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This time, they've gone too fucking far.
Asking a copywriter to write French is one thing, but this... this...
Sigh.
I've got to come up with 8 concise single sentence tips on how to best clean your vagina.
It's gonna be in supermarket and pharmacy aisles, so it's recommended I stay away from the words 'vulva', 'vagina', 'labia' and 'yeast'.
I never realized how much care a vagina needs. And all the descriptions and images are making me feel incredibly uncomfortable.
I have only been staring at vulva's for ten minutes, but already I feel I need to take a break. No offence, ladies, but some things we'd rather not know. I don't think any of you women want to know about dick cheese (a problem not suffered by the circumcised, btw).
Yeast. Yeast for fucks sake...
That's Richard Cheese, that is.
Note to self: I MUST download tracks by this dude. He is the veritable King. Fuck Cafe Del Mar, this is lounge music.
Click here to see a vid of him playing 'Baby Got Back' & 'My Own Personal Jesus' and click here for the music vid of Dick's own rendition of the Snoop Doggy Dogg hit 'Gin & Juice'.
Haven't you heard?
Don't you know who's coming down this September to play for ONE NIGHT ONLY this September 19th at the Hilton Grand Ballroom in KL?
Why, it's none other than the Godfather of Soul, Mr. Please-Please, Jaaaaaaaaaaaaammmesssss BROWNNNNNNNN!!!!
I don't care what it takes, I'm checking out the guy. What are the chances of him coming down? Fuckin' James Brown... niiiice.
Time to get up offa that thing and dance till you feel better. Time to say it loud because the man's feeling like-a like-a sex machine, man. Groovin'. Doin' it, y'know?
Can I count it off one more time? Some of you must've heard of Dope Wars. Click here to play. Mucho addictive. Taken from DrunkMenWorkHere.org There's a few things I've noticed with the way I work these days when it comes to creativity.
First, there's the beginning barrier. If I can't figure out the start of something, I can't continue. When I'm writing, I don't care whether it's an ad or a script or a blog post, if I can't figure out a good way to start I can't continue. I'll delete and delete and delete and start again.
Same goes with editing, as I discovered last night. I was editing the Y2k 'Lara' music video and a good hour was spent staring at the edit of the first 10 seconds. Cuts too fast? Cuts too slow? Is there continuity? Yes? No? Is it in sync? Not working? Delete, start again.
And when it finally came together, that's when I realized another thing about me when I work: the Chuckle Factor.
I'd experienced it occasionally when working on ads and last night I experienced it during the edit session. I was there, all alone, looking at what I was working on, and at some point I realized I had some good stuff here.
I realized, because I started chuckling.
Now, I don't know about you but it takes a pretty funny thought to make you laugh by yourself. Some have seen me downstairs in the Coffee Bean with a pen and paper, brow stressed to the point of Klingon-look-a-like-ness, when it happens.
Chuckle. Guffaw. Giggle. Laugh.
Gonna have another look at the video tonight transferred to miniDV. If it still looks good, I'm sending it off to the stations ASAP.
And someone remind me to upload it? And the short film video too (and by someone, Man Method, I mean you). If someone could post a comment sometime around Friday to remind me to spend the weekend uploading stuff it would be much obliged. For those not in the know, an emulator is a program that emulates a console. You play games on the emulator by loading roms, which emulate the cartridges.
I've just downloaded an NES emulator, known as NESticle, and been downloading a few classic games much to the "ooh"'s and "aah"'s of my other colleagues.
Thankfully, my superior is a hardcore gamer so the sight of 8 bit graphics from Double Dragon and Final Fantasy 1 put a tear to his eye as opposed to him ripping me a new asshole for not doing any damn work.
Check out CoolRom.com or FreeRoms.com to get downloading, but be warned: I crashed my computer once before many moons ago for downloading too many roms. One of them had a virus. I think it was 'Gauntlet'.
And for those anti-Nintendo peeps, there are Sega emulators as well. Used to be the only way I could play NBA Jam and EA Hockey when I was in college... When the cats away the mouse doth play. I've been trying to board up one of the action sequences in the movie I'm making, 'Ciplak'. I've never had to storyboard something before so I thought I'd have a practice run at it, see if I can get the shots in my head and put them to pen and paper.
One thing I had to make sure I kept in mind was the fact that this would be the first action sequence I've ever shot, and to top it all off it involves a car and a skateboard (with a slight homage to Back to the Future and Trainspotting thrown in the mix). I need to keep in mind that
(a) We have no stunt drivers or stunt cars, so a lot of the car scenes will have to be easy and safe enough for anyone to pull off, yet with the cunning use of camera trickery look badass.
(b) I also have to keep in mind the fact that I have no stunt double, and will be doing as much skating as I can. I'm planning to meet up with Paul at some point and see if he knows any pro skaters that could pass as my double. Worst case scenario, stick a pillow in the guys t-shirt and it'll pass for my belly. If we can't get a double, tricks will have to be kept to a minimum. After all, if you're being chased by three thugs in a car the last thing you're going to do is try and pull some kickflip-backside-tailslide-shuvit-out's. Unless you we're really trying to show off.
(c) I haven't figured out the location for this action sequence. It needs to be somewhere open with quite a bit of road, but also very quiet, with minimum cars around.
(d) I'll be shooting without a permit, so wherever it is, it better be somewhere the cops rarely visit.
At one point I was thinking of taking out the skate-car-chase-scene but it's too damn fun and leads the action to the third act. By this point in time in the film you need a little balls-out action to keep the story going and interesting.
It's also quite funny in it's homage-y-ness.
Further updates as the pre-pro progresses: Right now half the cast is agreed, which includes myself, my parents (who'll be playing my characters parents, which shouldn't be too much of a stretch), Nazneen, Farah (Saiful's sister who looks nothing like him. All the good genes went to her), Saiful (as Farah's character's brother. See, we keep it all in the family) and an assortment of others. I'm trying to figure out who else to cast, a lot of the other roles are minor but would be fun to do (if any of y'all are interested holla back).
Either way, this Sunday my production manager (Diana) and I have to start scheduling everyone. Shouldn't be too difficult. Only problem is I need to finish and polish my second draft before we can start scheduling. Aargh.
Man Meth'! Any idea what kind of camera your film-buddies have? If it's looking to be something decent enough, holla back. I'll figure out how to wire you a budget for tapes and postage and stuff. Still haven't worked on Zash's character yet. Will let you know.
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That's it.
I don't believe it.
So, after I managed to wean myself off of Dope Wars for a bit I thought I'd go for a bit more nostalgia in the world of video games: Emulators.
Funny, I remember 'Excitebike' being a bit more... exciting.