kaiserkuchen | Interning interning interning (Reply)

Yes yes I know, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR AND ALL THAT. I seem to now be quite swamped! Thankfully with an amount that is easily pushed aside to at least next week, but still. The work, it LOOMS. I had another impromptu interview (this time: behind the scenes) to do at Sahamongkol Films, I lost a rousing battle of rock-paper-scissors with Bell, so I had to go interview Peter Manus, who is the director of this upcoming Thai film 'Burn (Khon look fai)'. Turns out that the guy, who looked quite scary on the google pics we managed to rustle up, was surprisingly friendly and super enthusiastic and eloquent! He also was the director of that Thai teen slasher flick that made Paula Taylor famous-- "999-9999 toh-tid-tai" and some western movie about ALIEN ANTS!!1 :D. We ended up doing the entire interview in English (since it was apparently his first language, his parents were both Thai and he grew up in the US) and I got to see some super-special footage from the film. I must say, I was sold! I had thought it was gonna be some hokey horror film about supernatural vengeance and Spontaneous Human Combustion, but it is more of a character driven piece that actually involves Shadowy Pharmaceutical Farang Companies!, Quests for TRUTH!, Characters reevaluating their previous glaring flaws!, all shot in this very pleasing and slick manner and starring Very Attractive People. Tak Bongkoch! KING NARESUAN (adult version, rowwr)! The only downside to this is now that I have 27 minutes to type up and cull for a really short interview wordcount. GAHH.

Since that interview led me all the way to Ari BTS station, I decided to try and kill two birds with one stone and look for the stupid fucking retarded helmet that the living editor was insisting I get for the Speedracer Lookalike article that was freaking finished 2 weeks ago. Thankfully BigC provided in the end, after some surprising duds at small local run motorcycle shops around Saphan Kwai (WHO SAYS NO TO FREE ADVERTISING?? MAI KAO JAIII), or I would have seriously lost my shit. SO HAH, HERE'S YOUR DAMN HELMET, STICK IT UP SOMEWHERE AND SMOKE IT. It was just so funny that when we started with the article she was all 'yeah, just do whatever' and then did a flip and kept repeating that IT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE without it. Hmph! I also got a bit of a chewing out for not having archived the last two issues in the dinky binders we have lying around. BUT OH WELL. How should I know that this normally very non-urgent task suddenly gets upgraded to ass-kicking when someone suddenly needs!!1 something. It's not like there weren't always enough extra issues flying around the chaos of the office anyways.

I do get to do another living feature though, profiling this artsy cafe called Ubuntu tomorrow, so I must be doing something right. :>

PS Sven is in town now with his (quite TALL and maybe even HOT) buddy, so lunch was had with them, Chris and Bell. Good times~