Define 'fucked': - justin_guber

Define 'fucked':

Having a glass of beer on antibiotics, eating fishballs on a stick at 7-11 and finding out what they look like after they've been semi-digested and regurgitated from your mouth. And nose.

I am not a happy bunny today.

Remember when I said I impressed that creative director who I had never impressed before? Well, he's no longer impressed. Not just the idea was scrapped, but all the copy. I think the term 'shit' was on the tip of his tongue. We are now all rushing a brand new thingey for tomorrow, noon. I'm so glad I'm not a designer.

There's the funny thing about this industry. The writers get paid more, but we don't burn the midnight oil as much as the visualisers, designers and art directors. We use our cranium a lot more though, and for that I am thankful for an impressive medula oblongota.

But in terms of the actual act of 'writing', it makes me wonder: in places where the english language is king, is there much need for a copywriter? The amount of times I've proof-read FA's (final artwork) and noticed typos that you know only happened because the visualiser has no grasp of the english language. Would my services be required in the land of the Queen's english? Or Bush's?

Then again, the top copywriters in the world are from that part of the globe. They must have extra-powerful craniums.

In other news, I've finished editing the Singapore video and found tons of mistakes (mainly in the timing of the fade to blacks) but I don't care, it's just for us. Main reason I can't fix them is that the second I edited them I rendered them and deleted the master files to save space. I have 200 gigs of hard drive space and I'm not gonna flood it so early. I'll save that for when the big movie idea is in my head.

Ah... the movie... how and when and what indeed... I'm very tempted to do VCD but everytime I look at it the logistics and subject matter scare the shit out of me. Will I really get away with showing a datuk's daughter as an angelic tudung wearing princess who collects smut and offers blowjobs like candy? Hmmm... could get in trouble for that.

Other ideas floating in my head (I notice not many of you, with the exeption of theshadowboxer, made much comment about my last post on possible ideas for movies to make. for shame...): American History X, except it's a Malay kid racially prejudice against ex-pats, done Taxi Driver style. Controversial subject matter, true, but something with promise (to clear the air: I am not racially prejudice). Other possibles were a movie about the advertising industry, but I thought I'd learn the ropes a bit longer before I start commenting on it. One of the original ideas that Eddy, Naz and I came up with for a comic book concerning advertising might be a cool thing to do to.

My heads spinning and I'm feeling very tired. Might be time to go back soon but I'm downloading shit on Naz's computer with limewire. Ah well. Time for surfing.

5.10.04 15:00

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