Sweet Talk Talk Phone Company Commercial

Such an awesome commercial

Now, they've gone too far.

First they make Steve cheat on Miranda. Then they make Carrie wear bad clothing. Now, they kill of one the 4 women.
WTF HBO??? So upsetting. Sex is beyond ruined for me. Here is the news (according to Perez, which makes it 100 percent true because everything he publishes on his blog is true. for real).


Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert!

Stop reading here if you don't want to know!

Sex & The City's token ginger head, Cynthia Nixon has blabbed that one of the characters in the film DIES.

She refused to say who it is, though.

One of them dies?!

Who do you think it will be?

We think it will be Charlotte or Samantha.

Charlotte could die giving birth to that baby she's supposed to be preggers with.

Samantha's cancer could come back and maybe kill her?

It would be amazing if they killed of Carrie, though!!!

And so it goes...

It’s studio week, roughly 11:30 on a Saturday evening. Ty has just come back to school after finishing another grueling day at work. I don’t quite know what he does at Target, however I can just imagine him humming endless hours to himself as he carefully displays the latest collection from “sell out” Isaac Mizrahi. I am freaking out for the about the third time today. Noah asked me to write copy for his Kurt Vonnegut project and I want to impress him. Although my concepts are creative, I can’t quite get the correct wording. Just 15 minutes earlier Ty assured me that “we” would make it perfect. Ty is so good like that, helping me when he himself has his own work to complete. We are trying to come up with different ways to advertise a dark beer using one of Kurt's favorite ponders, “What is the purpose of life?”

2 weeks prior to studio week I hardly knew anything about Mr. Vonnegut, a man, who in my opinion, shares similar physical features to that of an old Mark Twain. Once Noah asked me to write copy for his project, I tried to read as much as I could by Kurt in the little of time I had. I analyzed everything from his short stories to Slaughter-House Five. I immediately fell in love with Kurt’s extremely dry sense of humor, a talent very few people can pull off. I also made Ty read the same stuff (just so he wouldn’t try to get out of helping me).

So, here we are on Saturday evening trying to write something very Kurtish and whimsical. We work for about an hour laughing continuously. There is a designer in the lab who is trying to give us some ideas but they are absolutely awful, to say the least. He suggested we answer, “What is the purpose of life” by saying, “To find a good beer… and a girl who you drop off at 3 in the morning.” Yes, I realize that makes absolutely no sense at all but for some reason the designer thought it was pure genius. (We now understand why the designer changed his focus from writing to design). Finally, Ty and I come up with the perfect copy. It sounds awesome. One month later, the project even manages to find its way into the front case at school.

A couple days ago Mr. Kurt Vonnegut died. I don’t really know what to call the event, it’s not ironical, it’s not a coincidence, it just is what it is. I’m very sorry to see him pass. He was an extremely interesting and philosophical man. Through Kurt's profound words of wisdom, Ty and I became even closer with one another. Every time I think of Mr. Vonnegut I will now think of my Ty. It’s just one of the many reasons why Kurt has become one of my favorite authors of all time.

LOVES!
mer

Reminds me of my Corporate America job

One of my favorite shows on TV right now is The Office. Besides being very well written, the show mocks everything wrong in Corporate America. During studio week, I was introduced to the British, original version of the Office and it is far funnier than any NBC Office episode. I fortunately and unfortunately work for Corporate America- that is, when they actually have work for me to do. The company is a small sales and marketing company owned by a British man. Over the years the company has established itself as one of IBM’s business partners, a title that has turned everyone in our office from fun to absolutely insane/crazy. This week marked one of the worst weeks I’ve ever had during my 2.5 years there. I need money and yet I’m hardly getting any. Actually, take the “hardly” out of that sentence and replace it with “not.”

School is off to a great start. This is going to be a very tough quarter but I think the end result will be awesome work. Here’s hoping. Today I spent the majority of the day working on upcoming projects. During the day I worked with the wonderful copywriters at Barnes and Noble. At night I ended up at Starbucks with a very adorable designer. I actually had a lot of fun this evening. Who knew working this hard could actually be fun? Go fig

LOVES,
mer

I heart a boy named joshua

I am so hungry for a real job these days. School has been fun but I am ready to face the real world again, problems and all. I just finished reading the best book ever, And then we came to the end, by Joshua Ferris, aka my new boyfriend. It is about a Chicago advertising agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom and is so funny. The book was named one of the best books of the year, by New York Times, and was a national book finalist in 2007. A definite must read, especially anyone who loves the advertising world. Joshua also sold his book to HBO. In turn, HBO will make a new show based on the characters from the book. I think it will be even funnier than the office.

Intrigued? Here is an excerpt. This is exactly why I love the advertising world so much.

"A good deal of our self-esteem were predicated on the belief that we were good marketers, that we understood what made the world tick- that in fact, we told the world how to tick. We got it, we got it better than others, we got it so well we could teach it to them. Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations- and how to assuage them all. We informed you in six seconds that you needed something you didnt know you lacked. We made you want anything that anyone willing to pay us wanted you to want. We were hired guns of the human soul. We pulled the strings on the people across the land and by God they got to thier feet and they danced for us.

The beginning of the end.

Today is one sad day for Starbucks. They went from using these cute green cups


























to using these ugly brown ones.






People loved walking around holding the green cups. Who wants to be seen holding this ugly brown looking thing.













Also, they changed their adorable logo











to this hideous thing.






awful. just awful. On the bright side, Starbucks has lost so much money they have been forced to dump T-Mobile and hire AT&T in order to access free wifi in all their stores. welcome to the 21 century, Starbucks. Although, I think it may be a little too late.

And the rich get richer while I am in some major debt

Every couple days I receive advertising newsletters via email. They keep me updated on work/ latest news from ad agencies all over. This evening, only an hour after telling Jamie how much I hate Ketel One ads, I discovered Ketel One is spending $50 million on more print ads. They are using a very well-known agency on the west coast. They have been doing ads for the last 3 years. They are horrible. Even the Washington Post agrees with me and said, "the most urgent question raised by this campaign- what can be done to make it stop?" I guess not everyone has to have talents to be successful in this industry.


***ads up above are from copyranter.blogspot.com. so funny. almost as entertaining as my perez.

Best. Night. Ever

I hate Corporate America. For the last 2 weeks I haven't worked at my job because they are going through a huge lay off period. I haven't been laid off yet but I suppose it's only a matter of time. I wouldn't care so much if I didn't have all these bills to pay. I tried to search for a new job this evening but I haven't had that much luck. It's kinda of stressful especially when I should be focusing my attention on school. This afternoon I searched online for jobs for about 2 hours. I would really like to work as a receptionist at an advertising agency but as luck would have it, I cant find anything at all. Here's hoping I wont have to work in another restaurant. Anything but that.

I was having the worst day today. I was all stressed about school and being poor but then out of nowhere I reconnected with someone I hadn't talked to in a while and it totally brighten me up. Now I am in the best mood ever. Too bad I wont be sleeping any time soon. Im off to pull my first all nighter. I have to work on making an extra large man's shirt resemble my life at this present moment in time. I am totally not digging this arts and craft project. Taking Sylvia's class burned me for life. And may I just end my blog with this final thought- kinda crazy how my Sylvia poster is still hanging up. They just moved it from one wall to another. It's not like it's that good. It's actually quite bad. However, Sylvia did think I was the only one who incorporated humour into their poster. Maybe she thought it was so bad it was funny? Who knows. Off to paint

loves,
mer




"All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars" Bob Dylan