I have only seen snow a sum total of one times. I mean, I’ve seen it on mountaintops, but I’ve never even seen it falling, so I’d have no idea of how it would smell. We don’t really get the great storms out here, just depressing gray wet days where everything starts flooding and sliding. They do say "holidays", I suppose.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/09/2005 8:59 PM

Congrats on the new commercial. Dig the reference.

The air freshener companies are pieces of shit.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 11/09/2005 8:59 PM

I love the aftermath of storms. The smell, the cool air. Fuck’in A. Last year on Christmas day I sliced my left index finger open with an exacto knife. After getting three stitches I went to the local Right Aid. They had already marked their Christmas stuff down, including the extra toys they had for the holidays. I got a few transformers, Dirge, Devastator, and Grimlock. They didn’t transform, they were inarticulate figurenes of generation one transformers in robot mode but they were awsome none the less. Any one else ever find any great goodies at a drug store around christmas?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 11/09/2005 9:03 PM

would you get sued for using photog in a commercial?

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 11/09/2005 9:25 PM

What is Glade’s next move? Chestnuts roasting on a open fire? The smell of freshly-ripped wrapping paper? Brussels sprouts?

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 11/09/2005 10:07 PM

Could the green on those cans be any more of a contrast to snow?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/09/2005 10:10 PM

You’d think it was pine scented. It ain’t!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/09/2005 10:11 PM

I was really hoping that the Glistening Snow was actually spray-on snow that smelled like pine trees.

Still no regional holiday pack for me, despite the fact that I’ve been in and out of all of the local grocery stores enough time for them to have a picture of me on the break-room bulletin board.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/09/2005 10:12 PM

Weird…I didn’t think your part of the state and my part of the state (Central NY) ever got the same weather, but it’s been storming like a bastard all day here. Just a sneak preview of the next, oh, ten months or so. Yay. I think snow smells like doom.

Awesome, you snuck in X-E! Sweet. You know, every time I see one of those commercials that run around on the Nick2 and Nicktoons channels with the "Nick employees" (I wonder if they do, in fact, work for Nick) doing stuff with cardboard cutouts of Nick characters–like playing ping-pong with Invader Zim–I think, Matt should so be in one of those. Hee.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 11/09/2005 10:25 PM

thats awesome about the X-E refrence. now the site will really take off

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 11/09/2005 10:40 PM

well, that’s great matt-while you were sitting relaxing and generally enjoying yourself during the lovely rain storm-i was driving in it on my way to take a corporate finance test….What can be more relaxing than that??

Chestnuts roasted by Mike the Great @ 11/09/2005 10:41 PM

Great spot, awesome you snuck a plug in for the site! Way to go.
I am already insanely excited for Xmas. Canadian Thanksgiving is over and done with, and tomorrow is my b-day, which I always consider as step 1 to the holidays.
The folks got me Season 1 of ‘The Muppet Show’ on DVD for my b-day- how sweet is that?
That, plus Xmas beginning on XE has me being a happy girl:)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 11/09/2005 10:48 PM

I can’t get that video to work. I’ve got every other video to work from here but not this one.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/09/2005 10:58 PM

Great commercial. I thought the part about "eating lunch with an astronaut" was really funny. A couple years ago I had a former Apollo astronaut as a teacher for a class in college (and since I was a student hourly at the time my office was right across from his). The class was about resources in space and since he walked on the moon and was a geologist he got to teach it. Long story short: pretty boring (i.e. let’s spend class after class learning about what the moon is made of), and the guy was obsessed with his time on the moon. He just can’t get over it – kind of sad really.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 11/10/2005 12:34 PM

Congratulations on the referrence, I hope that in small circles, it will be as cherised as the infamous "pizza with nothing" line. Hooray for the Christmas stuff; my holiday spirit has already been lifted two-fold!

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 11/10/2005 1:46 AM

My mom bought the Glistening Snow stuff last year. It is indeed worthless, and making a spray smell like nothing is a bad idea, because when it comes right down to it THESE THINGS ARE FOR DE-STINKING THE BATHROOM AFTER A BIG LOAD DUMP!!

They do make a pine tree scent spray; that is much better. I feel sorry for the readers here that can only experience that smell through a can.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 11/10/2005 1:56 AM

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